All The Furry Creatures In The Beast World Are Farming With Me – CH52

Chapter 52

When the Black Wolf Tribe’s gathering team members told Lang Yan that the Snow Wolf Tribe needed two milk-producing curved-horned beasts, he finally knew where that bad premonition had come from.

For most beastmen, especially those of the Black Wolf Tribe, capturing prey alive was far more troublesome than directly killing prey.

Not to mention, what the Snow Wolf Tribe wanted were beasts without wounds on their bodies. The difficulty rose in a straight line.

The only thing worth being grateful for was that Lang Yu had probably been afraid they would keep failing to catch suitable curved-horned beasts and affect the cubs’ milk, so he had told them the Snow Wolf Tribe’s method of capture.

However, after Lang Yan finished listening, he felt the difficulty had become even greater.

The Black Wolf Tribe’s sub-adults were sub-adults who could be chased back by curved-horned beasts all the way from Black Wolf territory to the Snow Wolf Tribe. Hoping they would cooperate with adult beastmen to exhaust the prey’s stamina instead of running around everywhere was simply dreaming.

Not bringing the sub-adults might fail. Bringing the sub-adults would definitely fail. Working with the sub-adults would only increase the difficulty of the hunt.

For the sake of the cubs’ stomachs, it was better to use another method.

Fortunately, the Black Wolf Tribe had many people, so the hunting party members could go together, with a portion of them replacing the sub-adults to exhaust the prey’s stamina.

There was still food in the tribe, and sending food for the cubs was more important. On the second evening after receiving the news, Lang Yan brought two large and two small curved-horned beasts to the Snow Wolf Tribe.

Some black wolf members did not understand. Bringing the big ones was one thing, but why specially send the small ones too?

It was not that they were stingy, but that they felt two curved-horned beasts this small did not have much meat at all. Sending two like this was not as good as sending one more big one.

Only when they arrived at the Snow Wolf Tribe and saw one large and one small curved-horned beast tied not far below the mountain, leisurely eating grass, did they understand. So this was how the Snow Wolf Tribe liked to raise them. The Snow Wolf Tribe also raised cluck-cluck birds and long-eared beasts, and even the cubs were raised better than in their tribe. It seemed the Snow Wolf Tribe could raise anything well.

Before evening, Lang Shuo had been troubled.

After the cubs had tasted milk, they could not forget the flavor. But one curved-horned beast’s milk production was limited. He also could not milk all of it, as he had to leave a portion for the young curved-horned beast. The yield was even lower. Each time it was divided into the cubs’ bowls, the cubs could only taste the flavor.

Today, the cubs drinking milk also included the few newly born this year.

Cubs born to female beastmen were fed by their mothers. After sub-beastmen gave birth to cubs, they could only ask a close female beastman to help feed them. But in this way, each cub could only eat half-full. The cubs were too small and could not eat other food. After several days since birth, they had barely grown.

Especially Lang Zhao’s two cubs. They were originally a little smaller than the other cubs, and after several days, the difference became even more obvious. They had clearly been born first, yet they did not look as sturdy as the other cubs.

Cubs only a few days old were soft little bundles. Just looking at them made one’s heart ache. After Lang Shuo boiled the curved-horned beast milk today, he scooped some out and sent it into the cave, letting Lang Zhao try feeding it to the cubs. He had originally thought that cubs whose eyes had not even opened probably would not drink it. The result was beyond expectation. The cubs liked it very much. The two of them drank half a small bowl, then fell asleep with round little bellies.

Both big and small cubs liked drinking milk, but milk-producing female curved-horned beasts could only be encountered by chance. The hunting party could not possibly catch several at once.

Just as he was worrying, the Black Wolf Tribe suddenly sent over two milk-producing curved-horned beasts, instantly solving the urgent problem.

