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Chapter 195 A Beautiful Scene

The young beastmen laughed again and said goodbye to Yue. Bai Ling and Yue each put on a straw hat and walked into the rain. After the two came out of their small house, Yue asked, "Ling, what brings you here?"

Bai Ling said, "My father's birthday is tonight, Yue, would you like to come over for dinner?"

Yue thought for a moment and said, "I didn't prepare any gift, so it wouldn't be right to go empty-handed."

“Who said you didn’t prepare anything, Yue? Didn’t you prepare something?” Bai Ling said. “That dagger was prepared by the three of us together. Consider it a gift from the three of us to Father.”

Yue thought for a moment and then said, "Okay, I'll come to your house for dinner tonight. I'll go there a little earlier this afternoon."

Bai Ling nodded, and Yue thought for a moment and then said, "Ling, let's go catch two fish and make fish soup for dinner."

The weather suddenly turned cool, and a bowl of hot fish soup would make you feel very comfortable.

Bai Ling looked up at the sky: "It's inconvenient to catch fish in the rain, let's not go."

Yue pulled his hand and walked towards the river: "It's okay, we'll be catching fish in our beast form anyway, so we'll get wet whether it rains or not."

*

In the afternoon, Yue brought two fish to Bai Ling's house. Feng and Cang were preparing the dishes when they saw Yue arrive, and they quickly braved the rain to greet her.

Yue held the two fish up higher: "Uncle Feng, Uncle Cang, I brought two fish with me."

Feng took the fish from Yue's hand and said, "Yue, hurry inside. Look, you're soaked from the rain."

When Yue entered the house, Feng brought out a bowl of fried beans. This was a new dish his son had made, saying that he would eat it for fun when he had nothing to do. He and his partner didn't eat it much, thinking it was too hard on their teeth. Ling and Chen, on the other hand, liked it very much, and Yue also liked it quite a bit.

Yue grabbed a handful of fried beans and asked, "Uncle Feng, where's Ling?"

“He went to the field to pick vegetables. Ling said that fresh vegetables taste better. Cang and I told him not to go, but he insisted on going,” Feng said.

With Bai Ling absent, Yue and Feng didn't have much to say. After talking for a while, they fell silent. Feng and Cang continued weaving bamboo hats, while Yue watched from a distance. He observed Feng's nimble hands moving back and forth, quickly filling the gaps in the woven warp and weft threads with sorghum husks.

Yue thought of her father, who wasn't very good at these things, and his hands weren't very skillful either. Both her father and father were in the tribe's hunting team, and the baskets and hampers they used at home were all traded with skillful beastmen in the tribe.

Neither Yue nor I are very skilled at crafts. If we want to make a basket or something that requires weaving in the future, we'll probably have to trade with other beastmen.

Fortunately, he was a skilled hunter, and Ling was also good at farming, so they weren't worried about not having anything to trade with others.

As Yue pondered, she began to imagine her future life with Ling. Ling had said he wanted to plant fruit trees and berry bushes in the house, along with beautiful flowers. Involuntarily, a beautiful house appeared in Yue's mind, with a yard full of fruit trees and berry bushes, and many flowers. The fruit trees were laden with delicious fruit, the berry bushes bore tasty berries, and the flowers bloomed brightly and vibrantly. When the wind blew, the fruit trees, berry bushes, and flowers all swayed in the breeze. At that time, she would return carrying her game, and Ling would run out of the kitchen to greet her. He would help her unload the game while asking what they would eat later. Hmm, it would be best if there was a chubby little cub running around her and Ling's feet, then tugging at her clothes and climbing all over her...

Yue's eyes softened. He had imagined this scene countless times, but every time he thought of it, he still felt surrounded by that warm and tender happiness.

*

If Yue were here, she would be the one to help Bai Ling with cooking.

Following Bai Ling's instructions, Feng and Cang chopped the meat and vegetables, cleaned the fish, and Chen was in charge of picking and washing the vegetables. The family worked together very smoothly.

Bai Ling first pan-fried the fish in an iron pot, then put it in an earthenware pot, added scallions, ginger, salt, and a little bit of spices, and started cooking.

After cleaning the iron pot, I started making stir-fried meat. In the tribe, we always have stewed or boiled meat for every meal, and my family is tired of it. So today, I won't make stewed meat; instead, I'll make stir-fried meat.

There was also stir-fried celery and stir-fried greens. Bai Ling also traded three bird eggs with the tribe. Two of them were used to make stir-fried eggs with chives, and one was used to make fried eggs. One fish was stewed, and the other fish was used to make fish balls. Half of the cassava cakes she got from the tribe were steamed, and the other half were fried. After the fried cassava cakes were taken out of the pan, they were sprinkled with a layer of roasted soybean powder.

There wasn't much flour at home, so Bai Ling only made a bowl of noodles, added two blanched leafy greens, and then put a fried egg on top. A delicious bowl of longevity noodles was ready.

Bai Ling placed the noodles in front of Cang, who was a little embarrassed. He said, "There's only one bowl of noodles. Don't give it all to me. Let's share it."

Bai Ling smiled and said, "Father, today is your birthday, so of course you should eat this bowl of longevity noodles."

The others nodded in agreement. Today was Cang's birthday, so naturally Cang should eat this bowl of noodles.

Cang hesitated to pick up his chopsticks. Feng patted his partner's hand and said, "This is a token of the children's love. You should eat it. The wheat in the fields has all been harvested. From now on, we can have as much flour as we want. Once the wheat is dried and ground into flour, we can eat noodles every day."

Cang knew this was a token of his family's affection, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll eat it."

*

After dinner, it was time to give gifts. Feng gave Cang a small wooden lion carving, while Bai Ling took out a dagger.

This dagger is only about the size of a palm, smaller than a typical dagger, but it is very exquisite.

The scabbard was made of the finest animal hide, inlaid with jade stones the size of beans. The jade stones were arranged in a row and glittered in the torchlight. The hilt was also inlaid with a red jade stone the size of half a fingernail. When Cang gripped the hilt with his right hand, the red jade stone fit perfectly between his thumb and forefinger.

Chen said, "My brother forged the dagger, I sewed the scabbard from animal hide, and the jade inlaid on it was polished by Yuemo. The three of us made this dagger together. Father, do you like it?"

Cang rarely showed such excitement. He held the wooden carving given to him by his partner in one hand and the dagger given to him by his son and Yue in the other, and nodded heavily, saying, "I like both of these gifts."

Chen Dada breathed a sigh of relief: "Father, it's good that you like it. We were just afraid you wouldn't like it."

"How could that be? I'll like anything you give me." Feng had already made up her mind and put the wooden carving her partner had given her on her body.

As for the dagger the children gave him, he'll show it off to the tribe tomorrow and let them all know that the children gave him a beautiful dagger.