Companion Ceremony

Shen Nong and Ze's partner ceremony does not require a priest, but Shen Nong also wants it to be a little lively.

Except for the affiliated tribe from Beast City, all other affiliated tribes gathered in the Wood Tribe.

The huge Mu tribe was packed to the brim. The orcs were walking on the cement road, shoulder to shoulder, and it was extremely lively.

The companion ceremony in the animal world does not have so many rules, and there is no need for oaths. Shen Nong was not nervous at all, thinking it was just a drop of blood, no big deal.

But when the system reminded him that he could connect to the interstellar space and project his "marriage" scene into the dreams of his teacher and his mistress, Shen Nong was inexplicably at a loss.

There was no mirror here, so Shen Nong grabbed Ze and asked him to look at him, "My clothes are neat, do they look good?"

Shen Nong was wearing a new dress made of linen and comfortable cloth shoes. Since he didn't know how to cut hair, Shen Nong had never had his hair cut since coming to the beast world. His hair was now very long, piled high, and held up with a wooden hairpin with a crane feather at the end.

Ze was so absorbed in watching it that he whispered back, "It looks good."

Shen Nong was a little frightened by Ze's fixed gaze, and he raised his hand to cover Ze's eyes. His long eyelashes scratched Shen Nong's palm, making it itchy. Shen Nong endured the itch and said helplessly: "Calm down."

Sensing that his partner was in a state of panic, Ze couldn't help but chuckle. He gently grasped Shen Nong's wrist, pulled Shen Nong's hand down, and followed Shen Nong's words with a smile, saying, "Well, I'm calm."

Shen Nong blinked, and Ze seemed to be really happy these days. He laughed much more often than before. Although he would laugh from time to time before, most of the time he had a serious face that looked mature for a young man.

No one would believe that Ze is younger than him if you tell them.

As the system prompted, "Dock successful, start dreaming." Shen Nong was already half-fallen on Ze, and he stood up straight in an instant, his whole person becoming extremely serious.

Ze was panicking. He grabbed Shen Nong's wrist and asked worriedly, "Priest, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing." Shen Nong shook his head and reminded Ze: "Behave better, got it?"

Ze roughly guessed what "performance" meant, and nodded seriously to promise Shen Nong, "Yes, I know."

Shen Nong subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that the teacher and his wife would be satisfied with his choice.

…

There were many orcs who came to the Mu Tribe to participate in the ceremony. Those who could sit in the front were the priests and leaders of each tribe and the captains of each team. The other orcs were eating and drinking in the back.

Shen Nong didn't like being restrained, so he arranged several tables into a long dragon and filled them with meat, fruits and vegetables.

Shen Nong also exchanged some fruit wine. After all, it was a "wedding", so he let everyone drink something different.

Wine is a new thing, and the beastmen have never touched it before. The fruit wine selected by Shen Nong has a very low alcohol content, all around 9 degrees. Anyone who has drunk wine can drink it directly as a fruit drink.

Shen Nong was afraid that the beastmen had never drunk alcohol before, and it would not be good if they got drunk.

Unexpectedly, before the ceremony began, the orcs from the Wood Tribe came running over and said that the fruit wine was gone.

Shen Nong was stunned for a moment. He exchanged 100 wooden barrels, all of which were large barrels, and they were all drunk? He quickly asked, "Is anyone drunk? Is it because they are dizzy and staggering, or shouting and making noises?"

The Wood Tribe orc thought about it carefully and shook his head, "No, his face is just a little red and he looks very happy."

Shen Nong was silent for a moment. These orcs can drink a lot...

Just in case, Shen Nong did not give them any more fruit wine and asked the orcs of the Mu tribe to give them milk or honey water.

He had been dreaming for a while now, and Shen Nong estimated that his teacher and his mistress should have reacted by now. He took Ze's hand and walked outside.

