Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 24 Fire Flower? Chili Flower!

Making a straw raincoat was not difficult for Jiang Luoluo, and Xi even picked all the straw leaves and brought them over, making things even easier.

Jiang Luoluo was also quite curious. Grass raincoats aren't that difficult to make. They had already made them themselves yesterday, so why did they need her help?

"Because it's too much trouble, Luo," the little girl said bluntly.

The first time they learn to do it, perhaps out of curiosity and novelty, the children have the patience to keep going. But when they do it again later, not many of them have the patience.

"And Luo, you did the best!"

This wasn't a lie Xi told to please Jiang Luoluo; it was simply her most genuine reason.

Aside from gifted children, most children only develop a clear understanding of size and dimensions when they reach a certain age.

Even some people, even as adults, still don't have this awareness; they've simply gotten used to it.

Therefore, the grass raincoats made by these children have random leaf sizes and random opening and closing sizes at the joints, which makes their grass raincoats look neither beautiful nor sturdy.

If you don't move it around and use it to keep out the rain, that's fine. But if you use it as "armor" in a fight, it'll just fall apart in a single blow.

That's why Zhuang set his sights on Jiang Luoluo, stealing the Red Fire Stone from her house in order to exchange it with her. Yesterday, Jiang Luoluo made several straw raincoats, and their quality was obvious to everyone.

However, if Jiang Luoluo were the same age as Zhuang, Zhuang wouldn't have chosen to exchange things with her. Instead, he would have used a simpler method—fighting and stealing directly, with whoever won getting the grass and raincoat.

This is a generally accepted rule in the tribe: as long as you are strong enough to defeat all your opponents, it is permissible and recognized for you to take things from anyone.

However, this rule also has its limitations. For example, the age difference cannot be too large, and you cannot choose an opponent who is younger than you, but you can choose an older opponent.

If a child dares to bully a younger child because of his age, then an older member of the clan will soon come to teach him how to behave—those who do not follow the rules will be taught by the rules.

Secondly, once one's strength surpasses the age limit, one can only choose opponents based on their strength. For example, young Ge's current strength far exceeds that of his peers. Unless his peers actively seek him out for a spar, he cannot take the initiative to attack them.

Competition can only be between oneself and peers of similar age or ability, which is also part of tribal education.

As for what to do if a child steals something particularly precious from someone else's family? — Given the current conditions in the tribe, what particularly precious things are there? The most precious thing is meat.

However, food is the most important thing in the tribe that cannot be fought over. Even if it means starving to death, one must not steal food from one's own people. This is the bottom line of the tribe.

Other items of particular value might be herbs that can heal injuries... However, the herbs produced do not have a long shelf life; they are all made and distributed by the shaman on the spot.

They are distributed when people go out hunting. Even if they don't use them all, they will be almost expired by the time they return from the hunt. They need to be collected and disposed of in a unified manner to prevent them from becoming toxic and to prevent them from being brought home.

The little girl stayed and chatted with Jiang Luoluo for a while. She talked and Jiang Luoluo listened. Only after seeing that Jiang Luoluo was making the straw raincoat she had promised to give her did she leave with peace of mind.

He and Zhuang returned just as Jiang Luoluo was finishing making the straw raincoat. Zhuang followed He with a limp, looking like he had been thoroughly educated.

Jiang Luoluo thought Zhuang would just stay at home, but she didn't expect him to come back after being beaten up. Well, staying at home might mean getting beaten up again, so it was better to come to Xiaoshishan and stay there. Boss He wouldn't beat him up again.

Zhuang spotted the nearly finished grass raincoat in Jiang Luoluo's hands at a glance, and walked over with wide eyes, "Luo! This is!"

"It's mine!" The little girl grabbed Zhuang by the back of the collar and pulled him back.

"I didn't secretly take anything from home to exchange with Luo. I have the firecrackers my father gave me," the little girl said proudly.

Zhuang reluctantly squatted down next to Jiang Luoluo, watching enviously as Jiang Luoluo handed the freshly made straw raincoat to happy.

