Li You Ran was taken aback and didn't respond, instead looking at him strangely. "This is June's debt, and you're paying it back so quickly!"
Li You Ran's daze also made Ma Mo regret, he was too abrupt, those salt at a glance knew it wasn't that rough salt, he thought too much, just lending a hand casually, like him as a big family son, how could there be no master to dispatch, called himself estimated things were urgent, just thinking of opening his mouth! As a result, Li You Ran spoke first.
"Really! Alright! How many do you need?" I thought it would take a while to recruit Morton, but unexpectedly, a good opportunity has come. No matter what the salt is for, this is fine anyway.
"Did he really agree? He agreed so easily? I thought he was going to refuse! This is really too embarrassing. At this moment, Mo Dun's mind was filled with apologies towards Li You Ran, because he had just cursed him in his heart, saying that if he needed help, he should look for him, but as soon as he said it, he hesitated."
Now Li You Ran agreed, he was embarrassed instead. In his heart, he found an excuse for Li You Ran: "Such a valuable item, even if it were himself, would probably need to be considered! This is not something that can be exchanged for just any animal hide, animal hides are everywhere, but salt? That's a resource tightly controlled by the human nobles. Although it appears on the coast, the sea tribe isn't easy to mess with either. Any behavior daring to plunder resources from the sea will be met with their attack. Moreover, producing salt is also one of their sources of income. The sea tribe doesn't have the ability to forge weapons, so salt has become an important resource for them to exchange for weapons and other ironware. It wouldn't easily flow out into the outside world."
Li You Ran readily agreed and moved Morton, so he was thinking about how to make up for it. After thinking about it, he couldn't think of anything in the tribe that could make up for the value produced by this salt. The tribe was really too poor. It was so poor that only Li You Ran himself could go out hunting, while others could only wait at home, because there was only one bow in the entire tribe.
Li You Ran saw Mo Dun's face turn red with shame, and he knew that the recruitment was already half successful. However, he couldn't be too hasty, or else others would see through it. What was needed now was to make him feel as ashamed as possible, only then would the subsequent recruitment go more smoothly.
"What are you still hesitating about, Morton? Where did I put the salt? Are we just going to pour it here?" Li You Ran said, waking up Morton who was still feeling guilty.
"Ah! Oh! It's okay, you can leave it here, I can carry it back. " Morton put away his guilty heart, thinking that he could just see if the other person needed help with anything else later, anyway, he had plenty of time to build castles here.
"Really? How much do you need? Do you want all of it?" Li You Ran knew he couldn't possibly want everything, so she said that on purpose to show how generous she was.
"Of course not! How can you eat so much?! One big bag is enough, I saw the big bags before." Morton said hastily.
This big bag of salt is enough for the whole tribe to eat for a year, if they all want it, it will take ten or twenty years to finish! But this kindness can't be repaid.
"Just one bag? Alright! Here you go." Li You Ran opened up his storage space and retrieved a bag of salt, handing it over to Morton. Since he had obtained the temple, Li You Ran discovered that both his spirit and body were strengthening, with the former being more noticeable than the latter. However, through this act of handing over the salt, he found out that he could now lift a large bag of salt with just one hand.
It would have been unthinkable in the past, knowing that he is absolutely a four-body lazy man who doesn't distinguish between grains, and his daily routine is just going back and forth between the company and home.
"Well, I'll take my leave first. Come visit me at home when you're free!" Li You Ran didn't dwell on these things, anyway, thinking about it wouldn't make sense! Having increased strength is a good thing after all.
Watching Li You Ran disappear, Mo Dun let out a sigh, not knowing when this debt of gratitude would be repaid. He immediately stopped thinking about it and picked up the whistle hanging on his chest. After blowing it several times, a team of people appeared in the forest, all covered in leaves, and quickly ran towards Mo Dun.
After arriving at the location, all the figures stopped and one of them stepped forward, saying: "Tribe leader! What's the matter with calling us here? Have you found another big prey or something? Can we get a bit more beast blood this time? The kids don't have enough salt intake, if it goes on like this, it'll be severe."
"No! No prey, I just happened to go on a quest yesterday and the reward was a big bag of salt!" Morton said, pointing at the salt on the ground.
Salt?
Salt!
"Unbelievable! It's actually real salt!!!” Someone leaned in close to the bag of salt, sniffed it with their nose, then rubbed their finger on the surface of the bag and licked it. It really had a salty taste. How long had he not eaten such salt? Thinking about the pungent smell of beast blood, it was truly incomparable to this genuine salt.
