Small expression, very pitiful (edited)

The waterfall makes a huge sound of "splashing water", and birds circle above it and sing loudly.

The lush mountains and forests are home to a variety of mouth-watering fruits.

Cat grass quickly jumped up a three-meter-high tree. The yellow fruits on the tree were the most delicious he knew.

However, this kind of fruit is hard to find. He and Tuhua climbed half of the mountain and finally found one.

The cat grass had ripped out the entire fruit tree, and when it was about to go down, its eyes were attracted by the scenery in the distance.

"Cat grass, come down quickly, what are you looking at?"

The tiger mountain below is urging them to go down the mountain. If they don't get down, it will be dark. If they don't wake up, they will be eaten by wild beasts.

"There are a lot of red fruits over there on the cliff. They look delicious."

He really wanted to have a bite of the cat grass, but unfortunately the fruit grew on the opposite cliff and he couldn't get across.

Hushan has good fruits in his pockets, he doesn't care about the good-looking fruits.

Anyway, you can only look at it but not eat it, so you won’t be greedy as long as you don’t look at it.

Maocao slid down the tree trunk, not knowing whether he could taste the red fruit before meeting the Beast God.

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After Shen Nong handed over the task of building the house, he returned to the cave and concentrated on teaching Tudong about herbal medicine.

Tudong followed Shen Nong to learn about herbs because of his teeth.

The people of the Mu tribe have very healthy and white teeth. Shen Nong observed that they eat a kind of leaf every day.

The leaves smell like mint, but look very different from mint.

It is round, with smooth and thick leaves, and its name is simply and crudely called round-leaf grass.

Shen Nong originally studied plants and immediately became interested.

He had never seen many of the plants here, and after learning about roundleaf grass, he wanted to study it.

I also needed to collect herbs, so I followed the collection team out many times.

When Shen Nong encountered some plants he had never seen before on the road, he would subconsciously ask Tu Dong, and Tu Dong could answer most of them.

You can even describe some of the reactions that will occur after eating them.

Shen Nong not only recognized many plants he had never seen before, but also gained a lot in terms of herbal medicine.

I don’t know if it’s because of the environment, but there are the most hemostatic and analgesic herbs here.

Every time when collecting herbs, Tudong looked like he wanted to look but didn't dare to.

Shen Nong knew that she wanted to learn, but things like identifying herbs and curing diseases and saving lives could not be learned just by wanting to.

The minimum requirement is to be able to clearly remember the medicinal properties of each herb, as well as the taboos between herbs.

Shen Nong tried to test it out and found that Tu Dong had a good memory.

The other party also has a strong interest in herbs, and Shen Nong is also willing to cultivate it.

However, he only understood herbs as plants and did not conduct in-depth research for medical purposes.

He knows the most basic things, and anything deeper is not acceptable.

So I spent some infrastructure points to exchange a complete Chinese herbal medicine book from the system, and it was an illustrated version.

First lay a solid foundation, and then add some prescriptions and cases.

The books cannot be taken away, and Tudong is illiterate.

Shen Nong asked Tu Dong to come to the cave every day to identify three kinds of herbs. Tu Dong first memorized their appearance, and then Shen Nong told Tu Dong the effects of these herbs.

If only Tudong could learn to read faster.

Although Shen Nong thought so, he did not put literacy on his agenda.

Nowadays, eating and drinking are problems, who has the time to learn how to write?

It was no secret in the Mu tribe that Tudong was learning the appearance of various grasses from the priest, but in their minds they were not recognizing the grasses but recognizing the divine book.

They actually didn't understand what "book" meant, but they heard the priest once tell Tudong to read the "book", and then they remembered it.

Therefore, Tudong's status in the Mu tribe is higher than before, and he is the highest-ranking person in the Mu tribe except for the priests and the hunting team.

Some even say that Tu Dong is the next priest.

Tu Dong didn't know what other people in the tribe thought of her. She only knew that she had to remember the appearance, functions and uses of the herbs taught by the priest every day.

This was something she had only dared to think about before, but not to desire.

No one knows how happy Tudong was when the priest told her that she could learn from him how to use herbs to treat diseases.

She squatted in the sun and used a twig to draw the shapes of the herbs she had just learned on the ground.

He was still chanting, "Big chicken, stop the bleeding, remove the bed poison."

