Chapter 67

Yun Li fell silent for a moment upon hearing Mu Qing's words—so whether a male was loyal to a female could actually affect that male's standing in the Tribe.

That was actually… quite a reassuring fact.

On the other side, when Ji Xuan learned that Ge had already leaked the matter to Yun Li's family, he asked without even lifting his head much, "What was their reaction?"

Most of the beastfolk in the Tribe were indeed inclined to pick a few females to trade their own Tribe's beastfolk back from Youbuluo's hands, because among the beastfolk Youbuluo had brought this time, one was their old chieftain, and another old beastman was literate.

The Silver Eagle Tribe needed that literate old beastman to teach the Tribe's beastfolk how to read, so that in the future when the Tribe's beastfolk left the Heiyan Shanmai to train, they could increase their chances of returning alive and bring back useful new things to the Tribe.

One had to know that the Silver Eagle Tribe's current development relied entirely on drawing in all kinds of experience and lessons from the outside.

The large Tribes outside could develop better than the Silver Eagle Tribe, so naturally there were many things they needed to learn from.

It was just that the beastfolk of large Tribes usually kept secrets beneficial to a Tribe's development very well hidden.

Therefore, the beastfolk of the Silver Eagle Tribe could only hope to glimpse those secrets through the method of learning to read.

"..."

Receiving no answer from Ge for a long time, Ji Xuan raised his head, his brow slightly furrowed. "Ge?"

Was his question that hard to answer?

Only then did Ge snap out of his thoughts. He lowered his head and said, "Young Master, just as you expected, they will step forward to help those females."

"Mm, I understand. What were you thinking about just now?"

Ji Xuan was not surprised that Yun Li's family would step forward to help those females—after all, those people were brought over by Mu Qing and the others. To bring so many beastfolk from hundreds of kilometers away to this place, there must be friends or kin they cared about among them.

The only thing that troubled Ji Xuan was that he was not clear to what extent they were willing to help those females.

After all, Ji Xuan was not like the outside Tribes that, for the sake of profit, would even trade away their own Tribe's females.

Ge raised his head and looked at the Young Master for a good while before lowering his voice to tell the Young Master everything he had previously said to Yun Li. Finally, with his brow tightly furrowed, he asked:

"Young Master, I clearly only spoke the truth—why would she be angry?"

Ji Xuan looked at Ge with an expression of utter incomprehension. "Pursuing a female—you're sure you want to ask me about that?"

Ge said without hesitation, "I know you don't like A Li, Young Master. I just truly don't understand—I clearly only spoke the truth, yet she didn't seem to take in a single word of it.

After all, A Li just arrived at the Tribe and hasn't been fully accepted by the Tribe's beastfolk yet. If she gets too involved in this matter, I'm afraid the Tribe's beastfolk will have opinions about her."

Ji Xuan felt a headache coming on. Even though he had never pursued a female, he had heard other males share their experience—the most important thing when pursuing a female was not to be too serious with her. What a female wanted was not how right you were; she just wanted a male's favoritism toward her.

"Do you truly like her?"

He asked with his brow tightly furrowed, "If you like a female, what she likes is what you like."

When he was little, his A-mu's Beast Husband had told him this.

Like what she likes, love what she loves.

Females were mostly soft-hearted and would soon be moved by a male's sincerity.

His A-fu couldn't do this, so he failed to be accepted by A-mu and was forced out.

Ge looked at Ji Xuan with a gaze that seemed to carry some surprise. After a long moment, he lowered his head and said, "Because A Li didn't disdain me for my disfigurement, I should like her."

Should?

Since when was there any "should" or "shouldn't" to liking?

But Ji Xuan had no intention of analyzing his feelings for him—he had already said one sentence too many just now.

"Since you like her, then strive for it properly."

After saying this, he waved his hand to let Ge leave.

As the Tribe's Young Master, Ji Xuan was very busy and truly didn't want to spend the little time he had managed to carve out helping a subordinate deal with matters of the heart.

"A Li, look—is this the bow you wanted?"

Mu Qing made a bow for her just as Yun Li had described.

Yun Li ran her hand over the bow and couldn't help laughing. "Yes, this is it. A Xiao!"

Leng Xiao quickly finished shaping the last arrow shaft, stood up, and said, "Alright, alright, the arrows are done too."

Today Yun Li was taking Mu Qing and the others out together, and accompanying them were Gong Mei and her Beast Husband.

After all, as Yun Li figured, if she wanted to help those females, she had to produce something that could make the Silver Eagle beastfolk take notice.

And after thinking it over and over, in the end she could only come up with one or two things that might be of use.

One was novel weapons. Most beastfolk were accustomed to fighting bare-handed; even when they had weapons, what they produced were generally beast-tusk daggers, stone clubs, stone spears, and stone hammers, while slightly more refined ones were sling cords, along with body armor and curved blades.

But the cold weapons she knew of—such as bows, long spears, shields, and crossbows—were far more sophisticated than the weapons the beastfolk currently manufactured.

If she could let them see that weapons she manufactured could unleash tremendous power, she would probably have the qualification to catch the Silver Eagle beastfolk's eye.

But having this qualification alone wasn't enough—she also needed them to see longer-term benefits from her.

After all, once she made the weapons and they saw how well they worked, secretly reproducing them wouldn't be a problem.

But skills like sugar-making, brewing, weaving, and pottery-firing—no matter the era—were crafts that could bring lasting benefits to a Tribe.

It was just that Yun Li wasn't sure which one she could produce first, because apart from knowing how to knit sweaters, for every other skill she had only ever come across them occasionally while scrolling through videos in the modern world—her actual hands-on experience was essentially zero.

Thinking of this, Yun Li sighed inwardly.

Never mind—regardless of which one she could produce, she'd find the raw materials she could first, then talk.

The courtyard the Silver Eagle Tribe had allocated to Yun Li's family was not in the Tribe's center, but out of consideration for the fact that Yun Li had been a pregnant female at the time, the location was still slightly more toward the inside.

So it took Yun Li, led by Mu Qing and the others toward the Tribe gate, more than half an hour of walking before they could barely make out the shadow of the gate.

Gong Mei and her group, however, had already been waiting at the gate for quite a while.

"Why are you only just arriving? A Li, what's that you're holding in your hand?"

How come it looked like something she'd never seen before?

It wasn't just Gong Mei who was curious—her two Beast Husbands also cast gazes of seeing something novel.

"Just a kind of weapon. A Mei, you know my strength isn't much, so I figured this out on my own to see if it can help me protect myself."

Yun Li said, handing the bow in her hand to Gong Mei, "Want to take a look? It's my first time using it too."

Gong Mei didn't hold back, simply holding the wooden bow and really couldn't see any special quality, so her gaze quickly fell on the wooden tube on Leng Xiao's hand that held the arrows.