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

Chapter 104 Tribal Incorporation
The rain was still falling outside early the next morning.

After opening his eyes, Ling Chengen stared blankly at the ceiling in the dimly lit room for a while, thinking that he should find some time to put a few pots of luminous plants in the room.

The rain caused temperatures in the central region to drop overnight.

She propped herself up with her hands behind her back and sat up, feeling a pull on her waist. She looked down at the arms draped over her and then realized that she wasn't the only one in the room.

Bai Qingyu's sleeping posture was not bad. After falling into a deep sleep, he did not make any big movements throughout the night. After falling asleep, he instinctively moved closer to her, but he only slept on his side, pressing one arm on her abdomen.

After removing his arm, she got up and squatted by the bamboo basket in the corner, looking down to find clothes suitable for cooling down.

Having solved his own clothing problem, he went for a walk in another room.

Bai Qingyu's room was separated from her bedroom by another room. The room was cluttered with a lot of things, all piled together without being properly organized.

She searched through a pile of odds and ends for a long time before finally finding the rattan trunk that Bai Qingyu used to store clothes. She took out a set of clothes from it and placed it on the bedside table in the bedroom.

After landing on the tree trunk, Ling Chengen raised his hand to shield his head and ran into a nearby shack.

The chimney near the top of the shack was emitting wisps of smoke.

Chongzhen was tending the fire, yawning in front of the stove, looking sleepy. When he saw Ling Chengen sneaking into the shack in the rain, he quickly put away his listless look and curiously looked her over for a while.

"Why are you up so early?" Chongzhen was a little surprised.

Ling Chengen wiped the rain off his arms and asked, "I usually get up at this time at home too, is there anything wrong with that?"

Chongzhen paused for a moment, then turned her head away and muttered softly, "No way, Bai Qingyu is really that useless?"

Ling Chengen scooped up some water from the stone vat, stood by the shack brushing his teeth, his eyelids drooping, and said listlessly, "I can hear you. You can ask me any questions you have."

Chongzhen turned to look at her back, hesitated for a few seconds, and asked curiously, "You didn't actually consummate your relationship with him last night, did you?"

Ling Chengen, holding the wooden-handled boar bristle toothbrush, suddenly turned his head and stared at Chongzhen with lowered eyes.

"What? You really want to try?"

Chongzhen quickly waved his hand and said, "No, absolutely not. Didn't you say you could just ask if you wanted to? I asked, and you got upset."

"I don't plan to do any of the things you're thinking of before I'm an adult."

Chongzhen sat back down in front of the stove, propped her chin on her hand, and said with a bored expression, "I thought that since you like Bai Qingyu so much, you would treat him in a more special way."

It seems that he is too worried.

Even if Bai Qingyu is Ling Chengen's "white moonlight," at most she can only live in his small house. If she wants to be with him all day long and have her own cubs, it's going to be a long wait.

Thinking of this, he instantly stopped being anxious.

"Why did you get up so early today?" After washing up, Ling Chengen started helping to prepare breakfast.

Chongzhen poured the boiled water into individual bamboo tubes, then remembered: "Did you prepare bamboo tubes for Bai Qingyu?"

Ever since they got a stove, the first thing Chongzhen does after washing up in the morning is to boil a pot of water.

After boiling the water and letting it cool slightly, fill each person's bamboo tube with it, and put the rest into small stone buckets and cover them.

When you need to drink, you can remove the cork at the bottom of the small stone bucket and release the cooled boiled water directly from it.

Ling Chengen picked up his cup and glanced around: "I didn't prepare one, but he should have one himself."

Bamboo tubes are now widely used to carry water in both tribes, making them convenient to transport.

“However, his luggage is all piled up and hasn’t been unpacked yet, so I don’t know where it is.” After washing the vegetables and meat, Ling Chengen took the bone knife he was using to cut vegetables and quickly sliced ​​the meat on the cutting board. He didn’t forget to tell Chongzhen, “Don’t worry about him for now. Just put the remaining hot water in the stone bucket. He can get some himself if he wants to drink it.”

Chongzhen nodded, scooped up all the water from the pot, and stood behind her, glancing at the cutting board: "What are you planning to make for breakfast?"

After finishing processing the meat in his hand, Ling Chengen began to process the seafood in his space.

Although they were kept in seawater, the seafood was not very healthy, and some of them were already dead.

Ling Chengen set the dead seafood aside and began to process the rest.

"Go and bring over that basket of yellow millet that Yu Shaochen collected."

Chongzhen paused for a few seconds, then thought back for a while before remembering that some time ago, Ling Chengen had indeed asked Yu Shaochen to accelerate the ripening of a batch of plants, harvesting a large number of tiny particles, and then painstakingly peeling them.

