Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 125

Chapter 125

Just as Bai Tu thought, when the Flower Bear Tribe first entered the bamboo forest, there were some animals there. There were some bamboo rats and bamboo lemurs that lived on bamboo.

Both are real animals, not therianthropes. Some tribes do not allow ferocious animals to appear around their territories, because it will threaten the safety of orcs and cubs in the tribe, but people basically ignore these smaller animals, allowing them to grow freely and even give them a meal when they encounter them.

Logically, the Flower Bear Tribe should not pay attention to this non-dangerous animal. The bamboo rat will not cause any harm to them due to the difference in size of the bears by hundreds of times. The bears are large in size, and even slightly older cubs are bigger than bamboo rats, not to mention adult orcs. A bamboo rat may be crushed to death by a careless step.

It had no impact at all, but the orcs of the Flower Bear Tribe were very curious. They had never seen this kind of animal before, and when they saw it, they thought it was interesting and wanted to catch it and play with it. However, the noise was too loud, and not only did they fail to catch it, they also scared away many bamboo rats.

The bamboo lemurs were about the same size as bamboo rats, and they were also scared and ran away. The group of people thought it was fun, so they went to scare them every once in a while. The territory was full of bamboos, and there were very few other plants. There were almost no prey passing by, so they just spent their time eating.

I don’t know if it’s because I was scared too much, but there are fewer bamboo rats now than before, and I have to walk a long way to see one.

Thinking of those fat bamboo rats running around, Xiong Li felt a little regretful: “There are too few bamboos here, none at all.” The Snow Rabbit Tribe has several bamboo forests, which are not small, but not as good as the place where he lived before in the Flower Bear Tribe.

“We’ll catch a few and put them in the bamboo forest later.” said the orc next to him, “and then we can go play after we’re done.”

Xiong Li nodded, agreeing with his point of view.

In the eyes of the orcs of the Flower Bear Tribe, bamboo rats are just toys.

Bai Tu after hearing this: “…” He didn’t expect that the Flower Bear Tribe had their own reasons for not having enough food. From this description, we can tell that the original number of bamboo rats was probably quite large.

I finally understand why they said before that the speed of eating bamboo is not as fast as the speed of bamboo growth. It’s not that they eat slowly, nor that the bamboo suddenly grows at twice the speed, but that this group of people drove away the indigenous residents.

Originally, so many bamboo rats were breeding and expanding their population, thus achieving the goal of preventing the bamboo forest from growing too big. However, the pandas scared the bamboo rats away. Without the suppression of another creature, the orcs of the Flower Bear Tribe obviously failed to control the growth of bamboo, resulting in the bamboo becoming more dense recently.

Bai Tu didn’t know what to say for a moment. There were many tribes that relied on their own abilities to feed themselves, but there were not many tribes that relied on their own abilities to starve. The Flower Bear Tribe was the first one.

The tribe has basically enough food. Even if there is no food supplement from the Red Eagle Tribe this year, the crops grown and the increase in cattle, sheep and other animals in the breeding areas will allow the tribe to survive the rainy and snowy seasons smoothly. But Bai Tu was very envious of the bamboo rat’s reproductive ability.

In fact, the prey with the strongest reproductive ability should be the rabbit, but the beast form is after all the rabbit tribe. Everyone does not object to the orcs from other tribes eating rabbits, but they themselves generally do not catch them, and breeding them is even more impossible.

Bamboo rats can completely replace rabbits, and you don’t have to raise a lot of them. It’s mainly for prevention of emergencies, so it’s always a good idea to prepare more food.

Finally, the task of finding bamboo rats was given to the Eagle Tribe. After Hei Xiao temporarily stayed in the tribe, Hei Yan flew over every now and then. If he was driven back by Hei Xiao, he would definitely come back within ten days. Even so, it was not reassuring enough, as the number of Eagle Tribe members left in the Snow Rabbit Tribe was increasing.

The order this group of Eagles received from Hei Yan was to protect Hei Xiao and obey Hei Xiao’s command. But when they got to Hei Xiao, they had to follow Bai Tu’s arrangements.

