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Qing Kuo: "You guys probably hunted too fast, only seriously injuring them, and quite a few didn't die. I was just talking to Jian Mo about whether we should treat the Brown Fart Beast."

Jian Mo waved her hand, indicating that she was there.

Ban Ming: "Why? If we fight it off, we'll eat it; treating it would be a waste of medicine."

Zhou Fu: "Because we don't want to eat so much salted dried meat anymore."

Having hunted so much prey at once, they must be preserved and made into salted jerky to be eaten slowly.

Even if the seasoning is excellent, salted meat jerky is still dry and hard. Eating a little bit occasionally is fine, but eating it every day can be quite unpleasant.

After eating it for so many years, people don't really crave it anymore.

Qing Kuo: "We want to see if we can cure it, then raise it, and eat fresh meat when we want to."

Once he explained it that way, everyone understood.

De Jiang looked at Jian Mo: "Can this cure it?"

Jian Mo nodded. "Theoretically, it should be fine. They've mainly lost too much blood and were frightened, which is why they're in this state. As long as we disinfect and stop the bleeding, there shouldn't be any problems."

Wild animals are quite resilient and don't seek particularly good treatments, so generally speaking, they're fine.

If we find that a certain Brown Fart Beast isn't up to par, we can just kill it and eat it.

That way, it won't be a waste.

After the explanation was clear, everyone had no objections to treating the Brown Fart Beast.

Only--

"Where should we keep such a large group of Brown Fart Beast after they've been cured? They're a bit fierce; letting them roam freely in the tribe definitely won't work."

"We were just discussing this issue, and the current plan is to keep them in the arena."

"A gladiatorial arena? Our newly built, beautiful gladiatorial arena is going to be used to raise beasts?! What if it poops in there?"

"We can put a thick layer of dry grass underneath, that way the ground won't get too dirty. The arena is sunken; as long as we block the two rows of passageways, they won't be able to escape."

"Even if you use hay as a bedding, the urine will still seep through!"

"Just wash it when the time comes. If once isn't enough, wash it a couple more times. Brown Fart Beast eat grass, so it won't smell too bad."

There was a heated discussion about raising Brown Fart Beast.

No one objected to raising the Brown Fart Beast to eat slowly; the only disagreement was about where to raise Brown Fart Beast.

Many orcs find it hard to accept keeping Brown Fart Beast in the arena. That's a sacred arena where everyone fights their blood and sweat; how can you keep Brown Fart Beast there?

What if someone loses a fight and gets pinned to the ground and rubbed in the face with animal droppings?

The orcs' opposition was extremely vehement.

After listening to everyone's ideas, Wu Jiong said, "Since everyone's ideas are not unified, why not just distribute the Brown Fart Beast? Those who want to raise them can temporarily keep them in a wooden enclosure, and those who don't want to raise them can simply take the meat and make it into dried meat."

Everyone agreed with this approach, since there was plenty of open space in the tribe, and they weren't short of places to fence off animals.

After agreeing on the terms, Wu Jiong asked De Jiang and Qing Kuo to calculate the number of Brown Fart Beast each family would receive.

This distribution is based on individual contributions. Basically, those who go out hunting can each receive at least one Brown Fart Beast, while those who don't go out hunting might receive several dozen kilograms of meat.

The tribe was small, and everyone watched the hunt the whole time, so the meat was divided very clearly and no one had any objections.

Jian Mo noticed from the side that the situations of each family in the tribe were becoming increasingly different.

Even though the Riverside Tribe generally live a communal lifestyle and each person is supported by the tribe, as time goes by, the gap in the resources accumulated by each family becomes increasingly wide, and private property becomes quite apparent.

Riverside Tribe developed relatively slowly, while Mengshui Tribe developed much more significantly.

The Mengshui Tribe has always been the wealthiest tribe in the vicinity. Their tribe is larger, more populous, and their situation is more complex.

They gradually transitioned from collective living to individual living, and from relying on the collective for support to focusing primarily on family-based efforts.

This was also one of the reasons why Min Dang's partner, Sui Ai, was seriously injured, making life particularly difficult for their family.

Jian Mo found it hard to say whether this trend was good or bad, but it was clear that the trend was unstoppable, and he had a feeling of witnessing history.

The tribal members who were discussing the matter were unaware of this subtle change.

With fair and impartial distribution among the tribe members, everyone quickly divided up the day's prey and happily carried the meat home.

Wu Jiong contributed the most effort and received the most prey, a total of six Brown Fart Beasts and two baskets of meat.

Jian Mo originally planned to put the Long-tailed Bird and the River Fluff Beast into the Pack-Pack Beast's shed, and then leave one shed empty to raise the Brown Fart Beast, but later found that the Brown Fart Beast was just too big.

The Brown Fart Beast are a bunch of muscular freaks. Even if you manage to squeeze them into the animal pen, they'll either fight and collapse the pen, or they'll probably scare the neighboring Pack-Pack Beast to death.

The Pack-Pack Beast is still producing milk, Jian Mo can't bear to part with it.

After discussing it, the two decided not to take the easy way out and instead set up a separate enclosure for the animals, just like everyone else.

If they hunt other prey in the future, they can temporarily keep them in this enclosure.

It just so happens that Jiujiu and Ying'ao live on the side, so with them watching over things, nothing should happen.

Jiujiu is very enthusiastic about guarding its prey.

As for the two baskets of meat they were allocated, they didn't need to rush to finish them. The two of them, along with the two Flying-Winged Beasts, could finish them in one meal if they ate as much as they wanted.

Seeing so much meat, Jian Mo was too lazy to make any fancy dishes, so she just blanched it and put it in a big pot to stew.

Once stewed, slice it, top it with chili and minced garlic, and it's done. It should taste great.

It's convenient to add less salt when stewing in a big pot, making it easier for Jiujiu and Ying'ao to eat.

However, during the meal, Jian Mo noticed that Wu Jiong ate only two pieces and then barely touched the food.