Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 270 She can still grow!

"...Does the leader know about this?" Jiang Luoluo asked quietly.

"Okay." Brown's expression became even more awkward.

"The leader has already...called people over and scolded them."

Actually, no one expected that the fruit wine would disappear so quickly.

Even the fruit wine was only discovered when all the fruit wine had been exchanged—the cave where the fruit wine and vinegar were stored was guarded by different tribesmen on a rotating basis, and whoever was on duty that day was responsible for exchanging them with other tribesmen.

The items exchanged will be recorded and tallied by Brown.

However, these statistics are compiled periodically, not daily.

Especially during the snow season, there are fewer things to do, and it is common to do the statistics all at once after the snow season ends.

So no one could have predicted that so much fruit wine would be exchanged and gone...

Compared to Jiang Luoluo's first brewing, the quantity of fruit wine this time is dozens of times greater.

However, back then, only Chi could be called a drunkard, but now there are at least several hundred drunkards in the tribe.

With Chi regaining her sight after putting on her glasses, and with such a powerful orc warrior joining the team, the tribe's hunt yield increased significantly, and everyone had more abundant food to exchange for fruit wine.

Moreover, the tribe has not been attacked by wild animals during this snow season—there have been sporadic small-scale attacks, but they were dealt with before they even got close to Silver Peak Mountain.

Unlike last year, when the roars of wild beasts echoed through the tribe for an extended period, preventing Jiang Luoluo from getting proper rest, this time the previous incident did not happen again.

This also suggests that... last year's Great Beast Season was actually quite average. It wasn't particularly bountiful, leading to an increase in the number of wild animals, nor was it particularly barren, leaving the wild animals with nothing to eat.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the weather this year should be similar. Such drastic weather changes are something that only happen once every few years or even a decade or more in the tribe.

Of course, this frequency is already frequent enough, but the tribe has long been used to it over the past thousand years.

Therefore, Jiang Luoluo originally planned to take stock of the remaining fruit wine and vinegar, and appropriately reduce the production quantity this year, so as to make things easier for herself and the Jiangmadong tribe.

It all fell apart just like that.

This year, we even need to double the brewing!

Because of the fruit wine and fruit vinegar, the Jiangmadong tribe directly exchanged enough food for all of them in the first year – those who sent their children to Yuerdong even had the resources to raise their children themselves.

So when Jiang Luoluo came here this time, she heard the voices of many children in Jiangma Cave.

However, they are all under three years old, and most of them are infants who cannot yet clearly recognize people.

The older the child, the more food they need. It's good that Jiangmadong has a slight food surplus because of the fruit wine, but until it's really confirmed that there is enough food, no one knows if this food surplus is just a mirage.

Naturally, they won't be burdened with too much responsibility. Children under three years old are sent back to their parents because children of this age are prone to dying young.

Staying near your parents won't consume too much food, and it can also increase their survival rate.

If it weren't for the fact that even adults had a hard time surviving in the previous Jiangma Cave, she wouldn't have sent her child to Yuer Cave so soon after weaning.

Having parents take care of you individually is definitely better than eating communal meals in Yuerdong.

The worries of the shaman and Chief Jing seemed so pale and powerless in the face of the fruit wine that would be gone halfway through the snow season.

Jiangmadong now even has a considerable amount of food stored.

Sure enough, not long after leaving Zong's place, Jiang Luoluo was summoned by Chief Jing, who asked her with a helpless expression to double the amount of wine brewed this year.

Jiang Luoluo didn't refuse. Actually, she didn't have much to do. Most of the work was done by the Jiangmadong people. She was just an insurance agent, responsible for helping to check if there were any mistakes in the brewing process.

In another year or two, once the Jiangmadong people have gotten used to brewing wine and gained confidence, they won't need her to go over and supervise the process anymore.

Jiang Luoluo asked about the children in Yuerdong out of curiosity. In fact, there were quite a few children in Yuerdong whose parents lived in Jiangmadong.

Chief Jing didn't hide anything from Jiang Luoluo, saying that all children under six years old in Yuer Cave would be sent back to their parents to be raised by them until they felt they could no longer support them or had a second child. Then, depending on the situation, they would decide whether to send them back to Yuer Cave.

This is not cruel, but the most calm and rational approach to ensuring the continuation of the tribe.

As for why it's under six years old, it's because children over six can start making fishing lines or polishing transparent stones with the older children in Yuerdong.

There is no shortage of food in Yuerdong either.

Anyway, when Chief Jing went to see them this year, he found that the children in Fish Cave had generally grown a size larger—they had more meat to eat and no longer relied mainly on fish to fill their stomachs, so naturally they grew bigger.

More and more people in the tribe are enjoying eating fish, especially after fruit vinegar came out. Many people have fallen in love with the taste of fish cooked with fruit vinegar.

Chief Jing didn't say anything to the little black bird on Jiang Luoluo's shoulder, he just glanced at it and didn't pay any attention to it.

But Angela remained very quiet until Jiang Luoluo left Chief Jing's house; upon closer inspection, it turned out she was trembling.

Jiang Luoluo didn't understand Angela's reaction at first—it clearly didn't react this way when it saw Chi or Ge.

I later learned that as the "chief" of the tribe, he was like a beast king in a wild beast world, possessing a unique aura.

Jiang Luoluo, being one of the tribe's own people, didn't feel anything, but wild beasts were extremely perceptive of this.

If Angela, this fledgling bird, hadn't been relying on Jiang Luoluo and developing an emotional bond with him over this period, she probably would have been scared away long ago.

Jiang Luoluo had just left the gate of Chief Jing's house when she ran into Nan, who was playing nearby.

Actually, it wasn't a coincidence that they met; rather, Nan saw Jiang Luoluo enter his house and deliberately waited at the door—he wouldn't easily go home when he was playing with his friends.

They're easy targets for beatings.

Jiang Luoluo's eyes lit up with joy when she saw Nan.

She's been a little conflicted lately because she feels she's much taller and bigger than people her age.

Nan, on the other hand, was tall and even more imposing than Jiang Luoluo.

Jiang Luoluo is already over 1.5 meters tall and is striving to reach 1.6 meters, while Nan has already broken through 1.6 meters and is heading towards 1.7 meters.

Nan, like Jiang Luoluo, is only eight years old.

Seeing Nan's height and build, Jiang Luoluo instantly felt that she had found a "companion," and not only that, she also found a "target."

She can still grow!