The bloodstone was placed on a high platform. Only the priest could go up to this platform when the orcs were awakened in autumn. Now, Ze followed Shen Nong and stepped onto the platform.

The orcs below gradually quieted down, and they all looked at the two people on the platform. The shock in their eyes had not yet dissipated. They did not expect that someone would really hold a partner ceremony and tie their life to another person, and one of them was the high priest of the main tribe.

Shen Nong himself didn't know what the future would be like. The only thing he could be sure of was that no matter what the outcome, he would not regret it.

The exquisite and beautiful dagger cut the fingertips of the two people, and round beads of blood came out and dripped into the bloodstone under intentional squeezing.

The blood stone will identify the person who draws the first drop of blood as the dominant one in the relationship. He will choose to lag behind Shen Nong one step, and his blood will cover Shen Nong's blood only when Shen Nong's blood soaks into his own.

Shen Nong didn't know that the bloodstone had such an effect. He used his supernatural powers to heal the wounds of the two and put the dagger into the system space together with the wooden warehouse that had no bullets left.

The dagger he brought with him when he traveled through time had long been given to Lai Ze. Later, Shen Nong saw this dagger in the mall and it was exactly the same as his previous one, so he exchanged it for it. It has been kept in the system warehouse and has never been of any use.

The blood stone dripped with the blood of the two people emitted a red light, and then immediately returned to calm. Shen Nong also put it in the system warehouse, and the companion ceremony was completed here.

Shen Nong knew that his teacher and mistress were watching. He took Ze's hand, looked at everyone, his eyes sparkling, and said with a smile: "He, Shen Ze is my future partner, Shen Nong!"

Teacher, teacher's wife, did you hear that?

This was the first time that the orcs knew the priest's name, and they also realized that those who had never had a surname were given the priest's surname.

This was also the first time that Ze knew Shen Nong's full name, and the first time that Shen Nong called him Shen Ze in front of so many people.

Ze held Shen Nong's hand tightly. He turned his head to stare at Shen Nong's face and smiled softly: "Shen Nong, Shen Nong, I belong to Shen Nong."

There was nothing wrong with this, but Shen Nong felt a little embarrassed when he thought about the teacher and his wife watching. His ears turned red, and he was afraid that Ze would say something again, so he quickly said, "Don't talk anymore!"

Ze did not ask the reason and just nodded in agreement.

Shen Nong had a surprise for Ze. He pulled Ze's hand and ran down the platform, telling Hu Xiao and Mao Yun, "Keep an eye on the beastmen, don't let anything happen. If nothing serious happens today, don't come to me again."

Mao Yun and Hu Xiao both responded, "Yes, Priest."

Dragging Ze back to the courtyard, Shen Nong quickly tapped the system, "Has the dreaming of the teacher and the mistress ended?"

[You finished after entering the courtyard, and are you preparing for the holographic projection now? ]

A long time ago, in order to let Ze see his deceased mother again, Shen Nong asked the system to get the data for holographic projection. But later, things happened one after another, and Shen Nong forgot about it.

There is only one chance to have a holographic projection, so we cannot waste it. Today is the perfect day.

Shen Nong pulled Ze to sit on the bed. He held Ze’s hands and put his forehead against Ze’s. He urged the system, “Yes, hurry up.”

Ze originally thought Shen Nong wanted to kiss him, so he closed his eyes and didn't see anyone moving. Shen Nong felt a little itchy on the tip of his nose, and knew that Ze was deliberately using the tip of his nose to tease him, so he leaned close to the corner of Ze's lips and smacked him, "Okay, now close your eyes and don't move."

Ze really closed his eyes and did not move. In the darkness, a beam of light came on. There was a vague figure in the light. Ze only glanced at it and stopped looking. Instead, he listened to the voice attentively and opened his eyes as soon as Shen Nong asked him to.

"Zhe, is that you?"

