Tomorrow

Most of those who learned to weave fishing nets were sub-beastmen, and those who couldn’t followed Shitou to cut grass with great effort. Soon, the outside of the big cave was full of grass stems.

Cheng An was not sure whether there were a hundred bundles of grass, but he knew that if more were piled up, the entrance of the big cave would be completely blocked by the grass. Then none of them would be able to return to their own cave today.

Cheng An had to stop the beastmen who were cutting grass.

It was rare to have something to do in winter, and the beastmen were always thick-skinned. They had just stretched their bodies and were sweating all over. If Cheng An hadn’t called them to stop, they really didn’t want to stop.

“What’s wrong, priest?” The beastmen could understand what Cheng An said, so there was no communication barrier.

 Cheng An: “There is enough grass, no need to cut it anymore.”

Another beastman who was carrying grass squeezed over: “Priest, there is a lot of grass there! Don’t worry about us cutting all the grass.”

Cheng An: “It’s not a question of whether we can cut it all. If we bring too much back, we can’t use it all. Wouldn’t that be a waste of your energy?”

The lion beastman shook his head: “It’s okay! We have plenty of energy! And the hillside is not far from here, it’s not tiring!”

Cheng An met the ignorant eyes of the beastmen, and he was speechless for a moment. Okay, you are strong, you are all good.

Yu knew that these beastmen just wanted to show off in front of Cheng An, how could they really not know how to be tired. He called for a stop, “Okay, An said it’s enough, so why bring so much grass back? If it’s still not enough, we can talk about the next thing.”

Yu had already spoken, and the beastmen couldn’t say anything more. They all held their tails and made a few excuses: “Shitou and the others are still digging grass on the hillside, we are just responsible for transporting it back.”

Cheng An secretly patted Yu’s shoulder, good job! “Okay, then you go and transport it. Tell Shitou that you don’t need to cut grass anymore. Come back early, and send the grass to everyone’s cave later.”

The beastmen got Cheng An’s approval and ran out with his companions.

After teaching for a whole morning, everyone must be hungry.

Cheng An didn’t know about others, but his stomach was almost growling with hunger!

They have to distribute the grass early, and then go back to the cave to cook meat!

Cheng An stretched out his claws and pressed the side of Yu’s face, and Yu’s handsome humanoid loudspeaker started!

 Yu walked into the cave without complaint, acting as a qualified and considerate loudspeaker: “Xiao Hua has worked hard to teach everyone how to weave fishing nets. I think everyone has almost learned it, and weaved it very well. Although there is a fire in the cave, it is still not as warm as your own cave. There are a lot of fine grasses for weaving fishing nets outside. Everyone can carry one or two bundles back to their own caves to weave according to their abilities. You decide how many bundles you want to carry back first. Don’t worry about not being able to carry them. The beastmen will transport them to the entrance of your cave according to the number of bundles you said. Don’t be greedy and weave according to your own ability. Weave one bundle if you can, and weave two bundles if you can.”

The sub-beastmen who were weaving fishing nets stopped what they were doing. They looked at each other, not knowing how many bundles they should carry.

Cheng An simply took the lead and said that he would carry three bundles back to weave.

Yu did not convey it immediately. He first tilted his head to look at Cheng An, a little worried whether he could finish weaving.

 After all, his body is still that of a little wolf cub.

Cheng An stretched out his claws and used a little strength to push Yu’s face back, leaving a shallow plum blossom claw mark on Yu’s side face.

“I can do it, don’t look down on me!” Cheng An was a little angry. It was just three bundles of grass. What? Did he look down on him?

Yu whispered, “I’m not looking down on you.” Then he said to everyone, “Cheng An and I will take five bundles of grass back to weave.”

Xiao Hua followed up and said, “I will take five bundles too!”

They made a good start. After seeing the grass outside the cave, many sub-beasts also became confident and reported two or three bundles. The most was no more than six bundles. Everyone didn’t dare to report more, fearing that they couldn’t finish weaving.

