Chapter 81 Chapter 81
Frightened marginal tribe orcs
When the orcs from the Edge Tribe walked to the city wall of the Wood Tribe, their breathing became much lighter as they looked at the towering city wall.
With such a high wall, even the most powerful orc warrior in their tribe would look small in comparison.
Maocao started jumping around as he approached the city wall, raised his hands and waved at the wall, and said happily: "Hushan! Are you here? You're back!"
Hushan, who was guarding the city, stretched his ears and stuck his head out. He saw Maocao jumping around and waved his hands and called out, "Maocao!"
Maocao smiled even more happily after seeing his good friend. He turned around and said to the beastmen of the marginal tribe: "Hushan is my good friend. He is so powerful! Even the chariot listens to him and hits everything he shoots, unlike me who can't hit anything. So he is now a formal member of the Beast Guard, but I am not..."
At the end, Maocao felt a moment of loss, but then he immediately cheered up and said to the orcs of the marginal tribe with sparkling eyes: "If the priest allows, I will take you to see the Tiger Mountain crossbow shooting training, it is really amazing!"
Maocao emphasized the word "powerful". The beastmen from the marginal tribes were confused and had no idea what a crossbow cart was. But Sheji knew it was probably the name of a kind of chicken.
So, do the orcs of the Wood Tribe use this kind of chicken to determine the strength of the orcs? It seems that this is a very fierce chicken. When they see them, the priests have to ask what the chicken looks like, so that if they accidentally run into it, they can recognize it and run away.
Tufeng quickly came out of the tribe and entered the Wood Tribe with a group of orcs from the marginal tribes who were frightened by the city wall.
The orcs from the marginal tribes never imagined that the inside of the Wood Tribe was even more amazing than the outside.
Every step they took felt like they were walking on clouds, so unreal that it was unimaginable.
The orcs of the Wood Tribe all looked very strong and clean. What made them more concerned was that the orcs of the Wood Tribe were wearing strange things with beautiful patterns.
The fringe tribe orcs didn't know what it was, but it looked as thin as leaves and not as thick as animal skins.
Moreover, no one knows how this thing is wrapped around them. The orcs of the Wood Tribe walk very easily, and some of them can even run around without falling off.
Unlike the big leaves they wear around their waists, which will fall off if they move too much and are easy to break. If it weren't for the many mosquitoes in the summer, they wouldn't want to wear something around them, as it would greatly affect their movements.
After finally diverting his attention from the things "surrounding" the orcs of the Wood Tribe, he was attracted by the earth house.
They had seen the tree houses in the Tree Tribe and thought they were exceptionally good. Now they knew what exceptionally good meant.
Shuguo and Hushu, one is the priest of the Tree Tribe, and the other is the chief of the Tree Tribe. They both had their eyes glued to the mud house, and they could catch up with it even if they were as slow as a snail. They wanted to take a closer look. If they could see something, they might even go back and fix up their tribe's tree house.
When summer comes, the children of the shepherds and cattle herders take the cattle and sheep out to graze early in the morning, and then drive the cattle and sheep back to the tribe after the temperature rises slightly.
After driving the cattle and sheep back to the tribe, they would milk the lactating cattle and sheep. All the milk would be sent to the food-making team, who would arrange it. Most of the goat milk was given to newborn babies, and the rest would be distributed to the children and the elderly in the tribe.
The children of the shepherding team and the cattle herding team like to drink boiled milk the most. Those of the food-making team will also add some honey to it, making it taste sweet.
One of the things they look forward to most every day is drinking milk. They like milking the cows the most because only by milking the cows can they have delicious milk to drink.
The children of the shepherds' and cattle herders' teams were driving the sheep and cattle towards the sheepfold and cowshed with great anticipation, when they heard a burst of frightened cries coming from the front.
"Prey! Prey! Lots of prey!"
"Scatter quickly, we can't defeat so many prey! Protect the priest, don't get hurt"
The chiefs of the marginal tribes shouted and led their respective priests to scatter and hide. Their actions caused a commotion among the cattle and sheep. The cattle and sheep were already feeling uneasy because they sensed the presence of many unfamiliar orcs. The large-scale actions of the marginal tribes aroused the restlessness of the cattle and sheep even more. The strongest ones had already started to rub their hooves.
