190: Celestial Maiden VS Chief's Wife (Revised)

"Nuan Nuan, do you know this Heavenly Maiden?" Black Wind asked, hearing the familiarity in Su Nuannuan's voice.

Hearing this, Su Nuannuan quickly shook her head in denial. "How could I possibly know her?"

She couldn't let Black Wind know that she was acquainted with the Wolf Tribe.

However, after not seeing her for so long, Su Luoluo was actually being called a Heavenly Maiden; she really had her ways.

Su Nuannuan thought that by becoming a Chief's Wife, she would be much better off than Su Luoluo, but she didn't expect to be living in her shadow again even after moving to a different place.

"Nuan Nuan, I'll leave the matter of the Flower Rats to you. I'm going to catch fish with the others," Black Wind suddenly instructed while Su Nuannuan was still deep in thought.

Su Nuannuan nodded. "I understand."

After Black Wind left, Su Nuannuan ordered several Females to go catch Flower Rats with her, but they barely paid her any attention.

These past few days, when asked to find food, she could only think of eating wild fruits, which led to the Tribe members having a poor opinion of her. Fortunately, she later realized that the fish in the water were also edible, which reduced their resentment.

It seemed she needed to find a way to regain the people's support as soon as possible; otherwise, they wouldn't listen to her.

That Salt Well was a good choice.

Su Yang was busy with the plague toxin, so he probably wouldn't expect her to lead people to fight for the Salt Well!

...Although the plague toxin issue had been resolved, wild beasts still couldn't be eaten normally.

The main concern was whether the virus would continue to evolve and upgrade, so there were problems with the food supply.

There were many people in the Tribe, and the taro, sweet potatoes, and potatoes that Su Luoluo had previously led them to dig up were almost gone. To solve the food problem, they had to keep looking for new sources.

While the Tribe members were dealing with the plague toxin, Su Luoluo called her Beast Husbands out to look for food.

Almost everything edible near the Tribe had been found, so she needed to go a bit further.

She originally thought it would be easy to find taro, potatoes, and sweet potatoes further away.

To her surprise, the surrounding land had also been thoroughly searched by others, leaving only bare ground.

It seemed this plague had made people from many Tribes avoid wild beasts, so they all started digging up things from the ground to eat.

Fu Feng frowned at the plundered land and said, "It seems everyone is almost out of food."

Nan Tu also knitted his brows and said, "If we can't find anything, I'll search for more rivers, and we can continue catching fish to eat."

Mo Xuan nodded. "That's a good idea. Luoluo knows many ways to cook fish, so eating fish is quite good."

Su Luoluo stood at the front, but she wasn't very interested when she heard this.

More fish?

She was going to throw up if she ate any more.

These past few days, fish, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and taro had been served in rotation. No matter how delicious they were, she was tired of them and didn't want to eat them anymore.

If the east didn't work, she would head west.

She turned on the detection functions of all five Supernatural Abilities; she didn't believe she couldn't find anything else to eat.

After walking a few hundred more meters, the earth-type detection emitted a red warning.

Su Luoluo quickly checked it, and what she saw gave her a wonderful surprise.

She didn't expect to find rice here!

Heaven knows how much she missed cooked rice!

As a southerner who had lived through the Apocalypse, she missed the taste of cooked rice immensely at this moment.

Although she had made a lot of flour before, no matter how delicious noodles were, they couldn't satisfy the rice-loving genes in her bones.

She raised her head and pointed in the direction indicated by the detection. "Let's go there!"

Xiao Ye looked at the patch of withered yellow weeds ahead and said disinterestedly, "That's just a bunch of dead grass. It's too prickly even to lie down and sleep on. Why go there?"

Su Luoluo didn't lower herself to his level. "You'll know when you get there."

She had only pointed out a direction and hadn't said exactly where it was; what was Xiao Ye so anxious about?

Luan Ting looked at her and asked, "Should we run over there? Or can we just walk?"

Su Luoluo privately checked the distance in her mind; the rice field was quite far from where they were now.

But she couldn't tell them the truth directly. If she knew the answer from such a distance, wouldn't it be obvious that she had other Supernatural Abilities besides wood and water?

She nodded. "Let's run over and see. I just used the Vines to detect it, and there are plenty of fruits there."

Luan Ting nodded and then transformed into a wolf. "Then Luoluo, come sit on me!"

The terrain in the forest was rugged, and a snake's movement wouldn't be very steady. Although Xiao Ye was a bit annoyed with Luan Ting, he was sensible enough not to argue.

Mo Xuan and Fu Feng had some objections and said in unison, "Luoluo, why don't you sit on me?"

Su Luoluo didn't pay them any mind, leaving behind a sentence: "I'll sit on whoever spoke first," and then sat directly on Luan Ting's back.

She didn't have much experience when they argued before, but now she knew to just go with the first one. That way, they would have nothing to say—it was their own fault for being too slow.

Sure enough, as soon as she said this, the light in their eyes dimmed instantly.

They only blamed themselves for speaking too late and felt that Luan Ting was just too well-rounded.

The group headed west and walked for about twenty minutes until they reached a low-lying area.

Looking at the golden expanse, Su Luoluo quickly hopped off Luan Ting's back. She ran over, grabbed a handful of grain, and rubbed it in her hands. Seeing the white rice grains, she beamed with joy. "Everyone, I found food!"

Hearing this, the six of them looked at the food Su Luoluo mentioned, only to see her laughing heartily while holding a small, white, round thing in her hand.

This thing was much smaller compared to the previous potatoes, taro, and sweet potatoes; it didn't look like something that could fill one's belly.

Nan Tu looked at the golden expanse with a sense of familiarity and asked, "Is this the same as the wheat from before? Is it also ground into powder to eat?"

He remembered that he had once laughed at Su Luoluo, saying she had gathered a bunch of weeds, but after seeing her grind them into flour and make various delicious noodles, he never dared to say that again.

Su Luoluo gave Nan Tu an appreciative look. This boy who loved to research was indeed different; he noticed the similarity between the two at a glance.

"That's right, it's a bit similar to wheat, but this is called rice. It doesn't need to be ground into flour to eat; you just need to remove this golden outer shell," Su Luoluo explained slowly, looking at the large field of rice before her.

Although they listened, they were still somewhat confused, as they had never eaten such a thing before.

Mo Xuan looked at the golden field and asked doubtfully, "Did your Black Bear Foster Mother teach you to eat this too?"

Su Luoluo's neck tightened slightly upon hearing this. She couldn't answer that way, especially with Xi Yi right behind her!

She shook her head. "No, I discovered this myself."

"Once when I was out playing, I curiously peeled it open and boiled it, and I unexpectedly found it to be very delicious."

Su Luoluo spoke very softly, and Mo Xuan didn't doubt her. He nodded and said, "If you say it's delicious, then it must be. Should we harvest it all like last time?"

"Exactly. You need to cut off the rice Paddies and then arrange them neatly like last time."

Although it was wild rice, the area was quite large—at least a dozen acres at a glance. If they collected all this rice, the Tribe members' meals for the second half of the year would be secured, with plenty to spare.

Hearing this, the group quickly sprang into action.