There are always people guarding the territory, so there is no need to worry about security. Therefore, except for two people who are guarding Hei Xiao’s side and running errands, all other people from the Black Hawk tribe have been dispatched by Bai Tu.

The advantage of having wings is that you can fly in a straight line, and when delivering messages you don’t need to find a convenient route like other orcs. Bai Tu selected six black eagles and four vultures and asked them to exchange for sheep.

Sheep can be sheared twice a year. Now is the time to shear them after raising them for a while, so that the first batch of wool can be produced before next winter.

There are still a few Eagle people in the tribe. Bai Tu called them over and asked them to take the bear away to catch bamboo rats.

“Don’t scare them again this time.” Bai Tu instructed Xiong Li. Even if it was an eagle, it would take several days to fly back and forth. If they were scared away, it would waste several more days the next time.

The orcs of the Black Hawk tribe are accustomed to long journeys. A journey of two or three days is just a short trip for them. They don’t even need to rest in between. They just fly back after catching bamboo rats.

After the orcs of the Flower Bear Tribe left for more than ten days, the bamboo rats became a little bolder and dared to show up more than when people were around. They roamed freely in the bamboo forest for a few days, but they didn’t expect that someone would make a surprise attack and they were wiped out in one fell swoop.

Bamboo rats have strong biting abilities, and to prevent them from escaping, several eagle tribe members, led by Xiong Li, caught dozens of bamboo rats when they arrived at the bamboo forest, and then flew back immediately.

Bai Tu puts the bamboo rats into separate breeding grids based on their gender and size. The grids are made of bricks and cement, and it is difficult to get them out unless they chew through them first.

Bamboo rats like to eat bamboo, and there are quite a lot of bamboos in the tribe. Seeing that the bamboo will be consumed quickly in the future, Bai Tu takes advantage of the current suitable season to directly expand the planting area.

No matter how much the Flower Bear Tribe’s territory produced before, it was still difficult to transport due to the long distance. Bamboo was not like materials like iron that could be used for a long time after being transported once. A large piece of it was consumed almost every day. Before the transportation method was improved, this material, whose transportation cost was more precious than the raw materials, could only be grown by themselves.

However, one advantage of bamboo is that it grows fast. After being transplanted, it will grow into a forest in just a few years.

Compared to other animals, bamboo rats are relatively docile. Perhaps they were often frightened before, but now they will calm down as long as they have food and water.

After welcoming the bamboo rats, the orcs in the breeding area began to clean up other places.

After a winter, more than half of the breeding area was empty. Even though everyone has been catching animals to fill the empty pens recently, the number of prey is still much less than before.

There is enough food, but I am very dissatisfied when I see the empty breeding area. Especially since the rainy season is just over two months away, even though a lot of salt was exchanged before the snow season and the tribe will not be short of salt for the time being, everyone still feels that there are not enough prey. You know, it takes a lot of prey to go to the market! What’s more, they can’t go out to hunt during the entire rainy season. Now, instead of increasing the number of hunters, they are adding manpower in some unexpected places, which is puzzling.

Someone asked about this, but Bai Tu didn’t seem to be in a hurry at all. He kept urging everyone to cut the weeds quickly, the more the better.

Not to mention the mowing team led by Bai Dong and his children, even Bai An came over to ask if they had made a mistake in the calculation.

After all, there were so many prey before winter, and cutting the grass at the end was not as urgent as it is now. Everyone is losing their hair because of the small number of prey, so why is Bai Tu not in a hurry?

Bai Tu took out the bamboo slips that recorded the behaviors of the captive prey and pointed to one of the places: “There are thirty-seven pregnant sows in the tribe now.”

Not only are the beastmen restless in the spring, the prey are also different from usual. After raising them for a winter, the animals with cubs have grown up and can be separated separately. The animals without cubs have also reached the period of breeding prey cubs, so they will naturally come in handy.

The thirty-seven mentioned here are still the pigs with the highest yield. He did not include cattle, sheep and other animals. The combined food intake of these prey is absolutely astonishing. If we do not prepare now, when the prey grows up and their food intake increases exponentially, we may only be able to feed them by borrowing hay like the Blood Wolf Tribe before.

