Since Ze had gotten up late today, the meat soup hadn't been started yet. Shen Nong said, "Let's eat at the main canteen today, and then go straight to the Feather Tribe. That way, we won't have to waste time making it."
Whatever Shen Nong says, Ze should do.
In the tribe, food is distributed by the hunting team according to the orc's rank and age. The older, younger, and lower-ranking orcs receive the least amount of food.
Each member of the tribe receives their share of food and eats it individually.
When Shen Nong first arrived, the Wood Tribe practiced communal eating. Regardless of age or rank, everyone ate together, stopping when they were full.
At that time, the main reason for eating together was to make it easier to cook meat. Shen Nong was not used to eating raw meat and could not eat it, so the meat had to be cooked.
I was also thinking of improving the food conditions for my people, so I set up a canteen and hired a few people to help them cook meat every day.
When the canteen opens for meals, an orc will call out, and the tribesmen will put down what they are doing and go to the canteen to eat.
However, ever since the Mu tribe members received their own earthen houses and various pottery, everyone has been eating their own meat in their own houses.
However, the cafeteria was not canceled and was retained.
The thatched hut that started out was later replaced by a large earthen house, no smaller than the one Shen Nong used for meetings.
However, it was abandoned for a period of time and was only put back into use after a deal was reached with the Feather Tribe, where it was overseen by the food preparation team.
The food preparation team members were all surprised to see Shen Nong appear in the main dining hall. When she came in, Shen Nong saw Yingya and the others sitting together drinking fish soup.
Ze went to get soup for Shen Nong, while Shen Nong went over and sat down with Yingya and the others.
The more people, the better, as long as no one is alone with Ze.
Shen Nong doesn't like to eat anything too greasy in the morning. When cooking in the cave, he would buy some mushrooms from the system shop and make him a mushroom soup for breakfast.
Because things were very chaotic outside the tribe, Shen Nong was worried about the safety of the tribespeople, so she didn't let the gathering team go into the forest to pick fresh mushrooms. Therefore, there was no mushroom soup in the dining hall, so she was given a bowl of fish soup instead.
After serving the fish soup to Shen Nong, Ze then went and served himself two bowls of meat soup.
Shen Nong stirred the fish soup with a ceramic spoon to let the steam dissipate, then sipped the soup into her mouth spoonful by spoonful.
Shen Nong ate at a steady pace, neither too fast nor too slow. However, the beastmen ate like they were in a battle, devouring everything in a flash, as if someone were fighting them for it.
Eagle Cliff and his group had big appetites; they ate three rounds before they were full.
After they were completely full, Shen Nong finished a bowl of fish soup.
He then went to get two more bowls of meat soup, which he finished by now.
There was still a mouthful of soup left in Shen Nong's earthenware bowl. It was difficult to scoop it up with the earthenware spoon, so he always drank the last mouthful of soup from the bowl by lifting it up.
Because of this, Shen Nong's wrist suddenly felt sore and weak from lifting a heavy object, almost causing him to drop the ceramic bowl.
Eagle Cliff noticed the commotion and asked with some concern, "Priest of the Wood Tribe, what happened to your hand? Are you injured? You were fine last night?"
Shen Nong couldn't answer a single one of Yingya's three questions. He simply glared at Ze and then said dismissively, "It's nothing, just a slip of the hand."
Then, as if to prove something, Shen Nong endured the soreness and weakness in her wrists, raised the earthenware bowl, and drank the last mouthful of soup in front of Yingya.
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Shen Nong didn't plan to bring many people with her to the Feather Tribe this time, only Ze and Bao Qiu.
The group carried some dried meat and water to keep going, and did not stop to make a fire along the way. They finally arrived at the Feather Tribe in the middle of the night.
Yu Ji was woken up in a daze, told that the priest of the Wood Tribe had arrived. Upon hearing this, Yu Ji's drowsiness instantly vanished. "Take me there quickly!"
When Yu Ji saw Shen Nong in the Eagle Cliff Cave, he was stunned for a moment.
As his gaze shifted, he looked at Leopard Autumn standing to the side and guessed that the priest of the Wood Tribe had come this time for matters concerning the Wushan Tribe.
He just didn't expect the priest of the Wood Tribe to make a special trip for the Wushan Tribe, but Yu Ji didn't ask any more questions.
The tall orc who had been guarding the Wood Tribe priest last time was also there. He glanced around at the cave in Eagle Cliff; it wasn't small. But since the person who came was the tribal priest, he couldn't let him share a cave with the hunting party.
Yu Ji recalled that Shen Nong and that tall orc had stayed in the cave in Yingxi last time.
Although Yingxi is almost fully recovered, she is still a bit weak and needs to rest more. To make it easier to take care of her, Yuji hasn't moved Yingxi from her place.
Let them move back in.
"Priest of the Wood Tribe, you should go and stay in the cave in Eagle Creek. It's still empty."
Shen Nong didn't refuse; he just wanted to sleep quickly, he was so sleepy he was almost delirious. He leaned against Ze's shoulder like he had no bones, and subconsciously said to Yu Ji, "Thank you."
Yu Ji didn't quite understand the meaning of "thank you," but he could sense that Shen Nong was expressing her goodwill.
Ze had been half-holding Shen Nong to prevent him from falling. Seeing how tired Shen Nong was, Ze lowered his head and asked softly, "Priest, shall I carry you?"
Shen Nong nodded softly, then moved behind Ze, pressed herself against him, raised her arm to hook around Ze's neck, and murmured, "Let's go."
Meanwhile, in the coastal tribes.
A full moon hangs in the sky, countless stars adorn the heavens, and the sea surges with the sound of waves.
