Before Su Qianqian could even open her mouth to speak, Nan Wu, who was standing beside her, frowned in disgust. "Shi Yuan, can you find something to do? What are you doing with all this stuff? It's so disgusting!"

Xiaojiu also poked his head out to look. Seeing the dense white spots wriggling in the wet mud, he frowned and said, "Brother Shiyuan, what are these? Are they bugs?"

"This is a termite nest." Su Qianqian said.

She walked forward, not showing disgust as everyone imagined, but came to the two slave brothers, bent down slightly and asked: "Did you find this? Where did you find it?"

These two brothers were the slave brothers who knelt down on the spot and acknowledged Su Qianqian as their master when they had no supplies to exchange for ice. The taller one was called A Da and the shorter one was called A Er.

The two of them are usually quiet, but they work very hard.

"It's, it's in the woods across the river." The two men seemed to have not expected Su Qianqian to come over and talk to them. They were a little flattered and shyly pointed to the other side of the river, with a hint of nervousness in their voices.

Su Qianqian looked in the direction they pointed. In order to make it easier to catch fish, Shifang and his men had recently erected a pair of thick wooden poles on both sides of the river to make it easier for everyone to cross the river.

The slaves often went to the other side of the river to collect straw and other things. Su Qianqian was busy these days and had not been there yet.

"Good boy, don't be nervous." She smiled gently at the two brothers, "This thing you found is just what you need."

After saying that, she stood up and said to everyone, "The termite nests that Ada and Aer found are a very good waterproof material. If you see them, you can collect some. Mix them with wood ash and apply them on the walls to greatly improve the waterproof performance of the house."

"So this thing has this kind of use!"

Everyone suddenly understood and had no doubt about Su Qianqian's words.

"Chief Su, you should have told me earlier. I saw a lot of termite nests when I went to collect leaves on the opposite hillside a few days ago. I'm going to get more now!"

After that, the slaves excitedly rushed up the mountain with their tools.

After several days of hard work, the house was almost built and only needed to be aired for a day or two before they could move in. Su Qianqian did not stop them from going.

"Hey, Chief Su..." Shi Yuan came up and curled his lips awkwardly after just saying a few words: "Alas, I'm still not used to calling you Chief Su. I'd better call you Su Mu. Are you so confident in letting so many slaves go up the mountain together? Aren't you afraid that they will encounter danger?"

Su Qianqian glanced at him and said, "I can't protect them forever. Even though they are slaves, if they can't even face the slightest danger, then what's the point of establishing this tribe?"

These slave orcs were very good. Although she had asked them to call her Chief Su instead of Master, if these slaves were afraid to face the dangers and difficulties of the outside world because of the long-term oppression they had suffered, and became cowards who could only live in the tribe, then there would be no point in her saving these people.

What she wanted to save was not only the slaves' physical freedom, but also their spiritual freedom, so that they could face everything in the outside world bravely like normal orcs.

To put it bluntly, she didn't want these slaves to just be freeloaders.

Shi Yuan touched his nose and said, "I can't believe you're still a strict clan leader."

"Of course not." Su Qianqian raised her chin slightly.

"I'm still a little worried. I'll follow and take a look." Shifang, who had an old-fashioned personality, picked up the tools and chased after the crowd.

"Then I'll go too!" Nan Wu followed him seeing this.

Shi Yuan sighed: "You guys are so boring... Well, then I'd better go find some mountain cats to play with."

Su Qianqian glared at him: "Don't bother Shanmao, he is helping me deal with things."

"Oh, are those things called soap beans that you picked up last time?" Shi Yuan looked towards an open space not far away. Shanmao was leading a few young slaves to put the dried soap beans into the stone mill, preparing to grind them into fine powder.

This soapberry is like a pig's tooth, dry and hard, and very troublesome to grind.

Shi Yuan took a look and couldn't help but complain in his heart: "Why do you always like to do these weird things? It's fine if you like to do it, but you have to let Shanmao do it with you."

"You'll know when the time comes." Su Qianqian didn't want to say much. Anyway, when it is done, it will definitely amaze everyone.

She looked across the river, feeling itchy, so she said, "I'll go for a walk over there. If you have nothing to do, go help the mountain cats."

After saying that, Su Qianqian left Shi Yuan behind and walked towards the river alone.

Stepping over the thick wooden pole, Su Qianqian walked towards the woods on the other side of the river.

Maybe it's just because there's a river between us, but the land here is quite fertile and there are many trees around. If the fields in the tribe are not enough for farming in the future, we can move here...

Su Qianqian was observing her surroundings while thinking in her mind.

As I was watching, an inconspicuous white color suddenly came into view in the grass not far away.

Su Qianqian was stunned for a moment, then walked over to take a look. The white thing was buried in the mud like a thin film. It was cylindrical, translucent, and as thin as a cicada's wing, shining with crystal clear light in the sun.

What is this?

Su Qianqian picked up a branch, dug up the dirt next to it, and took a closer look. Suddenly, she realized, this, isn't this snake skin?!

The snake's shed skin!

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