He muttered, "I also have a stone that my father gave me, it was a gift from my father..."

Jiang Luolu shook her head. Zhuang's father was a member of the mining team and often brought home some beautiful stones, such as the red firestone that Zhuang had taken out before.

Jiang Luoluo believed that it must have been "given" to Zhuang by his father, just like how an adult in the family would give a child a pure gold longevity lock—it's given to you, but you're not allowed to take it away to give to others!

Xi's father was a member of the herb-gathering team. The herb-gathering team was under the shaman's command and was responsible for collecting various herbs for the shaman. Although many herbs were planted on the top of Silver Peak Mountain, they were all relatively common and ordinary varieties.

Some precious herbs only grow in special environments and need to be collected at specific times, which is the task of the herb-gathering team.

They would also go out of their way to find new plants they had never seen before, bring them back for the shaman to identify, and update the shaman's herbal formulas. Some plants that the shaman thought were useless, or that were neither poisonous nor too dangerous, would be taken home and given to their children to play with.

Jiang Luoluo wasn't attracted to the unknown fire flower; she just found the little girl's adorable expression so endearing that she made one on a whim—it wasn't much trouble anyway.

However, she was quite interested in the red fire stone that looked like cinnabar. When she went back with He at noon, Jiang Luoluo gestured and asked He what the red fire stone was.

"Red flint is a very important pigment used in sacrificial rites, and Luo will also need it in the future," Brown explained.

Looking at the cub's clear, puzzled eyes, Brown thought for a moment, then suddenly exerted force, and a surge of intense energy appeared on his body.

Jiang Luoluo stared wide-eyed in surprise, because she clearly saw that with the appearance of this scorching energy, a fiery red pattern, as hot as a raging fire, appeared on the brown body.

It's not just random, irregular lines, but rather something like a living creature, a "fire wolf" that seems ready to come to life at any moment.

A surge of power coursed through the wolf-shaped pattern formed by fiery red stripes.

"This is the totem of our Frostfire tribe, and the source of our orc warriors' power. The Crimson Firestone is the vessel that imprints the totem and power onto our bodies," Brown explained gently.

"After the rainy season ends, Luo, you'll be able to see how the Crimson Firestone is used at the sacrificial ceremony." As he spoke, He remembered that Zhuang had taken the Crimson Firestone from his house that morning.

Brown sighed with a headache and added a word of advice to Jiang Luoluo, "Luo, the Crimson Fire Stone is a very important thing. You can't secretly take it to play with."

Jiang Luoluo remained silent because she realized that if she could obtain the Crimson Fire Stone, she might secretly do something... It would be cinnabar! Cinnabar can be used to make many things!

Brown didn't notice the cub's strange silence. As usual, he took Jiang Luoluo home, ate, and cooked jam for lunch, clearing out some of the fruit stored in the cave.

In the afternoon, when it was almost time, the two packed up the jam, added water to the stone pot, and went to the small stone hill again.

On the small rocky hill, the little girl happy had been there for a while and was surrounded by a group of children. When she saw Jiang Luoluo coming, Xi waved the crowd aside and said, "Make way, make way, Luoluo is here. These are flowers for Luoluo!"

Jiang Luoluo watched with amusement as the little girl carefully protected the flowers in her arms and ran out from the group of children, until the little girl handed her the "fire flower" she had been talking about, and she was completely stunned.

Flaming flowers? That must be chili peppers!!!

The large red flower, shaped like a burning flame, and the slightly familiar spiciness when you get closer.

The little girl, happy, continued, "Luo, this is the fire flower, isn't it beautiful! But it's a bit poisonous; if you touch it, it will hurt like being burned. You have to be careful."

"My spicy rabbit head is sorted!" Jiang Luoluo thought to herself immediately, then grabbed the little girl Xi's hand and started gesturing frantically.

Are these all? Do you have any whole plants?

The little girl scratched her head blankly. "Luo, do you really like fire flowers? Then wait until I get back and ask my father."