But borrowing is not so easy. Last year, the rabbit tribe raised fewer animals, and they started cutting grass first, so there was more hay in the end, so some of it could be distributed to the wolf tribe. Even so, they killed a batch of prey in advance, otherwise the pregnant prey would not survive until the end of winter.

With the experience from last time and knowing how many prey would be born in two months, Bai Tu of course had to make preparations in advance. Anyone in the tribe who had nothing to do went to cut grass. All the cut weeds are dried and saved for use in the winter.

Bai An learned a lot of words, although he couldn’t write some of them, but he had no problem counting the number of prey. After looking at it, he waved his hand and said, “Small prey can’t eat much. The weeds now are almost enough.”

“Definitely not enough.” Bai Tu had already calculated that as animals grow older, their appetite increases at an exponential rate. The calves and small pigs and sheep raised in winter can feel it. Bai An obviously didn’t understand how many prey a pig can give birth to in one litter.

“Even if a pig gives birth to seven or eight pigs, there will be two or three hundred piglets.” Bai Tu conservatively gave a smaller number. In fact, he felt that there could be even more. They eat well and sleep well in the tribe, so there is no reason why they cannot compare to those growing up in the wild.

“Can they have so many children?” Bai An was amazed.

The last time we started catching live prey on a large scale, it was almost winter, and there were very few pregnant prey among them. We only saw a few sheep and cows giving birth, and they were only one or two. Three was very rare. Although the number of piglets born by pigs is different from others, the wild boars outside only have four or five cubs. Bai An thought that more than five was the maximum number. It turns out that the number of piglets born in one litter is far more than what is seen outside.

Although he still had some doubts about Bai Tu’s words, Bai An decided to listen to him. Since Bai Tu was sure that so much hay was needed, he would continue to cut it. There were weeds everywhere, and new ones would grow again in a few days after one crop was cut. They grew much faster than the fruits and grains they ate.

Most fruits only bear fruit once a year. Grains take less time, but it still takes two or three months to harvest a batch. Weeds can grow into a large area in just half a month. After you harvest a batch, new ones will grow soon, as if you will never finish harvesting them.

Everything in the tribe is in good order. The only bad thing is that the number of prey is getting smaller and smaller. As the weather gets hotter, there should be more prey here, but after a few days, everyone found that the situation is not as good as when the weather just started to warm up.

In previous years, a large group of prey would come every few days and stay in the tribe’s territory for a few days before leaving. Everyone would seize this opportunity to catch them. However, now, the frequency has not changed every few days, but the number of prey has changed from a large group to a small group. Previously there were large prey groups of dozens, but now it’s good to have a dozen or so.

The fewer the number, the harder it is to catch them. There are many more orcs in the territory than before, and they are working everywhere, making quite a noise, making it even more difficult to distinguish the location of the prey. Sometimes, a small group of prey just runs away without you noticing.

At first, Bai Tu guessed that the decrease in the number of prey was because some tribes caught more prey. After all, it was said that the number of orcs in many places has increased rapidly in recent years, and the demand for food is naturally high. If they catch more prey entering the territory, there will certainly not be enough food for the tribes behind.

After observing for a while, he found that something seemed wrong. Even if there were few prey, the number would gradually decrease. For example, there were ten prey in the first year and eight in the second year. This trend of change was relatively normal. The current change was obviously ten in the first year and three in the second year. It was totally illogical to suddenly drop so much.

Even if the number of orcs in some tribes increases and they need more prey, their appetite will gradually increase. For example, the cubs eat a little more meat this year than last year. Bai Tu was prepared for a decrease in prey, but was still puzzled by this abnormal situation.

In previous years, there would be less prey, and everyone could only find ways to capture the prey passing through the tribe. But now there are people from the Eagle Tribe in the tribe, and they travel between the continents all year round. Bai Tu and Hei Xiao discussed it and decided to let them go and take a look.

The advantage of having wings is that you can travel at any time, but after all, it is not safe to rashly go to an unfamiliar territory. Bai Tu prepared enough food for them and instructed: “Check the places you can, and don’t force yourself to go down to the ground if you can’t. Come back early.”

