dognovel Chapter 96 Peeping
Chapter 96 Peeping
It's no wonder they're in such a hurry. The snow season is almost over, and the male beastmen in the tribe will once again go to the sea to collect salt, and the pottery kiln needs more clay.
If we don't make enough carts, there simply won't be enough to go around.
Lin Baiyan looked at the plane in front of him again, tilted his head back and sighed deeply.
God knows, he had been working on a cart for seven or eight days straight, knocking wood with his eyes open and planing wood with his eyes closed.
Working overtime, they managed to make only two carts. A large part of the reason they finished in just two days was that the timber in the tribe was all semi-finished material left over from before.
Now they have to start by cutting down trees and stripping the bark, which is easy enough, just some hard work. But the main skilled workers are still him and Hu Jiang. Each cart needs to be equipped with at least four spare wheels in case of damage.
Lin Baiyan now deeply understood that sentence.
If you can't lead a team, you'll just have to work yourself to death. ╯▂╰
Thinking of this, he forcefully nailed the wood into the gourd head.
At this moment, a small figure was hiding in a large cave, secretly watching Lin Baiyan's back.
Ai Shi watched Lin Baiyan's actions not far away with some curiosity. He knew that Lin Baiyan was a priest of the Cangyan tribe.
A priest? The dwarf beast tribe has never had a priest before!
He heard from Grandpa Hong that this was the priest who said he could give them food. Ever since Dwarf Stone learned that they would have food to eat every day, he worked even harder.
They had already brought back a load of soil today, and were now taking a break when Dwarf Stone saw the figure outside and kept stealing glances at it.
The priest and another male orc had been there for many days, fiddling with a pile of wood every day. What surprised Dwarf Stone even more was that the pile of wood blocks could actually be pieced together into a complete shape.
Lin Baiyan felt the gaze coming from behind him. Since becoming a beastman, he had become increasingly sensitive to such scrutiny.
In addition, Lang Cang would occasionally go out for training with him.
Lin Baiyan already knew this the moment Ai Shi glanced at him for the second time.
Lin Baiyan frowned. He turned around and caught sight of the small figure hiding beside the cave. "What are you looking at?"
The carts in the tribe are now considered resources, and they must be carefully preserved no matter how they are made. Why is it that one glance at this dwarf cub isn't enough, and it keeps staring at it?
Ai Shi saw Lin Baiyan suddenly turn his head, and the sudden sound startled him. Tears quickly welled up in his eyes, and he stammered, "No, I didn't."
Lin Baiyan saw that the dwarf beast was trembling slightly, like a frightened bird.
What's going on? He didn't say anything.
Why are you so timid?
Little did he know that the dwarf beastmen had been scattered and broken up by the beastmen's driving and hunting over the years, and even the slightest disturbance could terrify them.
Lin Baiyan was a little at a loss. He put down the wooden block in his hand, walked to the low stone, took out a piece of dried sweet potato from his small animal skin bag and handed it to him. "Here, have some."
Ai Shi swallowed hard as he looked at the dried sweet potato in Lin Baiyan's hand, but didn't dare to take it.
Lin Baiyan stuffed the dried sweet potato directly into Ai Shi's hand, bent down and wiped away the tears that had fallen from his face.
"Don't cry. I wasn't being mean to you. It's impolite to stare at people like that."
Dwarf Stone felt warm fingers gently brushing his cheek, and looked up at the gentle and kind sub-beastman in front of him in a daze.
He had never felt such a warm touch from any orc other than Grandpa Red.
When Ai Shi was born, he had no father. His mother said that his father had been worked to death.
Later, they were captured and sent to work in another tribe that was full of wild boars. They were not given food, and the wild boars could only pick up insects to eat after finishing their heavy work.
His mother later starved to death. Later, the Liaozhu tribe was attacked and defeated. Grandpa Hong led his few remaining tribesmen to escape in the chaos and ran all the way to the north.
Lin Baiyan looked at the thin, small beast in front of him. It was a sub-beastman and didn't look like it had reached adulthood yet.
He was about the same age as Lang Yun, around twelve or thirteen years old, with his ribs protruding one by one.
Having lived in the Beast World for so long, he can now easily distinguish between male beastmen and sub-beastmen.
Orcs have always relied on scent to distinguish each other, but Lin Baiyan hadn't learned that before.
Ai Shi quietly clenched the dried sweet potato in his hand, mustered up his courage and looked at Lin Baiyan, "I, I'm just curious why you cut the wood into the same pieces and then smashed them together."
He saw many orcs come here to smash the wood, but in the end only Lin Baiyan and another orc remained.
Lin Baiyan ruffled his yellowish hair. "I can't tell you that."
"I...I want to try." Dwarf Stone didn't know what was going on in his mind when he said this, but deep down he knew it was an opportunity.
What opportunity?
Dwarf Stone can't think of anything yet.
Just then, Ai Hong, who had just been summoned by Hu Qing, finally returned. He saw Ai Shi and Lin Baiyan standing together and assumed that Ai Shi had done something to anger the priest.
Ai Hong hurriedly stepped forward, not daring to ask the reason, and smiled obsequiously at Lin Baiyan, "My lord, my lord Shi is still young, he doesn't know any better, please don't hold it against him."
He casually pushed the low stone behind him, saying, "Just tell me what's wrong."
Lin Baiyan was interrupted by Ai Hong, who had come over, before he could finish what Ai Shi was about to say. He didn't mind and waved his hand, "It's nothing, you guys go back to digging."
"Oh, oh, thank you, sir." The short, red-haired man bowed and smiled at Lin Baiyan, feeling genuinely relieved.
He thought he was about to get another beating. Back in other tribes, dwarf beasts were tools that the orcs could use to vent their frustrations. Anyone who displeased them could get a beating.
Ai Hong felt a mix of emotions. These past few days in the Cangyan tribe felt like a dream, as if the beatings and hunger she had endured were all a lie.
Although they still have a lot of work to do, they can eat their fill every day, no one will vent their anger on them, and they can have a small corner to live in.
But Ai Hong always worried about the cubs in those burrows.
Lost in thought, he didn't notice the low stone beside him and quietly ran away.
I don't know where the courage came from, but Ai Shi just barged straight up to Lin Baiyan.