Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 269 Black Raven

Angela is an extremely intelligent bird.

Specifically, even though it was only born a short time ago, it could understand most of Jiang Luoluo's meaning very well, and would never go west if told to go east. It was very obedient and well-behaved.

Moreover, it wasn't as fragile as the baby birds Jiang Luoluo knew; it could run all over the place right after hatching.

Aside from having a natural fear of fire and not daring to approach it, Angela explored most of the cave on the first day.

Then, the feather quilt on the heated kang became their nest for resting. When Jiang Luoluo slept, they would snuggle up to Jiang Luoluo's pillow.

However, keeping such a bird is not all good.

Angela doesn't sleep and wake up according to human schedules. Often, she wakes up in the middle of the night while Jiang Luoluo is still sound asleep, barking and urging Jiang Luoluo to feed her.

Jiang Luoluo never woke up.

Before Angela could actually wake her up, Go had already grabbed Angela by the neck, carried her to the fire, and torn pieces of meat from the pot for her to eat.

Then Angela got smarter. When she woke up in the middle of the night feeling hungry, she would jump over Jiang Luoluo's head and peck at Ge's forehead—she sensed that Ge didn't like noise in the middle of the night, so she stopped barking.

But it never managed to peck at it successfully.

Before I could even touch Ge, he would grab my black beak, pinch the muzzle, and lift me up to feed me.

Ge kept this bird only to keep Jiang Luoluo company and amuse her during the snowy season. He didn't really like the bird, so naturally he couldn't be very gentle with it.

So even though Ge fed Angela every night, Angela didn't seem to like Ge much, and when she didn't need Ge, she would stick to Jiang Luoluo.

Go got up in the middle of the night, not entirely to feed Angela. With the start of the snow season, several days of heavy snowfall could easily block the entrance to the cave, requiring regular clearing.

This timer includes midnight.

After all, one night is too long. If you sleep through the whole night and then go to clean up, the snow on top will be too thick, and you will need to put in several times more effort.

There's less to do during the snow season, and the distinction between night and day isn't very clear, so it's okay to sleep for shorter periods at a time. You can just sleep a few more times, since there's not much else to do anyway.

Otherwise, why would so many tribespeople be pregnant after the snow season ends? It's because everyone has nothing else to do.

With Angela by her side, Jiang Luoluo had an exceptionally lively and fun winter.

The fledgling's feathers are not yet fully grown; they are very soft and fluffy, and feel very soft and comfortable to the touch.

When Jiang Luoluo was working, Angela liked to lean against his legs, and she often treated Angela like a pillow or doll to pet.

Actually, Jiang Luoluo's family does have real dolls, which were made from animal fur and looked quite realistic. However, everything has an "expiration date".

After the initial novelty wore off, I never took it out again. I only took out the stuffing during a thorough cleaning, washed it, and put it away again.

Jiang Luoluo didn't put the giant doll, which was taller than a person, back up. Instead, she took out the scraps of linen that had been used to stuff the doll and made clothes for Angela.

As a bird, Angela certainly doesn't need to wear clothes.

Jiang Luoluo was bored. Besides physical training, she had nothing else to do every day, so she started making little clothes for Angela and playing dress-up games all day long.

Besides the "clothes," there are also hats, wing covers, claw covers, and various small weapons that Jiang Luoluo made of wood.

When Angela is fully dressed up, she really does look like a character from an anime.

Most importantly, unlike other pets, Angela doesn't struggle when wearing uncomfortable clothes. She can endure her own discomfort and understand Jiang Luoluo's meaning very well, even cooperating with her actions.

Jiang Luoluo's love for cosplay was fully revived at this moment.

Not all of the things she made were useless; for example, the claw sheath was highly regarded by Ge.

Angela's claws are extremely sharp. Although she is usually very careful, she sometimes inadvertently cuts Jiang Luoluo's skin.

Although the wound heals almost immediately, it is still easy to cause injury.

But with the claw guards in place, Jiang Luoluo has never been injured again, so even if Angela doesn't change the little clothes Jiang Luoluo made, she still has to keep the claw guards on properly.

Jiang Luoluo knew it was for her own good, so she didn't refuse Ge's request. Although most pet owners are used to having scars on their bodies, no one would want to suffer if they didn't have scars.

