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

Chapter 107 Family Trip
The rain lasted for two days, forcing Ling Chengen, who had been wanting to go out and check the salt mine, to stay at home and do handicrafts with Bai Qingyu.

Although business progress is slow, home renovation is progressing very quickly.

Because Bai Qingyu is so smart, she is very good at applying what she has learned to other situations.

Initially, the bed frame was completed under Ling Chengen's guidance, but there were still a lot of leftover wood scraps, so he taught himself how to make small cabinets.

Ling Chengen squatted down to the side, watching Bai Qingyu enthusiastically sanding the rough edges of the furniture, and couldn't help but exclaim, "You are truly a born carpenter."

Awakening to water-based superpowers was truly God's greatest distrust of his craftsmanship.

Bai Qingyu stacked the small wooden cabinet aside, wiped the sweat from his forehead and neck, turned around and said with a smile, "I also think I have a lot of talent in this area."

"You said... can things made of wood be used to hold water?"

“It’s like a bamboo tube.” Bai Qingyu recalled the stone vat he saw in the shack. “Although the stone vat at home is very useful for holding water, it is not easy to move and is also troublesome to clean.”

Ling Chengen's eyelids twitched. Wasn't this just a bucket?
"You can try either carving out a barrel from a single giant log, or trying to piece together a barrel from planks."

Bai Qingyu frowned and asked, "Won't a wooden bucket made of planks leak?"

Ling Chengen: "As long as we can narrow the gaps between the wooden boards until water can no longer pass through, we should be able to achieve the purpose of storing water."

"Perhaps we can also use some materials to coat the surface of the wooden barrel to form a waterproof barrier, which can also prevent leakage."

Bai Qingyu's eyes slowly lit up as he listened to her wildly imaginative explanation, but then he shook his head: "How could such a material possibly exist? I've never heard of it."

Ling Chengen lowered his eyes and simply smiled quietly: "Who knows? Maybe there is, but it just hasn't been discovered yet."

Tung oil isn't exactly a rare commodity.

Tung oil can also be used to coat furniture surfaces, making them waterproof and resistant to insects and borers, with excellent results.

But I don't know if there are tung trees here.

The system suddenly interjected, "There are tung trees nearby! I know where they are; you've been there before, but you didn't notice them."

Ling Chengen: "Is it the forest I went to to gather herbs before? Back then, you hadn't upgraded yet, and when you used the scanning function, a bunch of random text boxes popped up, which really affected my vision. At that time, I was only focused on finding a few key herbs, and my eyes were on the ground. I didn't have time to look at the plants on higher up."

The system paused for a few seconds: "Do you recognize them? If you don't, I can help you locate all the tung trees nearby for just two points! Only two points, don't miss out!"

"Thank you, but no need," Ling Chengen chuckled. "The tung tree is such an easy plant to recognize, I wouldn't mistake it."

Ling Chengen suddenly stood up from the ground, brushed the sawdust off his clothes, and said to Bai Qingyu, who was splitting planks, "I'm going out for a walk to get some fresh air."

Bai Qingyu immediately stopped what she was doing: "It's still raining outside..."

"It's okay, it's not raining much right now, it's pretty boring to stay here all the time."

"Then I'll go with you." Bai Qingyu put down the wooden board in his hand, patted the powder off his hands, stepped over the mess of debris and garbage on the ground, and prepared to leave with her.

Ling Chengen shook his head: "I'm nearby. You should take advantage of your free time today to get everything you need ready. Otherwise, when you want to do these things later, you might not have the time."

Bai Qingyu saw through her refusal and stopped insisting. After watching her leave, he returned to the pile of wood and pondered what Ling Chengen had just said.

How about... give it a try?

It might actually work out.

Even if it doesn't work, it's just a waste of a little effort and time.

……

A light rain was falling outside. Ling Chengen stepped on tree branches and walked through the poorly lit woods.

The trees in this forest are all very tall; any shorter tree would miss out on the precious sunlight.

Therefore, the plants here grow upwards with all their might, seizing any gap or opportunity to rush over the corpses of their fellow plants and soar straight into the sky.

However, with its dense broad leaves, one cannot feel the gentle drizzle falling as they walk through the forest.

Only the occasional large water droplets, falling from a height, feel cool and powerful when they land on the skin.

Ling Chengen used the bone blade in his hand to sweep away several poisonous spiders that were hunting, and soon found the tung oil forest.

