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

Chapter 129 Jealousy
Dinner was extremely lavish.

Ling Chengen made a pepper and sea cucumber soup. As for the dozen or so giant crabs he brought back, he took four and made them into two kinds: steamed and garlic-flavored. The rest were kept in a water tank.

As for the giant lobster, it was served as sashimi.

I also made a version of sweet and sour ribbonfish with incomplete ingredients, as well as steamed yellow croaker.

The main dishes were shrimp porridge and a small amount of steamed buns.

The steamed buns were made from tree wheat flour. When Bai Qingyu returned, she brought a batch of tree wheat that had been accelerated by her superpowers. The quantity was not large, so only about ten steamed buns were made. It wasn't enough for the family to eat, but it was enough for them to taste.

In addition to the seafood he brought back, Ling Chengen also prepared a whole roasted lamb.

When Ling Xiao finished eating dinner, he sighed comfortably and said, "It has to be En'en's cooking, it tastes so good."

Chongzhen tasted a piece of ribbonfish, then suddenly lifted her lowered eyelids, her gaze falling on the tip of Ling Chengen's nose.

"what happened?"

"Delicious." Chongzhen, holding her chopsticks, quickly looked away and gave her a thumbs up. "Want me to try it tomorrow?"

“Okay.” Ling Chengen didn’t want to take on the cooking at home. She could cook occasionally to satisfy her own cravings, but most of the time, after finishing her work outside, she didn’t want to do anything else when she got home.

Chongzhen is genuinely passionate about cooking. Although she doesn't have a particularly good talent, after observing a few times, she can gradually replicate about 70-80% of the recipe.

After the meal, Ling Chengen put his hands behind his back, looked up at the others who were also preparing to leave the table, and asked, "Who's going to do the dishes?"

Chongzhen got up, went into the tree hole, and pulled out a wooden board, which she then hung on a tree branch: "It's drawn on there. The dishwashing job is now done in shifts."

Ling Chengen looked at the wooden board with curiosity; there were traces of charcoal drawing on it.

Several animal heads are drawn on the wooden board from top to bottom.

The first one is a red panda, which is easy to identify because, in addition to its head, there are also paw prints left by Yu Shaochen next to it.

The second one is a dog's head, ah... it should be a wolf's head, representing Su Weihua.

The third one is Bai Qingyu, which is a very simple crane head.

The fourth one is Chongzhen, which looks quite different from the second dog head because it has been specially painted red.

Each dish was marked with a circle; the number of circles increased with each wash.

Ling Chengen returned to his original seat and asked curiously, "So, when you cook, do you take turns doing it?"

Chongzhen immediately shook his head and said, "No, it's not that. When you're not home, I'm mainly in charge of cooking. If they come back early, they'll lend a hand. Xiaoxi and Yu Shaochen are usually in charge of tending the fire."

“Cooking is my job, which I agreed to a long time ago, just like their hunting, farming and other chores during the day. But we’ll take turns washing the dishes, which was a decision we discussed beforehand.”

At first, Bai Qingyu also thought that he didn't have to wash the dishes, but Zhong Zhen didn't agree.

He may not like washing dishes, but that doesn't mean he enjoys taking advantage of it.

“It’s Bai Qingyu’s turn today.” Chongzhen tapped the wooden board and looked at Bai Qingyu, who had already stood up. “I’ll draw a circle around your name first.”

Bai Qingyu shrugged, put all the bowls, chopsticks, plates and dishes on the stone table into a bamboo bucket, swept all the food scraps into another bucket, and then carried the two buckets to the stream.

Ling Chengen glanced at Su Weihua, who was silent and had already gotten up and walked towards the forging platform, then glanced at Yu Shaochen, who was rubbing his stomach and carrying the basket of tree wheat towards the Guangcao area, and finally looked at Chongzhen, who was holding a charcoal pencil and trying to do the calculations.

As for Ling Xiaoxi, after finishing her meal, she went to the shelter area again.

Ling Xiao, holding a bone blade, prepared to process the prey that hadn't been processed yet. First, he had to skin the animal, then patiently tan it, and store it for the cold winter.

Great, everyone's busy with their own things.

She's the one who's relatively free.

Ling Chengen got up and walked towards the stream, intending to help Bai Qingyu wash the dishes and also to aid digestion.

Seeing her reach into the bamboo tub, Bai Qingyu quickly stopped her, looking at her with a smile and saying, "I'll wash these. You sit down and rest for a while."

"Anyway, there's nothing to do right now..."

Bai Qingyu moved the bamboo bucket aside and placed it where she couldn't reach it: "Then sit here and chat with me for a while."

