Good luck with koi carp

In the blink of an eye, spring has gone and autumn has come.

The overly fulfilling life makes everyone unaware of the passage of time. When they come to their senses, they realize that another year has passed.

Thanks to last year's accumulation, the Lili tribe has ushered in a bumper harvest this year. The fields are full of golden grains, the vegetable plots are full of various vegetables, and the fruit trees are full of fruits.

After two years of development, the two formerly nomadic groups have completely merged together, and the village they built together has also undergone tremendous changes.

Independent houses popped up one after another like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, scattered throughout the village. Not far from where everyone lived were large fields full of crops, some of which had been harvested, while the rest were still waiting to be harvested.

The fields are connected to the outer area of ​​the house and are dotted with a large orchard.

There are obvious signs of human planting in this orchard. There are various fruit trees growing in it. The fruit trees are planted very densely, and there are many thorny bushes interspersed in the middle, like some kind of defensive fortifications.

In fact, this orchard was specially built by Chi Li and his men as a defensive structure to guard against wild beasts.

Fruit trees planted with relatively dense spacing can effectively resist large wild beasts. Even if those invading large beasts are too strong and can knock down the fruit trees blocking the way, the fallen fruit trees will become a kind of "alarm bell", reminding the people in the village that there is an invasion by foreign enemies.

The thorny bushes under the tree can block the invasion of small wild animals. The two complement each other and form a practical line of defense.

Moreover, this line of defense can produce a large amount of sweet and sour fruits every year. It is one of the important sources of sugar crops for the tribe, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

In addition to this orchard, Chi Li also called on the tribesmen to build a wall around the village with solid and heavy stones in their spare time. This served as another line of defense for the village and also showed other orcs that this place had been occupied by the orcs of their Li Li tribe.

"It seems that so far, we haven't encountered other groups of orcs wandering through here."

During the autumn harvest season, Chi Li was carrying a huge bamboo basket on his back and holding a small bone knife, picking fruits in the orchard with his fellow tribesmen.

They pick fruits that are suitable for making dried fruits, and leave the fruits that are not suitable for making dried fruits on the trees, and pick them and eat them when they want to eat them.

After all, fruits are difficult to store once they are picked and have to be eaten within a short period of time.

There weren't so many fruit trees in the village last year, and the orcs all had big appetites, so they could eat more than ten pounds of fruit in one meal as if it were a piece of cake, so there was no worry.

This year the fruit forest has grown to a considerable size, and even some of the grass planted on the ground will bear fruit. In addition, every household in the village likes to plant a few fruit trees in front of and behind their houses, under the pretext of not wasting land. After a year of good weather and good harvests, the village is flooded with fruits this year, to the point where they can no longer be eaten.

In addition to making dried fruits, Chi Li is already thinking about whether to make some of them into jam, or even brew them into fruit wine?

She does know how to make fruit wine. She learned this skill from a few little monkey fairies who had a good relationship with her when she was in the fairyland.

When thinking of fruit wine, Chi Li naturally thinks of rice wine.

She thought of rice wine not because she wanted to drink it, but because rice wine has a relatively high alcohol content. She wanted to try to make the wine stronger. Isn't this the original version of alcohol disinfectant?

Living in this extremely dangerous primitive world, even the orcs who have settled in villages cannot avoid being injured. Even though the orcs are physically strong, every injury they suffer represents the possibility of a wound infection. If there is something that can be disinfected, it can at least reduce the possibility of infection and increase the overall survival rate of the tribesmen.

Coincidentally, Chi Li also knows how to make rice wine.

However, brewing wine is a very time-consuming process, and you will definitely not see results in a short period of time. There is no need to rush. I will try to brew a few jars of wine when I have time after the autumn harvest.

In view of the backwardness of various utensils in the current era, Chi Li was not sure whether she could succeed. She did not dare to waste the food too much, so she could only use her status as the chief of the tribe to give a small part of the food to try.

Unconsciously, the bamboo basket on her back was gradually full. Chi Li, whose thoughts were drifting away, suddenly said this to the person next to her, which completely stunned the person.

"Ah?" Mother Simon, who was picking fruits with the tribe leader, scratched her round bear ears and showed a silly expression: "It seems so. We didn't encounter other wandering tribes, so Klesa and the others couldn't get pregnant."

