Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 50

Chapter 50

Everyone was a little uncomfortable with the points system a few days before it started. The first thing they did after work was not to eat, but to record the points for the day. Other orcs were better off, but the wolves were the least used to it. They relied on snatching for food, and even if there was enough food, they still liked to grab some. Now, a step was suddenly added, and they often ran out halfway and then ran back.

The one who was least used to it was Langze. Other wolves only needed to say how much work they had done and then leave, but he had to keep records and was always the last one.

After two days, Langze became dejected. Bai Tu soon noticed the change in the little wolf and asked what happened.

“I want to eat…” Langze said weakly. Even if a wolf only needs to remember two numbers, he has to remember seventy of them. It’s too long. He wants to eat.

Bai Tu: “…”

Bai Tu handed him a bag of dried apples: “Eat this, take it with your left hand.”

Lang Ze’s eyes lit up instantly when he saw the dried apples. He obediently took it with his left hand and ate it, while recording the points with his right hand. He never complained of being tired again.

A bag of snacks solved the problem of passive resistance. Bai Tu nodded with satisfaction and decided to make more next time.

After the rainy season, many fruits matured in batches. The fruits in the Snow Rabbit Tribe’s territory were just enough for their own tribe to eat, and there were not many left. Lang Qi discovered at the market that Bai Tu liked fruits. Seeing that there were few fruits on the Rabbit Tribe’s side, he took the initiative to ask if he could go to the Wolf Tribe to pick some.

The Blood Wolf Tribe’s territory is large and it is impossible to cover it all in one day. The picking team basically only picks fruits that are close to the tribe and doesn’t care much about those that are farther away. They will only pick fruits when there is not enough food. Every year, a lot of fruits rot on the trees and fall into the soil, making the surrounding areas more fertile than those near the tribe. Similarly, the plants in these places are more lush, attracting more prey, so it cannot be said to be a complete waste.

If the wolf tribe had not accumulated power for a long time, the outer territories would have been divided up long ago. However, due to the high military strength of the wolf tribe, other tribes could only drool over those territories.

Bai Tu had seen the wolf tribe’s territory and agreed after hearing Lang Qi’s suggestion. However, he did not pick and eat all the fruits. Instead, he thought about making some processed products that could be stored.

Orcs focus on efficiency when picking fruits. As the fruit trees are tall, they used to knock the fruits down with long poles. Now with the arrival of cats, the picking method has changed. The cats climb up the trees, walk near the fruits, and use their nails to cut the stems, and the fruits will fall off. This is faster and more efficient.

However, no matter whether you use a long pole or cats climbing trees, both methods have a common disadvantage: a large portion of the picked fruits will be damaged. After all, they fell from the tree, and it is such a high tree. Fortunately, the fruit skin here is relatively hard and generally will not be damaged too seriously. Even so, these fruits cannot be stored for too long and can be eaten the next day at most.

It’s a pity to waste the fruit, and these are only available in summer and are generally not available in winter. Bai Tu, who didn’t want to waste them, thought of a way to make them into dried fruits like jerky.

Making dried fruits is much simpler than making dried meat, at least there is no need for the pickling step. In fact, it will taste better if pickled with sugar, but neither sugarcane nor beets can be found, and it is not known when sugar can be produced. Fortunately, everyone has become accustomed to the taste of these fruits, and the sweetness of the fruits themselves is enough for them.

Apples, mangoes, and cherries are all made into dried fruits. The methods are similar. Basically, they are sliced ​​or pitted, boiled, and then placed outside to dry. After drying, they are stored.

The first batch of fruits was not large in quantity, and only a small amount was made, so it was considered an attempt. The finished product had good color and tasted good to Bai Tu. Lang Ze was lucky to enjoy the first batch. It was a pity that Lang Qi was not there, otherwise they could discuss making the remaining fruits into dried fruits. But in that case, it would not be enough to rely solely on the rabbit tribe and the wolf tribe living in the rabbit tribe, and the rest of the wolf tribe would also have to get busy.

Bai Tu was thinking when a familiar voice sounded from behind him: “What is this?”

“I was just looking for you.” Bai Tu was happy when he heard the voice and handed over the bag in his hand, “Come and try it, these are dried fruits made from apples and mangoes.”

Lang Qi lowered his eyes and looked at him: “Looking for me?”

Bai Tu nodded: “Yes, try it, the dried apples are sweeter, and there are some dried cherries, I’ll give them to you later, that one is sweeter.” There are no other additives, and the sweetness depends entirely on the fruit itself. Cherries are the sweetest, apples are second, and the worst is mango. Bai Tu hesitated whether to remove the mango, after all, it is more troublesome to cut than apples.

Langze looked down at the dried fruits in his hand, turned it upside down but didn’t see any cherries. He was stunned. Wasn’t he Bai Tu’s favorite?

