Chapter 60: Milk

Later, Wenyi knew that the chieftain had slept with other females, and she definitely couldn't accept it.

So no matter how the chieftain tried to defend himself, he could never become Wenyi's partner.

Gong Mei actually also understood Wenyi quite well; anyone who knew that the male who had sworn just yesterday that he would devote his life to her would, the next day, hear that he had slept with another female and even see them walk out of the same room, their bodies covered in ambiguous red marks.

Regardless of whether he was really schemed against, in Wenyi's heart this matter had already become a thorn stuck in her heart.

"So the chieftain ended up with that female afterward?"

Yun Li shook her head full of regret, "Was the chieftain really that weak back then? Always being schemed against?"

Gong Mei, hearing this, couldn't help but purse her lips and said, "My first beast husband once told me that if a male truly didn't want to sleep with a female, even if he were drugged he wouldn't go to that female."

Gong Mei's first beast husband, being handsome and affectionate, had often been eyed by other females, and being drugged by females was not something he had never experienced.

Yet he firmly refused to touch the female who had drugged him; instead, he sneaked to the place where Gong Mei usually hid from other beast people to eat alone, and pounced on Gong Mei.

Yun Li listened to Gong Mei and her first beast husband's story and couldn't help but exclaim "Wow!"

"So what was your reaction back then?"

Yun Li asked eagerly, her face full of excitement.

Gong Mei and her beast husband's story is even more explosive than Ji Xuan's parents' story~

"What else could the reaction be?"

Gong Mei said, letting out a light snort, "Of course I beat him up and then threw him into the water."

But throwing him into the water didn't stop a certain fox from trying to seduce her.

Gong Mei in the end still……

Yun Li covered her mouth while listening, afraid that if she got excited she would scream out loud.

"And you, how did you and your beast husband meet?"

Gong Mei talked about her own matters, but didn't intend to go too deep, after all, those things between partners are still best known only to oneself.

Yun Li, hearing her ask about her own affairs, also only picked out some things she could say and told Gong Mei:

"We are both beast people from the same tribe, so getting to know each other is actually quite simple.

But you probably couldn't guess that when I first met my few beast husbands, I was all dark and grimy, filthy to an extreme.

Yet even so, my first beast husband actually took a liking to me."

Yun Li said, gesturing with both hands on her body as she spoke, still happy, "You know, back then in the tribe I was like a tiny invisible person—just standing there wouldn't make any beast person glance at me a second time.

Skinny and dirty, and those females even said my body smelled."

Gong Mei listened as she recounted her past; it wasn't exactly a past worth being happy about, but when Yun Li spoke of it, she always exuded a kind of positive, upward energy.

However, she didn't know that Yun Li was deliberately presenting herself this way; a tragic background combined with her striving attitude made it easier to win Gong Mei's favor, right?

In this strange tribe, not seizing every beast person and resource one can grasp to strive for a bright future for oneself.

So why did she come here? Could it be just to increase the tribe's popularity?

That definitely means considering how to live better here in the future.

Living isn't just about staying alive; it's about living well!

……

Leng Xiao indeed fulfilled his promise to Yun Li—go out and return the same day.

Before nightfall, with the help of Bai Can and Asheng, he brought back a Moo Cow and a Swift Wind Mother Wolf.

Even that night, when the young ones wanted to drink milk, he prepared to take them to the Moo Cow to nurse.

But then Yun Li called out to him, "Are you really planning to feed the young ones directly like that?"

Leng Xiao looked at her and asked, "Otherwise what?"

Yun Li said helplessly, "Out in the wild, who knows if the Moo Cow has any invisible bugs on it? If you take the young ones over there, what if the bugs jump onto them and bite them?"

So you use a stone basin to milk half a basin of milk, then boil the milk, let it cool, and then feed it to the young ones."

Leng Xiao didn't quite understand the female's words, but fearing the young ones might be bitten by bugs on the Moo Cow, he had no problem with the task of milking.

But why does it need to be boiled before feeding it to the young ones?

"Why must it be boiled before it can be fed to the young ones?"

Having doubts, he also asked it out.

"Of course it's to kill the bugs we can't see; the tribe also doesn't have a habit of feeding raw meat to the young ones, right?

Since the young ones can only eat cooked meat, the milk definitely also needs to be boiled before it can be eaten."

Leng Xiao didn't really get what those invisible bugs she mentioned were, but that didn't hinder him from understanding her later words, so under the female's direction he went to milk the cow.

Yun Li feared he wouldn't be gentle enough and would hurt the Moo Cow, in which case using its milk to feed would come to nothing.

Yet who would have known that Leng Xiao, although it was his first time milking, also knew to stuff a handful of grass into the Moo Cow, and while it relaxed to eat grass, he squatted beside it and milked again.

Yun Li saw him milk two handfuls without making the Moo Cow feel uncomfortable, then she went in and brought him the hot water.

"After washing your hands and milking, also wipe the place where the Moo Cow lets out milk with animal hide."

Leng Xiao, upon seeing the hot water, knew she was afraid of anything unclean; every time they went to bed it was the same—if they didn't take a bath, they weren't allowed on her bed.

Yun Li actually felt this wasn't safe enough, planning to feed the young ones herself tonight.

And after the milk is boiled, she and Leng Xiao will each drink a bowl, then see if there's any discomfort.

If there isn't, then only then can they try feeding the young ones a small sip.

Only after thoroughly confirming that the young ones drinking the milk are fine will she dare to entrust the nighttime feeding entirely to others.

The next day, Gong Mei came over and saw Yun Li truly using milk to start feeding a few young ones, and she couldn't help but become curious.

"Will they drink it? Will they not like it?"

Yun Li shook her head, "I don't see any dislike; today I only plan to give them a small mouthful.

"Let's see if they can drink it; if there really is any discomfort, I will definitely watch them have problems."

Gong Mei laughed helplessly, "I thought you really weren't worried whether the wild beast's milk would make your offspring uncomfortable."

Yun Li's face showed some surprise, "How could you say that? How could I possibly not care about my own offspring?"

Moreover, even if wolf cubs need to drink milk, they only do so for a little over a month.

If cow's milk doesn't work, she'll just endure this little over a month, and afterwards what they can eat will be entirely left to Leng Xiao.

Because she really isn't clear what else wolf cubs can eat after weaning besides meat paste.

Gong Mei patted her shoulder, "Okay, okay, okay, I misunderstood you. I hope your method really works; then the females in our tribe who have given birth to wolf cubs and tiger cubs will be able to relax afterwards."

After hearing that, Yun Li also laughed, "Those cubs can't really not drink mother's milk, right? Aren't you afraid that at that time your own cubs will grow thinner than those who drink mother's milk?"

More importantly, if the idea of replacing mother's milk with beast milk starts from her, and they themselves neglect hygiene, ultimately causing harm to the cubs, then surely the beastfolk will blame her as the initiator.

She doesn't want to take on that responsibility; in modern times she's just a recent high school graduate about to enter university, hasn't even started college yet.

Who knows that much professional knowledge; a lot of non‑everyday knowledge from other fields she only gets from her usual reading and online popular science.