When these rules came out, it caused an uproar in the tribe.
The A’wu people didn’t understand a lot of the content, but the little part they could understand was enough to shock them.
This shock was more surprised and happy, not of rejection and aversion to the rules.
Especially the eighth rule, that said that old people, children and other member who lost their ability to support themselves will not be eaten or abandoned by the tribe. The tribe would even take care of them and support them. Thanks to that, it didn’t take so long for the A’wu people to grow a deep sense of belonging to the tribe.
“Is this for real?” There were some who didn’t believe it.
“The priest said so, it must be true!” Said Yan Mo’s staunch supporter.
“It’s gotta be true, Lord Chief had even carved it onto a stone” Said one of Yuan Zhan’s diehard fans.
“What does that… labour in exchange for remuneration mean?
“Eh? I don’t know, let’s ask the students, Wu Chen!”
It would take A’wu people some time to understand and accept the rules, Yan Mo was not in a rush to make them adapt it now. Anyone who can see and have a working brain, would know that these nine rules could only mean good things for the people who wanted to make an honest living in the tribe.
Aside from that, a certain phenomenon took over the tribe around this time. The A’wu people were raring to give themselves names and surnames.
Yan Mo made Wu Chen, Ye Xing and Sa Yu take charge of the taking a list of the tribe’s population, everyone’s names, gender, ages, what they’re good at and their familial relationships. The names would be recorded on a stone stele, the A’wu people rattled their brain hard to think of a name for themselves to get their own names carved up there.
Ye Xing is Big-eyes’s name, while Sa Yu is the wild devil Sa. Back when they found out that Wu Chen had a name, they’d keep peeking at Yan Mo with a silently aggrieved expression, and became a lot more diligent in heir work. Yan Mo thought it was funny, but later when he was rewarding them, he gave the two names in the name of reward.
After the precedent of naming these three, Yan Mo just went along with it and also named all the students in the three classes.
And the funny thing was, at first the parents and family of the children were having trouble deciding on the surname they should take, but when the children got a name that the priest himself picked, they simply made their family surnames follow the students’ surnames.
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Every day, Yan Mo would count the time and day.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
He made the first snowfall the first day of winter. From then to this day, he had drawn thirty 正 word, which meant that 150 days have passed. If one month is 30 days, then they’ve been having five months of winter.
Tejc Itjc abiv Tjc Zb atja tf mjc rwfii atf rqglcu mbwlcu tjio j wbcat jub. Tfrafgvjs, tf jirb obecv j afcvfg qfjx bo ugjrr gjlrlcu jybnf atf ugbecv bearlvf tlr afca. Ktf kfjatfg kjr ralii jr ybcf-mtliilcuis mbiv jr yfobgf, yea la kjr gfjiis atf rajga bo rqglcu.
Ds cbk, Tejc Itjc tjv jigfjvs mbwqifafv atf teuf kbgx bo wjxlcu atf beafg wbja. Rba bcis atja, atjcxr ab atf wfgqfbqif’r tfiq, tf tjv fnfc olclrtfv wjxlcu atf lccfg kjii’r wbja abb.
Moreover, thanks to the merpeople clan’s enormous support —— the merpeople’s chief sent out eight hundred to help out. Now, the outer moat that’s initially planned to be ten metres deep and six metres wide turned into a grand river. The deepest part is thirty metres deep, and the widest section is close to one hundred fifty metres.
Even the inner moat was 15 metres deep and 50 metres wide.
The day when they finally could link the inner and outer moat to the Qingyuan lake so that the water can flow, all members of the Jiuyuan tribe and many of the merpeople came out and watched the last step for the moat.
Yan Mo thought that between the merpeople’s leader Heissen and their clan shaman, at least one would come to the event. But both of these major figures were absent that day.