The familiar voice made Ze look towards the direction of the light again. The person under the light had become very clear at this time. Ze stood still, making sure that he really saw his dead mother. He ran forward and stopped halfway.

He didn't dare to get close, he knew that his mother was dead and it was all fake.

"Ze, today is the day you get married. Come a little closer so that mother can see you."

Yu Bing's voice was as gentle as ever. Listening to the familiar yet unfamiliar voice, he walked forward slowly and choked up, "Mother..."

After calling out "Mother", Ze didn't say anything else. He just stared at Yu Bing and re-drew the appearance that had already become blurred in his memory.

The holographic projection time is limited to only five minutes.

After Ze once again cleared up the face in his memory, the light disappeared, and along with it, Yu Bing's figure also disappeared.

Shen Nong stood up and saw that Ze still had his eyes closed with tears on his cheeks. He wiped the tears off Ze's face with his fingertips and kissed his eyes, "Okay, open your eyes."

Ze saw Shen Nong's face, pulled him into his arms, and hugged him tightly. He rested his chin on Shen Nong's neck and whispered, "Priest, I saw my mother."

"Yeah, I know." Shen Nong could understand Ze's feelings. He also wanted to see his teacher and his wife again. But he knew that he couldn't see them. But it was enough to let his teacher and his wife know that he was still alive.

Ze's emotions finally calmed down. He looked at the person dozing in his arms and couldn't help but laugh. He raised his hand to open the door of the bedside drawer, took out the things inside and stuffed them into Shen Nong's hand.

Shen Nong felt a chill in his palm. He tried to raise his hand but failed. He was really curious about what was stuffed in it, so he looked down. As soon as he looked down, all his sleepiness disappeared.

Dragon stone jadeite!

He looked up and asked, "Where did this come from?"

"The cave where Lu Shuang and the others took me to hide." Ze answered truthfully.

Shen Nong sat up and prepared to get out of bed, but Ze hugged him around the waist and asked, "Where is the priest going?"

"Let's go to the Beast City!" Shen Nong held in his hand a dragon stone jadeite that was full of water and exuded a chill. How many infrastructure points would this require!

His waist suddenly felt tight, and Shen Nong, holding the dragon stone jadeite in his arms, flew into the air. When he came to his senses, he was already on the inside of the bed.

The jade in his hand was taken away, and Ze Zheng supported his face with one hand, looking down at him condescendingly.

"Let's go tomorrow."

When Shen Nong fainted and woke up again, he felt that Ze's words about going again tomorrow were all nonsense.

——

In the end, Shen Nong was unable to go to the Beast City, but Shen Wu went. As a professional, he could conduct a comprehensive investigation and inspection.

Shen Nong was busy with the autumn harvest, and both rice and cotton were harvested in abundance. During the time he was in the Beast City, the beastmen took good care of the fields. There were no pesticides here, and if you wanted to prevent pests, you had to keep an eye on the insects all the time, which was a very tiring job.

After the busy autumn harvest, the beastmen in the farmland were almost exhausted. Shen Nong gave all the beastmen in the farmland extra silver so that they could have a good rest for a few days. The beastmen held Shadow in their arms and agreed to go to the market to buy some things for the winter.

The fruit wine at the mate ceremony is very popular among the beastmen. There are a lot of fruits this year, so in addition to making dried fruits and jams, it is also possible to make fruit wine.

Shen Nong now has another dragon stone jade cave. He is not short of infrastructure points now. He bought some fruit wine yeast specially used for making fruit wine in the system mall. It can fully stimulate the sweetness of the fruit, and the brewed fruit wine tastes more refreshing and delicious.

As for the containers used for brewing wine, Shen Nong asked the porcelain-making team to first fire a batch of large porcelain jars. They didn't need to be too big. This year they were just trying to make too many and it would be a waste if they didn't taste good.

Since he wanted to try, Shen Nong brewed every kind of existing fruit in the Mu tribe. After they were brewed, he tasted them one by one and focused on brewing the one that tasted best.

