The vicious female Ye Youcha, who is in Shura Field every day

Chapter 284 Can't Afford It

Su Xiyue was unaware of what had happened to the Dragon Clan of the Upper Realm.

The lower realm, this side of Qingyan Mountain.

After five or six days and nights of tireless and laborious digging.

The hematite, malachite, and azurite here have been almost completely mined out, leaving only some scattered pieces of ore, not many in quantity.

One or two orcs were left to clean up the area, while the rest of the orcs took the ore and returned to the wolf tribe's new settlement.

Every day at sunset, Xuanfeng and Jinyu would lead the orcs to transport a batch of ore back, and they would not return until dawn the next day with empty baskets and rattan crates.

Therefore, the amount of ore brought back this time was not large, as it was all mined today.

There were about thirty or forty baskets in total, but they were all filled to the brim.

To facilitate the transportation of ore, Su Xiyue had built several simple wooden carts a few days ago. All the excavated ore was loaded onto them and secured with vines to prevent it from falling off.

"This wooden cart is really useful and so convenient."

Xuanming pushed a wooden cart full of ore from behind, his eyes shining as he looked at Su Xiyue walking beside him, "Little Moon, is this something from your world?"

Ever since he learned Little Moon's secret, he knew that all the guidance from the Beast God was bullshit, just an excuse Little Moon made up.

The things Little Moon made were all items that existed in their world.

Although I don't know what kind of world it is, it is definitely much more developed and advanced than the Beast World Continent.

Su Xiyue was slightly taken aback, not expecting Xuanming to ask this question suddenly.

She glanced at the orcs around her and noticed that they were all looking at her, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and were all listening intently. She cursed inwardly: Xuanming speaks without thinking.

How could you ask such a question in public?
Isn't this blatantly telling everyone that there's something wrong with his identity?
Although the orcs present already knew, it was best to avoid mentioning such matters.

I didn't know how to answer.

Bai Qi's beautiful fox-like eyes glared at Xuan Ming with displeasure. She lashed out at him with her tail, her gentle voice carrying a warning: "Just push the cart, why ask so many questions?"

Qingzhu glanced coldly at Xuanming, a wind blade forming at her fingertips. "If you say another word, I won't mind loosening your muscles."

Xuanming realized he had said the wrong thing, so he shut up sheepishly and quickened his pace while pushing the wooden cart.

As the sun set, the newly built city wall of the Wolf Tribe was completely completed, gleaming with a bluish-gray luster in the twilight.

The city walls, reaching heights of tens of meters, stand majestically, their surfaces smoothed with a mixture of clay and gravel, with a protruding arrow tower every hundred meters.

Su Lie was leading the orcs on an inspection of the newly built city wall when he saw the mining team returning and immediately came over.

"Yue'er!"

Su Lie walked to his daughter's side and found that she had not only gotten darker and thinner in the few days he hadn't seen her. The old wolf king felt a pang of heartache.

He was about to say a few words of concern.

They noticed that Xuanyuan Ming was not in the team.

He paused for a moment, then asked in bewilderment, "Moon, where's that dragon cub? I haven't seen him."

Su Xiyue felt a pang of pain in her heart for a moment, but her expression remained calm and composed: "He has returned to the Upper Realm."

Su Lie immediately noticed that his daughter's mood was a bit off, and frowned as he asked, "You've gone back to the Upper Realm? Why are you suddenly going back to the Upper Realm? Did something happen?"

Fearing that the clan leader would keep asking questions, Ye Ling immediately stepped forward and took over the conversation: "Clan leader, this batch of hematite is of very high purity, but it has not yet been refined and is still raw ore."

Su Lie's attention was indeed diverted. He reached out and picked up a piece of ore, weighing it in his hand. He found it to be quite heavy, much heavier than ordinary stones.

He couldn't identify hematite at all; he could only roughly judge it by its weight.

"It's indeed very good, but none of us know how to refine ore or how to forge it, this..."

He put the hematite back in its place, and his expression became somewhat troubled as he spoke.

Upon hearing this, Su Xiyue smiled faintly: "Father, don't worry, I have a way."

She turned and walked to the open space, picked up a stick and drew a diagram of the furnace structure on the ground.

Su Lie, Ye Ling, Bai Qi, Qing Zhu, Xuan Ming, and Feng Su immediately surrounded them.

Mo Lin instructed Xuan Feng and the others to unload all the ore from the wooden planks to the designated location, and then came over to take a look.

Seeing that it was getting dark and he couldn't see the drawing on the ground very clearly, Bai Qi emitted a wisp of golden foxfire from his fingertip to illuminate the scene and follow her moving figure.

“Three layers of clay are used here.”

The wooden stick traced an arc in the sand, "leaving room for ventilation and feeding."

Xuanming, who was squatting nearby, watched with shining eyes. Suddenly, he snatched the wooden stick and asked, "Is this groove for storing firewood?"

"Looks like you're pretty smart too."

Su Xiyue smiled at him and casually ruffled his messy hair.

Xuanming blushed suddenly, embarrassed by the praise, and was about to speak.

