I've been transported to the orc continent.

After the New Year, the temperature did not rise immediately; instead, it snowed heavily again.

Life in the tribe is no different from winter. Many people still spend most of their time in caves, and the fire walls and earthen beds are still burned every day.

Bai Ling ended his slightly more relaxed days and began spending all his time in the iron smelting room.

To farm and build houses, good and handy tools are essential. Bai Ling and Yue started making various tools. Both of them are skilled blacksmiths, so making some simple tools is not difficult.

Bai Ling started by making hoes. There wasn't just one type of hoe; there were hoes for turning the soil, weeding, digging holes, and double-headed ones. All of them had to be prepared. Moreover, farming was a task for the whole family, so one or two hoes were simply not enough. Several of each type had to be made.

Besides hoes, you also need to make shovels, sickles, machetes, rakes, plows, and rakes used with plows.

Fortunately, the requirements for these iron tools are not too high. They don't need to be forged as much as the machete Yue used. In addition, the iron ore that Bai Ling picked up has already been smelted into iron blocks, so it is not too difficult to make tools.

Besides the tools needed for farming, the tools needed for building a house also need to be made, such as saws, planes, files, chisels, and claw hammers. Let's make these simple tools first. As for other tools like rulers and ink lines, Bai Ling can't make them yet. He'll figure out a way to make them when he needs to build the house.

Bai Ling and Yue spent all their time in the iron smelting room, leaving early and returning late, constantly clanging and banging away. One day, when the two came out of the iron smelting room and slowly walked on the snow, Bai Ling was surprised to find that the weather didn't seem so cold anymore.

The wind seemed much gentler. Before, the wind was like a sharp knife, cutting the exposed skin painfully. When going out in human form, one had to wear a hat and gloves, otherwise the hands and ears would freeze very quickly. Now, the sun was almost setting, and Bai Ling, without a hat and gloves, had walked for quite a while and her hands and ears were only a little cold, not frozen.

Bai Ling knew that spring had truly arrived.

"Yue, when do you go hunting?" Bai Ling looked at Yue: "At this time of year, you would have already gone hunting soon."

The tribe still mainly relies on hunting and gathering, and as one of the tribe's top hunters, Yue naturally has to go out hunting.

By then, he wouldn't be able to spend all his time with Yue anymore. Thinking of this, Bai Ling felt a little disappointed.

The disappointment was only slight, because Bai Ling knew that Yue was not a parasitic plant dependent on him. Yue had her own responsibilities and her own way of life, and he wanted to respect and support Yue's choices.

Besides, even if Yue goes out hunting, they can still meet at night.

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After a moment of silence, Yue said, "Ling, the clan chief said that the food we accumulated last year can last for a while longer, so we'll have to go hunting later this year."

"Actually, spring is just as difficult as winter."

Knowing that Bai Ling had never participated in hunting or gathering before, and therefore didn't know much about it, Yue began to explain it to Bai Ling.

"In spring, the plants are just starting to sprout, and there isn't much food to eat. In the two months or so after the New Year, it's impossible to gather much food. After a whole winter, the wild animals are also thin and weak, so you won't be able to catch many."

Yue's words made Bai Ling suddenly realize that he had eaten most of the food he had eaten in the spring. Most of the food he ate in the first two months was food stored from the previous autumn. Even the food he collected in the spring was mostly wild vegetables, with no fruit at all.

Bai Ling recalled a saying from his previous life: "February and March are the lean months between harvests." It seems that this saying is also very applicable in the beastman world. Even when spring comes, it is still difficult for beastmen to gather and hunt enough food.

If you think about it, even in the summer and autumn when food is most abundant, orcs cannot guarantee that they can find enough food every day. Even if they can eat their fill, it is mostly plant-based. They can eat their fill, but they cannot eat well.

This further strengthened my resolve to cultivate and raise white sage.

He wanted to ensure that everyone in the tribe had enough to eat and that they ate well.

Seeing Bai Ling fall silent for the first time, Yue said, "Ling, you've actually done very well." His eyes held a faint smile. "Last winter, everyone in the tribe had a good time, and we all had enough to eat."

"There are still several caves in the tribe with cassava, enough to last for about two months."

This is just the cassava from the tribe. The tribespeople still have a lot of cassava from their own homes, and with the addition of animal meat, they can eat for another two months. This means that the tribespeople will not go hungry until summer.

Bai Ling knew all this, of course. He said, "Yue, the tribe was able to collect so much cassava last year because the tribespeople had never collected it before. We almost dug up all the cassava that had been accumulated over the years, so we were able to dig up so much cassava. This autumn, we may not be able to dig up so much cassava."

"Even if the clan chief instructed the clansmen to leave one or two cassava plants every now and then, it seems that we won't be able to dig up that many cassava plants this year."

"So we still have to grow our own cassava so that we can have more food."

Yue thought for a moment and said, "Ling, you should go and talk to the clan chief and ask him to arrange for some clansmen to plant cassava with you."

Bai Ling: "That's what I think too, but if we want to plant them, we need to prepare more tools and choose a suitable planting location. We have to take it one step at a time."

Moon's eyes crinkled into a smile: "Then let's take it slow. I'll go out hunting, and you can farm in the tribe. I can hunt for meat, and you can grow lots of delicious plants. That way, we'll have both meat and plants to eat. Isn't that great?"

Bai Ling nodded: "That's indeed very good."

The path he took was a bit unconventional.

He had no shortage of suitors. He had heard stories that back in the Yuanhu tribe, many young males had pursued Yue, and even beastmen from other tribes had tried to woo her. However, Yue always kept a straight face and a cold, unapproachable demeanor when being pursued, and no matter how much strength and courage those suitors displayed, they were all ignored by Yue.

Only by showing weakness could I get closer to Yue, until now we are inseparable.

Actually, he won over his wife through farming. If it weren't for the need to go out and find seeds for farming, he and Yue wouldn't have had their initial encounter.

Farming is fine, farming is the greatest thing in the world. Not only can it help you win over a wife, but it can also improve the living environment of the entire tribe.