Ling Yun glanced at Qing Yuan who was "working" for their family: "Isn't this manpower?"
"Chief..."
To be honest, Mei Yan just didn't want to be separated from Xin Lan.
"I'll let Xinlan tell you." Ling Yun turned towards the dormitory, but was stopped by Mei Yan: "I'll go!"
Mei Yan didn't want Xin Lan to think that he didn't want to work for the Tiger Tribe.
"Very good, now go say goodbye to Xinlan and leave."
"Chief, I have another request."
Ling Yun's brows sank.
Mei Yan said, "Chief, please send someone from the tribe to help us build a house for two days. I hope that the house will be built when I come back."
Ling Yun thought about it and realized that Mei Yan was able to travel long distances quickly, and the tribe really needed his abilities, so it was only right to give him more benefits at this time.
He nodded and agreed: "Leave this matter to me. You work for the tribe, and the tribe will help you."
"Okay, Chief, I'll be there right away. There's a herbivorous orc tribe nearby, right? Let them come... and work for me?"
Ling Yun explained, "The tribe is short of manpower right now. I want to build a wall inside the mountains to protect the tribe, and set traps outside the wall. But everyone is very busy right now. If I don't recruit people from outside, the construction of the wall will be delayed."
After hearing Ling Yun's plan, Mei Yan became more motivated.
After all, this is also to protect Xinlan!
"I understand. I will inform as many tribes as possible."
"Oh, by the way, the tribe is now looking to recruit a few Feathered Orcs to be in charge of liaisons with other tribes. If you come across a suitable one, you can ask them if they're interested in joining us. But the rules are still the same: they must mate with a female from our tribe."
"Okay, I'll keep an eye on it."
Mei Yan also knew that Ling Yun had already sent two teams to discuss cooperation with other tribes, and now he was sent to deliver the message. In the future, the contact with other tribes might be closer. He was the only one in the tribe who could fly, and he would be exhausted.
Thinking of this, Mei Yan urgently needed some Feathered Beastmen to come and help them.
After Ling Yun finished explaining, the highlight of today was in the fields.
Teng Ning had already brought his men to the edge of the field to bring the sprouted potatoes, waiting for Ling Yun to bring Lin Qiu over.
They followed Lin Qiu's instructions, dried the potatoes in the sun to germinate, cut them into four or five tubers according to the sprouts, and then treated them with wood ash. They all looked very healthy.
They had already plowed the land in advance and spread wood ash as fertilizer. According to what Lin Qiu had said before, they dug out rows of small pits in a neat manner. Each pit was about the size of a foot apart and about the length of a finger deep, which was about ten centimeters in Lin Qiu's words.
For every two rows of pits next to each other, leave one row of pits undigged.
"Chief, let's plant all of these today!"
When they distributed potatoes before the cold season last year, they left two large bags of potatoes and saved them as seed potatoes.
There were about seven or eight hundred of them, and each seed potato was cut into four parts for germination. Excluding those that failed, there were about three thousand sprouts, enough to plant one acre of land.
Lin Qiu estimated that as long as the survival rate was above 80%, they would be able to harvest about 15,000 kilograms of potatoes this time. Each person in their tribe would get more than 20 kilograms, and then 1,000 kilograms of potatoes would be left as seed potatoes for the next crop. By the time the cold season came, they would have plenty of food, and they could even exchange it with other tribes.
This is based on the assumption that each seedling only produces six potatoes. Maybe there will be more. Lin Qiu is not sure about the yield of potatoes, and she is secretly looking forward to it. After all, wild potatoes are only this big!
"Xiao Qiu, you can demonstrate it."
Ling Yun said.
Lin Qiu placed the sprouted potato tubers into the pit and covered them with soil. It seemed simple, but she instructed, "The soil needs to be buried deep to prevent the potatoes from 'turning over' and showing during growth. Also, as the potatoes grow, cover them with soil from the sides to the top of the ridge. By the end, there should be a gap of about 25 centimeters between the top and bottom of the ridge. Make sure to cover them tightly and don't let the potatoes show, otherwise they won't be edible."
Lin Qiu demonstrated by symbolically covering the potatoes she had just planted with the soil from the empty space beside the two rows of pits. "Just make sure not to cover the sprouts when covering them."
"We get it. It sounds relatively simple."
Teng Ning said.
"It's very simple, but it's hard work to plant so much at once."
"Xiao Qiu, how do you water the potatoes?" Ling Yun reminded Lin Qiu when he saw that he didn't teach them this.
"Don't water them for now. These potato sprouts can rely on the potatoes themselves to grow. If you water them now, the potatoes will rot easily. It's best to wait at least four or five days before watering again. When you do, make sure to water the ground thoroughly. This plant loves water."
"So that's how it is. It seems that every plant has a different way of growing it."
Ling Yun looked at the vegetable fields next to their house and saw that they had to be watered as soon as the seeds were planted.
"This is really complicated. Only you herbivorous beastmen can remember this."
Teng Ning laughed twice, then asked everyone to get to work quickly.
They had thought that carrying water to irrigate the fields today would be very hard, but now they suddenly felt relieved.
Ten people dug ten ridges in total, with two rows of pits in each ridge. It only took a short time for one person to plant about three hundred seedlings.
"Then Xiaoqiu, do you want to stay here and continue to watch, or should I take you home?"
"I'll wait until they've all planted and see what's going on before I leave."
"Okay, let's go sit over there for a while."
The tribe was covered in green grass, and nearby a few cubs were fighting. Ling Yun squinted his eyes and took a look: "Those are Xin Qin's cubs. They can now transform into human form."
After a cold season, these cubs turned into human forms but still couldn't crawl. However, their beast forms were longer than the male's forearms and they were already very strong. Now Ren Ge felt at ease to let them play together in the tribe.
"How cute."
Looking at the fluffy creature rolling on the furry grass, Lin Qiu had an urge to touch it.
But after all, it was someone else's cub, so she could only rub her palms.
It's okay, she has some at home too.
Ling Yun turned Lin Qiu's face back: "Who is cute?"
"How can you be jealous of even a child?"
"I'm speaking up for our kid!" Ling Yun looked righteous, but his hidden thoughts were obvious.
"Okay, okay, your big white tiger is the cutest." Lin Qiu was happy to cooperate, praising both his father and the cub.
Ling Yun immediately acted like a little tiger happily, but his tall stature was inconsistent with this attitude.
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