Shen Nong was fiddling with the fruit wine here, and the market seemed to be in a frenzy.

Autumn has arrived, and the orcs of each tribe have to prepare what they need for the winter before winter comes.

In the past, the most common items traded were salt, pickled meat and animal hides. This time the market was a little different.

Tushan, an orc from the Mountain Tribe, couldn't take his hand off the soft white cotton after he put it on. He asked the stall owner anxiously, "What is this? It's even softer and more comfortable than the animal skins made by the Wood Tribe!"

"This is the cotton that our tribe has just grown. In winter, if we make it into cotton-padded clothes and cotton-padded shoes, we won't feel cold even when running in the snow. If we make it into a quilt to sleep on, we can also spread it on the kang as a mattress. When we light a kang at night, we can keep warm with just one layer of cotton. It won't become hard and will stay soft for a long time."

The orcs who sell cotton are trained before taking up their posts and are introduced to the various uses of cotton.

More and more orcs were attracted by this cloud-like white and soft cotton. After listening to the introduction of the orcs from the Wood Tribe, they all became eager to try something.

But in the end, they were defeated by the price. For the same price, they could buy two more pieces of animal skin. Although it felt soft and warm, and the Wood Tribe would not cheat them, it was too expensive, and most of the orcs who were surrounding the stall left.

Whether cotton is used to make clothes or quilts, it requires linen and the handicraft work of the Mu tribe garment making team, which costs extra.

In this way, most of the remaining orcs left.

Tushan touched the cotton. Although the animal skins were good, they could not be washed. Moreover, the animal skins on the kang and the covers would become hard when the kang was heated in winter. Especially the ones on the kang, it was useless to put a thick layer of hay underneath.

I have to buy animal skins every autumn, so I might as well spend a little more money this time and save the money in the future.

Tushan took out the money for animal skins and bought a quilt to spread on the kang and a blanket to cover it. This money could buy eight large pieces of animal skins, but now it can only buy two quilts.

He looked at the cotton coats and trousers hanging on the side, and took out the money for two sets of animal skins to buy a cotton coat that reached his ankles. He used the money for salt to buy cotton trousers, and there was pickled meat in winter, so he didn't have to eat salt.

I don’t have money to buy cotton shoes, but luckily the animal leather shoes I bought last fall are still wearable.

When the first order was placed, the orcs from the Mu tribe waived the change for Tushan and asked him to come back in three days to pick it up.

Tushan left with a half-empty animal-skin purse in his pocket. After walking a few steps, he saw two stalls connected together.

One of them was selling something called candles, and on the stall stood a white candle burning. Although the flame was small, it was not a problem to use it for lighting.

In the winter when it is cold, it is nice to light a fire pit in the house for both lighting and heating. But in the summer, it is also very hot at night, and it would not be a good idea to have a fire pit at this time.

So every summer night, the orcs would go to bed early before it got completely dark.

The price of candles was much cheaper than cotton, but much more expensive than pickled meat and salt. A long and thin candle cost six cents, and two candles cost ten cents.

There was no need for candles in winter, and the orcs bought few candles, so even if they wanted to buy some, they couldn't get any. The priests from various tribes came late, and as soon as they arrived, they flocked to the candle stall and bought up all the candles.

The priests who didn't get many candles ran quickly to the cotton stalls, buying cotton coats, cotton pants, cotton shoes, quilts and everything else, and each person bought at least two sets.

Even the orcs of the Mu tribe were stunned by the lavish spending.

After sweeping the cotton stalls, the priests walked towards the left without stopping. Tushan was pushed forward by the crowd. When he finally stopped, he heard the old priest of the Rain Tribe and the priest of the Grass Tribe arguing in front of him.

"The high priest said that eating too much sugar is bad for your teeth. It will hurt and cause them to fall out! You bought all the white sugar. When winter is over, all your teeth will fall out!" The priest of the Grass Tribe shouted angrily with his hands on his waist.