Yes, a whole grove of tung trees.

In her understanding, tung trees grow to a maximum of about ten meters, but the tung trees here have changed with the environment. The trunks are straight and tall, with the shorter ones reaching tens of meters in height and the largest ones even reaching more than a hundred meters in height.

It's almost the height of a forty-story building before the apocalypse.

Being in such a dense forest always gives you a feeling of being extremely small and that the environment is extremely dangerous.

that's the truth.

The tung trees here are spaced at least twenty meters apart from the ground to the lowest horizontal branches.

Therefore, it is difficult to climb up.

Ling Chengen looked up at the tung tree covered with white paulownia flowers, inserted the bone blade behind his back, and began to climb up the giant tree with both hands.

The tung trees in full bloom look incredibly dreamy and breathtaking.

Ling Chengen climbed more than 30 meters before his movements suddenly froze.

She looked up at the huge honeycomb above her and fell into deep thought.

Honey flowed from the honeycomb and down the tree trunk, attracting many greedy little insects.

Ling Chengen then realized that the ants he had just encountered were all there for this sip of honey.

Tung flower honey.

nice one.

But how do we retrieve it?

Ling Chengen looked at the beehive so close to him, then regretfully slid down the tree trunk and began to wander around the tung tree grove.

This discovery was quite remarkable. They hadn't noticed it before, but after carefully exploring it with their spiritual power, they found that this tung oil forest, which wasn't particularly large, actually had more than a dozen beehives, six of which were ridiculously large.

The tung tree flowers only bloom in March and April, so the flowering period is neither long nor short.

The tung blossoms alone cannot support so many bees.

Therefore, there must be many nectar sources for bees to collect in this area.

Ling Chengen noted down the locations of the beehives and picked up some tung oil fruits that had fallen last year from the ground, intending to take them back and try them out.

Many of the tung fruit on the ground had rotted, and the thick layer of decaying leaves mixed with the damp soil gave off a strange smell.

When Ling Chengen returned to the cave carrying a bunch of tung oil fruits, Yu Shaochen was changing Su Weihua's dressing.

Su Weihua's external injuries had mostly healed, but because Yu Shaochen had no experience in caring for patients, and Su Weihua had been bedridden for a long time and unable to move his body, he developed some red rashes and bedsores. Su Weihua was truly resilient; if Ling Chengen hadn't accidentally peeled off all the animal skins from his body yesterday, no one would have noticed the skin problems.

Yu Shaochen seriously asked Ling Chengen this time, and even went to the tribe's shaman to inquire about how to treat malignant sores and prepare medicine.

After breakfast this morning, he ground the medicinal herbs he already had into powder little by little. If there were any that were not enough, he would induce the growth of the herbs himself and ask Ling Xiao to help him dry them before grinding them into powder for use in medicine.

"Have you applied any medication?"

Ling Chengen walked in from outside with his long, wet hair down and his head down, his tone somewhat nonchalant.

Yu Shaochen quickly pulled over the animal skin blanket to cover the naked Su Weihua, and turned around somewhat awkwardly, saying, "That's about enough, my wife. Didn't you go out with Bai Qingyu? Why are you back?"

Ling Chengen placed the tung fruit in his hand on the ground and waved to him.

My little forest panda is quite unique; it especially loves hoarding things.

Especially the fruits and seeds of various plants, they store what can be stored and even keep the seeds of what cannot be stored. So before blindly searching, it is always right to ask him first.

If Yu Shaochen didn't collect them, it's either because the plants are too useless or too unpalatable.

The fruit of the tung tree is clearly the latter.

Yu Shaochen's eyelids twitched as soon as he saw the tung fruit on the ground that was about to rot. His expression kept changing, and finally he said hesitantly, "My lady, you don't mean to eat this rotten fruit, do you? This fruit doesn't taste good, and it's poisonous."

"It's true. During the famine, some children in the Wuyang tribe were so hungry that they picked and ate these fruits. They ended up vomiting and having diarrhea and almost didn't survive."

Ling Chengen nodded: "I know, these are tung oil fruits, not for eating."

"This fruit can be used to extract oil, which can be applied to the surface of wood to make it waterproof and resistant to insects and borers."

Upon hearing this, Yu Shaochen's eyes widened suddenly: "Waterproof?"

"Wouldn't that mean we could paint it on the surface of the treehouse?"

