In the old days of sucking bears

"Indeed," Shen Shuliu nodded, "If it weren't for the tribe, I wouldn't be alive today."

"That's why the old orc said that every cause has its fruit. It is our tribe's blessing to save you. Maybe this is the guidance of the beast god in the dark." The patriarch took a sip of wine, "By the way, this time you Go to the Beast God Capital, have you met the high priest?"

"I saw it." Shen Shuliu said lightly, "Not only did I see him, but I also talked to him."

"!" The patriarch said in surprise, "You guys still talked to the high priest? Did the high priest give our tribe the blessing of the beast god? I heard from some old orcs that the high priest would give blessings and predictions to some big tribes. , I thought..."

The patriarch Li said, then smiled and shook his head self-consciously, "Hey, maybe I thought too much, the high priest should just see us coming to the Beast God City for the first time, and care a few words, right? Our Black Wolf Tribe also It's not a big tribe, how could the high priest notice us..."

"Actually, the high priest has noticed." Shen Shuliu said, but his tone was indifferent and not as good as it sounds. , he wanted to lure me into the gang."

"!!" The patriarch Li almost cried out, pinching Shen Shuliu's shoulder excitedly, "Then have you promised the high priest?"

"No." Shen Shuliu looked cold.

"Why didn't you agree?" The patriarch was anxious, "What a great opportunity! The beast gods belong to the four major tribes, let alone what kind of honor it is, just because he has the opportunity to listen to the beast god's guidance, it's..."

The head of the patriarch, Lie, talked wildly, as fanatical as a brat, but he caught a glimpse of Shen Shuliu's indifferent expression from the corner of his eye, his feverish mind suddenly calmed down, and he took a sip of wine slowly.

Slowing down, the patriarch said, "I know you have always had ideas. If it's really that good, you won't disagree. Tell me, I'm also a patriarch anyway, so I won't be confused."

Seeing his attitude, Shen Shuliu became aware of his attitude, and said, "The jackal tribe, one of the four old tribes, was kicked out of the Beast God City, and then became a vicious tribe. We have met."

"Then what?" the patriarch raised his heart.

"It was killed by us."

"Isn't that good?" The patriarch Li didn't understand, and he didn't know why Shen Shuliu mentioned this, so he said nicely, "If they are a vicious tribe, then the orcs will kill them, and you kill them, that's a good thing ah."

"As one of the top four tribes, the jackal tribe represents unity, but its strength is not weak and difficult to deal with. It is extremely vicious and can compete with gluttons." Shen Shuliu's eyes were cold, like snow that would not melt.

"However, our tribe was able to fight back against them, and we were able to retreat completely, relying not only on our own strength, but on bows and crossbows—" Shen Shuliu changed the subject, "Patriarch, if you meet such a tribe , what was your first thought?"

"Threat." Patriarch Li's expression also sank, "If such a tribe becomes a vicious tribe, it must be a threat to the entire continent, but if such a boost is given to the Beast God..."

"Then we, as providers of bows and crossbows, are bound to become the right-hand man of the Beast God City!" The patriarch was very excited, and frowned again, "Isn't this better to maintain the safety of the mainland?"

"The four tribes can go bad, but the high priest can't?" Shen Shuliu asked him mercilessly in sharp words, the patriarch Li was stunned immediately, and hurriedly defended, "But the high priest is equivalent to the beast god in the mainland. Incarnation, how could the High Priest do such a thing?"

"The high priest is the incarnation of the beast god, who said it? Did the beast god say it himself?" Shen Shuliu said every word to his heart, and the patriarch was stunned by the question, his head was buzzing, "Wait, Let me think about it first..."

The patriarch paused for a while, then said slowly in disbelief: "You mean, the high priest might be bad?"

Shen Shuliu didn't speak, and the patriarch Li frowned even tighter, "How is this possible? The high priest has been doing his best for the mainland, and he has indeed predicted many impossible man-made disasters. How can this..."

