CHAPTER 163: FOR THE ENTIRE TRIBE TO EAT MEAT

When Xie Daiyu saw her kneeling next to him, he couldn’t help but frown. "You don’t need to stay with me. I will be fine." He was stronger than Ruan Chanchan and didn’t need her to accompany him.

"I know, but I just want to stay next to you," Ruan Chanchan replied as she fed Xie Daiyu a peeled moon nut and took a bite of one herself.

Xie Daiyu parted his lips and ate the moon nut that Ruan Chanchan had fed him and chewed on it instinctively. He had no idea what to think of the current situation. Never before had anyone done such a thing for him. In the eyes of the tribesmen, he was strong enough to withstand such a simple punishment. He thought the same, after all, what kind of totem warrior would he be if he couldn’t even withstand such a simple punishment on his own, but at the same time, he felt quite touched.

With Ruan Chanchan kneeling beside him, Xie Daiyu felt his heartbeat escalating. He took a brave yet sneaky glance at the woman kneeling beside him. He knew that Ruan Chanchan was really beautiful, but for some reason, he had a feeling that the woman in front of him was much more beautiful than she was in the past. Her snow-like skin was smoother than the eggs of the beasts, and the natural flush of her skin made her look even more charming.

As for those ruby red eyes, he didn’t know where to begin admiring them. In fact, Xie Daiyu knew in his heart that he didn’t even know enough words to perfectly admire the woman beside him. The words that came to his mind couldn’t even come close to justifying Ruan Chanchan’s beauty.

And she is all mine, thought Xie Daiyu happily. With Ruan Chanchan by his side, even the slight numbing pain in his knees had turned subtle and close to non-existent.

Ruan Chanchan had no idea that the mer beside her was on a completely different track. She was currently thinking about how to make a greater contribution to the tribe. Ruan Chanchan didn’t wish to be accepted by the elders but by the entire tribe itself. She knew that elders were like the tails of old dogs; no matter how hard she tried, they would never straighten up. They hated her because they feared her, and Ruan Chanchan had no intention of making them happy.

"Do you think that with the dried jerky, everyone will be able to eat their fill?" Ruan Chanchan asked while looking at the holy flame.

"Everyone?" Xie Daiyu snapped out of his daze and looked up at his destined one with surprise on his face.

"Of course, I want everyone in the tribe to sleep with their bellies full of meat." This was Ruan Chanchan’s heartfelt wish. She had seen the orphans and the elderly, and from the memories of the previous host, she knew that these were the only batch of people who cared a little about the former Ruan Chanchan. Even though they were suffering themselves, they would still bring something for Ruan Chanchan to eat every now and then.

Many of the elderly chased away the bullies who tried to beat and bully the former Ruan Chanchan. And yet they were the ones who got the least to eat. She wanted everyone in the tribe to get enough meat and vegetables such that they wouldn’t have to worry about starving to death every winter.

Xie Daiyu: "..."

He fell silent after listening to Ruan Chanchan’s response. It was a good thing that Ruan Chanchan dared to say such words in front of him; if she had said these words to someone else instead of him, they would have taken her for a madwoman. How could she say such unbelievable words? Even when they had their ancestral land, they couldn’t feed everyone. Even then, letting everyone in the tribe have their fill was a dream that many could only dream about, but couldn’t do anything because it was a dream that no one could fulfil.

"I know what you are thinking and where you are coming from," Xie Daiyu slowly began as he carefully thought about his next words. He didn’t want to make Ruan Chanchan think that he didn’t believe in her. "But it’s impossible. Even if we kill ten gigantic beasts, we might not be able to make enough meat for everyone to eat every day. The cubs alone eat more than a ton of meat every day if they are allowed to have their fill. Only the high-ranking tribes that have more than a hundred totem warriors can feed everyone in their tribe until they are full."

He also wanted to let everyone in the tribe eat meat until they were full. But how could that be possible? Just relying on the six hunting teams that comprised either six or eight totem warriors, with only one high-ranking totem warrior, they could only dream of hunting that many beasts. Even if they doubled the number of hunting teams, they might not be able to hunt enough for the entire tribe to eat meat.

Furthermore, even if the young cubs awakened as high-ranking totem warriors, it would take a long time to train them, and that was not enough. They needed to feed these cubs a large amount of meat and blood. If they failed in nourishing them, then the growth of these cubs would be stunted, but giving them enough meat meant less for the weak ones.

"Relying on just pure hunting is not going to help," said Ruan Chanchan as she popped another moon nut in her mouth and crushed it with her teeth. She knew very well that with the current number of totem warriors, it was simply impossible for them to fill the granary with thousands of tonnes of dried meat.

"Then... what are you trying to say?" Xie Daiyu asked with a frown on his face.