“There are too few dried cherries. I’ll give you two later.” Bai Tu explained. Cherries have a short ripening period, and the fruits will ripen and rot if you’re not careful. Not many were picked, and he was not sure how the dried fruits would taste, so he only took half for experimentation. There was a total of one bowl of dried fruits, which he would give to Bai An and others to taste later. He didn’t dare take them out first, for fear that they would not be able to resist eating them all. After all, sweets are still quite tempting.

Hearing that there would be some later, Langze was satisfied. He continued to eat the dried fruits and record the points. When he finished recording the points of the last wolf clan, there was no more dried fruits in his hand. He went to take his brother’s, but found nothing.

“This is mine.” Lang Qi ignored his brother’s crying expression and ate the last two pieces of dried fruit.

Langze: “???”

Who was the one who joined the hunting team directly just because he didn’t like eating fruits? Who is it? Who is it?

Lang Qi obviously didn’t intend to answer this question. After eating the dried fruits, he looked at Bai Tu and said, “Is there anything else you haven’t remembered? I’ll help you.”

Lang Ze: “???!!!”

I was so busy just now, why didn’t you help? Why? Aren’t you my brother?

Langze looked at his brother in silence, and Langqi glanced at him with no brotherly love at all.

“Tu!” Langze howled, “I want to tell you something!”

Langqi suddenly looked at his own brother who was trying to commit suicide, while Baitu was worried: “What’s wrong?”

“He is a fake!” Langze howled, “He is not my brother!” Baitu

: “…”

Langqi: “…Shut up and go eat.”

“Why should I listen to you,” Langze was dissatisfied, “You don’t give me dried fruits and don’t help me with work. You are not my brother.”

“Okay, okay, let’s eat. Tonight we have big bones.” Baitu didn’t know what Langqi had done to hurt the boy’s fragile heart, and he comforted him unconsciously, “The bones will be snatched away by others soon.” Recently, the boys of the wolf clan have fallen in love with gnawing bones. Seeing that they like it, Baitu simply asked Baian to leave more meat on the bones when he served them, and cooked them for them to gnaw slowly.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but I always feel like something is weird.

It was not until he saw the wolves gnawing on bones with their teeth bared that Bai Tu realized something was wrong. The adult wolves, especially the one led by Lang Qi, were generally more serious. They ate in a hurry but looked normal. However, Lang Ze’s team was more lively than majestic. They couldn’t wait to wag their tails when they saw something delicious. How to put it, they didn’t look like wolves at all.

Bai Tu was very suspicious that this team had mixed bloodlines. He withdrew his gaze with mixed feelings and took Lang Qi to the other side to eat. He suspected that if he watched for a while longer, the other party would not be able to resist taking action.

Lang Qi took a few deep breaths and followed Bai Tu in silence.

The tribe is now faced with heavy tasks and the weather is hot, so it is basically impossible to stay in one place for long with dozens of fires. In addition, there are limited stone pots in the tribe. Bai Tu simply found a few orcs who are good at cooking to cook, and others can come directly to eat after finishing their work for the day, which saves time and is convenient.

Everyone found that this method was less troublesome than making their own fire to cook, and most importantly, the food they made tasted much better than grilling it themselves, so it only took two meals for them to accept this method. After the meal, there are washed fruits that you can eat directly. It is so comfortable.

This is also the reason why everyone quickly adapted to the points system, which is much better than before! Although I still eat the same amount, I have to do a lot less work. I have remaining points from working every day, which I can exchange for food or other supplies later.

Orcs of each race need to do different things and get different points. The wolf tribe has strong hunting abilities and gets the most points. The rabbit tribe gets a little less than the wolf tribe. Behind them are the cat tribe, which still has wounded people, and the lion tribe, which needs to be watched.

The lion tribe with the least points found that even though they had not yet become official members, they could still eat enough and even eat better than in the Crazy Lion Tribe. Several lion tribe members who had originally decided to stay in the Rabbit Tribe immediately decided not to pass on messages to their original tribe. The cat tribe went from being uneasy at the beginning to being relaxed. As members of a small tribe, they had never seen so many supplies before, and many of them were unfamiliar to them.

Not to mention the wolf tribe, some of them even want to stay here forever, but they dare not say it out loud, for they will be beaten if they do.

The Rabbit Tribe has always known about Bai Tu’s abilities. After all, it was he who researched the jerky. Even so, they never expected that their lives would be so comfortable after the change. It was something they had never dared to imagine before, especially the writing. They had only heard that the Black Forest Tribe was qualified to learn it before, and it was said to be a gift from the Beast God to the Black Forest Tribe, which led to many tribes joining in. Now they actually enjoyed the same treatment as the Black Forest Tribe. The group of people were so excited that they could hardly express their inner joy and wanted to tell everyone. However, due to Bai Tu’s instructions, they had to keep it secret from the unfamiliar tribe.