Angela grows very slowly. Jiang Luoluo originally thought that a young bird like this would change its appearance very quickly after it was born.

But the truth is, until the end of the snow season, over three or four months, Angela was only a tiny bit bigger than when she first hatched.

It can even wear the first batch of little clothes that Jiang Luoluo made.

"Ge, could it be that I've caused something wrong with it?" Jiang Luoluo examined Angela's entire body.

In the end, it seemed quite healthy, and no problems were found.

Goe carefully examined Angela for a long time before speaking, "If it hasn't grown much in such a long time, then it must be a very powerful bird of prey."

Jiang Luoluo looked at Angela, who was wearing a linen beret, a bow around her neck, a linen dress, and a small wooden sword hanging on her belly. She was gentle and obedient and wondered where Ge's evaluation came from.

Go said calmly, “The fiercer and more powerful a wild beast or bird of prey is, the longer its juvenile growth period will be.”

Only a powerful race can provide the conditions to protect its young and allow them to grow up slowly.

Small wild animals like hares can grow to adulthood in just three or four months after birth.

Jiang Luoluo nodded. That's true. If they were weak and grew slowly, they would have gone extinct long ago.

Another reason is that the more powerful the wild beast or bird of prey, the longer its lifespan, and naturally, the more time its offspring have to grow up.

How could a wild beast with a lifespan of only two or three years possibly spend one or two years waiting for its cubs to grow up? Only wild beasts with a lifespan of several decades or even hundreds of years can allow their cubs to slowly grow up over several years.

However, this was something Ge had anticipated—Angela had shown extraordinary intelligence as soon as she hatched; such intelligence was impossible for a weak beast.

A powerful beast may be stupid, but a smart beast can never be weak.

Wisdom, in most cases, is equivalent to power.

But knowing this didn't have much of an impact on Jiang Luoluo. Her attitude towards Angela remained the same as before.

Jiang Luoluo simply treated Angela as a playmate and had no other expectations of her, nor did she intend to raise her as a hunting partner in the future.

That's still too far away for Jiang Luoluo. She's only 8 years old now, and it will be another 8 years before she can participate in hunting.

Normally, eight years is enough time for a generation of pets to pass away.

Pets that live to a ripe old age and live for over twenty years are ultimately a minority; there are always various unexpected events.

Ge felt the same way; all he hoped for from Angela was to spend some quality time with Jiang Luoluo.

As for whether to kill or release it in the end, it depends on Angela's behavior during the time she plays with it. If it stays well-behaved, when it grows up, Go will release it in the Taz Forest, and then it can take care of its own fate.

If it suddenly gets malicious and hurts Jiang Luoluo, just kill it and cook it to eat; after all, it was food to begin with.

Jiang Luoluo knew Ge's thoughts and agreed with them. She wasn't Buddha, she couldn't cut off her own flesh to feed an eagle.

If Angela grows up and becomes truly wild and wants to leave, you can say a proper goodbye and let her return to the forest. But if you want to hurt her, you'll have to test the effectiveness of her training during this time.

She's just a little bird; if she can't beat a python, surely she can beat it?

Jiang Luoluo's arrogance was immense, mainly because Ge had personally trained her during this period, making her feel that her strength had greatly improved, which inevitably led to her becoming complacent.

Another point is that Angela is indeed not very big, only about the size of a hen, so Jiang Luoluo is still confident.

That's why, as soon as the snow season ended, Jiang Luoluo immediately took Angela to find her friends and showed them her masterpiece—referring to the little clothes Angela was wearing.

Mao was the first to know that the egg he brought back had hatched, and he also knew it was a pity that Jiang Luoluo didn't get to eat the egg. He even comforted Jiang Luoluo, saying, "Next time I go hunting, I will definitely bring you back a new egg."

Then he was glared at by Ge.

The only ones who can understand Jiang Luoluo's joys are Xing and Xi.

Seeing Angela's little clothes gave Xing a lot of inspiration, and she made many new clothes for Angela, which were more exquisite and beautiful than those made by Jiang Luoluo.

As for happy, she doesn't like making clothes; she only likes changing Angela's clothes with Jiang Luoluo.