Ling Chengen looked up at Yu Shaochen, who was beaming with joy, and said with a smile, "Yes, but I only know that it can be used this way, but I haven't actually tried making it yet. Can you accelerate the growth of tung trees?"

Yu Shaochen nodded: "Too many might not be good, but one or two are definitely no problem."

"Tung fruit ripens in October, and there are many near the Wuyang tribe."

"If my wife needs it, just tell the leader of Wuyang, and we can go directly to pick it."

“When I was in the tribe, the tung tree fruits just rotted on the branches and the ground. If I had known they could be used to make waterproof stuff, I should have collected more.”

Yu Shaochen felt a pang of heartache thinking about this; how many good things had he missed out on?

Although you can't eat it, this thing is waterproof. If he had known this method earlier, his treehouse wouldn't have leaked like a waterfall every rainy season.

Seeing his pained and conflicted expression, Ling Chengen chuckled and said, "I'll tell you a method. You can try it when you have time. It can be used not only on treehouses but also on furniture. Over time, wooden beds and planks are prone to insect infestation, and sleeping on them isn't good for your health."

Yu Shaochen nodded vigorously: "I understand, I'll try it when I have time."

Su Weihua rested her cheek on her arm and looked at Ling Chengen's doting expression, feeling a sudden pang of heartache.

For some reason, he always felt that Ling Chengen's attitude towards Yu Shaochen was not like that of a beastly husband, but more like that of a... younger brother!
……

On the morning of the third day, the weather cleared up completely.

After breakfast, the family split into three groups.

Su Weihua stayed at home and temporarily entrusted the sick patient to a family of forest wolves who had defected from the snow wolf tribe.

After careful consideration, the Saide family decided to stay in Shilin.

Living in Shilin, the pressure isn't actually that great.

Compared to the Snow Wolf tribe, which surrenders most of its hunting supplies and then redistributes them.

At least half of the supplies for the Stone Forest Hunting Team can be kept by themselves, while the other half will be supplied to the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled in the tribe who are unable to hunt.

In a small tribe, Saed would definitely not agree to such conditions.

If half of their food is given away, the family might not be able to feed themselves.

However, the situation in Shilin was completely different. First of all, the Shilin hunting team was known for its bravery and skill in battle. They were ambushed, and even fought one against four, but still managed to win in the end.

Such power is even more overwhelming in hunting operations.

The number of prey hunted by an individual is incomparable to the number hunted by a hunting party.

Therefore, except during special seasons, the Stone Forest is never short of food.

Staying is the best thing for their family.

After discussing it for several days, Saide and Feli confirmed that the Snow Wolf Tribe had not dared to search for their traces around the Stone Forest, and finally decided to join them.

Saide has joined the hunting team, while Phili mainly takes care of the two cubs and usually spends time with the females in the tribe.

However, because he was an outsider and had stayed in the Snow Wolf tribe, he was not well received by the other orcs in the tribe.

But Feli did not lose heart.

Time reveals true character.

They harbored no ill will towards the orcs of the Stone Forest tribe and wished to integrate into this powerful tribe to secure their livelihood.

Ling Chengen entrusted Fei Li with taking care of Su Weihua in her spare time, which was a form of affirmation for Fei Li.

So before they set off, Felicity appeared at the Ling family's door with her two cubs.

Ling Chengen led Fei Li and the two cubs directly into the cave and gave her some instructions.

"He needs to exercise regularly every day, otherwise his muscles will atrophy."

"At the same time, you need to keep his body clean. You don't need to wipe his whole body, just wash his arms and legs. If necessary, you can help him up and move around."

When Fei Li saw Su Weihua lying on the bed with a face like a demon, she was momentarily dazed.

Ling Chengen spoke for a long time, but her mind was still blank.

Until a cub with a pair of fluffy gray wolf ears perched beside her legs suddenly tugged hard on her finger.

Felicity suddenly snapped out of her daze, turned to look at Ling Chengen who was no longer speaking, and said in a panic, "I'm sorry, young clan leader, I didn't mean to..."

Ling Chengen waved his hand dismissively, saying, "Haven't you seen what Su Weihua looked like after she was injured?"

Felicia quickly shook her head and said, "I've heard Said mention it, but I've never seen it with my own eyes."

As a mother, even though Su Weihua's face had healed, she still felt shocked when she saw the crisscrossing scars and the wounds on his back, hands, and feet.

(End of this chapter)