Chapter 1395: Chapter 1392: Developing into Separate Tribes
After explaining their origins, Ji Nuan and Xiu Yan were finally able to sit down and have a good rest.
The Clan Leader personally led them to a very flat and dry place: "Shaman, the ground here is very dry, you can set up your tent here."
The Clan Leader had just suggested offering his own grass hut for Ji Nuan to stay, but Ji Nuan refused. Living in such a hut really offered no privacy.
When Xiu Yan finished setting up the tent, the admiration in the Clan Leader’s eyes could hardly be more obvious.
The surrounding Orcs also gathered around, circling the tent again and again.
The envy in their eyes couldn’t be clearer.
Ji Nuan looked at the Clan Leader: "Why doesn’t the Clan Leader allow the tribespeople to use Beast Skin to set up tents?"
The Clan Leader chuckled bitterly at this: "I don’t fear your laughter, Shaman. In our Black Mountain region, Beast Skin is more valuable than food.
Large prey is rare here, so the large pieces of Beast Skin are usually traded back by the Black Mountain Tribe during big exchanges with other Mountain Forest tribes.
For the small and medium tribes like us, we can only own our own Beast Skin if we are lucky enough to hunt some larger prey."
Now, Ji Nuan truly understood why the Black Mountain Tribe was determined to attack the Ancient Wood Forest.
When you’re wearing grass skirts and others are parading around in fur before you, to hold off this long is really quite impressive.
After setting up the tent and lighting the fire pit, Ji Nuan enthusiastically taught the Orcs how to roast Giggle Beasts and Gagabeasts, and even showed them how to throw eggs into the fire to roast them.
The eggs, once roasted, lost their odor and were actually delicious, earning unanimous praise from both the young ones and elder Orcs.
"Clan Leader, where do you all live during the cold season?" Ji Nuan asked, holding a fragrant roasted Giggle Beast leg, looking at the Tribal Chief beside her with a mouth full of grease.
Wiping the grease off his mouth, the Orc gestured to the surrounding grass huts: "During the cold season, we find lots of dry grass to reinforce the huts, then smear mud over them, and we stay in the huts."
Ji Nuan couldn’t help but twitch her mouth: "Is it warm?"
The Clan Leader pursed his lips: "As long as it can block out the heavy snow and cold wind, it’s good enough."
Although he did not answer Ji Nuan’s question directly, it was obvious that with such simple construction, being warm was a rarity.
After eating, the Orcs went to rest in their grass huts, and Ji Nuan and Xiu Yan returned to their tent.
"Compared to the Ancient Wood Forest, I think establishing a base here is quite good. It’s spacious here, with enough room for us to build houses and walls."
Ji Nuan drew on the ground with a small wooden stick, imagining the future of their base.
Xiu Yan looked at her: "Nuannuan still wants to improve the living environment for the Orcs here, right?"
Ji Nuan chuckled: "The living conditions for the Orcs here are so difficult, but the biggest Black Mountain Tribe doesn’t care about them at all, so there’s no sense of belonging to the Black Mountain Tribe for them.
Once we build a base here, we can bring Beast Skin and some goods to trade with them and even help them improve their living conditions. By then... hehe~"
Ji Nuan let out a rather sly laugh; they could even develop this place into a sub-tribe.