Chapter 50
The weather on the Beast God Continent was changeable. The hottest period was growing season, but growing season was also rainy, so no matter the tribe, they rarely bathed cubs. Being a little dirty did not affect much, but bathing made them prone to illness.
Therefore, in most members’ eyes, cubs were closest to their original color when they were first born, and later their colors slowly changed.
For example, snow wolf cubs would go from white to yellow, then turn white again after growing up. Black wolf cubs would go from black to gray-black, then become black again after growing up.
In the eyes of the black wolf members, cubs at this age should lean gray. Suddenly seeing cubs that were glossy black—forget not daring to recognize them, they genuinely felt from the bottom of their hearts that these were not their cubs.
Their cubs really were not this black.
After being chased to the river, the group of black wolves washed their hands and faces, then washed their hair while they were at it. After washing, they realized their whole bodies were wet, so they simply went down and rinsed off before coming back up.
After shaking off the water droplets on their bodies, the group of black wolves changed back into human form and returned to find the chief.
When Lang Qi and the other members saw them return, the first thing they noticed was their hair.
Most of the water on the black wolves’ bodies had been shaken off, but the movement of shaking their heads had not been that large, leaving some water behind. After they changed into human form, it was especially obvious.
Not far away, Lang Shi also saw it and muttered, “Adult black wolves don’t change that much after washing.”
Unlike cubs, who looked as if they had been swapped for another one.
Lang Yan glanced at Lang Qi.
Lang Qi touched his nose. If he had known, he would have asked earlier.
But even knowing how the cubs had become black was useless. By the time the group of black wolf members went over again, the cubs had already started rubbing their eyes.
It was time for the cubs to sleep.
With the cradles, when the cubs woke at night, they would fall asleep again not long after. Their daytime sleeping time had decreased a lot, and their schedule was gradually syncing up with the other members of the tribe. Their bedtime was even a little earlier. Once the time came, they began yawning.
Sleepy cubs did not make trouble. They simply did not want to be held by others and wanted to lie in the cradle. At this time, even if members of the Black Wolf Tribe’s gathering team came, they could only watch, let alone the hunting party members who had almost been forgotten by the cubs.
Lang Shuo held a large leaf similar to a banana leaf and helped the cubs drive away mosquitoes. He had no intention of helping.
The group of black wolves knew they were in the wrong and went back to find Lang Yan.
Lang Yan regretted bringing them over even more.
Until they left the Snow Wolf Tribe, Lang Yan still did not find an opportunity to look a few more times in the cubs’ direction.
His mood, which had already been somewhat gloomy, became even more irritated by the time they returned to the tribe.
After returning to the tribe, the other members immediately distanced themselves from Lang Yan, afraid of being caught for some fault.
After returning to their caves, several members with many cubs unanimously called their other cubs back.
“Cub, Father will take you to bathe.”
…
Lang Shuo did not know what had happened in the Black Wolf Tribe. After sending the cubs back into the cave, he began rummaging through medicinal herbs.
Recently, the Black Wolf Tribe had been sending some over from time to time, added to what their own tribe had gathered, so they had accumulated quite a lot of medicinal herbs. After being dried, they were all packed into back baskets or large baskets. This time, the types needed were rather numerous, and it took a while to find everything.
He planned to make some mosquito-repelling incense.
The closer it got to growing season, the more rampant the mosquitoes and insects became. Before, they had only appeared in the woods and grass, and the cubs only got bitten while sleeping. These past two days, they had clearly become more excessive. Buzzing mosquitoes often appeared beneath the cave too, and cubs would be bitten even while awake. The mosquitoes here were especially bold and could not be driven away no matter how one shooed them. They could only be slapped dead, but when they were biting cubs, it was hard to use force, so they often escaped.
The mint cooling balm had some effect, but it was not good to smear the cubs’ entire bodies with mint balm. The cubs did not like overly strong smells. Lighting mosquito incense was more convenient.
What Lang Shuo made was a simplified version. Mint, mugwort, and other herbs with mosquito-repelling effects were ground into powder, then mixed with charcoal and water soaked with elm bark. After stirring evenly, the mixture was kneaded into strips, coiled up, separated by leaves, and placed in large baskets to dry in the sun.
The sun was strong during the day. Mosquito incense made the night before could be used the next night. Lang Shuo lit two and placed them beside the cubs’ cradle. Worried they would touch the cubs, he kept them at a small distance.
The mosquito incense burned relatively slowly, with only one small red dot. Afraid other members would not see clearly, Lang Shuo stuck three half-person-tall wooden sticks around each incense coil, then tied the sticks together. This way, as long as no one ran around with their eyes closed, they would definitely see it.
