Chapter 349
Yu Sui nodded heavily. Of course not. This huge debt weighed on him so much that he worried every day about not being able to pay it back. Fortunately, his liquor was doing very well.
I've heard Dahua mention before that humans have different pricing standards for small orcs. An adult orc from the Rat Tribe is priced at 300 gold coins, which is the cheapest. The Cat Tribe and the Rabbit Tribe are both very popular with humans, and each adult orc costs up to 1,000 gold coins.
As for the orc cubs, the price is even more expensive. A single kitten is worth five thousand gold coins.
No wonder most of the orcs who escaped were rats. It would definitely be more difficult for the valuable ones to escape, just like the cubs. Only Maomao was lucky enough to reach the Black Map Tribe.
The main reason why humans buy small orcs is because they are attracted by their animal form, and the nobles like their appearance very much.
If we change to large orcs, their uses will be different, and the pricing standards will definitely be different from those of small orcs.
However, they also have no ability to obtain it. No matter how crazy the Golden Kingdom is, it is impossible for it to sell large orcs. You must know that the backbone of the kingdom are all large orcs. If the Beast King dares to take this lead, it will inevitably arouse public outrage, and then the existence of the kingdom will be in question.
Yu Sui had calculated it when he was giving out the wine just now. "How about this? I'll round it up for you. You've all been helping out with our tribe and taking up quite a bit of time. I'll give you 700 kilograms of liquor. How about that?"
Dahua was a little surprised. "A pound of liquor can be sold for three hundred gold coins. How could you be willing to give us so much?"
He was given more than 30 kilograms of liquor at once. This is not cheap food. If you can round it up, then do it. How can someone round up a luxury like liquor?
Yu Sui certainly had his own selfish motives. He glanced at the tiger orcs who were still in the square, sharing wine with other orcs, and said, "I also have something to ask of you. It's about my brother."
In order to prevent the smell of alcohol from filling the air and irritating the children, Yu Sui specifically told Xiaochu and Hank, the two older ones, to take the other cubs to play far away.
He had not forgotten the scene last year when Xiaohua and the others secretly drank berry wine and fell drunk on the ground. Orcs were physically strong. If ordinary cubs drank like this, they would at least sleep for a few days.
The cub was not in the square at the moment. Dahua remembered the special Golden Lion cub and said with sudden realization, "You're worried about his whereabouts being exposed. Don't worry, even without the liquor, the Tiger Tribe won't break their promise to you."
After saying this, Dahua saw that the snow wolf cub opposite him didn't relax much. He patted his chest and said, "If you have any difficulties, just tell me directly. I will definitely not shirk my responsibility if I can help."
"Our Black Map Tribe is weak," Yu Sui hesitated for a moment and began to play the victim. "It's true that my tribesmen and I want to save the small orcs, but if the kingdom knew about the liquor, we might not be able to live like this anymore. I hope you can help cover it up."
Dahua's confident expression froze. After hesitating for a long while, she slowly spoke, "Although I cannot accept what the Beast King did, the Tiger Tribe is also part of the kingdom. I cannot..."
"This is not a big deal. Do you also want the Beast King to attack us and cause an unnecessary war?" Yu Sui was a little anxious and deliberately provoked.
Dahua's expression changed as expected, and she said angrily, "How could I do such a thing!"
After hesitating for a moment, Dahua continued, "The Beast King won't start a war easily."
Yu Sui softened his voice helplessly, "I'm not saying he's a bad person, but look at him now, he's even selling his own people. Isn't it just for gold? If he knew that the liquor was actually brewed by the Black Map Tribe, would the Beast King let go of such a big piece of the pie?"
After the words were spoken, both of them fell silent.
Yu Sui's words lifted the last fig leaf, and Dahua had no way to refute and could only sigh deeply.
"I don't mean anything else. Just take this liquor back with you. Don't tell me it's brewed by us. I just want to lead my people to live a good life. As for those small orcs, their families have been destroyed. You don't want to see them lose their homes again, do you?"
The last sentence deeply touched Dahua. Deep down, he felt deeply guilty towards the small orcs. Out of desperation, he personally captured many orcs and brought them back. Their crying sounds still seem to linger in his ears when he thinks of them.
Especially when the cubs were caught, his family and tribesmen tried their best to hide the cubs, and some orcs even paid with their lives for this. But how could they escape the pursuit of large orcs while fleeing with the cubs?
The tiger tribe, the leopard tribe, and the golden lion tribe, no matter which tribe, have the best combat power among the orcs. It is very difficult for small orcs to escape.
There was a time when Dahua felt soft-hearted and wanted to give up the pursuit and give them a chance to live, but after returning to the kingdom, he saw the orcs he had let go in prison. They were wearing bloody shackles, their limbs were broken, and blood was oozing from the wounds.
In order to completely discourage the orcs from escaping, his mortal enemy, General Kemon of the Golden Lion Tribe, ordered his men to hang alive in front of them all the dozen or so cubs hidden by these small orcs.
Because of this incident, Dahua became furious and fought with Kemon, destroying half of the prison.
But what was lost could not be made up for. That day, the entire capital was filled with the cries of orcs.
It was also on that day that Dahua and his trusted tiger tribe deliberately let go of countless small orcs during the fight, doing their best to delay their escape.
This incident made the Beast King furious, and both he and Kemon were severely punished. Kemon was punished more severely because he hanged the cub on his own initiative.
Therefore, although Kemon was obedient on the surface, he secretly found a dwarf craftsman to make a chain specifically for imprisoning small orcs. The chain was extremely vicious. It passed through the shoulders and locked the neck. If the orcs struggled a little, the bloody holes on the shoulders would make their life worse than death.
The most annoying thing is that the chains are mixed with potions that specifically restrain beast power. If it is a strong orc, it may not be affected much, but it is more than enough to deal with small orcs.
The dirty things invented by humans against orcs were actually used by Kemon on his own kind.
Dahua will always remember that day, the cubs he had let go with his own hands. He even held one of the little gray foxes in his arms, and it died tragically at Kemon's hands.
The cub's shrill screams, the devastated cries of his relatives, the blood-red eyes of the orcs, and the prison where blood flowed like a river were all still vivid in his mind.
Dahua's breathing stopped for a few seconds, and she closed her eyes and relaxed.
"The liquor was obtained by the Black Map Tribe in exchange for humans. Remember, you accidentally obtained a rare spiritual plant, and you used it to do business with humans."
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