"Okay!" Fox Jiaojiao nodded with sparkling eyes.

She knew Long Mo didn't believe it, but she didn't expect that he would agree without hesitation to this nonsense in the eyes of other beastmen.

The smile in her eyes suddenly overflowed.

"By the way!"

Fox Jiaojiao suddenly slapped her forehead and her pupils dilated.

"Long Mo, I have an idea. We can make ice cubes in summer!"

"How do you get ice cubes in summer?" Long Mo's eyes were puzzled. He could understand storing ice, but where did ice

come from in summer? It can't be made out of thin air, right?

His deep eyes stared at Fox Jiaojiao.

Thinking of the miracles she had created many times, he suddenly felt that it would not be strange if she could make ice cubes in summer.

"I don't know how to explain it to you. Anyway, as long as we find something called saltpeter, we can make ice." Fox Jiaojiao pulled his arm, her eyes full of joy.

"Saltpeter?" Although Long Mo was confused, he still asked, "Where can I find saltpeter?"

As long as it was something Jiaojiao wanted, he could find it even if he had never seen it.

"If you can find a saltpeter mine, you can find saltpeter, but this saltpeter mine..." Fox Jiaojiao frowned and searched the memory in her mind carefully.

She remembered that saltpeter can be extracted, but this method is time-consuming and the amount is too small.

In nature, saltpeter can be extracted from salt marshes, caves and other places.

Salt?

Hu Jiaojiao's eyes lit up, and she said in a clear voice: "Maybe we can find saltpeter mines near the salt lake."

"Then I'll go find saltpeter mines for you."

After hearing this, Long Mo put down the bamboo in his hand and stood up.

"Hey!" Hu Jiaojiao quickly grabbed him, "What time is it now? Why are you in such a hurry? It will be dark soon. Let's talk about finding saltpeter mines tomorrow."

The two of them had been sleeping on the bamboo mat and bamboo bed for a whole day. It was almost dusk.

Hearing this, Long Mo turned his head and looked outside.

The afterglow of the setting sun illuminated half of the sky red. It was indeed getting late. It

was indeed inconvenient to go out at this time.

Hu Jiaojiao pressed his shoulders and asked him to sit down.

"You've been tired all day, and the kids will be back soon. You do it first, I'll go make dinner."

Thinking that there was a way to make ice cubes in summer without using space, Hu Jiaojiao felt happy, but she was not in a hurry.

The next day, the two found the tribe leader and told him about the search for saltpeter.

"Are you going to the vicinity of the saltpeter?" The tribe leader asked in surprise.

"Yes."

Hu Jiaojiao nodded, and was about to discuss with the tribe leader about going out of the tribe with Long Mo to find saltpeter, when the tribe leader interrupted with a smile.

"It's just right, I was just about to tell you that the tribe's salt flowers are running out, and I plan to send a team of beastmen to the salt lake again to get some salt flowers back."

The tribe leader looked at Hu Jiaojiao kindly.

"It's so hot now, Jiaojiao, you and Long Mo should stay in the tribe, you don't have to go out. I'll ask the beastmen who are collecting salt flowers to help you find saltpeter."

"How can I do that?" Fox Jiaojiao subconsciously wanted to refuse.

Finding saltpeter is for her own selfish reasons, so that she can be cooler in the summer. How can she let the beastmen in the tribe help her find saltpeter?

"It's not a big deal, it's settled." The tribe leader waved his hand and didn't argue with Fox Jiaojiao.

"If it's true as you said, we can make ice cubes, then we will also go to find the saltpeter mine."

Every summer when the heat is hot, the females in the tribe are more likely to get sick.

If there were ice cubes, females would be healthier and less likely to get sick.

After hearing what the chief said, Fox Jiaojiao no longer hesitated and had to nod in agreement.

Now the number of orcs in the tribe has increased many times, plus the newly joined orcs from the Moon Lake Tribe, there are more than a thousand orcs, and the speed of salt flower consumption has also increased exponentially.

This time the chief sent a hundred orcs to the Salt Lake to get salt flowers.

After deciding to look for saltpeter mines, the chief sent another thirty orcs.

Fox Jiaojiao told the orcs the characteristics of the saltpeter mines one by one, and the team set out the next morning.

Because they were not sure whether they could find saltpeter, and Fox Jiaojiao didn't know whether the saltpeter in the orc world could also be used to make ice cubes, they didn't publicize this matter.

So as not to make everyone happy for nothing.

After the beastmen who were looking for saltpeter left, Fox Jiaojiao told other beastmen how to make the cool mat, and soon the cool mat became popular in the tribe.

The summer in the beast world is extremely hot, and sometimes even the wind is hot late at night.

After the cool mat was made, when the beastmen felt hot, they would wet the beast skin with well water, rub it on the cool mat, and they would immediately get a cool bed.

Although it could not solve the heat, the momentary coolness was enough to make the beastmen ecstatic and love it.

In comparison, the bamboo bed was not so popular.

Beastmen are big, and sleeping on bamboo beds can easily collapse them. After Fox Jiaojiao promoted both, she found that everyone preferred cool mats.

Only families with cubs would make bamboo beds for cubs and females to sleep on.

Fox Jiaojiao replaced all the animal skins on the kang in the room with cool mats, and placed a large bamboo bed and six small bamboo beds under the big tree in the yard.

The bamboo beds are light and strong, and even cubs can move them easily. After summer, they can be put back in the warehouse and can be used again next year without taking up space.

At night, the family of eight rested in the yard.

They slept under the stars, enjoying the cool evening breeze, drinking juice to relieve the heat.

Life was comfortable and free.

The team left the tribe and stayed away for two months.

Fox Jiaojiao also gradually adapted to the scorching heat of summer.

The first to come back were the one hundred orcs who were carrying salt flowers. This time they brought back a total of two thousand kilograms of salt flowers, which was enough for the tribe to use for a long time.

"Where are the remaining orcs? Why haven't they come back?" The chieftain seemed even more anxious than Hu Jiaojiao. Seeing that there were still thirty orcs who had not returned, he frowned and asked.

The one who led the team out was the orc who had gone with Hu Qiang to get salt flowers before, and he was more familiar with the road.

Even so, after two months of traveling on the road, his face was full of sorrow.

"Don't worry, chief, they are fine." The leading orc explained with a smile on his face, although he was frightened.

"When we came back, they found a saltpeter mine nearby. We were worried that the tribe was in urgent need of salt, so we transported the salt flowers back first. They said they would come back as soon as they got the saltpeter, and they should be on the way now."

Hearing this, the chieftain smiled immediately.

"Are you serious?"

They didn't expect that the salt flower harvesting was so smooth this time, and they actually found saltpeter.

The leader nodded seriously and confirmed, "Really."

"Okay, okay, you guys have worked hard along the way." The tribe leader patted the leader's shoulder and ordered the beastman to move the salt flower into the warehouse.

Now they just have to wait for the remaining beastmen to bring back the saltpeter.