Qingzhu suddenly squeezed in, a hint of jealousy flashing in her emerald eyes: "Let's get down to business."

She quickly withdrew her hand, coughed lightly, and continued explaining: "The furnace has two layers inside. The lower layer is for burning firewood, and the upper layer is for placing ore and charcoal. When the temperature reaches a certain level, the molten iron will flow out from the bottom."

She drew a sloping groove: "The molten iron flows into the mold through here, and after cooling, it becomes an iron block."

Ye Ling's silver eyes flickered slightly, and she suddenly grasped the key point: "How do we control the temperature?"

"This is simple."

Su Xiyue tapped the vent with a wooden stick. "If the heat isn't right, we'll use the bellows. Oh right, we'll need to make a leather bellows first."

He suddenly slapped his forehead, "I almost forgot the most crucial blower!"

Mo Lin appeared behind her at some point, his cold voice ringing in her ear: "You draw, I'll write it down."

Su Xiyue's ears burned, and she quickly took half a step forward.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Bai Qi's fox-like eyes, which seemed to be smiling but weren't, and he quickly buried himself in his drawing.

The shadows of her ten tails swayed back and forth on the sand, almost disrupting her lines.

"We need to add a hinge here."

Su Xiyue suddenly poked a spot on the ground with a stick, only to poke a snake's tail that suddenly darted out.

She clearly saw Mo Lin standing there, but somehow his legs had transformed into snake tails and quietly wrapped around her.

Fortunately, I'm already used to it, otherwise, if a snake's tail suddenly appeared, I would be scared to death.

She turned her head and glared at Mo Lin, who stood behind her with an expressionless face. His aloof and icy demeanor made it seem as if he wasn't the one who had done the wrong thing.

She cursed inwardly: This man is quite the actor.

The other party, however, remained unfazed and withdrew its snake tail, transforming it into legs: "Slippery."

Bai Qi looked at Mo Lin with a half-smile, and rarely spoke with sarcasm: "Have... any shame...?"

"Each each other."

Mo Lin responded with a cold retort.

Aside from the flamboyant Phoenix, the most annoying one is the flamboyant Fox.

"Pfft!"

Feng Su couldn't help but laugh out loud. Her fiery red feather robes were particularly dazzling in the twilight. She glanced at Mo Lin with a half-smile and said, "Some snakes are cold on the surface, but their tails are quite honest."

He suddenly darted to Su Xiyue's side and whispered in her ear, "Little Yue'er, once those iron lumps are forged, how about you forge me a sword first?"

"Get out of my way, you slutty phoenix. Little Moon promised me that once the weapon is forged, I'll be the first to challenge you."

Xuanming immediately moved closer, dissatisfied, and shouted loudly.

Ye Ling coldly said, "Get in line."

"I'm second."

Mo Lin silently added insult to injury. Bai Qi's beautiful fox-like eyes flashed with a hint of a smile, and he said with great understanding, "Stop arguing, you're making things difficult for Yue'er."

Su Xiyue was about to speak up and agree.

Suddenly, Feng Su pulled her into his arms, his fingertips stroking her hair: "How about we make a phoenix hairpin for Yue'er first?"

"This is made of iron."

Qingzhu glanced at them coldly and suddenly spoke.

"What's wrong with it being made of iron?"

Feng Su looked at Qingzhu with her peach blossom eyes, rolled her eyes elegantly, and a cluster of phoenix true fire shot out from her fingertips, "It will still be dazzling after tempering."

"Then go ahead and refine it, but don't turn the phoenix into a pheasant and embarrass yourself."

A cold glint flashed in Qingzhu's emerald eyes as she retorted with a sharp tongue.

"With such a sharp tongue, no wonder Xiaoyue doesn't like you~"

Feng Su laughed so hard she nearly fell over, deliberately dragging out the last syllable.

Enraged, Qingzhu's face turned green, and she flashed wind blades at her fingertips: "You shameless phoenix, you're asking for death."

Bai Qi almost died laughing, secretly sighing that Qingzhu was no good, unable to control the flirtatious phoenix.

But she was very understanding and stepped in to smooth things over, saying with a smile, "Alright, alright, we're all family, it wouldn't be good if we hurt our harmony."

Ye Ling, Mo Lin, Qing Zhu, Xuan Ming, and Feng Su rolled their eyes at the same time.

What a cunning old fox pretending to be so understanding!

Su Lie watched with a smile, his face showing great joy.

Su Xiyue was annoyed by the noise from the men, so she grabbed a wooden stick and slammed it on the ground: "Shut up, all of you!"

She turned to Bai Qi, "Tonight, carve the blueprints for the furnace onto the stone slab, and we'll start work tomorrow."

As dusk fell, wisps of smoke rose from the open space of the temporary encampment.

Su Xiyue and the others returned to the shed and started a fire to cook dinner.

Xuanming carried back the prepared rock goat. The blood had been drained and the hide had been completely removed, and it was casually hung outside.

He made a point of going to the stream to wash himself before returning.

"Little Moon!"

Xuanming tossed the rock goat onto the stone table, the splashing water droplets shimmering in the twilight. "Roasted lamb chops tonight?"

