Chapter 209: Father-Son Interaction

Ji Xuan was, after all, the Young Master whom everyone had accepted wholeheartedly for so many years. The moment he spoke, the beastmen who had been quietly arguing fell silent almost instinctively, turning to listen attentively as Ji Xuan laid out his considerations for reorganizing the Tribe's defenses in an orderly manner.

Yun Li watched Ji Xuan, whose speech was occasionally interspersed with modern terms, and a faint sense of disorientation flickered in her heart. While she was being assimilated by the surrounding beastmen in this world, her Beast Husband and the other beastmen around her were also gradually taking on a few traces of modern people under her influence.

Modern times, ah~

"A Li?"

"Hmm?"

Yun Li had only been distracted for a moment, recalling some things from modern times, when Ji Xuan had already finished speaking.

And now Jicheng was asking the other beastmen, "Do you have any other opinions?"

Miduo crossed her arms and spoke up, "No."

One beastman was quite interested in the candidate personnel for the Patrol Team that Ji Xuan had just mentioned. "Does the candidate personnel the Young Master just mentioned mean that the selected cubs can join the Patrol Team?"

"The selected cubs can first enjoy part of the treatment of the Patrol Team beastmen. At the same time, the Patrol Team will also provide unified instruction to those cubs. As long as they can meet the conditions for joining the Patrol Team in the future, they will naturally become members of the Patrol Team."

This method was something Yun Li had brought up while chatting idly with her Beast Husbands at home. Ji Xuan thought it was worth trying, so he brought it up here.

"Then besides the cubs of the Patrol Team and Hunting Squad beastmen, the cubs of other beastmen should be eligible too, right? Otherwise, wouldn't it be quite unfair?"

Hearing that the candidate personnel could not only join the Patrol Team in the future but also enjoy part of the Patrol Team beastmen's treatment first, the beastmen who had cubs at home or whose siblings had cubs immediately grew restless, questioning Ji Xuan's earlier suggestion to select first from the cubs of the Patrol Team and Hunting Squad beastmen.

Ji Xuan replied to the beastman with a calm expression, "I suggested prioritizing selection from the cubs of those beastmen. If other cubs are suitable, they can naturally be chosen as well."

"Then..."

No sooner had Ji Xuan finished answering this question than another beastman's question immediately popped up.

Seeing them pressing relentlessly, Yun Li frowned and said, "Isn't the most important thing right now to discuss how to guard against foreign beastmen? Can't these questions wait until the main issues are resolved?"

"A Li is right. Put these matters aside for now. Once Axuan has confirmed the time and place, he will naturally notify you and the other beastman families in the Tribe with cubs."

The Priest also felt those beastmen were overly excited. Although he was somewhat surprised that Ji Xuan would propose such a thing, seeing that the female beside him showed no trace of confusion after her initial surprise, he roughly guessed what was going on.

What a female, so clever she was a bit of a headache.

If she weren't Ji Xuan's female, the Priest feared he would have to send people to watch her every day; otherwise, they wouldn't know if she ever did something to harm the Tribe.

A Tribe meeting focused on deploying defenses against foreign beastmen lasted until the afternoon. The Tribe had no dedicated logistical services for the management, so when some elderly beastmen, running low on energy, wanted to withdraw from the meeting mid-way to go home for a meal, Jicheng and the Priest decisively ended the unfinished meeting.

Ji Xuan and Leng Xiu were both kept behind due to defense matters. Since Yun Li and Mu Qing's authority didn't involve much in this area, they naturally took the cubs and went home first.

Leng Xiao wasn't at home, and Lengao and the others—no one knew if they had eaten lunch—hadn't come home either.

Given that the little ones were all starving, the two of them attended to the little ones first. After feeding them, the foods that Lengao and the others liked were also brought to the table.

"I'll go out and find them. You rest at home."

Mu Qing didn't want Yun Li to have to go out looking for the cubs again so soon after coming home.

"Alright, go look at A Mei's place and see if they found no one at home and went to mooch a meal at A Mei's."

The male cubs were capable of such things. After all, Gong Mei and the others had a good relationship with her; just having a meal there wouldn't get them chased away.

Hearing Yun Li's words, Mu Qing grunted an "Mm" and walked out of the yard.

He was well aware that the cubs were older now and wouldn't do something like all going together to mooch a meal at someone else's house.

It was more likely they'd take other cubs to find the Hunting Squad beastmen, help them out a bit, take the payment, and then secretly start a fire in some corner to cook their own food.

But Mu Qing never expected that when he went looking for Lengao and the others, Leng Xiao would be among a group of cubs, snatching food from them.

"Father! What are you doing? This took me forever to roast properly."

Lengao watched as the meat he had painstakingly roasted was suddenly snatched by Leng Xiao, and the cub was nearly driven mad.

It was bad enough that Father didn't cook for them at home; they had to use their own brains to get a few dozen jin of fierce beast meat and start a fire here, planning to be self-sufficient and fill their stomachs a bit before going home for the main meal.

But where on earth did Father suddenly pop up from, actually snatching the cubs' roasted meat?

Leng Xiao took a bite before he saw his cub's face about to cry. A look of disgust immediately appeared on his face. "Look at you. Do you really think I'd steal your meat?"

Wasn't that exactly what you were doing? You already took it, didn't you?

"Look over there."

Leng Xiao kicked Lengao with his shin to get him to look elsewhere. Lengshuang and the others were gathered around two large bamboo baskets, skewering meat.

Seeing this, Lengao jumped up in an instant. "Meat!"

And it was processed, very fresh fierce beast meat.

A group of cubs, seeing so much meat, were nearly ecstatic with joy.

In no time, a few more campfires were lit. Leng Xiao watched them bustling about, a hint of a smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Father, this is what I roasted. If you want to eat, roast your own!"

Lengao felt his father was a bit off today. Normally, he bullied them, but he was never so childish as to snatch the food right out of their mouths.

After having three skewers of roasted meat snatched in a row, Lengao's fists started to clench.

Fortunately, his little sister was considerate. She handed him the meat skewer she had roasted herself. Lengao bit into the skewer with tears of emotion in his eyes.

"Almost four years old, and you brothers still can't do as well as your little sister?"

When Mu Qing arrived, he heard Leng Xiao nagging Lengao and the others like that. "With cooking skills like yours, how are you ever going to find a female as a mate?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah! Our cooking is terrible, but if you've got the guts, Father, put down the meat in your hand!"

Lengao and the others couldn't beat Leng Xiao, so they just brushed off his words perfunctorily, then rolled their eyes and retorted, "We made these meat skewers. You're just sitting there doing nothing, grabbing and eating them, and you think you're in the right."

"I hunted the meat, so of course I get to eat."

Leng Xiao had a thick skin; he wouldn't feel ashamed just because of a few words from the cubs.

Mu Qing saw him like this and could only sigh helplessly. "Don't eat too much. There's already food ready at home. A Li is waiting for you all to come back and eat today."