After her luck was taken away, she fell in love with the woman who traveled through time.

He was only wearing a piece of animal skin, with nothing covering his upper body and long legs. After hugging her, Liang Tan could clearly feel the warmth of his skin.

"We shouldn't heat the kang tonight," Liang Tan snuggled into his arms contentedly, "It's too warm."

Cui Ling raised the corners of his lips in joy and uncomplainingly offered his arm to her as a pillow. After a long and awkward quarrel, the two finally reconciled.

Cui Ling kept his word and never mentioned the beast-form contract again from that day on. When he occasionally had physiological reactions in the morning, he would just solve them on his own with a red face. Liang Tan offered to help, but he refused every time.

"This is not good for you." He already knew that he couldn't force his partner, but deep down he still felt that it was disrespectful to let his partner do those things without the beast form bond.

Faced with his stubbornness, Liang Tan had no choice but to occasionally vent his anger by making his cheeks turn red and running away in panic.

Before the first heavy snow came, Cui Ling went out several times with other orcs in the tribe until every household had received enough food. Only then did they end the hunting and return home to spend the winter.

The four seasons in the orc world are always distinct, and the sign of the complete arrival of winter is a heavy snowfall that lasts for three days and three nights.

Liang Tan had not seen such heavy snow for many years. When he got up in the morning and saw the snow, he couldn't wait to rush into the yard. Then he was thoroughly beaten up by the cold wind. He ran back in a hurry, took off his shoes, rushed into the tiger skin quilt, and hugged Cui Ling, who was warm, to drive away the cold.

"I told you not to go out a long time ago." Seeing that she was afraid of the cold, Cui Ling simply turned into a big white wolf to warm her feet.

Liang Tan unceremoniously shoved his foot under his belly, poked the soft flesh with his toes and asked curiously: "When you became a human, your belly was very firm, why did it become soft when you became a wolf?"

"How would I know?" It is the nature of animals to become lazy in winter. Although wolves are not creatures that hibernate, they are too lazy to even speak.

Liang Tan looked at him with disdain, and waited until his feet were warm again before sitting up, holding his feet and observing them carefully: "It seems like there are bumps."

Cui Ling took a look after hearing this and saw that her feet were red, and the joints of two of her toes were red and hard, looking like two bumps.

He frowned: "Frostbite."

After saying that, he transformed into a human form and asked, "Didn't you go out much? Why did you still get frostbite?"

"There's nothing I can do. Inferior orcs are just so delicate," Liang Tan imitated his tone and sighed, "and my shoes are indeed too thin."

She had been in this world for so long that her clothes were no longer wearable and her shoes were badly worn out. However, she couldn't walk around barefoot like the orcs, so she could only wear them with difficulty.

Cui Ling frowned and held her feet in his arms, holding them silently.

"Are you heartbroken?" Liang Tan raised his eyebrows.

Cui Ling simply ignored her.

Liang Tan smiled and squeezed his wrist, then stayed with him for a long time before getting up.

There was enough food in the house, and the two of them stayed in the house as usual. Although they didn't go out, there were still many things to do in the house. Liang Tan was busy with this and that, and when it got dark, he fell directly on the bed.

"Go to bed." She yawned.

"I'm going out for a while." Cui Ling walked out.

Liang Tan was stunned for a moment. Just when he was about to ask him where he was going, he saw him going out with only a layer of animal skin wrapped around his waist.

Liang Tan shuddered: "Really resistant to cold."

The snowstorm was raging outside the window, so she gave up the idea of ​​going out and lay on the bed waiting. But after waiting for a long time, she didn't see anyone, so she finally fell asleep alone.

When she woke up again, it was already completely light outside. Someone was sitting next to the campfire with his back to her, seemingly fiddling with something.

"What are you doing?" Her voice was filled with the laziness of just waking up.

Cui Ling didn't even turn his head: "Making shoes."

Liang Tan paused, then sat up in confusion. Cui Ling tied the last bit of rope and placed the things beside the bed: "Try it."

Liang Tan looked down and saw a pair of furry shoes made of two layers of rabbit fur. One shoe was larger than the other, and the stitches were at different distances. They looked quite rough, and they were still wet when he touched them.

wet.

Liang Tan looked up in astonishment. Cui Ling shrugged slightly and said, "A freshly hunted rabbit must be washed before sewing."

Liang Tan stretched out her hand to him. Cui Ling paused and took the initiative to hold her hand.