Ling Chengen nodded, sat down on the smooth stone, and lazily yawned: "What do you want to talk about?"

Bai Qingyu squatted by the stream, rubbing a plate with a straw mat, and casually asked, "Has everything been arranged for salt production in the Hailing Tribe?"

"Hmm." Ling Chengen thought he would talk about something else, but unexpectedly he brought up the important matter in the end. "They have mastered the basic process. The sea salt that is dried is edible, but it is still a bit bitter and the color is not very nice. But it is definitely better than rock salt."

"I brought back some sea salt, which I've temporarily stored in my spatial storage. I'll take it out if you'd like to see it later."

Bai Qingyu nodded, placed the clean plate aside, and went to wash the next one: "Over in Youdi, quite a bit of salt powder has been produced. It's currently stored in the stone cellar in Hanshan, but there's a problem..."

"Is it damp?" Ling Chengen asked.

Bai Qingyu opened her mouth, somewhat surprised that she had guessed it first: "That's right, on rainy days, there will be some moisture in the stone cellar, so the salt powder will harden quite badly after getting damp..."

"There's no particularly good way to do this. Usually, you just have to bake it dry again, or use your superpower to absorb the moisture."

"Or use some quicklime to dehumidify, but it must be kept separate from salt powder; this stuff cannot be mixed in."

"Furthermore, we need to make some modifications to the stone cellar to solve the problem of moisture seepage as much as possible."

But the last one is more difficult.

Ling Chengen has said everything he could; the rest is up to him to decide how to handle it.

The Cold Mountain tribe has more water-type beastmen, so using supernatural abilities to control the humidity inside the stone cellar is actually the most convenient method.

While quicklime can also be dried, the effect is definitely not as good as the former.

"Did those tribes agree to let us harvest tree wheat outside their territory?"

Ling Chengen was actually quite concerned about this matter, but Bai Qingyu said that he would handle everything and guarantee a satisfactory result, so she didn't dare to ask further. However, the harvest was just around the corner, and if he hadn't handled it well by now, she couldn't just sit and wait for the results any longer.

Bai Qingyu nodded slightly and said, "It's resolved. Those tribes that disagreed with cross-regional harvesting spent some Blue Crystal Shells to bribe them, but compared to the tree wheat that is about to be harvested, it's nothing."

Ling Chengen raised an eyebrow and said, "You're not going to pay for it out of your own pocket, are you?"

Bai Qingyu shook the water droplets off his hands, sat down beside her, and said with a smile, "In your heart, am I such a stupid person?"

Ling Chengen tilted his head to look at his face, then suddenly reached out and pinched his cheeks, watching his forced pout, his eyelashes curving: "Of course not. But spending money to resolve these tribes' problems is definitely not a small amount. How did you get my father to agree?"

Bai Qingyu grasped her wrist, saving his own face, and said gently, "Actually, there wasn't much of a choice to begin with."

"Since the tree wheat must be harvested, if the gentle approach doesn't work, we'll have to resort to the more forceful one."

“If it weren’t for a last resort, Father and the others would definitely not want to drag the warriors of the two tribes to such a far place to fight, since the losses would be greater. As long as the cost of winning over those tribes is kept below half the cost of mobilizing warriors for war, this business is worth doing.”

"So naturally, I tried to be polite first, and when those tribes realized we wouldn't give up, they backed down the way I offered." And they themselves didn't suffer any losses.

These tribes weren't interested in tree wheat, considering it just a plant they didn't eat and had never paid any attention to it before. Now that this batch of tree wheat from their territory could be sold for a sum of blue crystals, what was there to hesitate about?

Bai Qingyu: "However, we can't do that next year."

This method can only be used once this year. After this year's cold season, once they know that tree wheat can be stored for a long time and can also be made into food to fill their stomachs, they will never be able to get their hands on tree wheat from other territories again.

Ling Chengen said calmly, "I never expected a second time. This batch of tree wheat harvested this year will be used for seed."

Bai Qingyu: "Can tree wheat be grown here?"

“Why not?” Ling Chengen tilted his head, his eyes as bright as stars. “Most of the plants on the Northern Wilderness are very resilient, and the climate in the east is not much different from ours. The only remaining question is whether the soil is fertile enough.”

"If the soil isn't fertile enough, then we'll fertilize it ourselves. What's so difficult about that?"

Bai Qingyu put all the washed dishes and plates into the clean bucket and breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. Hearing you say that makes me feel much more at ease."

Bai Qingyu placed the bucket under the cabinet and covered it with bamboo strips to prevent dust from settling on it. Then she took her clothes again and prepared to go to the stream to bathe.