Lu Chun lay on the beach with his eyes closed, a fire burning beside him, crackling and popping.
The person, who was thought to be fast asleep, suddenly opened their eyes in the next second, quickly sat up, and looked at the rocks not far away.
She said coldly, "Get out here!"
Lu Chun frowned. She shouldn't have dozed off while on night watch; otherwise, she would have noticed someone approaching much sooner. Unlike now, those thieves in the dark were only a hundred meters away from her.
There was no movement from the reef. These past two days, Lu Chun had been unable to get a good night's sleep because the tribes along the coast would send people over under cover of darkness to spy on him. He was getting quite irritable.
Her patience was running out, and her voice rose a few decibels, revealing a hint of ferocity in it: "If you don't come out now, don't blame me for taking action!"
The Luchun orcs are of a high level; any tribe that comes to scout is discovered before they even get close.
High-level orcs can sense the level of low-level orcs, orcs of similar levels can sense each other, but orcs of very low levels cannot sense the level of high-level orcs.
Furthermore, higher-level orcs have a certain degree of suppression over lower-level orcs.
In the orc world, the strong have always been respected.
The low-level orcs behind the reef were suffocating under the pressure of the aura emanating from the high-level orcs, and even began to feel fear and want to escape.
But their legs seemed to be nailed to the spot, unable to move.
Lu Chun walked towards the reef. The closer she got, the stronger the aura of the high-level orcs behind the reef became, and the deeper their fear grew.
Finally, one of the newly awakened girls couldn't take it anymore and burst into tears.
The cries of panic and fear mingled with the sound of the waves crashing against the shore.
Lu Chun was stunned for a moment after hearing the loud crying.
She didn't want to cry yet! She hadn't slept well for two or three nights! But they started crying first!
The Wood Tribe has a high demand for oysters, and the Feather Tribe wants to trade more, so each time, apart from the orcs who deliver the goods, the other orcs stay on the beach to continue gathering.
In addition, with the availability of fishing nets and the hunting teams being busy delivering goods and trading with the Wood Tribe, they had no time to hunt, so the Feather Tribe switched to eating fish.
Later, the Feather Tribe orcs by the sea watched Lu Chun prepare fish, put them into earthenware pots to boil, and then grill them on skewers with branches. The taste was simply irresistible.
They couldn't help but ask Lu Chun if he could tell them how to cook the fish. Lu Chun only said that it was their priest's idea, and if they wanted to learn, they should ask their priest.
When Eagle Cliff delivered the oysters that time, they specifically asked Shen Nong, and Shen Nong casually said it was fine.
With the discovery of the correct way to eat fish, the Feather Tribe's demand for fish increased.
The Feather Tribe members finally got to eat the delicious fish that was said to be only available to the Wood Tribe.
As a result, the Feather Tribe members still had to catch fish and send them back every day, and the seaside couldn't be left unattended. So the Feather Tribe simply built a thatched hut by the sea to live in.
Their fishing nets and large bamboo baskets are important items and should be carefully protected.
These past two days, the stronger orcs have all gone to deliver goods to the Wood Tribe, and the beach is being protected entirely by Lu Chun.
To protect these two things, Lu Chun hasn't had a proper night's sleep in the past two days.
She was really furious at this point, yelling, "Stop crying! Shut up!"
Her shout silenced the girl. Lu Chun walked behind the reef and saw two older-looking orcs tightly covering the mouth of an orc girl.
Then the three of them looked at her with horror.
Lu Chun asked curiously, "If you're so afraid of me, why do you keep coming back to steal things?"
After waiting for a while and no one dared to answer, Lu Chun had no choice but to shout fiercely again, "Speak!"
The orc on the left shuddered, then whispered, "I'm not stealing anything, I just wanted to take a look..."
"Look?" Lu Chun crossed her arms and leaned against the rocks. "What are you looking at? What do you want to do after you've seen it?"
The orc dared not raise his head, but kept it lowered, suppressing his fear, and stammered, "It can draw many fish from the sea. We want to see how it does it. After we've seen it, we'll put it back. We dare not take your things..."
By the moonlight, Lu Chun looked at the three emaciated people and wondered if he believed what they said.
"Gurgle, gurgle."
Lu Chun glanced at the girl in the middle whose mouth was still covered, raised an eyebrow and asked, "Hungry?"
The girl dared not move, her head bowed, tears streaming down her face, splashing onto the sand and creating a small crater.
Lu Shuang stared at the small pit for a moment. She felt that she had been in the Wood Tribe for too long and her heart was not hard enough.
The beastman who had escorted the fish back to the Feather Tribe had told her about Leopard Autumn. When she heard this, she chuckled to herself, thinking that he would never risk his life to save four children he didn't even know.
But now she seems to understand why Leopard Autumn saved people.
Lu Chun sighed, "I still have some fish soup, do you want some?"
The girl looked up in disbelief, sobbing uncontrollably.
Her mouth was still covered, so Lu Chun couldn't understand what she was saying.
Lu Chun ignored it and placed the earthenware pot containing half a pot of kelp and fish soup on the fire to heat it up.
The aroma soon wafted over, and by then the rest of the Feather Tribe had also woken up.
Seeing that Lu Chun was cooking fish soup, they assumed she was hungry. "Lu Chun, finish your food and go to sleep. We'll keep watch for you in the middle of the night."
Lu Chun hasn't slept well these past two days, and neither have the orcs of the Feather Tribe.
They need to switch shifts with Lu Chun, but Lu Chun can hold the line by himself, so they need a group of people together.
It's just that their orc level was too low...
Lu Chun shook his head. "It wasn't me who drank it. Some kid from some tribe over there on the reef was starving."
She was so thin that Lu Chun was afraid the girl would starve to death.