SFS Chapter 282 Fox Tremor's Mental Journey
Chapter 282 Fox Tremor's Mental Journey
The old priest was the first to sit on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed). As soon as he touched it, he felt the warmth of the kang. The old priest raised his eyebrows, leaned on his cane, and sat down, feeling the warmth emanating from beneath him.
"This is a heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed)?"
Lin Baiyan could tell from her expression that she had already experienced the benefits of the heated kang. He smiled and nodded, "That's right. During the snowy season, when you light this kang, the room stays warm all day long."
Hu Bing sat down as well, and soon, warmth spread from beneath her to her limbs. Hu Bing was pleasantly surprised, "This heated kang bed is so magical?"
"However, High Priest, it's alright during the snowy season, but in the hot summer, once the earthen stove outside is lit, it's impossible to stay inside." As expected of someone who had helped Lin Baiyan build many houses, Lu Xiao asked the most crucial question as soon as he got to the heart of the matter.
Lin Baiyan smiled and pointed to the wall next to the stove, "Look, there's an iron lid here. As long as you put this lid on, the heat will go out through this chimney."
"If the flue gas doesn't pass through the heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed), it naturally can't transfer heat."
Lu Xiao looked at their high priest with a gleam in his eyes, "So that's how it is."
He said the high priest must have already made up his mind!
Listening to Lin Baiyan's explanation, Hu Bing and his students also felt that this heated kang bed was truly wonderful.
Building a heated kang (a traditional heated platform bed) doesn't actually take much effort. After the first kang was completed, Lin Baiyan called on a few members of the construction team to go to each household to install kangs.
He also instructed Zhushan to go back and add heated brick beds to all the houses that had already been built in the city.
The first thing Beast City implemented was the establishment of the residential area. As everyone became more familiar with the work process, a considerable number of houses had already been built in the residential area.
Because the Azure Flame Tribe didn't have enough space, the Silver Tiger Clan never lived with them; they only came over to eat together every day.
As the weather gradually turned colder, Lin Baiyan decided to settle the Silver Tiger Clan in houses in the city. After all, they would eventually live in those houses anyway.
Most of the Silver Tiger Clan orcs are incredibly strong tigers, and they happen to be working on the construction team, so living there would be convenient for them to work.
However, it wasn't free. The layout and size of the houses were all different, so Lin Baiyan simply let them choose using their work points. Better houses required more work points, while worse ones required fewer.
If you don't have enough work points, you can also exchange food and supplies for work points to buy a house.
In this way, resources are taken from the people and used for the people, and only then can a city gradually start to function.
Before long, almost every household had installed a heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed). With such a heating marvel, this winter should be easier.
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Lin Baiyan was calculating; he needed to recalculate the work points of everyone in the tribe. The Silver Tiger tribe had different work points after changing houses, and he needed to clarify these figures.
With over a thousand orcs to manage, Lin Baiyan was practically tearing his hands apart from writing. The wooden abacus in his hand rattled loudly, with Mao Yu and Hu Zhen helping him out beside him.
Speaking of Fox Zhen, he is truly a master of accounting. Logically speaking, given his age, his memory should not be as good as that of a young cub, but he managed to carve out a bloody path among the many orcs and successfully join Lin Baiyan's accounting team.
Fox Zhen was overjoyed. Since the three clans merged, he, as the clan leader, had become an elder. In the past, he had to worry about the food, living conditions, and raising offspring of his clansmen, but now he didn't have to worry about any of these things.
Fox Zhen was initially somewhat disappointed. He had always valued power highly, but he was not a stubborn, cunning orc. He used his cunning on outsiders.
At first, he was indeed unwilling for his people to join the Azure Flame Tribe.
According to Hu Zhen, although the Silver Fox Clan did not have much food on the snow mountain, the entire snow mountain was their territory, and their tribe occupied the snow mountain, so they could make a living.
But when he arrived at the Azure Flame Tribe, he realized he had been too naive; the outside world had become something he didn't recognize.
Fox Zhen looked at the novel food, houses, and tools in the Cangyan tribe. He was tempted, but it wasn't enough for him to abandon everything he already had.
They joined the Azure Flame Tribe. To put it nicely, they joined; to put it bluntly, they became vassals. Fox Zhen was worried that the foxes, big and small, in his tribe would be looked down upon by the orcs of the Azure Flame Tribe.
Later, after the Beast God's divine decree, Fox Zhen had no choice but to accept the fact, no matter how unwilling he was.
Their tribe has guarded the Sacred Crystal for generations, and Hu Zhen was taught from a young age that the Sacred Crystal is the lifeblood of the Silver Fox Clan.
Unexpectedly, Lin Baiyan did not force them to belong to the Cangyan Tribe, but instead merged them with the Silver Tiger Tribe to form the City of Ten Thousand Beasts.
In all his years as a beast, Fox Zhen had never seen such a magnificent city as Ten Thousand Beasts City. When Lin Baiyan placed the map in front of them, Fox Zhen was completely stunned.
He wasn't stupid; Hu Zhen recognized the grandeur of the city almost without thinking.
Lin Baiyan treated them with utmost sincerity. Ever since he mentioned the merger of the three races, he has shared everything he has learned with them without reservation.
Fox Zhen saw the pottery that could be seen everywhere in the Cangyan tribe, the bricks and tiles that were used to make those exquisite and sturdy houses, and their seemingly inexhaustible salt.
Not to mention the script that Lin Baiyan taught them, a script that would ensure the Silver Fox Clan's eternal legacy.
Fox Zhen knew that as long as the beastmen of Ten Thousand Beasts City learned to write, future generations of Ten Thousand Beasts City would understand where they came from.
This is probably the history Lin Baiyan was talking about.
From then on, Fox Zhen was truly convinced and admired Lin Baiyan, the high priest, from the bottom of his heart. Despite being such a young sub-beastman, his thoughts encompassed all living beings.
Fox Zhen thought to himself: Perhaps this is the meaning of the word "broad-mindedness" that Yang Ye had taught them before.
Lin Baiyan truly deserves the description of having a broad mind and being compassionate towards all beasts.
If Lin Baiyan knew that he was highly regarded by Hu Zhen, he would definitely feel embarrassed.
After all, he had been secretly thinking to himself that Hu Zhen was a cunning old fox.
After the construction of the City of Ten Thousand Beasts began, Fox Zhen became an elder. No longer having to manage the trivial matters of the tribe, he was almost immediately idle.
Going to class every day to learn to write and do math was so easy that Hu Zhen wasn't used to it and even felt a bit listless for a while.
He had toiled for most of his life, and now, without his spiritual support, he seemed rather idle.
However, this period of time did not last long. After Lin Baiyan discovered his talent for arithmetic, he immediately pulled him over to work with him to calculate data.
Hu Zhen was already able to understand everyday characters, and now he was doing calculations with them, feeling completely at ease.