I've been transported to the orc continent.

Chapter 302 is definitely good!

Bai Ling said, "Clan leader, if you want to make an exchange, you can discuss it with my father."

Zhan nodded and said, "Alright, I'll go ask your father later. Your family has plenty of dried meat and food, as well as animal hides. You have everything the tribe has. I wonder what your father wants to exchange for it."

Bai Ling suddenly remembered something and asked, "Chieftain, I remember the tribe has sweet worm water. I'd like to exchange it for something."

Sweetworm water is honey. Bai Ling's family doesn't have it, but the tribe does.

"Sweetworm water?" Zhan asked. "Don't you have sweet grass at home? Why would you want to exchange it for sweetworm water?"

Bai Ling: "I want to do something else."

Zhan didn't ask any more questions, but nodded and said, "Alright, I'll talk to your father. The wine is very precious, and it's not enough to just exchange it for a little bit of sweet insect water. I'll ask your father what else he wants to exchange it for."

*

Just as Zhan said, Bai Ling's family lacked nothing, and Feng and Cang couldn't think of anything to exchange. So the two of them simply let Bai Ling, Yue, and Chen go to the tribe's warehouse to choose what they liked and exchange it.

The Gaoshu tribe's warehouse used to be on a low hill, but now the most valuable items have been moved to the tribe's houses for storage, while other less important items are still stored in the warehouse on the low hill.

Zhan and several old orcs opened the door to the tribe's warehouse and led Bai Ling and the other two inside. They first entered the warehouse where the most precious resources were stored, including gems, pearls, porcelain, bronzes, and ironware. The three of them looked around but didn't see anything they wanted to exchange.

The Bai family also had many beautiful pearls, gemstones, porcelain, and bronzes. In fact, the pearls and gemstones from the Bai family were even more beautiful than those from the tribe. As for the porcelain and bronzes, the three of them felt there was no need to exchange them, since they didn't need them.

Zhan then led the three to the second room, which contained food. Zhan led Bai Ling to the place where the sweet insect water was stored, opened a ceramic jar, and said, "Ling, this is where the sweet insect water is stored."

Bai Ling originally wanted to exchange for honey, but now he has changed his mind and wants to exchange for beeswax.

Next to the jar of honey was a basket lined with hay. Scattered among the hay were pale yellow lumps, which Bai Ling recognized at a glance as beeswax.

What he wanted to make was better done with beeswax than with honey.

“Chief, besides the sweet insect water, I would also like to exchange some of this,” Bai Ling said, pointing to the beeswax.

Zhan looked at the food in Bai Ling's hand and said, "This is from the sweet worm nest. It tastes a little sweet, but not as sweet as the sweet worm water. When the orcs in the tribe burned the sweet worm nest, they brought this back with them. If you want to trade, you can take some."

In the end, Bai Ling traded for a small jar of honey and a lot of beeswax.

*

What Bai Ling wanted to make were face cream and lip balm.

In winter, the weather is cold, and the wind makes the skin very dry, and the lips also become dry. Beastmen are used to applying animal oil to their faces and lips. When Bai Ling brewed the wine, he was thinking about what the wine could be used for. Suddenly, Bai Ling thought of making face cream with the wine.

Without hesitation, when Zhan asked Bai Ling if he could trade wine with his family, Bai Ling thought he could trade some honey instead. Unexpectedly, he was lucky and not only got honey but also beeswax.

Honey moisturizes the skin, and beeswax can be used as an adhesive; using these two to make a face cream is perfect.

*

Upon hearing that Bai Ling wanted to make something that could be applied to the face, Chen immediately became interested. He patted his chest and said that he could help, but once the face cream was finished, he would have to give Bai Ling a larger share.

Bai Ling laughed and said, "Chen, don't you only like making delicious food? You can't eat or drink face cream, so why are you interested in it too?"

Chen glanced to both sides, but did not answer Bai Ling's question directly: "Brother, I think it's quite fun. I'm strong and can help you a lot. Just give me a little more."

Bai Ling didn't say anything more. He nodded and said, "Okay, then go grind the pearl powder. The pearl powder needs to be ground very finely; it won't work if it's too coarse."

Chen agreed and went with her father to get the pearls.

Bai Ling and Yue went to the kitchen, and Yue made a small fire pit out of mud bricks in the open space of the kitchen, as Bai Ling had instructed.

Yue did this with ease, and in just a short while, she had finished making the hearth. Bai Ling then found the smallest ceramic pot in the house and placed it on the hearth.

“Yue, when spring comes, I want to fire a batch of pottery and porcelain,” Bai Ling complained to Yue. “I always feel like we don’t have enough pottery at home.”

“Then I’ll fire it with you next year,” Yue said. “I really like that thing called porcelain; I think it’s really beautiful.”

Yue had seen the porcelain brought by the central tribe, and it looked really beautiful. Because it was so beautiful, Yue felt that porcelain should be kept in a cabinet as a treasure, rather than used for eating or other purposes.

Bai Ling said, "You'll be going out hunting again at that time, so you probably won't have time to fire the kiln with me. But we can draw the objects we want on paper together, and I'll bring people to fire them later."

This time, Bai Ling was in charge of tending the fire. After the water in the earthenware basin boiled, Yue put an earthenware bowl into the basin and then poured in the animal oil, beeswax, and honey that Bai Ling had prepared.

As Bai Ling added thin twigs to the fire pit, she said, "Yue, take the chopsticks and stir slowly, don't stop."

Following Bai Ling's instructions, Yue slowly stirred the mixture with chopsticks. The white animal fat, pale yellow beeswax, and yellow honey gradually melted and blended together into a viscous liquid as Yue stirred.

Bai Ling was very careful with the fire. Once the liquid in the earthenware bowl had blended, he stopped adding firewood to the fire pit and watched Yue continue stirring.

Yue's hands are very beautiful.

His fingers were long and slender, white, like upright bamboo or warm jade. He held a pair of chopsticks with his distinct fingers, his posture relaxed. He was doing something insignificant, but because his hands were so beautiful, the ordinary scene was transformed into a pleasing picture.

Bai Ling stared intently at Yue's moving hands when suddenly someone asked, "What are you looking at?"

Without hesitation, Bai Ling replied, "I'm looking at your hands."

"Are my hands pretty?" Yue continued to ask.

"Of course it looks good."

Yue was amused by Bai Ling's words, but even while laughing, she didn't stop what she was doing.

Bai Ling stood up, walked behind Yue, bent down, and enveloped the seated Yue in his own shadow. He also stretched out his left hand. Compared to Yue's hand, Bai Ling's palm was larger, his fingers were thicker, and his skin color was darker.

He took Yue's hand in his, completely enveloping it in his palm.