The eagle tribe is not the only feathered tribe. Although they are basically invincible in the air, they are not completely safe. After all, they do not have the advantage in numbers in other people’s territories, and it will be very dangerous if a conflict occurs.

Bai Tu really wanted to find out what happened, but the prerequisite was that his own people were safe. If something would put the Eagle Tribe in danger, it would be better not to investigate.

To the south is a place they often pass by, so there is no need to check. The orcs who went to the north to exchange sheep will be back soon and will bring back any news, so the main focus is on checking the east and west directions. A dozen Eagle soldiers split into two groups and set out early the next morning.

The eagle tribe is fast, and they only go out to explore and come back soon, so they usually travel light. Their speed is much faster than when they usually carry prey. The round trip took less than five days.

Although fast, the reason why there were so few prey was also figured out, and several large tribes were frantically catching prey.

The leader of the Eagle tribe told Bai Tu and Hei Xiao about the scene he saw: “Many orcs in those tribes were catching prey, killing them and throwing them into the pool. There were too many of them, so we didn’t dare to get close. We just watched from a distance and came back.”

The news brought back by another team of orcs who went to the Western Continent was similar: “Some tribes don’t have pools, so they hang their prey on trees to dry. You can smell the smell from a long distance away.”

To be precise, it is not yet summer, but the temperature is already quite high. At this time, you can dry meat. If it is good, you can eat it, but if it is bad, it will smell like rotten meat. The smell of rotten meat is much worse than that of other spoiled foods. Several Eagle tribe members were almost vomited by the smell before they got close.

They were secretly observing, but were shocked by the smell. A younger orc made a noise and was discovered. Because the smell was too strong, they were unable to fly for a while and were almost caught by the orcs of that tribe. If the team leader hadn’t grabbed a handful, someone would definitely have been injured.

If it were an older member of the Eagle tribe, the reaction might not be so strong. More than ten years ago, the orcs of the Red Eagle tribe lived not far from the Black Eagle tribe. The Red Eagle tribe often ate rotten meat, and some people left good food alone and waited for it to go bad. The entire tribe exuded a bad smell, and you could smell that smell when you flew over the territory of the Red Eagle tribe.

The young Eagle tribe were still young at that time and had long forgotten their previous lives. After Heiyan became the leader, the young Eagle tribe became the main hunting force in the tribe and usually ate the best food. After entering the Snow Rabbit Tribe, the quality of life has improved to a higher level than before. Even though they like to fight with the little wolves, everyone still eats and drinks as usual during meals, without any impact.

Neither the Snow Rabbit Tribe nor the Blood Wolf Tribe had ever eaten spoiled food. Although the Eagle Tribe did not have natural refrigeration caves like here, the food would not be kept for too long. After learning several ways of processing food, they could not wait to make all the prey into snacks that same night.

I have never smelled such a bad smell. When a group of Eagles left the tribe, their speed was much faster than usual. Obviously, the team behind them went a long distance, but they were so smelly on the way that they had to return without eating much food.

After reporting the changes outside, the Eagle sniffed the animal skin on his body and always felt that there was a smell. For two days, he had been dreaming about that stench.

The reason why food is so scarce has been basically figured out. As the number of orcs increases, more prey is consumed. With the addition of a few tribes that capture prey everywhere and then kill the meat-hoarding tribes, there is even less prey. If it is normal meat hoarding, there is nothing to say. But the entire tribe is mobilized to catch all the passing prey. It is obviously not just a preparation for the rainy season.

The environment is full of dangers. Prey that can escape from this environment must have strong skills and observation ability, and are more difficult to catch. It is not surprising that the tribe has captured fewer prey recently. Prey in a small group are not easy to be discovered, and those that are finally discovered are all elites who have escaped from the crowd, unlike those before winter who would jump into the trap at the slightest fright.

Although no one knew why those tribes were hunting prey on a large scale, this incident made everyone nervous. There were not many prey grown in the tribe, and they were more frugal when eating.

The Flower Bear Tribe was the least affected by this incident. For them, having a little meat to eat is happiness. If there is no meat, they will go back to eating bamboo.