Su Xiyue was washing perilla leaves, and rice was simmering in an earthenware pot, filling the air with a rich aroma of rice.

Hearing this, she looked up and said, "Let's braise the lamb chops. I just picked some wild onions and perilla leaves."

Mo Lin appeared out of nowhere, walked to the stone slab, picked up a cleaver, and began to slice the mutton with swift, precise strokes.

The firelight reflected on his cold, handsome profile, like a warm tint applied to an ice sculpture.

Ye Ling wasn't idle either; she squatted outside the shed peeling beans.

Qingzhu silently tended the fire, the firewood reflecting off his face, making it glow red, with a few strands of hair sticking to his sweaty forehead.

Feng Su and Bai Qi, who were both known for being lazy, stood on either side of Su Xiyue, one wiping her sweat and the other fanning her.

Su Xiyue rolled her eyes and said speechlessly, "Can you two stop surrounding me? If you're really that bored, go peel some garlic."

Feng Su raised a brow with her peach blossom eyes, her fanning motion pausing: "Little Yue'er, you have such a cruel heart~"

He said that, but he obediently squatted in the corner and started peeling garlic.

Bai Qi chuckled, his ten fox tails entwining around her: "How much garlic does Yue'er want?"

With a flick of one of its tails, the garlic cloves in the wicker basket flew automatically into his palm.

"Enough for stir-frying is fine."

Su Xiyue didn't even look up as she washed the perilla leaves and then the mushrooms.

After a flurry of activity, dinner was finally ready.

The braised lamb was stewed until tender, with perilla leaves added. The charcoal-grilled venison leg glistened with amber-colored oil.

There's also stir-fried pork belly with chili peppers, stir-fried wild rabbit cubes with chili peppers, stir-fried green beans, mixed fish stewed in a stone pot, and a fragrant mushroom stewed chicken soup.

Six dishes and a soup, each in a generous portion, served with fragrant rice—it's incredibly tempting.

"Moon, try this."

Bai Qi picked up a piece of venison and placed it in Su Xiyue's bowl, while the fox tail wrapped around her leg under the table.

Feng Su narrowed her peach blossom eyes and swiftly handed over a bowl of soup: "Wild mushroom and chicken soup is the most nourishing!"

Ye Ling suddenly placed her chopsticks between the two of them: "Are you still going to eat or not?"

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Xuanming dragged the whole plate of spicy rabbit meat in front of Su Xiyue: "Little Moon loves to eat this!"

Su Xiyue sighed, realizing she couldn't eat anymore, and slammed her chopsticks down on the table.

Starting with Ye Ling, they went off one by one: "You, Ice Face, stop blocking the food. You, You Spicy Phoenix Soup spilled on my hand. And you—"

She suddenly grabbed Bai Qi's swaying fox tail and said, "If you keep tangling around my leg, I'll pluck your tail hairs off."

Mo Lin silently pushed the deboned grilled fish in front of her.

Qingzhu sneered: "What are you pretending to be, a good person?"

As he spoke, a gust of wind flashed, and the fish head landed precisely in Su Xiyue's bowl.

"Everyone, calm down for a bit!"

Su Xiyue, unable to bear it any longer, suddenly slammed her hand on the table, "If you don't eat properly, don't sit at the table anymore."

Everyone instantly fell silent, eating their food in quiet.

After the meal, the six beastly men silently cleared away the dishes and chopsticks, none of them daring to approach her.

Su Xiyue snorted coldly, finally feeling that her ears could finally be quiet.

She stepped out of the shed, ready to get some fresh air.

Suddenly, the system's voice rang in his mind: "Host, Mu Han is back. He's currently peeking at you from the ancient tree not far away. He secretly left to see Chu Youyou and was afraid you'd be angry, so he didn't dare show himself."

She stopped abruptly, glancing at the ancient tree not far away.

In the twilight, a figure could be vaguely seen hidden among the dense foliage.

She deliberately turned and walked towards the lake, her skirt brushing against the ground and making a rustling sound.

The lake water shimmered silver under the moonlight. She squatted down, pretending to wash her hands, but actually observed the reflection in the water.

Mu Han followed silently, and when he landed, his feet made no sound at all as he stepped on the fallen leaves.

"Are you willing to come back?"

She suddenly stood up, turned around to look behind her, and shook the water droplets off her hands.

Mu Han's body stiffened slightly, seemingly not expecting her to discover it.

He stood silently for a moment, then walked over, his golden eyes gleaming faintly in the darkness.

"I went to the Winged Tiger Tribe."

Mu Han confessed directly, his Adam's apple bobbing: "I overheard rumors that she possesses a rare treasure that can help beastmen break through and evolve. As the saying goes, 'possessing a treasure is a crime,' and I was worried that she might be in danger, so I left without your permission. Please punish me."

After saying that, he knelt down on one knee in front of her, looking like he was accepting punishment.

Su Xiyue looked down at him, her face expressionless and cold, and said, "Punishment? Why would I punish you? Since you can't let go of her, then leave. I can't afford a guardian like you."

(End of this chapter)