Last year and this year, the Lili tribe, which failed to meet the wandering orcs, held internal meetings. However, for some unknown reason, no female in their tribe was pregnant, resulting in the youngest cubs now being those in the group led by little Bunny and her friends.

Little Bunny is three years old now. Seeing the cubs growing up healthily, the young orcs who have not yet successfully given birth are gradually becoming a little anxious. If they cannot get cubs in the tribe in another two years, they may form a team to go out and look for other wandering tribes.

In short, if what you have at home doesn’t work, look outside.

Chi Li didn't think that the orcs in her tribe were incapable. First of all, pregnancy was not something that could happen just because one wanted it. In addition, in the past two years, everyone had been busy building the village and their homes almost every day. They were physically exhausted, and even when they were in estrus and were urged by instinct to go on dates with others, they were not serious about it. Some orcs simply remained single and lost all worldly desires, like her dear father. It would be strange if they could have cubs in this state.

However, Simon's mother's words also reminded Chi Li that after this year's autumn harvest, she should put the tribal construction work aside and let the tribesmen take a break so that they have time to work hard for the reproduction of the race.

The current population of their Lili tribe is just that small, which is really too small. They are in urgent need of increasing the population. Although without the influx of outside population, even if there is internal reproduction in the future there will be a situation where there are relatives everywhere, but that is a matter of a long time in the future, and there is no need to consider this issue in the short term.

The issue of racial reproduction cannot be rushed for the time being, the most urgent task now is the autumn harvest.

The autumn harvest is a big project for the Lili tribe because they have reclaimed so many fields, and some of the fields even extend into the mountains.

As for the orcs, some of them are extremely strong and have great physical endurance. No matter they are men or women, old or young, they are all very good at doing heavy work. In order to fill their stomachs, almost everyone, including the young Bunny, puts in all their strength and works day and night.

As a result, one is not careful and ends up with a situation where the fields have grown rapidly.

As a result, when it came time to plant in the spring this year, Chi Li was shocked to find that the seeds she had saved from the entire year's harvest last year were not enough. In the end, she had to temporarily go to the wild to collect some wild vegetables and fruits and plant them in the fields, and only then could she barely plant all the reclaimed fields.

After all, we can't just let the land lie there.

Although the entire spring was quite tiring, when the harvest season came, looking at the ground full of grain, all the orcs had happy smiles on their faces.

With these foods as a guarantee, they don't have to worry about going hungry for the next year. For the orcs, not being hungry is the happiest day they can imagine.

"Collect the collective food together, and collect the individual food yourself. Collect the collective food first and then the individual food..."

Chi Li worked in an orderly manner while directing everyone else's work.

There are two types of land in their tribe: collective and private.

The collective land refers to the fields that everyone has reclaimed together. The ownership belongs to the entire tribe and is managed by the patriarch Chi Li. The income is used for the construction of some public facilities of the entire tribe, the hosting of collective activities and other expenses. A portion of it must be set aside as emergency supplies, which can only be used when the tribe encounters a major crisis.

The private ones are the private fields owned by each orc through his own independent reclamation. At the beginning of the formal establishment of the tribe, Chi Li announced that all the orcs in the Li Li tribe could reclaim a certain amount of fields on the wasteland around the tribe as their personal property.

Private fields are cultivated by each orc, and the final harvest depends entirely on themselves. The fields under the names of underage orcs will be managed by their parents before they reach adulthood, or before they have the ability to work. How the harvest is distributed will be discussed within their own families. As long as there is nothing too extreme, the tribe leader Chi Li will not interfere.

The probability of "excessive situations" occurring is still very small at present, or even non-existent.

One is that the Lili tribe currently has a relatively small population and is surrounded by abundant resources, so the competition is not that fierce. Another is that adult orcs generally have an extraordinary level of care for cubs. Basically, no normal orc will bully a cub, even if it is not his own cub.

If they are our own children, it goes without saying. We would love and care for them so much that how could we be bad to them?

Taking into account that orcs generally have strong working ability and big appetites, Chi Li sets the upper limit of private land for each person to 100 acres. In other words, every orc, including cubs, can own a maximum of 100 acres of land.

Chi Li had already measured and defined the size of an acre of land for the tribesmen long ago.

As mentioned before, everything in this world grows big, including plants. The rice, wheat and other plants that Chi Li found, when grown in the wild, produce fruits that are two to three times larger than the normal varieties that Chi Li knows of, and the yield is not low either. After being specially cultivated, the yield is much higher than in the wild.