“You can go back with us if you run out of food.” Xiong Chi promised Bai Tu, “We won’t drive you away!” As the most loyal flower bears, if the Snow Rabbit Tribe and the Blood Wolf Tribe do not have enough food, they will definitely take everyone to the bamboo forest. There must be enough bamboo in the bamboo forest to eat!

Bai Tu: “…” The bamboo forest is not small, but the difference between dozens of people and more than a thousand people is still quite large. The size of the Flower Bear Tribe’s territory is based on the number of people. If the number of people is changed to one thousand, it can’t be said to be big.

Moreover, as a habit developed over such a long time, many beastmen cannot accept a vegan lifestyle. It goes without saying that wolves, lions, and other beastmen, even rabbits, deer, and other beastmen cannot rely solely on plants.

The Flower Bear Tribe changed their food to bamboo because they were desperate. But now, several tribes have not reached that point. There is less prey outside, but they are not starving.

But even if this suggestion is of no help, everyone is still happy to hear Xiong Chi’s words. It is rare to find someone who can help someone in need at any time.

Knowing that if this trend continued the prey would decrease, the orcs’ attitude towards the prey in the tribe changed again. Before, they only treated these prey as backups. After all, according to past experience, they could catch a lot of prey in the summer and would not starve at all. But this year’s situation is obviously not the case.

Some orcs who had finished work during the day would go outside with tools to cut grass, and the piles of grass behind the tribe would increase almost every day.

Some people are beginning to recommend reducing the amount of eggs consumed.

The prey in the tribe has always been killed and eaten immediately, while eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs are kept in the canteen after being collected. For the sake of freshness, they are basically eaten within two days. The temperature outside is high, and it would be a pity if they were left for too long and spoiled.

The orcs knew that eggs could hatch chicks, so they were reluctant to eat them when they realized that there were fewer prey. After all, an egg was only the amount of one bite. If they were kept to hatch chicks, they would have a large piece of meat to eat when they grew up. And if it was a hen that could lay eggs, then one more egg a day would be much better than eating one more bite now.

I don’t know when it started, but a saying has been circulating in the tribe: Eat one less egg today, and you can eat one more chicken in the future.

The orcs who had not thought so at first also stopped eating eggs after hearing this. Tu Mu saw that there were some leftover cooked eggs. At first he thought that there was too much food and everyone had been frugal recently, so they didn’t finish eating them. When he encountered the same situation for the second and third time, he realized that everyone was eating the other dishes, but only a few people took the eggs.

The eggs that were not finished for one of the three meals would definitely go bad if left like this. Tu Mu was so anxious that he went straight to Bai Tu.

Lang Qi guessed what was going on: “They want you to keep these eggs to hatch chicks.”

Bai Tu: “…” This is a good idea, but there is a problem.

Bai Tu: “How do you hatch unfertilized eggs?”

Hatching more chicks is no problem, he can arrange it, but all the eggs delivered to the cafeteria now are unfertilized. They can only be eaten but cannot hatch chicks.

Roosters like to fight. If you keep roosters and hens in the same cage for a long time, many of the hen’s feathers will definitely be pulled out. In serious cases, all the feathers on the hen’s back will be pulled out.

In order to completely prevent this kind of thing from happening, Bai Tu divided the chickens into two piles according to gender. The hens laid eggs, a few roosters were kept, and the rest were killed when they grew up.

The hens are kept individually, with partitions between every few hens. After they lay eggs, the orcs who raise the chickens pick them up and then send them to the canteen.

If chicks are needed, the rooster must be kept with the hens for a period of time and then incubated with breeding eggs.

Bai Tu explained to Tu Mu and asked him to say this next time he heard someone boycotting eggs in the cafeteria.

“What should we do with the remaining eggs?” Tu Mu asked. In the past, several pots of eggs were not enough to eat them all. Now, the eggs cooked once for three meals have not been finished yet. There are too many left. Even if there are many orcs working in the cafeteria, they cannot eat them all. After all, you can’t just eat one kind of food, and eating too many eggs will cause choking.

Bai Tu pondered for a moment and suddenly remembered something: “Is the soy sauce ready?” Making soy sauce is not just about leaving it there and waiting. There are many steps in between, and he certainly can’t do all of this alone, so Bai Tu’s main job is to recall the production method. Most of the operations are done by Tu Mu and other staff in the cafeteria, and he watches from the side to see if they are correct.

