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

Chapter 128 Preparing for the Wheat Harvest
Ling Chengen stayed in the Hailing tribe for a long time, and it was half a month later when he returned.

In the past two weeks, Bai Qingyu had visited her several times on her own to confirm that she was safe and sound in the Hailing tribe and was living a very comfortable life. So he stopped going there every few days.

The evening glow fell on the rocky beach, and the stones, which had been baked all day, were still warm when you stepped on them.

Seeing Ling Chengen wave, Bao Bao immediately flapped its wings and flew into the air.

Su Weihua was the first to notice Ling Chengen. When the man and the dragon were still in the air, he sensed the familiar aura, but because he was busy forging farm tools, he just stood there and looked up at Ling Chengen.

Ling Chengen put down the bamboo baskets he was carrying, looked at him standing there unharmed, and asked in surprise, "You're better? When did this happen?"

Su Weihua was a little puzzled. She used her supernatural ability to finish the giant scythe that had finally taken shape before putting down her work and walking over: "I thought you already knew. Didn't Bai Qingyu tell you?"

Ling Chengen scratched behind his ear and thought for a moment.

Bai Qingyu seemed to have mentioned it to her briefly, but only briefly, saying that Su Weihua was already able to move freely and no longer needed Yu Shaochen's care.

"He mentioned it briefly, but didn't go into details. Your recovery speed is a bit beyond my expectations."

Bai Qingyu's thoughts were easy to understand. Su Weihua didn't care, so he simply recounted what had happened without mentioning the price he had to pay.

Ling Chengen could tell that he was intentionally hiding something, so he didn't press the matter further.

"Were you making a sickle just now?" Ling Chengen walked past him, went to the flattened boulder, looked at the pile of ore at the base of the wall, and casually picked up the large sickle with a wooden handle that was more than a meter long.

"Why did you make it so big? Isn't that a waste of ore?"

Su Weihua carried all the seafood in the bamboo basket to the kitchen. Watching her curiously fiddling with the giant black sickle, he explained, "I've carefully examined the tool depicted on the parchment scroll that Bai Qingyu brought back. Although its small size makes it convenient to hold, it's not very suitable for harvesting tree wheat."

"The branches of tree wheat are more resilient than ordinary grass stalks, and tree wheat grows relatively tall, making it easier and faster to harvest when made into these larger black sickles."

"Have you tried it?" Ling Chengen put down the giant scythe and turned to ask.

“We tried it, otherwise we wouldn’t have made so many.” Su Weihua pointed to the other side of the boulder, which Ling Chengen hadn’t noticed at first because it was blocked. “In the early stages, we didn’t have enough ore, so we wasted a lot of time on mining.”

"The tribe can now produce a stable 500 of these black sickles every day, but considering that the gold-type warriors also occasionally go hunting with the hunting team, we need to allow enough time. If the harvest is in half a month... we should be able to make it in time."

Ling Chengen stared intently and said, "It's not half a month later, the time should be halved."

"When I came back, I passed by the area where the tree wheat was growing. The tree wheat a little further south was almost ripe and could be harvested in three or four days at most."

"The harvest will proceed from south to north, which will ensure a smooth transition."

Su Wei looked troubled: "Then we might not be able to gather five thousand black sickles."

Ling Chengen thought for a moment: "If we can't gather 5,000, we'll have some gold-type beastmen make them directly in the mining area. It would be best to replenish 5,000 black scythes, because they will definitely wear out during the harvesting process and will probably need frequent maintenance. They might even break down. We have to take all of these factors into account."

Su Weihua silently considered it for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, I'll arrange that."

Su Weihua watched Ling Chengen sitting at the stone table drinking water and said to her, "There's something I need to tell you beforehand."

"Go on," Ling Chengen said with a sigh of relief, looking at Su Weihua with a relaxed expression.

"The issue of tribal guarding during the harvest season."

Upon hearing this, Ling Chengen said seriously, "I rushed back so quickly because I wanted to discuss this matter with someone."

The harvest season is a major undertaking, and it may even draw away nearly 80% of the tribe's manpower, leaving the tribe vulnerable.

Their Stone Forest isn't exactly a desirable location either. They only attacked four tribes in the spring, and if the other side discovers that their tribe is empty, it's hard to say they won't take the opportunity to retaliate.

Ling Chengen must guard against the possibility of the enemy raiding his base.

Su Weihua breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone in the family had been busy, but no one had mentioned the issue of staying behind, so he was a little anxious... He was also worried that Ling Xiao and his group, relying on their abundant martial virtue and their deterrent power in the central region, would be careless about the most basic defensive issues.

"What are your thoughts?" Su Weihua asked, getting straight to the point.