After lighting the mosquito incense, Lang Shuo began paying attention to the surroundings. At first, the buzzing was relatively obvious. Later, it slowly decreased, showing that it was still effective.
Lang Yun was relatively close to him and felt it the most clearly. The frequency with which she slapped mosquitoes dropped a lot, and she could not help looking at the mosquito incense several more times. When Lang Shuo made it yesterday, she had guessed it might be useful, but she had not expected the effect to be this obvious.
The sub-adults, who usually ran everywhere, were rarely well-behaved today. They sat not far from the cubs. Aside from Lang Nuo, who was still energetic, the other sub-adults were all dozing. Recently, the mosquitoes had been disturbing them so much that they could not sleep well in the middle of the night. They were not afraid of bites, only annoyed by those things buzzing around their ears.
Seeing that Lang Nuo was not asleep, Lang Shuo pointed at the remaining mosquito incense in the large basket beside him. “Nuo, take a few incense coils, light them, and place them in the cave.”
At this time, everyone was eating, so there was no one inside the cave. If they smoked the mosquitoes out before going back, they could sleep well tonight.
When the other sub-adults heard Lang Shuo call someone to work, one after another, they opened their eyes. Helping Lang Shuo was their job.
In truth, this was something one person could do, but the sub-adults liked joining the excitement, so Lang Shuo let them. He only instructed them to remember to use large leaves to fan the air inside the cave outward after the incense burned out.
That night, every member in the tribe, including the cubs, had a rare good sleep. Without mosquitoes disturbing them, sleeping all the way until dawn felt truly good.
Lang Shuo also slept very comfortably. After waking up, he took the cubs out to breathe some fresh air, looked at the crops not far away, and decided to make something.
Two days ago, after he made the mint cooling balm, the sub-adults had brought back some honeycomb. The beeswax rendered from it was plentiful. If he used it all to make cooling balm, even if all types of plant oil were used up, there would still be a lot of beeswax left.
Of course, Lang Shuo would not make that much at once, so there was still plenty of beeswax left. He planned to use beeswax to lure bees. Right now, the bee colonies were too far from the crops they planted. Relying entirely on manual pollination and wind pollination made Lang Shuo worry it would affect the yield.
Moreover, after making a beehive and bringing the bees over, collecting honey would also be more convenient.
The area around the residence was open ground, a distance away from the planting area. There were also some strong-smelling seasonings planted in the middle, so bees would not easily fly this way. There was no need to worry about safety.
Thinking of this, Lang Shuo immediately got to work.
A beehive needed wooden boards. The tribe had these. Although there were not many, piecing together a beehive was more than enough.
Lang Shuo did not make it too complicated. It was just a square wooden box with several layers of partitions added inside. The lid was movable, making it convenient to collect honey in the future. He carved out entrances and exits, smeared beeswax inside the hive, then had the sub-adults take it near the beehive.
Luring bees was not something that could be completed in a day or two, and one beehive was not enough either. Lang Shuo discussed with several members who made tools, asking them to split more wooden boards and make more beehives.
The tool-making members agreed. In any case, their daily work was making stone knives, bone knives, bone needles, and farming tools used in the fields. They had already accumulated quite a lot of these. Making a few beehives would not delay making other tools.
While Lang Shuo was discussing with several members, a young wolf hurriedly ran out from the cave. Seeing Lang Shuo was like seeing a lifesaving straw. Grabbing the animal hide on his body, the young wolf said in panic, “Shuo, born, born, Shuo, born…”
Lang Shuo: “???”
Not me. I didn’t. Don’t talk nonsense.
The memories Lang Shuo had finally managed to ignore were recalled again because of the young wolf’s words. He wished he could turn deaf. But the young wolf was clearly even more anxious than him right now. The other party had run out from inside the cave, and inside the cave were only the tribe’s pregnant sub-beastmen and female beastmen. Even if other members were resting, they did not like staying in the cave.
After understanding this, Lang Shuo also panicked. He turned and called Lang Yun. “Yun, someone gave birth!”
No matter who gave birth, he should call someone over first. Lang Shuo did not know how to handle it.
Lang Yun was much calmer than them. “It’s fine. You do your work. I’ll go take a look after I finish cooking this pot.”
Lang Shuo: “???”
Lang Shuo was shocked and hurried over. “I’ll watch the fire. Hurry and go look.”
Those were cubs, newly born cubs and a beastman who had just given birth. Lang Yun was actually this calm.
