Farming in the Beast World: I Lead the Orphan Beast Husband to Become Rich

As the leaves in the forest turned redder, the grass on the hillside gradually turned dry.

Before the last rain that the witch had mentioned came, the herbivorous orcs in the tribe had already started storing for the winter.

In the cave, the stove that Lin Xi had been longing for was built two days ago.

Four new large stone jars were also dug out. There were now a total of six stone jars in the house, filled with pickled animal meat, waiting to be taken out and dried after ten days.

Two days ago, after Lin Xi said that he wanted to get those giant beasts now, Bai Nu took the warriors of the tribe to the eastern forest.

This time, a total of five giant beasts were hunted back, and three of them were given to Lin Xi first.

Of the remaining two, one belongs to the witch, and the other one needs to be pickled in case the winter lasts too long and the orcs in the tribe do not have enough food. They can be used as emergency food then.

As for the giant beast that Lin Xi still owes, he will have to hunt it back slowly during this period of time and then hand it over to Lin Xi.

Lin Xi thought this arrangement was a good one, as she didn’t have any extra stone jars to store the giant beast meat!

As soon as the three giant beasts were delivered to Lin Xi, Lin Xi immediately made all the meat into pickled meat.

All the shaved animal bones are roasted and preserved to be used as raw materials for making various tools.

The skins of several giant beasts had already been peeled off when Bai Nu and his men killed the beasts.

After getting it back, Wu Chen processed it on the same day and is now hanging it outside the cave to dry.

Nothing else to do today.

Early in the morning, after breakfast, Lin Xi stood at the entrance of the cave, looking at the figures of orcs running into the forest one after another at the bottom of the hill. She turned to look at Wu Chen who was fiddling with those large animal skins: "Wu Chen, let's go pick the fruits today! If we are a few days late, they will all be picked!"

Wu Chen stopped what he was doing and looked up at her: "Then I'll go get the backpack."

Wu Chen turned into the cave to get the backpack, and Lin Xi hurriedly followed him in, taking his bow and a bag of arrows with him.

Since they were in the woods, it was inevitable that they would encounter one or two small animals, which would be a good opportunity for her to try out the effects of her practice over the past few days.

Although her strength increased only slightly, her accuracy improved a lot.

However, when she reached the entrance of the cave, she turned back and took a few animal skin bags and put them in the backpack.

Since you are going out once, you might as well get more fruits before coming back. Otherwise, it would be too troublesome to run back again and again as long as the backpack is full!

The pitch-black black panther slowly lay down at the entrance of the cave. Lin Xi nimbly climbed onto the black panther's back and sat firmly. Then the black panther took a step and ran down the hillside.

When passing by the shack at the foot of the hillside, Xueying and Xuetian's mother happened to come out of the shack.

The two female animals were holding the same backpack as Lin Xi, and it seemed that they were also going to the woods to find food.

Seeing Lin Xi, Xueying waved at her happily: "Xixi! Are you guys going to the woods too?"

"Yeah." Lin Xi nodded, and seeing the backpack in her hand, she leaned over and stretched out her hand: "Auntie Xuetian, Xueying, let me help you carry the backpack!"

Otherwise, it would be very inconvenient for them to carry the backpacks in their mouths and go into the woods.

Xueying's eyes lit up when she heard this. She quickly took Xuetian's mother's backpack, stacked it together with her own, and handed it to Linxi: "Thank you, Xixi!"

Lin Xi smiled, put the two backpacks together with his own, and carried them on his back.

After thinking for a while, he said to them, "Aunt Xuetian, do you want to get two more animal skin bags? This way, we can bring back more fruits at a time!"

When Xue Tian's mother heard this, before she could say anything, Xue Ying had already reacted.

She said "OK" repeatedly and ran back to the shed like the wind. After a while, she came out with two large animal skin bags and handed them to Lin Xi.

Lin Xi took it, folded it, and simply held it in his hand.

At the same time, Xueying and Xuetian, the grandmothers next to them, turned into two huge snow-white rabbits in the blink of an eye.

The place they were going to today was deeper in the forest.

The two giant rabbits followed the fast-running black panther, but their speed was slightly behind that of the other two. Wu Chen had to stop and wait for them occasionally.

After more than half an hour, the group finally arrived at a lake.

This is a lake in the forest, and this is Linxi’s first time here.

Xueying changed from rabbit form back to human form, took back her and Xuetian's mother's backpack from Lin Xi, and looked around.

Finally, she pointed in a direction and said to Lin Xi: "Xixi, let's go over there. I remember there are a lot of purple fruits there. There should be some that have just ripened!"

Lin Xi said "Okay", and several people walked towards the direction Xueying pointed.

The road in the forest was not easy to walk on, but fortunately Wu Chen was leading the way.

Not long after they walked, Wu Chen stopped and pointed at the bushes in front of them: "Is this here?"

Lin Xi looked in the direction he pointed and saw purple fruit grass growing on the ground among the dense woods.

It’s really a big piece!

In addition to the purple fruit grass, there is also sweet leaf grass mixed in, and several small sweet fruit grasses full of fruits.

None of these Lin Xi were spared!