Tu Mu recalled the work he did there when he came out: “It seems to be almost done.”

Bai Tu decided to make a dish with soy sauce today.

It’s not a rare food. I plan to make a tiger skin egg with the leftover eggs from today.

Before there was soy sauce and vinegar, the tribe could only cook limited food, so Bai Tu mostly ignored the step of adding soy sauce. However, the food itself lacked a major condiment, sugar, and without soy sauce, the color of many foods was a little lighter.

The taste is okay, after all, no step is done in vain, but it’s just missing a little feeling. Especially in modern times, after eating so many foods with different flavors, these foods always feel bland.

It felt a little better after getting the chili peppers, but you can’t eat chili peppers every day. After eating dishes with only salt and some plant seasonings for so long, Bai Tu was still very satisfied even if he only added soy sauce now.

It is not difficult to make tiger skin eggs. Peel the boiled eggs, put them into a pan and fry them until the skin turns golden yellow, then take them out and stir-fry the chopped green onion and garlic, add soy sauce and water and boil, and finally put the fried eggs in.

It would have tasted better with some sugar, but unfortunately there was only soy sauce. But it’s already progress, Bai Tu thought. In the past, he could only use lemon juice instead of vinegar and add more salt instead of soy sauce. Now that both condiments are made, the food he makes in the future will only taste better. The tribe also planted a batch of soybeans and rice, and will be able to brew in large quantities in the fall.

Although soy sauce and salt are both salty, the food cooked with them tastes slightly different.

Others had never eaten food cooked with soy sauce, and when they saw the eggs change color so drastically, they were a little hesitant to try it. Many people were puzzled from the beginning about how Bai Tu could make that black thing, and now that they see it used for cooking, they are even more confused.

Lang Qi never asked any questions. Seeing that the egg was ready, he picked up an egg with chopsticks and took a bite. After finishing it, he looked down at the rest. He didn’t expect the taste to have changed so much.

He had seen Bai Tu instructing others to make soy sauce and knew that one of the steps was to add salt. He thought it would just be darker brine, but now after eating it he found that it was still a surprise.

Baitu has never disappointed.

Lang Qi ate an egg. After a while, when he was sure that there was nothing wrong, he let go of Bai Tu’s hand and let him taste it.

Bai Tu was a little helpless about his cautious attitude. He brewed the soy sauce himself, so he naturally knew whether it was poisonous or would harm his body. Lang Qi was much more nervous than him and insisted on trying it first.

But other things were put aside for later, eating was the most important thing, Bai Tu took a light bite, after frying and seasoning, the egg was still very hot, but the taste was even more fragrant.

Bai Tu hasn’t eaten soy sauce for a long time, let alone the hand-brewed ones, even the industrially mass-produced ones are not available. The longer it has been, the more he missed it. He ate two in a row before stopping.

Seeing that others did not move, Bai Tu waved his hand and said, “Everyone try it. Tiger skin eggs are delicious when they are hot.” It tastes better when eaten hot, and the lard used in frying eggs will not solidify in this weather, but it will be greasy after cooling down, so it is better to eat it while hot.

The next morning, the tribe announced two things. One was that they had decided to hatch chicks on a large scale. The chicks would be hatched with breeding eggs, which were different from the ones eaten in the cafeteria, so there was no need for everyone to save on food, otherwise they would go bad. The second thing is that if you have any advice in the future, you must listen to Bai An Bai Tu and don’t figure it out on your own. There are not many new prey caught in the tribe, but there is no need for everyone to go on a diet too much. It’s okay to eat less, but there’s no need to eat none at all.

Knowing that the food in the cafeteria was not the same as the food used to hatch chicks, a group of orcs began to run towards the table where eggs were placed when they entered the cafeteria again. They were used to eating there, so they felt a little uncomfortable not eating there for a few days.

But when I got there I discovered one thing: the eggs were still there, but they had changed in appearance. The outer skin was gone, and they were no longer white and tender, but had become a little black and a little red.

The most important thing is that eggs are limited. Each person can only take one per day, no more.

