Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 39

Chapter 39

When the Rabbit Tribe was eager to try, Hei Xiao successfully pushed Hei Yan away: “Sit down quickly.”

Hei Yan moved away reluctantly, but still stared at the Rabbit Tribe warily, especially Bai Tu.

Bai Tu: “…” Forget it, he won’t care.

Hei Xiao picked up the bowl first. Under the gaze of the Eagle Tribe, he took a sip and let out a long sigh: “It smells so good!” Hei Xiao didn’t know how to describe the taste of the mushroom soup, but it was much more delicious than the soups he had drunk in the tribe before. In addition, he had been hungry for two days. Although he had just eaten some food, it was not as nourishing as a bowl of soup.

When the other members of the Black Hawk Tribe saw that Hei Xiao had drunk, they started drinking too. Didn’t they see that the Rabbit Tribe were looking at them with envy! As for the leader who keeps shouting that he doesn’t want to drink, forget it. When the leader’s partner is around, it’s usually not the leader’s turn to express his opinion.

Seeing that Bai Qi was so anxious that he was grabbing his hair, Bai Tu reminded him: “Divide the rest among you, the next pot will be ready soon.” They didn’t know the exact time when the hunting team would return, and they were not sure how many people would be willing to drink it, so they only cooked one-third of the amount. However, the hot water and meat were already prepared, so the rest would be cooked soon.

Upon hearing this, the rabbits gathered around the stone pot. Knowing that this was the first pot, each person scooped only half a bowl, trying to share a taste, and then waited for the rest.

The delicious and fragrant mushroom soup soothed the frustration brought by not catching any prey. Bai Qi waited for the remaining mushroom soup to be cooked and drank two bowls in a row.

Since the Rabbit Tribe started drinking it, Hei Yan has never said it was a poisonous soup, but he still refused to drink it. Hei Xiao fed it to him twice, but he refused sternly: “I can’t eat it!” He had to stay sober so that when the Rabbit Tribe wanted to play tricks, he could take Hei Xiao away immediately.

Even though he didn’t say anything, Hei Xiao knew what he was thinking, and immediately felt helpless: “You continue to eat the jerky.” I’m afraid you’re starving.

Worried that his partners would be hungry, Bai Tu asked Bai Qi to bring out some dried meat. If nothing else, there would definitely be enough dried meat. There is still some food left from the rainy season, and the harvest after the rainy season is also decent. The tribe is not short of food for the time being, and there is no pressure at all to raise a few more orcs.

After everyone finished eating, many beastmen planned to go to the back mountain to pick mushrooms, but Bai Tu stopped them: “I’ll take you to pick mushrooms tomorrow.” Fungi are not as easy to identify as plants. Many fungi look similar, but are actually very different. It is difficult for novices to distinguish whether they are poisonous or not. What everyone learned in just one afternoon is limited, and Bai Tu would never dare to let everyone eat them casually.

There are two ways to find food in the tribe. One is collective action. For example, the picking team and the hunting team go out together to pick and hunt during the day. Another example is that Bai Tu arranges everyone to harvest weeds. These are all collective actions. The food picked and captured is also public and will be distributed uniformly by Bai An.

The other way is for idle orcs to go out hunting or picking wild fruits. The results do not need to be handed over to the tribe and can be kept by themselves. This is how many orcs accumulate their own small pockets. Although they usually cannot catch large prey when they go out alone, catching pheasants or eggs can be a snack. If they can’t bear to eat them, they can save them for the snowy or rainy season.

Now these orcs who were preparing to go to the back mountain were planning to pick some mushrooms and cook them for themselves. Bai Tu had picked quite a lot just now, but the tribe had too many people, plus there were orcs from the Black Eagle tribe, so each person only got about half a bowl. The members of the hunting team got more, but they were not satisfied, because Bai Qi had Bai An’s share. Bai Chen, who had recovered, was reluctant to drink his own drink and handed the bowl to his pregnant partner Tu Bing.

Every time Bai Tu makes a new food, it will cause a craze in the tribe. In the first few days, almost half of the tribe will eat this kind of food. Until Bai Tu develops the next delicacy, fewer orcs will eat the previous food. We drank mushroom soup today. It is conservatively estimated that we will have this dish for the next three or four days. However, there are limited mushrooms in the mountain behind. Everyone is worried that there will not be enough if we go to pick them tomorrow, so we want to pick them in advance.

Bai Tu knew what everyone was planning. It was too dangerous to let the orcs pick mushrooms and cook soup directly. He reminded them: “No one is allowed to pick mushrooms without permission. Whoever goes secretly will have to eat barbecue for a month. If you want to drink, there will be more tomorrow.”

After hearing these three sentences, the orcs who were ready to make a move immediately quieted down. No one dared to challenge Bai Tu’s execution ability. Bai Tu usually doesn’t care about the affairs of the tribe, but as long as he says something, Bai An, Bai Chen and others will obey it. If he says something about punishment, he will never let it go easily.

In the past, eating barbecue for a month was definitely a luxury for everyone. You couldn’t even eat it if you wanted to. But now the situation is different. This sentence means that food can only be grilled within a month, and the new food that Bai Tu will teach you next cannot be eaten. The mushroom soup tastes good, but this punishment is too severe. They should just obey orders obediently. Besides, Bai Tu also said that some mushrooms cannot be eaten. Thinking of the tribesmen who had eaten mushrooms casually and ended up being poisoned in the past, everyone immediately calmed down.

The confused Eagle Clan was a little bewildered after hearing this. Eating barbecue for a month? What is this punishment?

