vrcanaries Chapter 114 Counting Supplies
Chapter 114 Counting Supplies
"Hey, now you're here, let's count the current supplies of the tribe together!" Li Mingsheng looked at Yanli coming over and called out from a distance.
At this moment, he was holding a half-burned piece of charcoal and a bundle of bamboo-like things in his hand.
He saw that this bundle of bamboo was made up of pieces of bamboo, strung together with common vines to form a large piece. It was something he had never seen before.
"What is this?" Yanli looked at the big piece of bamboo in the other person's hand curiously.
"This is what I plan to use to record the current tribal supplies."
"It's just that there is no paper now. It would be much more convenient if there was paper. This bamboo slip was made by a few old orcs."
The bamboo slips in the old beastman's hand took up a lot of time. Overall, it was still very inconvenient. He had to make paper as soon as possible so that he could do accounting better, more conveniently and quickly.
The two talked as they walked, and soon they arrived at the cave where the tribe had stored supplies.
There are people guarding outside the cave. After all, there are still some things inside. They are the reserve force of the tribe.
As soon as Li Mingsheng opened the stone blocking the entrance of the cave, he smelled a strong fishy odor. Not only a fishy odor, but also a rotten smell.
When the unventilated cave was opened, the smell hit their nasal cavities and went straight to their brains.
Li Mingsheng, Yanli, and the orcs guarding the cave entrance all retreated and began to retch.
"Why...it stinks so bad?"
"Chief, I don't know what happened either." After the orc recovered, he looked innocent.
After the smell had dissipated a little, Li Mingsheng and Yanli went in again. They wet the remaining bit of linen to make a simple mask, covered their noses, and walked in while holding their breath as much as possible.
After moving the supplies out one by one, there wasn't much left in the entire tribe.
There were probably only a few hundred pieces of leather, and the leather was not tanned well and was hard, which was obviously because the grease was not scraped clean enough and the tanning was not thorough enough.
There were seven or eight large stone pots, which should have been polished before, and one of them was cracked. There were also dozens of stone bowls and two small pottery jars, which should contain the only salt left in the tribe, and a leather bag of animal essence.
The rest was the meat of the exotic beasts, which had only been simply roasted. Almost half of it was already full of insects, and the main smell came from the rotten meat.
Li Mingsheng estimated that some of the meat must have been roasted recently and did not smell that rotten. He kept these pieces of meat and had someone dig a pit and bury the rest.
"Alas, there are too many things to do. I haven't had time to teach them how to smoke bacon and tan exotic animal skins." Li Mingsheng sighed. These past few days, he had only been thinking about personnel planning and tribal system, and had forgotten the most important things.
"It's okay, there's still time." Yanli comforted him.
"However, I just turned over those two pottery jars. Based on the amount we use in cooking now and smoking bacon later, the salt inside will not last more than ten days." Yanli's expression was very heavy. Salt was the foundation of the tribe and it was absolutely indispensable.
"I'll look for salt fields around the tribe these days. Otherwise, we can only go out and exchange with other tribes, or go to the beach."
"Both of these risks are huge!" Yanli was a little worried. After all, for the people in their Jiuzhou tribe, both of these are very dangerous.
When trading with other tribes, one must first choose whether that tribe has salt. On the other hand, the outside world is not friendly to orcs with slave marks, and the journey to the seaside is long, so there are too many uncertainties.
"Don't worry, I'll look for it in the next few days, but you should also observe the people in the tribe to see who is more suitable to go out." Li Mingsheng handed this important task to Yanli.
He had to teach Wenqing and the others how to smoke bacon, tan animal hides, etc. in a limited time, and he had to use the rest of the time to explore around the tribe.
"Pick a few fast orcs."
When Yanli heard the request, he probably had a candidate in mind.
After counting the supplies, Li Mingsheng took the pieces of exotic animal meat that had not yet gone bad to Wenqing and his team's simple kitchen.
"leader"
“Hello, chief”
As soon as Li Mingsheng entered, the other orcs who were still busy hurriedly greeted him.
"You guys are busy."
After saying that, Li Mingsheng walked straight up to Wen Qing.
"I'll cook these tonight and they're already tasty. Don't deal with the remaining exotic beast meat until I teach you the correct way to preserve it."
"And wait a minute, gather the people in the tribe. I have something to tell them."
"Okay, I'll tell the others."
After explaining his affairs, Li Mingsheng put down a few pieces of exotic beast meat and left.
After a while, Li Mingsheng looked at the people standing under the altar. Except for those who were responsible for cooking food for the tribe like Wenqing, the rest were basically the old, the weak, the sick, the disabled and the young.
However, Li Mingsheng didn't have any idea about this. After all, except for those who guarded the tribe, most of the strong orcs had been arranged to go out hunting. Only enough food could give the people of the tribe a sense of security.
"Chief, everyone is here."
"Okay, hard work."
Li Mingsheng looked at the people under the altar and took out two animal skins. One was the one he and Yanli had tanned together in Wugui Mountain, and the other was left over from the tribe.
"Look at the difference between these two animal skins." He asked Wen Qing to pass the two animal skins over and examined them one by one.
Make sure everyone can touch it.
"This hide is so soft."
"Yes, yes, and there is no strange smell."
"It's so comfortable, this hide, compared to the other one which is hard and smelly."
After going through everything once, Li Mingsheng had the animal skins collected.
"The tribe didn't handle the hides well before. I'll teach you again today. Follow me and each of you will receive a hide that was not handled yesterday."
As he said this, he set an example by taking one first, and then went to the stream beside the tribe.
The others followed, even the old and weak ones. Li Mingsheng told them how to scrape the grease off the hides, and the others followed Li Mingsheng's method and squatted by the stream to do it.
Soon, the grease was scraped off, and Li Mingsheng demonstrated the following steps one by one, including soaking wood ash, making saltpeter, etc.
After teaching the entire process, he asked Wenqing to bring his team members to tan together. The remaining cubs, some with disabilities, and older orcs and sub-orcs were taken away by Li Mingsheng.
"Where are you taking us, Chief?"
"do not know."
Everyone in the team was worried about the road that Li Mingsheng was taking them on, as if they were afraid that Li Mingsheng would drive them away. After all, they were still in a state of just eating and not working.
"arrive."
In front of a bamboo forest, Li Mingsheng and his men stopped.
"You will be responsible for doing some easy tasks in the future. After all, there are not many people in the tribe now, and we need more people. Except for the two cubs, Xiaobao and Xiaoshan, you will all need help."
"Chief, what do you need us to do? There is nothing here, only these trees." An older sub-orc spoke, and from the look of it, it seemed that the others were quite convinced by him.
“It will be there soon!”