The patriarch's mentality collapsed, he just closed his eyes and knocked his head, and the table made a sound: "Let me think for myself..."

Shen Shuliu did not continue to say that the patriarch's trust in the high priest is as deep-rooted as in the beast god. This is not an outdated superstition, but a belief in hope. The belief is broken by half, and no matter who it is, the mentality will explode. think about it.

"Could it be too early?" Tai saw this and bit his ear in a low voice, "After all, he is the high priest. If he is said to be a bad orc, no orc will probably not accept it."

"If you die sooner or later, you have to die. It's better to die early and see the beast god." Shen Shuliu's indifferent expression warmed up, and he looked at Dai, "Isn't it that any orc can't accept it? How can I see you accept it quickly? Don't contradict me."

"That's different," Dai said of course, "we're partners, of course I believe what you're saying."

Shen Shuliu smiled, but said nothing.

There is no need to speak.

-

After eating and drinking, it didn't take long for this group of restless people to play again.

Shen Shuliu's only little entertainment, playing poker, has been snatched by them and carried forward. Truth or Dare is getting more and more fancy, and he even turns into couples and two single dogs. ) sick (pretty) crazy (beautiful).

In the middle of the game, the sound of the big adventure was about to shake the tribe, and the red-eyed saw who caught who, and even the head of the clan who was buzzing was dragged away. more powerful.

The patriarch quickly waved his hand and retreated strategically: "You young orcs' games, I won't come anymore, the orcs are getting old and sleepy, I'm going back to sleep with my partner."

The orcs laughed and persuaded:

"Come on, Patriarch, how old are you?"

"Aren't you in your 50s? You're in your prime, patriarch!"

"exactly!"

"I can't, I can't," the patriarch saw that he couldn't move, so he simply pulled Shen Shuli into the water, "Look, Liu is still young, isn't he still going home with his partner to sleep? I have to go back too, because I drank too much It's easy to be scolded."

"Hey, the patriarch's wife is indeed strict."

The orcs burst into laughter, and the leader, Hu Yu, also realized this, feeling a little annoyed, "I really ran away, if I had known earlier I would have tricked him over..."

-

"Aqiu!" Shen Shuliu sneezed, and Dai was concerned, "Are you sick? Why don't you let me down."

"No need." Shen Shuliu turned the person on his back, "Someone must have scolded me for sneezing, maybe it was Huyu."

"Sneezing means someone scolded you?" Dai pursed her lips, a little amused, "What do you mean by that?"

"Our old orc said that one sneeze means someone scolds you, two sneeze means someone misses you, and three means you're sick." Shen Shuliu said, "There's no basis for it, it's just a common saying."

"There are a lot of common sayings in your place, and I have never heard of them." Dai put his hands on Shen Shuliu's neck, resting his head on his neck, exhaling warm breath, a little itchy, "It feels so different from our place."

"I think they are almost the same. In comparison, I like this place better."

"Why?" Tai was a little curious, "You know so many things, the orc who taught you should know more, your tribe should be rich in food, drink, play, use, and other things, sure. Nothing is missing."

Is there nothing missing?

No matter who it is, it must be missing.

Shen Shuliu lowered his eyelashes, and said in a calm tone: "Some people have everything, but they have nothing, and some people have nothing, but they have everything. Only you know whether you are lacking or not."

"What do you mean?" Dai didn't understand, but was keenly aware of the change in Shen Shuliu's mood, and frowned, "Did you have a bad life in the previous tribe?"

Shen Shuliu only told Dai about her grandma and grandpa, not her parents, so Dai didn't know what unconscionable things the couple had done.

"No, don't think about it." Shen Shuliu's tone softened again, and he smiled, "If it's possible, I really want to take you to our tribe." As he spoke, Shen Shuliu had a little smile in his eyes, "Where we are But there are a lot of food, sweet and bitter, all kinds, you must like it."