His bony hands were frozen red, and even though they were no longer cold, there were two small chilblains on them.

"This is the first time I've seen a wolf get frostbite." She pulled the corners of her lips but couldn't smile.

Cui Ling leaned over and kissed her lips. After drying the shoes over the fire, he solemnly put them on her feet.

The small one fits perfectly. Although the large one is a bit bigger, because my toes are frostbitten, wearing a larger shoe is more comfortable.

Liang Tan’s first winter in the orc world seemed particularly long.

At first, she thought that the weather here was just like that and the winter lasted a little longer than in other worlds. But gradually, when she saw that the orcs in the tribe were always frowning, she gradually realized that something was wrong.

"How long will it take until spring?" she asked puzzled.

Cui Ling paused and replied: "Normally, the weather should turn warmer when half of the food is left." Orcs have a vague concept of time, and most of the time they use the amount of food to calculate how long or short it will be.

Liang Tan paused after hearing this, turned his head and looked at the food covered with snow in the yard: "Now there is only a small half left."

"But it's still snowing." Cui Ling frowned.

Liang Tan understood and bit his lip worriedly: "What should we do? If winter doesn't end soon, will we have nothing to eat?"

Cui Ling saw that she was worried, and a smile flashed across his eyes: "Don't worry, you can still hunt in winter."

"But it must be extremely dangerous, otherwise you wouldn't store food before winter." Liang Tan said firmly.

Cui Ling did not refute.

"I'll eat less today. You don't have to go hunting, okay?" Liang Tan worriedly grabbed his hand, then felt something was wrong, "With my appetite, it doesn't make any difference if I eat less or more. The key is that you have to eat less... Then you don't have to eat tonight."

Cui Ling was originally quite touched to hear that she cared about him, but her next sentence was that he was not allowed to eat. The big eater's touch disappeared in an instant, and he seriously suggested that the big white wolf should not be treated harshly.

Liang Tan responded by rolling his eyes and turned back to the house. Cui Ling followed him all the way, and the two argued for a long time about whether to eat less.

In the winter when they couldn't go out, they would occasionally argue for a long time over a very small matter or an assumption that was not true at all, but more often, they would just light a bonfire in the room. Cui Ling lazily turned into his original form, Liang Tan leaned on his soft belly, and the man and the wolf quietly enjoyed the warmth brought by the fire.

And now, knowing that this winter will be exceptionally long, Liang Tan, in addition to enjoying the leisure he has never had in several lifetimes, also has a slight worry about whether he will starve to death.

Fortunately, she didn't worry for too long, as the weather gradually became warmer.

The days when the snow melts are the coldest. Fortunately, every household in the tribe has stored some food, so they can survive for a while. When the snow melts on a large scale, Cui Ling and other strong orcs will set out on a hunting journey again.

"Although it's spring, it's still very cold outside. If you want to sleep outside at night, remember to squeeze in with A Zhuang and the others. Don't sleep alone, okay?" Liang Tan kept reminding before going out.

Cui Ling didn't like to squeeze with others, but in order to make her feel at ease, she nodded obediently.

Liang Tan said something else and then reluctantly saw him out.

After Cui Ling left, she made tableware at home by herself. After a winter of practice, she was now able to make very small bowls. She planned to try making a steamer and make steamed egg custard for Cui Ling when he came back.

Cui Ling was away for three days this time and brought back a lot of prey, enough for them to eat for ten days.

In other words, I don’t have to go out for these ten days.

Spring is extremely short. When Liang Tan came to his senses, the weather had gradually become hotter and the rainy season was coming. It seemed that there was particularly much rain in the orc world. It could rain for three to five days at a time, and each time it rained was particularly heavy.

The meat that Cui Ling brought back had been carefully marinated with coarse salt, but it still deteriorated a lot due to the humid air, and only a part of it was still intact. Fortunately, their tribe was in a good location and they could catch some prey at any time, so the entire tribe never went hungry.

"When the rainy season is over, we can go out for a walk." Liang Tan looked at the heavy rain outside with anticipation. She had not left the tribe since winter, and it had been half a year before she realized it, so she had been wanting to go out recently, but it had been raining all the time, so she hadn't been able to go out.

Cui Ling pinched her ear soothingly: "When the weather clears up in a few days, I will take you to the creek to catch fish."

"Really?" Liang Tan's eyes lit up.

