I've been transported to the orc continent.

Chapter 299 Gold Ore

Bai Ling had nothing to do this winter, which gave him enough time to make a lot of furniture. In addition to the furniture for his and Yue's new house, Bai Ling also planned to make a few pieces of furniture for his own home and Yue's home.

Bai Ling plans to make several wardrobes and several small tables. She doesn't intend to make complicated furniture; she'll just make the simplest designs.

Yue and Chen assisted Bai Ling. Yue had a strong learning ability, and Chen was very interested in sawing wood. Bai Ling also guided the two to look at proportions, and they started learning various woodworking skills from sawing wood.

Yue felt happy whenever she was with Bai Ling, but Chen was different. After working as a carpenter with Bai Ling for a few days, he got bored. He only worked with Bai Ling in the morning and went out with his friends in the afternoon.

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Bai Ling made a cupboard, a wardrobe, and two small tables for the family. The cupboard was placed in the main room, the wardrobe was placed in her father's room, and a small table was placed in each of the two bedrooms.

Feng really likes the wardrobe. Before, the clothes at home were all stored in baskets, and later in boxes. Now that there is a wardrobe, it is much more convenient to store clothes. There is also a cupboard. Before, the bowls and chopsticks at home were stored in earthenware basins, but now they can be stored in the cupboard. The cupboard doors are inlaid with glass, making it look clean and neat.

The same furniture was used in Yue's home. After finishing those, Bai Ling began making the furniture for his and Yue's new house.

In addition to wardrobes and cupboards, there are also desks, bookshelves, dressing tables, and display cabinets to be made. For aesthetic purposes, Bai Ling also plans to carve some patterns on the furniture.

This would take much longer, but there wasn't much to do in winter, so Bai Ling had plenty of time to make the furniture that she and Yue would use in the future.

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Winter temperatures drop quickly, so the orcs mostly stay within their tribes and rarely leave, and they also rarely have guests.

However, today was an exception. Just after noon, the sound of birds chirping could be heard over the Gaoshu tribe.

The sound was high-pitched and sharp, and even the beastmen inside the house heard it, including Bai Ling. He was already very familiar with the Sky Beastmen, and he could tell what the birdsong meant. It meant that Sky Beastmen had come to the High Tree Tribe.

Bai Ling and Yue both came out of the house, and Feng and Cang also came out. The four of them walked onto the street and looked in the direction from which the birdsong of spring was coming.

Not far away in the sky, several large birds were circling back and forth, as if they were carrying something on their backs, and they were calling out incessantly towards the ground.

Cang said, "Which tribe's Sky Beastmen are these? They don't look like they're from our tribe."

Feng said, "Of course they're not from our tribe. There aren't any Sky Orcs in the nearby tribes either. Could they be from the Central Tribe?"

As they spoke, the sky beastmen slowly descended. Bai Ling also felt that these were beastmen from the Central Tribe. Besides the Central Tribe, Bai Ling couldn't understand which other tribe's sky beastmen would visit the High Tree Tribe at this time.

Not long after the Sky Orcs landed, one of the Orcs hurried over and said to Bai Ling, "Ling, guests have arrived at the tribe. The chieftain asked me to call you over. They are all in the tribe's council room now. You should go there quickly."

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The orcs who came were indeed from the central tribe. They had suffered a lot along the way. When they set off from the tribe, it was still autumn and the temperature was warm and pleasant. But the further north they flew, the lower the temperature became. With the arrival of winter, even though these orcs were all orcs who could fly normally in winter, they still couldn't stand it.

They can only take to the skies after the sun is high in the sky, and must stop before sunset. They can't just rest anywhere along the way; they must find orc tribes to stop and spend the night in their caves. Sometimes it's still very early, but in order to find a tribe to stay in, these sky orcs will stop flying and cease their flight.

Bad weather meant even less time to fly, and sometimes they couldn't fly at all for a whole day. Because of these reasons, it took them an extra month to reach the High Tree Tribe.

The orcs of the central tribe were overjoyed to see their people arrive, especially the Great Elder, who had been asking them all sorts of questions ever since they arrived.

How are the tribespeople doing this year? How was the cassava harvest? How were the other crops? Are the tribespeople having enough to eat? How are the domesticated livestock doing...?

The elder had many questions, and the orcs who came answered all at once: the orcs in the tribe were doing well; the cassava harvest was good, although not enough to feed the entire tribe, it was more than enough for all the tribe's harvesters to plant, and next year they could plant even more cassava; the other crops were also doing well, and planting yielded much more food than gathering; the orcs in the tribe still couldn't always have enough to eat, but it was much better than before; the domesticated livestock were doing well, and some had already given birth to cubs...

The elder knew that there was some embellishment in these words. For example, it was impossible that all the orcs in the tribe were doing well. With so many orcs in the tribe, there would always be one or two who would encounter something and not live well. As for the crops they cultivated and the livestock they raised, these orcs only reported good news and never bad news.

However, the elder was still very happy, because even if these words were embellished, they still showed that life in the tribe was getting better and better.

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The Sky Beastmen came to the High Tree Tribe at this time to deliver something to Bai Ling.

They brought a lot of plant seeds, as well as some special stones, especially the yellow stone with a glossy surface that Bai Ling had emphasized.

This kind of stone is not common, but the caravans of the Central Tribe have traveled to so many places that they still managed to find it and bring it to Bai Ling.

Pieces of yellow stones were laid out. The surface of these stones was yellow mixed with black, and the yellow color was very beautiful, with a sun-like luster that made people unconsciously like them.

"We obtained this stone through a trade with a tribe. The orcs in that tribe really liked this stone; they would smash it and make it into necklaces to wear."

Bai Ling's eyes were drawn to it; the stone even seemed to shimmer like sunlight to him. This was the gold ore he had been searching for, and a high-purity one at that.

The Orcish continent has no currency, so gold naturally does not have monetary attributes, but it can be used to make jewelry.

Bai Ling wanted to find gold ore, smelt it, and make a set of beautiful gold jewelry. When they got married, Yue would wear the beautiful gold jewelry and look as handsome as a god.