Chapter 15 Reward
Jian Mo took out the gray-white cloth from the backpack and showed it to Wu Jiong.
Wu Jiong held it in his hand and squeezed it, saying, "It's cloth made of tuk-tuk fur."
Jian Mo: "Tuk-tuk?"
Wu Jiong nodded: "Tuk-tuk fur is very soft, different from other beasts, and easy to recognize."
This was not the first time Jian Mo heard the name "tuk-tuk", but he had never seen one before.
He asked, "What does a tuk-tuk look like? Are there many tribes raising them nearby?"
Wu Jiong: "Not many. This kind of animal has great fur, and you can still milk it after giving birth, but it's very hard to raise, and it's very timid. One year, our tribe used a lot of meat to exchange for three tuk-tuks, and they all died within a season."
Jian Mo: "How could it be like this?!"
Wu Jiong nodded: "At that time, the tribe specifically chose to raise them in the spring, and didn't dare to keep them in the winter, because they were more likely to die in the winter."
Jian Mo couldn't help asking when he heard this: "Since they die so easily, then if you want to exchange for tuk-tuks, you don't need much meat, right?"
Wu Jiong: "A lot, because there are fewer tribes raising them, so they need more meat."
"Ah?" Jian Mo sighed, "I thought they would ask for less."
Wu Jiong: "It doesn't matter if it's more, I'll exchange two for you to play with."
Jian Mo touched the cloth made of tuk-tuk fur again, but still couldn't resist the temptation: "Let's ask first? Maybe the meat needed is not as much as we thought?"
Wu Jiong had no objection to this, and only asked: "Do you remember which tribe exchanged this cloth with you?"
Jian Mo thought for a long time and shook his head.
It was too chaotic when exchanging fish pieces. Everyone took the supplies in a hurry. He didn't look carefully at the things he received, and stuffed them directly into the backpack.
Moreover, there were so many people taking cloth at that time, and he couldn't tell who took which piece.
Jian Mo had a headache: "How about I ask Qing Kuang tomorrow? He is familiar with the nearby beastmen, so he might remember it."
Wu Jiong: "Go ask him now."
Jian Mo looked up at the sky outside: "It's getting dark."
Wu Jiong: "It doesn't matter, I'll show you the door of his house."
It was the first time Jian Mo visited Qing Kuang's house.
Qing Kuang's house was not far away. His house was downstream of the river, and it was just a few steps away.
Qing Kuang's house was very big. Although it only had one floor, it was bigger than Wu Jiong's house. From the outside, it looked like a tall and big stone house.
Jian Mo guessed that it might be because his family had two children, so the house was built extra large.
The beastmen and beastmen were very powerful, but their fertility was very weak.
Many couples may not be able to have children in their lifetime, and it is very rare for the Qingkuan family to have two children.
Ban Ming may have heard footsteps, and ran out of the house.
In the twilight, he saw Jian Mo and Wu Jiong, and he was a little surprised: "Chief, brother Jian Mo?"
Wu Jiong nodded: "We went to your father to ask about the cloth."
Ban Ming was confused: "What cloth? Come in quickly."
The two walked into Qingkuan's house.
Qingkuan invited them to eat roasted beast meat.
Jian Mo looked around quietly, and the Qingkuan family was very clean and tidy, with a kind of primitive beauty.
Everyone sat by the fire pit, and Wu Jiong explained the purpose of their visit.
Qing Kuang remembered: "The cloth was given by the sub-beast people of the Bingjiang tribe."
Seeing that Jian Mo did not respond, Qing Kuang reminded: "At that time, I asked you to give him an extra portion of fish."
Jian Mo remembered these: "Ah, it was him?"
Qing Kuang: "You want to exchange for a tuk-tuk? Tuk-tuk are difficult to raise. If you like cloth made of tuk-tuk fur, you might as well exchange for some fur directly."
Jian Mo was a little embarrassed: "Compared to fur, I actually want the milk of the tuk-tuk."
Qing Kuang wrinkled his nose: "Its milk is a bit salty and fishy, not very tasty."
The little cat Banchu, who had been silent beside him, suddenly "meowed".
Jian Mo looked at the little cat with a round head.
Ban Ming translated for his brother: "Banqiu said that the meat of the tuo beast is not delicious either."
Qingkuang squinted at him and suddenly grabbed Ban Ming's ear: "When did you give Banqiu tuo beast meat?"
Ban Ming felt awkward: "I only got a small piece today."
Qingkuang raised his hand and tapped him: "Don't give Banqiu messy things!"
Ban Ming: "Well, I'll give it to him to taste!"
Di Ya kept laughing beside him and reached out to touch his little son's round hairy head.
Jian Mo waited until their fight was over and asked, "Does the Bingjiang tribe usually exchange tuk-tuk with people from other tribes?"