The food obtained from one hundred acres of land, even if the harvest is average, is enough for an adult orc to eat for a whole year with some left over.

What's more, people don't just eat the output from the land. In the past two years, their village has built a lot of livestock pens, raising a lot of cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and other livestock, which are also a source of food.

Moreover, the size of these livestock is an enlarged version of that in the orc world. Almost every ordinary domestic chicken is larger than a turkey in the human world. After being carefully raised, it is not a problem for them to weigh over 30 kilograms.

With Chi Li's current appetite, she can be full by eating three chickens a day, which is about one chicken per meal on average.

Influenced by the tribe leader Chi Li, the beastmen, who used to eat whenever there was food and basically had only one meal a day during their wandering days, have now become accustomed to the regular pattern of three meals a day, morning, noon and evening.

Nowadays, if someone skips a meal, they will feel very hungry and have to make up for it.
Fortunately, the Lili tribe has enough food, enough for everyone to fill their stomachs every day, and they don’t have to worry about having nothing to eat when they are hungry.

Because the workload was so large, even though everyone was working hard and no one was lazy, the autumn harvest lasted nearly a month and a half to complete.

When the granaries of every household were finally filled, everyone, including Chi Li, returned to their own homes like wandering souls and locked themselves in for three days. If anyone still had the energy to go out for a stroll, they could look into the window of any house and see the owner sleeping soundly on the bed.

“Everyone is exhausted.”

Chi Li held a bowl of rice as big as a washbasin in her hand and talked to her father while eating.

Datz didn't reply. He was busy eating from his bowl. He was really hungry after sleeping for three days and three nights without eating.

"Dad, don't just eat, eat some vegetables."

Chi Li picked up a large piece of chicken leg and stuffed it into her father's bowl, and also picked up a piece for herself.

When she woke up, there were two dishes and a soup on the table. Except for some vegetable leaves in the soup, the rest were meat dishes. You could tell at a glance that it was her old father's cooking style.

Influenced by his animal form, Dartz prefers to eat meat and cooks meat-related dishes.

Chi Li was not picky and ate everything, but considering her taste, her old father reluctantly added some vegetables into the soup.

The father and daughter ate their meal in a hurry, and then Chi Li went out to inspect the tribe.

Now basically everything is on track, but there are still many things that she, as the tribe leader, needs to do, one of which is the issue of tribal security.

Even if a certain amount of defensive fortifications were built, it would not mean that everything would be fine. Necessary personnel patrols were still necessary. Even if the number of personnel was small, Chi Li still selected several young and strong men to form a tribal guard team, which patrolled the entire tribe at regular times every day to prevent the emergence of foreign invaders.

As the most powerful one in the tribe, Chi Li would also do some patrol work from time to time. Her powerful soul gave her five senses that were superior to those of ordinary orcs. If there was any situation, she would be able to detect it at the first time.

Originally, Chi Li thought that today would be a day similar to any other day, until she passed by the entrance of the village and smelled a familiar yet strange odor through her keen sense of smell.

She was familiar with it because she had smelled this scent almost every year since she came into this world, so she was particularly familiar with it. The moment she smelled it, she determined that it was the smell of an orc in heat.

The reason why it was strange was that the person emitting the smell was not any orc she knew. If that was the case, then there was only one possibility.

There is a group of foreign stray orcs approaching, and among them are orcs in heat who are of the right age and suitable for pregnancy.

Chi Li's eyes couldn't help but light up.

This is undoubtedly good news.

Their tribe is short of people!

Even if that group of orcs will not join their tribe, they will bring new bloodline, which means they will have new cubs and a new continuation.

However, the premise of all this is that both parties are orcs who belong to the same language family. It does not mean that orcs of different language families cannot date and have cubs together. The main thing is that if they have the same language, it will be more conducive to communication and exchanges with each other, and the success rate of the date will also increase significantly.

It has happened before that orcs speaking different languages ​​didn't get along with each other due to communication barriers, so Chi Li had such high expectations.

Fortunately, she has always had good luck.

When Chili smelled the estrus scent, the other orcs in the Lili tribe also smelled it.

Female orcs who don't have cubs yet and male orcs who want to reproduce their bloodlines are all ready to move. They also emit their own scents and communicate with each other's tribes through each other's breath.

