Ruan Chanchan turned around and looked at the person who had called her. She smiled upon seeing the smiling face in front of her. "Nan Wu, what are you doing here?"
"I ca to tell you that we have prepared the reservoir for the water to be stored." Nan Wu walked over to where Ruan Chanchan and the rest were standing. She first bowed to the chief and then relayed the rest of the information to Ruan Chanchan, "We have also collected so hollowed oaks to make the convex-concave edges just as you asked, but the process is a bit too slow, and we haven’t connected more than twenty logs."
This was sothing that frustrated Nan Wu. If this went on, then they would be working on digging the canal and connecting the hollowed oaks for more than five months when sumr was right around the corner. They didn’t have the ti to act leisurely!
When Ruan Chanchan heard her worries, Ruan Chanchan couldn’t help but frown. She said to her, "What about making at least ten totem warriors dig the canals and help you set the tubes?" Though Ruan Chanchan admitted that hunting was important, connecting the water to the reservoir by creating an underground water system was more important. They could stay without food for at least five or six days, but they couldn’t stay thirsty! Especially when the other tribes would start crowding the small stream.
"Then we can finish everything in a day," said Nan Wu after so thought.
"Alright, then cover the reservoir with so leaves," Ruan Chanchan suggested. She then turned to look at Chief Xie and asked politely, "Can we ask ten totem warriors to follow Nan Wu tomorrow? I think arranging for the water reservoir and water system is more important than anything else."
Chief Xie agreed with what Ruan Chanchan said and nodded. "You are right. We have enough dried at to last a few weeks; even if the totem warriors do not go to hunt for a day, nothing is going to change." Chief Xie also thought that connecting the hollowed oak was way more important than anything else at that mont.
"Then bring the hollowed oaks to the tribe and start cutting them. Ask the scouts to do it for you since they are free, then you can simply take the prepared oaks to the small mountain and ask the totem warriors to lay down the tubes inside the canal. This way, you will be able to save a lot of ti and effort," explained Ruan Chanchan.
At night, the tribe’s scouts are idle anyway, since they couldn’t go up the mountains and look for mushrooms. What was more, with sumr coming, the mushrooms were getting fewer and fewer. Especially with the entire tribe working hard to collect the mushrooms, the entire mountain had turned barren, which ant that the scouts were having less and less work to do. Since they had no work, they should work harder to help the tribe.
"Anyway, we haven’t found the plant to make linen, so we can still take it easy," said Chief Xie. Though she wanted to find linen plants as well, she knew that she needed to prioritise things that would be helpful for the tribe in the near future.
"Then make sure that when you are digging the canals, the path should be sloping downwards toward the tribe; even if you have to take a detour, you need to make it sloping downward," said Ruan Chanchan sternly as she instructed Nan Wu about the path that they needed to take to dig the canal. "Especially near the water source. Make sure that you all connect the logs facing down; if you put them on a higher slope, then the pressure is not too intense for the water to continue flowing."
"I got it," said Nan Wu with a simple nod. She didn’t understand the principle behind it, but she also knew that it was too difficult to swim against the stream rather than along with it. Since that was the case, she didn’t want to cause any problem by making such a simple mistake. Ruan Chanchan knew better than her, and it was better to follow her.
She went to look for scouts and asked them to collect leaves to cover up the reservoir. At the sa ti, a ssenger beast was sent out of the tribe. Shao Xia watched the beast leave coldly and turned around to walk back to her cave. She had been keeping an eye on the Mighty Eagle Tribe and knew that the son of the tribe leader had co to the tribe market to have fun. If she contacted him, then he would certainly co looking for the good things that the Big Bear Tribe was hiding.
The Big Bear Tribe was like a fish on a chopping block. It was so weak that anyone could bully it; thus, Shao Xia was certain that the son of the tribe leader would be able to snatch the recipes as well as Ruan Chanchan’s skills of hunting edible vegetables and fruits. Once those skills were in the hands of that r, she could always coax them out of his hands. With these skills in her hands, would Shao Xia still be worried about anything?
Shao Xia sneered as she watched the entire tribe working hard. In the end, these people were still going to beco her stepping stones; let them be happy if they wanted to be!
She turned on her feet and walked inside her cave, with her mind churning with all kinds of random thoughts. Her gaze shifted toward Ruan Chanchan unconsciously as she walked inside.
Ruan Chanchan sensed the malicious gaze but didn’t look up. She knew that, other than Shao Xia or the elders, no one else would give her this kind of unfriendly reaction, and she was too busy to pay attention to such a thing.
At that mont, she was looking at Nan Zhi, who ca looking for her with a smile on his lips. "Chanchan, there is sothing that I wanted to tell you. It’s about Xie Daiyu."
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