The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 105 Crane's New Home
"Look at the sky, it might rain all day today."

Chongzhen sat down at the table, placed her bowl and chopsticks in front of her, turned her head to look at the dark clouds outside, and sighed deeply.

Yu Shaochen served him rice, sat down next to him, and said slowly, "Rain is actually good for the potatoes in the field. If it hadn't rained recently, I was thinking of asking someone to water them."

Chongzhen nodded: "That makes sense."

Bai Qingyu turned around and looked at Ling Chengen behind her: "What are your plans for today?"

Ling Chengen: "I haven't decided yet, but there are actually a lot of things to do. However, the weather is bad, so it might not be very convenient to go out."

Bai Qingyu: "Let's talk about it after we finish eating. Be careful, it's hot."

He handed her the bowl of millet porridge he had prepared, and was immediately satisfied after she took it.

Ling Xiaoxi appeared in front of the stove at some point, and seeing the inexplicable smile on Bai Qingyu's face, she subtly reminded her, "The little bit you served is not enough for my older sister to eat. She's a super glutton."

Bai Qingyu handed the bowl in her hand to Ling Xiaoxi: "You can get more after you finish eating, it's not like there's none left."

How much do you want? Shall I serve you?

Ling Xiaoxi rubbed her sleepy eyes and pointed to a bowl in the corner that was a little smaller in diameter: "That's my special rice bowl, just fill it up."

"Thank you for your hard work, brother-in-law. I'm going to brush my teeth and wash my face."

Ling Xiaoxi didn't stand on ceremony with Bai Qingyu and turned to run to the stone vat to scoop water for washing.

Bai Qingyu looked at her with her messy hair and smiled helplessly.

Ling Xiao, holding the bowl and chopsticks, reminded her, "Don't listen to her nonsense. She can't finish the food even if you fill the bowl."

Ling Xiaoxi, with a toothbrush in her mouth, turned around and said indignantly, "I can't finish it all, but there's still Kong Mingming! He's my little brother, and he can't get such good food at home in the internment area, so of course I have to leave some for him."

Ling Xiao snorted and tapped Ling Xiaoxi on the back of the head: "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You don't treat him like a little brother at all. You clearly want him to grow up to be your beastly husband! You're just like your older sister."

Ling Chengen was inexplicably brought up, and turned to point at his own nose, saying, "She's lazy and greedy, how is she like me? Father, don't belittle me."

Ling Xiaoxi said angrily, "I'm not like my older sister. I'm very loyal."

"I will only marry Kong Mingming in the future."

Ling Chengen stared at her in shock, then looked up at Ling Xiao: "When I was seven or eight years old, I hadn't even thought about marrying a beast, had I?"

Ling Xiao sat on the rock and chuckled indifferently.

“When you were seven or eight years old, you never mentioned marrying a beastman, but you killed all the cubs, big and small, around the tribe.”

Ling Chengen stubbornly tried to save face: "...That's still better than Ling Xiaoxi."

“These days, kids are so precocious.”

After rinsing the foam out of her mouth, Ling Xiaoxi squatted down by the stone platform, filled a basin halfway with water, splashed the cold water on her face, rubbed it a few times hastily, and then ran to the table with her face covered in water droplets.

Bai Qingyu sat down next to Ling Chengen and waved her hand to wipe away the water droplets on her body: "I've filled it up for you."

Ling Xiaoxi looked at the golden millet porridge, curiously took a bite, and was so burned that she stuck out her tongue.

"It's so hot—"

Ling Chengen pointed at the stone vat: "Cat's tongue, and you dare to eat so fast."

"Go rinse your mouth, and the pain will go away in a bit."

With Ling Xiaoxi testing the food herself, the others who were originally going to try the millet porridge tacitly put their bowls down again.

Bai Qingyu looked at the basket of millet in the corner: "The tree wheat you mentioned before, is the final product similar to this?"

“It’s still a bit different.” Ling Chengen picked up a small handful of millet and explained slowly, “After the barley is threshed and hulled, it will be ground into flour. It looks finer than these millet grains, like powder. What barley is ground into is called flour. Flour can be used to make many kinds of food and is a very delicious staple food.”

“This is what I’m thinking.” Bai Qingyu glanced at Yu Shaochen, who was silently eating bamboo shoots, before turning to Ling Chengen and saying, “The area covered by those tree wheat is very large. Before the tree wheat is turned into food, if we let a few tribes harvest it, they may not realize how useful it is.”

"How about I take Yu Shaochen with me to ripen some of the tree wheat first, then thresh and husk it as you said? Let the people from several tribes see it with their own eyes, and it would be best if they could taste some. That way, we won't need to explain anything, and when it's time to harvest the tree wheat, they will naturally become extremely enthusiastic."