He had already thought it over. If the hunting party could not catch another milk-producing curved-horned beast tomorrow, then from now on, after milking every day, he would first divide out a portion for the newly born cubs, then use the remaining curved-horned beast milk to cook with other foods and coax the other cubs. Now, two more curved-horned beasts in their lactation period had suddenly been added, and the pressure immediately vanished.

Three curved-horned beasts were enough for every cub to drink half a small bowl every day.

Thinking that this was an important food source for the tribe’s cubs over the next few months, Lang Shuo looked at the two curved-horned beasts with light in his eyes.

Lang Yan clearly discovered that the curved-horned beasts were more popular than they were. They had sent the curved-horned beasts over, and the first thing Lang Shuo did was feed the curved-horned beasts water.

In fact, he had not drunk water today either.

Of course Lang Shuo valued the curved-horned beasts. Milk production concerned the cubs’ food. Setting aside the newly born cubs, just the two groups in the cradles alone—one group had been frightened before snow season, and one group had been frightened not long ago. They had been slow to change into human form. So far, curved-horned beast milk was their favorite food. They definitely had to be given more.

However, the Black Wolf Tribe members had come from so far away to send the curved-horned beasts, and live prey was difficult to catch. Both curved-horned beasts had no injuries, and the small ones were also very healthy. They must have put in quite a lot of effort.

For the sake of the curved-horned beasts, Lang Shuo walked to the side and asked Lang Yu, “Brother, why don’t we let them stay for a meal?”

Lang Yu had not expected that the Black Wolf Tribe would finish something they had only mentioned yesterday by today. Even looking at them through bias, the Black Wolf Tribe’s speed was fast enough, though more than half the cubs were black wolf cubs.

Hearing his younger brother’s words, Lang Yu nodded. “Let them eat.”

In any case, some of the tribe’s food had been sent over by the Black Wolf Tribe. The gathering team had sent quite a lot of medicinal herbs and leafy vegetables too. They could treat it as helping process one meal for free.

Seeing that he agreed, Lang Shuo went over to prepare.

Now that the tribe had more cooking tools, cooking was much faster than before. In order to save time, Lang Shuo often used several stoves at once and only had to call a young wolf over to watch the heat.

The bottoms of pottery containers were relatively thin and heated quickly, so they were not suitable for stir-frying. Lang Shuo liked putting meat into stone pots to fry. If it later needed to be stewed with leafy vegetables, then after frying it until cooked, he would transfer it into a clay jar, add water and leafy vegetables. The final taste was a tiny bit worse than making it all at once, but it did not affect much. The speed completely made up for that difference.

Not far away, Lang Yan looked at Lang Shuo, who became busy after exchanging a few words with Lang Yu, and could not help frowning.

He felt that every time he came over, Lang Shuo was never idle. He was either working himself or guiding other members. The only time he was slightly more relaxed was when taking care of cubs.

Even if the Snow Wolf Tribe had few people, there was no need to be this busy, right?

At this moment, Lang Yan somewhat doubted whether his decision to forbid the sub-adults from running over here had been right. The sub-adults were sometimes unreliable, but they never complained about being tired when working. The Snow Wolf Tribe had too few sub-adults. Many times, Lang Shuo had to do things himself.

Lang Yan’s gaze did not arouse anyone’s suspicion, because more than half the black wolf members were looking in Lang Shuo’s direction. The steaming hot food looked delicious. The black wolves who had tasted the Snow Wolf Tribe’s food had already consumed a great amount of energy catching prey, and now they felt even hungrier.

In the time it took Lang Yu and Lang Shi to tie up one curved-horned beast, he turned his head and saw the black wolves looking in his younger brother’s direction again. His expression darkened, and he found an excuse to bring the people to the other side. Letting the black wolves eat one meal here was because he knew catching two milk-producing curved-horned beasts was troublesome. It did not mean the black wolves could look wherever they wanted.

Lang Shuo did not know the movement over there. Some food in the tribe was already semi-finished, so the meals for several dozen people were ready before long. Lang Shuo had the sub-adults send the food over.

