rain

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been depressed for too long, but the rain has been falling for two days in a row.

Except for the food-making team, all other teams stopped working. The workers' dormitory was empty, and the orcs all returned to their respective tribes and would come back after the rain stopped.

The animals in the livestock area eat the grass that was previously stored in the warehouse. They have become a little anxious due to the continuous rain in the past two days.

In order to prevent the animals from getting really restless, Shen Nong shrunk Dahei, and Dahei and Tuanzi lived directly in the wooden house in the livestock area to watch over the animals.

After two days of rain, puddles of varying sizes had appeared on the uneven ground. Even on the flat ground, there was a very shallow layer of accumulated water.

Shen Nong's cave is relatively high, and drainage channels have been dug around it for simple drainage. When the earthen houses in the tribe were built, the bottom was intentionally raised a little, and there was a threshold under the door, so the accumulated water could not enter the house for the time being.

The orcs of the tribe are accustomed to such continuous rain for several days. It happens every summer. Generally, the rain will gradually decrease from the third day and stop completely on the fifth day.

Shen Nong always felt uneasy and panicky for no reason.

While it was raining, Shen Nong soaked half of the soybeans he had traded for to make tofu. While the soybeans were soaking, he asked Shen San to make a simple stone mill to grind tofu.

There is no coarse cloth for filtering here. Fortunately, Shen Nong now has plenty of infrastructure points, and he is too lazy to spend time to make replacements. He directly opens the system mall to buy some.

Coarse cloth is also called homespun cloth, made of pure cotton. One foot of cloth costs one thousand infrastructure points. Shen Nong estimated that there is probably no cotton in this beast world.

He scrolled down and saw the linen cloth, which was fifty points per foot. It was so cheap, and this raw material could be found around the Mu tribe.

The infrastructure points were not durable, and he couldn't spend a thousand infrastructure points just to filter a piece of tofu, so he finally chose linen. Although it was not as good as cotton, he would just use it.

Brine Shen Nong was also bought in the mall. The Beast World has not yet produced sea salt, so the price of brine is ten infrastructure points more expensive than gypsum water. It costs fifteen infrastructure points, but it is already very cheap compared to cloth.

The tofu made with brine is a little tougher, and tastes good when stewed, fried, or stir-fried. The tofu made with gypsum water is softer, and tastes better when used to stew soup. Shen Nong wanted to try both, so he bought one portion each of brine and gypsum water.

There is no technical skill required in making tofu; it relies more on strength. After watching how Shen Nong made it, the people in the food-making team were able to learn it easily.

The next day, after the tofu was ready, the food preparation team fried, stewed and stir-fried it. They cooked meat every day, and their cooking skills were very good. However, because more oil was used, fried and stir-fried tofu was rarely made, and only Shen Nong and the captains of each team did it.

The remaining tofu would not last long, so the orcs from the food-preparing team put on straw raincoats and hats and went from house to house to distribute the tofu to the orcs, and also taught them how to make soup with it.

When they divided the tofu, they mixed the old tofu with the soft tofu. The beastmen couldn't tell the difference between the soft tofu and the old tofu. To them, the white and soft tofu was all the same, soft and delicious.

It was raining outside, and the doors of every household in the Mu tribe were open. A fire was burning in the house, and a clay pot was stewing meat. It was a full pot, and tofu distributed by the tribe was also added to it.

This soft and tender thing seems to be so easy to swallow that you don’t even need to chew it.

After drinking a bowl of pickled meat and tofu soup, their depressed mood caused by the rain was soothed, and their attention could not help but be attracted by the rain outside the door.

In the past, my memories of rain were all about hunger, mud, and extreme worry, fearing that the fire would be extinguished by the rain. This was the first time that the orcs of the Wood Tribe thought of nothing but watching and listening to the rain.

The rain was supposed to gradually decrease on the third day, but it still showed no sign of decreasing on the fifth day. The sound of the rain was pounding and it was getting heavier.

The water that had not yet reached the instep has now reached the ankles.

Fearing that the tribe would be flooded, Shen Nong and Shen San began leading the tribal orcs to dig canals for evacuation on the third day, and they were so tired that their backs ached every day.

Somehow, Ze learned how to massage the legs and beat the back without any instruction, which allowed Shen Nong to sleep a little better at night.

On the morning of the sixth day, Shen Nong was awakened by the sound of rain. He quickly washed, put on his straw raincoat and hat, and went to find the captains of each team.

The big river not far from the tribe couldn't stand the heavy rain. In two days, there would be a flood.

Shen Nong had no way of judging whether the rain would stop tomorrow, but he was sure that if it didn’t stop, floods would come soon.

It is better to be safe than sorry. After notifying the captains of each team, the orcs of the Mu tribe all started to move under the leadership of the captains.

They wanted the entire tribe to move to Yanbu, which had the highest terrain around. Moreover, there were many caves in Yanbu, so they could live there if they squeezed together.

Every beastman put everything in the mud house that could be taken away into a backpack, and everyone stuffed at least a large backpack. It was best that they looked at the mud house with reluctance, wishing they could put it in a backpack and take it away.

The Mu tribe had more than a dozen warehouses, which stored a large amount of pickled meat, animal skins, fish skin clothes, pottery, and dried seafood... Shen Nong didn't even keep a single animal skin or fur, and piled them all up in the system warehouse.

These were all accumulated by the tribesmen with great difficulty, and kept for the winter and for trading.

Shen Nong also threw all the wooden furniture in the guards' dormitory, the workers' dormitory, and the cabin into the house. Even if the house couldn't be saved, it was enough to save the furniture.

The system warehouse cannot store living things, so the pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks raised in the livestock area are driven around by Dahei and Tuanzi, who are followed by the children who take care of the livestock area.

