Chapter 28
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Chapter 28: Big Idiot?
As night fell, the aroma of food wafted through the tribe, constantly stimulating the hungry Red Fox tribe members and making them swallow continuously.
Since their original tribal camp was destroyed by the blizzard, they had been starving and sleeping outdoors, never having a proper meal.
The aroma that kept drilling into their noses now held a fatal temptation for them.
“Is it dinner time already?”
Zhao Pan stretched lazily, stood up, and slowly walked towards the direction of the camp’s fire.
After taking two steps, he paused and looked back at the Red Fox tribe leader who was still standing there foolishly, seemingly lost in thought.
“Hey! It’s dinner.”
“What are you standing there foolishly for?”
Hearing this, the Red Fox tribe leader’s facial muscles twitched, and he reminded him irritably.
“I’m a captive.”
“I know.”
Zhao Pan tilted his head.
Looking at Zhao Pan’s foolish reaction, the Red Fox tribe leader felt speechless.
“We’ll actually get food?”
In this era, after one tribe was annexed by another, the captive side basically wouldn’t get food for the first few days.
This could be considered common sense.
In his impression, even large tribes didn’t have abundant food.
In the beginning, those captives hadn’t done anything and hadn’t shown their value, yet they expected to eat and drink for free?
That was too naive.
Zhao Pan naturally understood what he meant, but maintaining his “honest person” persona, he kept his simple and naive look.
“Of course.”
“We have plenty of food.”
‘How foolish is this guy,’ the Red Fox tribe leader thought speechlessly, then said.
“two roe deer aren’t few, but your tribe has many people.”
“It’s not even enough for yourselves to divide…”
Speaking up to this point, the Red Fox tribe leader’s tone carried a hint of complexity.
“You should hurry over, lest you arrive late and don’t get a bite.”
He didn’t feel ill will towards this big idiot he had chatted with for a long time.
To be honest, he was even a little worried about how this foolish guy had survived until now, and then he started urging him to go eat by himself.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Pan scratched the back of his head with a naive look again.
“But our tribe has plenty of food. Are you really not eating?”
Saying this, Zhao Pan didn’t continue speaking.
He directly walked towards the most lively area within the camp by himself.
As soon as he left, the other Red Fox tribe members immediately gathered around him.
Clearly, they had all heard Zhao Pan’s words.
“Leader, how about, how about we go take a look…”
The aroma of the food was too fatal to them, and the expressions on their faces were wavering.
Hearing this, the Red Fox tribe leader’s face also showed a trace of wavering.
Coupled with Zhao Pan’s words just now, after a moment of hesitation, he gritted his teeth fiercely.
“Alright then, let’s go take a look…”
Speaking up to this point, as if he suddenly noticed something else.
He turned around and looked back at the people behind him.
“Also, we have now been annexed by the Mirror tribe.”
“The Red Fox tribe is gone.’
“Don’t call me leader anymore.”
Having been a leader himself, he knew well that no tribal chief liked to see their people call another person “leader.”
As he’d stated, they are now a part of the Mirror Tribe, and were no longer the Red Fox Tribe.
Everyone needed to understand their new place.
Gathering amongst themselves as former Red Fox Tribe members was acceptable, but they had to maintain boundaries.
Anything beyond that could be perceived as rebellion, making everyone’s lives difficult.
With a restless heart, after walking a few steps closer.
Zhao Pan, who seemed to have seen him, immediately waved at him.
“Over here, over here!”
Zhao Pan’s movement was quite noticeable.
Many people from the Mirror tribe subconsciously glanced over.
Feeling those glances, his heart tightened, and he couldn’t help but lament inwardly, ‘What is this big idiot shouting about?’
To be honest, at that moment, he was already mentally prepared to be driven back by the people of the Mirror tribe.
However, the result was that after those people glanced at them, they didn’t pay attention to them anymore and continued doing their own things.
This situation made him slightly relieved.
Then, taking this large group of people behind him, he braced himself and walked towards where Zhao Pan was.
Looking at the big guy who was smiling foolishly and inviting them to sit down, his mood became increasingly complex.
At the same time, he was secretly surprised that no one actually came to drive them away, no one even paid attention to them.
“This pot of soup, divide it among yourselves.”
As he spoke, Zhao Pan lifted the wooden board covering the stone pot, and a rich, fresh aroma immediately assailed their nostrils.
They subconsciously swallowed.
He could almost swear that in his 20+ years of life, he had never seen food like this.
“This, what is this?”
“Fish soup.”
Zhao Pan said, scratching his hair.
“Fish soup?”
Another unfamiliar term.
He found that there were too many things and matters in this tribe that he didn’t know about, for example, the fish soup in front of him.
“How should I put it?”
Zhao Pan’s face showed a hint of distress, and then he simply picked up a wooden bowl, scooped himself a bowl of fish soup, and took a sip.
“Just drink it as is.”
“There’s meat in it too, but watch out for the fish bones…”
As he spoke, Zhao Pan even impressively spat out a thin, sharp fish bone.
“It’s really painful if those get stuck in your throat.”
“So everyone, be careful while you eat.
Meanwhile, on the other side, after directly leaving those newcomers for Zhao Pan to look after, Luo Ji, as the chief, truly relaxed a lot.
Gnawing on the roasted wild rabbit in his hand, his mouth was dripping with oil, and then he drank large mouthfuls of the delicious fish soup.
He felt like all the frustration from the whole day had disappeared.
Of course, the only slight imperfection was the lack of flavor…
“Sigh, if only I could sprinkle some chili powder and add some cumin…”
Thinking of this, Luo Ji took another large bite of the roasted wild rabbit in his hand and began thinking about where to get some seasoning.
If chili powder wasn’t available, getting something like ‘salt’ would also be good.
At the same time, vegetables were also very important.
Eating meat and fish every day, Luo Ji was really afraid of getting a belly full of fat and ending up with nutritional imbalance.
“Tomorrow, when the hunting party and scouting party set off, I’ll have them keep an eye out for vegetables.
If they can find some, we can clear a few plots of land near the tribe and try planting some…”
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