All The Furry Creatures In The Beast World Are Farming With Me – CH34

Chapter 34

From the end of snow season onward, the Black Wolf Tribe had not had a single quiet day.

The male wolves who had reached adulthood in the past two years were crazily pursuing partners. From time to time, they would fight because they were pursuing the same female or male. The sub-adults, who had not yet reached adulthood, were even more restless because of the agitation in their bodies. When they had nothing to do, they would fight and howl a few times. If they disturbed other members, that would trigger another hearty battle.

Would things quiet down after one fight? No. When they fought, they would whine, bark, and howl wildly, and the result was that they disturbed even more members. Once more members were involved, it either turned into a group fight or they came to him to judge who was right.

Lang Yan was endlessly annoyed, yet he could not simply wash his hands of it. Otherwise, if he let them fight as they pleased, the priest’s cave might not be able to fit all the injured members in the end. And ever since snow season, something seemed to have happened to the priest. His ability to treat illnesses was far worse than before. He could not even treat sub-adults who had eaten too much, and recently, he had more and more small movements. Lang Yan did not feel reassured letting the priest and sub-adults stay together alone. As long as someone was injured, he had to go over and check from time to time.

For more than a month, Lang Yan had passed his days in this state.

Breeding season? The season he hated most was breeding season.

Now, the noisiest time in the tribe had finally passed. He could sleep peacefully, and during the day, he would not be harassed either. He could stay quietly for a while.

In the end, it had only been quiet for half a day. Half a day!

Lang Yan looked at the group of sub-adults who wished they could set off immediately and began regretting not sending them out hunting.

Lang Yan said, “Go ask the older members of the tribe what a fire looks like!”

Although he did not know what the Snow Wolf Tribe was doing, Lang Yan could be certain that there was no fire over there. He had seen it just now. The smoke was continuous but stable. Clearly, someone was controlling it.

As soon as Lang Yong heard this, his face filled with disappointment. The urgency from just now was swept clean away.

Lang Yan: “…”

Seeing how quickly the sub-adults changed expressions, Lang Yan laughed from anger.

Not bad. They had grown brains.

And what little brains they had were all used to deal with him.

Next time they got lost, there would be no need to go out and find them. He would just let them fend for themselves.

Lang Yong had no idea that his little thoughts had been seen through and made one final struggle. “But what if? What if there really is a fire? They have so few people. Chief, let’s go take a look.”

Lang Yan paused. The possibility the sub-adult mentioned was very small, but it was not impossible.

Thinking of this, Lang Yan said, “Mm. You go over.”

“Chief, look, the Snow Wolf Tribe members are so thin. If there really is a fire—ah?” Lang Yong had originally thought he would have to pester him for half the day before succeeding. Lang Yan agreed at once, and for a moment, he did not react.

Lang Yan asked in return, “You don’t want to go? Then I’ll call someone else.”

“No, no, no.” Lang Yong hurriedly stopped him, afraid the chief might really call someone else. “We’ll go. We’ll go right now!” After saying this, without waiting for Lang Yan to say anything else, he ran outside like a gust of wind.

As he ran, he shouted to the other sub-adults who were already prepared, “Let’s go, let’s go! The chief agreed!”

“Awoo~” The sub-adults joyfully rushed toward the distance, their backs showing not the slightest reluctance.

Lang Yan: “…”

Suddenly, he had the urge to chase after them and beat them.

Who brought food with them when going to put out a fire?

…

Lang Shuo was leading Lang Nuo and the others in making clay blanks. After the weather warmed, making mud bricks no longer required fire-roasting like before. They dried very quickly through natural air-drying. The kiln built for firing pottery was relatively large and would dry a little slower. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lang Shuo wanted to make the clay blanks first.

For the first firing, he temporarily did not plan to fire containers that were too large. First, they would shape some small bowls and plates, especially plates. The tribe had too few plates. Bowls could be carved from bamboo, but plates could only be made from stone or wood. Wooden plates did not have good waterproofing, and stone plates were heavy. Now when the tribe ate dishes, they used bowls. There was plenty of bamboo, and if one broke, they simply replaced it. No one felt distressed at all.

The method of making clay blanks was somewhat similar to mud bricks, but a little more complicated. It was mainly divided into selecting materials, shaping, and trimming. If needed, they could also add some patterns. Since they were using them themselves, the decorating step was omitted. As long as the shape was suitable, it was fine.

The material chosen was the most common clay. After adding water, it needed to be constantly stepped on and beaten. Only after being repeatedly pounded could it be used.

