Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 56

Chapter 56

Langze’s unreliability is directly proportional to Langqi’s reliability. Bai Tu has always known this. He tried his best not to let Langze speak at the market before, which indeed avoided the possibility of being cheated.

But Bai Tu could never have imagined that he was being watched at the market and that he could still do business at a loss in the tribe.

“The comb is for people to comb their hair! The more you exchange fur for points, the more you lose!” Bai Tu explained tiredly. A comb is worth three points. Due to the tools, it takes a longer time to make a comb. Recently, the carpenters reported that the workload was heavy, and the source of the problem was actually the wolves.

If you use a comb to comb hair in the normal way, a comb can be used for at least one month. Langze is obviously using this to exchange for points. It takes a lot of strength and the combing time is also fast. What kind of wooden comb can withstand such use? The damaged comb is placed next to the hair ball. The contrast is very obvious. Four combs, twelve points, and the hair combed out can be exchanged for three points of fluff.

Wolves shed a lot of hair, but they definitely won’t shed so much at one time. In order to get all that hair, they’d probably use all their might.

When Langze heard Bai Tu’s words, he calculated the points he had to exchange for the comb, and his expression gradually became petrified.

Bai Tu was relieved that the wolf was not sick, but for the safety of the little wolves, and to prevent more little wolves from suffering losses due to the same replacement, Bai Tu held a small meeting with everyone that night, focusing on the production cost and selling price.

“For example, if you spend ten points to exchange for summer melon and honey, and spend half a day to make summer melon juice, you must sell it for more than fifteen points, because there is still half a day’s labor. The simplest labor in the tribe can earn ten points a day. If the selling price is lower than fifteen points, or the exchanged items are not worth fifteen points, then you are losing money. Do you understand?” Bai Tu used everyone’s favorite food as an example, striving to make everyone understand this truth. Otherwise, if the items made by the tribe with great effort are sold at a low price, he would be so angry that he would vomit blood.

Bai Tu only talked about the problem of calculation cost, but after hearing it, Lang Qi looked directly at Lang Ze. He had a hunch that this matter was most likely related to Lang Ze.

Langze was still grieving over the points he had lost. What Bai Tu saw were today’s points. Before that, he had changed many combs and combed out a lot of fluff. The points he had lost were already more than nine points. He almost combed himself bald and ended up losing so many points. Anyone would feel aggrieved. And because the example Bai Tu gave was straightforward enough, Langze also discovered that this was not the only loss-making business he had done. No wonder his points are getting less and less even though he is working so hard.

Bai Tu coughed lightly, signaling Lang Qi not to bother with Lang Ze about this. The child was already sad enough for losing points, so there was no need to add insult to injury.

Even if they didn’t say anything, Lang Qi had guessed about 70% of the matter. Recently, Lang Ze had been going out for a run after dinner, and often went to the carpenter’s cave. A quick check could reveal what items he had exchanged for. Lang Qi, who knew his brother very well, knew that he was being stupid again.

Langze went out hunting dejectedly. Bai Tu saw that it was not yet completely dark, so he went to the ceramic kiln first.

Nowadays, almost everyone has a piece of fired pottery, but a considerable number of tools are still made of stone and wood. Replacement is a gradual process that cannot be completed all at once. But it is undeniable that pottery is much easier to use than stone tools, especially for boiling water. Due to its thin edges, pottery heats up much faster. The only drawback is that after boiling hot water, it cannot be immediately placed in cold water to cool down, otherwise it will burst instantly.

The speed is a little slow now. After all, large pottery is more troublesome to fire. In addition, there is enough lime, and Lang Qi has found a limestone mining site, so there is basically no need to worry about not having enough lime in the future. Bai Tu directly expanded a few more pottery kilns, striving to fire enough for his own use within a month, and then fire a batch next month to sell at the market. Not all orcs are as good at digging holes as the rabbits, and there are many tribes that need to buy stone pots.

While Bai Tu was working overtime with everyone to build more pottery kilns, a group of strange orcs arrived at the wolf territory.

On the day of the corn harvest, Baoduo began to persuade the orcs in the tribe to quietly leave with the entire tribe before dark before the witch doctor asked for food next time. Only Baoni and a few other items that could not be taken out were left in the tribe.

There are still more than fifty orcs left in the Leopard Tribe, whose ages are basically between ten and thirty. Regardless of age, all of them are skinny and have not had a full meal since the snow season last year. This rainy season has been even more difficult as they were targeted by the witch doctors. There is still no increase in food after the rainy season, and they have to deal with the witch doctors asking for offerings every now and then. The entire tribe is miserable. It can be said that even if there were not so many leopards, everyone would not be able to hold on for too long. It was just that sentence that strengthened everyone’s determination to leave.

Baoduo and others were discovered by Langze. The hunting team headed by Langze suffered heavy losses. Even with the points rewarded for finding honey, this group of little wolves also lost a lot of points. The little wolves decided to make up for their mistakes and planned to bring more prey cubs back to make up for the losses during this period. However, the prey cubs at the several hunting spots they often went to had almost been caught by everyone, so they could only go to the outer territories.

When the little wolves saw the leopard tribe for the first time, they howled with excitement. When strange orcs appeared, they could get a lot of points by driving them out or capturing them back to the tribe!