The soil under the woods was easy to turn over. Lin Xi took a homemade small shovel and pushed out the ground under his feet.

However, after a while, when she turned over a piece of soil buried under thick fallen leaves again, something in the fallen leaves suddenly caught her attention!

That is……

mushroom?!

Lin Xi opened his eyes wide and was stunned for two seconds before he reacted. He quickly took the mushroom in his hand and examined it carefully!

It feels soft and tender to the touch, looks a bit like King Oyster Mushroom, and smells like mushroom too!

Lin Xi immediately became excited! She took the mushroom in her hand, stood up and ran to Wu Chen who was closest to her, and handed the mushroom to him: "Wu Chen, can I eat this?"

When Wu Chen looked up, he saw the white food with dirt on it in the little female's hand.

He took a closer look, his expression softened a bit, and nodded: "This is a white flesh fruit, you can roast it and eat it!"

When Lin Xi heard this, he immediately felt relieved, as long as it wasn't a poisonous mushroom.

She placed the mushroom carefully into her backpack, fearing that it would be crushed.

You know, it is so rare for her to get a new ingredient here!

After putting the mushroom away, Lin Xi hurried back to where she had just been and continued searching.

Mushrooms should grow in clusters. Since there is one here, there should be more nearby.

Sure enough, after a while, she really found another ten or so, and with some dug up by Wu Chen, these mushrooms soon took up half the space in the backpack.

Lin Xi put all the mushrooms into the backpack and placed them away carefully.

This kind of mushroom not only looks like King Oyster Mushroom, but also has a similar size. The largest one is as long as Lin Xi's forearm. She plans to take it back and dry the leftovers into dried mushrooms to eat later.

After picking mushrooms, Lin Xi turned his attention back to the main staple food, purple fruit.

These purple-skinned fruits are plants that grow underground, just like potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Usually, Lin Xi would pull up a purple-skinned fruit grass, and the roots would immediately bring out a dozen purple-skinned fruits as big as eggs, which were quite easy to collect.

The backpack I brought was soon going to be full.

Lin Xi sorted out the things in the two backpacks. The purple fruits were put into one basket separately, and in the other backpack, half of the purple fruits were placed at the bottom, and the upper half was filled with a layer of white and tender mushrooms.

Both backpacks were covered with a thick layer of sweetgrass, which could be used to prevent things in the backpacks from falling out, and could also be taken back, dried, and eaten in the winter.

When Xueying saw this, she immediately followed Lin Xi's example and filled her and Xuetian's mother's backpacks with sweetleaf grass.

Xue Tian's mother was watching from the side and couldn't help shaking the full backpack. Then she looked up at Lin Xi and smiled lovingly: "Xi Xi, little beast, is very smart!"

When Lin Xi heard this, he smiled complacently.

As time gradually approached noon, Lin Xi and the other three had already walked a long way to the side from the place where they started digging purple fruits.

In addition to the backpacks, the bags they each brought were almost full.

Wu Chen placed the bundle of sweetleaf grass he had just collected on the bag and turned to look at Lin Xi.

As a result, I saw Lin Xi squatting under a tree, fiddling with something.

When he got closer, he saw Lin Xi picking a small seed bag from the core of a sweetgrass plant that had grown too tall and whose leaf stem had obviously become hard.

He quickly said, "Xixi, this sweetleaf grass is about to harden and cannot be eaten."

When Lin Xi heard Wu Chen's voice, he looked up and saw the orc with a worried look on his face.

She blinked and showed him what she was holding. "This isn't edible, Wuchen. These are sweetleaf grass seeds. I want to take them back."

As she spoke, she stood up and held the grass seeds in her hand closer to Wuchen so that he could see it clearly.

Lin Xi just noticed these sweetgrass seeds.

The seeds are black, covered in a thin green skin, and grow in the middle of the sweetgrass leaf stem.

Lin Xi just touched a few completely dried sweetgrass plants. The seeds in the middle were completely dry. With a slight touch, they would explode, and the seeds inside would fall onto the wet ground!

Isn’t this just sowing seeds for next spring?

Lin Xi immediately thought of planting!

She pointed the grass seeds in her hand to Wuchen and said, "Wuchen, I will plant these grass seeds outside our cave next spring. When the sweet grass grows, we won't have to come to the forest all the time to collect it!"

"Planted outside the cave?"

Listening to Lin Xi's words, Wu Chen was a little confused.

He frowned slightly, looked at the grass seeds in Lin Xi's hand, and asked softly: "Xixi, what is a seed? Isn't sweetleaf grass only found in the forest?"

Lin Xi heard this and shook his head with a smile.

She carefully put the grass seeds in her hand into the small pocket on the front of her skirt: "Of course not, Wuchen! The sweetleaf grass in the forest also produces grass seeds every autumn. The grass seeds fall into the soil and grow again in the next spring."

"As for planting, we take all the grass seeds back home and put them into the soil near our cave. Then, next spring, they will grow near our cave."

As he spoke, Lin Xi's face suddenly showed a hint of anticipation:

"So as long as there are seeds, any plant can be grown! Including the purple-skinned fruit and black worm fruit we eat, they can all be grown. As long as we grow more, we don't have to come to the forest all the time to look for them!"