The Rain Tribe priest was not to be outdone. He did not speak as fast as the Grass Tribe priest, but his voice was loud. "I bought so much. I have silver! I came fast! You can't buy it. It's because you have no silver and come slowly! Besides, I only bought white sugar. Don't we also have brown sugar and rock sugar?"

The priest of the Grass Tribe was stunned. Oh, yes, he could still buy brown sugar and rock sugar! Cao Qing looked down and saw that the sugar stall was empty. He quickly checked the sugar jar to confirm that there was nothing inside, and hurriedly asked the stall owner, "Where are the brown sugar and rock sugar?"

The stall owner had already started to pack up his stall. He took the small sugar jar he used to sell sugar off the table and placed it in a wooden frame. "The brown sugar was bought by the Wind Tribe priest, and the rock sugar was bought by the Mountain Tribe priest."

Cao Qing almost cried when he heard this. Seeing that Cao Qing was young and everyone loved sweet things, the stall owner kindly reminded him, "I saw the priest of the Mountain Tribe sell some rock candy to the little priest of the Ant Tribe. Why don't you go and ask..."

Before the stall owner could finish his words, Cao Qing ran into the crowd and looked for Shan Feng.

When Tushan looked up, he saw the priests of the Mountain Tribe and the Wind Tribe trading brown sugar and rock sugar with the stall owner. The brown sugar was very dark in color and looked like dark soil from a distance. The rock sugar was a little yellow and looked like stone. The best looking one was the white sugar that looked like snow. At this moment, the priest of the Rain Tribe was carefully holding a large sugar jar and turning away.

Tushan performed well in the construction team and received candies several times. According to the priest of the Grass Tribe, these candies are also sweet?

If a tribe's priests could quarrel over not being able to buy it, it must be a good thing. Tushan wanted to try it, so he asked the stall owner, "When will these candies be sold again?"

The stall owner had packed up his things. There were too many people at the market, so he couldn't push his cart out. He was going to go shopping. When he heard someone asking, he stopped and replied, "I'll have to wait until next autumn to sell them."

It’s a pity to lose Tushan. I don’t know if I can get some to taste next autumn.

…

After the market was over, the priests of each tribe began to carry out the orc awakening ceremony. All the orcs over the age of five in the Wood Tribe awakened this time, and Hu Xiao was promoted to a level 10 orc warrior. Tu Feng and Mao Yun were also promoted to level 9 orc warriors.

I don’t know if it’s because Shen Nong’s current energy source is different from before, but the other orc warriors in the tribe who took the marrow cleansing pill were all directly promoted one level after the fluorescent light of Shen Nong’s supernatural power entered their bodies. Some even jumped two levels, from level six orcs to level eight orc warriors.

After the awakening ceremony of the Mu tribe ended, Shen Nong received a message from Shen Wu, which was sent by Lu Shuang.

The priest of the Lei tribe was killed, and all the priest candidates of the tribe were also killed by Mu Qing. Now, they have no priests.

Xiong Lei didn't want to let his people just wait to die, so he found Lu Shuang and wanted to join the Mu tribe.

Lu Shuang couldn't make up his mind. He had been following Shen Nong for quite some time and knew that those people with the surname Shen in the tribe had special ways to communicate directly with Shen Nong. So he found Shen Wu again and asked him to ask Shen Nong what to do.

The Mu tribe is not short of people now, but the orcs of the Lei tribe are strong in all aspects, and their personalities and temperaments are also suitable for Shen Nong, so he agreed.

Shen Nong left a message to Shen Wu, "Winter is coming soon. Let the orcs of the Thunder Tribe stay in the Beast City. Help Lu Shuang deal with the matters of the salt field and the mine first. I will ask the orcs of the Feather Tribe to send some clothes over. I will go there in the spring to awaken the orcs."

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