Yan Mo knew that Jiuyuan tribe wasn’t strong enough for the two figures to come out and see them in person. The chief Heissen was willing to dispatch mer warriors to help dig the waterway, but it was because he knew that the making of these new waterways could only benefit the merpeople.
It’s fine. Sooner or later he’ll make the merpeople chief and shaman to properly look at Jiuyuan, to think of Jiuyuan as an ally that is their equal.
Many miscellaneous things also happened during the time the inner and outer moat was being finished. For example, Dofie came to Yan Mo and said she wanted a tent of her own and even wanting two young women to be her helpers.
Yan Mo’s answer is very simple: “Alright. Just think of the tent as the price for that big fur coat of yours, you can live there free of charge until spring next year. You will be responsible for providing the helpers’ wages, food and lodging, aside from being responsible for your own food and water.”
“What did you say?” Dofie doubted her own ears.
“I’m talking about a fair trade. You don’t want to be a slave, okay, then we’ll need to think of another way, so you can pay back our chieftain for saving you in the winter. As for your food and lodging during this period… You have provided some services to the warrior Meng, so you don’t have to pay it back.”
Dofie’s expression at this time was like that of an innocent maiden who met an experienced conman who deceived her feelings.
Yan Mo smiled his kind-and-honest-guy smile. “Starting from last time, when you helped the merpeople, was the start of your reward getting recorded. But these days you’ve only been eating and living on it without doing work, that reward is going to run out soon. I was about to send someone to you and tell you that you need to start working if you want to keep living in Jiuyuan.”
Dofie clenched her fist and tried to restrain herself from doing anything irrational.
“Now that you’re here, why don’t we discuss how you plan to repay our chieftain for his life-saving grace to you, hm?”
Dofie thought that she must’ve been blind back then. How could she think that this priest would be easy to fool because he’s young and kind? She thought that she had an advantage because of her healing ability, but the other party was simply playing her in his hands!
“If you are not willing to repay our chief’s life-saving grace or work to earn your food and water, then we can only drive you out of here, or sell you to another tribe. Of course, we will be removing all of those pitifully few ornaments on you and take your clothes too to minimise our losses.” Yan Mo said with a face like he suffered a big loss.
Dofie resented that she only have these small amount of power. She can only heal, she can’t do things like taking away other people’s life force just by pointing at them like her tribe’s priest can.
“You can’t do this. I know you are different from those savages. You should understand just how valuable my healing ability is! Only I have it, aside from our priest and one or two other saints, no one else in the world can do it!”
“Then it’s not only you who can use it.” Yan Mo languidly said. “What about this? I think you also don’t have anywhere else to go to. There’s absolutely no other living humans within 800 Li of here. The weather is so cold, you’ll only freeze to death if you go out. God had shown us that all life is precious, I can let you stay in the tribe. However, you have to work honestly to repay the life-saving grace of our chief and earn your food and water.”
Dofie had no choice but to comply with it. If she left Jiuyuan, only death would be waiting for her, she also knew that. Even if Yan Mo’s conditions were harsh, she still had to say yes, “You tell me… How can I repay your chieftain’s life-saving grace?” the last three words were gritted out between her teeth.
“It’s just like you said, you’re a healer and your life is really, very, very precious.” Yan Mo said with certainty.
Dofie who got praised and had her value recognized by others didn’t feel happy in the slightest. This guy definitely has more words to say.
Yan Mo didn’t disappoint her. “I think your life is worth a thousand of lives, so you can repay our chief’s life-saving grace by saving one thousand lives.”
“One thousand people! Does your tribe have that many people?” Dofie couldn’t hold back her shouts. One thousand people. How long will she be working to repay it!
“Right now we don’t, but we’ll definitely have them in the future. You also think that 1000 people are too little, right? What about 3000 people?” Yan Mo spread his hands, “Everyone knows that I’m very easy to talk to. You can just tell me directly if you think that 3000 lives are still not enough to represent your value, I will definitely give you a number you’re satisfied with.”
“One thousand…”
“What?”
