Lu Shuang: I'm so greedy

Stone polishing is difficult and time-consuming.

In order to make more farm tools more efficiently, Shen Nong set his sights on giant trees.

The wooden arrows made from the giant trees unique to the Mu tribe are smaller than stone spears, but much heavier and more powerful than stone spears.

Shen Nong, with a try-it attitude, used the giant tree to make a new batch of farm tools. After trying them out, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the farm tools made of giant trees were more efficient than those made of stone.

Not even worse than iron ones.

Find better materials to make farm tools. Except for the first batch of farm tools containing stone, all other farm tools are made of giant trees.

Shen Nong was not worried about not having enough materials, as the forest of giant trees seemed endless. Moreover, the number of farm tools that could be made from a single giant tree was in the thousands.

Brick kilns need soil to make bricks. With the aid of stone hoes, the speed of digging soil and making bricks is much faster.

Sowing corn and rapeseed is done in spring, which is a good time to open up wasteland.

The wasteland Shen Nong chose for the tribe's first reclamation was surrounded by mountains on three sides. He had carefully inspected the wasteland around the Mu tribe and found that the soil was excellent and fertile. This piece of land was even better.

But the land is fertile and there is a lot of grass.

Except in winter, the grass in the wasteland is so deep that it can bury a person.

Shen Nong once demonstrated to the Mu tribe how to use farm tools: "The plow is used to turn the soil, and the harrow is used to break up the soil."

Fearing that the grass seeds would take nutrients away from the crops, he repeatedly reminded them: "Remember to turn the soil deeply, turn it over twice."

The plows and harrows used for turning the soil are made entirely of giant trees. They are much heavier than those with stone tines of the same size.

The adult orc warriors were assigned other strenuous work, and the only ones who could turn the soil were the young boys who had just awakened their beast forms.

Although their human strength can pull the plow, it is still a bit difficult.

Cat Grass was the first to transform and bit the thick straw rope on the plow with its teeth.

Due to the shortage of manpower, the old man from the Wood Tribe and the children sent by the Water Tribe followed behind to help with the plow. The tip of the wood easily pierced into the hard soil, and as the plow moved, it rolled up clods of soil.

The old man and the children walked on the plowed land, staggering slightly, but they kept following the pace of the young man pulling the plow in front of them. They walked carefully along the way, and with the plow as support, they did not fall.

After adapting to the ground beneath their feet, they became more stable and plowed the land faster than at the beginning.

The speed of turning the soil was much faster than when he was in human form. The other teenagers followed suit and transformed into human form and started working hard.

I guarantee that the translation will satisfy the priest and not a single blade of grass will be left behind.

The workers here were turning the soil in full swing. The guards were standing on the city wall and saw from afar a group of people coming towards the Mu tribe.

The orcs guarding the city quickly gave orders and began to be on alert, with crossbows and catapults aimed forward.

When the other party entered the range of the crossbow cart, Yang Lei recognized Lu Shuang who was leading the way.

The priest had said that in the spring, the Water Tribe would come to work for them. Yang Lei quickly gestured, "It's the Water Tribe! Take everything back!"

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The city wall looks like a "convex" shape when viewed from the front, and the height is not high enough due to insufficient bricks. But even so, one can still glimpse a hint of the solemnity after it was built.

The gate made of a giant tree was very heavy. It took two orcs all their strength to push it open. With a dull creaking sound, the gate slowly opened.

Yang Lei led the people of the Water Tribe to find their priest.

The Water Tribe followed Yang Lei. The ground under their feet was flat and there was no snow, forming a smooth road.

All the snow was piled on both sides, and every few steps you could see two big snowballs stacked on top of each other.

The upper snowball has two dark stones, and the lower snowball has dry branches stuck on both sides.

Although the shape is strange, it makes people feel indescribable love for it.

Lu Shuang found it really interesting and wanted to ask Yang Lei what the big snowball was, then she met a familiar figure.

The man was holding something he had never seen before in his hands and was shoveling the snow on both sides of the ground into a basket.

"Bao Qiu, busy!"

Yang Lei waved from a distance and greeted Bao Qiu.

After hearing the voice, Bao Qiu stopped what he was doing and waved to Yang Lei, "The priest said that we have to shovel the snow quickly, otherwise it will turn into water and the ground will be rotten and we won't be able to walk on it."