The children of the shepherds and cattle herders had to knock on the ground with long branches in their hands to signal the cattle and sheep to be quiet.
The leader Yucao took advantage of the moment to suppress the herd of cattle and sheep. He waved the long branch in his hand and quickly said to the excited marginal tribe orcs in front of him: "Don't move! Stop! The cattle and sheep may attack you if they are frightened!"
The orcs of the marginal tribe were still immersed in the fear of the large number of prey that appeared not far away, and they were unable to understand the meaning of the boy's words for a moment.
Even after they dispersed, they immediately prepared to attack.
Seeing that something bad was about to happen, Tu Feng quickly comforted the frightened orcs from the marginal tribe, "Don't attack! Those are the cattle and sheep raised by our tribe. As long as you don't scare them, they won't attack you!"
"Impossible, the previous chief of our tribe was gored to death by a sheep's horns!" Diehua, the bearded chief of the Flower Tribe, said in a hoarse voice.
Tu Feng looked helpless and pointed at the herd of cattle and sheep in front of him. "The children of our tribe are standing in front of them. Do you see the cattle and sheep attacking them?"
Including Diehua, the beastmen from the marginal tribe all looked forward. When they saw the children sticking their heads out from the herd, a trace of confusion appeared on their faces.
Why didn't the ferocious herds of cattle and sheep attack the unawakened children at all?
This is completely different from their impression of cattle and sheep that would easily knock orcs flying...
But the orcs of the marginal tribes did not completely let down their guard because of this anomaly. In their minds, cattle and sheep are very ferocious prey. They are very fast and their horns can easily kill orcs.
During the hunting, many orcs in the tribe died under the horns of cattle and sheep. In order to reduce the casualties of the orcs, they would carefully identify the traces on the ground when hunting, just to avoid the cattle and sheep as much as possible.
The orcs from the marginal tribes still maintained their offensive posture, but they also listened to Tu Feng and did not really attack. They just stared at the front with high alert.
The herds of cattle and sheep also felt the extremely tense emotions coming from not far away, which gave their nature, which had been suppressed for a long time, a chance to break out.
Yucao knocked the branches in his hands loudly. Seeing that he could no longer control the cattle and sheep, he turned to Shiyu beside him and said quickly, "Go to the production team and find Dahei."
In the animal world, no matter what kind of animal it is, it is wild and difficult to tame. The chickens and ducks caught by the Mu tribe are all wild.
In order to make the animals in the animal husbandry area completely obedient, it took a lot of effort. At the beginning, the high-level orcs of the Wood Tribe jointly suppressed them, scaring them so that they dared not move again. But the high-level orc warriors could not guard the animal husbandry area all day long, so later it was all up to Dahei to stay in the animal husbandry area every day.
Big Blackhead was exhausted these days, watching from morning till night. He would stare at anyone who didn't obey, and the animals in the livestock area were so obedient.
Wildness is suppressed by fear, and the fear engraved in their bones allows the animals in livestock areas to be successfully tamed.
However, now that he has been provoked by the orcs from the marginal tribes, his suppressed wildness is beginning to come out.
Tufeng looked at the herds of cattle and sheep. Although they seemed a little manic, they did not hurt the orc children, which made him feel a lot more at ease.
At the same time, I also felt relieved. I didn't have to worry about them hurting the children. I just killed the cattle and sheep now.
It took a lot of effort to get these cattle and sheep back to the tribe, and the tribe also raised them for a long time so that they could give birth to more cattle and sheep to ensure the tribe's meat source. It would be uneconomical to kill them now.
He also paid some attention to the marginal tribe. Now the cattle and sheep would not move unless the enemy moved. In order to protect both sides, Tu Feng could only try his best to appease the marginal tribe orcs and prevent them from attacking actively.
However, the orcs of the marginal tribe did not dare to believe what Tu Feng said. Although the behavior of these cattle and sheep was different from the ferocious cattle and sheep they usually saw, they did not dare to gamble.