The orcs looked at each other, wondering whether to eat the unfamiliar food or not.

Just as they were hesitating, a group of little wolves rushed in.

The orc who was still hesitating immediately stopped hesitating and quickly took it and left.

There are many little wolves. Once they come, this batch of food will be snatched away in no time. Although it will be replenished later, we still have to wait. Moreover, they always think that the food they didn’t eat tastes the best. Every time they miss it, they shake their heads in regret.

I don’t know the saying that the one who rushes to eat it tastes better. The orc quickly put the egg into the bowl, found a table, sat down, took a big bite, and was instantly amazed by the unfamiliar taste.

No wonder you are only allowed to eat one egg. If you could eat as many as you want, the whole plate of eggs would be snatched up in no time. Don’t underestimate anyone’s love for food.

The little wolves also ate the eggs, but they were always very fast eaters and could finish an egg in just two bites. They swallowed it without even tasting it, and in the end, only the fragrant sauce was left in their mouths.

I still want to eat. This is the wish of all the little wolves, but it is not possible for the time being. In the next few days, we need to prepare breeding eggs, and the number of eggs in the canteen will decrease.

When the little wolves were dejectedly asking when they could make tiger-skin eggs next time, Bai Tu was tidying up the kang.

Some orcs moved down the mountain after finding partners. Bai Tu integrated the half-empty caves and brought together the orcs without roommates, and finally a few caves were left empty.

He plans to use these kangs to hatch chicks.

After making the incubator, I tried it twice. The first time was to put the hen’s half-hatched eggs in the incubator, and the second time was to do a control experiment. Finally, I determined the optimal incubation temperature and humidity. This time, the temperature on the kang is controlled according to the optimal temperature to hatch the chicks.

Thousands of eggs can be placed on a kang, which is much more efficient than hatching eggs by a hen. Moreover, once a hen starts to incubate eggs, it will not lay eggs, wasting a lot of time. If a large number of eggs are hatched at the same time, people have to be sent to take good care of them and feed them.

There is no need to worry about these problems when incubating eggs on a kang. Two people can take turns watching over them and turning the eggs over regularly.

After arranging all these, Bai Tu and Hei Xiao discussed the tribes that caught all the prey. The two were very puzzled as to why those people caught so much prey.

In fact, Bai Tu was not worried about the lack of food in the tribe. This year he planted a killer weapon – sweet potato. The yield of sweet potatoes is amazing. One acre of land can yield several thousand kilograms. Even if the land here does not use chemical fertilizers and the yield is slightly lower, the large area of ​​​​planted land can still feed many people. He left the sweet sweet potatoes uneaten just to grow the seedlings in the end. It may not be true that eating one less egg can turn you into a chicken, but it is true that eating one less sweet potato can grow more sweet potato vines.

Sweet potatoes are not the only food in the tribe. There are also wheat, corn, rice and various beans. There are quite a few crops planted this year. Basically, all edible crops that can be seen have been planted in Baitu. The Blood Wolf Tribe has been following the Snow Rabbit Tribe closely. Whatever is done here, the Wolf Tribe can catch up at most half a day later. The Leopard Tribe will take a while longer, but they will also try their best to learn how to do it.

As for the other relatively familiar tribes, such as the Yellow Lion Tribe, the White Lion Tribe, and the Spotted Deer Tribe, they would sometimes borrow some crop seeds and learn planting methods. These tribes had all seen the life of the Snow Rabbit Tribe during the winter. Although they knew that their tribes could not become like that immediately, it would not be bad to make more preparations to reduce the pressure in the future.

It can be said that in the entire Beast God Continent, the reduction in prey has the least impact on their tribes, but even so, they have to find out the reason. If all tribes are left without food in the future, their situation will become dangerous.

There is another reason. Due to the lack of food, only a few tribesmen came to look for cubs. It’s not that they didn’t want to bring back cubs, but there was less prey and it was difficult to catch them. It required more people than before to catch enough food for the tribe. They had no time to leave the tribe to look for cubs. After all, it would take several days, and the remaining food in the tribe was not enough to eat on the way up the mountain.