"Those pile of pebbles, are they called millet?" Chongzhen asked curiously. "I'll go look for it. It should be in your cave. If not, I'll have to ask Yu Shaochen."

Yu Shaochen was in charge of all the plants and fruits in the house because he didn't recognize many of them.

Chongzhen braved the rain to search around and finally found the basket of millet in Ling Xiaoxi's cave.

Huge leaves covered the basket, and Chongzhen carried it directly to the shack.

"Is this for eating? How do you make it?"

"Add water and cook."

Chongzhen scooped up several bamboo tubes of millet and poured them directly into a pot with water.

"Is this okay?"

Ling Chengen glanced at the iron pot and said, "The water is too low. Add three more bamboo tubes of water."

While the two were busy making breakfast, the others gradually got up and washed up, except for Ling Xiaoxi, who was still in bed.

When Bai Qingyu woke up, she suddenly sat up in bed, turned her head to look at the empty bed, then looked around the empty treehouse, and reached out to support the back of her neck. Memories of last night began to seep into her blank brain little by little.

He walked barefoot on the ground of the treehouse, hearing the sound of rain pouring down outside, and through the layers of floral curtains, he could vaguely hear voices talking.

As I hurriedly turned around to look for my luggage, I suddenly noticed the clothes I had placed on the bedside table.

He stopped in his tracks, looked at the neatly folded clothes, and a smile suddenly appeared on his lips.

After coming down from the treehouse, he saw Chongzhen and Ling Chengen talking about something and quickly walked over.

"Oh, Young Master Bai has finally woken up?"

Chongzhen sat on the stone behind the stove, smiling and waving to Bai Qingyu as a greeting.

Bai Qingyu brushed the raindrops off her shoulder and nodded to Chongzhen: "Is there anything I can help with?"

Chongzhen pointed to the huge stone vat in the corner: "You don't need it for now, go wash up first."

Ling Chengen handed him the freshly made bamboo cup and a spare bristle toothbrush, then pointed to the bamboo tube in the corner: "It contains tooth powder, made with medicinal herbs, to protect your teeth."

Bai Qingyu took the brush and looked at it with curiosity.

Ling Chengen always seemed to be able to come up with a lot of strange and interesting little things. Following Ling Chengen's instructions, after brushing her teeth with tooth powder, Bai Qingyu put the toothbrush in a bamboo cup and looked up to see a row of wall-mounted niches carved out of the stone wall, with six cups neatly arranged on them, each containing a toothbrush. The only difference was the markings on the cups.

Chongzhen's toothbrush cup has a fox head carved with the tip of a claw, while Yu Shaochen's is a little panda.

"Which cup is yours?" Bai Qingyu asked Ling Chengen curiously.

Ling Chengen pointed to the one with the inscription: "This one."

"Then this tiger head..."

"Ling Xiaoxi's carving is ugly because of her clumsy hands, but it's easy to recognize." Ling Chengen looked at the bizarre pattern and said without any mercy.

"This tiger claw, is it your father's?"

“Yes.” Ling Chengen pointed to the cup with a dog’s head painted on it in the far corner. “That was painted by Su Wei, and Chongzhen engraved it on for him.”

The wolf and the dog do look very similar, but Ling Chengen felt that Chongzhen had deliberately carved it that way.

However, Su Weihua's injury was quite serious, and her hand was still not working properly, so she could only let Chongzhen do this to her.

"How is Su Weitu's injury?"

Bai Qingyu placed her cup next to Ling Chengen's and looked up at the cave entrance not far away.

"He needs to rest for a while longer before he can move around. He can't get out of bed yet."

Bai Qingyu glanced at the rain outside: "That's good. Once the weather clears up, I'll go to the area where I found the tree wheat and communicate with the nearby tribes."

Ling Chengen: "Do you need to find a few more helpers to accompany you? You might not be able to handle an unreasonable tribe on your own."

Bai Qingyu lowered her head and thought for a moment: "Alright."

After all, it's harvesting barley, not going to fight.

It would be best if we could sit down and discuss it properly.

"But once I get busy with these things, I might not have time to accompany you to the Sea Spirit Tribe?"

“I can ask Wu Zhuo to take me there,” Ling Chengen replied calmly. “Besides, there are so many flying orcs. If all else fails, I can borrow some from your Hanshan tribe.”

Bai Qingyu chuckled: "That's right, now that we're partners, Hanshan's power is your power."

Hearing this, Chongzhen felt a soreness in her teeth, but she tried her best to maintain a normal expression, secretly feeling contempt.

She's supposed to be a high-class beauty of the Northern Wilderness, but she looks no different from a male orc displaying his pheasant feathers for love!
With a large leaf on his head, Yu Shaochen slowly walked from the rain to the shed. He weakly raised his paw at Zhongzhen, one eye still closed, and he kept yawning with the back of his hand pressed against his mouth.