"Really?" Dai's tone was yearning, "I really want to see what your former tribe was like."

"Well, go if you have the chance." Shen Shuliu smiled, "I will work hard to make money to support you, and you can just eat and drink at home with peace of mind."

"Yeah." Dai laughed, staring at his side face, the dark blue pupils slightly refracted a little starlight, the blue moonlight outlined the outline of the face, and the tall nose was like a small peak.

Tai stretched out his hand, and tapped the tip of Shen Shuliu's nose, which made Shen Shuliu laugh, "What's wrong?"

"The nose is so high, will the cub's nose be as high as yours in the future?"

"Maybe?" Shen Shuliu said, "I hope he looks more like you. It's better to look like him and have a similar personality. He's also a little white bear." He added, "It's better to be fatter. Meat."

"Are you connoting me?" Daisy sensed it sensitively, wrinkled his nose, "You said I'm fat, do you despise me?"

"No," Shen Shu was amused, "Why do I dislike you? Don't talk nonsense, I really like you."

Dai snorted, and then remembered something: "I heard that the orcs slept and ate a lot in the last [-] days of their pregnancy, and gained weight very quickly. By then, I will definitely not be the same as now, only a little bit of what you like. If you are fat, you must be ugly."

"Don't think that I don't know. You are just greedy for my body. Sometimes at night, you would sneak around and stare at me for a long time. It's all right now. You're ugly, so you can go out and play. Be sure It's all gone."

As he spoke, Toi was decisive, "Maybe you won't come back at all because you hate me, and you will procrastinate when you go hunting, and you won't go home even after dark."

"What's so weird, I haven't done anything yet, so I was convicted." Shen Shuliu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Who told you all this?"

"Brother Meng." Tai buried his head in a muffled voice, "He said that many orcs are like this. When their partner is pregnant, they like to go out at night and sometimes they don't go home."

"Then do you think I will do this?" Shen Shuliu asked him back, suppressing a smile in his heart.

"Who knows you." Tai wrinkled his nose, "You often lie, and your words are better than your songs. I don't even know which one is true and which one is not."

"When did I speak better than I sang?" Shen Shuliu laughed, and patted his buttocks with his hands, "I'm just thinking wildly, no wonder the old man said, I was stupid for three years after being pregnant, and now I'm starting to be stupid, no, it should be If you become smarter, you will fabricate it out of thin air."

Dai was hilarious for a while but was spanked, a little sullen, and stopped talking, Shen Shuliu had to coax him, and after coaxing for a long time, Dai moaned and mercifully, and suddenly asked him, "The cub of the elder brother's family They all have names, what's our cub's name?"

Shen Shuliu was stopped by the question, shook his head and said, "I can't think of it, anyway, you can call yourself whatever you like, you can call yourself a dog, a big and strong dog."

"Er Gouzi? What's the name..." Dai scolded with a smile, and patted Shen Shuliu, "This name, you must not be laughed at by other little orcs."

"It's easy to make a living, so you can call me Xiaohua." Shen Shuliu didn't care much about what his son thought, and mainly listened to his wife.

"Little Hua..." Dai thought for a while, "It seems that there is no little orc called this yet."

Small flowers.

If it's called this, isn't it called "Hua"?Little Ah Hua...sounds like the name of a puppy or a cat.

Shen Shuliu suppressed a smile, "I think it's fine."

"Then let's call it this," Tai decided, "If it's a small sub-beast, it can also be used."

"No way," Shen Shuliu frowned, "How can Yashou use such a name?" Yashou, isn't it equivalent to a daughter here?How can my daughter be called "Little Ah Hua"?

"Why not?" Tai frowned, then realized, "You still treat little orcs differently from little sub-beasts, so who do you like better if it's a little bear cub or a little sub-beast?"

"Whichever looks more like you, you like it more."