Aside from beating the clay, the later steps did not require sub-adults to act. Lang Shuo led several adult members to make them together.

They used fine thread to cut off clay, placed it on a flat stone and rolled it flat, trimmed it into the needed shape, pinched the edges into a slight curve, then finally tidied it up and checked whether there were cracks, handling them in time.

The finished clay blanks were placed in the shade. After a few days, they would be polished.

Making clay blanks was something that required patience. Even the clumsy sub-adults were extremely careful now. After preparing the clay blanks, their task was to seal the openings of the earth kilns used to fire charcoal to prevent too much oxygen inside the kiln caves.

Affected by the atmosphere, the cubs in the large basket beside Lang Shuo were using one another as pillows and sleeping. The sun during breeding season was just the right temperature and especially suited for sleeping.

Beside someone familiar and close, the cubs’ sleeping postures were extremely arrogant. Some lay sprawled on their bellies, some lay on their backs, some lay on their sides, sleeping in all directions.

Lang Shuo used a thinner animal hide to cover the bellies of the ones lying belly-up. The ones sleeping on their stomachs did not need it. Their backs were not afraid of catching cold.

At this quiet and warm moment, a thunderous series of footsteps came closer from afar.

In an instant, all the members perked up their ears and warily looked into the distance.

Several patrol members were relatively far from the cave and immediately went over to check the situation.

Before they could get there, a familiar voice entered everyone’s ears.

“Lang Shuo, we’re here!”

The voice was too loud, and the cubs sleeping in the large basket startled and trembled. Fortunately, there was only that one shout. They were probably advised to stop by the Snow Wolf Tribe members who went to meet them.

Lang Shuo immediately lifted the large basket and slowly rocked it, soothing the cubs in a low voice.

Wrapped in the familiar scent, the cubs quickly fell asleep again.

Lang Shuo let out a breath of relief. Before long, he saw a group of familiar figures appear not far away. They were the sub-adults of the Black Wolf Tribe. They seemed to have a few more members than in snow season, and most were carrying back baskets.

No need to think. Inside was definitely food.

Lang Shuo instantly understood. They had come to order food.

After seeing Lang Shuo, Lang Yong was extremely excited. “Lang Shuo, Lang Shuo, I talked for so long before the chief agreed to let us come! Luckily, we’re smart and tricked the chief by saying we were coming to put out a fire. Otherwise, he definitely wouldn’t have agreed!”

Lang Yong’s tone was full of pride in his own intelligence.

Lang Shuo looked at the smoke above several earth kilns, then looked at the group of sub-adults who could not hide their happiness, and seriously suspected that Lang Yan had not believed their words, but simply could not be bothered to manage them.

However, regardless of the reason, the sub-adults were here. Lang Shuo rubbed a cub and asked, “What do you want to eat? There are especially many leafy vegetables recently. Do you want to try some?”

It rained during breeding season, but the rainfall could not compare to growing season, which was also called rainy season. Outside was still relatively dry, so it was suitable to eat more green vegetables.

The group of sub-adults shook their heads like rattle drums. “Not eating, not eating. We won’t eat leafy vegetables.”

Lang Shuo asked, “Really not eating?”

His tone was clearly very gentle and no different from just now, but the group of sub-adults felt a little chill down their backs. Their instincts told them it was best not to nod right now.

The sub-adults looked at one another and smartly changed their answer. “As long as Lang Shuo makes it, we’ll eat anything.”

At worst, they would eat more meat to make up for it!

Lang Shuo was quite satisfied with this answer and pointed toward Lang Nuo and the others, who were breaking branches on the other side. “Go work. I’ll call you when it’s time to eat.”

The group of sub-adults had been waiting for this sentence. Hearing it, they jumped up and were about to cheer.

“No shouting randomly.” Lang Shuo hurriedly protected the cubs. He had finally soothed them to sleep. He did not want them to be woken again.

The sub-adults immediately covered their mouths and nodded repeatedly. They would not shout. They absolutely would not shout anymore.

Only then did Lang Shuo feel reassured and wave for them to go work.

These days, the gathering team brought back a pile of leafy vegetables every day. If it rained that day, they would also bring mushrooms back. Two days ago, they had even carried back half a back basket of wood ear mushrooms.

Leafy vegetables were the least durable. If they could not be eaten that day, Lang Shuo would have everyone wash them clean and hang them on ropes outside to dry. Quite a lot of mushrooms and wood ears had also been dried.