Ling Chengen: "That's one way, but Yu Shaochen's ability level isn't high, so it probably won't be able to accelerate the growth of many."

"Why don't you find someone with a higher level of superpower? That way you'll be able to accelerate the ripening of more tree wheat."

Bai Qingyu glanced at Yu Shaochen, who was secretly looking up at them, and said with a smile, "No need, he can do it."

Ling Chengen looked at him for a few seconds. Although he didn't quite understand why he insisted on bringing Yu Shaochen along, he still nodded.

"His combat ability is average, so you need to protect him well when you take him out," Ling Chengen instructed.

Yu Shaochen's eyes lit up instantly, and his hand holding the chopsticks tightened slightly.

You can go out now.

Since arriving in the Shilin tribe, he has never left the village.

In fact, he rarely left the territory of the Wuyang tribe.

But he always longed for the outside world; it was just that he lacked the ability to do so and was too afraid to go out alone.

Bai Qingyu nodded: "Don't worry, I'm here. I won't let him get hurt."

"Are you going?" Bai Qingyu asked, looking at Chongzhen who was eating silently.

Chong Zhen was surprised that Bai Qingyu would choose him. He looked up and stared blankly for a few seconds before asking uncertainly, "Can I go too?"

Ling Chengen said calmly, "Go if you want to."

"Tree wheat is a good thing, you can go and take a look, so you'll have some idea of ​​what it is."

If he wants Yaoluo to merge into Shilin, he has to offer something of value so that Yaoluo's people can sincerely join Shilin.

Breakfast ended while we ate and chatted.

After Yu Shaochen finished eating, he went to take care of Su Weihua, while Chongzhen was in charge of washing the dishes.

Bai Qingyu looked at the nearly empty stone vat and was about to pour the contents in when Chongzhen quickly stopped him, saying, "The inside of the stone vat needs to be cleaned, otherwise it will grow moss in a few days."

"How did you get the water before?" Bai Qingyu asked curiously.

The water source was some distance from the stone vat, and apart from bowls and basins, he didn't see any other large containers.

It's too strenuous to carry a stone vat, and it would be even heavier if filled with water.

Chongzhen waved to him, walked to the bluestone trough near the stone wall, pointed to the bamboo fixed to the wall, and pulled out the plug on top. Soon, clear water flowed out from the top of the bamboo.

"The water was drawn from a point upstream."

Bai Qingyu stared in astonishment at the long row of bamboo tubes fixed along the stone wall and asked, "Who came up with this?"

Yu Shaochen put the basket of dirty clothes aside and interjected, "It was Chongzhen's idea, and the mistress helped him redesign it."

"Very convenient."

“This way, even if there are no water-type beastmen in the house, it will be very convenient to use water.” Bai Qingyu looked at Chongzhen with some surprise.

Yu Shaochen looked at the water flowing from the bamboo pipe and frowned slightly, saying, "It's raining today, and the stream is too muddy."

"There's nothing we can do about it." Chongzhen spread his hands and shrugged helplessly. "Drinking it is definitely not a good idea, but washing animal hides is no problem."

Yu Shaochen arranged the things, took out a handful of soap pods from the corner, broke them into pieces and threw them into the stone pot, added water and started a fire to boil them.

Only when the soapberry liquid in the stone pot became thick did he grab a handful of thick leaves, place them on his hands, and carry the stone pot to the side of the bluestone trough.

Chongzhen looked at the animal hides in the bamboo basket and suddenly remembered something: "Wait a minute, my clothes need to be washed too."

Yu Shaochen didn't even look up, calmly saying, "The usual." Chongzhen: "Okay."

Bai Qingyu watched them talk in cryptic terms, and after Chongzhen ran away, he asked curiously, "What old rule?"

"He didn't like washing animal hides; he thought it was too much trouble."

"So I help him wash, but he has to do other things for me or pay me a fixed fee in exchange."

Bai Qingyu never expected it to be like this.

“Don’t you think it’s…” He tried to organize his thoughts, but couldn’t find the right words for a moment.

Yu Shaochen looked up at Bai Qingyu: "I don't feel aggrieved. It's just an equal exchange."

"My wife said that as long as I feel it's okay, then it's fine."

Yu Shaochen did not feel discriminated against or exploited in this family.

While Chongzhen is somewhat lazy in his daily life and often likes to drag him into doing things, he also rewards him and doesn't treat him like a servant.

Moreover, if he ran even a little far, Chongzhen was willing to use his beast form to take him for a while.

Most male orcs are very proud and generally will not allow orcs they do not approve of to sit on them.

The true beast form was much larger and stronger than him. In fact, if someone really wanted to bully him, he would have no chance to fight back or resist.

Although his wife would protect him, she wasn't always at home.

