Time flies and it is the end of spring.
The tribe also welcomed good news.
After several months, the road leading to another tribe was finally repaired, and Hu Lin began to lead the beastmen to the previously selected address to build the tribe.
Hu Qiang was the happiest person to hear this good news.
Hu Lin is the leader of the giant lizard beastmen and the turtle beastmen. When the tribe is built, he will definitely go to the new tribe.
Then no one will compete with him for Minmin.
The crops in the fields are also ripening one after another, and the beastmen responsible for planting crops are busy.
The crops that have not been picked are potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets and peanuts.
Hu Jiaojiao went to see the harvest in the fields as usual.
When she arrived at the field, she found that the situation was not as good as she imagined.
Seeing the chief and a group of beastmen standing outside the field, talking about something with sad faces, Hu Jiaojiao hurried over.
"Chief, what's wrong with you?"
Seeing Hu Jiaojiao coming, the beasts stopped talking immediately.
"It's okay, we're fine." The chief also changed his sad face just now, shook his head kindly, and asked to change the subject: "Jiaojiao, why are you here?"
Hu Jiaojiao frowned suspiciously, but didn't believe the chief's "nothing".
"I came to see the harvest in the field." Hu Jiaojiao explained, and looked into the field.
This time, she found that it was much slower than the first time she harvested rice.
The potatoes in the potato field have been harvested, and only one third of the sweet potatoes have been harvested. The remaining beets and peanuts have not been touched at all.
This has been four or five days.
Seeing this, the beastmen put their claws behind their backs with guilt, not wanting to be seen by Fox Jiaojiao.
Who knew that when they moved, Fox Jiaojiao discovered the clue.
Her eyes fell on their hidden hands.
"What's wrong with you?" She asked the beastmen behind the chief with concern.
"No, we are fine." The beastmen shook their heads and retreated, "Let's go dig sweet potatoes first."
But before they took two steps, they were stopped by Fox Jiaojiao.
"Stop."
Foxy stepped forward, her clear voice a little stern, "Show me your hands."
The beastmen wanted to continue hiding, but they couldn't bear Foxy's inquiries, so the chief had to signal them:
"Forget it, don't hide it."
The beastmen took their hands out from behind their backs with a guilty conscience.
There were pits on the rough hands, some with blood, some with scabs, and some nails were gone.
Foxy took a look and immediately understood what was going on.
Although the beastmen's claws are easy to use, long-term and high-intensity use will also cause damage to the claws.
After doing farm work for several days in a row, the claws of several beastmen were worn flat or even broken.
"I'm sorry, Foxy, we are useless. We can't do this and it took us so long."
"Don't worry, we can still work. We won't waste the food in the field and we will dig it out."
The beastmen lowered their heads with guilty expressions.
After apologizing, they made a promise again.
They were afraid that Foxy would think they were useless.
After hearing what they said, Foxy frowned even tighter.
"What are you apologizing for? I was negligent about this matter. I didn't think it through."
Before, there was only one crop to be harvested, but now several crops need to be harvested at the same time, which is a lot of work.
Beast claws are not tools, but parts of the beastman's body, so they will naturally be injured.
After a moment of contemplation, Hu Jiaojiao said,
"Well, you guys take a rest for a few days. I'll ask my third brother to make some tools. You can use the tools to harvest crops in the future, so your claws won't be damaged."
"But what about the food in the field?"
"Yes, it will go bad if we don't harvest it."
The beastmen looked anxious.
Some beastmen even refused to rest.
"My hand is fine, I can still work."
"That's right, this little injury is nothing for us males..."
Hu Jiaojiao couldn't see that they were just showing off.
A drop of water can wear away a stone.
Beast claws are the foundation of beastmen's hunting.
If the claws are damaged, how will they hunt in the future, and how will they protect their partners and cubs?
"Listen to Jiaojiao. If I tell you to take a rest, then take a rest. Stop talking so much nonsense." The chief's voice did not allow for arguments.
Fox Jiaojiao looked at the chief.
"Chief, you can let the beasts with minor injuries dig up beets. The sweet potatoes and peanuts will stay. They won't go bad in a few days."
Beets don't require too much effort to dig, you just need to pull them out, and they won't cause much damage to the beast's claws.
"Okay, I'll listen to you." The chief nodded.
He knew that Fox Jiaojiao was doing this for the good of everyone. He had no idea about this. If he made decisions on his own, he might end up doing something bad with good intentions. Seeing that
the chief had spoken, the beasts stopped talking.
After bidding farewell to the chief, Fox Jiaojiao went to find Fox Qinglu.
Hu Qinglu was building a lookout with the orcs outside. After several months, the lookout was already finished.
Before reaching the wall, you can see a tall lookout.
The tribe is large, and there are more than a dozen such lookouts built, just right for no blind spots.
There was a group of orcs watching below the lookout.
Hu Jiaojiao wanted to wait for Hu Qinglu to finish his work before looking for him, so she waited behind the orcs.
Who knew that when she passed by, Hu Qinglu saw her and quickly came down from the lookout.
"Jiaojiao, why are you here? You didn't even tell me. Have you been waiting for a long time?"
"No, I just got here too." Hu Jiaojiao shook her head.
She told Hu Qinglu about the crops in the field.
Hu Qinglu was so happy when he heard that Hu Jiaojiao came to him to make something.
"No problem. I just studied the iron smelting method recently. Leave the tool making to me."
Hu Qinglu patted his chest and promised without saying a word.
He was just worried about what to do.
Hu Jiaojiao gave him an inspiration.
Seeing that Hu Qinglu agreed readily, Hu Jiaojiao also took out the drawings and told him the details of the tools he needed.
Hu Qinglu was very efficient and delivered the tools in a few days.
With the tools, the chief and the beastmen can finally get down to work.
Fox Jiaojiao and the females are not idle either.
Summer is coming, and the females who participated in the weaving received cloth and sewed their favorite clothes.
Because cloth is precious, males can also exchange materials for cloth and ask females to help them make clothes.
When Fox Jiaojiao made this suggestion, she thought it would be convenient for males, and females could also exchange materials through labor.
But unexpectedly, she became the matchmaker in the end.
Those females who helped males make clothes eventually became partners with males.
Fox Jiaojiao was speechless.
Well, she ignored the possessiveness of beastmen.
If it wasn't because they had intentions, males would never ask females for help.