Chapter 48

Because the production process is simple and involves many repetitive motions, Yun Li feared Leng Xiao would grow impatient, so she occasionally asked him various questions to divert his attention.

"Mu Qing previously made me clothes from ghost spider silk, and I don't know how that beast person made the clothes, but he finished them in about four or five days; when I received the clothes, I even thought my eyes were playing tricks on me."

But at that time, Yun Li only cared about being happy when she got the spider-silk clothing, and she forgot to ask how that came to be.

Upon hearing this, Leng Xiao's hand paused, and his face immediately showed a complex expression: 'I know about this. If it were someone else, they might not necessarily use spider silk to make clothes, but that beast person is a spider beast person; his specialty is making clothes for the tribe's beast people.'

Relying on this skill, that beast person was always popular with females; although his strength wasn't great and his beast form was fearsome, when he was young, females still vied to have him as their beast husband.

Of course, those females being willing to let him be their beast husband does not mean they were willing to bear his spider offspring.

Thus, even if that beast person had a female mate, his life was as if he were unbonded, and sometimes even worse than when he was unbonded.

Yun Li exclaimed in surprise, 'Our tribe actually still has spider beast people?'

And that spider beast person is also very skilled at making clothes?

But thinking about it, spiders spit silk and weave webs, so it makes sense that a spider beast person would be good at making clothes.

If she could make wool balls, such as ramie wool balls, flax wool balls, sheep wool balls.....

And with those wool balls, if she then had other spider beast people make clothes, wouldn't she be able to have various clothes to wear just like in modern times?

Thinking this way, Yun Li actually felt her future was nothing but bright.

It doesn't matter if she herself is useless, but relying on the modern knowledge in her mind, as long as she finds the right technical workers, she can turn knowledge into wealth.

Leng Xiao grunted an 'uh,' 'Like Mu Qing, he's the only spider beast person in the tribe; I've heard there are also spider beast people elsewhere in the Heiyan Shanmai, but no one has seen them.'

Yun Li nodded, then saw he had already made a bunch of vine silk in his hand, and she hurriedly told him to stop, 'Enough, enough, first make a filter net; we'll sift out the black bean flour.'

She had Leng Xiao make a small section of vine into a middle ring, then she herself wound the vine silk around the ring like weaving a warp and weft net, and a simple filter net was thus completed.

Afterward, the black bean flour was sifted four or five times before they obtained the fine powder Yun Li wanted.

"Great, A Xiao, we can make dumpling soup tonight."

Leng Xiao saw her so happy and also laughed, 'Alright, tonight we'll use this to make dumpling soup.'

Although he had never heard the term 'dumpling soup' before, A Li said to just make it if she said so.

As for the remaining vine bark, Yun Li still had Leng Xiao turn it into vine silk, which was then stacked in piles on stones to air-dry.

Soon, the day passed like that. After dark, Yun Li mixed water with black bean flour, kneaded it into dough, she used a stone knife to cut it into slices, and after waiting for the stone pot's bone broth to simmer into a milky-white soup, she diced the wild fruit and added it together with the dough slices into the soup, also chopping a small handful of wild greens.

The seasoning was still only salt, which they had obtained from the chieftain while in the cave, with Leng Xiu and them.

After all, the beast tide came suddenly, and fleeing for their lives was the priority, so most of their previous possessions were lost.

And the original salt rock, which had been the size of a cub's fist, had shrunk by more than half after their many days of use.

Just think, if Leng Xiu doesn't bring back the witch doctor and supplies, they'll even have to figure out how to produce their own salt.

Yun Li sighed inwardly, but her hand didn't stop stirring.

After the soup had boiled for about ten or more minutes, she took wooden chopsticks to taste it, then had Leng Xiao lift the stone pot away and put another stone pot on to boil water.

"How does it taste? Is it good?"

Yun Li looked at Leng Xiao with a smiling gaze and asked.

She herself thought it was pretty good; from someone who had never entered a kitchen, she could now cook quite a bit of edible food, even decently tasty, and she felt she was awesome!

Leng Xiao nodded heavily, 'Delicious, I want to eat several more bowls tonight.'

Yun Li was delighted by his words, but she also didn't forget to encourage him, 'Then next time it'll be your turn to cook for me, and I also want to eat the dumpling soup you make yourself.'

Although she now knows how to cook, Yun Li still doesn't want to do the cooking often; she only does it occasionally when she's bored, and the cooking duty shouldn't fall to her male—so who should it fall to?

Leng Xiao had no objection; he had watched Yun Li make the dumpling soup from start to finish and thought it wasn't difficult at all, so he would do it, and A Li just needed to wait to eat as before.

The two finished the entire stone pot of dumpling soup, the hot water was also ready by then, and after eating and drinking their fill, they washed up and went to sleep.

It's a pity for the eagle beast person outside watching them; after observing a day of marital affection, he's now forced to become a night watch.

The next day, Yun Li pulled Leng Xiao to search nearby for ramie.

But because they couldn't go too far, they didn't find any ramie, and in the end they only brought back the wild grass that Yun Li had impulsively cut on a whim.

The eagle beast person who had been secretly watching from afar felt even more pity for Yun Li upon seeing this, thinking her male companion was useless, as they could only bring back some wild grass when they went out to play.

"I should find an opportunity to tell her how well the females in our tribe live in the tribe; after hearing that, she will surely be willing to return with me to the tribe."

As for Leng Xiao's opinion, a male who has mated with a female but doesn't listen to his female—does he really want to spend his life as a lone beast person monopolizing a female outside?

That would be too selfish.

The eagle beast person quickly made his decision, but to avoid being preemptively expelled by that male, he patiently waited until they were about to run out of water, the day they would go together to fetch water.

"Who are you? Why are you abducting me?"

Leng Xiao carried the stone tub to fetch water, while Yun Li waited not far from the river.

Who would have thought that just as Leng Xiao turned around, a hand suddenly appeared at her waist and pulled her away from the spot.

Yun Li immediately flew into a rage, drew the stone knife from her waist, and pressed it against the stranger male's neck.

The eagle beast person also only discovered she was pregnant when he abducted her; this is terrible—having secretly taken a pregnant female, if that wandering beast person finds out later, he'll likely want to hack him to pieces.

Moreover, the fact that the female held a stone knife to his neck was beyond his expectation; she's pregnant, yet she wields the knife without fear of hurting herself?

His face full of panic, he quickly withdrew his hand and stepped back, 'Quickly put away your knife; I'm not doing anything—I just wanted to talk to you.'

Yun Li didn't believe him for a second; seeing him retreat, she shouted at the top of her lungs, 'A Xiao, I'm here!'

Before she could finish her plea for help, they saw the eagle beast person's face panic-stricken as he transformed into a black eagle, flapped his wings, and flew away.

Yun Li:!!!! He just left like that!

She stood there with a bewildered expression, while Leng Xiao discovered that, in the time it took him to fetch water, turning his head the female was gone, and he nearly went mad.

"A Li! A Li! Are you okay? Are you okay?"

Upon hearing the voice and coming over, Leng Xiao nearly burst into tears.