Ban Ming looked up while being beaten and said, "Yes, most tribes have raised tuk-tuk, and it's not a rare beast. If they don't exchange, they can just catch it in the wild."
Jian Mo was surprised, "Are there any in the wild?"
Ban Ming, "Yes, but tuk-tuk caught in the wild are harder to raise. They die easily, and a thunderclap can scare a large group of them to death. If they hadn't given birth to so many of them, we might not even know if there are such beasts now."
Jian Mo, "Then they're really hard to raise, aren't they?" It was
hard to raise, but Jian Mo still wanted to see. They had agreed at Qingkuang's house that they would go together to exchange tuk-tuk tomorrow, and then they said goodbye to their family and left.
Jian Mo rarely hangs around outside the tribe at this time of the day.
It's not completely dark outside. The starry sky is twinkling overhead, the mountains and forests in the distance are dark, and the river beside the tribe is faintly reflecting light.
The air is a little cold, but it's very comfortable to walk on the wide and flat dirt road.
Jian Mo looked at the distant mountains and said, "I didn't expect it to be quite comfortable to go out for a walk at night."
Wu Jiong walked beside him: "Yeah."
The two took a walk in the tribe for a while and went home early to sleep.
While Jian Mo was lying on the animal skin mattress, he was still thinking about what he could do if he could change to a tuk-tuk beast and wait for it to produce milk.
Drink some milk every day to supplement calcium?
If we can save more milk, we can make cream, cheese, and maybe even some desserts.
Jian Mo fell asleep with a beautiful vision of his future life and woke up early the next morning.
He was going to the hunting meeting today, so he brought a medicine box and fresh herbs with him.
Everyone looked at the medicine box and herbs, and many people were puzzled.
Jian Mo explained, "People from our tribe still have to go on the field, so bring them just in case."
Qing Kuang patted him on the back, "You are still soft-hearted."
Jian Mo muttered, "It's not that I'm soft-hearted. We swore when we were in school to protect the health of animals."
Everyone looked at each other. Although they didn't understand, they roughly knew what he meant and laughed.
When they arrived at the Mengshui tribe, everyone said they would help him inquire about the news of the Tu Tu beast.
Even if the people of the Bingjiang tribe are unwilling to exchange, there should be other tribes willing to exchange.
Jian Mo nodded quickly to thank everyone.
Many orcs and sub-orcs had never heard of the concept of a veterinarian, and because the fish Jian Mo brought yesterday was particularly delicious, everyone came to watch him in droves to join in the fun.
In addition to the gladiatorial contest today, there was also a hunting contest, and the intensity of the contest was even greater than yesterday.
So before the end of the morning, Jian Mo got two patients, one with a broken leg, and the other with a large cut on his body.
They were all from other tribes, so Jian Mo didn't care and took them in for treatment.
The two orcs' muscles twitched in pain under his hands, but the treatment was quite effective. After the treatment, they were visibly fine, and both were very grateful to him.
Jian Mo was busy treating patients and had no time to inquire about the news of the Tu Tu beast.
He wanted to wait until the evening, after the hunting meeting was over, to ask.
It just so happened that the orcs and beastmen were all going back to their tribes. If everything went well, they might go with them and bring the tuo-beast back.
Just when Jian Mo was busy, someone in the crowd called him, "Brother Jian Mo!"
Jian Mo looked up and saw Ban Ming with a beastman looking at him outside the crowd.
He thought he needed help, so he stood up and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ban Ming smiled and said, "Brother Jian Mo, don't you want the tuo-beast? Amon brought the tuo-beast here."
Ban Ming stepped aside, revealing the nervous young beastman behind him.
The young beastman called out "Brother Jianmo" and then pursed his lips and said, "Thank you for helping my father heal his leg. I heard that you wanted a tuk-tuk, so these two tuk-tuk are for you."
As the young man spoke, he pulled up the two beasts behind him.
The two tuk-tuks looked very nervous, snuggling together tightly, without saying a word.
They looked a bit like deer, and their bodies were also like deer, but their backs were very flat, very strangely flat, as if they were carrying a piece of wood on their backs.
It is said that after they give birth to cubs, they will carry their cubs on their backs so that they can escape at any time, so they are called tuk-tuks.
Without waiting for Jian Mo to respond, the boy directly pulled the two tuk-tuk beasts over and stuffed the rope around him: "Here you go."
Jian Mo didn't know if it was appropriate to accept it, so he looked at Ban Ming, hoping to get some hints.
Ban Ming only looked at the boy and smiled foolishly, not noticing Jian Mo's gaze at all.
Jian Mo hesitated: "Okay, thank you."
He would charge for treating people from other tribes. At worst, he would ask Wu Jiong later. If it was not appropriate, he would return it or give people some supplies.
After sending the tuk-tuk beasts, the boy ran away quickly.
Jian Mo looked at the two nervous and trembling tuk-tuk beasts and felt that they could not be tied here. He had finally got the two tuk-tuk beasts. If they were scared to death, he would suffer a great loss.