When he reached the stream, he noticed that Ling Chengen hadn't returned to the treehouse yet. He put his clothes on a rock and followed her gaze, which fell on the orange-leaf banyan tree by the stream.

"That treehouse is still there? Didn't Yuheng leave?" Ling Chengen asked in confusion.

Bai Qingyu nodded: "He left after healing Su Weihua. He must have made some kind of contract with Su Weihua, but Su Weihua was unwilling to say, so we didn't ask any further. This citrus-leaf fig tree is very vigorous and doesn't cause any trouble by being planted there, so we didn't cut it down."

"How about... you move to that treehouse?" Ling Chengen tentatively suggested.

Bai Qingyu suddenly turned to stare at her, kneeling on one knee in front of her, but his imposing manner remained undiminished. He gripped her fingertips with his right hand, tightening his grip, and said with a hint of displeasure, "Are you disgusted with me? Are you banishing me to live by the stream? We've only been partners for a short time, and you're already tired of me?"

Ling Chengen's gaze changed instantly, her eyes seemed to be tinged with a thin layer of red, as if she were still a little angry, but her tone and expression were extremely restrained and patient, and she immediately swallowed back the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

"I'm not tired of you."

"But your treehouse is still unsettled, and you're always crowding into my place. How am I supposed to deal with the other three?"

Bai Qingyu glanced at the boulder behind her, which just happened to block her head, concealing both of their figures in the rock's shadow.

He reached out and held the back of her neck, then leaned in and kissed her lips.

The kiss was too wet, but Ling Chengen did not push him away.

She thought to herself that she was still biased.

It's impossible to treat every beastman equally.

Even though she didn't initially intend to develop a deep relationship with Bai Qingyu, human hearts are ultimately made of flesh and blood, and Bai Qingyu's initiative to approach her still played a significant role.

If you can't push him away the first time, it will be very difficult to push him away again later.

The other three do not actively seek her favors, approach her, or constantly test her limits.

Bai Qingyu noticed that she was distracted, so he gently bit her lower lip. When his breath fell on her face, it was slightly hot. His voice was hoarse, yet as light as a feather, tickling her eardrums.

"Are you distracted while I'm kissing you?"

"Hmm, do you think you're too easy to fool?"

He held her waist with his left hand, pinched her back with his fingertips, and lowered his eyes with an undeniable arrogance as he kissed her lips again.

“There are other people here. They saw us as soon as they came over…” Ling Chengen nudged his chest.

Bai Qingyu ignored her and deepened the kiss while holding her.

In the end, she had no choice but to surrender, raising her hands and saying, "I give up, I won't force you to move to that treehouse Yuheng made."

"If you don't want to see me every day, I can move there."

Bai Qingyu's eyes took on a captivating quality as he became emotional, and he himself probably didn't even realize how alluring he looked.

Ling Chengen didn't dare to look for too long. She reached out and covered his eyes, sighing softly, "I already said I admit defeat, so don't keep talking nonsense."

Whether you move or not is up to you.

Bai Qingyu held her waist, took her soft hand from his grasp, glanced back at the three people under the swaying grass not far away, and said in a low voice, "Aren't you afraid those three will be jealous?"

"You're too domineering," Ling Chengen sighed helplessly.

Bai Qingyu held her tightly without saying a word, and finally opened his mouth a little angrily and bit her round shoulder, but he couldn't bear to bite hard.

He had already regretted it.

Human desires are constantly changing.

At first, he just wanted to win her back, and he didn't care that she already had three lovers.

At least that's what he initially told himself.

Even if Ling Chengen didn't say anything, he could sense that the atmosphere between her and the other three was completely different.

There is no intimacy or mutual affection between partners.

Therefore, how could he not harbor even greater ambitions?

Become her only partner.

This was simply too tempting for him.

Before she comes of age, entice her to make her firmly choose herself.

He can.

After all, those three were only her nominal partners, and they didn't even have a marriage ceremony. Even if they broke up and she found another partner in the future, no one in the tribe would really say anything.

Moonlight streamed across the flat, rocky beach.

The young man, who was forging his black scythe by the light of the grass and the moonlight, merely glanced indifferently at the stream.

The handsome young man, leaning against the tree trunk and holding a charcoal pencil, lowered his head and curled the corners of his lips into a mocking smile on his face, which disappeared into the darkness.

The reddish-brown panda's ears twitched slightly, its husking motion paused, and it pursed its lips tightly, its furry face filled with a solemn expression.

The rivalry between the four was subtle yet intense.

Eliminated?

I don't have that plan for now.