Chapter 307 - The Ape King’s Prediction (2/2)

The two of them met eyes and smiled. Bai Qingqing said, “I’ll wash my face later.”

Parker felt like a huge weight was completely lifted off his shoulders. He stripped all the grains and quickly removed the husks with the stone mortar. Of course, there were small amounts of pounded rice as well.

If these rice grains were peeled by hand, it would take them at least the rest of the hot season to finish doing so. However, harvesting and removing the husks now took less than an afternoon. With so much time saved, he could overlook the fact that minute amounts of rice were crushed.

“Take this rice to Winston and tell everyone about this method,” Bai Qingqing said with a smile and clapped her hands. “It would be best if you could find someone else to exchange the rice for grains that we can plant later on.”

“Okay!” Parker left excitedly.

…

Winston gathered the citizens of the City of Beastmen once again. He told everyone about the method to remove husks and demonstrated it to them. As everyone was rejoicing, he announced a piece of earth-shattering news.

“It’s very likely that there will be a drought during this year’s hot season. If it doesn’t rain, the river will dry up,” Winston said very slowly as his deep tiger eyes scanned the main hall, silencing the crowd.

This message was from Curtis. This time, the drought area was extremely large, and some distant places also experienced a serious fall in their water levels.

There was an eerie silence in the main hall for a moment before it suddenly became chaotic.

“How can that be? Wasn’t there just a flood recently?”

“Why isn’t the ape king informing us of this? It’s always the tiger king. Is he okay?”

“We should probably ask the ape king first.”

“Right. Let’s go ask the ape king.”

The beastmen followed the crowd and rushed to the ape king’s castle.

Bai Qingqing walked in from the backyard and smiled. “Come on. Let’s go watch the fun too.”