Shen Nong was just asking the system to print out the picture of the sore for Tu Dong to see, when he heard Tu Dong mispronounce half of the seven words. He corrected him: "Da Ji, removes sores."

Tu Dong quickly repeated it again several times to make sure he read it correctly.

The system has been working part-time as a printer recently, and the infrastructure points given by Shen Nong are not enough to cover the investment, so it has long been complaining.

In revenge, every time it looks for a picture of a wound, it picks a particularly disgusting one.

Shen Nong was caught off guard and was indeed disgusted the first time, but from the second time onwards he never looked at anything on the paper again and always gave it directly to Tu Dong.

The system knew that Shen Nong would not be fooled, but it still persisted every time.

What if Shen Nong accidentally sees it one day?

Shen Nong's battle of wits and courage with the system made Tu Dong suffer. Several times, she couldn't eat meat after looking at the pictures.

When Maocao and the others came to Shen Nong with a bunch of berries in their big leaves, Tudong had just finished looking at the pictures of the sores.

There were so many different sizes of meat that she felt she didn't need to eat meat tonight.

"Priest! This is the fruit we found for you. It's delicious." Maocao handed the big leaf to Shen Nong and looked at him expectantly, hoping that he would accept it.

Shen Nong took the fruit and smiled, "Come to me with your empty bowls when you eat barbecue."

Maocao and the others nodded their heads and ran away happily.

Shen Nong washed a fruit and put it in his mouth. It tasted a little sour, but the fruity aroma was very strong, not bad.

"Can you still eat meat tonight? If not, take some fruit back." Shen Nong knew from Tu Dong's expression that the system had no good intentions, and sent another disgusting picture.

He then took out a bamboo tube filled with sugar water from the hole.

Every time Tudong felt so nauseous that she couldn't eat, Shen Nong would give her a can and ask her to take it home and drink it. After finishing it, she could bring it back the next day and he would continue to fill it for her.

It can be considered as making up for Rabbit Winter.

Tu Dong liked the sugar water very much, which was sweeter than the best berries she had ever eaten. She happily emptied the bamboo tube, instantly forgetting the disgusting scene, and her mind was filled with the sweet taste.

"Thank you, priest! I can still see!"

——

While eating barbecue, Shen Nong held a bamboo tube in his hand and poured sugar water into the bowls of Mao Cao and others.

The little ones' eyes sparkled from drinking, brighter than the stars in the sky.

Maocao even forgot the sadness of not being able to eat the red fruit, and only had the sugar water in his mind.

"Priest, what kind of water is this? It tastes so good!" Mao Cao drank the sugar water in small sips, reluctant to drink too much at once.

Shen Nong didn't know how to explain Bai Tang for a moment, so he just said he would tell them later.

He remembered that there were seeds for sale in the system. When the time came, he could plant some sugarcane, beets, etc., and make sugar that could be sold.

However, the salt in the tribe is running out, and his infrastructure has almost been used up, so he has to ask Hu Xiao and the others to go to the Salt Department to exchange salt.

Hu Xiao and his companions had already started their independent training a month ago, and went to the grassland to fight against giant beasts every day.

He is usually very busy and has never visited.

However, the system prompts that there are already two level seven orc warriors, but this time the system did not split the infrastructure point and give it to Shen Nong.

Shen Nong is not in a hurry anyway, so it would be the same if they were sent out together.

I just don’t know which two were promoted to level seven.

Shen Nong didn't have the extra infrastructure points to cook for himself in the system, so he always ate with the tribe.

But today he always felt something was wrong. In the past, people in the tribe were very happy when they ate meat, because it meant they didn't have to go hungry.

But today, except for a few people like Mao Cao who got sugar water, most of the people who had smiles on their faces had sad faces.

"What happened in the tribe?"

Mao Cao and his companions did not leave. They all surrounded Shen Nong. Shen Nong just asked Mao Cao, who was closest to him, in a low voice.

Mao Cao swallowed the sugar water in his mouth, stared at the last mouthful of sugar water in the bowl and swallowed his saliva, "Maybe it's because the beast tide is coming. Every year when the beast tide comes, the adults do this."

Beast tide?

Shen Nong thought it must be a mass migration of animals, rushing to warmer places to survive before the weather gets completely cold.

He asked, "What will happen if the beast tide comes?"