Therefore, although Chongzhen sometimes tricked him into doing chores, she genuinely treated him as a companion.

This was an experience he had never had before in the Wuyang tribe.

Companions were actually quite unfamiliar to him.

But after having companions, he felt... it was pretty good.

"I can also help you wash animal hides, once every three days, for five blue crystal shells per month."

Yu Shaochen suddenly raised the five fingers of his right hand, speaking fluently, but his expression was somewhat shy.

Bai Qingyu shook her head and politely declined, saying, "I don't need it for now. I'll contact you if I need it."

He wasn't very familiar with Yu Shaochen yet, and he still felt something was off about entrusting someone else to clean the clothes he often wore.

"Did you wash Ling Chengen's animal skin skirt too?"

Yu Shaochen shook his head: "My wife washes herself. She washes herself after each bath."

“I told her that I would wash her clothes for free, but she said she didn’t need it.”

Bai Qingyu did not press the matter further.

The positions each person occupies in this family, and the relationships between them... are all quite novel.

Bai Qingyu felt that she still needed to adapt gradually.

……

When Bai Qingyu returned to the treehouse, she found Ling Chengen sitting cross-legged in the corner of the bedroom, looking down at the animal skin scroll on his lap.

After he went inside, she had already put the animal skin roll away.

"Do you want to tidy up your room?" Ling Chengen looked at the rain still falling outside and thought he could help Bai Qingyu.

Bai Qingyu glanced at her bed frame: "I'd like to get a wooden bed frame like yours, is that okay?"

"There's no problem with that, but the bed frame has to be made underneath, and it needs to be sheltered from the rain."

Do you have any dry wood?

Bai Qingyu thought for a moment: "I collected a lot of timber, but it's all stored over at Hanshan."

"Then pack your things and go straight to Hanshan to make the bed frame. We can carry it back when the weather gets better."

Bai Qingyu turned and went to his room, squatting down to pick up the messy items. Ling Chengen looked at his things and felt that he still needed some shelves and cabinets for storage.

There are no cabinets yet, but it's quite easy to make shelves that are fixed to the wall.

Ling Chengen went to the cave and found some unused planks, along with a stone hammer, iron spikes, and various ropes, before returning to Bai Qingyu's room.

After watching her work for a few minutes, Bai Qingyu roughly understood what she wanted to do. She put down the clutter around her and worked with her to fix several wooden boards to the wall.

Ling Chengen moved a few pots of euphorbia plants and placed them at both ends of the shelf, instantly brightening the dim room considerably.

Bai Qingyu hung bunches of dried flowers on the wall, and the room was filled with the fragrance of lavender.

Ling Chengen picked up the medicinal herbs that were placed aside, looked up and asked, "Are you still taking medicine?"

Bai Qingyu looked at the medicinal herbs in the basket and smiled: "No, my injuries have long since healed. These are medicinal herbs for treating external injuries. I collected some and plan to grind them into powder to carry with me later."

Ling Chengen checked the herbs and found that there weren't many types; they were all hemostatic.

She happened to have memorized some prescriptions, so preparing some wound medicine wouldn't be a problem.

Wound medicine is also very practical, with excellent hemostatic effect.

Previously, it was impossible to obtain all the necessary ingredients, mainly because some medicinal herbs were extremely scarce.

However, the natural resources in the Beast World are relatively abundant. If you search carefully, you might be able to find all the medicinal herbs.

"When it's done, share some with me."

After tidying up the house, Bai Qingyu washed the dust off the two of them with water.

"I have a question."

Bai Qingyu was still a little unwilling. She leaned against the floor of the room and turned her head to look at Ling Chengen beside her.

Ling Chengen dried his hands, leaned against the wall, and slowly moved his wrists: "Just say what you want to ask."

Do you hate it when I'm near you?

"Why do you ask that?"

"You knocked me unconscious last night."

Ling Chengen chuckled and said, "If I disliked your presence, I would have kicked you out of bed last night."

She is not used to sleeping with others, and has always been so since she was a child.

Even her best friend couldn't stand sleeping next to her.

Bai Qingyu rested his head on her shoulder, closed his eyes, and the little bit of resentment in his heart quickly dissipated.

"My neck still hurts a bit." He rested his head on her shoulder, his voice aggrieved. "You hit me too hard."

Ling Chengen raised his hand and gently pressed on the back of his neck a few times. He knew perfectly well that Ling Chengen was deliberately acting coquettish, but he still patiently massaged him.

After being kneaded a few times, Bai Qingyu's body slowly relaxed, like a limp cat.

Just as he was thinking about how to slip onto Ling Chengen's lap without leaving a trace,

An unpleasant smell suddenly approached...

He suddenly opened his eyes, a hint of ferocity flashing in them.

(End of this chapter)