Seeing him keep urging her, Lang Yun handed the cooking work over to him. After walking a few steps, she turned back and asked, “Aren’t you going to look? Newly born cubs are this small.” As she spoke, she gestured with her hand.
Lang Shuo said, “I’ll go later. You first check whether there’s anywhere inside that needs help.”
Lang Shuo actually really wanted to see the cubs, but the problem was that he still did not know who inside the cave had given birth. What if it was a female beastman? Then it would be inconvenient for him to go over.
Lang Yun returned very quickly. After coming back, she washed her hands and explained, “Zhao gave birth. Two cubs. They’re both asleep. I’ll bring him food later and check again. Since one has given birth, the later cubs should also be born soon.”
Beastmen’s pregnancy periods were not fixed. Usually, after the first cub of the year was born in the same tribe, the other pregnant beastmen would also give birth one after another. This was also why beastmen liked to keep cubs together. The cubs were close in age, so there was no fear of the smaller ones being bullied.
In truth, their tribe’s cubs had previously been born much earlier than this, but last year, they had gone hungry for a long time. The pregnant beastmen could not eat their fill and had only recently slowly improved. This caused the cubs to be lacking in nutrition and to be born late.
The birth of the cubs also meant one more thing. Lang Yun pointed at the cubs in the cradle, who were either sleeping or running. “Some of these cubs may be about to change into human form soon. Pay attention.” In previous years, these two things happened very close together.
Lang Shuo froze. Thinking about the time, it was indeed not early. In a few days, it would be growing season, and the cubs were basically all born during breeding season. In other words, some of these cubs had already turned three.
Lang Shuo had seen cubs in the tribe change into human form before, but they had all been above five years old. After realizing they had recovered, the cubs would actively remind adults, and Lang Shuo only needed to carry them out. The remaining cubs were too young and only knew to shout that they were hungry every day. Even the three four- or five-year-old cubs now only knew how to say things related to food.
With the cubs being so young, how could they judge that one was about to change into human form?
Lang Yun understood this point. “Whichever day their appetite increases, it’s about time.”
Before changing into human form, cubs were very small. The food they ate every day was enough for their activity and would also accumulate a portion. Only after enough energy accumulated could they change into human form. When they were about to succeed, the cubs digested faster, had larger appetites, and shouted that they were hungry from morning to night.
Hearing this, Lang Shuo fell silent for a moment.
After speaking, Lang Yun also went quiet.
The siblings looked at one another and saw their own thoughts in each other’s eyes.
Recently, these cubs seemed to have no one who did not shout about being hungry.
Who told the tribe’s food to be delicious?
This was Lang Yun’s first time encountering this kind of situation. She had only started taking care of cubs last snow season. Everything she knew was learned from the female beastman who had taken care of cubs before. However, during this period of time, the tribe had changed far too much.
Especially in terms of food. In the past, before cubs changed into human form, their appetites grew larger, and it was very obvious among a group of quiet cubs. Once a cub could not get full no matter what, everyone knew this cub was about to learn how to change into human form and would give him more food. This method of judgment had never been wrong.
But the current situation was different. Almost every time they finished eating and a little while passed, cubs would shout they were hungry. Then more and more cubs would follow in shouting. Because of this, aside from the three fixed meals every day, the cubs also had two small snacks. Sometimes, if the tribe made some other delicious food with a strong smell, they would even add another meal.
Feeding them five or six times a day like this made the cubs’ changes extremely obvious. Otherwise, the Black Wolf Tribe members would not have been afraid to recognize the cubs. Aside from color, their size had changed too.
Even like this, the cubs would occasionally still hum and ask for food. Under such circumstances, it was impossible to easily distinguish whether the cubs were about to change into human form or were purely greedy.
Lang Shuo felt that this was a little mentally exhausting. If only the cubs could give advance notice before changing into human form. Unfortunately, he could only think about it. As for how to distinguish them, they still had to think of a way.
That night, when eating leafy vegetables, inspiration struck Lang Shuo, and he thought of a new method.
“Tomorrow, boil some leafy vegetables. Don’t add seasoning or meat. Just boil leafy vegetables. After boiling, put them in the cradle and see who eats them.”
Cubs from any tribe were picky eaters. Leafy vegetables were their least favorite food. Recently, however, Lang Shuo had been stewing leafy vegetables with other foods. Leafy vegetables that picked up meaty flavor were tastier than before. But they still hated plain boiled leafy vegetables with no other taste at all.