Cui Ling restrainedly raised the corners of his lips to indicate that it was true.

Liang Tan cheered and began to look forward to clearing up every day. After another four days, there was finally a sunny day. However, before she could call Cui Ling to go out, a group of dog orcs surrounded their tribe.

It was because of the heavy rain during this period that caused the flash floods. They who lived upstream were not affected, but the orc tribe downstream were not spared. Their houses were directly collapsed by the flood, so they had to find a new place to live.

And now, they have found this place, and it seems that they are not looking to ask for a place to live first, but to occupy it by force.

"Isn't it said that the rules of the orc world are that as long as the tribe does not leave, the place where you live will always belong to the tribe?" Liang Tan looked at the dog people outside the tribe, and felt very nervous. "Why don't they follow the rules?"

"They've followed the rules," Cui Ling said, his face full of dismay at having their territory invaded. "As long as they drive us away, this place will be theirs."

Liang Tan: “…” Yeah, being driven away also counts as leaving.

While she was silent, A Zhuang roared, transformed into a leopard and rushed out of the tribe. The dog man in the front also immediately transformed into his original form and rushed towards A Zhuang.

The two huge bodies collided with each other, then each took a few steps back, and then began a new round of competition.

Liang Tan had never seen such a scene before, and for a moment he was so nervous that his breathing became unstable. Seeing Cui Ling still standing there motionless, he hurriedly urged him: "Hurry up!"

"Hurry up what?" Cui Ling glanced sideways.

"Help me!" Liang Tan opened his eyes wide, seeming shocked by his question.

Cui Ling was speechless for a moment, and finally sighed: "Sometimes I even doubt whether you are an orc."

Liang Tan's heart tightened: "What do you mean?"

"You don't know that accepting the skin means agreeing to get married, and you don't know the rules of tribal migration. Now you don't even know how to fight a war," Cui Ling said, poking her head. "Are you sure you are from this world?"

"...Of course I am," Liang Tan said with a lack of confidence, and quickly changed the subject, "I've just been wandering alone for too long, and no one has ever told me these things. Why don't you just tell me?"

Cui Ling glanced at her and said, "When the two sides are arguing, there won't be a big fight. They will only send one orc each. No matter what the final result is, there won't be a second fight after the winner is determined."

"Why?" Liang Tan didn't understand.

Cui Ling sighed: "Each tribe has a limited number of strong orcs. If they are all killed in the war, who will go hunting and who will protect their wives and children? A victory that requires huge sacrifices is meaningless."

Liang Tan suddenly realized, then felt speechless: "Since you know everything, can't you just not fight?"

Cui Ling's eyes flashed with a smile, and when he saw blood outside the tribe, he immediately grabbed Liang Tan's face. Liang Tan didn't know why he suddenly bullied him, and he couldn't speak out at such a serious moment, so he could only protest quietly while struggling in his hands. When the struggle ended, the winner was already decided.

A Zhuang won, and the dog people left in disgrace.

There was a cheer in the tribe, and Liang Tan was also happy. However, when he turned around, he saw Cui Ling's expression was indifferent.

"You should be happy too." She pulled his hand.

Cui Ling glanced at her and said, "Why are you so happy? This is only the first wave." Then he sighed, "The location where we live now is a little too good."

Liang Tan didn't quite understand what he meant when he first heard this. By the time he understood what he meant, the tribe had already accepted two more challenges. A Zhuang was slightly injured, so the second and third times, another strong orc went up. Although they won in the end, the entire tribe became exhausted, and new challenges continued.

"If this continues, we'll have to move out now, right?" Liang Tan sighed.

Cui Ling glanced at her and asked, "Do you like it here?"

"Of course." Liang Tan thought about it.

"Then don't move."

Hearing his determined tone, Liang Tan smiled: "Are you sure? Then you have to defeat all challengers."

Cui Ling's eyes flashed with arrogance, and he wanted to say that of course he would defeat them all, but when the words came to his lips, after meeting Liang Tan's eyes, they changed to: "If you can't beat them, you can join them."

After staying in this tribe for so long, he has already had a clear understanding of himself. He is a powerful wolf and is still in his prime. No tribe will refuse him.

Liang Tan's mouth twitched when she heard this: "How can they be the same?" She was determined to stay because the atmosphere in this tribe was good enough and the people here would not look at Cui Ling with strange eyes. The key point is who to be with, not where to live.