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While humans can give beastmen something to some extent, ultimately they can't possibly give them large amounts of money.
Perhaps because they had no prior history of using currency, the orcs readily accepted this practice.
In contrast, for races that have a history of monetary culture, it would be harder to accept the fact that their own currency is no longer usable, and that going from being incredibly wealthy to being nothing but scrap metal would be even harder to accept.
Trading with currency is much easier than simply bartering.
Moreover, bartering in the human world isn't that convenient.
For example, if you want to buy exquisite furniture made by humans, you can't exactly carry a huge pile of meat to trade with someone, can you?
Wandering around the orcs' stalls, I noticed they didn't sell any handicrafts, but rather fruits gathered from the forest and game they had hunted.
Upon seeing Annie and Licorina, they enthusiastically stuffed things into their hands.
Although their limited human language skills are limited to reporting prices, they still conveyed their gratitude through their actions.
After walking for a while, Annie and Lycorina found themselves carrying a large pile of things.
At the stall, the fruit was piled up like a small mountain on a wooden board on the ground, but each fruit looked fresh and plump, clearly having been carefully selected.
Wild animals are mostly killed on the spot. The beastmen are very strong, so there are no transportation problems. You can buy steaming hot, still-twitching animal meat at many stalls.
The animal hides sold were not skinned on-site, but rather processed at home by the animal owners and brought over.
Animal hides are one of the few handicrafts they know how to process, because they are used to make clothes.
However... they generally don't sell the clothes they make.
Orcs' craftsmanship was clearly inferior to that of humans; the clothes humans wore were far more exquisite than those they made themselves.
For example, the "fake beastman clothes" sold by a certain believer are far superior to the handmade clothes of real beastmen in terms of craftsmanship. Those are the things that are comfortable for humans to wear.
Piracy has driven legitimate products out of business.
However, the beastmen didn't care; they were all rather simple and honest people.
They simply couldn't make such sophisticated things as human clothing.
Just like an ordinary porter, no matter how much they envy doctors' income, they can't become doctors without the knowledge and skills. It's better to just do their own job honestly.
Of course, orcs can learn to make clothes if they want to, and once they learn, they can make their own clothes and sell them.
For small businesses like this, there's no need to worry about "dividing the pie".
Orcs don't rely on earning money to survive; they're not like humans who will go hungry if they can't earn money.
While munching on wild fruits given to them by the orcs, Annie and Lycorina boarded a carriage bound for the tribe closest to the market.
“I’ve been eating all along the way,” Lycorina said, crunching on wild berries. “I just came from the cafeteria, and now I have more berries to eat here.”
"Don't worry, the hero won't get fat," An Yi said casually as she ate.
“There seem to be some chubby people among the heroes,” Lycorina said.
An Yi: "That's because I was already fat before I became a hero."
Lycorina: "So, does that mean I won't be able to lose weight?"
An Yi: "Probably."
Lycorina: "Wouldn't it be pitiful if someone was very, very fat and couldn't lose weight?"
Annie: "Maybe it will be more durable."
Lycorina: "?"
The carriage entered another forest path, but there were quite a few orcs walking along the way, unlike the deserted place at the beginning.
The carriage journey didn't take too long, as we were heading to the nearest tribe, so we got off quickly.
As soon as they got out of the car, the two saw two rows of orcs standing across the road to greet them.
Perhaps they received word and are welcoming them here in advance.
Among them was an old acquaintance, Sheri, an orc who served as the chieftain of one of the tribes.
The robust orc chieftain approached An Yi and his companion.
"Welcome, esteemed heroes, to our tribe!" Sheri said with a smile, standing at the head of the welcoming party.
Incidentally, his name among the beastmen also begins with "ah" followed by a beastman pronunciation, but "Sheri" is a semantic translation, not a phonetic transliteration like "Arya." Lin
The reason for using a paraphrase is that there are simply too many orc names that begin with "ah," and the number of people with the same name is countless. (5)
It's like how a villager named "Agou" can stand up and line up in two rows.
They avoid having the same name by referring to the different circles they belong to.
For example, if a group of dozens of orcs forms a circle, then there will be no orcs with the same name in that circle.
However, in another circle they don't interact with, there might be other orcs with the same name.
In human terms, it's closer to calling it a "family".
