I Transmigrated Into A Fantasy World To Farm And Build Houses!-Chapter 294: Getting Used to the Tribe

Chapter 294: Chapter 294: Getting Used to the Tribe
It must be said that the few tents previously set up for the Dwarves were certainly not wasted.
They had never been empty inside, and now the only three remaining tents were about to be packed full of people.
Behind them, there were hundreds of small beastmen and Tiger warriors staying to guard; these few tents were probably not enough.
Eric spoke to Thomas, and Thomas led Kevin and a few others to set up some more temporary tents.
Grass and Riley went to guide the other beastmen; it would probably take a while for them to arrive, so Eric led the Rabbit tribe to get familiar with the environment first.
As for the Tiger tribe, he entrusted them to Max. After all, it wasn’t Sunflower’s first visit; they were acquaintances. If tired, go to the tents to rest first; if hungry, go to the cafeteria. He had told Sam and Jessica to mobilize everyone in the kitchen to cook another feast.
Max nodded calmly: "Okay, no need to worry here, you go. These Rabbit tribe beastmen will be our tribesmen in the future; getting familiar is very necessary."
"Okay." Eric thought so too.
He wanted to let these Rabbit tribe beastmen get familiar and stabilize their spirits first. Later, when the larger group of beastmen arrived, seeing their own kind already accustomed to the place, they would also be less anxious.
The Golden Kingdom was very far from the Hadu tribe. These small beastmen didn’t know how many dangers they had risked to escape, running so far.
Although they were lucky to meet Sunflower and didn’t suffer physical pain, they were definitely scared out of their wits, and their bodies were probably exhausted.
The Tiger warriors’ faces all showed fatigue; these small beastmen must be exhausted too, just too mentally tense to relax and rest.
"Let’s go, you will live in the Hadu tribe from now on. I’ll take you for a walk, and later you can go back to the tents to rest."
Eric decisively used his wolf cub form to talk to them.
His stature was only as big as a dwarf rabbit; standing in front of the lop-eared rabbit, he looked even smaller, which would be friendlier.
Seeing him, the Rabbit tribe beastmen indeed weren’t as scared anymore.
Although the Rabbit tribe was timid, when Eric discussed the transaction with Sunflower, he didn’t avoid them. They knew the Snow Wolf was helping them, so they gathered their courage and tremblingly followed.
Thinking that the living environments of beastmen were similar, Eric led the rabbits for a walk from the Snow Wolf tent area. He assumed that seeing similar places, the vigilance in their hearts would likely decrease a lot.
Snow Wolves liked spaciousness; they built houses and tents very large. Eric walked among them in his wolf cub form, feeling as if he were walking beside small hills.
He broke into a sweat, only thinking that the tents looked similar but forgetting the huge difference in size.
Turning his head to look, sure enough, the rabbits walked even more tremblingly.
"Uh... actually, these tents won’t be lived in for long. This year, we plan to build new houses together after the busy farming season is over, using bricks to build them, which are especially comfortable. You came at the right time; we’ll fire more bricks in the first half of the year, and by autumn, we’ll build new houses for you."
Eric hurriedly changed the subject, leading the Rabbit tribe faster toward the cafeteria.
His house and the Dwarves’ houses were built around the cafeteria. It was just right to take the rabbits there to see; by then, the Snow Wolves would also move there, and the new members would naturally live there too.
The rabbits followed him silently toward the cafeteria again, no one speaking.
Too timid indeed. This was the first time Eric encountered such beastmen; truly an eye-opener.
So beastmen also had introverts? He had met quite a few beastmen in the Red Grass tribe, but none were like these rabbits. He didn’t know if only the Rabbit tribe beastmen were like this, or if all small beastmen were like this. He prayed it wasn’t the latter.
Eric didn’t know which of these rabbits were male and which were female; anyway, they were all as timid as mice, and he didn’t know what their human forms looked like.
Sighing silently in his heart, Eric found that since becoming the patriarch, the frequency of his sighing had increased day by day.
No wonder Uncle Joseph and Thomas let him be the patriarch. Now Uncle Joseph was immersed in research, leading the Gray Iron tribe’s Dwarves to fire bricks and make Thunderbolt Fire Bombs; he didn’t need to worry about tribal affairs.
Thomas was still helping in the tribe, but he worried less, his face beaming every day. Eric didn’t know if it was his hallucination, but he always felt Thomas’s wrinkles had decreased.
If beastmen didn’t have difficulty reproducing, Max would probably have younger brothers and sisters soon.
Near the cafeteria, the tribesmen were busy digging trenches for pipes. Shovelful after shovelful of earth was quickly piled up on both sides of the trench. Several Horned Goat people wearing huge curved horns shoveled that pile of earth onto carts and transported it toward the brick kiln.
This soil would be processed to make unburnt bricks. A large amount of bricks was needed this year; doing this saved going elsewhere to dig soil.
Perhaps still worried that the Snow Wolves would criticize the Rabbit tribe for being unable to work, the group of Rabbit tribe beastmen poked their heads out to look around at the busy people, then lowered their heads to huddle together and whisper to each other.
Eric walked over and couldn’t help stepping forward to check everyone’s progress. The strength of beastmen and Dwarves was indeed extraordinary; by this time, they had dug quite a long section compared to when he left.
At this speed, they could finish digging the main pipeline in a few days. Wait for the Dwarves to place the forged iron pipes in and connect them, and the basic drainage system would be complete. The rest was work on the surface.
Initially, Eric worried that iron pipes would easily rust and corrode, and the frequency of replacement would be higher later. But the Dwarves proposed an idea to him, which was to add a rare mineral ore when forging iron; the durability of the iron would increase greatly.
It was just that this mineral ore was very rare. The Dwarves hadn’t found a mine temporarily, and this continent was too dangerous to go out searching frequently. The remaining quantity now was enough for the current scale of the tribe. Wait until there were more people later and the drainage system needed to expand, it wouldn’t be enough; they could only slowly search for mines later.
Apart from forging and researching, another hobby of the Dwarves was searching for various mines. Even arriving on this continent, they didn’t rest. Because of the mineral ores needed for forging, the Dwarves had actually sacrificed quite a few companions on the path of finding mines.
Even so, the Dwarves had helped a lot. This batch of pipes would definitely last a long time, considered saving a lot of effort for the future.
He was engrossed in thought, not hearing the Rabbit tribe beastmen secretly discussing behind his back.
After a while, the whole group of rabbits used their heads to nudge a representative out. That lop-eared rabbit hurriedly used her front paws to brake, but couldn’t resist the pushing force from her kin behind.
Although they had finished discussing, tears couldn’t help but well up in the lop-eared rabbit’s eyes, as if she were being pushed to the execution ground.
Only then did Eric hear the movement, turning his head to look at the Rabbit tribe. He looked in surprise at a group of rabbits using their heads to push another lop-eared rabbit forward, not knowing what they were doing.
"What’s wrong, something you want to say?"