However, Angela is not someone anyone can get close to. She is very fierce to anyone other than Jiang Luoluo and Ge, and does not allow anyone to get close to her.

happy also went to great lengths, secretly feeding Angela several pieces of meat in order to gain the right to put a hat on Angela.

Clothes are not an option yet; the amount of bribes may not be sufficient.

……

The Taz Forest is home to many creatures, but only some of the more common beasts have names in the tribe. These are the beasts that cannot be hunted for food or that pose no threat to the tribe.

The tribe was too lazy to name them.

Jiang Luoluo initially thought Angela was some kind of unknown beast that the tribe hadn't seen much of, but the shaman immediately revealed Angela's race and characteristics upon meeting her.

"Black-feathered crows have excellent night vision and are dangerous hunters in the dark. There are quite a few of them in the Taz Forest, but most of them only move at night, so very few people have seen them, and they generally don't go near hunting parties."

Jiang Luoluo turned to look at Angela, who was dressed in brightly colored clothes by her, and readily accepted the identity of the "Night Hunter".

After all, it is completely black, making it very difficult to see at night, thanks to its natural ability to hide.

Jiang Luoluo initially made clothes for Angela because it was difficult to see Angela standing in the shadows at night when the light was dim, and wearing clothes of other colors would make her easier to spot.

"Witch, will it be okay if I keep it?" Jiang Luoluo asked for confirmation.

If it were a truly dangerous creature, even if she liked Angela a lot, she wouldn't risk her life.

"It's alright, let's keep it. It's not a particularly fierce beast, the tribe can handle it." The shaman said dismissively.

Jiang Luoluo scratched her head, her mind racing, before she understood what "can be controlled within the tribe" meant: if Angela disobeyed, most of the tribe members could subdue her.

So, did some tribespeople once raise wild animals that the tribe couldn't control?

However, Angela's race is not really that weak. Once she grows up, especially in the nighttime environment, there are very few that can rival her.

It's just that it's too small now, too small to be considered a threat at all.

Jiang Luoluo was relieved, and then went to the witch's herb garden to plant the new seeds she had prepared.

That was her real purpose in coming to find the witch.

Several new seeds were planted, and they were already noticeably different from the original seeds.

For example, chili peppers that have been carefully selected and cultivated for six generations are now so bland that they make you frown when you eat them.

If it weren't for Jiang Luoluo, she wouldn't have had the patience to continue tasting it.

There are also improved foxtail grass seeds. Although the growth time has increased significantly, the grassy taste has been greatly reduced, and the difference is noticeable.

But there's still a long way to go to reach Jiang Luoluo's goal, so she continues to cultivate new seeds... since they don't need her to take care of them much anyway.

When the shaman is not busy, he takes care of the herb fields himself. When he is busy, other members of the tribe will come to help look after them. They are all members of the shaman's herb-gathering team.

For example, Xi's father knew how to grow things in his own yard because he gained experience from the help of the shaman.

However, the older members of the tribe still eat the original version of foxtail grass seeds—because Jiang Luoluo's experimental field is only about ten square meters in size, and the amount grown is not enough to eat.

Moreover, the foxtail grass seeds cultivated by Jiang Luoluo take almost twice as long to grow as the original foxtail grass seeds, making the cost-effectiveness of replacing the seeds insufficient.

Therefore, they can only eat the original kind of seeds, unless Jiang Luoluo's seeds are cultivated to a point where the taste can be improved to the point where it doesn't matter if they are sacrificed in quantity.

Then we went to Jiangmadong to check on the fruit wine and fruit vinegar situation.

To determine this year's brewing, we need to examine how much was used and how much is left over from this snow season, as well as the storage conditions.

That's it?

"It's gone."

Jiang Luoluo and the big brown-eyed girl are facing off against the small-eyed girl.

"You mean... the fruit wine and fruit vinegar ran out after the entire snow season?"

Zong Momo corrected Jiang Luoluo, "The fruit wine will be gone after the snow season is halfway over, and the fruit vinegar will only be gone after the fruit wine is gone."

In other words, the tribespeople came and exchanged all the fruit wine, but then felt it wasn't enough, so they exchanged it back for fruit vinegar as well, and used the fruit vinegar to make do.