Dai couldn't help laughing when she heard this, she pursed her lips and suppressed her smile, but she didn't hold back, and said in her tone, "Sweet words."

"Sweet words move people's hearts." Shen Shuliu smiled, "What's more, I'm telling the truth."

Dai seized the opportunity and pressed him, "Then tell the truth, do you want to sleep with me tonight?"

Say no, it’s impossible, say yes, you can’t really toss people all night, right?Whether it was a trap or not, Shen Shuliu stopped talking.

Dai frowned, "I know you're just good at coaxing people to tell lies." As Dai was about to come down, Shen Shuliu slapped him lightly, "We're all home, don't make a fuss, we'll get you from the stone road later." fall."

Toi muffled: "There are still twenty more days... I want to do it."

"You don't want to." Shen Shuliu was stern and selfless, "I'll think about it after I give birth to cubs."

"You'll still listen to me when you give birth to a cub, and I'll be the one to die." Tai was still sober.He just wants to sit, not to die.

Shen Shuliu laughed angrily: "You're teasing and you're not full? You've done a good job in your calculations. After the dangerous period, let's see how I deal with you."

"When the time comes—if you dare to run, you will break your leg."

Dai paused, then whispered, "Don't be so fierce, you'll scare the cub."

Shen Shuliu snorted, "Then ask the cub, are you hungry now?"

"Well, I asked, and the cub said he was hungry." Tai whispered, "It needs a large piece of honey to be good."

"He is a cub and can only eat a small piece, not a big one."

"Then I want to eat it too. The cub has no teeth now, can I eat his piece too?"

Shen Shuliu laughed angrily, and said helplessly, "It's pretty budget-friendly, and I even want the cub's share," he said, and said sternly, "But it's not good to eat too sweet at night, so I can only drink some fish soup, not eat it." sugar."

Tai pursed his lips: "Okay."

-

A good night's sleep.

The Black Wolf Tribe in the early morning is always lively, and today is even more different.

Shen Shuliu and the others just came back from the God of Beasts yesterday, and it was time to clean up the dust, but today, it's time to divide up the stolen money, ah no, it's time to deal with the stolen money.

When Shen Shuliu reached the square, he saw large rattan baskets and large wooden barrels pulled out from the cellar and neatly placed in the center of the square.

"Liu, you're here!" Yan saw Shen Shuliu, and immediately went up to meet him, but he couldn't see Dai, "Where is Dai?"

"still sleeping."

"Oh, I do sleep a lot when I'm pregnant, and Amon did the same thing last year, sometimes I could sleep for a day and a night." Yan Lioran nodded, then pulled Shen Shuliu and laughed, "Oh, we have so many orcs, Just waiting for you to come!"

"Most of these things were exchanged by you, and the other orcs don't know what's the use, so I'll wait for you to tell us!" Yan said, adding another mouthful, "Have you eaten?"

"I've eaten," Shen Shuliu walked to the center of the square, and nodded slightly to the patriarch Li, "Let's all open."

"Okay, let's open it!" The patriarch Li raised his hand, and the orcs who couldn't wait had already snatched a rattan basket with quick eyes and hands, and opened the box one after another.

Uncovering the cover on the first rattan basket, the orc saw small leaves pockets. When he opened it, there was a burst of pearl light, which was about to blind his eyes. The orc picked it up, and the gemstones were even more dazzling under the sun. , "It's a beautiful gem!"

"Wow, never seen such a beautiful gem!"

"What a big one, my God..."

"And pearls, big pearls..."

The orcs were all amazed. When they looked at the second rattan basket, they saw large white shells. "This can be used to hold things! It's so beautiful!"

The third is the scales of the tree viper.

"In this hot season, it can be spread on the ground to cool down, and it can also be made into a snake skin drum, which is a musical instrument."

"Ah," Qi cried out, "I know this. There is this drum in the cold season ceremony of the Beast God City. It is very loud when it is beaten."

Fourth, cloth...