“I think one thousand lives are enough to represent my value.” Dofie said with trembling lips.
“Really? Don’t sell yourself short. To be honest, I think ten thousand is…”
“One thousand! Please, okay!” Dofie started crying.
Yan Mo twirled a golden needle between his fingers and said gently, “How come you’re crying? Do you feel wronged? Then we’ll just take the middle point, you save five thousand…”
“I’m not feeling wronged!” Dofie was almost screaming. “One thousand, One thousand! Don’t push me to the walls!”
“I’m pushing you?” Yan Mo’s expression changed. “If you don’t want to do it, you can always leave, I will definitely not stop you.”
Of course, you’ll just wait until I have spent all my powers, so you can strip me down right then and there, then snatch away all of my crystal stones! Dofie couldn’t give her crystal stones to others, they were the tools she relied heavily on and her biggest secret. She needed them to protect herself and give treatments.
“I… want to stay. Please, let me stay here. I am willing to… treat one thousand people to repay the chief, I’m willing to pay for my food and lodging with my healing ability.” Dofie forced out the words while feeling very frustrated inside.
“Don’t try anything funny. Healing people means just that, healing. Medicines are my speciality. I can tell with a glance if they’ve been healed or if you have played any tricks in between. There’ not that many people in the tribe for the time being. I don’t ask that you actually save people’s lives, if you regenerate someone’s limb, or treat their injuries, that will also count as one life as long as they fully recovered. Every time you treated one person, just go to my student, Ye Xing and notify him.”
“… I understand.”
Dofie’s matter was now settled.
But only two days after that, Meng came looking for Yan Mo.
Yan Mo looked at the other guy’s dissatisfied expression and knew why he came to him.
“Did that woman take food and water from other people when she treated them?”
Meng was taken aback for a bit before saying, “Yes.”
“Tell her that asking for pay from the tribe members would void it from being repayment. I will tell Ye Xing to make things clear, then make a new record. Every month, she has to treat at least five people free of charge.”
“What does that mean?” Meng didn’t understand.
“You don’t need to know what it means, just pass on my words to her as it is.”
Meng left while stroking his head, then passed on Yan Mo’s words exactly as it was to Dofie.
At first, Dofie was very happy when she heard that she only needed to treat five people free of charge every month. But then she thought more of it and felt pained inside.
This tribe is so small, it’s good enough if there’s five people injured in a month. And most of those people would go to the priest and not her!
She can’t get her rewards if she didn’t treat five people, without that food and water remuneration, what will she eat and drink? Where would she get the firewood to make the fire? All those little things, she needed to pay in order for that two-faced vicious little priest to give them to her!
With no other choice, Dofie could only keep trying to win over Meng.
Meanwhile, Meng didn’t understand the cause and effect of the matter, but Dofie was willing to sleep with him again. He only needed to give her some food, water and firewood, he also felt satisfied.
Padam: Sorry, I was asleep!
I was like, is Dofie’s appetite so big? Then I thought over it more… The children and other tribe members are used to starving, they’d pick from nature if they can’t hunt and sometimes gather their own firewood (Wu Chen) — so it is an option, like if your rent is high you don’t go out to restaurants and cook at home instead …but Dofie was used to being comfortable. She needs the food and wood because she’s tired after treating people, but to get more she has to get more tired, somewhat a vicious cycle
The original title is blessing in disguise for this part, which I thought was only about Norma, but now I see it’s also about Meng. Or Yan Mo who got a free limb producer.
Thank you for the chapter!
Thank you for the chapter 🙂
I can’t really dislike dofie after the cycle but she’s still not good. Thanks for the chapter!
Dofie sure is getting scammed by this scum mc lol
Dofie’s not 100% a good person but I still feel bad for her having to sell her body 😞 Hope Yan Mo treats her better so Jiuyuan has an ally from the other side of the God Father mountain
ty for translating! ❤️