I Became The Chief Of A Primitive Village

Chapter 974, No One’s Competing with Us?

Translator: Silavin

The Wild Fox Tribe was currently extremely busy, with everyone preparing for the imminent arrival of the rainy season.

Although they were a Large Tribe now with abundant food stored within, the rainy season was no laughing matter.

Despite their geographical advantage of being positioned on high hills where the rainy season’s floodwaters couldn’t reach them.

This also meant they could not enter the forest to gather fruits, so their reserves of dried meat needed to be extremely plentiful.

Going an entire rainy season without any fruit or vegetables was extremely painful, and even as a Large Tribe, they were helpless about this.

Ye Tu had just rushed back from the marketplace, with numerous Totem Warriors behind him carrying many bags.

The Wild Fox Tribe was not short of dried meat, so going to a Market to trade certainly was not for dried meat.

Most of what they traded for was fruit and items the Tribe needed, with the majority being Animal Hides.

Because the Wild Fox Tribe was an extremely Large Tribe with a great many people within.

Most importantly, there were many Nobles in the Tribe, as well as fox people. When the rainy season arrived, temperatures would also drop.

Especially those Nobles: they changed their clothing every few days without fail.

And the clothing they wore was all made from Animal Hides, which meant their demand for Animal Hides was extremely high.

“How did it go? Did we manage to trade for everything we needed?” Da Dong asked.

He calculated that the time was about right. The Warriors who went out to trade should be returning around now.

“We traded for everything. I don’t know why, but trading for things was really smooth this time. Not many people competed with us.” Ye Tu said.

The Wild Fox Tribe was a Large Tribe, so naturally there were not many Tribes that dared to compete with them for goods.

However, Large Tribes certainly dared to compete with other Large Tribes for goods, so sometimes when they went to trade, they would often encounter other Large Tribes competing with them for the same batch of goods.

Sometimes it just came down to who offered more.

This was when Large Tribes competed in terms of reputation and resources. The Wild Fox Tribe was not the type to be extremely competitive, sometimes they would compromise and concede a step.

Of course, they would still compete initially, but if their opponent’s offer was too high, they would choose to give up directly.

“What do you mean it was very smooth? That shouldn’t be right. Isn’t the rainy season approaching?” Da Dong frowned.

His face was full of confusion, feeling this was completely abnormal. This was the rainy season. A season when many people would die, when they could not go out hunting and needed to stockpile massive amounts of food.

How could Large Tribes not be competing with them for goods now? This was simply inconceivable.

Could it be that those people all had sufficient food? To think that no one in the Market competed with them.

Every previous rainy season had been like this: the Wild Fox Tribe often went early to avoid having Large Tribes compete with them for goods.

“There were far fewer people in the Spotted Deer Tribe than usual. No, not just far fewer, even more people were missing.”

Ye Tu recalled the scene at the Tribe and continued, “The Spotted Deer Tribe had stockpiled many goods that simply weren’t traded away, so our trading went very smoothly.”

He also did not know why, but when they reached the Spotted Deer Tribe, there were hardly any people there.

“Are you sure you didn’t see wrong or go to the wrong Tribe? This is the rainy season.” Da Dong’s face was half-believing and half-doubting. “Wouldn’t those Small Tribes be trading as well? It is the rainy season, the rainy season. Do you know what the rainy season is?”

He felt the other party was lying, and even sometimes thought these goods had been seized from other Tribes. Not that seized goods were bad. For a Large Tribe, they had the right to seize goods from Small Tribes.

It was just that as Chieftain, he did not appreciate his subordinates lying to him. If it was seized, it was seized. If it was traded, it was traded.

Going to plunder other Tribes was also fine. After all, being able to bring things back was a good thing, and no one would blame them for it.

But saying the Spotted Deer Tribe had almost no people and that trading was very smooth, this was extremely confusing.

“Chieftain, everything I’m saying is true. These goods were indeed traded for in the Spotted Deer Tribe, and there really weren’t that many people there.” Ye Tu’s expression was extremely serious, even slightly angry. Angry because he was being doubted.

He certainly knew what he was saying was incredible, but that was the reality of things. He had not lied, not in the slightest.

“Are you certain you’re not lying? Is this true, you traded for these from the Spotted Deer Tribe?” Da Dong’s gaze was extremely solemn.

As Chieftain of a Large Tribe, the Tribe’s reputation was very important, and the same went for Totem Warriors.

“Chieftain, you’ve known me for so long. Do you think I’m someone who would lie? If I did something, I did it. If I didn’t, I didn’t.” Ye Tu was thoroughly angry now.

“How strange. Did you enquire why this has happened?” Da Dong asked.

Seeing the other party getting angry, he clearly knew the other party had not lied, but he still needed to know the truth of the matter.

“I’m not entirely sure if what I heard was correct, but I kept hearing people mention the Flame Dragon Tribe.” Ye Tu scratched the back of his head. “This Tribe was the one I heard mentioned most along the way, but because I was in a hurry, I didn’t ask for details.”

When trading in the Tribe, what he heard most was these three words: Flame Dragon Tribe.

But due to the urgency of time, and worrying whether other Large Tribes might suddenly appear to compete with them for goods, they left directly as soon as they finished trading, without lingering further.

“The Flame Dragon Tribe? Wasn’t this Tribe destroyed before?” As Chieftain of a Large Tribe, Da Dong still knew about some matters concerning other Tribes on this continent.

As for the Flame Dragon Tribe, he knew it had been destroyed by the Black Snake Tribe at the time. How come they were hearing news of them now?

“I was curious too, so I listened carefully many times. They all said Flame Dragon Tribe. I shouldn’t have heard wrong.” Hei Tu was quite certain he had not misheard.

“This is strange. Did you arrange for someone to go and ask?” Da Dong asked.

“Of course. People are already on their way. They should be back in a few days, and then we should know what’s going on.” Ye Tu immediately said.

He was also very curious about what had happened, but because urgent matters took priority, he had only sent two people.

“That’s good. Go ahead and put the goods down, then hurry and rest.” Da Dong nodded.

Because this trip had taken over ten days, spending over ten days in the primitive forest was truly a test of one’s capabilities.

“Yes, Chieftain.” Ye Tu was indeed extremely exhausted.

All along the way, avoiding Ferocious Beasts had truly required painstaking effort. Progress had been difficult, constantly hiding and concealing themselves in the primitive forest.