He saw a lot of people following Yang Lei, and they didn't look like they were from the Mu tribe.

In the Mu tribe, it is no longer possible to see orcs wearing such tattered clothes.

"Who's the person behind?"

"Oh, they are from the Water Tribe. The priest said they will come to the tribe in the spring, and I am going to take them to see the priest."

Yang Lei looked behind Bao Qiu and saw only Lang Yu, Lu Chun and the others. He did not see the children from the Water Tribe. He asked, "Where are the children who always followed you to build snowmen? Why can't we see them?"

When they heard Yang Lei mention the children, the members of the Water Tribe turned their attention to Bao Qiu.

A winter passed, and I spent the whole day thinking about how to survive and had no time to think about anything else.

Now that I'm alive, I really miss my children.

Bao Qiu shoveled a basket full of snow and flattened the surface with a wooden shovel. "Cao Cao is going to take them to turn the soil."

The two of them had urgent matters on hand, so they didn't talk any more. Yang Lei led the people to continue walking. It happened that the priest was also in the wasteland at this time, and the people of the water tribe could go there and meet those children.

After the people left, Lang Yu turned his head and said, "Although spring has come, it is still cold."

He wore animal fur on his head, and his ears were curled up on both sides for ventilation.

"The kids who live with us said that the Water Tribe's priest came in the winter and wanted the entire tribe to join the Wood Tribe, but the priest didn't agree."

Lang Yu poked his wooden shovel and asked, "Bao Qiu, do you think they are here now because the priest has agreed that their entire tribe will join the Wood Tribe? Will there be no Water Tribe here in the future?"

Bao Qiu kept working and reminded Lang Yu not to just stand there.

Langyu immediately started shoveling snow again, and Baoqiu replied, "More tribesmen are good for the tribe. These are not our concerns."

Lang Yu agreed with him. He poured a shovel of snow into the basket and said, "Bao Qiu, I remember you said that when spring comes, we should ask the priest about joining the hunting team."

"I didn't forget, get to work."

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When Yang Lei brought his men to the wasteland, the soil turning work began to go well.

Shen Nong was stunned for a moment when he saw the people from the Water Tribe. He didn't expect that the people from the Water Tribe would come so early. But it was also a good thing, as the Wood Tribe was worried that they didn't have enough manpower.

Digging soil to make molds, burning bricks to build walls, turning the soil to sow seeds, fishing and making clothes, firing pottery pots...

There were so many things to do that he could not finish them all. The timely arrival of the Water Tribe solved his current problem.

Many of the people who were plowing the fields had already made several trips back and forth, and the children who were following behind, holding the plow, happened to see people they were familiar with.

The children exclaimed and waved their hands, trying to get the attention of the Water Tribe members.

A few children saw their parents and wanted to run over, but they just stood there, smiling at them and didn't do anything else.

The priest's warning before leaving suddenly echoed in their ears. Once they entered the Wood Tribe, they would no longer have anything to do with the Water Tribe.

After exclaiming, the children slowly withdrew their hands.

A few people who almost ran away were reminded by the children around them. After thinking about it, they returned to their original positions and started working again.

They would never forget what the priest said, and the Mu tribe ensured that they had enough food and warm clothes during the winter, so that they did not suffer at all.

Now the priests of their Mu tribe need them to turn the land over, and they can't fail to do even such a small thing.

The children fixed the plow again, paused briefly, and started again.

The old man who was plowing the grass for the cat looked at the young boy from the Water Tribe and asked, "Why don't you go and take a look?"

Xiongchuan shook his head. "The priest said that we need to turn the land quickly. We can't run away suddenly, or we'll be slower."

Maocao in the front heard the conversation between the two. Because he was biting a thick straw rope in his mouth, he spoke unclearly: "Then let's work faster and turn the land over earlier so that you can go and meet the tribesmen earlier."

The old man smiled and said, "Okay, then let's go faster."

Xiong Chuan quickly shook his head to refuse. He knew that this speed was already very fast for the old man. If it was faster, the other party would not be able to bear it.

Seeing Xiongchuan's persistence, the two of them said no more and started to turn the soil with all their heart and soul.