Maocao thought for a moment and said truthfully, "The hunting team will go out hunting, and the meat they catch will be bigger than usual. They will then keep it for the winter."

Isn't that just to store food? But if that's the case, why would the Mu tribe be like this, even looking a little scared.

"But every time the hunting team comes back, there are a lot fewer people."

Maocao held the empty bowl and licked the bottom of the bowl. When he found that there was no sweetness, he gave up. "The old man who lived with us in the big cave said that Tuhua and I had parents before. But they didn't come back from the beast tide."

He put down the bowl reluctantly and looked at the night sky. "Hushan's parents went to the Beast Tide last autumn and never came back. Hushan remembers what they look like, so the Beast God will let Hushan's parents meet Hushan when he is asleep."

"But I don't remember what they looked like at all. I never saw them when I was asleep."

Shen Nong understood that many people would die in the Mu tribe during the beast tide every year.

No wonder the population here is so small. There are more elderly people and orphaned children than young and middle-aged people.

The mission with five level seven orc warriors released by the system before might have something to do with this beast tide.

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The day of the beast tide is approaching, and the atmosphere in the tribe is getting lower and lower. Shen Nong originally planned to go find Hu Xiao and the others to see how their training was going.

If that doesn't work, this time we can only use other methods to store food for the winter and give up the beast tide.

But Hu Xiao and his companions came back faster.

At this time, they were stopped outside by the guards and were not allowed to enter. Hu Xiao was roaring at the top of his voice, "I am Hu Xiao! Open your eyes and look! Why won't you let me in!"

The man from the guard team stared at Hu Xiao for a while, then pointed the stone and wood warehouse at Hu Xiao with a wary look, "If you are a tiger roar, then I am a tiger roar! I warn you not to get close to the Wood Tribe again! Our priests are very powerful!"

Hu Xiao didn't understand why the people in the tribe didn't recognize him after he hadn't been back for a while.

When he heard the other party mention the priest, he quickly said, "Then go and call the priest. The priest will definitely recognize us!"

When Shen Nong arrived, he saw ten strong men blocking the entrance of the tribe.

They are all very tall, with strong and firm muscles, and they look very powerful.

There was a particularly tall one among them, estimated to be about 1.9 meters tall, with his hair neatly combed and tied with a straw rope.

He has deep, dark eyes, a high nose bridge, and sharp facial features.

His wheat-colored skin oozes tiny beads of sweat under the sun, his broad back and strong waist are full of power and aggressiveness, and he has an extremely perfect inverted triangle figure.

Shen Nong, a face-loving man, was immediately attracted by the other party, and the other party also looked at Shen Nong, his dark eyes were like ripples on the water, extremely vivid.

It was as if the big dog, who had been away from home for a long time, finally saw its owner and couldn't wait to rush into its owner's arms and act like a spoiled child.

This look...choice?

Shen Nong couldn't believe it and looked at others for confirmation.

Ze looked lost when Shen Nong looked away. If he really had a tail behind him, it would have been drooping at this moment.

“Priest!” Hu Xiao waved his hands desperately, “It’s me! Hu Xiao!”

Shen Nong is now certain that this group of muscular men are indeed the ten people who left the tribe a month ago.

The reason why they are all ten strong men is that if Shen Nong does not look carefully, he can't see any difference in the body shapes of Mao Yun and the other four men from the other men.

This change is too big.

Although they were no longer as skinny as they were at the beginning and had grown a lot taller, their overall body shape still looked a little thin.

The people of the Mu tribe can now have their fill for every meal, and they are not too strong.

Have they been taking hormones for this month?

When they were led into the tribe, people in the tribe kept asking them who they were, and Hu Xiao would answer at first.

Later, even he said he was tired and simply stopped talking.

They have changed so much that people from the larger tribes can’t recognize them.

The changes within the tribe were also huge, so big that they could hardly recognize them.

"Priest, are these the thatched huts that everyone lives in now?" Tu Feng stared at the neatly arranged earthen houses with his eyes wide open. They were so beautiful that it was hard to describe them.

"Well, your residence has also been built by the tribe. We will take you there now."

Shen Nong led a few people towards the residential area and asked, "Why are you back now? Is it because of the beast tide?"

Hu Xiao kept staring at the earthen house, and did not forget to reply to Shen Nong, "Yes, priest."

