LSLFBW: Chapter 48

Regardless of what Yang Luo thought, Qi Bai returned to the open space and continued to make bricks.

The daily output of the kiln had been fixed. Qi Bai wrote down the quantity that needed to be produced every day. As long as the total amount of bricks at the kiln was controlled at around 4,000 pieces, a good cycle could be maintained.

The tribe members didn’t need to make a lot of bricks and dry them at once. After all, working in the snow wasn’t an easy task.

By the time it neared noon, Qi Bai had finished the work at hand. Only two people were left outside to sweep the snow. The others could go back to the wooden shed to rest.

Qi Bai stomped the snow and mud off his feet before lifting the straw curtain in front of the wooden shed.

There was a fire burning in the shed and the shed was located right in the center of the kiln. QI Bai felt warm all over the moment he entered the shed.

Of course, what was even more lively than the fire was the messy little kids.

The little leopard and little rabbit were rolled into a ball while the little sika deer called out beside them as if cheering for someone.

At this time, a giant forest pig suddenly appeared and pressed the furry little creature under it. There was also a clanging sound of debris falling around it.

“Zhu Ya! How many times have I told you? Don’t turn into a beast in the woodshed!” Bao Yue’s voice sounded a bit frustrated, and she kicked the giant forest pig in the butt.

Zhu Ya didn’t feel any pain at all. He continued to play with the little ones while twisting his butt.

Qi Bai was used to it. He walked to the edge of the wooden shed, found a bamboo tube from his basket, and poured out some water to wash the dirt off his hands.

He passed by the playing children and showed no sympathy for the children who were crying and screaming due to being pressed down. He even scratched the bellies of the little leopard and rabbit.

Adults didn’t have any real free time. A group of people were sitting around the fire.

She Li was using a bone needle to pierce animal skins. She saw the animal skin hat on Qi Bai’s head and thought it was very interesting. She also wanted to make one. Zhu Zhu, who was sitting next to her, was making animal skin clothes for the children in the collective cave.

There was some hay piled at Hu Huo’s feet. He was weaving a straw rope.

Seeing Qi Bai coming over, Hu Huo handed over the straw rope in his hand and said, “Bao Bai, take a look at this and see if it is what you need?”

Qi Bai took the rope of uniform thickness and examined it carefully, praising it. “It is indeed a rope made by Hu Huo. It is much better than the ones I made myself.”

As he spoke, he moved his small stool over. He covered it with a small piece of animal skin, sat next to Hu Huo, picked up the straw ropes piled on the ground, and started to figure out how to weave them together.

Qi Bai deliberately observed Shu Lin’s condition and found that he wasn’t affected by the previous events. He was talking to Yang Ling in high spirits.

“Xiong Feng said that they have found traces of sheep. I hope they can successfully find pregnant ewes.”

Yang Ling replied softly, “It doesn’t matter if they can’t find it. It is still early.”

Shu Lin scratched his head. “This is my first time carrying a baby. I don’t know how many I will need.”

Diao Lan looked at the weather outside and said, “With the weather like this, I’m afraid it won’t be enough. You need to prepare more meat paste and animal blood in advance.”

Then he added, “But you can’t use salted meat for the meat paste. You have to use fresh meat.”

Shu Lin and Yang Ling both nodded seriously.

Qi Bai’s ears perked up when he heard about the pregnant ewes. He listened for a while and found that he was getting more and more confused. He asked in a bewildered manner, “Why are Xiong Feng and the others looking for pregnant ewes?”

Hu Xue, who was sitting nearby, said with a smile, “Bao Bai is still a child. He doesn’t understand these things yet.”

Qi Bai was confused. Yang Ling smiled and said, “We are preparing food for the babies that are about to be born. If the hunting team can find a pregnant beast, we can take some of their milk to feed the babies.”

Qi Bai’s eyes widened in shock. He looked at the flat chests of Shu Lin and Yang Ling, and suddenly realized that this problem was beyond his common sense.

However, this wasn’t right. There were women in the tribe. So shouldn’t female beastmen be more popular?

He said in a somewhat difficult voice, “Do all sub-beastmen need to use the milk of wild beasts?”

Hu Xue hadn’t expected Qi Bai to have so little knowledge in this area. After thinking that he was about to become an adult and couldn’t stay so confused, Hu Xue said, “Of course, wild beasts are our food. The babies also need to eat.”

Qi Bai took a deep breath. He sorted out his thoughts and soon figured it out.

After all, beastmen weren’t humans from Earth. In such a dangerous environment as the Beastman Continent, the physiological structure of beastmen was completely different from that of humans on Earth.

Not to mention anything else, there was just the fact that beastmen could give birth to babies in two to three months. During this period, they were still full of life and had no pregnancy reactions at all. This was something that humans couldn’t compare to.

The sub-beastmen had bodies suitable for reproduction, but at the same time, they could only obtain food from the outside world to feed their babies. This might be a type of balance.

In addition, Qi Bai also discovered another bigger misunderstanding about the beastmen world. Qi Bai had always thought that beastmen had four genders: male horned beastmen, female horned beastmen, male sub-beastmen and female sub-beastmen. But in fact, in the beastmen’s own cognition of the world, there was only the difference between male horned beastmen and sub-beastmen. It made sense. After all, it was impossible for female horned beastmen to be responsible for breastfeeding children.

The others started discussing it again, but Qi Bai’s thoughts were light. Every time he thought he had completely accepted the fact that he was a beastman, his tribe members would always give him some new ‘surprises.’