Tufeng also understood the orcs from the marginal tribes. If someone had told him in the past that cattle and sheep would not hurt people, he would never have believed it.
There was a slight vibration from the ground, and the delicate balance between the orcs and the herds of cattle and sheep in the marginal tribes was also broken.
Diehua suppressed her fear, her eyes widened, her mouth trembling, "Giant, giant, giant beast!!"
“Run!”
Someone shouted this, and the orcs in the marginal tribe were completely in chaos.
At this time, the cattle and sheep were extremely quiet, and the previous frenzy disappeared. They all looked ashamed, and their little hooves moved together. Yucao and the others didn't dodge at first, and were caught between the cattle and sheep, and their faces were deformed.
Dahei did not move forward, but stood still. Because it was too big, if it moved forward, it would crush the mud house. Dahei did not even look at the orcs who were frightened by it. Every time someone from the tribe came, they would have the same reaction when they saw it. Dahei was used to it.
"Run quickly, the giant beast is coming, why are you still standing here?" Fox Tree pushed Rabbit Wind and said anxiously.
Tu Feng patted his head. Why did he forget to tell the orcs of the marginal tribe in advance to prepare? He had become completely accustomed to the existence of Dahei and had forgotten that Dahei was a giant beast. The orcs of the marginal tribe were more afraid of Dahei than cattle and sheep.
He tried to explain and make the orcs of the marginal tribe believe, "This giant beast is from our Wood Tribe. It is here to make the cattle and sheep obedient and will not harm you."
It is even more impossible to make a giant beast obey than to make cattle and sheep obey. Tu Feng felt that no one in the marginal tribe would believe his words.
"Everyone, don't run away. What he said is true."
Tufeng looked at Shuguo, he didn't expect anyone to believe him.
Shu Guo continued, "Didn't you notice that the orcs of the Wood Tribe are all very peaceful?"
Shu Guo's words calmed down all the orcs and priests from the marginal tribes. They looked around and found that many orcs from the Wood Tribe had gathered around them because of their unusual behavior.
They are all old people and children.
Now is the working time for each team. The young and middle-aged orcs are all working and have no time to spare.
It was because these were old people and children that the orcs from the marginal tribes believed Tu Feng's words even more. After all, even the old people and children in the tribe were not afraid of the giant beasts and the herds of cattle and sheep, which only meant that in their hearts, those were not scary at all.
The orcs and priests from the marginal tribes who had calmed down stood there in a daze, digesting the new knowledge.
There really are tribes that can make cattle, sheep and giant beasts obey them.
Yucao was in a hurry to go back to milk the cows and send them to the feeding team. Now it was a little late. "Pull over, pull over, don't get hit by the cows or sheep."
The orcs from the marginal tribe subconsciously stood aside and watched the cattle and sheep pass by them. Although they knew that the cattle and sheep would not attack them, their bodies still couldn't help but stiffen.
Dahei left after watching the cattle and sheep obediently return to the livestock area. He was very busy. He was called over when he had just chopped half of the giant tree of the production team, and he had to rush back to continue chopping the tree.
When Shen Nong saw the people from the marginal tribes, he looked at Tu Feng strangely.
These people were obviously frightened.
Tu Feng walked quickly to Shen Nong and told him what happened in the tribe. After hearing the retelling, the orcs from the marginal tribe felt their cheeks getting hot for no reason.
They were the strongest orcs and the smartest priests in the tribe, but they were scared away by the giant beasts and cattle and sheep that even the old men and children of the Mu tribe were not afraid of.
The orcs of the Wood Tribe also told the priests of the Wood Tribe.
Shen Nong didn't react much after hearing this. Almost every orc and priest from other tribes who came were frightened when they saw Dahei and the livestock area.
It’s just that the severity of the fright varies.
After knowing the reason, Shen Nong did not ask any more questions. He told the orcs from the marginal tribe the opening hours of the market, "Starting from tomorrow, the market will be open for a total of three days."