If they could truly even eat plain boiled leafy vegetables, then they were genuinely starving, proving their bodies urgently needed nutrients and that they were at a critical point.
Lang Yun thought for a moment and nodded in agreement. “All right. Tomorrow, I’ll start boiling leafy vegetables.”
They had to separate the cubs who were about to change into human form from the other cubs. Otherwise, the other cubs could easily get hurt.
After the two discussed it, they began the next day. When they said plain boiled leafy vegetables, it was truly plain boiled. Not even a bit of other seasoning was added.
The bland, tasteless food—forget the cubs, even Lang Shuo took one bite and did not want to continue eating.
Thinking this, Lang Shuo placed the leafy vegetables to the side to drain. There were too many cubs in the cradle, and since it kept swaying, if there was water, the cubs could easily knock it over and dirty the cubs and the cradle. He had finally washed the cubs clean two days ago and did not want to wash them again so soon.
Just as Lang Shuo placed two bowls of leafy vegetables into the cradles, the sub-adults who were eating gathered around.
“Shuo, what did you make?” The sub-adults curiously looked into the bowls. It was a green lump, somewhat like leafy vegetables.
But Lang Shuo could not possibly make plain leafy vegetables with nothing in them. This bowl of leafy vegetables definitely had something different about it.
Lang Shuo was just about to answer boiled leafy vegetables, but thinking of how this group of sub-adults was usually also very picky, the words turned a corner when they reached his mouth. “Nothing much. You definitely won’t like eating it.”
Hearing this, not only the sub-adults who had gathered around just now, even the sub-adults not far away who had not planned to join the excitement walked over.
Seeing their movements, Lang Shuo poured all the remaining leafy vegetables in the bamboo basket into the pot.
The sub-adults looked at the half pot of leafy vegetables.
Plain, ordinary leafy vegetables now looked delicious no matter how they looked.
Lang Shuo would not let them eat it and had specially left it for the cubs. Then it could only taste better than usual.
The sub-adults looked at Lang Shuo.
“Shuo, give us a little, give us a little.”
“The cubs are so small. Just give them one bite. Our bodies are so big, so we’re the ones who should eat more.”
Lang Shuo stirred the leafy vegetables and shook his head. “Impossible. You definitely won’t like eating it. There isn’t much seasoning added here.”
Not much added meant some had been added. Food Lang Shuo added seasoning to had never tasted bad.
The sub-adults, who had never seen Lang Shuo fail, became even more determined.
This pot of vegetables, they had to eat.
Lang Shuo was annoyed by their nagging and asked, “Are you sure you want to taste it? Whether it tastes good or not, you have to finish it.”
The sub-adults nodded. “We want to taste it.”
“All right.” Lang Shuo called Lang Yun over to help serve the vegetables. After speaking, he added, “Serve more.”
Lang Yun held back her laughter and nodded in agreement. Usually, making the sub-adults eat leafy vegetables caused them to act as if they were being asked to live or die. Now that they had finally caught an opportunity, of course they had to make them eat more.
The leafy vegetables in the pot were divided into eight portions. The bowls were too large, so the two of them also divided the soup into the bowls. The pot became clean with only a rinse of water. There truly was not a single drop of oil.
When the leafy vegetables were served out, the sub-adults already felt that something was not quite right. Generally speaking, no matter what food they were cooked with, leafy vegetables were always the last thing added. Therefore, when they saw the food in the pot, they had subconsciously assumed that Lang Shuo had added other food before pouring in the leafy vegetables. However, even after serving all the way to the bottom of the pot, they did not see any other food.
The sub-adults looked at the bowls before them, a little hesitant.
In the end, Lang Nuo was the first to start. He picked up a chopstickful and put it into his mouth, froze for a moment, then looked at Lang Shuo in disbelief.
Lang Shuo looked back at him.
What? You were the ones who wanted to eat it.
Lang Nuo instantly understood what Lang Shuo’s words from before meant. He had deliberately tricked them into eating leafy vegetables by taking advantage of their belief that Lang Shuo would never make bad-tasting food.
Lang Nuo felt the leafy vegetables in his mouth were somewhat difficult to swallow.
“Nuo, is it tasty?” Another sub-adult saw Lang Nuo bite down and then stop moving, and anxiously asked.
Lang Nuo immediately put on a smile, nodded, and struggled to swallow the food in his mouth. Then he said, “Delicious. I didn’t expect leafy vegetables could be this tasty. Shuo originally wanted to leave it for those young wolves, right?” As he spoke, he pointed in the direction of Lang Hui and the other young wolves.