Qi Bai subconsciously looked at his chest. For some reason, he suddenly felt relieved.

Qi Bai’s mind was full of thoughts, but his hands didn’t stop moving.

He took a shoe pattern carved out of a piece of wood as a reference. He gradually wove several soles by adding and removing stitches from the straw rope in his hand. Qi Bai used a bone needle to sew the thin soles together to make them thicker. The final product was about two or three centimeters.

Then he put the animal skin on his feet and drew three layers. One for the instep, one for the heel, and one for the boot. He used bone needs with the animal skin rope to sew them together. Finally, he joined them to the straw soles.

The boots made in this way were similar to his animal skin clothes. The boot shafts were still tied tightly to the legs with animal skin ropes.

Due to the continuous drop in temperature in the past few days, the shoes wrapped with a layer of animal skin on Qi Bai’s feet had long lost their warmth-keeping effect. More importantly, feet had temperature. As long as he stepped on the snow, the animal skin would soon be soaked. Every time he returned to the cave, his feet were like ice.

Now with the straw soles, the boots weren’t only warmer than the previous shoes, but most importantly, they were moisture-proof.

Qi Bai put on the new shoes and walked back and forth in the wooden shed. They were much better than the original animal skins.

No one was in the mood to discuss the food of the babies anymore> They gathered around Qi Bai’s boots.

The people of the Black Mountain Tribe no longer found it strange that Qi Bai could always come up with something new. They would also learn to make anything they found interesting.

The most popular item recently was the animal skin hat that covered their entire head and neck. Almost every beastmen had one.

Of course, there were also some that weren’t very popular such as the animal skin gloves that could completely cover the hands.Qi Bai asked everyone to try them on, but they felt it was too inconvenient and they couldn’t work at all.

Everyone was studying Qi Bai’s new shoes when they heard the cries of the horned beastmen outside the wooden shed.

Yang Ling sat up suddenly. “The hunting team is back.”

Just as he was about to go outside, Qi Bai quickly covered his head with the fur hat that Yang Ling had thrown on the seat.

He left the wooden shed and could see the huge beast forms of the horned beastmen lying outside the kiln in frustration.

Since the kiln was full of bricks, they had to take off their belongings before they could transform into a human form and come in.

Qi Bai hurriedly followed everyone out. He was still thinking about the ewes that Shu Lin and the others had mentioned.

Once he got closer, he found that the hunting team had actually brought back prey, but the prey wasn’t the ewes mentioned before. It was a huge yak.

Qi Bai couldn’t help pausing. It wasn’t just Qi Bai. All the tribe members who heard the noise and came over discovered the hunting team’s harvest. Cheers immediately rang out in the kiln.

Through the huge beast forms of the other horned beastmen, Qi Bai saw the gray-white, one-horned giant wolf at a glance.

Today, Lang Ze seemed to pay special attention to his fur. It could be seen that he had carefully washed the corners of his mouth where he had bitten the prey with snow water. It was a pity that the yak’s blood had splashed on his ears. He knew nothing about it, which made his calmness seem particularly cute.

At least, this was what Qi Bai thought. The giant wolf was very satisfied with his beast form. He swept the ground with his big tail as if waiting for someone’s praise. So cute!

Qi Bai’s heart softened. Just as he was about to step forward, he suddenly heard a deafening shout of, “Blessings of the Beast God!” coming from the direction of the Black Mountain.

Yang Luo hadn’t expected that when Lang Ze told him that Lang Ze would be responsible for the food, he would really take responsibility.

Lang Ze actually led his people to hunt prey during the coldest time in winter!

Yang Luo had already organized long words of praise in his mind. This time, he really wanted to use all these blessings on Lang Ze.

However, to his surprise, standing in front of the prey was a black horse.

A black horse that was a bit too… ostentatious.

Thanks to Yang Luo’s interruption, Qi Bai noticed Ma Ling, who was leading the group.

The well-defined muscles gleamed with a metallic luster beneath the black skin. The mane of the neck was no longer as messy as before. It was as if a black stream of light was passing through it.

Qi Bai was almost blinded by the colorful black. He couldn’t believe that this was Ma Ling, who had dull and mottled fur more than a month ago.

Qi Bai followed his gaze and could see She Li coming towards this side.

She Li seemed a bit stunned when she saw Ma Ling’s expression. The next second, she tore off the fur hat on her head, took a step forward, and ran to Ma Ling aggressively.

The dark horse was frightened by her actions and suddenly took a small step back in fear.

She Li knocked over the bundles of firewood tied to him and grabbed his mane. Then she jumped directly onto the horse.

Oh!

There was a huge booing from the crowd. Qi Bai also grinned. He wished he could crouch on the ground and eat a bag of melon seeds.

It had to be known that not just anyone could climb onto the back of a horned beastman.

Previously when Qi Bai and Lang Ze headed to the beach, the little snow leopard followed the horned beastmen. His four short legs were stretched so thin that his shadow was almost invisible, but he didn’t ask anyone to carry him.

It was only because a beastman’s partner could climb up on their back.

She Li sat on the horse like a triumphant queen.

Her behavior told everyone that this beastman would be hers from now on.

Of course, Ma Ling could throw She Li off if he didn’t want this. However, he would definitely become angry if anyone dared to say that to him.

The black horse excitedly raised his front legs. He disappeared into the snow with She Li without looking back.

Qi Bai patted the non-existent melon seed shells in his hand. Today, he was still in the front row eating melons. Burp.