Ling Chengen pointed to the high mountains and dense forests to the west and said without hesitation, "We will definitely cooperate with Hanshan. They will also be harvesting together, so there will definitely not be many people left at home."

"During the harvest, we try to live together as much as possible, and the patrol work is done in shifts between the two sides."

There's no better way than that.

“But that raises another question: whose territory are they gathering on?” Su Weihua asked, frowning.

Ling Chengen rested his chin on his hand and said calmly, "We need to stay in the Stone Forest because the orcs from the Yaoluo tribe are also moving here. They will also participate in the harvest. The terrain of Hanshan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the rocks are steep, but only the orcs of the Crane tribe can fly, so their usual place of residence is not very suitable for these orcs at the foot of the mountain."

"While Cold Mountain is certainly safe, its terrain is too complex and not very friendly to the orcs who remain in Stone Forest and Herb Garden."

The cave near Yaoluo's place is even less of a consideration.

There isn't even a barrier. If the beasts find the entrance to their burrow, they can have a buffet.

Stone Forest is adjacent to Cold Mountain. To say that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack is not entirely true, but it is much better than the situation in Yaoluo.

This area is full of giant trees and dense forests. Although there are some poisonous insects and snakes in the forest, there are no large predators, so the overall environment is very safe.

Located near mountains and water, Shilin offers greater convenience for its residents. The dense forest is also rich in resources, and there are traps and lookout towers set up by the guards. The tribe has built underground safe shelters to deal with general emergencies.

After listening to her analysis, Su Weihua paused for a moment, then asked, "An underground safe haven is..."

"It's the place that your four tribes raided under cover of night, and you couldn't find despite all your efforts." Ling Chengen didn't hide anything from him and said with a smile, "You and Chongzhen were planning to take hostages first and force my father and the others to surrender, right?"

Su Weihua lowered her head and didn't speak, but it was clear that Ling Chengen's words had come true, and she didn't know how to face him for a moment.

"This shelter isn't used often, and the environment isn't great, but it's still good for taking refuge. It's not easy to breach it from the outside. The shelter can buy us time, as long as we can hold out until reinforcements arrive."

Ling Chengen really wanted to bring all the capable people up to harvest, but unfortunately, that was simply not feasible. "Hasn't the rest of you returned yet?"

Ling Chengen sat for a while but didn't see anyone else.

Su Weihua poured some more water into her empty cup: "It's still early. Yu Shaochen and Chongzhen are both in the fields."

Many cloud bean tree seedlings were transplanted into the tribe, and the wood-type beastmen from several tribes used almost all of their supernatural abilities to accelerate the growth of cloud beans.

Ling Chenen was sitting there feeling a bit bored. Seeing that he had gone back to refining the ores in silence, he simply got up and started packing up the seafood and local specialties he had brought back.

To be honest, she's been eating so much seafood lately that she's sick of it, so every day after she finishes her work, she tries to treat herself to different dishes.

I also took a stroll around the vicinity of the Hailing tribe and surprisingly found quite a few spices in the mountains behind the tribe.

However, seafood is still a novelty for the orcs who have lived in the central region for a long time.

Ling Chengen processed the still-alive fish first, and then threw the crabs and shrimp into the bucket.

The fish and shrimp in the Beast World are also plus versions. The expensive spiny lobsters and Boston lobsters from my previous life, as well as Alaskan king crabs, are now everywhere in the waters near the Sea Spirit Tribe.

Ling Chengen was initially worried about getting into trouble by going into the water, but after spending so much time at the beach, he couldn't suppress his urge to go in and catch fish and shrimp.

Later, she followed the orcs of the Sea Spirit tribe and tried to fish in the sea, only to discover that there were many large shrimp and crabs at the bottom of the water.

She initially thought the shrimp and crabs might be poisonous and therefore shouldn't be eaten.

Because the orcs of the Sea Spirit tribe basically don't touch those things after they go into the water.

But later I learned that the orcs of the Sea Spirit tribe thought that the shrimp and crabs had hard shells and not much meat, and that they didn't taste as fresh and delicious as fish, so they were too lazy to touch them.

According to Hai Xing, the Shan Na tribe's orcs don't like to eat these hard-shelled beasts. They only catch a few to eat when they want a change of pace.

Ling Chengen felt that if the business along the coast and inland took off in the future, he could consider these kinds of seafood. With the help of a water-based ability user, these seafood could be kept alive for ten days or half a month after leaving the seawater, which would be no problem at all.

As soon as Yu Shaochen and Chongzhen returned home, they saw Ling Chengen squatting by the stream, killing fish.

