novelden Chapter 142 Overview
Chapter 142 Overview
After returning from the East River, Lin Baiyan was completely immersed in a busy life of calculating supplies.
This time, they're not just counting meat and plants; they're conducting a thorough search, from small items like baskets, ceramic bowls, and bamboo tubes to large items like carts, houses, and bricks.
It's clear that Tu Lin and Mao Yu alone couldn't have completed such a large workload.
Seeing that he was busy all day long, Lang Cang did not press him about the fact that he could understand the language of the Silver Tiger Clan. He just silently made a note of it for Lin Baiyan.
Once Lin Baiyan has some free time, he can settle the score properly.
At this moment, Lin Baiyan was unaware of Lang Cang's thoughts. He was lying on a deer hide in the cave, sketching and drawing with a charcoal pencil.
Lin Baiyan had a plan. His previous tribal plan of rewarding those who worked hard had been defeated by the huge problem of manpower shortage not long after it was implemented.
Currently, only the Dwarf Beast Clan is still implementing this plan.
Although the implementation was relatively small, it was obvious that the enthusiasm of the dwarfs was immediately mobilized, especially those dwarfs with cubs, who worked diligently every day, such as Dwarf Xun.
Lynx grew bigger day by day and ate more and more food. Looking at the other chubby cubs in the tribe, he made up his mind to make his own cub grow as strong as them.
So he worked almost non-stop, and correspondingly, he received the most food and supplies.
Little Lynx did not disappoint his parents' expectations; his originally frail body grew stronger day by day.
Now he follows around the cat Xia and his cubs every day, catching bugs in the planting area.
Needless to say, Ai Shi was given the opportunity to learn carpentry by Lin Baiyan, and even without this rule, he would have worked hard.
The other dwarf beastmen also worked very hard, and the benefits of this plan were obvious.
So Lin Baiyan spent a few more days refining the old plan, turning it into the current system.
He blew the charcoal ash off the thin animal hide and carefully put away what he had written. The lack of manpower was their most fatal problem right now.
Since everyone's work is not fixed, they go to work wherever there is more work, which makes it quite troublesome to calculate. Therefore, Lin Baiyan temporarily abandoned this idea.
Thinking of this, he sighed deeply. The task ahead is arduous and the road is long; let's take it slowly.
Now, after finishing their work in the tribe, most of the people go out and cook for themselves. The food they find then belongs to them.
These "extra income" can also be used to exchange for resources in the tribe.
Lin Baiyan looked at another thin animal hide that showed the total amount of supplies for the tribe, and his mood improved slightly.
You wouldn't believe it until you counted it carefully; their tribe had accumulated so many more things!
Leaving aside the house, pottery, and salt, just considering the food alone, Lang Cang and his crew brought back thirty to forty argali sheep from their recent hunting trip!
Lang Cang knew that Lin Baiyan had always wanted to raise wild animals, so he tried to bring back as many live argali sheep as possible. However, the male beastmen's aura was too strong, and by the time they arrived at the tribe, only eight argali sheep remained alive, most of which were cubs.
Lin Baiyan decisively instructed the tribesmen to quickly skin and process the already dead ram. Now that the weather is getting warmer, meat is prone to spoilage if left out, and eating it will make people more likely to get diarrhea.
Lin Baiyan put the remaining few argali sheep together with the colorful phoenix chickens, but to prevent them from breaking the shed with their horns, he built a shed for the argali sheep with two layers of bricks.
Lin Baiyan tried feeding them by hand for a few days, and they gradually adapted to this kind of life and stopped going crazy and trying to kill themselves.
They have temporarily settled down in the Cangyan tribe.
Thinking back to last year, when this group of wandering orcs first arrived in the north, they had nothing but a piece of animal skin that they had conjured themselves.
We can now be considered "moderately wealthy," of course, only if we include pottery and salt.
They cannot trade these two items for the time being. No matter how valuable they are, they are useless if they cannot be converted into cash.
Moreover, Lin Baiyan did not intend to offer too many pottery and salt, which is why he only offered three pottery pieces to exchange with the Silver Tiger Clan. As the saying goes, "A tree that stands out in the forest will be felled by the wind," and his biggest task now is to ensure the food and clothing of his people.
Lin Baiyan's mind was constantly racing, sometimes thinking about potatoes and sweet potatoes in the planting area, sometimes about houses built by the construction team. In short, his mind was never still.
Just then, a loud gurgling sound came from the belly of the cat next to him. Lin Baiyan looked over and saw the cat rubbing its belly in embarrassment and smiling sheepishly.
Lin Baiyan then remembered to check the time. It was already dark outside the cave. Hu Qing and Quan Ling had set up a large stone pot and started cooking, and the aroma of meat soup filled the air.
After relaxing, Lin Baiyan smelled the aroma of the meat soup, and his stomach growled at the opportune moment. He patted the dust off his hands, smiled, and turned to look at Tu Lin, "That's about it for today, let's call it a day."
Tu Lin was currently counting on his fingers the few problems Lin Baiyan had just given him on the spot. They were all simple multiplication and division problems, but he was still scratching his head trying to figure them out.
Cat Feather, who was standing next to him, had already finished calculating, but he was still dawdling and staying in the same spot.
Hearing Lin Baiyan say this, Tu Lin felt as if he had been granted a pardon and quickly replied, "That's right, I think Yu is hungry too, let's stop here for today."
Tu Lin tried to escape this calamity, never expecting that this orc, who was halfway to the grave, would now be trapped in this fear of being dominated by calculations and numbers.
He was almost in tears. He could do simple addition and subtraction, but Lin Baiyan had taught them something called the multiplication table a couple of days ago.
Well, I was already confused, and now with the multiplication table all over me, I'm even more confused.
Lin Baiyan looked at Tu Lin's expression with amusement, and said in a serious tone, "Uncle Tu Lin, you can't be lazy and not study hard. We have to set a good example for the little ones."
"Mao Xia and the others have already memorized the multiplication tables in the last two days. You can't let them lose to you."
Tu Lin's expression stiffened, and he mumbled a reply, "I know, I know..."
Lin Baiyan thought that since this was Tu Lin's first time learning, he couldn't be too strict, so he relaxed his requirements, "Tomorrow, start by memorizing multiplication up to three."
"If our tribe has any new children in the future, we'll have to rely on you to teach them math!"
When Tu Lin heard Lin Baiyan say this, his expression relaxed a bit, and he immediately and readily agreed.
The cubs are the Achilles' heel of Rabbit Forest.
Bai Yan is right. He can't be illiterate, or the cubs will laugh at him!
Lang Cang walked in at that moment.