Bai Tu didn’t mind raising the cub for a while longer, but going on like this was not a solution. If he wanted to keep the cub, he would keep it. Even if the cub’s parents came to claim the cub, the cub could stay in the tribe, instead of being separated from its relatives because of some external reasons like this.

The cub’s childhood is only a few years long, and it will be one day less with each passing day. He was abused by Wu Lai in the first half, and now he should be pampered to make up for it. But in the end, he can’t see his parents due to lack of food, and can’t recognize them. It’s so pitiful just thinking about it.

The two wanted to find out why those tribes were hoarding so much food, but this time they couldn’t send the Eagle Tribe directly over like they did before. They were discovered last time, and although they returned safely in the end, the other party would definitely be more vigilant after this incident.

Those tribes were obviously connected, and information was probably exchanged. If one tribe knew that someone was spying, it meant that all the tribes knew about it. Sending people over at this time would be much more dangerous than last time.

After much thought, the most suitable time would be the next market.

There is still more than a month before the market before the rainy season. Before the market, the orcs of most tribes need to go out to exchange food. At that time, they can take this opportunity to ask, and they can also see the situation of other tribes in the market. If they are lucky, they can even meet orcs who have lost their cubs.

After the discussion, Bai Tu returned to the cave. After seeing the several-month-old cubs in the cave, he was stunned for a while and asked Lang Qi: “Who do you think we should take to the market this time?” Last time he brought two cubs, and this time there are five cubs, which is not easy to deal with.

“Bring them all.” Lang Qi said. He had been going to the market with his father ever since he could remember, and his cubs should have been too. And it is safer to go to the market during the rainy season than before the winter, as the temperature will not drop much.

Bai Tu hesitated for a moment and nodded, “Okay.” They would take them all. There were two of them anyway, so they could carry two or three each. The cubs weighed only about one pound, so not to mention five, even fifty would be no problem.

Even though winter has just ended, the time until the market is getting shorter and shorter.

The wheat matured as everyone expected. Although the planting time was almost the same, the maturity time was not consistent due to soil fertility, moisture and other factors. The first batch that filled with grain was small in quantity and was roasted and eaten by everyone before it matured.

The yield of wheat is lower than that of corn, but if you plant more, you can get a lot in the end. After drying and threshing, hundreds of baskets are placed in rows in the warehouse, which is satisfying to look at.

This is just winter wheat. After the winter, a batch of spring wheat will be planted. It will mature after the rainy season. Starting from the next winter, the tribe will no longer have to restrict pasta.

After harvesting the wheat, there is only one month left until the market, including the travel time.

A month may sound long, but it actually involves a lot of preparation.

The tribe still has some salt left over from last time, so we don’t need to exchange the salt this time. We are mainly going out to gather information and see if we can meet the relatives of those cubs. Just don’t include salt, the tribe will also need to prepare a lot of food and snacks.

Part of it is to eat on the way. The round trip takes half a month. If something happens, it will take a few days longer, so food must be prepared.

In the past, we could still hope to catch a few on the road, but now it is hard to catch prey in the tribe, let alone outside. Outside of our own territory, even in the area we have to pass through every year when going to the market, we cannot leave the crowd too far and must always be vigilant. It is not suitable to chase prey over long distances.

These are not a problem for the tribe. If it is not suitable to catch them on the road, then just bring more. The prey they catch now are basically caught alive. The advantage is that the prey will not go bad due to being left for a long time, and the prey will grow during the feeding process. The food is indeed enough as Bai Tu guessed.

Just like before winter, the tribe began to process several very popular foods, but when it came to dried meat, Bai Tu didn’t plan to make so much: “Keep more live cattle and ride them away when the time comes.” They

didn’t have the conditions to do so before. The last time they went to the market, most of the prey in the tribe had just been caught and were still a little wild. It was very dangerous to lead them out. The cattle were large in tonnage, and they would definitely hurt people if they got angry and rushed around.

This time it was different. After a winter and several months of domestication, many of the prey had become very docile. The calves caught last year had grown into adult calves and were very friendly to people.

Bai Tu was reluctant to kill these cows, so it would be great to ride them or let them carry supplies.

It was originally a good idea, but Bai Tu found that Lang Qi’s expression was not right after he said it.

What happened again?