The reddish-brown panda, which had been lying listlessly, lit up its round eyes the moment it saw a familiar figure. It immediately jumped off the back of the giant red fox and ran towards the stream on all fours.

Ling Chengen looked at Yu Shaochen, who rushed up to him, and told him not to step on the fish's innards: "How's the situation in the field?"

Yu Shaochen immediately straightened up and excitedly gestured with his two front paws, saying, "Those potatoes are growing so well! The beans are growing very well too, and this batch of fruit will be ripe tomorrow."

Seeing Ling Chengen busy with her work, Yu Shaochen's initial enthusiasm quickly subsided. After transforming back into human form, he squatted down beside Ling Chengen and asked, "Wife, are you going to gut all these fish? Let me help."

After Chongzhen returned to human form, she tied up her hair that had been hanging down her back, squatted down upstream, splashed water on her face a few times, and with her face flushed from exercise, she turned to look at Ling Chengen: "It feels like it's been a long time since I've seen you, I'm really not used to it."

Ling Chengen watched as he casually slumped on a rock, his hands supporting him behind his back, his wet hair dripping water, but his beautiful, captivating eyes sparkled in the sunset as he stared at her without moving.

After admiring the stunningly handsome man for a few seconds, Ling Chengen looked away and gave a brief "hmm".

"Are you going to the Hailing Tribe again tomorrow?" Chongzhen asked.

Ling Chengen shook his head, lifted the flustered little panda aside, and told him to go get another knife. Only then did he have time to answer Chongzhen's question: "I won't go for now. I need to come back and work on the wheat harvest."

Chongzhen sat up straight instantly: "So fast? Wasn't it supposed to be another two weeks?"

"The barley a little south will be ripe in a few days."

Chongzhen was in high spirits this time. He jumped up from the ground, walked to her side and took over the job of killing the fish: "Then I'll go back to Yaoluo tomorrow and make some arrangements first."

"If Yaoluo is incorporated into Shilin, where will they be placed?"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance up at her expression, somewhat worried that Yao Luo, having just joined, might not be easily accepted by Shi Lin and would be relegated to a more peripheral position.

Ling Chengen washed the fish scales and blood off his hands, raised an eyebrow at him for a moment, and asked in return, "What are your thoughts?"

"I'd like to hear your opinion before making a decision."

Chongzhen gripped the small, palm-sized bone blade, his fingertips clenched tightly, and stared at her in astonishment for a moment.

"Are you willing to listen to my opinion?"

Ling Chengen chuckled, "Do you think I'm such a heartless person? You've been working tirelessly for this family lately. Since your clansmen are going to merge into Shilin, I naturally want to hear your thoughts. Otherwise, you might become dissatisfied with my arrangements and harbor resentment..."

“That’s impossible.” Chongzhen interrupted her, saying decisively, “My initial demand was for Yaoluo to be incorporated into Shilin and receive its protection. My demand remains the same now. As long as there is no discrimination or exploitation of the orcs who exploit Yaoluo, I have no objection to your arrangements.”

Ling Chengen stood up and pointed to the dense forest on the west side of the stone forest: "There are more orcs living in the caves of your Yaoluo tribe. Is that side okay?"

Chongzhen looked in the direction she was pointing, and didn't answer for a moment. After thinking for a while, she asked, "Isn't that a bit far from the Stone Forest?"

The residential area of ​​the Stone Forest Beastmen mainly consists of the stone mountain behind the Ling family and the cleared open space in the northwest of the stone mountain.

If the area inhabited by the Stone Forest Orcs is designated as the central region, then the dense forest is essentially the outer perimeter, where there is certainly no danger to life and it is also within the patrol range of the tribal guards.

He was just a little worried that since they were too far away from the orcs of the Stone Forest, it would be difficult for his people to integrate in the future.

Moreover, the terrain in the dense forest is a bit low-lying. If a flood passes through, the dense forest will definitely be submerged, which would be very dangerous for the Herbalist Beastmen who are used to living in caves.

Knowing his worries, Ling Chen'en explained, "Your Yaoluo were the first to be incorporated, and the dense forest environment is more suitable for them. Actually, I've been considering relocating the territory in the future, mainly because during the rainy season, once the floods occur, this whole area can easily be submerged."

Chongzhen instantly understood. What he thought of was also what Ling Chengen had considered. The main residential area of ​​Shilin was not much higher than the dense forest. If the water flow was larger, they would all be flooded together.

He nodded and said, "Since you've considered everything, I have no objection. However, is it really necessary to relocate before the rainy season? Isn't the timeframe a bit too rushed?"

“If we can’t relocate in time for the rainy season this year, then we must build enough treehouses before the rainy season,” Ling Chengen said.