I thrived in the primitive tribe

After yesterday's reprimand, the Dragon Alliance tribe is now showing unprecedented unity.

Nowadays, very few people engage in underhanded tactics; everyone seems to be having a great time.

At this moment, Lu Yao was bent over, digging potatoes with her head facing the loess soil and her back to the sky.

After yesterday's event, Lu Yao took a walk around the tribe to check on the animal enclosures, earthworm fertilizer, and other things, wanting to confirm whether everything she had led the construction of was in order.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived at the potato field, they found that the potatoes were already ripe. Because the tribespeople did not know how to determine whether they could be harvested, the potatoes were still sitting peacefully in the ground, and some people were still adding earthworm fertilizer to them from time to time, as she had taught them.

Lu Yao immediately dug out a potato to check it. It hadn't rotted yet, and the potato was quite large.

[Thanks to the land of the Orcs, for some reason, the potatoes didn't rot in the ground like they do back home. That's a real relief.]

After digging up and checking a few plants, Lu Yao notified the planting team that the potatoes had begun to be harvested. She then explained to them the signs of ripe potatoes and made sure they remembered them.

I need to teach everyone to read quickly; this is so inconvenient.

"It's getting late today. Tomorrow morning, gather all the tribespeople who are free and come here to dig up the potatoes together," Lu Yao instructed the planting team leader.

So this morning, Lu Yao brought the stone shovel she got from the tribe to dig potatoes.

This stone shovel was made by a member of the tribe who knew how to make tools, based on Lu Yao's description.

Holding a heavy stone shovel, Lu Yao, who was digging potatoes, recalled the ironware she had seen at the orc market and felt increasingly annoyed that she hadn't asked about the origin of the iron sword back then.

[That time I had barbecue with the patrol team, all I thought about was gossip about the stall across the street, and I forgot about something as important as ironware. That was so wrong of me.]

The people harvesting potatoes alongside her saw Lu Yao's frustrated face and assumed there was something wrong with the potatoes.

So he carefully moved to Qi Zhi, the leader of the planting team, and gestured for him to look at Lu Yao, who was working hard over there.

"What's wrong?" Qi Zhi asked, puzzled.

"I noticed that the Divine Envoy Lu Yao seemed very annoyed, but I didn't know what she was annoyed about."

"I wonder if there's something wrong with how we grow our potatoes, that's why Lu Yao has that expression."

Hearing her companion's words, Qizhi panicked a little, but she forced herself to calm down.

"Then you can continue working here. I'll go to your old place and ask Lu Yao if there's anything wrong with the potatoes we planted."

"Will this work? Won't it make the divine messenger even more unhappy? Won't he think we can't do anything right?"

“Have you forgotten what the chief and the high shaman said yesterday? If you have any problems, just say them directly. Don’t do anything underhanded behind our backs. It’s not good for the tribe’s development.” Qi Zhi patted the shoulder of the team member next to her to reassure her.

The man stood there watching as Qizhi quickly walked to the spot where he had been digging potatoes and continued digging.

After observing for a period of time, Qi Zhi confirmed that what the team members said was true; Lu Yao did indeed seem to be annoyed about something.

"Lu Yao, is there a problem with our potato planting?" Qi Zhi stopped what she was doing and walked to Lu Yao's side to ask in a low and careful voice.

Lu Yao followed the sound and looked at the girl in front of her. She didn't understand why the girl would ask such a question, so Lu Yao asked the same question.

"Why do you say that?"

Looking at Lu Yao's confused face, Qi Zhi said nervously.

"I noticed you looked annoyed when you were digging potatoes. Is it because we didn't take good care of them and something went wrong?"

"Is that so? My face will unconsciously show an expression of annoyance?"

"yes,"

[Is my facial expression control really that bad?] Lu Yao thought to herself.

"My frustration isn't about the potato planting area, it's something else, you don't need to worry," Lu Yao reassured the person in front of her.

"Oh, is that so? What do you think of our potato planting?" Qi Zhi asked casually.

