Chapter 97: Healing Heart Disease

Although he had found gold, Baifeng was only happy for a short while; although he felt in his heart that gold was a good thing, what exactly made it good? Baifeng could not say.

In later generations, it is a precious metal, and it will still be a precious metal a thousand years from now, but it is truly useless right now; if used to make tools, it is too soft and not practical. Aside from the color being a bit nice, it is useless, and current Bronze is itself golden and even harder than gold.

Although it was useless, Baifeng could not bear to throw it away, so he kept it; it did not take up space anyway. In his previous life, he never had the chance to touch such a large piece of gold, so just satisfying his craving by holding it now was fine.

Tucking away the two pieces of natural gold, Baifeng had caught his breath, and he turned back to check on the wolf pups he had just carried out.

There were seventeen wolf pups in total, of various ages; among them was a litter of five that had not yet opened their eyes. The silver-gray fur on their bodies reminded Baifeng of the wolf king, and it was possible that this litter of pups belonged to the wolf king.

Seven or eight were already dead and beyond saving, but the rest were still breathing, wriggling their bodies. If they survived, Baifeng planned to raise them; if they could be tamed and domesticated, eventually one generation would turn into dogs, wouldn't they?

Especially that litter of silver wolf pups, Baifeng planned to raise them himself. If they could not be tamed and their wild nature remained strong, then his Baifeng Tribe would obtain several high-quality, completely undamaged fur pelts.

Carrying the wolf carcasses on their backs, Baifeng and the others prepared to descend the mountain. If they were fast enough, they could still return before dark; constantly sleeping out in the wild was not a good thing.

The ground where the carcasses were piled was full of blood and mud; he did not know if it would benefit other carnivorous or scavenging animals, or if it would all become nutrients for the Grass.

The wolf pack was wiped out, the grudge was avenged, and the tribesmen were very happy on the way back. The bad mood from the damage to the cattle herd had almost vanished; even when they saw wild chickens with red bellies and yellow tails on the road, they did not take out their Weapons to shoot them, but instead praised them for their beautiful colors.

When they returned to the tribe, because the time was a day later than expected and they had not returned last night, the entire tribe was in a state of panic. All work outside the tribal city walls had stopped, and they only did work inside the city walls.

The patrols on the city walls were also much tighter. Baifeng was very satisfied with this state; as long as something happened that differed from the plan before leaving, one had to be twelve times more vigilant at the first moment.

When the Soldiers brought dozens of wolves back to the tribe, the tribesmen cheered loudly. This could be considered the first time their tribe had taken the initiative to attack an enemy, and even if it was not human, it was still a great success.

As soon as they put down the wolf carcasses, everyone began to hurriedly take off their Bamboo Armor. For them, this was like torture; not only was it ugly, but it also pinched their flesh and felt constricting.

If it were not for the need to fight the wolves, they would have taken them off and thrown them away long ago. However, this time made Baifeng feel that making some proper Bamboo Armor was necessary; although the protection was a bit poor, it was better than nothing, and there would be no need to temporarily tie bamboo strips together in a hurry.

He heard them say that the cattle herd was still not in a good state, and they were unwilling to enter the cattle pen because when they entered at night and the pen gate was closed, they had nowhere to run and could only huddle together waiting to be attacked.

Baifeng felt that heart disease required heart medicine, and the one who tied the bell must untie it, so he picked up the wolf king's head and went to find the cattle herd.

During the day, the cattle herd grazed outside, and at night they stayed outside the cattle pen, sleeping against the pen wall. With the shelter of the wall, it gave them a great sense of security, while the wide grassland allowed them the opportunity to escape when danger approached.

Carrying the wolf head, Baifeng found Xiaoniu, who was lowering its head to graze. The bloodstains on its horns had already dried and flaked off. Seeing Baifeng approach, it only lifted its head and mooed once to acknowledge him.

Now, Baifeng and Sui rarely came to see Xiaoniu, not only because Xiaoniu had grown up and become ugly, but also because it was a bit smelly; Baifeng and Sui were a bit repulsed, and Xiaoniu did not rely on Baifeng and Sui as much after having the tribe.

Therefore, the relationship between them was slowly fading, though it had not reached the point of attacking Baifeng, just not being as enthusiastic.

Although Xiaoniu was relatively cold, Baifeng still had to be enthusiastic. Calling out to Xiaoniu, he waited for Xiaoniu to lift its head, then Baifeng picked up the wolf king's head to let Xiaoniu see it.

When Xiaoniu saw the wolf head, it was startled at first and took a few steps back, but then it saw that it was only a head and the wolf was already dead, so it boldly walked forward to look at the wolf head carefully.

Just looking did not feel satisfying enough, so it directly flicked the wolf head out of Baifeng's hand with one horn. After it landed on the ground, it lifted its wide hooves and stomped several times; the head was almost crushed and embedded directly into the ground.

Xiaoniu called other cattle over to look. Seeing it was the wolf king's head, this group of cattle was more vengeful than the last; even if it was crowded, they all wanted to come up and stomp on it.

Not until the wolf head was completely unrecognizable did they feel satisfied, and they scattered to graze again. Seeing the cattle herd's mood improve, Baifeng did not stay any longer; he patted Xiaoniu's head, left the wolf head where it was, and turned to leave with a flourish.

With so many wolves, he did not know how long it would take to process them one by one, but the wild men had experience in processing these things. Everyone started working together, smoothly removing the heads and limbs, and then slowly pulling off the skins.

The skins were all put together and had to be taken to be treated with Saltpeter to be cured before they could be used. In this summer heat, the meat spoiled very easily, so they quickly rubbed it with salt to process it.

The few wolf pups had now completely come back to life. The slightly larger ones showed very obvious aggression, putting on a show of wanting to bite people.

Baifeng let a few Soldiers each take one, preferably raising them together, so that they could maintain a certain level of combat coordination.

As for Baifeng, he held three wolf pups that had not yet opened their eyes, which were from the silver-gray litter. Now there was no milk, and there was none in the cattle herd; he did not know if the wolf pups could hold on.

The few wolf pups did not know what had happened yet, as their eyes could not see. However, they also knew they had left the nest and that the ones beside them were not their parents, but they did not know what this meant.

There was no milk in the tribe to feed them. Originally there was a cow that had just given birth, which should have been able to use its milk, but the cow had been killed by the wolf pack.

Baifeng could not let them eat wind and drink dew, could he? Now that conditions were limited, Baifeng could only feed them meat broth and rice paste; whether they could survive depended on whether their stomachs could handle it.

Fortunately, the few wolf pups all had round, full bellies, and after eating their fill, they lay down and fell fast asleep.

The other wolf pups, although slightly larger, were not yet weaned and could only be fed some meat broth and rice paste; he only hoped they could be tamed.