Looking at his subordinates, one by one, surrounding the salt and expressing their emotions, he almost knelt down. Immediately, with a proud face, he said: "What's this? It's just a task! I've already said that I can find salt! Are you convinced now?"
Looks like he's not doing a great job as the head of the clan, huh! It's clear that people are questioning him, no wonder he had to ask Li You Ran for salt. Now that he has Li You Ran's support and a bag of salt, he can finally intimidate these people.
"Alright, let's go back! Take the salt with you, and we'll have a better life later on! We need to prove that even without relying on those spirits, us half-elves can still survive on our own! We must unite, only then can we overcome this difficult time! After spring arrives, we won't need to hunt anymore, farming will be able to sustain us! Let's go! Everyone, let's head back." Morton said as he jumped onto a large tree, and with a few leaps, disappeared into the forest, followed by his tribesmen.
All of this was seen clearly by Li You Ran in the temple, he originally wanted to see if Morton had any secrets, but as a result, he saw that Morton was actually half-elf! This is a huge surprise! And it's a whole tribe, maybe one day he'll have an entire team of half-elf archers!
She put the space-time coordinates on Zig, and Li You Ran directly transmitted it over. At this time, Zig was supervising the quality of construction and material usage, while John was on the other side supervising the workers to prevent anyone from slacking off! After all, the master had paid their wages with food, and they couldn't let these guys eat the family's food for nothing.
John conscientiously immersed himself in the position of overseer, thinking only about how to make these guys eat less and do more, so as to gain the master's appreciation.
While Xiao Yu Mu was preparing food with his parents, Li You Ran had originally only asked him to supervise the food and its distribution. However, Yu Mu's parents thought that they could use less food to feed more people, so they decided to distribute the food in their own way, also making Yu Mu truly become a servant of the magician, Master Fa Shi. This way, they would also benefit from it, didn't you see John holding a whip and supervising while they were doing light work with their son?
All this is because his own son was appointed by the master himself, so John gave him face, otherwise he would have to go dig stones and lay foundations like those workers.
When Li You Ran appeared, Zige knelt down and saluted him with a bow, then stood up to report on the progress of the project. Meanwhile, John from afar also ran over to pay his respects, only Hu Mu was busy making food and didn't go over.
"Alright! You supervise me with peace of mind! The quality must be done well! Also, I'll leave a batch of supplies here. When Ellington comes to take the ingredients for making bread, you give them to him! Remember to collect his material fees! One gold coin per kilogram of flour! As for seasonings, if he needs them, you can also sell them to him! Just set the price yourself."
Li You Ran was too lazy to listen to them, he waved his hand for John and Zig to leave, then walked alone to the oak stove, watching Oak and his parents busy in front of the stove. Li You Ran smiled, still this kid made him like! He's a very kind little guy.
John and Zig walked far away, the two of them saw Li You Ran and Oak together. John envied and said: "Oak is really lucky, it seems that the master likes him very much! Maybe he has a chance to become a noble."
"What's there to envy? As long as we do our own jobs well! The master will also accept us, and when the time comes, we'll be nobles too." Ziggy carefully inspected every nook and cranny, and whenever he saw an unreasonable structure, he would sternly demand adjustments until he was satisfied.
Li You Ran is very satisfied with the current situation of the interdimensional base, the foundation of the interdimensional world is almost complete, and next is to build a castle with stone bricks. The progress of the project is very fast, it has to be said that the physical quality of the people in the interdimensional world is not bad at all, they can withstand such high-intensity labor with this kind of food. Li You Ran feels more and more that he has the potential to become a black-hearted slave owner.
The original village in the other world is no longer inhabited, everyone knows that a wizard built a castle on the rocky mountain and then people started building small wooden houses at the foot of the mountain, wanting to live here and seek the wizard's protection.
Without Li You Ran's instructions, Zige didn't make any rash moves. After all, he had been well taken care of during his time here over the past few years. If he were to be asked to leave, he really wouldn't have the heart to do so. John was the same way; although he was strict at work, he was very easy-going when resting, so the workers didn't dislike him and were willing to listen to what he had to say.
John is very clever. He knows that if he offends all the workers, his position as a foreman will really come to an end. If the workers listen to him, he can continue to be their foreman.