Shen Nong thought about the tribe's fear of the beast tide, so he asked, "What will happen if we don't participate in the beast tide hunting?"

Hu Xiao was a little surprised why Shen Nong asked this. "If we don't join the beast tide, we won't be able to hunt enough food and fur to survive the winter. After the beast tide, there will be no prey in the grasslands and forests."

Shen Nong really didn't want to have fewer people, so since he had to participate, he decided to try to see if he could join forces with other tribes.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Shen Nong finished expressing this idea, Hu Xiao waved his hands anxiously, "Priest, we were with all the tribes before."

"But they always let us fight first and steal our prey. In the winter, many people in the tribe starve to death or freeze to death because there is no food or animal skins."

Hu Xiao felt a little depressed when he thought about the winter scenes in the tribe in the past.

But after a while, he cheered up again, without even looking at the house, and said to Shen Nong: "Priest, I can kill a giant beast by myself now. When the beast tide comes, I will kill many giant beasts, and no one in the Mu tribe will starve to death this winter."

He had only one request, which was not to hunt with other tribes.

The more Shen Nong listened, the more he felt something was wrong. When he first came to the Mu tribe, everyone there was as stiff as a bamboo pole.

Even the strongest tiger roar is not much better.

With such strength, other tribes would let them serve as vanguards in the beast tide?

There must be something fishy going on here.

Shen Nong kept this in mind and prepared to wait for the beast tide to come to see what was going on.

He looked at the ten people who had changed a lot, and thought of the system prompt that the Mu tribe already had two level seven orc warriors.

Hu Xiao has always been the most powerful in the Mu tribe. If nothing unexpected happens, Hu Xiao is one of the two level seven orc warriors.

After bringing them to their residence, I have to use the bloodstone to test their current strength.

When Shen Nong arranged the houses, he placed the houses for these ten people very close to each other, and Ze was also arranged here.

Ze didn't seem as happy as the others. He looked at Shen Nong and wanted to live with the priest more.

But he knew that this was impossible.

Shen Nong caught Ze's expression, and he couldn't help thinking: What a pitiful little expression.

After looking at their respective mud houses, Shen Nong asked them to go to the cave where he lived.

Shen Nong now continues to live in the cave at the back. He finds that he can absorb a lot of wood-related abilities there.

However, his cave was not empty like at the beginning. Now it had a brick bed, a cupboard, and wooden floors.

He took out the bloodstone and asked several people to test it.

The final test results were Tiger Roar Level 7, Rabbit Wind and Sheep Tree Level 5, and Ox Wood and Niu Mountain Level 4.

The four female orc warriors are all level six.

One more missing.

The system shows two level sevens.

Shen Nong looked at Ze who was standing behind him. Could the other one be Ze?

There is no one else except him, but no matter whether it is true or not, Shen Nong has no way to test him now. Only awakened orcs can detect the orc level.

But Ze has not yet awakened.

When Hu Xiao learned that he was already a level seven orc warrior, he danced with excitement and wished he could rush towards the beast tide right now and kill each giant beast with one punch to demonstrate his strength.

The other eight people were also very happy when they knew that their levels had increased so much.

They must hunt enough prey during this beast tide so that everyone in the tribe can have enough food and have animal skins to keep them warm.

Shen Nong discussed with them about going to the Salt Department to exchange salt. Hu Xiao said that the Salt Department did not exchange salt before the beast tide.

They would wait until after the beast tide before exchanging salt. At that time, the Salt Department would require more animal skins than usual to exchange for their salt.

After listening to this, Shen Nong felt that the people from the Salt Department had quite a business acumen.

After the beast tide, all tribes had sufficient animal skins, and the Salt Department raised the price on the spot... Well, it's a profiteer just like the system.

The system that is suddenly scolded: speaking foul language.

After deciding to exchange salt after the beast tide, Shen Nong asked a few people to prepare for the beast tide a few days later.

Everyone was walking very fast, except for one person who was lagging behind and was reluctant to move forward.

Finally, he couldn't delay any longer, so he lowered his head and said to Shen Nong what he had been repeating in his heart, "Priest, I am your personal bodyguard, and I must always be by your side to protect you."

Shen Nong looked at the other person quietly. He was skinny and small before, but now he was much taller than him.

Even if the other person lowered his head, Shen Nong had to look up to see the other person's face.