Jian Mo packed up his things and told the people in the tribe that he was going to wait in a quiet place with the beast. The people in the tribe
readily agreed and said that if they saw Wu Jiong, they would let him come to find him.
Wu Jiong was in a hunting competition, and Jian Mo felt that he would not come so soon.
Unexpectedly, after Jian Mo waited in a quiet place for a while, Wu Jiong really came.
Jian Mo stood up and looked at him: "Have you finished the competition?"
Wu Jiong nodded: "I have, and I got first place."
Jian Mo: "That's great! We'll have a big dinner tonight to celebrate. Let me show you the tuo beast someone gave me!"
Jian Mo pulled out the tuo beast and showed it to Wu Jiong: "I've seen it just now, it's a male and a female."
Wu Jiong: "I heard that the Asian beastmen from the Xiongying tribe gave it to them?"
Jian Mo: "It was given to me by the beastman with a broken leg. I don't know if I can accept it. I was just about to ask you."
Wu Jiong looked at the tuo beast and said seriously: "Take it. Legs are very important."
Jian Mo breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I'll take it. I'll send some meat to Ban Ming in the evening and ask him to bring it to Amon for me."
The competition outside was not over yet, there were other activities.
Jian Mo stood and asked Wu Jiong: "Do you want to go back and continue organizing the competition?"
Wu Jiong took the Tuo Beast from his hand: "No, I'll let Dejiang and Di Ya take care of it, let's go back first. The Tuo Beast can't be transported, so we can only drag it along."
Jian Mo looked at the Tuo Beast, whose muscles were twitching with tension: "Okay."
Wu Jiong carried Jian Mo's backpack on his back, dragged the Tuo Beast, and planned to take a shortcut and walk back with him.
It was early in the morning and he was not tired today, so he might as well take a walk.
The two left the Mengshui tribe and walked all the way to the tribe.
The Mengshui tribe is low-lying and there are many plants around. Jian Mo picked a lot of fruits and spices on the way.
Many of the spices were new ones he had learned at this hunting convention. Although they were different from the spices on Earth, they tasted different and were very good.
As they walked, the two tuk-tuans ate as well.
Tuk-tuans are omnivores that eat both meat and grass. Jian Mo observed what they ate and gradually got a rough idea of what they liked to eat.
Although they were timid, they liked to eat a lot of things, so it shouldn't be difficult to find food for them.
When the two of them led the tuk-tuans back to the tribe, it was already completely dark.
The other people who had participated in the hunting convention had returned.
The patrolman outside the tribe saw the tuk-tuk they were carrying and said with a smile, "Jian Mo finally got the tuk-tuk?"
Jian Mo nodded and said, "Yes, it's a beast with an injured leg and someone gave it to us."
The patrolman said, "Well, it's great that you can treat it. You should go back and have a rest. You've been tired all day."
The two of them returned home carrying the tuk-tuk.
Jian Mo looked around the house and said, "Where should we keep them? Or should we keep them next to the flying beasts?"
Wu Jiong said, "They will be scared to death. Keep them outside the house first. I'll find some wood to build a circle for them tomorrow."
Jian Mo nodded repeatedly, "Okay, I'll prepare food for them first."
The tuo beasts were quite adaptable to the environment of their home. The evidence was that they were still alive the next morning and had chewed the soil under their feet.
Jian Mo looked at the tuo beasts, then turned to look at Wu Jiong, "I said they should get along well with the flying beasts."
Wu Jiong had a question mark in his eyes.
Jian Mo pointed at the dirt under the feet of the tzu beast: "Look."
The grass under the feet of the tzu beast was also eaten up by them, and now it was eating the grass roots, grinding its teeth, staring at them innocently with its big eyes. When it saw Jian Mo pointing at it, it called out in a long voice: "Do——"
just like the flying wing beast.
Jian Mo went to check on the tzu beast and opened its mouth to take a look.
According to his experience as a veterinarian, the tzu beast should be a ruminant, and the grass in its mouth has obviously been digested.
It's a bit magical, after all, this guy is an omnivore.
Jian Mo touched his stomach again, and then stopped.
He looked up at Wu Jiong and said, "This female beast seems to be pregnant."
Wu Jiong bent down and said, "Let me see."
Soon, Wu Jiong was also sure that the tuk-tuk beast was pregnant.
The belly of the female tuk-tuk beast was bulging, and through the thin belly, one could feel the traces of the fetus inside.
Jian Mo sighed, "Amon is so kind. I will ask Ban Mingduo to bring him some food later. By the way, how long does it take for a tuk-tuk beast to be pregnant? Can we harvest its milk soon?"
Wu Jiong said, "Half a quarter. When winter comes, it should be able to give birth."
Jian Mo looked at the female tuk-tuk beast and his eyes lit up, "Wow."
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