Chapter 29: Wild Boar Trades Fish

  Chu Yan heard that this was Mo Yi's excuse for rejecting him. He was very disappointed, but he refused to give up. "Why did you reject me? Is it because I'm not good enough?"

  Chu Yan took a step forward, his deep and slightly painful eyes fixed on Mo Yier's. Unlike the sharp gaze he had when he first met Mo Yier, now when he looked at her, he was always unintentionally filled with tender affection.

  "No, not at all, you're great, you're the best leader in the entire Kàn organization. It's my fault, I haven't even thought about finding a man yet!" Mo Yì'er lowered her head, her two index fingers subconsciously tapping against each other, a nervous habit she had developed! (How embarrassing!)

  "Alright, I understand." Chu Yan didn't know what his current mood was, but it was completely opposite to this terrible day. It was as if... like the feeling of freezing to death on a long, cold night.

  He walked back to the pavilion alone in silence, his whole body filled with a sense of despair.

  This made Mo Yuer feel a little guilty, after all, it was herself who had messed him up like that. But she was so heartless, in an instant, the guilt had been thrown to some unknown Java island.

  The people of the Haiyue tribe got up early to go fishing by the sea. It has to be said that the resources in this era are really rich, and even when fishing by the sea, they can catch fish with big heads and tender flesh. If there was a boat going out to sea, it would be even more unimaginable. Mo Yier didn't want to face Chu Yan again, so she went to watch the people of the Haiyue tribe fishing. After yesterday's fish head soup incident, the people of the Haiyue tribe all recognized her and were very friendly towards her, greeting her as she walked over.

  "You all continue, I'll just take a walk!" Mo Yi'er smiled and waved at them, then walked along the beach. She found that as the tide went out, many large reefs were exposed. Some of the villagers were standing on the reefs fishing, and from afar, Mo Yi'er saw that there were large patches of green things on top of the reefs. Wow! Isn't this seaweed?

  Mo Yu'er was delighted and hurried over. She remembered that the seaweed seemed to have some medicinal value too! Even if it didn't, using it as a condiment or in soup would be great anyway.

  Mo Yi's joyful appearance on the reef shocked the Hai Mu tribe people. He hastily asked, "Mo Yi, what's wrong?"

  "Seaweed is seaweed!"

  "Still trampling? What is it?" The people of the Haim tribe still didn't quite get the pronunciation of "seaweed" right.

  "Seaweed, that's what it is, a very delicious food. By the way, how do you usually eat it?" Mo Yier pointed at the seaweed on the reef and asked, she could pick some to dry and bring back to the cave!

  "Can this be eaten? We've never had it before." The people of the Haim tribe who were talking to Mo Yuer looked puzzled.

  "Yes, this is edible and delicious!" As for its nutritional value, Mo Yuer didn't mention it, as they wouldn't understand anyway.

  "Really?" The people of the Haim tribe didn't believe Mo Yi as much as those from the Kan inner tribe did, so they asked for confirmation again.

  "It's true, if you don't believe me, just wait until I've eaten and then you'll know." Mo Yier said, squatting down to start picking seaweed.

  The people of the Haimu tribe still didn't know whether to believe it or not, but they continued to go fishing. When winter came, it was extremely cold by the sea and they couldn't come out to fish either. So every day, they had to store a large amount of dried fish for eating in the winter.

  There were a lot of seaweed on the reef, and Mo Yi'er picked up a big handful at once. Before long, she had piled up a large amount, and then she took the seaweed back to the leaf shed to dry it, and then went to pick some more on the reef. After four or five trips back and forth, the area around her home was already full of dried seaweed. Time had passed unnoticed until evening, and her stomach growled with hunger, calling out in protest - a child who hadn't eaten breakfast couldn't take it!

  She waited for a while at the entrance of the leaf shed, and the Kanbu people who went hunting under Chu's leadership came back. This time they hunted two wild boars, which were adult male wild boars with very large heads. Mo Yier hurriedly ran over, cheering: "Great, the fat and delicious wild boar oil is the most now."

  Chu Yan nodded slightly, indicating agreement with Mo Yuer's words, but didn't have the usual enthusiasm for chatting with her. Mo Yuer saw it in his eyes, but only smiled and didn't say much to him either.

  Ba Jin looked at the seaweed outside the leaf shed in surprise: "What are these? How come there's so much?"

  "This is seaweed, all of which I picked and brought back to dry. When the time comes, we can take it back to the tribe. By the way, we need containers now, so when we go back, we can pack the dried seaweed and carry it back to the tribe." The people in Kan's tribe were very strong, for example, Bango, who could single-handedly lift a wild boar much larger than himself. So if one person carried several hundred pounds of dried seaweed on their back, it would be enough for the tribespeople to eat for many days.

  "Containers? We don't have containers!"

  Mo Yu'er also felt anxious, but suddenly an idea flashed through her mind. "The people of the Haimu tribe are good at weaving grass nets to catch fish, let's ask for their help."

  "Are you planning on using a grass net to catch sea cucumbers?" Chu Yan finally spoke up and joined the discussion.

  "Yes, let them weave the grass net denser and we can use it to hold seaweed."

  "This is indeed a good idea, but how do you eat this seaweed?" Bakin still had doubts about the seaweed, after all, even the Haimu tribe living by the sea had never tried it before.

  "In the evening, I'll make a cold dish with seaweed and then have a seaweed soup. It would be great if we had wild chicken meat." Mo Yi'er said, the chicken was tender and cut into strips, cooked with seaweed, it was incredibly delicious.

  "I'm going to hunt a wild chicken and come back..." Chu Yan said, and he was about to walk out when there was a forest not far away. Because the Haimu tribe didn't hunt, there were many animals.

  "Wow!" A little fluffy ball that hadn't been seen all day suddenly appeared from who-knows-where, with a colorful guy in its mouth - wasn't it a wild chicken?

  "Wow, Xiao Rong, I didn't think you were so capable!" The wild chicken was probably three or four catties heavy. If Xiao Rong's fluff wasn't long enough, it would look even smaller than this wild chicken! Chu Huan also stopped in his tracks. Since he had caught a wild chicken, he didn't need to go any further.

  Chu Yu sent the wild boar to Haisen and told them to cut off the fatty meat and squeeze it into oil. Mo Yier said, put it in a clay jar, and then seal the mouth with leaves and mud, it will be preserved for many days without spoiling. Haisen was very grateful and said that he would go to their leaf shed at night to taste the seafood that Mo Yier was going to cook.

  Chu Huo naturally welcomed them and exchanged some fish for the two wild boars. The weight of the fish meat and the wild boar meat was roughly equal, so in Chu Huo's heart, his tribe had lost out, but if they added the seaweed that Mo Yi'er had picked from the Hai Mu tribe's territory, they could be considered to have made a profit.