Chapter 944 - 943, Have the Priest Come Over
The two little cubs were instantly excited, jumping up with joy, "You are willing to save my little friends?"
Ji Nuan smiled, "When your tribe’s priest comes tomorrow, we’ll talk about it."
After speaking, she took out a small backpack from behind her.
She beckoned to the two little ones, "I have prepared gifts for you, do you like them?"
The two cubs’ eyes sparkled brightly, scrambling over with their short legs to Ji Nuan’s side.
Between them, the beast skin package contained two very delicate items, but the two little ones didn’t know what they were.
Gui Beibei looked puzzled, nudging the contents of the beast skin package with her little head, gazing up at Ji Nuan with curiosity, "Shaman, what is this?"
Ji Nuan sat up and picked up a piece of folded beast skin clothing, unfolding it.
It was a fiery red beast skin shawl, the fur glossy and soft, and very pretty in design.
Stars instantly sprung up in the eyes of the two little ones.
They happily hopped around the beast skin shawl, calling out in their baby voices,
"It’s a beautiful beast skin outfit!"
"We have beast skin clothes now!"
Ji Nuan learned from Kaka that in the Aquatic Tribe, soft and durable beast skins handled by Land Orcs were very precious.
Each year, when the smaller Aquatic Clans paid their protection fee to the stronger warrior tribes, if they could produce two pieces of high-quality beast skin, they could even cover a year’s worth of goods.
The Tortoise Tribe was more powerful than the Sea Crocodile Tribe because their relationship with the Land Orcs was not as tense.
During the past few times they paid protection fees to the Giant Whale Clan, they exchanged some traded items with a middle-ranked Nia Forest tribe, including a treated soft beast skin.
The orc captain who came to collect the protection fee from the Giant Whale Clan even received a lot of rewards after presenting that beast skin to the clan.
Thus, the Giant Whale Clan viewed the Tortoise Tribe especially favorably.
The Tortoise Tribe caught on to this, so every year, they would exchange some prettily handled beast skins with the Land Orc Tribe.
But how could the tribes living near the coastal forests be any powerful?
Those small and medium-sized tribes couldn’t even satisfy their own people’s need for beast skins yearly; how would they exchange with the Tortoise Tribe for items that only served to decorate the caves?
Moreover, in these past two years, relentless disasters plagued the lands, leaving the tribes without spare beastskins to trade for those useless goods.
Therefore, in the Tortoise Tribe, only the old priest and the Clan Leader Zhuangzhuang had two pieces of treated soft beast skin clothing, which were even made from Long-eared Beasts’ skins that orcs don’t usually care for.
Yet, even so, those two pieces still invoked envy among all the orcs from the different tribes.
Those two beast skin garments were indeed a source of pride for the old priest and Zhuangzhuang.
Although the two cubs were still young, they were quite aware of the value of such processed, soft, and durable high-quality beast skins.
The two little ones carefully rubbed their tiny heads against the two little beast skin vests, ecstatic beyond words.
Imagining the envious looks of their friends and tribespeople when they returned to the tribe in those beast skin vests, the two little ones couldn’t wait to head back right now.
Seeing their joy, Ji Nuan was also very happy, children are truly easy to please.
She reached out to pick up Gui Beibei and slipped the little shawl onto the excited cub.