There were two bags of white stones, and the stones inside were of varying sizes.
They don't have any weighing equipment at home right now.
Lin Xia picked up each of the animal skin bags and weighed them.
"So much! This must weigh over a hundred pounds!"
She is very sensitive to weight, and no one can cheat her when she goes grocery shopping.
"Brother, are the supplies you brought easy to trade?" Su Tang asked, knowing which ones were more valuable so she could bring more next time and avoid carrying so much heavy prey.
"Hehe, we were lucky this time. We ran into a big swindler... cough cough, a big spender. He bought all our supplies, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to come back so quickly!"
Su Jianyuan chuckled.
"Really?" Lin Xia was delighted to hear that. There really is such a kind person.
"Then I'll ask him to exchange it again next time!"
"Cough, we might not even run into him again next time." Su Jianyuan coughed lightly; he had traded the way up the mountain for these things.
If it weren't for his quick thinking, let alone bringing back these white stones, it's uncertain whether he would even have been able to leave with a complete corpse!
However, Su Jianyuan did not tell Lin Xia and Su Tang these things, for fear that they would worry if they heard them.
These kinds of things should be left to the men to handle!
"That makes sense." Lin Xia nodded, no longer dwelling on the matter.
Next, we'll divide the white stones.
Su Tang had promised to give Lang Zhuang a share, and Su Jianyuan felt that this share of Bai Shi was a very good deal.
Not only did he lead the way, but he also helped carry such heavy prey. He risked his life with him many times along the way, and even when they encountered danger, he did not run away with the prey.
Moreover, Lang Zhuang is a very honest and straightforward person, unlike the people he knew before, who were full of tricks and schemes.
Su Jianyuan felt that he and Lang Zhuang were now brothers who had gone through thick and thin together.
He even felt that Lang Zhuang was being taken advantage of by sharing Bai Shi's share!
Lin Xia brought four earthenware jars. First, she poured the white stones evenly into two large earthenware jars. Then, she repeated this process twice with the white stones from one of the large earthenware jars. The resulting small earthenware jar contained exactly one-eighth of the white stones.
While not perfectly accurate, it's not far off.
"Wolf Strong, this is your reward."
Su Jianyuan handed the smallest portion of white stone along with the pottery jar to Lang Zhuang.
"Thank you!" Lang Zhuang had watched them distribute the items and found them to be perfectly correct, so he accepted them with a happy expression.
This piece of white stone weighs over ten kilograms; the orcs of the Gray Wolf Tribe couldn't obtain this many white stones in several years.
He thought that Su Jianyuan would renegotiate his compensation after exchanging so many white stones, but he didn't expect Su Jianyuan to directly share his share.
Wolf Zhuang looked at them with gratitude and admiration in his eyes.
Such a trustworthy orc is definitely not the cowardly, useless, and greedy villain that Wolfman described!
The two grown men had little to say to each other. After bidding farewell, Lang Zhuang hurriedly returned to the Gray Wolf Tribe.
Little Fu excitedly circled the earthenware pot, "Mother, can we eat white stones today?"
Actually, raw meat with white stone doesn't taste good. It's bitter and astringent, and it makes you very thirsty after eating it.
But white stone is considered a very good thing by orcs. Even if it doesn't taste good, being able to eat white stone is a very happy thing.
As a native orc, Xiao Fu's expectations are ingrained in his very being.
Su Tang couldn't help but purse her lips, looking at her mother with slightly expectant eyes.
Unlike Xiao Fu, she genuinely misses the taste of salt!
"Yes! Today, your mother will cook you a big meal!" Lin Xia waved her hand generously.
Su Tang's mouth watered at the thought of dinner.
"Yay! Yay!" Xiao Fu jumped up and down excitedly. "We can eat white stones now! We can eat white stones!"
"Tangtang, what do you want to eat tonight? Mom will make it." Lin Xia asked Su Tang with a kind look.
"Mom, I'll eat whatever you make." Su Tang is really not picky; she loves anything as long as it's not bland or tasteless.
Lin Xia smiled broadly; it was her daughter who knew how to care for her.
Su Jianyuan said without any politeness, "Mother, I want to eat meat. I've lost weight from hunger on the journey, so you have to give me some nourishment!"
He ate dry rations the whole way, and because of those unexpected events, he went hungry for two days on the way back.
He used to be quite robust, but now he's lost a lot of weight and looks rather haggard.
However, the mud on his body was so thick that it was impossible to tell.
Unsurprisingly, Su Jianyuan received two eye rolls.
"All you do is eat all day. Go wash off that mud all over you, and then go to the river to see if you can catch a couple of fish. Make a fish head tofu soup for dinner." Lin Xia assigned Su Jianyuan a task.
She and her daughter made tofu today.
"Okay!" Su Jianyuan agreed and went to the riverbank.
He was not only filthy, but also stinks horribly. If he hadn't been afraid of attracting wild animals if he washed himself clean on the way, he wouldn't have come back covered in this stinking mud.
"Brother, I'm going too!" Xiao Fu saw this and followed along eagerly.
He now prefers to be with his second brother!
Not only could he catch prey, but his second brother would also teach him many hunting techniques.
These are things that other orcs don't do.
Lin Xia started washing the pots and pans. Seeing that Su Jianyuan had finally returned safely, she had much more energy to work than she had in the past few days.
Su Tang planned to tell her older brother and his family, who were building a wooden house, the good news.
Halfway there, I remembered that I hadn't taken back the twisted thread, so I turned back to take it back.
"I feel like I've forgotten something..." Su Tang wondered.
Upon reaching the tree, they found the five kittens tangled together with thread, having bound themselves up tightly.
One lay on its back on the ground, licking the rope incessantly; the other had given up struggling, tilting its head back as if it had no will to live.
Two more struggled to run off to the left and right, splitting up in opposite directions.
However, the string tied all five cubs together, so they couldn't escape at all.
The cub, seemingly devoid of any will to live, was pulled to the left by the two of them, and then dragged to the right.
The largest one saw Su Tang coming and stared at her longingly, looking pitiful as if it were waiting to be rescued.
Su Tang was in a real bind.
She knew it wouldn't be good!
It took Su Tang an hour to finally free the thread from the cub's grasp.
She couldn't bear to cut it; she would spend a whole day twisting a ball of thread, until her hands were raw from rubbing.
After Su Tang finished winding the yarn, she was about to give the five cubs a good scolding when she looked down and saw Wu Shuang's big, watery eyes staring at her, her soft and cute face showing an innocent and adorable expression.
It's as if she'll burst into tears immediately if you scold her.
Su Tang: "..."
"Cuteness won't work on me, come here and take your beating!"
Su Tang pointed at the cub, struggling to keep a straight face.
She had to teach them a lesson today, or they would become unruly in the future.
The largest cub blinked its eyes and approached with a pitiful look. While looking at Su Tang, it cautiously rubbed its head against Su Tang's fingertips to show its affection.
Su Tang: "!!" Can't we just accept a proper education?!
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