Baoduo was very excited to see the wolves. He thought that the wolves’ howling was because they were happy to see them. He was so excited that he greeted the wolves directly: “Langze, it’s me, Baoduo!”

The wolves seemed to have their throats strangled, and the howling stopped abruptly. The wolves instantly became listless and lay on the ground in disappointment.

Wow, the points I earned are gone.

Bao Duo didn’t know about the wolf tribe’s disappearance. After confirming that it was a familiar tribe, he felt relieved and discussed with the wolf tribe in a friendly manner: “We have left the tribe. Can you take us to find Bai Tu and Lang Qi?” At that time, although the wolf tribe and the rabbit tribe did not introduce their identities, he could see that Bai Tu and Lang Qi were the ones in charge. Since they decided to move here, he still had to find them.

Langze stood up dejectedly, revealing loss from his ears to his tail, as if all his energy had been drained. He turned around and led them back to the Snow Rabbit Tribe. The little wolves howled in unison.

Bao Duo and other leopards did not notice the difference between these howls and the previous ones. The wolf tribe who stayed behind in the tribe suddenly became alert and trotted to find Bai An and Bai Chen to prepare for defense.

Several other hunting teams of the wolf clan also heard the sound and looked serious. The captains of the hunting teams each sent out a team of ten orcs to gather.

The wolves kept howling, but to other tribes it was just wolf howling. Only the wolves themselves could discern the exact meaning: orcs had appeared. They were not hostile for the time being, but they needed to be on guard.

Langze brought the Leopard Tribe back to the Rabbit Tribe. The Rabbit Tribe, who were on high alert, felt relieved when they saw that it was Baoduo and others who came.

“Bai Tu!” Bao Duo was very excited. Just as he was about to go over and hug Bai Tu to express his inner joy, he was stopped by Lang Qi who came back right after him.

“Your tribe’s residence is not here.” Lang Qi said coldly, “Get ready, I’ll take you there.”

Bao Duo: “???” They seemed to have just arrived.

Bai Tu was very happy. He was worried about it. Although it was not his responsibility whether the Leopard Tribe had a place to live or not, he still had to help them. He had helped them before, and now that people had come to his tribe, he should lend a hand in some way, such as providing a temporary place for the Leopard Tribe to stay before their new residence was built.

However, the current situation of the tribe certainly does not allow it to accept another orc from the tribe. Changing from a single cave to a double cave is already a concession made by the original residents. If it is changed to a triple or quadruple room, it would be a bit excessive. It is equivalent to turning a single small apartment into a multi-person dormitory, which involves more than a few inconveniences.

Lang Qi was planning to help, and the Wolf Tribe was indeed much more suitable to lead the Leopard Tribe than the Rabbit Tribe. If a strange tribe came to join them, even if their territories were only adjacent, there would be dangers involved, and some of the surrounding tribes bordering that unowned territory might not agree directly. If Lang Qi led them over, many conflicts could be reduced.

The wolves were concerned about housing and territory issues, while Bai Tu discussed it with Bai An and Bai Chen, and then said to Bao Duo: “Let’s eat something first.” The health of the entire leopard tribe was worrying. Bai Tu suspected that someone would fall ill if they were hungry for another two days. When he woke up, the rabbit tribe was relatively weak, but they were not so hungry.

Upon hearing that there was food, Baoduo, who had just thanked Lang Qi, became excited again. There was little food in the spotted leopard tribe. Although two-thirds of the more than 50 people were members of the hunting team, it took four or five days to catch a prey. Large prey might even be encountered only once in ten days or half a month. The prey they caught was small to begin with, and the witch doctor often kept an eye on them, sending people to see if there was any food every few days and asking for offerings. As a result, there was even less food left in the tribe.

Before leaving the territory, they had just caught a stilt sheep weighing about 200 kilograms. Relying on that sheep and the corn they harvested some time ago, plus the corn grown by Bao Duo and others, they managed to hold out for six or seven days.

These six days were not a leisurely walk, but a non-stop run day and night. Apart from the dangers of being in an unfamiliar territory, they were also worried that the witch doctor would send people to follow them. Fortunately, the most worrying thing did not happen.

The faster they go, the more energy they consume. For fear of being discovered, the leopards did not dare to hunt on the road. When the cats came secretly, the rainy season had just ended. Due to problems such as stagnant water, there were fewer orcs patrolling the outer circle of the territory. In addition, the cats were good at hiding, so their hunting was relatively smooth. At this time, the chances of being discovered in an unfamiliar territory were very high. Even the leopards, distant relatives of the cats, did not dare to take risks on the road and went straight to the rabbits and wolves.

The orc in charge of cooking came to ask Bai Tu what to cook. Bai Tu thought for a while and said, “Corn porridge and barbecue.”

A group of people came from the territory, and they were probably starving. They would have to wait for other things to be prepared, but the barbecue was already marinated and could be eaten while it was being grilled. Corn porridge has been a frequent food on the tribe’s menu recently. At first, some orcs were not used to the sudden addition of this food, but after drinking it for a few meals, they got used to it. In terms of diet, orcs have strong adaptability.

Some orcs from the Leopard Tribe had been to the market before and had an impression of Bai Tu. A few of them even knew that he had medical skills. The other orcs did not know Bai Tu and had been listening to what Leopard said to them.

It was not until the leopard orcs saw the corn porridge being served that they were so shocked that they almost shouted out loud. Their sacred rice was actually grown by other orcs!