Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 54 - 53: Hands Sore from Collecting

Of the pottery they fired, only ten percent was of poor quality. The rest was far better than the pottery sold at the market stalls!

Even though Zhi Le and the others had participated in the entire process, they still found the finished products hard to believe.

"Hiss... Firing pottery is actually really simple," Ji Liang said, sticking his tongue out. "If pottery becomes widespread, it’ll be so much more convenient for Beastmen to store and cook food."

Si Shuo nodded with a beaming smile. ’Isn’t that the truth. If they knew the system had given me the recipe for making glass, they’d probably be even more excited.’

Gong You gave a low cough. "It’s too late today. Let’s put the pottery away for now. We can negotiate with those tribes and families tomorrow."

The others all understood the urgency in his words. Tonight, it was his turn to have his partnership ceremony with Si Shuo!

After returning home and having dinner, Gong You and Si Shuo completed their marriage ceremony.

He was no lone wolf like Xu Chi. Having seen so much of people and the world in his five years in Nanye City, he was naturally the one to hold a celebration.

Gong You was more dominant and unyielding than the other Beast Husbands. This was not only because he was a maritime overlord but also because he had remained undefeated in the Beast Fighting Platform for five years. The aura honed and tempered by his experiences had become a part of him.

Si Shuo felt as if she had spent the entire night drifting and swimming freely in the ocean. She was joyful in body and spirit, but also utterly exhausted, sleeping until noon the next day.

The first thing she did upon opening her eyes was to look at her Beast Mark. A small, beautiful Blue Whale spouting a column of water was imprinted on her fair, slender ankle. It wasn’t jarring at all; in fact, it made her ankle look even more exquisite.

The personal storage space for each of the five of them expanded to four cubic meters, and the communal planting area reached three mu.

Si Shuo pursed her lips in a small smile as she checked the rewards for Main Quest Five: a Hidden Breath Plate powered by Crystal Stones, some herb seeds, a Solar Energy Board, six Bone Marrow Cleansing Pills, and pastry-making recipes.

And, of course, she also received two thousand Beast Coins!

Yesterday, she and Gong You had collected a lot of fruit and seafood. Although Gong You had used the Time Law, the system, which followed her, calculated the time based on her own experience.

The reward for the twenty-hour daily gathering task was five hundred Beast Coins.

Looking at her six thousand seven hundred Beast Coins, Si Shuo couldn’t resist splurging one thousand three hundred of them to redeem a student-model cell phone.

She had the Solar Energy Board to charge the phone. And even though there was no internet, she could buy USB drives and e-books from the system’s store and download them onto the phone to read.

Besides, the phone had some single-player mini-games, which were more than enough to help her pass the time!

Hearing the sounds of her getting up, Zhi Le came in to find her.

She hurriedly put the phone away in her storage space and held out her arms to him, asking for a hug.

Zhi Le chuckled, picked her up, and carried her to wash up and eat. ’The kitty is getting more and more pampered, and all the more endearing.’

By the time she had finished her meal and was nibbling on a slice of watermelon, Ji Liang and Gong You had already concluded their negotiations.

Nanye City was massive, stretching for over a hundred kilometers along the coastal cliffs. Over the long course of its history, various factions had constantly fought and clashed, eventually reaching a stable balance of power.

They certainly weren’t going to sell the pottery-making method to every faction. Instead, they selected a few of the strongest, most principled ones who knew how to be reasonable.

Ji Liang took the lead on this matter, with Gong You providing support, and they held a secret meeting with the leaders of those factions.

Ji Liang would teach them how to fire pottery. In return, each faction had to provide fifty Level 10 Crystal Stones, and the price of the pottery could not be set higher than one Level 3 Crystal Stone per piece.

And as long as Si Shuo’s group was in Nanye City, they would be given a hundred-meter-wide market stall to do with as they pleased!

While each level of Crystal Stone functioned on a decimal system for transactions, the Beastmen themselves didn’t actually have this concept.

High-level Crystal Stones were certainly rare, but Beastmen with High-level Combat Power could still obtain them by hunting Wild Beasts. However, the vast quantity of low-level crystal stones earned from selling pottery was what truly concerned the foundation of each faction.

Fifty Level 10 Crystal Stones couldn’t sustain more than a few Beastmen with High-level Combat Power. Selling pottery, on the other hand, would allow the females, cubs, and low-level Beastmen in the tribes to receive a share of the resources.

In total, Ji Liang and Gong You sold twenty of these deals, earning an incredible one thousand Level 10 Crystal Stones!

However, firing pottery with coconut shells and dried grass would eventually become a bottleneck for mass production. So, Si Shuo also had Ji Liang suggest that the factions look into building proper kilns for more even heating. She also reminded them to fire pottery in moderation, otherwise the Beast God might send down punishment.

"Little Shushu, I’m going to teach them how to fire pottery this afternoon. You should think about what we’re going to sell at our stall," Ji Liang said with a smile, lounging in a wicker chair.

The other males all looked toward Si Shuo as well, curious about what she planned to sell.

Si Shuo cupped her face in her hands, thinking. ’There are many ways to make money. Which one isn’t too tiring, brings in Crystal Stones quickly, and won’t steal too much business from others?’

’I’ve considered barbecue, but there are already so many stalls selling grilled meat. If we started selling it and our business took off, who knows how much jealousy and resentment we’d attract.’

’After all, grilled meat and seafood are the most common food stalls!’

Her eyes lit up. "We can set out some trinkets, snacks, and pottery that the females will like. Then we can make rings out of vines and let the females and cubs play a ring toss game.

"We can commission others to make the trinkets and snacks. As for the pottery, we can fire it at night, and it’ll be ready to be put on display the next day."

Seeing the males’ complete confusion, she chuckled and explained, "Rings made from air-dried vines will have a bit of bounce to them. Even if you aim carefully at an item, the ring might bounce off, which adds to the difficulty.

"It’s a game, and the females and cubs will definitely love playing it. Plus, the prizes we put out won’t be expensive, but they also won’t be things the Beastmen can easily get themselves.

"With pottery as the grand prize, everyone will be willing to spend some Crystal Stones to try and win.

"We can hire the females from the Fengchuan Tribe to make the trinkets and snacks, and hire a few local, partnered males of good character to arrange the prizes and hand out the vine rings to customers.

"As for us, we’ll just wait for the Crystal Stones to roll in. I guarantee we’ll be raking in so much our hands will go numb!"

The males didn’t quite understand it, but seeing the little female so full of excitement, they all naturally went along with it and immediately began the preparations.

"Perfect. When I’m teaching them how to make pottery, I’ll take their first three kiln-loads as my teaching fee. That should be enough for our stall, right?" Ji Liang’s inner profiteer was at it again.

Si Shuo nodded vigorously. "Sounds like a plan!"

Xu Chi went to get the people from the Fengchuan Tribe for a meeting.

The one leading the Fengchuan Tribe this time was Xun Gao, the maternal half-brother of their leader, Ju Ke. He brought a team of males and two females with him, following Xu Chi over.

Those two females were none other than Nong Xiu and Song Ting, with whom Si Shuo was quite familiar.

Si Shuo smiled, inviting them to sit down and have some fruit, before getting straight to the point about wanting the females’ help making trinkets and snacks. "Nong Xiu, Song Ting, you’ve both seen plenty of trinkets while walking around the market, right?

"They’re all made by stringing together pearls, bones, stones, or wood. The designs are a little clever, but the main things are that they’re pretty and don’t take too much time to make.

"For every five you string, you’ll get one Crystal Stone."