After taking a look at the children being sent out from a distance, the people of the Water Tribe followed Shen Nong and left, arriving at the large earthen house in the small square.

On the way, members of the Water Tribe followed behind and discussed in low voices. They all said that from a distance, they always felt that the children had gained a lot of weight.

They no longer look like they did before, when they were just skeletons. I guess if the children stood in front of their parents, they might not even recognize them.

Looking at the Wood Tribe priest walking in the front, their hearts were filled with gratitude.

If the Wood Tribe priest had not agreed to accept their children in winter, those children might not even survive the winter.

Although they cannot meet and talk, it is enough to know that their children are doing well.

After arriving at the earthen house, Shen Nong found a few pieces of wood that had been cut very smoothly and placed them on the wooden table.

There was a small wooden box on the table. When it was opened, there were a few soft leaves inside, and under the leaves were burnt wooden strips of similar length.

Shen Nong skillfully wrapped one end of the wooden strip with the leaves covering it to prevent the place where he held his hand from being stained black by the carbonized wood strip.

"Come and register. Tell me your name, age, what you are responsible for in the tribe, and your orc rank."

Shen Nong wrote the words "Water Tribe" on the top of the wooden board, and then wrote Lu Shuang's name, "Lu Shuang, you go first."

Words? These are actually words?

Lu Shuang didn't hear clearly what Shen Nong said at all. When Shen Nong wrote the first word, his eyes widened.

He didn't even dare to breathe, and couldn't believe that he would see words again.

The tribesmen may not know this, but as a priest, the old priest once wrote to him.

【water】

It is exactly the same as the first word written by the priest of the Wood tribe.

The old priest once told him that there is endless wisdom in words. Mastering words is what every priest wants in his life.

However, the old priest told him that, apart from the high priest of Beast City, only the sons of the priests and the next priest candidate could learn to write.

The priest of the Mu tribe can actually write!

The next priest of Beast City cannot appear here. Could it be that the priest of the Wood Tribe is the son of the high priest of Beast City?

Shen Nong had no idea what Lu Shuang was thinking about in such a short time. He didn't get a response for a long time. When he looked up, he found that the boy had been daydreaming for a long time.

Shen Nong waved in front of Lu Shuang and called her name, "Lu Shuang? Lu Shuang!"

Lu Shuang finally came to her senses and thought that the old priest knew this word because the man who came from Beast City wrote it on the ground when no one was around, and the old priest accidentally saw it and wrote it down.

However, the old priest never knew how to pronounce this word.

He didn't dare to ask more about the identity of the Wood Tribe priest, but he wanted to know how to pronounce the word.

Lu Shuang pointed at the words on the wooden board and asked in a light voice with trepidation, "Priest of the Wood Tribe, how do you pronounce this word?"

He was afraid that the Wood Tribe priest would think he wanted to learn the characters, so he quickly added, "The old priest from the Water Tribe who died once wrote this character to me. I asked out of curiosity, not because I wanted to learn the characters."

Shen Nong was a little surprised by Lu Shuang's reaction. Didn't he just want to know how to pronounce the word? Why did he have to explain so much to him?

It was as if he was afraid that I would misunderstand him and want to learn characters from this.

"This word is pronounced shuǐ."

Lu Shuang silently imitated Shen Nong's tone and recited it twice. Shen Nong listened to Lu Shuang reciting the second tone the first time, and the fourth tone the second time, but he didn't recite it correctly both times.

Shen Nong couldn't help but emphasize it again, "shuǐ, the syllable has a turning feeling."

This time Lu Shuang finally got it right. He then remembered what Shen Nong seemed to have asked him before, "Priest of the Wood Tribe, what do you want me to do?"

Shen Nong sighed slightly and finally remembered the important matter. He repeated his question again.

Lu Shuang lowered her eyes to look at her feet, not wanting to read the words on the board, and began to answer one by one, "Lu Shuang, seventeenth autumn, priest of the water tribe, no orc rank."

After recording, Lu Shuang asked in confusion: "Mu tribe priest, why are you recording these?"

Shen Nong didn't even raise his head, busy writing, "Everyone in the Mu tribe has such a registration, which is convenient for management. You have to write it when you join the Mu tribe."

Lu Shuang looked at Shen Nong blankly, thinking that she had heard it wrong.