"Are you the head of the planting team?"

"Yes, I haven't introduced myself to you yet~" Look at me, Qi Zhi slapped her forehead in annoyance, "My Lord, I am Qi Zhi, the leader of the planting team."

"Hmm, hello Qizhi, the potatoes you grow are fantastic. Judging from the quantity and size of the potatoes we've dug up so far, I estimate that these potatoes will be more than enough to keep us well-fed during the cold season."

"Really?" Qi Zhi exclaimed in surprise. Seeing the crowd attracted by her shrill voice, she smiled shyly and told everyone to continue working.

"I'm sorry, I got too excited."

"It's okay. I was actually quite excited when I estimated it," Lu Yao glanced around quietly. "I'll let you in on a secret: I was so excited last night that I couldn't sleep. I was excited all night long."

"So even the divine messenger is this excited."

"Of course, it's such a joyful thing that the food we grow can feed our people and prevent them from going hungry! I'm very excited too."

"Thanks to the meticulous care of your tribesmen in the planting team, otherwise where would we have gotten so many potatoes?"

"No, it's all thanks to Lu Yao for teaching us so well. If you hadn't taught us step by step, we wouldn't know how to grow potatoes."

"Let's not be modest here. Everyone has contributed, don't you think?"

"Yes, Lu Yao, you're right. I'll continue digging potatoes then."

Qi Zhi continued digging when she suddenly asked, "Lu Yao, what were you upset about just now? Can you tell me?"

Lu Yao glanced at the person next to her who was working hard with his butt sticking out, and said, "There's nothing I can't say," she continued with her work.

"I just think this stone shovel we're using is really too cumbersome. I saw the patrol team at the orc market wearing iron swords before, and I was thinking that it would have been great if I could have asked them where they got them."

"An iron sword? What's that?" Qi Zhi asked in confusion.

"It is a weapon that is both sharp and lightweight."

"Can weapons be used to dig potatoes?" Qizhi then asked.

"Weapons can't be used to dig potatoes, of course. What I want is the raw material for making weapons—iron. We can use iron to make shovels and spades, which are much more convenient than the stone shovels we're using now."

“Oh, I see. That’s true. But the stone shovel you showed us how to make is very useful. Before, we used sharpened wood or stones to dig, which was very inconvenient. Since we got this stone shovel, we’ve been able to gather wild vegetables much faster.”

"Yes, you'll see how useful iron tools are once we have them."

"Yes, yes, we'll definitely have it in the future," Qizhi said confidently.

"How did you know..." Lu Yao hadn't finished speaking when someone shouted.

"Dug it up!"

The two looked around and found that only the potatoes they had in their hands were left to be dug out; all the other potatoes had already been dug out.

"We need to hurry," Lu Yao said.

So the two stopped talking, and soon all the potatoes on their side were dug out.

All the potatoes were gathered together and piled up into a small mountain.

"Wow, so many!" The people gathered around were delighted to see so many potatoes.

"How are we going to store so many potatoes?" someone asked from the side.

“Let’s dig a cellar and put these potatoes in it,” Lu Yao said, looking at the mountain of potatoes in front of her.

"But next we need to sort through the potatoes, picking out the bad ones and seeing if the inedible ones can be fed to the Humming Beast..."

Listening to Lu Yao's instructions, everyone quickly got to work. Thinking that the rainy season was approaching, Lu Yao gave Qi Zhi some instructions on how to pick out potatoes and told her to pay close attention before going to find the construction team.

She only learned this from her tribesmen after she returned; the people who had previously built the defensive works had been assigned to the construction team by the chief.

She explained the requirements for the cellar they needed to store potatoes to the construction team leader, and then the two of them searched around the village for a suitable location.

The final decision was to dig the cellar on a small hill, where the terrain was higher and rainwater wouldn't seep in, and since it was inside the tribe, there was no fear of wild animals digging it out.

Once the location was determined, the rest was left to the construction team leader.

Lu Yao remembered that she still had something to do, so she went to another place.