Every time I see Shen Nong, I am attracted by that face. From this angle, Shen Nong can see the other person's long and thick eyelashes, which are really beautiful.

"But what if I am the only one who can enter my cave?"

Shen Nong had bad intentions. He just wanted to see the other person looking pitiful and aggrieved.

Ze raised his eyes and looked at Shen Nong. Seeing Shen Nong's smiling face, he blurted out, "I sleep at the entrance of the cave."

"Winter is also at the entrance of the cave?"

"Um."

Shen Nong pretended to be puzzled, "It's so cold in winter, what if you freeze to death sleeping here?"

After he finished speaking, he said with some regret: "If you freeze to death, I will have to find another personal bodyguard."

After hearing this, Ze didn't know what to do. He wanted to get close to the priest, but he didn't want the priest to have any other personal guards.

After some inner struggle, he decided that he would rather keep the beautiful priest in his house and guard her all day.

After having this thought, Ze Junlang's eyebrows lowered, a small hill appeared between his eyebrows, and his expression became extremely serious.

He wants to try it.

Shen Nong didn't know Ze's true thoughts. He was wearing eighteen layers of thick filters. The more he looked at Ze, the more he felt that Ze looked like a golden retriever he once raised, who was very clingy.

"From now on you can stay with me during the day and go back at night."

Shen Nong looked at the tall boy and said, "Bend down and open your mouth."

Ze was immersed in the joy of Shen Nong saying that he could be with him during the day. He subconsciously did what Shen Nong said next, and then a candy appeared in his mouth.

A rich and mellow sweet smell spread out, and Ze stood up with the candy in his mouth, staring at the priest.

He wanted to be with the priest all the time.

——

When the beast tide came, Shen Nong led ten people who had taken the marrow cleansing pill to the place where the beast tide must pass.

When the tribe knew that Shen Nong was also going to join the beast tide, it was like the sky was falling.

They had experienced the days without priests, and now, with great difficulty, they had a priest. Just as their lives were beginning to get better, they did not dare to let the priest participate in the beast tide hunting.

The beast tide means death to the Mu tribe.

Shen Nong always felt that something was wrong with the actions of other tribes during the beast tide, and he wanted to figure it out.

His words "the order of the Beast God" silenced everyone in the Mu tribe, and even Hu Xiao and others believed it.

Shen Nong: Haha, superstition.

When we arrived at the place, there were already several tribes on the vast grassland.

Shen Nong recalled what Yang Lei and Yang Dian had told him after they woke up about the Ze Tribe encountering cannibals. He asked Hu Xiao, "Are the cannibals coming back to hunt as well?"

Hu Xiao shook his head, "They can't transform, so they can't defeat the giant beast."

Shen Nong was suspicious. Hu Xiao had mentioned the giant beast many times, and most of the tribe’s fear of the beast tide also came from the giant beast.

What exactly is this behemoth?

Hu Xiao stood beside Shen Nong and pointed at a group of people with white feathers on their heads and said, "They are from the Salt Tribe. They are very powerful. They have two level 7 warriors in their tribe, but we only have one."

Shen Nong took a look at the orcs from the Salt Department. Each of them was as big as a hill and all of them were big and bulky.

He finally dispelled the idea that the people around him had gone out and taken hormones.

But who said that their tribe only had one level seven orc warrior?

The system clearly showed that there were two, but he couldn't detect this one with the bloodstone for the time being.

"Hey, Ze, isn't that your previous tribe?"

Tufeng gently tapped Ze's arm with his arm, motioning him to look over.

Unexpectedly, Ze not only didn't even look at them, but turned his head away, as if he was afraid that he would be discovered by them.

Shen Nong met Ze's gaze at this moment. Ze moved his lips and asked with some difficulty: "Priest, will you let me go back?"

Without waiting for Shen Nong to answer, he changed the topic, "Priest, I can always protect you, please don't let me leave."

If something wasn't wrong, Shen Nong really wanted to roll his eyes and leave? What a joke.

If you eat one of his marrow cleansing pills, you will be the ghost of his Mu tribe when you die.

Shen Nong never does business at a loss.

Moreover, judging from Ze's attitude towards the Ze tribe, there is definitely something wrong with this tribe.

The author has something to say:

Shen Nong: I never do business at a loss.

System: Really, just look at me and you will know.