Only Hei Xiao drank the soup in his bowl quietly and politely. Bai Tu served him another half bowl. He was a little full, but the mushroom soup tasted so good, and he wouldn’t be able to drink it again when he returned to the tribe, so he could drink more now.

Although no prey had been caught recently, the tribe still had some food stored. Drinking only soup would at most fill them up a little now, but they would still be hungry later. Bai An took most of the orcs to the back mountain to divide the prey.

Hei Xiao took the last sip, put the bowl down, and said to Bai Tu: “I’ll take you to see the iron stone.” This was the purpose of their visit.

Bai Tu followed and knew that Tieshi was the iron ore he needed. That was correct. What Hei Xiao brought was hematite, which was one of the easier types of minerals to restore.

The moment he saw the hematite, Bai Tu knew that he had chosen the right partner: “This is the kind we need!” After that, he took Hei Xiao to see the medicines he had prepared for the Black Hawk Tribe.

It has to be said that the two of them had made this deal entirely out of trust, and they rashly agreed to the cooperation without much inspection. Bai Tu recalled that he felt it was a bit risky when he performed at the market that day, but the fact proved that the risk was worth it. Even if the iron content of the iron ore was less than half, these few baskets of iron ore could make a lot of tools, not to mention that this was only the first batch. Bai Tu was looking forward to the harvest after the iron smelting furnace was built.

However, Bai Tu is not in a hurry to smelt iron. He plans to accumulate iron ore in the next few months and then smelt it when the mountains are blocked by heavy snow in winter. There are two advantages to doing this. First, it does not delay everyone’s hunting time. After all, food is the most important thing at this time. Second, after the snow season, the plants outside are basically withered, and there is no place to hide. In addition, there are almost no roads outside during the snow season, and the surrounding tribes cannot sneak in.

Although they only have one hostile tribe, the Crazy Lion Tribe, and the other party’s condition is not very good so far, Bai Tu still dare not let his guard down. Didn’t he see that after the rainy season ended, the other party secretly sent people to sneak into their tribe? Now they are sending people in, and next time they may be secretly following them. They must be on guard.

Bai Tu was thinking about discussing it with the wolf tribe and asking them to send a small team of orcs to help with protection. There were too few people in their tribe, so they could only hire external aid to solve the problem of food and accommodation, and add some iron tools or food as wages. Then there should be wolves willing to come. There are many areas where the two tribes can cooperate, so Lang Qi would not disagree.

While Bai Tu was thinking about what he needed to do to smelt iron in winter, he introduced the uses of medicine to Hei Xiao: “The one with yellow leaves is a painkiller. You can eat it when you are injured and the pain is unbearable. The red leaves are hemostatics. Sprinkle them directly on the wound. The green leaves are boiled and drunk after being injured…”

There is no written language on the Beast God Continent, and the medicine he prepared has more than one effect. For convenience, Bai Tu directly wrapped it with leaves of different colors. A basket of medicine sounds shocking, but in fact most of them are semi-finished products that need to be boiled, and there are relatively few painkillers and hemostatics. Even so, these medicines are enough for a tribe to use for several months. The orcs have strong resistance and will not care about some insignificant minor wounds at all. They will only treat large wounds.

Hei Xiao watched Bai Tu introduce the functions of the medicine packs in categories, and he couldn’t hide the shock in his eyes: “Did the witch doctor who likes to travel around teach you these medicines?” Bai Tu said before that he knew a traveling witch doctor, and the other party’s way of making medicine was quite special.

“Yeah.” Bai Tu nodded. The real reason was too complicated, so this was the only explanation for now. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Hei Xiao, but he was afraid that no one would believe the truth if he told it to them. If he hadn’t experienced it himself, he wouldn’t believe it, let alone others.

“Besides iron stone, do you want any other items?” Hei Xiao asked. He felt that the medicine given by Bai Tu was much more useful than the black medicine of the witch doctor. After all, the black medicine could only be used on wounds, while these medicines were classified into many categories, each with different effects and could be used according to the situation.

As for whether the efficacy of these medicines is really as magical as Bai Tu said, Hei Xiao naturally has his own set of identification methods. When he just landed, he saw an orc with a scar on his leg. Even though the upper part of the scar was covered by the animal skin, only the knee and the part below the knee could be seen, but based on his experience, he could judge how serious the wound was at the time. The scar seemed to have healed not long ago, but the other party was able to follow the hunting team to hunt. The fact that he was able to recover quickly from such a serious wound is enough to prove Bai Tu’s ability.

On the way back, he asked Bai An and learned that it was Bai Tu who healed the wound, and that he had also applied medicine to stop the bleeding of an orc from another tribe at the market. He did not change the medicine because he was worried about attracting the attention of another group of witch doctors.

Hei Xiao knew that there were conflicts between different witch doctors. For example, in the southern continent where they lived, the relationship between different witch doctors was also very complicated. Many witch doctors did not want other witch doctors to appear in the territory they managed. Bai Tu was capable and young, so he might easily arouse jealousy. It was even very likely that he had been suppressed by some witch doctors before. Otherwise, he would not even refuse to tell his own master. It must be for self-protection.

Thinking of this, Hei Xiao moved his gaze from the medicine to Bai Tu’s face. His desire to protect him was overwhelming, and he said seriously: “Bai Tu, come back to the Black Hawk Tribe with me?” Although the Black Hawk Tribe is not a top-notch large tribe, it is more than enough to protect a witch doctor, and Bai Tu does not have to work so hard.

Bai Qi, who just stepped into the cave: “???” Why are you here again?

Baiqi main line: the defense of Baitu.