The start time was scheduled for two days later, but Shen Nong felt the moisture in the air increasing. A heavy rain was brewing in the summer. Although there was little sunshine in the next few days, it was fortunate that there was no rain. However, it was uncertain whether it would rain later.
After telling the start time, Shen Nong asked again: "Which of your tribes will set up stalls at the market?"
Shu Guo replied: "We all want to set up a stall."
Although Tufeng had explained it before, they still didn't quite understand what it meant to set up a stall. But they remembered one sentence, "You can bring things that only your tribe has and let other tribes come to trade."
Apart from other things, each of the marginal tribes has its own unique things. However, in the past, the Salt Department only wanted animal skins and good meat in exchange for salt stones, and nothing else, so they never took them out for trade.
It would be great if we could use these things to exchange for something else this time. It doesn’t matter if we can’t get anything, as they can be found everywhere in their tribe anyway.
Shen Nong raised his eyebrows slightly. None of the tribes around came to the market to set up stalls. They all came to trade. I didn't expect that all the nine tribes on the edge would come to the market to set up stalls.
He saw the orcs from the marginal tribes carrying worn-out large animal skins on their backs, and thought they were the goods they needed to set up stalls, so he said, "I'll take you to the market to have a look."
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It took a while to walk from the Wood Tribe to the market, and then we walked on the familiar road of the marginal tribe orcs. That was the road to the Salt Department, and they would walk there every time they exchanged salt stones.
The orcs from the marginal tribe who had no idea about the market forgot to blink after seeing the market.
Diehua stamped her feet and said in surprise, "Is there such a large, smooth and flat boulder in the world?"
Cansang looked around and expressed the same doubts as Diehua about the cement stall under the thatched shed, "And those stones are all the same size and very flat."
Shen Nong thought of his road construction plan. It would not be impossible to build a road to the marginal tribes. The priests of these tribes happened to be here. After they were settled, he would talk to them in detail.
"You can choose the stalls you like from this area." The stalls that the Mu tribe would set up had already been decided, and the one that Shen Nong pointed to was empty.
After the orcs from the marginal tribe understood what was meant, they quickly chose their own stalls. Shen Nong took out a charcoal stick wrapped in leaves and wrote the name of the tribe on the blank wooden board hanging on the pillar of the straw shed according to the stall they chose.
This action made the eyes of priests from various tribes light up.
The beast god created writing and gave it to the priests. Writing can ensure the continuity of the tribe's heritage and enable the tribe to grow and develop.
But the writing system was lost at some point.
Except for the chief priest of the Beast City, no priest can use words. If you want to record something, you can only draw it. Drawings can only be understood by the priest himself. Sometimes, after a long time, the priest himself can't understand it.
These priests had never seen real words, but they felt for some reason that what the priests of the Mu tribe left on the wooden board were words.
Shuguo had some guesses in her mind, but getting a positive answer was still different. She carefully asked Shen Nong who was writing, "Are these words?"
Shen Nong put down the last stroke and looked at the three words "Shu Tribe". He felt that they were a bit close and the layout was not good. When he heard the question, he answered directly, "It's text." Then he continued to write on a wooden board.
After hearing the definite answer, the priests went directly to the wooden board with the name of the tribe written on it. They glued their eyes to it and carefully traced each stroke, trying to engrave these words in their minds.
At the same time, he was thinking, this priest of the Wood Tribe can write, so what is his relationship with the high priest of the Beast City?
In the beast world, only the high priest of the beast city can read. This is news that even the most remote tribes know. In the minds of the beastmen, the high priest of the beast city is the most omnipotent besides the beast god. They think about what they saw in the wood tribe, if the wood tribe priest came from the beast city, it would not be surprising.
Shu Guo did not lean against the wooden board to read the words, but followed closely behind Shen Nong.
For some reason, ever since she met the priest of the Wood Tribe, she always wanted to get closer to him, and she vaguely felt that he had the aura of the sacred tree.
Shen Nong didn't care about the people following him. After he finished writing on the wooden board, he told the orcs from the marginal tribe that their Mu tribe provided food and accommodation, but they had to exchange something for it.
In the past, people from marginal tribes would come to exchange salt and stone and leave immediately. They would just find a tree root to lean against and take a nap.
