lcionline Chapter 238 Looking at the house
Chapter 238 Looking at the house
Lin Baiyan quickly changed the subject, "Shall we go look at something else?"
Hu Kuo and Hu Xia chuckled and followed his lead, "How about Bai Yan takes us to see the house first?"
That was their main purpose in coming, and the two clan leaders were naturally a little anxious.
Lin Baiyan breathed a sigh of relief and quickly nodded, "No problem."
Actually, there wasn't much to see. The most they saw along the way were houses. The houses in the Cangyan tribe were all pretty much the same, with three rooms in a row.
The reason for building it so simply was for the sake of unified construction at the beginning. In fact, Lin Baiyan had countless house plans in his mind, but in the past, their pursuit was nothing more than having enough to eat and wear and having a place to spend the winter. Therefore, he did not take out those slightly more complicated house plans at all.
Although the houses are all similar in style, the villagers have lived there for so long that each house is different because of the things they have decorated.
For example, Lin Baiyan and her group extended their small house with an additional roof, and the storage room on the right extended forward into a thatched shed. Lin Baiyan instructed Lang Cang to build a stove under the thatched shed, which resembled an open-air small kitchen.
Lin Baiyan pointed to his house and introduced it to them.
The leaders of both tribes listened very attentively to Lin Baiyan's words, as they might be related to their future house construction.
"Won't this house collapse?" Hu Luan's rough hands brushed against the walls of the house. The house was beautiful, but he couldn't help feeling that it wasn't very sturdy.
Lin Baiyan smiled and said, "Chief Hu Luan, why don't you try punching the wall?"
Hu Luan hesitated for a moment, after all, if he used all his strength to punch someone, he could kill an ordinary orc.
Lang Cang replied in a deep voice, "It's alright, please give it a try."
Hearing them say that, Hu Luan no longer hesitated. He spread his legs, focused his energy in his dantian, and gathered all his strength into his right fist, punching the wall of the house in front of him.
The orcs' eyes were all fixed on the wall.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.
The wall remained unmoved, but…
"Ouch, ouch, ouch!" Hu Luan clutched his fist, grimacing in pain.
Hu Bing and his teacher exchanged a shocked glance.
They had never seen such a sturdy house before.
No one paid attention to the injured Hu Luan; everyone's attention was focused on the house in front of them. "Bai Yan, this house you built is really wonderful!"
Hu Luan, squeezed at the very back: "..."
Does he look like a scoundrel?
Lin Baiyan waved to them with a smile.
Just kidding. How could a house built with bricks fired at thousands of degrees and cement poured with a solid foundation look like a shoddy construction project?
Just as they were in shock, a bunch of little cubs waved small grass whips, herding a flock of argali sheep and pheasants past them, with half-grown badger cubs at the very back of the flock.
"This...this..." Fox Zhen couldn't even maintain his persona anymore. His fingers trembled as he pointed at the flock of sheep walking past in front of him, and he screamed, "What is this?"
Wolf Cang frowned as he looked at Fox Zhen's astonished expression. "Panpan sheep and Rainbow Phoenix Chicken." How come the clan leader has never even seen these two animals before?
Fox Shock: "..."
Of course he knew that these were braised lamb and colorful phoenix chicken!
But why are they so obedient?
Fox Zhen watched as Xia Xiaomao flicked her little grass whip, and a rainbow pheasant that had almost fallen behind obediently returned to the group.
His eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
Fox Zhen dared to swear by the Beast God that he had never seen such a docile beast.
The survival of orcs and wild beasts has always been a zero-sum game, and there have been very few times when they coexisted so harmoniously.
The other beastmen weren't much better off. Although the Silver Tiger Clan's tigers had visited the Azure Flame Tribe once, they hadn't seen these imprisoned animals before.
It was a coincidence. Lin Baiyan had told them not to be particularly wary of them, so today Huancun took the ram and the pheasant out for a walk as usual. Unexpectedly, they ran into the visiting group on their way back.
Lin Baiyan said helplessly, "These are animals raised by the tribe. They are usually kept in a fenced-off area."
"You can keep animals?" Hu Luan's eyes widened in surprise.
He didn't even know how to describe his current feelings.
Everything he saw along the way overturned his decades-long animalistic life.
Looking at the docile herd of beasts before her, Hu Bing glanced meaningfully at Lin Baiyan with a meaningful look in her eyes, "Little Baiyan, why are these wild beasts so obedient?"
Seeing that the elders in front of him looked like they were about to faint, Lin Baiyan smiled awkwardly, "They were indeed disobedient at first."
"Then how are you able to control them?" Fox Zhen's expression suddenly became very anxious.
Simply put, these herds of beasts are extremely important to them.
Since the Azure Flame Tribe can raise livestock, does that mean they can too?
Resources are scarce on the snow-capped mountains, and the Silver Fox Clan can barely survive there by relying on their familiarity with the terrain.
Lin Baiyan was at a loss for words. He couldn't very well say that it was because the Beast God had granted him the ability to soothe wild beasts.
At this moment, Lang Cang spoke up to help him out, "We first drove them outside the tribe and let the cubs go over to feed them through the fence."
"The orcish aura on the cubs isn't fierce. Once they get used to the environment and smells here, they'll naturally become docile."
What he said was pretty accurate. Following this method, it is also possible to raise a group of relatively docile wild beasts, although it will take much longer.
Then... could you teach us what we can use to exchange for it?
Hu Zhen was interrupted by Hu Kuo before he could finish speaking.
At this moment, Hu Kuo slapped Hu Luan's arm hard and glared at him, "Why are you so surprised?"
After he finished speaking, he gave Hu Zhen a meaningful look, signaling the younger man not to lose his composure.
Hu Zhen was reminded of something and realized that he had been a bit too hasty, so he didn't continue.
Hu Luan, who had been hit, muttered as he withdrew his arm, "You weren't much better off than me."
As Hu Kuo looked at the argali sheep, the light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter. He never expected that the Cangyan tribe would have the means to raise these argali sheep.
If mother sheep give birth to lambs and ewes can still produce milk, wouldn't that mean they would have an endless supply of prey? Their warriors wouldn't have to risk their lives during the snowy season to find pregnant wild animals and seek that faint glimmer of hope for their tribe.