Lang Nuo and the others began serving dishes. For convenience, recently everyone ate from pottery bowls larger than an adult beastman’s face. After eating one large bowl, they were basically eighty percent full. Aside from members with especially large appetites, who would serve themselves a second time, the other members only ate this one large bowl per meal.

For the sake of convenience, the food served to the black wolf members was also placed in these large bowls. Half was fried meat, and half was meat stewed with leafy vegetables.

After serving it, they called the black wolf members over to eat.

The Black Wolf Tribe members had always thought these were the Snow Wolf Tribe’s dinner. Hearing themselves called to eat, they all froze.

Even Lang Yan did not react for a moment.

Just now, Lang Shuo had been preparing food for them?

A moment later, the group of black wolf members ate while expressing thanks.

“Delicious.”

“You’re too polite. You even prepared food for us.”

“Next time we catch milk-producing curved-horned beasts, we’ll bring them over again!”

Lang Yan: “…”

They had said all the good words. Why were they not this clever usually?

Lang Yan discovered that some things were contagious. For example, the sub-adults who looked for excuses to come to the Snow Wolf Tribe every day. For example, the cubs who did not want to leave once they arrived at the Snow Wolf Tribe. And for example, the hunting party members behind him, who sighed in admiration all the way after eating one meal. Tomorrow had not even arrived, yet this group had already arranged their work for the day after tomorrow.

In the entire tribe, there was not a single clear-headed one.

The future of the Black Wolf Tribe was darker than the road ahead.

…

Lang Shuo did not care about the Black Wolf Tribe’s evaluation of their tribe. The food was to thank them for sending the curved-horned beasts in time. Otherwise, he would still have had to consider how to feed the tiny cubs while satisfying the remaining cubs. The extra curved-horned beast milk solved the cubs’ dietary problem.

The next morning, when the sky was just beginning to brighten, Lang Shuo heard two cubs crying. The source of the sound was not beside him, but in another corner.

Lang Shuo slept lightly, and he had gone to sleep early yesterday, so now he could not sleep either. He decided to go take a look.

That corner held Lang Zhao and several other sub-beastmen, four sub-beastmen and five cubs in total.

The ones making sound were Lang Zhao’s two cubs. Yesterday, all these cubs had drunk curved-horned beast milk. Clearly, these two had gotten hungry the fastest.

The cubs who had not opened their eyes yet only knew how to follow heat sources and grope around, trying to find food. But sub-beastmen could not provide food for cubs.

Seeing that Lang Zhao and the others were sleeping deeply, Lang Shuo picked up the cubs who were about to crawl into the corner and placed them into their arms.

Lang Shuo, who had originally wanted to prepare breakfast first, changed his mind and decided to go milk the curved-horned beasts first.

Lang Shuo did not directly act. After all, he was not familiar with the curved-horned beasts. Even if female curved-horned beasts were relatively gentle, approaching rashly still carried the danger of being attacked. So he found a basket and took some leafy vegetables from the back basket holding food at the cave entrance, placing them into the basket.

The leafy vegetables gathered by the gathering team were different from the wild grass everywhere outside. Generally speaking, leafy vegetables had more moisture and a fresh fragrance, and they were far tastier than weeds. Lang Shuo carried a basket of leafy vegetables to the place where the curved-horned beasts were tied.

The curved-horned beasts’ hind legs were still tied. Before the curved-horned beasts got used to this place, they could only be tied like this. Being kicked by prey weighing over a thousand jin was no small matter.

Lang Shuo cherished his life very much. He first grabbed a handful of leafy vegetables and fed them to the curved-horned beast that had been caught the day before yesterday.

This curved-horned beast had stayed in the tribe for almost two days. He did not know whether it was because the young curved-horned beast was beside it, but it had not shown obvious resistance the entire time.

