Chapter 440: Want to Play Matchmaker for Rongdi

Here, Ying and his spouse are matchmaking Qingfeng and Youchao Xuan, and the Rongdi Tribe has also entered winter mode.

The tribe's winter has nothing particularly special.

Actually it's just bearing offspring.

Doing exercise.

Almost all married tribe members live together, and each of them makes offspring.

This is the tribe's norm; in winter with nothing to do, if you don't exercise, what else can you do.

When spring arrives next year, many tribe members become pregnant.

Twilight hangs low, and the Treehouse is shrouded in the white, hazy mist.

From a distance, the Treehouse is no longer visible, only the vague horizon can be seen.

The Rongdi's Treehouse has a roaring Bonfire, but they are irritated.

The other tribe members all have partners, living in their own Treehouses doing exercise; they can even hear the nearby sounds, which are the most primal desire, and it is this sound that makes Rongdi find it hard to endure.

They have already reached adulthood, yet still have no female.

In the past, some females liked them, but they rejected them.

They sit alone beside the Bonfire, watching the roaring Bonfire, and the only companion is the wild chicken egg brought back from the wilderness.

Rongdi places the wild chicken egg beside the Bonfire, thinking the egg would be cold, so puts it even closer.

Dong dong dong… a knocking sound comes from outside.

"Chief, it's me"

Li Xiang arrives, and Rongdi hurriedly opens the door; after the door opens, Li Xiang squeezes in from outside, holding a jar, inside which is the hot deer meat soup he made for Rongdi.

"Chief"

Li Xiang comes in bringing some wind and snow, causing Rongdi to quickly shut the door, then looks at him, "Why did you come, didn't you sleep with Duoluo?"

All the tribe members are doing the things they like; how could Li Xiang think of them? Is Li Xiang a modern person or very shy? These primitives are really open; when he arrived, he also learned that they were all getting into bed, and he must get used to it.

"I came to bring you soup"

When Li Xiang sees the wild chicken egg about to be placed in the fire, he hurriedly moves some aside.

"It can't be roasted; if it's cooked it'll die, and nothing will hatch next year."

"Uh, is that so?"

Rongdi looks a bit simple‑minded; he has long shed his former ferocity and has become not much different from an ordinary man.

Li Xiang looks at him and thinks it's really simple.

"Here, try it; this is the soup I stewed"

"You stewed it, and I should try?"

He was just hungry; after opening the ceramic jar lid, he immediately smelled the meat soup and, without hesitation, opened his big mouth and poured it in. Li Xiang had prepared a wooden spoon, but the spoon was just taken out and the person drank it all.

Now gnawing the bones.

"This..."

Li Xiang let out a sudden snort, and that was that.

If Rongdi's eating style went to the modern world, it would definitely scare the boss.

After eating, Rongdi even swallowed the bones, proving with this strength that a Beastman can eat bones.

"Delicious, Li Xiang, your stew is as tasty as Nan Qinghuan's, sigh, I wonder what she's doing?"

The remark seemed pointed; Li Xiang knew he still liked Nan Qinghuan, but it was only liking, nothing more!

He could see that Rongdi was very lonely, lonely as snow.

"Chief, aren't you cold living here alone?"

"Cold?"

Rongdi looks around, "How could it be cold with a Bonfire? We Beastmen are different from you humans; we aren't afraid of cold. Look, my feathers have grown out, thick and wind‑proof."

To prove they aren't cold, Rongdi even deliberately flapped their wings; that flap was truly cold.

"Stop flapping, I believe you can't 【feel cold】; but Chief, our tribe can't keep lacking Oum. Look, Ying got Oum and developed so well; now you should also get a female."

So Li Xiang came to urge Rongdi to find a woman.

Hearing this, Rongdi was startled; their gaze deep, looking at Li Xiang. Find a female? They also want that, but they can't find a female they like.

Before, he was fond of Nan Qinghuan and wanted to take her from Ying, but now… he suddenly became very melancholy, standing up his height was as tall as a roof, "Now I don't think that much; I only want to wait for spring to come and devour the Lasi Tribe."

Yes, that's his ambition; Luosang of the Lasi Tribe has clashed with them several times, and when spring comes they'll together wipe out his tribe. Now he thinks of nothing else, just wants to expand territory so his people can live better.

This is his current wish.

As for a female… he doesn't seem to have considered it!

Hearing his words, Li Xiang inhaled a cold breath; he knew Rongdi loved conquest, it's a Beastman's nature, and the fate of the Lasi Tribe might indeed be doomed.

"Even if that doesn't conflict with you finding a female, let me help you…"

"Chief"

Suddenly, a frantic sound of a lone wolf came from outside.

"Chief, open the door"

When the lone wolf entered and told Rongdi that members of the Giant Tribe had appeared near Mu Guang Shan Dong, Rongdi became very alert.

They had just returned from there, having killed a few Giants and driven away the Giant Beast, so why are the Giant Tribe people back again?

Could they be trying to steal Ying's precious Coal? "Let's go see."

Twilight hangs low; outside Mu Guang Shan Dong, Youchao Xuan and Dashan have arrived here. When Dashan went inside and looked, he was angry, "That A Lei really dug up some of our treasure. Damn, it's good that Ying let us come now; if we came tomorrow the treasure would be gone."

Youchao Xuan also entered the cave, seeing the ground full of pits, still not understanding what treasure is. "Dashan, which things are treasure?"

"Look, this, this pitch‑black stone—Oum says it's called Coal, it can burn. See, this is what Coal looks like after burning, just like ash from plants."

Dashan also began a science outreach, while Youchao Xuan was shocked for a long while; he picked up some broken pieces of Coal from the ground, lifted them, and examined them carefully.

It was a pitch‑black stone—could this be the Coal treasure the Goddess mentioned? When he held it, he found the stone blackened his palm, and it could even be used to write characters. He took the stone to the wall and wrote the character that Nan Qinghuan had given him.

"Home"

Home—what a warm character.

"This treasure is really nice, it can even write characters. Youchao Xuan, what did you write?"

Dashan is illiterate, so he has never seen what this character means, but he knows it is writing, something that Ou Mu taught the youngsters to learn.

Youchao Xuan chuckled lightly, "This is called Home."

"So that's what a family looks like."

When the topic of Home came up, Youchao Xuan for some reason recalled Qingfeng's face; they had played snowball fights in the wind and snow, chased snow rabbits, and just thinking of it was truly joyful.

He rarely has such happy moments.

Home—if he and Qingfeng could have a home, how wonderful that would be.

"Youchao Xuan, how shall we dig?"

The tribe members didn't know how to excavate these pitch‑black stones, so Youchao Xuan quickly regained his composure and taught them. Soon, a crisp knocking sound of stone being dug resonated inside the Cave.

Ding‑ding‑dang‑dang.

These are the earliest coal miners of the Remote Antiquity Era.

The tribe members, hearing that it was a treasure, also dug with extra vigor, and Youchao Xuan prepared to lend a hand himself. He wanted to bring back a few pieces to see if they were as convenient as firewood.

Just as they were about to start mining Coal, a faint footfall sounded from outside, followed by the frantic howls of animals; this was certainly not a sign of friendly arrivals.

These primitives were very vigilant, especially when in groups; Dashan, holding an iron hammer, looked outward with some worry, "Youchao Xuan, this doesn't look good—enemies are coming."

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