The rabbit tribe felt happy and regretful at the same time. It was like catching a prey that they could never finish eating, but they couldn’t tell anyone else and could only feel excited themselves.

Bai Tu didn’t know what the orcs were thinking. After dinner, he called Bai An and others together to discuss whether to make dried fruits. The first thing to do when everyone is gathered is to share the three kinds of dried fruits with everyone to try, because if we wait any longer there might not be enough.

Langze finally tasted the legendary dried cherries. They were really sweet, but there were only two of them. He was not satisfied at all. Seeing that everyone else was discussing the matter seriously, Langze quietly moved behind Langqi and quietly stretched out his claws.

“Pa——” Not only did he fail to reach the cherry, he was also beaten. Langze hung his head and shrank behind Langqi, looking at the white map pitifully.

Bai Tu noticed the brothers’ little movements out of the corner of his eye and pushed the remaining dried cherries over. Who would refuse a little wolf with drooping ears?

Lang Qi witnessed the whole process, glanced at his brother who was pretending to be well behaved, said nothing, and continued to listen to Bai Tu calculate the number of people needed to pick and make dried fruits.

“There are now a total of seventy-three people in the picking teams of the two tribes. If we are outside all day, we can pick about thirty baskets of fruit a day. After deducting the ones we eat, there will be about ten baskets left. We will probably need five orcs to make the dried fruits.” Ten baskets weigh about fifteen hundred kilograms, and it will take at least five orcs to complete the task.

“The wolf tribe can do it.” Lang Qi agreed directly. There are still many idle orcs left in the wolf tribe. It is no problem to select five of them. Even if there are not enough, members of the hunting team and picking team can also take time to process the dried fruits.

After talking about dried fruits, Bai Tu mentioned mulberry leaves again. The first batch of silkworms grew very fast. Wild silkworms are relatively tenacious, and with Bai Tu’s careful care, there were almost no losses. They were about to make cocoons in half a month, and their appetite increased accordingly. A large pile of mulberry leaves could be eaten up in half a day. All the big leaves on the mulberry trees near the tribe had been picked, and it was a pity to pick the small leaves now, after all, they had to feed the second batch. The mulberry seedlings transplanted to the wolf tribe would come in handy. The mulberry trees grew amazingly in the fertile soil, and with the wolf tribe adding irrigation tools, a lot of branches have sprouted now, and the leaves have increased several times, which can be picked and used.

Lang Qi nodded: “Is there anything else you need?” He brought them all over at once.

Bai Tu thought for a moment and shook his head: “It’s okay.” After all, Lang Qi was also busy, so he gave the basic arrangements that he could do himself or that the Snow Rabbit Tribe could complete to their tribe.

As the leader, Lang Qi has a lot of things to do. He is a smart man. When Bai Tu introduced the point system to everyone, he found that the same system can be used in the wolf tribe. He divided the wolf tribe members into groups and teams in the same way and adopted a reward and punishment system. With the help of Bai Tu, he drew bamboo slips and bamboo pieces for the wolf tribe, which were used in the wolf tribe the day after the rabbit tribe launched the point system.

Bai Tu was no longer with the wolf tribe, but the wolf king had greater authority. Although the work became a little more complicated after the change, no one objected, especially when Lang Qi added one more point at Bai Tu’s reminder: members who had made mistakes and were being punished could be exempted from punishment and have their previous treatment restored after accumulating a certain number of members.

This excited a group of orcs in the cave behind. Many of these orcs were found out by Wolf Qi to have connections with other tribes, and quite a few of them inadvertently passed on a lot of tribal news to the other side. Although they did not intend to do anything to harm the tribe and were just fooled into thinking things were not that complicated, the damage they caused to the tribe was real, and they had to be punished according to the rules of the wolf tribe.

These orcs understood their mistakes and were willing to be punished, but the previous punishment made them lose hope, as if they would have to squeeze in that dark and damp cave for the rest of their lives to atone for their mistakes. Now that they knew how many points were needed to regain their freedom, they worked harder and at least there was hope.

As for those who refused to admit their mistakes, Lang Qi simply arranged for them to be exiled indefinitely. Do they want to join other tribes and then come back to fight the wolf tribe? dream.

Lang Qi came here this time to tell Bai Tu something. After everyone left one after another, Lang Qi spoke: “Shi Peng doesn’t want to eat anymore.” Although he felt that Shi Peng deserved to starve to death, he was handed over to him by Bai Tu after all, and Bai Tu should have the final say on how to deal with him. Bai Tu gave him life, so it was not good for him to die.