If the communication at this time was silent, then at night, the shouting of these restless guys who could no longer hold back became a kind of love song echoing in the mountains and forests.

Through this roar, even though they were all making various animal noises, everyone confirmed that they were a group of orcs belonging to the same language family. Suddenly, the roars at night became more frequent and intense, making Chi Li unable to sleep.

At this moment, she missed her spiritual power very much. If she could use it, she would have used it to seal her hearing and go into a good sleep.

The noisy roaring lasted until the second half of the night, and Chi Li was finally able to fall asleep. Before falling asleep, she thought vaguely: Tomorrow, I should be able to see that group of wandering orcs.

The next morning, while having breakfast, Chi Li found that her father was staring at her with a strange look in his eyes. She couldn't help but wonder, "What's wrong?"

"Why didn't you scream last night?" Since his daughter asked, Datz asked what was bothering him.

"Why should I scream?" Chi Li was confused.

"Don't you like cubs?" Datz recalled the scenes of his daughter interacting with the cubs in the tribe in the past, and did not notice any rejection from her.

The old father was still struggling, but Chi Li understood what he meant.

She answered knowingly, "I like cubs, but I don't want to have them myself."

"I see." Datz did not react too much to his daughter's statement that she did not want to have cubs. Some female orcs did not want to have cubs, and this was not uncommon. Everyone respected their choices, or in other words, in this matriarchal society, all orcs generally assumed that the absolute power of reproduction lay in the hands of females, so whether females wanted to have cubs depended entirely on their own wishes, and male orcs had no right to interfere.

Therefore, after listening to Chi Li express her wishes, Datz stopped dwelling on this issue and intuitively passed it over, instead talking to his daughter about how to spend the coming winter.

The management of the Lili tribe now consists of three people, the tribe leader Chili, the former tribe leader and current elder Datz and Klesa.

The latter two are needed to assist the patriarch in managing all matters within the tribe on a daily basis, and naturally they also have to help with major matters such as how to survive the winter.

Even in the Lili tribe, which has achieved food freedom, the arrival of winter is still a huge challenge, because it not only means a harsh environment, but also represents various crises.

The wild beasts that cannot find food in the winter, and the other wandering orc tribes that are still starving... these are all unstable and dangerous factors for the Lili tribe, which has plenty of food, and they are something that they need to be vigilant about.

"There are still too few people in our tribe."

In an era without high-tech thermal weapons, humans represent the greatest combat power. In general, groups with large populations are definitely more powerful than groups with small populations. The strength of individuals alone is unlikely to play a decisive role in large-scale battles.

For example, if the Datz tribe had been as big as the Lili tribe, they would not have been chased by that large tribe and had to flee for their lives. It can even be said that if they had so many people at the beginning, the other party would not have treated them as soft persimmons, but would have directly ignored them and actively avoided a head-on confrontation with them.

Every orc living in this world is struggling to survive. In order to survive, they may fight with each other, but wars rarely break out between large tribes, except in some extreme special cases. The survival instinct deep in their blood will make them unconsciously avoid some unnecessary deaths.

Thinking about the group of stray orcs outside, Chi Li strolled out after breakfast and headed straight for the village entrance with a clear goal in mind.

Both parties had confirmed each other's status yesterday. If they really wanted to date the orcs from the Lili tribe, they should have shown up today.

The orcs have always been very frank in this regard, and the other tribe is the same. Although they feel that the Lili tribe is different from the wandering orc tribes they have seen before, after confirming the other party's friendly attitude and intention to date, they soon took the initiative to come to the gate of the Lili tribe's village.

Chi Li was not the first one to arrive.

When she arrived, she found that many young men and women from her tribe had already come, including Klesa and others who wanted cubs.

None of the orcs who had cubs at home came this time, and they were avoiding the date, probably because they wanted to give other orcs without cubs a chance.

Datz didn't come either. Even though his daughter had taken over two tribes and became the tribal leader, he didn't seem to plan to have any new cubs. Before leaving, Chi Li even asked her old father for his opinion, and even said again that she didn't mind having younger brothers and sisters. However, Datz just avoided the topic and muttered that he should prepare pickled vegetables while walking quickly in another direction.

It seems that she doesn't want to listen to her daughter's request for labor.

Chili: "..."

I don't like to be urged by others, but I urged her in the morning. (End of this chapter)