Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 671 - 059: Old Acquaintance

After the Blue Dragon Kingdom gathers the disaster victims, there will be a few days of convalescent period. During this time, through gruels and other liquid foods, the bodies of these poor souls who have long been without food are nourished while also using food as a leverage to teach them simple organizational skills.

During this period, naturally, a large number of disaster victims need to be categorized for the next phase of work.

Able-bodied men are organized into groups for heavy labor activities, while the elderly, women, and the infirm are assigned to another team for easier tasks such as weaving straw sandals and weeding.

As a result, Bill and his wife and son were separated during working hours.

Initially, Bill was indeed somewhat uneasy.

In an unfamiliar land, where his wife and son were split into different groups, it was only natural for him to feel anxious.

But after a few days of acclimatization, it was no longer a big issue.

After all, the family still gathered together during the noon and evening, only that the working hours were arranged separately.

The Beastman lords did not intend to forcibly break up families.

Moreover,

His son's meals were slightly better than those of the adults. Although it was still boiled kudzu root, at least each meal included a few small pieces of pale meat. Heaven knows the taste when little Bill had meat for the first time, he almost bit his own tongue.

"Eat up, we always gather for a while after work, next time no need to wait."

Bill, sitting with a large basin of kudzu, scooped a large mouthful with a wooden spoon and stuffed it into his mouth.

His wife beside him followed suit, devouring her meal hungrily.

In truth,

For these impoverished farmers, the peeled, lightly oiled kudzu chunks with traces of meat were a delicacy they could hardly ever taste after a year's hard work under the lords.

In the past, their staple food was a small amount of unpeeled millet beans mixed with wild vegetables and bark, boiled into a pot of green slurry.

The taste was needless to say.

If someone was lucky enough to dig up edible kudzu tubers in the wild, no matter the size, they would cook it with the skin and root together.

Wild kudzu roots have never been domesticated, containing little starch, and the skin has an unpleasant grassy and stale green odor.

However, the coarseness and dryness of kudzu skin were better than millet skins or bitter tree root shavings.

Still, it was food that could fill the stomach.

Where could they experience the luxury like the Beastman lords of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, who discarded all kudzu skins, only using the starch-rich, powdery white kudzu for cooking, even adding some oil?

This taste,

Though Bill, his wife, and their fellow laborers had been eating boiled kudzu for half a month while working in the vicinity, for the poor who were used to filling their stomachs with bark and grass, it remained a most delicious meal. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Thanks to the great His Highness Austin,

may your great glory illuminate us forever.

Not only did Bill's wife eat the delicious boiled kudzu in a somewhat awkward manner, but Bill also gulped down large spoonfuls greedily, filling the room with sounds of gulping.

During meal times,

the whole village town was mostly silent, with small groups of laborers either gathered under tree shades or squatting beside the canteen, devouring their delicious meals heartily.

An elderly man with greying hair sat on the ground. After finishing his food, just as he was about to rise, he noticed some sticky kudzu broth on his hand due to his hasty eating earlier.

He licked his hand clean before slowly standing up, heading towards the canteen for another meal.

This scene,

happened to be caught in the eyes of Beastman Belos, who was standing high and overlooking everything below.

"About twenty years ago, I also experienced such a scene. Back then, when our tribe was just annexed by the great His Highness Austin and enlisted under General Adinlek for training, going from an uncertain life to one where we could fill our stomachs daily, I swore that if I could continue having such days, I would dedicate my life to His Highness Austin."

Belos stood high, looking down, watching all the laborers around the canteen devouring their food, with a sudden feeling of nostalgia.

"Seeing them now, it brings back memories of myself back then, recalling those difficult times."

Belos was considered one of the earlier veterans,

when Austin was nestled in the valley during early expansions. Their tribe was invaded and annexed by the Dragon Nest Tribe, eventually being absorbed and assimilated as part of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

Belos did not harbor much nostalgia for his previous Beastman tribe.

There was nothing worth reminiscing about.

Instead, it was the hard-earned days after joining the Dragon Nest Beastman Tribe,

the era of great production development, copper and iron forging in blast furnaces, total mobilization into the mighty days of great production, that left a deeper mark on Belos.

In those days of struggle and construction, under the leadership of the great His Highness Austin, a strong unprecedented Kingdom was established in the Kawa Great Forest.

"This would not have been possible without your astute foresight, Lord Belos, who foresaw the limitless future of the great His Highness Austin and joined ahead of time."

A human beside him stepped forward, complimenting.

"Haha, what foresight? Back then, in the mountain nook, all I thought about was when we could get a full meal. Not just me, but even General Rodney, General Hog, Chancellor Quik, none of us thought about having a day like today when we led our people to reclaim the forest land and attack other Beastman tribes."

"At first, almost all the Beastmen under His Highness merely sought a full meal; later, it was the hope for the tribe to grow stronger, so they wouldn't be bullied. Then they dared to hope to become the overlord of the Kawa Great Forest. For each goal, we strove and fought. But the result, in the end, was that the entire Dragon Nest Tribe grew into the Blue Dragon Kingdom that the Southern Countries cannot contend with."

Though Belos was among the early joining Beastmen, due to lack of ability, he remained, for a long time, just a regular soldier among the tribe's Beastmen.

If, at that time, someone told them that they were following His Highness Austin, who would eventually establish the Blue Dragon Beastman Kingdom, those ordinary soldiers might only think it was a joke.

Indeed, during those strenuous times of struggle,

who would have thought that a day like this would come?

"His Highness's grand plans are beyond what we can fathom."