Chapter 52 - Scheme (2/2)

Xiong Ye drank the medicine with a bitter expression on his face; it left a strange aftertaste in his mouth…

He looked eagerly over at Zhou Ji––last time Zhou Ji had given him the ginseng to drink, he had given him some candy after.

The candy was made by taking the sweet cane and drying it out in the sun. It was very, very sweet, but Zhou Ji had only given him a small piece. Now, though…

Zhou Ji stuffed something into Xiong Ye’s mouth.

Xiong Ye reflexively tasted it, and then immediately scrunched up his face––It was really so, so sour! It tasted so, so horrible!

Zhou Ji hadn’t given him candy; he’d given him a very sour fruit instead!

It was so sour that Xiong Ye couldn’t help but frown.

The sun had already gone down, and it was very dark in the cave, but Zhou Ji could still see Xiong Ye’s face clearly. He sighed and stuffed a piece of sugar into Xiong Ye’s mouth. “Eat it.”

Xiong Ye was immediately all smiles. Zhou Ji added, “Go to bed early.”

Xiong Ye obediently went to bed. Sensing that Zhou Ji had also gone to bed, he pulled him into his arms and went to sleep.

The next day, the weather was good.

Over the past few days, the people of the tribe had brought back too much meat and hadn’t gone out hunting. Even today, they didn’t go out to hunt––Xiong He led the people of the tribe to begin dealing with the animal and dinosaur hides and insect shells.

Dinosaur hide, arthropleura shells, and all sorts of dinosaur scales and bones could be traded for salt. They had picked up a lot of these things over the past few days.

Now, they were going to sort through it all and organise it a bit.

The people in the tribe were still very busy, and Xiong Ye also went to help, dragging along his injured leg. Zhou Ji saw that everyone was working and went to find the priest.

“The Beast God sent me a dream last night.” Zhou Ji began.

The priest looked at Zhou Ji in surprise. Zhou Ji had said before that he had received the Beast God’s blessing, and that was already worthy of envy, yet now… Zhou Ji was saying that the Beast God had sent him a dream?

Why had he never experienced such good things?

Why would Zhou Ji receive the love of the Beast God? Was it because he was attractive?

Or was Zhou Ji trying to trick him?

The priest’s brows furrowed. “What did the Beast God say?”

“He said that our tribe will encounter some trouble in the near future. He was willing to help… He matured all the earth eggs around the tribe.” Zhou Ji said.

“That… that’s impossible!” The priest said. The Beast God was so busy; how could he spare time to concern himself with their tribe?

“I also don’t know if it’s true… Should we go outside the tribe and take a look?” Zhou Ji asked.

Since they had encountered a situation like this, of course they had to go outside the tribe and check.

The priest walked outside with Zhou Ji. As he walked, he also tried to emphasize earnestly, “You indeed had a dream, but it might not necessarily be true. I once dreamed that I became young again, but that was just a dream.”

Zhou Ji didn’t reply.

The priest and Zhou Ji soon arrived at the place where the tribe had planted the earth eggs.

They called it ‘planting’ in the tribe, but in fact, they actually let the earth eggs grow wild. In the past, they hadn’t even added fertilizer, so the earth eggs became smaller and smaller each successive crop.

Recently, they had added a little fertilizer to the earth eggs after Zhou Ji had suggested it, but the earth eggs still hadn’t grown very well.

At this moment, when Zhou Ji and the priest arrived, the people of the gathering team were busy weeding the area––this was also another one of Zhou Ji’s suggestions.

“Priest, why are you here?” The head of the gathering team was a little surprised to see the priest.

“I have something to do.” The priest said. He didn’t say that it had been Zhou Ji who had had a dream about the Beast God––if this matter was announced to the others but turned out to be false, it would be bad for Zhou Ji.

However, although the priest didn’t say anything, Zhou Ji had no such scruples, “I dreamed of the Beast God last night. The Beast God told me that he had matured all the earth eggs near our tribe.”

The head of the gathering team, “……”

The head of the gathering team, “Priest, Zhou Ji told us to fertilize the grass, and we did so. In any case, it wouldn’t hurt the earth eggs. But what he’s saying now is just nonsense, right? I looked just now, and these earth eggs are still all very small!”

Recently, the priest had attached great importance to Zhou Ji. Zhou Ji had become much more popular, but the head of the gathering team still didn’t like him much.

Zhou Ji only moved his mouth to speak, but the ones who actually had to do the work were them. How come the priest only valued Zhou Ji?

Additionally, regardless of whether it was smoking meat or fertilizing or weeding, these things weren’t necessarily useful!

Of course, the main reason the head of the gathering team was unhappy right now was because she felt that Zhou Ji was trying to trick them––she had just checked this morning, and those earth eggs were still very small!

When the priest heard the words of the gathering team head, he helplessly looked over at Zhou Ji. Zhou Ji had casually taken a dream and treated it as the truth; how shameful it was now!

Zhou Ji said, “I believe in the Beast God.”

Zhou Ji’s expression was very serious, which caused the head of the gathering team to have mixed feelings, half doubtful and half believing. But at this time, Yang Ying spoke up, “He’s just talking nonsense. How could the Beast God ever seek him out?”

Yang Ying and Yang Su’s life after Shi Li left… was still pretty good.

Xiong He had been too busy to take back their cave, and they had picked up a lot of meat over the past few days, which meant that they could eat as much as they liked.

However, all of this was temporary.

They knew that their future was doomed to be difficult.

In this kind of situation, they would naturally feel antagonistic towards Zhou Ji––Shi Li had been taken away by Zhou Ji’s father!

Of course, Yang Ying only dared to speak up now because she had secretly dug up an earth egg, and it was merely the size of a thumbnail.

Previously, Zhou Ji had told the priest many things. The priest had revealed a little of it to the rest of the tribe, but he hadn’t said too much.

Firstly, it was still too early, and the effect of the things Zhou Ji had spoken of couldn’t be seen yet. Second, Zhou Ji himself was too lazy to speak about it.

At this time, there were many people who were saying, “Zhou Ji, everyone dreams, but you shouldn’t take these dreams seriously!”

“The meat smoking method you thought of before was very good, but how could earth eggs mature ahead of time?”

“We saw them when we were weeding. They were indeed very small.”

……

Others went to the priest and said, “Priest, even if you like Xiong Ye, you can’t believe everything Zhou Ji says.”

“I think that Zhou Ji’s suggestion to use fertilizer isn’t necessarily correct. In some places, the earth eggs withered after we added fertilizer.”

“Weeding is useless, right? The earth eggs have always grown together with the grass.”

The priest had recently given them a lot of tasks. It was said that they had all been discussed with Zhou Ji… The people of the gathering team all had some opinions on that.

There was no point in pulling weeds at all… These kinds of grass couldn’t be brought back to be eaten after they were pulled up.

“The Beast God likes me a lot. He wouldn’t lie to me.” Zhou Ji insisted.

Everyone: “……” Wasn’t that too bold? If the Beast God liked you so much, why don’t you even have an animal form?