Chapter 33

When the birds outside began to sing softly, and when the sun in the sky rose slowly, the Tribe also gradually began to have Beastmen and females moving about outside. Ba Ke Er and Zhang Fan got up, exchanged a good morning, and then got up. After Ba Ke Er and Zhang Fan finished breakfast, as yesterday, Ba Ke Er was responsible for building houses, Zhang Fan for drying rice grains. However today, Zhang Fan prepared to pick out some plump grains and soak them in water, preparing to cultivate rice himself.

After soaking his family's grains, Zhang Fan then remembered that Ba Ke Er said here a year has twenty-five months, five quarters each with five months, a month is about fifty days. A year here equals two years and one month on Earth. Now it is the beginning of the third month of summer. Zhang Fan recalled that on Earth people usually sow seedlings in February, transplant in April, harvest in July. Growing one season takes about one hundred fifty days to mature. Now starting sowing, it is expected that in the second month of the harvest season we can harvest again. After harvest we can plant another season. Calculating, excluding the winter season, a year's time at most can allow planting at least three seasons of rice.

Many families in the Tribe have brought back rice grains; if everyone selects a portion to plant, we should not worry about food shortage this winter! Zhang Fan always acts on his ideas; he immediately went to the chief's house, saw the Priest and elders there, and then said to everyone:

I was thinking, this time many families in our Tribe went to the rice fields and gathered a lot of rice back; rice is food, something to eat, no matter how much there is, it will eventually be eaten up. If we teach the Tribe's people to learn how to grow rice themselves, then things would be much easier. In this way, as long as one is not lazy, even in winter everyone can have enough to eat.

After hearing Zhang Fan's somewhat provocative words, everyone became a bit excited; they looked around and saw in each other's eyes the same fervent gaze. However, soon everyone calmed down again. After all, even in normal times many people starve to death. Their Heaven Lion Tribe is relatively okay; the Tribe totals over a thousand, and strong Beastmen alone make up two-thirds. Even so, we cannot guarantee everyone will be full. Let alone those smaller tribes. Finally, an elder could not hold back and asked:

"Zhang Fan, how can you be so sure that everyone will have enough to eat? After all, even in normal times many people will go hungry." Hearing someone speak up, everyone began to echo:

"Yes! Yes! Our Tribe is like this because everyone is a predatory-level Beastman, and the number of Beastmen is also relatively large, so we can barely manage to keep our lives in winter without starving to death. But those smaller tribes, or tribes with few Beastmen, or the Fox Clan whose Beast forms are not strong, and some weak-level herbivorous Beastman tribes are not so fortunate."

Exactly! Exactly!

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Zhang Fan felt that everyone's worries were not unnecessary; after all, in such a primitive society nothing is more important than life and food. The current farming industry is something no one has encountered before, and in this situation of being unaware yet affected, some worries are indeed normal.

"Everyone, listen to me: growing rice is actually not difficult; females and Beastman cubs can do it too, as long as you believe in me, I guarantee everyone will have enough to eat!" After Zhang Fan finished speaking, the Priest stepped forward, smiling at Zhang Fan and said:

"Divine Envoy, I believe you can definitely let everyone have enough to eat in winter. Since you are the Divine Envoy chosen by the Beast God, you must have your own method, right?"

Yes! I believe I can definitely do it!

When everyone heard the priest call Zhang Fan the Divine Envoy, their gazes changed; they began to feel reverent. Truly blessed by the Beast God! The Heaven Lion Tribe's previous Divine Envoy was Qin Dong; after returning to the Beast God's embrace for several years, the Divine Envoy has descended again! We believe he will surely make the Tribe better off. At this point, there were no opposing voices left in the room; everyone began to accept Zhang Fan's idea. They decided to have everyone in the Tribe come learn farming.