HCB Chapter 189 Assistance Program
Chapter 189 Assistance Program
In the evening, several bonfires were lit and stone stoves were built on the open space by the river in the valley of the Sheep Tribe.
Many orcs and females of the Sheep Tribe saw the campfire, feeling both excited and frightened, and watched from afar.
Yiyun handed two flints to Yangli and asked him to learn how to light a fire.
Yang Li rubbed the flint with shaking hands. When the sparks fell to the ground and turned into a fire cat after the wind blew, Yang Li knelt down excitedly: "Thank God, thank Yaobei City, thank Lord Yiyun, for letting our Yang Tribe have fire from now on."
Yiyun handed over two more flints with a gentle look in his eyes, "Chief Yangli, don't get excited. There is a deal for flints in Yaocheng."
Yang Li took it respectfully, looked at the four flints in his hand, and smiled broadly.
The ceramic pots we brought were placed on the stone stove with water racks, and we stewed corn with bones, stewed yam with bones, and steamed rice.
Chen Shiyue asked Yiyun to make a few stone pots temporarily to boil oil and cook. She was afraid that the ceramic pots would burn dry and crack, so she still used stone pots to cook.
As for the vegetables, they were some kinds of grass eaten by the females of the Sheep Tribe. Chen Shiyue thought that they should be wild vegetables. What kind of wild vegetables, Huanyue could not identify.
Yang Mei kept circling around Chen Shiyue, and later, a few brave females followed and surrounded her.
Huanyue was so anxious that she was spinning around in the space: "Mother, mother, it's so lively outside."
Chen Shiyue smiled and comforted: "Huanyue baby, don't worry, when you can come out in the future, mother will compensate you."
Huanyue sat on the floor and sighed, "Ah, it will take several more months before I can come out. It feels so long."
Chen Shiyue paused as she cooked: "Isn't it ten months of pregnancy?"
Huanyue: "Mother, what you are carrying now is not a human, but a tiger cub, which will be born in about four months."
Wow! It's only been about four months, this is so good, it looks like it can be unloaded after the winter season.
In front of the bonfire, Yifei, Yitian and a few peacocks were teaching the orcs from the Sheep Tribe how to barbecue. Liefeng was watching the stew pot, and Yiyun was assisting Chen Shiyue.
Waves of fragrance wafted through the valley.
This was the happiest and most meaningful night in the history of the Sheep Tribe. This night will remain forever in the memory of the Sheep Tribe and will be passed down from generation to generation.
The orcs and the females sat around the campfire. Skewers of grilled meat and bowls of corn stew and yam stew struck the simple taste buds of the orcs of the Sheep Tribe. For the first time in their lives, they knew that food could be eaten like this, that food was so delicious, and that food should be eaten with a spoon or chopsticks.
Chen Shiyue was also very excited because she finally had the fragrant and soft white rice. She ate two large bowls of white rice with meat and stir-fried wild vegetables, and then found that she was too full and could only drink half a bowl of soup, a little corn soup and a little yam soup.
Yi Fei, Yi Tian and a few peacocks quacked and said that white rice and meat were the best food combination.
Yifei came over holding the wooden bowl and said, "Chief Yangli, we will go with you to collect rice next sunrise."
Yang Li scooped a mouthful of rice with a spoon and tears rolled down his face.
Yifei panicked: "Chief Yangli, why are you crying?"
Yang Mei said calmly, "Don't worry about my father, he's very excited."
Yang Li wiped his tears with the back of his hand and smiled: "Yes, I am sad and happy. I am so happy to be able to eat such good food at night. I feel sad to think that I have lived for so many winter seasons and have been waiting for so much food but can't eat it."
Yiyun and Liefeng looked at each other. If it were them, the result would be the same. The two beasts' eyes fell on Chen Shiyue beside them at the same time, with the same gentleness.
Suddenly receiving two strange looks, Chen Shiyue was puzzled: "What's wrong with you two?"
Yiyun smiled: "Thank you, my partner."
Chen Shiyue smiled.
Liefeng pursed his lips: "Thank you, Shiyue, for making our lives better."
Chen Shiyue waved her hand proudly: "Follow my sister, and your life will be more and more prosperous."
elder sister?
The smile that Liefeng had just shown cracked.
After dinner, everyone was reluctant to leave and gathered around the campfire to talk.
Chen Shiyue looked at Yang Li and asked, "Uncle Yang, wasn't the Yang tribe affected by the previous rainy season?" She was worried that the rice would be washed away by the continuous heavy rain, but she didn't expect that she could still have a harvest.
Yang Li sighed, "It had a huge impact. The whole valley was flooded, and all of our tribe hid in the cave for many days. Fortunately, we are herbivorous beastmen, and there is no shortage of grass around us, otherwise I really don't know how we would have survived."