Chongzhen stirred the thickening millet porridge in the pot with a spoon, looking at Yu Shaochen with huge dark circles under his eyes: "Did you go out to steal last night? There are dark circles under your eyes."

Yu Shaochen quickly touched the area under his eyes and said dejectedly, "No, I just couldn't fall asleep."

He glanced at Chongzhen, the culprit who had secretly tried to gather a small group to fight against him last night, but now looked relaxed. Why was he the only one suffering from insomnia?
Yu Shaochen didn't want to explain. He dejectedly picked up his cup and washed up. It wasn't until the cold water splashed on his face that his mind gradually cleared up. He twitched his nostrils a few times and suddenly ran to the pot: "I smell a very nice smell that I've never tasted before."

Chongzhen pointed to the basket of millet in the corner: "It was cooked with the stuff you collected."

Chongzhen lifted the lid of the pot and asked Yu Shaochen to stir it a few more times with a spoon to prevent it from burning.

Looking at the thick, golden porridge in the pot, Yu Shaochen turned to Ling Chengen, who was stir-frying vegetables: "Did my wife know beforehand that these grass seeds could be made into food?"

Ling Chengen stirred the radishes and meat slices in the pan and nodded: "This is millet, a staple food that can be stored for a long time."

“When Bai Qingyu and I went east a few days ago, we found a very large field of tree wheat. That can also be used for long-term storage of grain. The harvest will begin next month. You can observe it more and see if you can optimize the breeding.”

Upon hearing this, Yu Shaochen perked up and eagerly asked, "Can't you take me to see it in the next few days? Or you can bring some back for me to look at."

Ling Chengen: "If you want to go, you can go with Bai Qingyu."

"I've been busy with salt production, tree wheat harvesting, and coordinating with the surrounding tribes lately; Bai Qingyu has been doing all of that."

Chongzhen looked up and asked, "This tree wheat you mentioned, if it were all harvested... how many people would it feed for, and for how long?"

Ling Chengen looked down at Chongzhen deeply: "There is a lot, and we must complete all the harvesting and transportation work before the rains come. Judging from the strength of our three tribes, we probably won't be able to harvest all the tree wheat. We can only do our best."

"If no tribes compete with us for the harvest, and everyone who can help comes out, we will have enough to eat until next year's harvest."

Chongzhen's eyes widened instantly: "So many?"

Ling Chengen looked at Chong Zhen and asked with a smile, "What do you Yao Luo want with us?"

"Absolutely." Chongzhen suddenly stood up, excitedly clenching her hands, her eyes shining as she looked at Ling Chengen. "Before, you refused Yaoluo's offer of allegiance because of food shortages. But what about now?"

Bai Qingyu and Yu Shaochen remained silent, but both turned their gazes to Ling Chengen, awaiting her answer.

Ling Xiao happened to walk in from outside in the rain and asked, "Enen, what are you thinking?"

“I want to include Yao Luo in the pot,” Ling Chengen said frankly. He scooped all the vegetables out of the pot, handed the task of washing them over to Bai Qingyu, and after washing his hands with water from the stone vat, he said seriously, “But we have to wait for Bai Qingyu to communicate with the nearby tribes. We will need a lot of manpower, so naturally the more people the better.”

Ling Xiao nodded: "Since you want to incorporate Yao Luo, then we need to consider their accommodation."

"Although Yaoluo is not far from our Stone Forest, if we want to merge them, we should find a suitable place for them to live, and it has to be next to us."

“Our Shilin area is actually not very suitable for living, because it will definitely be flooded during the rainy season.”

“In the past two years, the rainfall was not much. Even during the rainy season, the water level of the river in front of us only rose to the front of our door. But we have to take into account the possibility of the rainy season being prolonged. In that case, our area will not be safe.”

Ling Chengen thought for a moment: "I'll consider this matter some more. If I can find a suitable territory, I'll discuss it with you first."

"Okay, there's still plenty of time."

"There are still at least two months until the rainy season."

Ling Xiao just wanted her to know what was going on; things had to be done step by step.

However, he was quite interested in the tree wheat that Enen mentioned.

He could go with Bai Qingyu when she goes out.

"Chongzhen, the fire can be put out." Ling Chengen instructed Chongzhen to pull away the firewood, run to the cave and bring out a small wooden plank, which he placed on a stone in the open space in the middle of the hut.

"I told you this shack was necessary, it's perfect for rainy days." Ling Chengen looked at the food laid out and felt that the shack was still a bit cramped.

The main reason is that there are more and more people in the family.

Su Weihua is still unable to get out of bed. Once she recovers, the dining table will only become more and more crowded.

Ling Xiao glanced at the continuous raindrops under the eaves of the shack and nodded: "Indeed, we can tidy it up properly when the weather clears up, and we can even expand it."

(End of this chapter)