Ying Yao looked at Mu Youran gratefully. He had known before that Youran was only weak on the surface.
If she hadn't stepped in today, even if I had come myself and managed to get it back, the relationship between the two clans would likely have been strained.
It might even be interrupted immediately, after all, Ying Yao isn't an orc from the Sunset Tribe, no matter how he does something, people will criticize him.
Besides, Eileen is female, so he can't do anything to her. Otherwise, no matter how much compensation he makes, the orcs of the Sunset Tribe would probably drive them away.
"I will compensate you with these three blue crystals in the form of animal hides and seashells."
Wuyun lost her cub, so her compensation was the highest, amounting to a single blue crystal.
Black Dog and his companions lost their mates, and the compensation was quite high. One blue crystal was worth three hundred seashells, which were all exchanged for animal hides and seashells, and distributed among the male mates.
The rest was simply compensation for their losses: whatever amount of animal hides or meat they lost, they were compensated for.
After the crowd dispersed, You Ran and Ying Yao were too tired to talk.
As for Eileen, she had long since disappeared.
The clan chief patted Ying Yao on the shoulder with satisfaction.
"You guys are great, very responsible. I feel very reassured that my Sunset Tribe is cooperating with your Eagle Tribe!"
Ying Yao gave a faint smile: "As long as our two tribes don't develop any grudges because of this, that's fine."
The Eagle Clan had finally earned some animal hides this year, enough to get through the winter, but now they've lost them all.
Once the other person left, only the two of them remained in the cave.
With a long sigh, Irene realized that with Eagle Cry's cub now in the picture, things were likely to get quite chaotic for him from now on.
Ying Yao squeezed You Ran's aching hand with heartache.
"I'm sorry, Youran, I've made you suffer because of me."
He even got dragged into it and got scolded by Eileen!
Mu Youran shook her head: "How could that be? I was just helping you take inventory."
"But you, with so much stuff, it must be taking you a long time to store it all."
That's true.
Although the Eagle Clan are the overlords of the skies, they actually suffer from a severe shortage of living supplies. Otherwise, they wouldn't have cooperated with the Sunset Tribe to earn their animal hides.
He cannot and will not touch the Eagle Clan's supplies; they are their winter supplies.
Moreover, the Eagle Clan's supplies are all on the island, not with him at all.
These were all his personal belongings that he had saved up for a long time, intending to buy You Ran a gift when he went to Yunmengze next time.
I couldn't buy it last time, so I'm determined to make up for it.
But he never expected that his spendthrift younger brother would squander it all. Squandering it was one thing, but to actually spend all his family fortune on a worthless female made him furious.
It seems I'll have to sell these three blue crystals before I can buy anything else.
After that, Eileen never came to see Eagle Cry again.
When Mu Youran went to play with Xiaomei, she did encounter her standing at the entrance of the cave getting some fresh air.
Her belly was swollen like a ball, which made Xiaomei very envious.
She angrily pounded her uncooperative belly: "You Ran, why is it that everyone else is female, but Eileen keeps giving birth one litter after another, while I just don't have any signs of labor!"
Mu Youran chuckled softly and took a sip of the coconut juice.
"You're only seventeen. Why have a baby so early? Besides, the baby is the fruit of your love with your partner. It was bound to come sooner or later."
Hearing what You Ran said, Xiao Mei felt it made a lot of sense. Cai Xia was two years older than her and had been married for a long time, but she only started getting pregnant this winter.
Thinking about it, perhaps it's true what You Ran said; she's still young.
But You Ran is older than me!
His gaze unconsciously fell on her stomach.
"Then why haven't you made a sound?"
Mu Youran rolled her eyes at her: "Why have a baby so early? You won't be able to eat or dress well. Wait until things get better before you have to worry about it."
Xiaomei disagreed. Everyone went through this, and besides, she felt that life was pretty good now.
At least the Sunset Tribe has no worries about food and clothing.
That makes sense, since You Ran's family only has three partners, two of whom are clan leaders. Although Luo Bai isn't one now, he's only nominally one; in reality, he's already the clan leader.
He was the one who handled all the big and small matters in the tribe.
If You Ran has a baby, then Huang Yu will only have one male to take care of it, which definitely won't be enough.
It's better to have children later; we can find a few more later.
At this moment, Caixia walked over with a pale face and forced a faint smile.
"You're all here, Xiaomei. I wanted to ask if you have any sour fruits?"
Xiaomei quickly patted the stool next to her, signaling her to sit down.
"I hate sour things the most, so I don't have any."
Caixia knew that she had only come out to ask questions and get some fresh air because she couldn't stand it anymore.
Seeing that Mu Youran was still eating fruit in this weather, he immediately spoke to her.
"You Ran, do you have any sour fruits?"
Mu Youran shook her head: "We have sweet ones, but we really don't have sour ones."
"Don't the tribe have oranges? Those are a little bit sour too."
Caixia sighed, "I can't taste any sourness in that, it's all sweet."
"If I had known pregnancy would be this uncomfortable, I wouldn't have gotten pregnant!"
"Ugh~"
When Mu Youran saw her dry heaving again, she quickly patted her back.
Suddenly, something flashed through my mind!
"I know where to find sour fruits!"
Upon hearing this, Caixia and Xiaomei's eyes lit up instantly: "Where?"
Mu Youran took a big gulp of coconut juice: "You guys forgot, last time when we went to pick oranges, there were still some green bumps hanging on them. In this weather, there's not even a ray of sunshine, so they must still be sour. Let's go see if there are any left!"
"good!"
The two immediately stood up and quickly called their partners to go together.
After all, it was winter, and Caixia and her companions were just a few orcs; they wouldn't feel comfortable letting her go out into the wild.
At this moment, Luo Bai was discussing patrol formations with Cai Xia's partner, Ma Xiong Qingshan.
I happened to see You Ran and the other two coming over, and I was very curious as to why they were here.
You should know that this is the cave where the clan chief holds meetings, and even the males don't usually come here unless there's a specific reason.
Not to mention females, they certainly wouldn't come over.
This was the first time Mu Youran had seen Luo Bai so serious; it was very different from his usual puppy-like demeanor in front of her.
He has become much more mature and composed.
"Why are you here?"
Luo Bai looked up and saw Mu Youran standing at the cave entrance, dressed in a snow-white animal skin, her face full of joyful smiles.
Mu Youran was amused by his transformation; he was still that adorable little puppy.
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