Yang Mei: "After the rainy season, my father asked all the beastmen to prop up the various grasses that were washed down by the rain, especially the grass fields. My father would check every sunrise to prevent the beastmen from eating a single grass seedling."
Yang Li smiled and said, "You have already given us a lot of hides and salt rocks for the trade in advance. I can't let all the grass die. Fortunately, during the rainy season, the grass seedlings were not very big and had not yet bloomed and borne fruit. If the grass bloomed and borne fruit during the rainy season, then there would be nothing left."
Chen Shiyue sighed in her heart, it seems that God has shown mercy.
Seeing that the time was almost right, Yangli invited Yiyun and the others to go to the Sheep Tribe's cave to rest, and said that except for the females and cubs, no orcs from the Sheep Tribe would go in to rest, so the space was definitely not crowded.
Yiyun directly refused and said that they could just sleep here.
Yang Li had no choice but to let all the tribesmen go back to the cave to rest.
After a simple wash, Yiyun spread the animal skins in front of the campfire and prepared to sleep with his partner in his arms.
Chen Shiyue couldn't sleep at all. She looked at everyone and asked, "What do you think of the people of the Sheep Tribe?"
Yifei nodded: "Very weak in combat, very kind."
Queshan and others also expressed their agreement.
Que Bai was surprised: "Madam, do you want them to join our Yaobei City?"
Chen Shiyue shook her head: "No, we in Yaobei City are not short of orcs and females now."
Liefeng looked at Chen Shiyue: "Do you want to help them grow and develop here?"
Chen Shiyue nodded: "I have this idea. Think about it, if the Sheep Tribe can develop, we can grow more rice, corn, yams, and wild vegetables. This will mean that we will have more sources of food in Yaobei City in the future."
Yitian: "But, I see that the Sheep Tribe is not very big. Can they grow so much rice to trade with us? Tonight, with such a big bag of rice, only a few people will eat rice. Just the orcs and females in our Yaobei City, how many animal skin bags of rice do they have to eat in one meal?"
Yiyun said calmly: "Although the Sheep Tribe is not very big, there should be other herbivorous tribes around it. If the Sheep Tribe lives well, what will the other herbivorous tribes around do?"
Falcon: "Join the Sheep Tribe, or trade with the Sheep Tribe and learn from them."
Yiyun: "That's right. With more orcs growing rice, the rice trading volume has increased. However, we also need to bring rice seeds back to plant, and we can't rely entirely on trading."
Yifei and others nodded. Thinking about it this way, if other tribes grew stronger, it would also be beneficial to their Yaobei City, so they would naturally help them.
Quewu: "Then how can we help them develop?"
Chen Shiyue: "Teach them to build houses, plant crops, and raise livestock."
Yitian: "The mountains surrounding the Sheep Tribe have lush grass, but not many trees, and they are not very tall. It would be troublesome to cut down trees to build wooden houses, and they probably don't dare to go deep into the distant forests."
Liefeng: "Then don't teach them to build wooden houses, teach them to build mud houses."
Falcon: "Yes, build a mud house."
Yiyun: "This valley is not very suitable for building houses. If there is a heavy rainy season, the house may be flooded. I see there are some small flat areas outside the valley. The terrain is higher and more suitable for building houses."
Liefeng: “I think so.”
The beasts were very excited, as if they were discussing their own tribe's affairs, and discussed all the details of building the house. Later in the discussion, Chen Shiyue fell asleep in Yiyun's arms, and Yiyun immediately stopped the conversation, and everyone rested on the spot.
The next morning, Yang Mei brought some washed wild fruits and vegetables for Chen Shiyue as breakfast.
Today, she put on Yaobei City's animal skin clothes and shoes, and spun around happily: "Shiyue, look, I look good in Yaobei City's animal skin clothes and shoes, don't I?"
Chen Shiyue smiled and praised: "It looks good, very good."
Yang Mei was happy: "All the females have changed, and I think they all look better. You will know when you see them."
Yiyun and Yangli talked about the idea of teaching them how to build houses.
Yang Li was stunned: "A mud house is better than a cave?"
Yifei: "Chief Yangli, it's not that we don't want to teach you how to build wooden houses, it's mainly because it's inconvenient to cut trees around here. In Yaobei City, no one lives in caves. Every family has an independent house, which is great."
Liefeng: "We will build a mud house on the flat ground over there, and you can decide whether to build more mud houses after you have a look. Of course, we will only help build one."
Yang Li: "Great, City Lord Yiyun, Deputy City Lord Liefeng, I will ask some orcs to work with you, and the rest of the orcs will go to harvest the rice."
Yiyun nodded: "Okay."
Yitian: "Yifei, let's go cut some trees and make the mold for the earth wall."
Two birds and beasts, one black and one white, flew away in an instant.