Fifth, sea salt and seafood...

It was not until the seventeenth that the colorful round beans and golden ears were finally opened.

"It was exchanged between us and the giant Angora rabbit," Mu explained. "Liu even went to collect them from their tribe. There are fifteen baskets of round beans."

The patriarch picked one up, it was hard and round, and there was nothing special about it: "I collected so many, are they for eating?"

"Yes, but it's not eaten directly." Shen Shuliu said, "I also need to make a tool to grind them into pulp and use the pulp to make it."

"What is needed for this tool? How to do it?"

"It's not urgent, let's take a look at the wooden barrel first." Shen Shuliu said, and as he spoke, an orc opened the lid of a wooden barrel, and a burst of special sour smell burst out. The weak will feel strange.

"Those wooden barrels are filled with yoghurt, a fermented animal milk, which was exchanged with the small-horn tribe in the highlands." Shen Shuliu said, "But we don't have a lot of milk-producing animals here, otherwise, we would You can do it yourself."

The patriarch thought, "I do know that there is a kind of beast that is good at producing milk, but it is a bit far away. It needs to go to the lion tribe. The meat is not good. I didn't know that it could be kept in captivity before. The tribe is not very good. go."

As he said that, the patriarch Wei waved his hand and said, "Put it out first, and let everyone taste it. If it tastes good, the tribe will send people to catch the milk beast and raise it in the tribe."

"It smells good..."

"Beast God! This thing is so sour!"

"No, I think it's delicious!" Qi Gulu gulped down a bowl of yogurt, with a milk mustache around his mouth, still wanting more, "Give me some more."

Gulu Gulu drank it down, and even hiccupped, "This is really delicious."

"Patriarch, I also think it's delicious..."

"Me too……"

Mu looked at the feedback from the orcs, and said, "It seems that orcs who are pregnant with cubs prefer to drink a little."

"Oh?" The patriarch's eyes lit up, and then he waved his hand, "If it tastes good, grab the milk beast tomorrow and the patriarch will personally go out and take you there!"

"Wuhu!"

"The patriarch is so kind!"

"Hey, my partner likes to drink too." The patriarch Wei waved his hand, praying that he immediately smiled and said, "The patriarch's partner is also pregnant?"

The patriarch smiled deeply and didn't say a word. The big guy understood it, and his eyes teased, "Why don't you catch more? What if you drink too much and you get pregnant with two?"

"Hahaha……"

"It's not impossible!"

"It's not advisable to drink too much yogurt, it should be in moderation." Shen Shuliu said, "But it is indeed very useful to catch more milk beasts."

The patriarch heard it and asked, "What's the big use?"

"Wheat is ground into flour, and together with animal milk and poultry eggs, you can make many things," Shen Shuliu said, "and then build a simple oven to bake bread and the like."

"Toast?" Ah Yun didn't understand, "Don't we have breadfruit? Why is it so troublesome?"

"Although breadfruit is similar to bread, breadfruit cannot be grown. The Littlehorn tribe did not exchange its seeds with us. Breadfruit will always be eaten one day."

"Besides, wheat can be used more than animal milk," Shen Shuliu said firmly. "If it can be planted in batches, wheat can become one of the staple foods of our tribe."

As soon as these words came out, many orcs widened their eyes, and the patriarch Li was even more shocked: "Your words are true?"

"Of course." Shen Shuliu was sure and certain. The patriarch Li stared at Shen Shuliu incredulously, and then looked away after a while, shook his head, and said to himself: "No wonder... no wonder you dare to say that our tribe can replace the beast gods. ..."

As he said that, the patriarch Li suddenly smiled ambitiously: "With your brains, it's no wonder our tribe can't do it!"

"I don't know, apart from these wheat, our tribe can also create, possibly the first staple food in the future." Shen Shuliu said indifferently, his eyes fell on those golden ears, "And this depends on these golden ears, whether our tribe can grow them Out."