However, their "family" also includes other neighbors, forming a circle with their neighbors, so calling them a "family" is not entirely accurate.
The paraphrasing is not necessarily the accurate meaning, so it can lead to many different names.
The word "Sheri" is pronounced in Orcish as both "thank you" and "inside," hence the translation "Sheri."
If there are words with the same pronunciation, then make good use of homophones or synonyms.
Many orc names do not have specific meanings and can only be interpreted based on their pronunciation.
Just like Arya's name is "Anya," which can be directly translated as "Ah Miao." Her name is simply "Ah Miao" in the Orc language, without any special meaning.
Orcs really don't care much about naming things; they just call people whatever sounds good.
"Welcome, Hero!!"
The beastmen on both sides of the road shouted in broken human language.
They are not only learning human language, but also human etiquette.
According to orc customs, guests would not stand in two rows on the road when they arrive.
Ultimately, there were no roads in the orc villages before; they just roamed around in the trees.
Looking ahead along the road, one sees a large wooden frame.
Walls were erected along both sides of the gate frame, seemingly following the pattern of anthropology.
As He Xie walked, he asked in orc language, "My human language isn't very good yet. Can you two understand orc language?"
Ling An Yi nodded: "Yes."
As the number of orcs increases, the number of orc language references also increases, allowing the system to easily help heroes learn the orc language.
Not to mention An'i and Lycorina, who were just beginning to learn the Orc language, they were already fluent in it.
“We learned from humans and also use these walls to keep wild animals out of our territory,” Sheri explained, pointing to the simple wooden wall.
Liu and his group mainly sharpened the wood and then assembled it at an outward angle. The sharp shape would cause wild beasts or monsters to avoid them.
The four walls were more like a wooden spiked fence than a wall.
Before the two could even ask, they saw the orcs' houses.
It wasn't in a tree, but on the ground.
It's also a wooden house, but the floor at the bottom is raised and doesn't touch the ground.
Sheryl continued, "In the past, houses were built in trees because of the unknown dangers on the ground, but after walls were built, we built houses on the ground according to human teachings."
"Building houses on the ground is even better; we can use more ground space to process food."
In the past, orcs did not need to cook on the ground; houses were simply places for them to rest.
However, after consuming human food, they seemed to become dissatisfied with simply processing ingredients and began to learn how to cook.
Since they needed to cook, staying in the trees was inconvenient, so they began to live on the ground.
There's no particular reason; it's just to build a stove.
Further in, Annie and Lycorina saw farmland cultivated by the beastmen and domesticated poultry.
"These plant seeds, and these... what's the best word for them in orc language? Anyway, the animals we call 'poultry' in human language, were all given to us by humans."
We didn't keep these animals before; we just caught whatever we could and ate it.
"After the goblins set their sights on us, we had nowhere to keep them," Sheri said with a smile.
An Yi nodded thoughtfully.
He thought that the orcs should have a pastoral culture, but because the demons had been constantly squeezing their living space, their pastoral habits had been lost for who knows how long.
Because the Demon Clan plunders territory every year, there is naturally no land left for grazing livestock.
The descendants of the orcs were driven here, and it's hard for them to break their habit of domesticating animals.
Modern orcs don't even remember how to pronounce "poultry".
After visiting one tribe, we took a horse-drawn carriage to the next one.
They walked and stopped frequently, and before they knew it, it was noon. They enjoyed a delicious meal prepared by the orcs, home-style dishes they had learned from human chefs.
After lunch, we rode in a horse-drawn carriage, passing through several tribes. For dinner, we were treated to a meal by the orcs, and we ate roasted meat around a campfire with them.
As night deepened, the two leisurely rode in their carriage towards a human city.
Because they were worried that monsters might appear at night, the orcs even sent people to escort the carriage.
Annie and Lycorina both felt it was unnecessary, after all...
If neither of them can handle it, then the orcs will just be easy prey.
However, for the orcs, this is not a question of whether it is safe enough, but a question of attitude!
These two are important figures among the orcs; how could we not escort them?!
At night, there were no lights on the carriage, and the sounds of hooves and wheels seemed even more pronounced in the darkness than during the day.
"Ah...that's nice..." Lycorina said with a smile, her hands resting on the seat, her eyes closed.
She felt genuinely happy to see how well the orcs had rebuilt the land.
but……