Lang Shuo waited until it finished eating, then grabbed two more handfuls and placed them in front of it. Carrying the clay jar, he went behind it.

Sensing Lang Shuo’s movement, the curved-horned beast’s chewing paused for a moment. Discovering there was no danger, it continued eating.

Lang Shuo completed the work using the same method. The milk from the three curved-horned beasts added together made one clay jar, roughly twenty jin. This much was enough for the cubs to drink until full.

For the past two days, he had used nuts. Today, Lang Shuo changed to another ingredient and added some crushed red dates, then dripped in a little fruit juice.

After the milk was boiled, he first scooped out a portion without red dates. This was for the tiny cubs. The rest was placed into small bowls for the two groups of cubs to drink.

Lang Shuo did not dare let the cubs drink too much at once. After all, the water content was too high, and only drinking milk would not do either. Each cub received around half a bowl. The remaining portion was divided into three portions and given to the three cubs who had recently changed into human form.

After dividing everything, Lang Shuo sent the tiny cubs’ portion into the cave.

Most members had already woken. The few sub-beastmen were also awake. Lang Shuo placed down the clay jar containing milk and handed them the bowls and spoon. “Serve it yourselves. One spoonful per cub is about right. There will be more in the afternoon.”

After speaking to them, Lang Shuo also called through the earth wall to the female beastmen on the other side. After hearing a response, he left and picked up the cubs in the cradle.

The three four- or five-year-old cubs heard the movement and opened their eyes, slowly sitting up and rubbing their eyes.

“Are you going back to sleep?” Lang Shuo asked.

The cubs shook their heads in unison. “Not sleeping.” As they spoke, they yawned, rubbed their eyes again, climbed up from the ground, and walked to Lang Shuo’s side.

Lang Shuo carried the two baskets of cubs, dragging three little tails with him, and left the cave.

He first divided the three little tails’ milk for them, then began feeding the other cubs.

He and Lang Yun fed them together. With the experience from the day before yesterday and yesterday, they could now hold two cubs at once. They only needed to hold the bowls and prevent the excited cubs from knocking them over. The cubs were very clever. They circled the bowls. As long as the bowl was on someone’s lap, they would not run around.

The two of them could feed four cubs at once. Added to the fact that the cubs would rush over and drink hard as soon as they smelled it, the speed was clearly much faster. Before long, all the cubs had finished drinking.

Lang Shuo stacked the bowls together. A member who happened to be going to the river took them along to wash.

After the weather grew hot, many things had to be handled with more care than before. For example, bowls and chopsticks used after eating. Before, they could be left there first and washed after everyone finished eating. Now that would not do. The smell of food would attract bugs and ants, so they had to be washed immediately after use.

Just like the past few days, Lang Shuo boiled some leafy vegetables and served them into the cradles. When the cubs saw the bowls, they immediately gathered around. After leaning close to smell the scent, they left again.

Plain boiled leafy vegetables, a food disliked by beastmen of every age.

But wasting was impossible. These leafy vegetables ultimately entered the sub-adults’ stomachs.

At first, the sub-adults strongly resisted this extra meal. Eating tasteless leafy vegetables was torture for their tongues.

In the end, Lang Shuo came up with an idea. He had them play guessing games with their hands. Whoever lost had to eat. This suggestion received unanimous approval from the sub-adults. Each person felt they would not lose.

In reality, judging by the situation these past few days, the sub-adults’ number of wins and losses was extremely even. Basically, it changed people every day.

However, the sub-adults had absolutely no worry in their hearts that they might lose. They were full of gloating over their companions’ misfortune. As a result, eating leafy vegetables strangely became one of the things the sub-adults looked forward to most every day.

They looked forward to seeing who would be the unluckiest.

Every time Lang Shuo saw them like this, he wanted to cover the cubs’ ears. This point really could not be learned.

