Because of their way of life and food sources, the Youqiao Clan did not have a particularly large settlement. They were more like a clan-based tribe, with families and blood relations as the primary bonds. Once their population grew, families split off, and over time, a dozen or so villages appeared throughout the region. The one Ye Ying and the others had found was one of the villages closest to the lake.
Even the small village near the lake had yet to learn how to fish.
This was not because they did not know there was food in the water. Rivers were different from lakes. A river's width was limited, so how far could the fish inside it run?
But the Hong Lake before them was vast, and its fish could not possibly loiter foolishly along the shore. Since they did not know how to build boats, all they could do was gaze at the lake and sigh. Even knowing there was plenty of food in the water, they could do nothing about it.
Still, the Youqiao Clan's situation was far better than that of the small tribe Shi Quan had encountered before.
The Youqiao Clan Main Branch was currently in a period of reform and development. They had already mastered trap-making and coordinated hunting, so their population had begun to rise rapidly. At the same time, their growing population began squeezing the beasts out of their living space, which created serious consequences.
As the population increased, the game in one place was no longer enough to feed everyone. The land within any given area could support only so many people.
Thus, they had no choice but to keep splitting off branches and migrating outward.
They had two goals in doing so. The first was to ease the pressure on