“Who?” Bai Tu was just about to take the medicine back to Lang Qi. After all, hunting was not completely safe. It took him a second to realize who Lang Qi was talking about. He asked after a pause, “How many days?”

“Seven days.”

Bai Tu was shocked: “How many days?!”

Lang Qi repeated, seven days. He only found out today when Lang Yang came to tell him that the person was dying. Like him, Lang Yang felt it was not good to let the living person entrusted to him by the leader starve to death. He asked Lang Qi what to do, whether to throw him out or force-feed him some food.

Bai Tu: “…”

Bai Tu: “Are you still alive?”

Lang Qi nodded, still breathing.

“Let him be. Just follow the rules of your tribe.” Bai Tu said. Just like it is impossible to wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, they will never be able to understand the thought processes of some people, such as Tu Cheng and Shi Peng.

Several other orcs who joined the tribe have mentioned their lives in the Crazy Lion Tribe more than once. Not only were they often beaten and scolded, but even though they were the ones hunting, they were always the last to be distributed food. Often, they could only get cowhide and sheepskin, which were completely inedible, because there was not enough food. The leader, Shi Hong, and his men had so much food that they could not eat it all, and they would not give them any food even if it went bad. It was said that they were afraid that the animals would not recognize their place after being full.

Apart from food, they were treated the worst in other aspects. They would never get good animal skin tools, and could only use those that others had worn and discarded. Use them to block danger when encountering danger. Last time when they were besieged, almost all the injured were low-level orcs. Dozens of low-level orcs died during the rainy season, but Shi Hong and others didn’t even look at them. They even felt that the deaths were not enough and the survivors were a waste of food.

Bai Tu sighed and shook his head: “I don’t understand what he’s thinking.” In Bai Tu’s opinion, nothing is more important than life. He changed time and space and still tried hard to survive, but some people were playing with their own lives.

Lang Qi agreed and decided to have someone throw him out when he returned to the tribe. He didn’t want to continue talking about Shi Peng, so he talked to Bai Tu about something else: “Don’t spoil Lang Ze.”

He’s almost an adult, what a person he is!

Bai Tu looked at the other party with confusion: “?” Are you spoiled?

“Give him less snacks in the future.” Seeing that Bai Tu didn’t understand, Lang Qi could only give examples one by one, “He eats the same way as others do.” If he keeps picking on others like this, it will get more and more excessive! Besides, whose cub is so big and still acts like a spoiled child?

Lang Qi was so serious that Bai Tu could only nod and say, “Okay, I’ll try my best.” The immature wolf cub is a little bit spoiled. In human form it’s okay, but in beast form it will just lie at your feet without making a sound, just looking at you pitifully. Bai Tu doesn’t know if he can resist next time he encounters such a situation, but since his parents have said so, of course he has to obey.

Not knowing that his extra snacks and meals were cancelled, Langze ate more dried cherries and returned to the tribe in joy, spinning around in circles. He was more excited than before to lead the wolf tribe hunting.

Over the next few days, the wolves’ performance was as amazing as ever, catching at least two prey every day. Apart from their large appetites, they had no other shortcomings. In fact, because of Lang Qi’s instructions, they fought less frequently than before.

Looking at the prey brought back by the wolves, Bai Tu felt that Lang Qi was a bit harsh on his younger brother. They were such good cubs. Well, the big cubs were still cubs.

Just when everyone was gradually forgetting that the little wolves often do things that ordinary people would never imagine, the little wolves, who had been well behaved for a few days because of the delicious food and the points system, all stepped into an area that they had bypassed a few days ago tonight.

“Boss, do you want to fight?” Wolf Zuo turned into a human form, holding a long pole in his hand that was used to beat fruits. This tool was no longer used after the cats joined the Snow Rabbit Tribe, but they brought it out specially tonight.

Langze nodded: “Fight.”

A group of wolves immediately found their positions, and when Langze gave the order, they all poked the long poles in their hands towards the tree.

“Buzz——”

“Awoo~~~”

The sad howls of the wolves echoed throughout the territory. Lang Qi, who was hunting prey on the other side of the territory, decisively gave up the prey that was about to be caught, and brought other members to the location of the sound at the fastest speed in his life.

After preparing the medicine and checking the cocoons, Bai Tu, who was resting, woke up from his sleep. The voice just now seemed to be from the wolf tribe?

Bai Tu stood up quickly, and Bai Qi and others changed into their original forms and ran towards the wolf territory. In an instant, Bai Tu even had the idea of ​​changing into his original form in front of everyone and asking the rabbit tribe to take him there.

But Bai An obviously didn’t intend to let him go out: “Tu, you stay in the tribe, I’ll go and see.” If there is really danger, at least there will be someone in the tribe who can make the decision.

As the group of people were anxious, the familiar little wolves appeared in front of them, but they were a little fatter.