Chapter 1095: Carbohydrate Happiness

"Lord!" Wansai Feng stood up as soon as he saw He Lingchuan. This action caused the Bailong people to look up one after another, looking at He Lingchuan and Lu Qingbin.

"Lingguang."

At He Lingchuan's order, Lingguang jumped to the ground, gently touching Wansai Tong's carotid pulse, and then checked the wound.

Finally, it shook its head gently at He Lingchuan: "Passed away two quarter-hours ago, should have gone in a coma."

It wasn't too painful.

Hearing this, the Bailong women and children around cried out again.

The dead are the greatest; He Lingchuan bowed respectfully to Wansai Tong's body several times, with perfect etiquette.

Only then did He Lingchuan ask Wansai Feng: "Who is in charge of the tribe now?"

Both the old and young tribal leaders had died in battle, and the Bailong tribe had lost its helmsman. Wansai Feng looked around before leading an elder with a white beard over:

"This is my great-uncle, Wansai Yao. After the young tribal leader passed away, he has the highest seniority."

He Lingchuan immediately said: "Elder Wansai, shall we talk elsewhere?"

"Good, good." Elder Wansai wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and followed He Lingchuan out. The crying here was incessant, making it inconvenient to discuss matters.

He was experienced and knew that He Lingchuan wanted to talk to him about the aftermath.

The four walked more than ten zhang away, the noise gradually faded, and He Lingchuan said sternly: "I have ordered people to move down and distribute the food, water, and medicine brought by the ships. It's not delicious, but at least it can fill their bellies. Please, Elder Wansai, organize people to collect them as needed."

Preparing so much food in a hurry was by no means a simple matter. Elder Wansai nodded repeatedly: "Island Master He has put in a lot of effort."

After two days of fierce fighting, the warriors in the tribe were covered in wounds, and the old, weak, women, and children were hungry and tired. They had thrown away a lot of weight during their escape, and now it wasn't easy to find something to eat—there were nearly forty thousand people here!

Once the battle ended, the most realistic problem was placed before them.

If it weren't for Island Master He's attentiveness, where would they find rations for forty thousand people? "A small matter." He Lingchuan smiled and glanced at Lu Qingbin. "We will rest here for a while and then board the ships. The Ya Kingdom people are guarding the entrance to the peninsula, so we shouldn't stay in Storm Bay for too long, lest there be long nights and many dreams!"

Storm Bay is not far from the Does Bailie border, just a few dozen miles by land.

But the Bailong tribe couldn't make it. Wu Lu's main army hadn't retreated, and they hadn't escaped danger yet. The warriors were exhausted from long fighting, and the old and weak were hungry and tired; how could they still walk? Elder Wansai looked at He Lingchuan subconsciously.

This Island Master He had sufficient soldiers; escorting the Bailong people by land and across the border should be easy.

But this would increase unnecessary risks. They were not relatives or friends; why would he do this? Island Master He had risked danger to rescue the Bailong tribe from the Ya Kingdom army and had given them food and water; he had already done his utmost. How could they be so greedy? Considering the Bailong tribe's current situation, Elder Wansai's decision was very straightforward: "This is really causing trouble for Island Master He!"

Everyone else treated them like a plague, avoiding them as much as possible, and even Does Bailie, which had received hints from the Mou Kingdom, was not very willing to receive them.

Only this Island Master He showed true closeness and welcome to them.

It was truly sending charcoal in the snow.

Thinking this, Elder Wansai's gaze toward He Lingchuan became even more grateful.

One step closer to his goal, He Lingchuan was overjoyed, and his words became three parts more sincere: "It is my wish, why call it trouble? To be honest, Brother Lu, don't blame me, even if these forty thousand Bailong people enter Does Bailie, the local area probably won't be able to accommodate them well."

Lu Qingbin couldn't help but touch his nose.

The Mou Kingdom's order came very urgently, and he rushed to meet Wansai Tong. As for how to settle these forty thousand Bailong people after they entered Does Bailie, what to eat and where to live, that was up to the Lu family to arrange, and he didn't know much about it.

But the number forty thousand was indeed a bit large.

Dropping forty thousand mouths to feed, uh, Does Bailie would have to be in a rush for a while.

Based on his understanding of the Lu family... sigh.

Elder Wansai smiled bitterly: "Yes, the food and accommodation for so many people have always made us rack our brains."

When Wansai Song and Wansai Feng, the uncle and nephew, first took over a thousand people to leave, they ran around for the food problem of their subordinates, and finally fell to the point of applying for jobs and working in the Yangshan Archipelago.

Wansai Tong had spent so much effort to feed these forty thousand people!

Now that the young tribal leader had also passed away, Elder Wansai felt the world was dark at the thought of this problem.

Although the battle ended, the survival crisis of the whole tribe had not passed.

"Working together, there will always be a way." He Lingchuan comforted them, "Heaven will not cut off all paths. Alright, no more talk, please Elder Wansai, eat first."

The Yangshan Archipelago's fleet began to take turns unloading supplies at Luting Beach.

The incident happened in a hurry, and the Island Master had demanded that the Yangshan Archipelago prepare a massive amount of food within a day and then load the ships to rush to Storm Bay, so the choice of food was very limited, and anything that required fine processing was not brought.

So the most loaded on the ships were oats, sweet potatoes, potatoes, peanuts, taro, pumpkins, yams, and various beans. These were foods with high starch content and strong satiety, convenient for transport, easy to store, and simple to cook—they could be eaten by boiling in salt water, and most of them didn't even need containers.

Then there were cooked eggs.

The Bailong people received eggs of all sizes, from goose eggs, the largest, to quail eggs the size of grapes; the Yangshan Archipelago had almost bought out all the poultry eggs in Blade Harbor and the surrounding area.

And the aphid sugar that both adults and children loved.

A batch of finished products on Pan-Silk Island hadn't been packaged for sale yet, so Ding Zuodong just transferred them over.

What sugar provides, besides energy, is happiness.

In addition, there were hard fruits such as apples, pears, and bananas, which were also easy to carry.

The Bailong people sat on Luting Beach, eating their first meal in two days with hot water that had just been boiled.

As they ate, many people's tears fell.

Crying while wolfing down the food.

Huang Zhao watched an eight-year-old boy swallow two potatoes the size of goose eggs in less than half a cup of tea, his cheeks bulging like a chipmunk hoarding goods.

Before he had swallowed what was in his mouth, he reached out to grab a third potato.

"Can't eat anymore." He grabbed the child's little hand, "You'll burst if you drink water later!"

The child was unwilling, so Huang Zhao gave him a bright red wild apple: "This is better than potatoes."

Although the wild apple was small, it was sour, sweet, and relieved bloating.

The Bailong people didn't expect that this meal after surviving a disaster would be much better than anything they had eaten in the past two months!

Tens of thousands of people wandering in a foreign land couldn't eat whenever they wanted. Many of them had gnawed on tree bark and grass roots just to leave more food for their children.

Being able to eat their fill, being able to fill their stomachs with proper food—was that the carbohydrate happiness they had lost for so long?

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