A moment later, the leafy vegetables were eaten clean by the sub-adult who lost today. The group then left with their arms around each other’s shoulders. When not eating leafy vegetables, they were still good friends.

Today, the sub-adults did not go out with the hunting party. Instead, they went to look for small prey themselves. Their departure time was relatively late. Before leaving, they stuffed food madly into the back baskets behind them.

Lang Shuo looked at their packed-to-the-brim back baskets and was speechless for a moment. The hunting party had more than three times as many people as the sub-adults, and the food they brought was only a little more than theirs.

The way the sub-adults looked, they did not seem to be going out hunting, but on an outing.

The sub-adults had no awareness of this at all. After packing the food, they happily set out. Before leaving, they said goodbye to Lang Shuo. “Shuo, we’re leaving!”

Lang Shuo waved his hand, indicating that he heard.

Once the sub-adults left, the tribe instantly became much quieter. The cubs, who had originally been playing, could not help beginning to yawn.

Mm, sleepy.

The cubs’ daily tasks were eating and sleeping. Seeing this, Lang Shuo rocked the cradles a few times.

The warm sunlight shone down. Forget the cubs, even Lang Shuo himself felt a little sleepy.

After all the cubs fell asleep, Lang Shuo stood up, stretched lazily, moved his hands and feet, and thought about the work to be done today.

Now, he was much more relaxed than some time ago. The members of the Snow Wolf Tribe were very eager to learn. He was only troublesome at the very beginning. Once he taught the other members, he only needed to occasionally go over and check.

For example, at the planting area, the members of the tribe were all skilled now. Without him needing to instruct them, when they saw weeds, they would pull them out. He also did not need to worry about the prey raised in the tribe. The food for the prey was handled by the young wolves, including the few curved-horned beasts. When the young wolves were too busy, other members would also help.

Lang Shuo slapped away a mosquito approaching the cubs and felt that there seemed to be nothing to do today.

A little boring.

He lowered his head and looked at the cubs sleeping sweetly, then sighed.

He could not wake a few of them to play with him.

As he was thinking this, the familiar cry of cubs came from behind him.

Lang Shuo immediately perked up. Turning his head, he saw it was Lang Zhao.

Lang Zhao was carrying two cubs and asked somewhat hesitantly, “Shuo, can you help me take care of the cubs?”

The cubs were not very comfortable being carried by their sub-beast father and whimpered twice.

Lang Shuo: “!!! Put the cubs down first, then we’ll talk.”

As he spoke, he picked up the clean small basket beside him to receive the cubs.

Lang Zhao smoothly placed the cubs inside. “Then I’ll leave them to you. I’m going to work!” After saying this, he turned and left without the slightest reluctance.

Lang Shuo lowered his head to look at the cubs in the basket, whose eyes had not even opened. Why did he feel that Lang Zhao seemed a little impatient?

As he was thinking, Lang Yun came over to look. “Oh, two tiny ones.”

Lang Shuo happened to not understand and pointed at Lang Zhao, whose steps were cheerful. “Why is Zhao in such a hurry?”

Lang Yun glanced over there and answered, “He got tired of staying in the cave.”

The Snow Wolf members could be considered relatively steady among beastmen, but no one could withstand staying in the cave from the time they were about to give birth until now. Most members could not help leaving the cave after staying for a few days.

It was just that sub-beastmen and female beastmen who had just given birth were more protective of cubs than usual. When others approached, they could not help becoming anxious. To avoid conflict and not cause trouble for other members, during this period of time, even if they wanted to come out, they tried their best to endure it until the cubs grew a little older and their cub-protecting instinct receded to a normal level.

There was also another method: find another person to help watch the cubs. When the cubs were not by their side, even if they were protective of cubs, they would not become anxious. Lang Zhao clearly could no longer stay in the cave and chose to hand the cubs over to Lang Shuo, whom he trusted.

Lang Shuo: “…”

He could tell. Lang Zhao had really been in a hurry just now.