As soon as the questioning sub-adult heard this, he immediately began eating. After one bite, he looked at Lang Shuo, then at Lang Nuo, and finally closed his eyes and finished eating. Then he said to his companions waiting for feedback, “Mm, delicious. I still want to eat it tomorrow.”
He had eaten it, so everyone else had to eat it too!
With two people saying it was delicious, the sub-adults who had originally been a little doubtful finally felt reassured and lowered their heads to eat.
After one bite, they discovered the taste was wrong.
Lang Shuo said, “No spitting it out. Finish everything.”
The sub-adults: “…”
After eating a bowl of leafy vegetables, the sub-adults instantly felt that their mouths were full of leafy vegetable taste.
Boohoo, they would never be greedy again next time.
Lang Shuo saw through their thoughts, but he did not believe them one bit. Next time, if there was any movement on this side, the sub-adults would absolutely be the first to gather around.
“All right, all right. You only ate a bowl of leafy vegetables. It’s not like you drank a bowl of medicine. Who told you to not eat leafy vegetables usually?” Lang Yun began chasing people away. Why were the sub-adults afraid of drinking medicine? Wasn’t it because they ate leafy vegetables the least in normal times and were the easiest to fall ill? Now, thanks to Lang Shuo teaching them other cooking methods, otherwise, with the sub-adults’ picky eating, this year they would still be hurting here and aching there.
The sub-adults sighed and were just about to turn away when they saw the empty bowls in the cradles and were shocked. “Who ate this???”
They had been tricked into eating it, but the cubs had actually finished it too. Which cub had done it?
Lang Shuo froze and turned to look at the cradles. He saw three snow wolf cubs clinging to the rims of the bowls, and there was no food left inside. On the other side, the food in the black wolf cubs’ bowl was still full.
Lang Shuo picked some leafy vegetables from that side and placed them into the empty bowl.
The few snow wolf cubs lowered their heads and bit into the leafy vegetables. They seemed somewhat dissatisfied with this taste and slowly ate it into their stomachs. Then, after hesitating for a moment, they continued eating.
Lang Shuo immediately picked up the three cubs separately and fed them the extra meal he had prepared. In the next few days, these cubs would have to stay separately until they changed into human form.
As for the remaining cubs, perhaps because they had all been frightened before, the time for them to change into human form this year was much later.
And these three that were about to change into human form were the three four- or five-year-old cubs.
Lang Shuo guessed correctly. Three days later, the three cubs successively changed into human form. They were slightly smaller than four- or five-year-old children, probably because they were used to walking on four legs. When they had just changed back into human form, their walking was not very steady. Lang Shuo took three small wooden stools and placed them beside the cradle, letting them sit nearby.
The cubs were very obedient. If Lang Shuo told them to sit, they obediently sat. Even when touching the other cubs in the baskets, they were very careful and extremely well-behaved.
When the Black Wolf Tribe’s gathering team members came to deliver medicinal herbs and saw this scene, they suspected their eyes were playing tricks on them.
There really were cubs who could sit beside the cradle without running around? Did such cubs really exist?
Most importantly, beside these three cubs were two cradles, containing cubs who had not yet changed into human form. If this were in their tribe, the cubs in the baskets would have been thrown out who knew how many times already.
Thinking of every breeding season, when a portion of cubs changed into human form and they had to urgently separate the cubs in the two forms, the black wolf members were truly envious.
For an instant, they even had a bold thought. Why not let this group of black wolf cubs stay here? What if, under the influence of these well-behaved cubs, they also became well-behaved in the future?
This thought shattered when they saw the completely different toys in the two cradles.
The same toy on the snow wolf cubs’ side was clean and neat, with only some tiny bite marks on it. The one on the black wolf cubs’ side was full of pits and dents, and a little dirty too, because the black wolf cubs would push it outside the basket from time to time, and then the three sitting cubs would pick it back up.
Facts proved that nature was hard to change. Even in the Snow Wolf Tribe, the black wolf cubs who were supposed to be mischievous were still mischievous. They had not changed one bit.
The black wolf members sighed. They had never envied other tribes before, because their tribe was the largest among the surrounding tribes. Whether it was territory size or number of members, they far surpassed the other tribes. But this year, the shocks they received had come one after another, each bigger than the last. At first it was food. Now it was cubs.
Could it be that their tribe had chosen a poor location? Too close to the lion race’s tribe, causing the cubs to often hear the irritable lions’ roars before birth and pick up the lion race’s bad habits?
The black wolf members, who did not feel their own tempers were irritable at all, thought through every possible surrounding influence.
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