"May the Main God shelter us! May the Cloud Snake ancestors shelter us! Nieka, how did this early-spring captive hunt turn out? How many losses did we suffer?..."
"Clan chief, we broke five small Salinan 'tree tribe' clans and captured more than six hundred young men and women. Among them, there are around four hundred women who can bear children... The hunter-gatherer tribes here are all very small, and their tribal warriors have almost no decent weapons or organization. They seem to have absolutely no experience in large-group fighting, and before several hundred warriors, they couldn't withstand a single blow!... Of the clan warriors we sent out, only a little over twenty suffered light wounds, and four died in battle and went to the Divine Kingdom... May the ancestors shelter us! With this large batch of captives to replenish us, every man in the clan can take a wife! And when spring plowing starts this year, we should be able to open another four or five thousand mu of farmland!..."
"Good. The casualties truly weren't large! This batch of captives is very important, and it came just in time. Next, the clan must concentrate all its strength on preparing for the spring plowing in May!... Last year, we landed too late, and this Oak Tribe isn't good at farming either... In the end, we only planted a few thousand mu of pumpkin and coarse grains, paired with gathered acorns and wild vegetables, barely letting the clan scrape by with full bellies. Even the rations for the clan warriors' expedition this year were borrowed from Three Mountain Port in the south after Priest Aohummingbird pleaded over and over... The soil and water here are so good, and there's a Great River flowing through, all of it first-rate irrigated land... This year,