Dahei's body was also heavily loaded with equipment that each team must not lose, as well as shrunken catapults and crossbows.

Shen Nong's system warehouse also has space limitations and cannot accommodate these.

In addition to the salt that was placed behind the waterfall, a lot of the half salt mountain that was extorted from the Salt Department was piled up in his system warehouse taking up space.

The distance between the Wood Tribe and the Salt Tribe is not too far. If you don't transform, you can walk there in two hours. If you transform, it only takes half an hour.

Due to the heavy rain and deep water, even though the orcs of the Wood Tribe had all transformed, it still took them nearly three hours to walk.

There were many things that could be moved in the Mu tribe, and they could not move them all in one trip. The tribesmen were also reluctant to see their good things washed away by the water. Although the priest said that there was only a possibility of a flood, they did not want to bet on this possibility at all.

So the high-level orcs went back and forth to the Wood Tribe twice and emptied the tribe completely. The remaining orcs in the tribe followed the instructions of their priests and put all non-private belongings in the cave.

After the defeat of the Salt Tribe, the Wood Tribe orcs searched all their caves. They wanted to see if there were any usable hides or something, but even the hides in the cave of the Salt Tribe's chief priest were not half as good as the worst hides in the Wood Tribe.

However, those animal skins that have just been peeled off and are piled together can be tanned and have some value.

At that time, the orcs of the Wood Tribe felt that the caves of the Salt Tribe were too smelly, so they completely emptied every cave.

Unexpectedly, it saved them a lot of effort and they didn't have to endure the stench. Every cave was empty, without even a blade of grass. In order to settle the tribesmen quickly, Shen Nong allocated the caves as soon as possible.

According to the size of the caves, the smallest cave housed five people and the largest cave housed fifteen people.

Although it's a bit crowded, there are quite a few orcs in the Wood Tribe now. And some of these caves need to be left for the animals in the livestock area and for the things hanging on Dahei's body.

No matter how many caves the Salt Department has, they are still not enough when divided up.

After the caves were divided, the orcs of the Wood Tribe began to prepare their own places to live. Since there was no hay to cover the ground, the orcs of the Wood Tribe directly spread the rolled bamboo mats on the ground, placed pillows and animal skins on the mats, and then took out the pottery pots and bowls they were going to use and placed them next to their bamboo mats.

There is a small fire pit in the center of each cave, which was used by the orcs of the Salt Department to keep warm in winter. In the small cave for five people, the orcs dug another small fire pit.

The large cave that could accommodate fifteen people originally had two fire pits, but because stewing meat took time, they dug three more so that everyone could eat the meat faster.

After digging the fire pit, the orcs took out the chopped firewood from their backpacks. Drilling wood to make fire is now a basic skill for every orc in the Wood Tribe. Even the orcs in the Wushan Tribe who have just joined have basically mastered the essentials.

The orcs even carried tools with them, and the tinder used to start a fire was wrapped very well so that it was not wet by the rain at all.

After the fire was lit, they cooked meat for two or three people each. The water used for cooking meat was rainwater collected directly from the cave by carrying the pottery pot outside.

By the time all the orcs were settled, it was already completely dark.

Maybe it was because of the obstructed vision, but the orcs always felt that the sound of rain outside was louder.

Shen Nong had already sent Shen San to inform the Mountain Tribe, and also told the other tribes around, but he didn't know if they took it to heart. The terrain of other tribes was better than that of the Wood Tribe, so if they ran up in advance, there shouldn't be any big accidents.

Shen Nong arranged everything, but he still couldn't help but worry that if a flood really broke out, even in the high-lying Yanbu, there would be no way to escape the disaster. But he had no other choice but to carry out post-disaster relief operations.

But he didn't want to see his tribesmen die. Everything was going in a good direction, and he wanted everyone to live well.

Shen Nong was thinking about things that were beyond his control, and he didn't sleep well all night.

Ze had sensed his partner's anxiety, but he didn't know how to calm it. Ze focused all his attention on his partner, and as long as the other party showed signs of waking up, he would wake up immediately. He gently stroked his partner's back and soothed him to sleep again.

Shen Nong had a decent sleep. After his tired body got some rest, his mental state also improved.

He stood at the entrance of the cave, his heart sinking to the bottom. The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, with no sign of stopping. It was as if a huge hole had been opened in the sky, and water was pouring down, as if it was going to submerge the entire world in water.

The rain is getting heavier.

When the seven tribes working for the Songmu tribe heard Shen San say that heavy rain might cause floods to submerge the tribe, their expressions became much more solemn.

Especially after Shen San described what the flood was, some older tribal priests had memories of the flood, while younger priests learned the relevant information from the previous priests.

They had a lot of contact with the Wood Tribe and even lived there for a period of time. They believed in what the Wood Tribe priests said, and even if there would not be a flood in the end, it would be good for the tribe if they were more careful.

The other tribes had a lukewarm response, and only two tribes listened and braved the heavy rain to move to higher ground.

It's not like there haven't been floods before, and each tribe has prepared for them. In the higher places of the tribe, there are caves to avoid floods.

The Wood Tribe priests were not sure whether there was any, and they did not want to make a trip in the heavy rain. What if the Wood Tribe did all this on purpose, just to get them up there, knowing that they could not take everything with them, so they took away everything from their tribe while they were away?

They had exchanged a lot of things at the market of the Mu tribe before.

The Salt Tribe had often done this kind of thing before, and they all knew the procedure. They would not be fooled by the Wood Tribe this time.

Besides, if the flood really came, they would still have time to run. Even if their level was low, they could still run very fast after transforming. How fast could the water be? Could they, the orcs, be faster than the water?