readsfreenovel Chapter 187 Autumn Has Arrived
Chapter 187 Autumn Has Arrived
The gift Yue gave to Bai Ling was a little wolf that she had carved herself.
He knew that Ling lacked nothing, so after thinking it over, he decided to give Ling something personally.
Yue had thought about making a piece of jewelry, but he was really not good at it and the jewelry he made would definitely not be good-looking. After thinking it over, Yue decided to give Bai Ling a wooden carving.
Yue pondered for three whole days whether to give Bai Ling a lion or a wolf, and finally decided to give her a little wolf that she had carved herself, in the shape of her own animal.
Yue wasn't very good at this, so he practiced during breaks from hunting and finally made a satisfactory wood carving. The carving was about half the size of a palm and depicted a small wolf on all fours, howling at the sky.
The wolf cub's facial features were not sculpted; only a slit was cut at the mouth, and the ears were two upright triangles, making it look very simple.
However, Bai Ling liked it very much. He held the wooden carving that Yue had given him in both hands, first examining it carefully, then stroking it in his hands: "Yue, I like it very much."
She gave the wood carving she had painstakingly made to her lover, who liked it very much. A sense of satisfaction welled up in Yue's heart: "I'm glad you like it."
Bai Ling: "Yue, do me a favor. Drill a hole in this little wolf and thread it with a rope. I want to wear it on my body."
This was the first birthday gift Yue had ever given him, and he wanted to keep it safe, preferably carrying it with him day and night.
Cang and Feng exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with laughter. Young people are so clever; how come they hadn't thought of this?
Cang even thought to himself that he would go back and take out the wooden carving he had given to his partner, and drill a hole in it so that his partner could wear it.
Feng and Cang have been partners for so many years, and Feng immediately guessed what Cang was thinking. He glanced at his partner and said nothing.
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Bai Ling went to get her tools and sat under the tree with Yue. Yue used a small knife to drill a small hole in the wolf cub's head.
Bai Ling twisted several thin strands of animal tendon together, threaded them through the small hole on the wolf cub's head, and then tied a knot at both ends of the thread.
"Yue, do you think I look good wearing this?" After putting on the little wolf pendant, Bai Ling moved closer to Yue and gently shook it from side to side, making the little wolf pendant around his neck sway with him.
Yue's gaze first fell on the little wolf, then followed the little wolf's sway, and then he saw Bai Ling's chest.
Bai Ling's skin is also quite fair, not the jade-white kind, but a healthy, rosy white.
It was too hot just now, so Bai Ling untied one of the ties on his robe, revealing a large expanse of his chest. His healthy skin was smooth and firm, making one want to touch it.
This wasn't the first time Yue had seen Bai Ling's chest; he had actually seen Bai Ling's bare chest many times before. At those times, he didn't have any romantic thoughts or anything that was inappropriate to say aloud.
But today, when Ling wore the yellow and white wooden wolf figurine, which landed just below her collar, half of it covered by her clothes and half exposed, and swayed with her movements, Yue couldn't help but bite her lower lip.
He felt his face burning, his heart itching, and his hands restless.
Yue turned his head away, no longer looking at Bai Ling's exposed skin. He swallowed and said, "Hmm, very beautiful."
Bai Ling smiled and said, "I think it looks great too."
Bai Ling has made up his mind. From today onwards, he will practice wood carving diligently, and when Yue's birthday comes, he will give Yue a wood carving of a lion.
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Overnight, the summer heat seemed to subside somewhat, and the orc's keen senses told Bai Ling that autumn had arrived.
The fields in the tribe were thriving, and the best-growing crop was cassava. Its stalks above ground were very strong, and it looked much more lush than cassava growing in the wild.
Not only cassava, but other crops are also growing well. The wheat that Bai Ling is most concerned about is also growing well. They have grown to almost chest height, and each wheat plant has more than ten ears. They are not yet ripe, but the grains are already larger than mature wheat on Earth.
However, in terms of plumpness, it is still not as good as wheat on Earth. Bai Ling was not disappointed. This year is his first year of planting wheat, so it is definitely not as good as the seeds bred on Earth.
The sorghum stalks were about seven or eight meters tall, with heads as big as a person hanging on the stalks. They were swaying back and forth in the wind, making a constant rustling sound.
The mung beans and soybeans are also thriving, and their pods are much larger than those on Earth, but they are not as plump.
The sesame plants are growing very well, taller than Bai Ling. Although it is already autumn, small white flowers are still blooming at the top, and the pods below are longer than Bai Ling's middle finger.
Besides crops, the vegetables Bai Ling planted are also growing very well. The chives have been harvested several times already, and the tribe now loves to stir-fry them with meat. The gourds are bigger than cartwheels, and the winter melons are half the length of Bai Ling. The scallions and ginger are growing very well in rows. Half of the celery has already been eaten, and a lot of leafy greens have also been consumed.
Whether it's crops or vegetables, the ones grown here are better than the wild ones. Now, the villagers love to come to the fields whenever they have free time, and they also like to ask Bai Ling every few days when it's time to harvest.
The beastmen used to live by hunting and gathering. When they saw something edible, they would pick it directly without waiting for it to ripen. Now that the crops and vegetables have grown so big, according to the beastmen's habits, they can already harvest some. However, Bai Ling said that they should wait a little longer, so the beastmen waited.
Autumn has arrived, and the beastmen are even busier, especially the gathering teams, who now often have to spend the night outdoors, just like the hunting teams.
Although crops were planted this year and a bountiful harvest is expected in another month, the wild food resources cannot be abandoned, especially the original territory of the Yuanhu tribe, which has not been foraged much since the Lunar New Year. After autumn arrived, the chieftain Zhan selected more than twenty young and strong foraging team members without family burdens and sent them to the Yuanhu tribe to forage.
Bai Ling's father, Feng, was among them. Bai Ling originally wanted to go too, but the clan chief, Zhan, disagreed. Although Bai Ling no longer needed to teach them how to make various tools, they would still need to be present if any difficulties arose.
Bai Ling could only stay in the tribe, making bows and arrows and raising livestock with the tribesmen. Now there are two chubby beasts that can pull the millstone by themselves without needing to be lured with wild grass all the time.
Although they have to stop every now and then, and you have to wave some wild grass in front of them or whip them to make them continue, it's already a big improvement compared to when they first started.