The food Lang Yong and the others brought over this time was meat chunks that had already been cut. They were very fresh and should have come from prey caught yesterday.

Lang Shuo discussed the dishes with Lang Yun: mushroom stewed meat, stir-fried greens with meat, and finally some skewers for them to roast themselves.

The two dishes were not complicated. The two of them, together with a few members helping, had several pots working at once. Lang Yong and the others had come in the afternoon, and before dusk, the dishes were already cooked. The meat chunks used for roasting had also been skewered. They only needed to be roasted directly.

The place where the sub-adults worked was some distance from here. Even so, from the moment the stir-fried dishes were cooked, the group of sub-adults became somewhat distracted, wishing they could immediately run over and eat.

The sub-adults of the Black Wolf Tribe did not have the same patience as the sub-adults of their tribe, so the work of serving food was done by adult members. After it was served, they directly called them over to eat.

The sub-adults who had been waiting for this moment howled and shot over.

Lang Shuo: “…”

He just knew they were unreliable.

Fortunately, since they had started eating, it did not matter if the cubs woke. Lang Shuo first placed the cubs’ food properly, letting them eat slowly.

As for the sub-adults’ food, two bowls per person. They could line up and take it themselves.

When they had eaten here before, it had been like this. The sub-adults were very self-aware. First, they went to get chopsticks, then came over to line up. One hand held a bowl, the other held soup. They casually found a place and started eating.

Lang Nuo knew that Lang Yong and the others could not wait, so he deliberately led the Snow Wolf Tribe’s sub-adults to line up at the back. In the end, unexpectedly, by the time they finished receiving their food, Lang Yong and the others had all already eaten most of one bowl. The few in front had emptied both bowls.

Lang Nuo was shocked.

Lang Nuo could not believe it. “Does your tribe not feed you?”

This speed was too fast.

Lang Yong was among the group that had already finished. He touched his stomach and felt as if he had eaten, but also as if he had not. Hearing Lang Nuo’s words, he sighed. “Don’t mention it.”

They had taken a lot of food away from the Snow Wolf Tribe. Every day, they pestered the chief to give them a little more. A little more today, a little more tomorrow. Food meant to last a month was finished in half a month. After that, they had been eating food made by their own tribe. Therefore, this year’s snow season, they had been full for half a month and hungry for half a month.

As soon as snow season ended, they had wanted to come over. In the end, the chief had been unwilling, because during breeding season, only members who wanted to search for partners in other tribes would go out. They could only continue staying in the tribe and were not even allowed to go out hunting. There was no need to mention how stifled they had felt.

Now that they had finally found an opportunity to come out, the sub-adults began pouring out their grievances.

After speaking of their grievances from these past two months, Lang Yong asked Lang Nuo, “What about you? What have you all been doing?”

Lang Nuo pointed at the large stretches of crops outside and was incomparably proud. “See that? We planted all of it!”

The black wolves were shocked. Grass also had to be planted?

Lang Nuo said, “It’s not grass. It’s food. This side is potatoes, that side is pumpkins…”

The sub-adult black wolves’ faces filled with admiration. This way, during harvest season, there would be endless food to eat! So amazing! They wanted to stay in the Snow Wolf Tribe.

…

Black Wolf Tribe.

When the hunting party that had gone out today returned to the tribe, they did not hear the familiar noise and were extremely surprised. “That group of young wolves isn’t causing trouble?”

In the past, when they returned, either these few were fighting or those few were fighting. Sometimes an entire group would fight together. Today was too unusual.

“They went out.” The members who had seen the sub-adults leave the tribe answered their doubts.

“No wonder it’s so quiet.” The hunting party suddenly understood. That explained it. Only when the sub-adults were absent could the tribe gain brief peace.

However, until they began preparing dinner, the sub-adults still had not returned. Members who did not know the inside story could not help feeling a little worried. “Why aren’t they back yet? Should we go look for them?”

During breeding season, it was not only beastmen who wanted to find partners. Prey were also in rut. Male prey at this time became extremely irritable. This was also why they did not let sub-adults go out during breeding season.

Lang Yan said, “No need to look. They have somewhere to eat.”

At the same time, Lang Yu, who had returned to the tribe, saw the familiar figures that had appeared outside the cave, and his face darkened.

Why had they come again?

This was breeding season. Lang Yu wished he could immediately separate this group of sub-adult black wolves from the sub-adults of their tribe, especially the group around Lang Shuo!

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