Even after arriving at the Wood Tribe, Lu Shuang never dared to think that the Wood Tribe would allow the Water Tribe to join.

Because the Wood Tribe had many things he had never heard of, and the priest of the Wood Tribe was particularly powerful. He could make the house warm in winter, make fire with wood, and make bowls that were better than stone bowls.

He can even write.

If the Water Tribe joins the Wood Tribe, it means that in addition to writing, they will also have everything the Wood Tribe has.

Lu Shuang was unsure, "Priest of the Wood Tribe, do you mean that we can join the Wood Tribe?"

Shen Nong finally finished writing the last stroke. He raised his head and asked with a smile, "Okay, are you still willing?"

This smile made Lu Shuang stunned for a moment. The priest of the Mu tribe looked so good when he smiled!

"Hmm?" Shen Nong didn't know why this boy suddenly became dazed again, "Lu Shuang?"

Niu Si couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he poked Lu Shuang from behind. This made Lu Shuang come back to his senses, and after he was sure that he had heard correctly, he nodded quickly.

"Yes! Priest, from now on, I will do whatever you want me to do!"

Lu Shuang turned to look at the tribesmen and shouted happily, "Call the priest quickly!"

Niu Si and his friends followed the Wood Tribe and caught fish many times. It was because of these fish and the fire-making tools and methods provided by the Wood Tribe that their Water Tribe was able to survive the winter safely.

They were already grateful to the Mu Tribe, and their children spent the winter in the Mu Tribe and integrated into the tribe.

Now their priest wants to join the Mu tribe, and as a member of the tribe, we have no reason to object.

The Water Tribe members crossed their arms, knelt on one knee, followed the priest, and submitted to the new tribe, "Priest!"

From then on, there was no more water tribe on this land.

And the Mu tribe grew stronger and stronger.

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There are more than forty people in the Water Tribe, plus the children who came earlier, there are more than sixty people in total.

The number of people is about the same as that of the Wood Tribe at the beginning.

Including Bao Qiu and his men from the Salt Tribe, the Mu Tribe now has more than 150 people.

The Water Tribe were temporarily arranged to live in the cave where the Wood Tribe members had lived before. Hou Wu listened to Shen Nong's words and took a few people to the brick kiln to learn how to make adobe bricks. The adobe bricks they made were used to build adobe houses.

After the hunting team finished their training, Shen Nong drove them out to catch wild pheasants, wild goats, bison, wild boars...

Spring has just arrived and the snow in the mountains has not melted much yet, so it is not easy to find them.

But if we find them, we can capture the whole family.

The number cannot be underestimated.

Xiangshan Niu Si and his men each brought seven or eight people, and were taken by Shen Nong to build a cowshed, a chicken coop, and a pigpen.

Lu Shuang is smart and she understood the construction process diagram drawn on the wooden board given by Shen Nong at a glance.

Shen Nong was happy to be a hands-off boss and handed the work over to Lu Shuang for supervision.

Lu Shuang pointed out the mistakes in the construction from time to time, and then there would be another round of banging and banging sounds.

The wrong places were demolished and rebuilt.

A man from the Mu tribe carrying a hoe passed by behind them. He waved and greeted them with a smile.

Lu Shuang imitated them and waved, which earned her an even wider smile from the other party.

The members of the Mu tribe were not surprised about the extra people in the tribe, as the priest had already told them about it.

Whenever they thought about a tribe actively asking to join the Mu tribe, they always felt excited and had an indescribable high emotion.

The Mu tribe couldn’t even fill their stomachs before, but now there are tribes that want to join them.

Then aren't they just like those big tribes?

Hey, happy!

Their stomachs were rumbling. They were very hungry after working for a long time. They didn't delay any longer and continued to walk forward with their hoes, discussing with their companions whether to have barbecue on the stone slab or fish soup when they got home.

"It's good to grill. Put some oil on the stone slab. Put the grilled meat on it, sprinkle some fine salt, and add some chili powder. It's very spicy."

"I was thinking of having fish soup, but now that you mention it I want to eat barbecue too."

"Then come to my house and we'll eat together."

"Okay, I'll bring some meat from home later."

Lu Shuang listened to the discussion gradually fading away and swallowed frantically.

Life in the Mu tribe was better than he could imagine.