Although they will stay here for two more days this time, they would rather exchange the things they brought for salt stones than anything else.
Fox Tree suddenly asked, "Are the places we live in the same mud houses as those in the Wood Tribe?"
The mud houses of the Wood Tribe were large and neat, and looked very stable, but their tree houses were crooked. Fox Tree thought that if he could see what the mud house looked like inside, it would be okay to exchange his belongings for a night's stay.
Shen Nong didn't know why the other party asked this, he shook his head and replied: "It's not a mud house, it's a wooden house."
Shen Nong planned to replace all the mud houses in the tribe with small brick houses with cement walls. Therefore, the dormitories built later did not use the effort of beating mud and drying mud bricks to build mud houses, but built wooden houses with wood. It was fast to build and easy to dismantle.
Wooden house!
Fox Tree's eyes lit up. It was a house made of wood. Then she had to take a closer look and rebuild the tree house in their tribe after returning!
Shuguo knew what Hushu was thinking. She had the same idea as Hushu. After hearing that it was a wooden house, Shuguo directly asked what he wanted in exchange for staying for one night.
A whole animal skin the size of an adult tiger skin is enough for one night and one day, and three meals are included.
This price is not low.
Fox Tree was a little hesitant. A whole animal hide of this size could be exchanged for ten pieces of salt stones in the past in the Salt Department.
But, food included..
She asked uncertainly, "Is this food you pack the kind that's enough to fill you up?"
Shen Nong nodded, "Of course."
Fox Tree was no longer entangled. She could make back her money with just one meal, not to mention three meals. Although the priest didn't eat as much as she did, he could still make back his money with three meals, so he didn't lose out no matter how he calculated it.
“We live in the tree tribe.”
The chieftain of the Cliff Tribe, Langya, also came this time. He originally wanted to ask the orcs of the Cliff Tribe to come with him to get the wild prickly pear and then send it back to the Cliff Tribe first. But the priest of the Cliff Tribe was afraid that the disease had not been fully cured, and if something happened later, Lushui of the Wood Tribe would not be there, and no one from their marginal tribe could save Langya. So, Langya was brought to the Wood Tribe.
Along the way, they relied on the patriarchs of other tribes to carry them back and forth.
Because Wolf Cliff's body had not recovered, the Cliff Tribe priest also chose to live in the wooden house provided by the Wood Tribe. Although he had to exchange a large piece of animal skin, it was worth it, at least he didn't have to worry about food and sleep.
The other tribes didn't want to waste the animal skins, so they just decided to find a tree root to lean on, since that was how they had gotten here all the way.
It just takes some effort to get food. After they find a suitable place to rest, they have to go hunting together, otherwise there will be nothing to eat.
So the group split into two groups. A total of four people, including the priests and clan leaders from the Tree Tribe and the Cliff Tribe, followed Shen Nong, and the others went to find a place to rest.
Shen Nong took them to the place where they were staying. There was a cement path in the bushes. Walking along the path, they could see six neatly arranged wooden houses. This place was only separated from the workers' dormitory by a wall. The workers had not yet finished work, and the surroundings were very quiet.
These six wooden houses were built not long ago, and Shen Nong loved them when he came to see them.
Although it is a one-story building, the appearance of the wooden house is rated above average in the system appearance rating. The production team and Shen San spent a lot of effort to polish the appearance of the wooden house to be not much different from the system display. In addition, the wooden house is set against the dense forest behind it, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is elegant, peaceful, tranquil and simple.
The four people from the marginal tribe rubbed their eyes desperately as they looked at the wooden house, which had a strange appearance but looked very beautiful.
The only concept of a wooden house in their minds was the crooked, almost falling wood on the trunk of a tree in the tree tribe.
The wooden houses of the Mu Tribe completely overturned their perceptions. Is this a wooden house? Can a wooden house be built like this?
Two people lived in one wooden house. When the four people stepped onto the cement road and entered their own wooden houses and saw the inside clearly, a thought came to their minds at the same time: it was worth it to live in such a wooden house with a whole animal skin.