After Lang Yun finished explaining, she glanced in the direction of the cave and reminded Lang Shuo to be prepared. “There will probably be more cubs later.”

Lang Shuo said, “Send them over. A few or many are all the same.”

Letting one sheep out was still letting them out, and letting a flock out was also letting them out. Cubs did not have many needs and were very easy to satisfy. There was not much difference between taking care of one cub and taking care of a group of cubs. Lang Shuo could completely accept it.

Lang Shuo placed the cubs in the basket on his lap. Perhaps because they had just woken up, even though the two cubs had not opened their eyes, they were very active.

Lang Shuo let them crawl randomly. When they were about to reach the edge of his legs, he manually turned them around.

The cubs huffed and puffed and continued crawling.

Fluffy cubs were cute no matter what they did. Lang Shuo teased the two fluffy bundles like this until the two played enough and fell asleep.

Lang Shuo placed the cubs back into the basket. After thinking for a moment, he placed this small basket in the middle of the cradle where the snow wolf cubs slept.

The two tribes’ cubs slept in cradles of about the same size. There was a large empty space on this side, and placing a basket there would not affect the other cubs’ movement at all. However, it had to be tied down with rope, otherwise it would slide around.

Just as Lang Shuo fixed the basket in place, three figures appeared beside him.

Lang Shuo looked up. It was several other sub-beastmen holding cubs.

Seeing him raise his head, one of the sub-beastmen said, “Shuo, I—”

“Here to send cubs, right? Leave them to me.” Lang Shuo did not stand on ceremony and directly stretched out his hands.

Cute creatures like cubs were naturally better the more there were.

The sub-beastmen who had struggled for half the day in the cave: “…”

So it was this simple. If they had known, they would have come out earlier.

They had started struggling after Lang Zhao came out. Since they had given birth around the same time, they also wanted to come out. It was just that they were not as familiar with Lang Shuo as Lang Zhao was and worried they would be refused. They had dawdled in the cave for a long time. In the end, the thought of coming out to breathe fresh air gained the upper hand, and only then did they gather courage.

They had not expected Lang Shuo to agree so readily. Their hesitation before had all been a waste of time.

Lang Shuo received the cubs. He placed the sleeping one in the basket and put the other two on his legs, then told the sub-beastmen, “Go do your work. Don’t do anything too tiring, and rest more.”

The sub-beastmen all agreed, then went to find Lang Zhao.

The feeling of freedom was truly wonderful! Compared to staying in the cave, they would rather come out to work. The thing they regretted most now was that they had not asked Lang Shuo whether he was willing to take care of cubs two days ago. Otherwise, they could have come out long ago!

Lang Shuo picked up the two cubs on his legs and wanted to observe their differences, only to find that there was no difference at all. Snow-white cubs without a single trace of mixed color all only differed in size, and these two were about the same size, completely impossible to distinguish.

The sleeping one was also the same as these two. The only ones he could distinguish were Lang Zhao’s twins, which were one size smaller.

As Lang Shuo was thinking, a voice came from behind him.

“Shuo, my cubs…” A female beastman who had relatively little contact with Lang Shuo was somewhat embarrassed to speak.

As soon as Lang Shuo heard the word cubs, he knew what was going on. “Give them to me, give them to me, give them all to me.”

Cubs before one month old were different from cubs after one month. Each time he saw them was one less chance. If he did not look at them more this month, he would not be able to see them this year.

Limited breeding season edition. Miss it and wait a whole year. The more, the better.

Lang Shuo accepted all who came. He spent the whole afternoon immersed in inhaling cubs and did not even notice when the hunting party returned.

When Lang Yu returned to the tribe and saw several more cubs beside Lang Shuo, he had not yet had time to ask where the cubs’ parents had gone before seeing Lang Shuo hug this one and rub that one, busy and delighted.

Lang Yu: “…”

Forget it. As long as his younger brother was happy.

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