After reporting the number, they lined up to get the grass. The process was the same as getting meat. Everyone had experience. So it was okay, and wasn’t too chaotic.

 There was indeed a lot of grass. After everyone received their share, there was still a lot of grass left, which was finally collected in the big cave.

In case the final fishing net is not big enough, these grasses can still be used. They’re put aside first. Maybe it can be used to make a fishing net by this time next year.

Yu didn’t let other beastmen send the grass to their cave. He held Cheng An in one hand and carried two bundles of grass in the other.

When he returned to his cave and put Cheng An down, he ran back and got all of it back without bothering others.

Five bundles of fine grass were neatly piled aside. Although it was quite stressful to make a fishing net, from another perspective, at least there was something to do in the cave!

Happy work, fulfilling every day!

Cheng An felt that the most urgent thing now was to fill his stomach first, because the wolf was going to starve to death!

 Fortunately, Yu buried two taro in the fire before going out. Now they are probably cooked and can be eaten after peeling the skin.

Cheng An sat down obediently, waiting for Yu to dig out the taro, peel off the skin, and put the still steaming taro in his exclusive dry rice bowl.

“Delicious!”

“Eat slowly, don’t choke.”

The taro was roasted for Cheng An, and Yu didn’t like taro very much.

Yu added firewood to the fire, made the fire bigger, and started to cook meat soup.

Cheng An stopped eating when he was half full. He wanted to eat meat later!

“Do you want more?” Cheng An ate one, and there were several more in the fire. Yu dug them out and put them aside to wait for them to cool down. When he is hungry, he can peel them and eat them directly.

 Cheng An shook his head, “I’ll have another bowl of broth later!”

Yu nodded. He had eaten too much taro and his stomach was bloated. It would be better for a little wolf like Cheng An to eat less.

When the broth boiled, Cheng An ran to the haystack and took out some grass, ready to weave a fishing net while waiting.

Yu only reported two bundles! The task of their fishing net still fell on the shoulders of this underage beastman!

Cheng An shook his head. Time is money, efficiency is life. Cheng An, start!

Yu saw Cheng An running around shaking his big white tail, and knew that Cheng An was very happy when he was doing things.

But it was time to eat soon, so there was no need to rush during this period, right?

 “The meat will be cooked soon. Why don’t you finish eating before weaving it?”

Cheng An shook his head, put a piece of grass on Yu’s knees, and advised earnestly: “Time is money, efficiency is life! Do you know this sentence? Weaving the fishing net early will allow us to go fishing early! Then you can try something new, such as fish soup, fried fish, smoked fish, and grilled fish. I am drooling just thinking about it!”

“Money? What is that?” Yu always gets to the point.

Cheng An paused, forgetting that this is a primitive beastman tribe that trades goods. Where does the money come from?

Cheng An didn’t know how to explain, and said with a stern face: “Don’t worry about this, it’s not important! The important thing is that we should weave the fishing net early and then fish! If we catch fish, we don’t have to save meat! Isn’t that good?”

Yu nodded: “Very good.”

“That’s right, weave it quickly.” Cheng An urged Yu to move. Anyway, the stone pot cooks things slowly and is not easy to burn, so there is no need to watch it all the time.

Alas. Yu sighed inadvertently, but still picked up the grass and started to weave.

Once you find something to do, time seems to pass faster. The broth in the stone pot begun to bubble, reminding the people sitting by the fire that the food inside is almost cooked.

Yu put down the grass fishing net with a sense of relief, and stood up to stir the broth in the stone pot.

Cheng An also smelled the aroma of meat, put away the unfinished fishing net obediently, and then sat by his own exclusive rice bowl to wait for food.

It was still too tiring to weave a fishing net as a wolf cub. Cheng An felt that his two paws were very sore. He kept opening and closing his paws. He was doing his own original paw maintenance exercises while waiting for food.

Yu served Cheng An a full bowl of meat, and by the way, he held Cheng An’s open paws, “Eat slowly, don’t burn yourself.”

Cheng An retracted his paws. What a joke, he is not a starving ghost reincarnated! How could he get burned? He is not that stupid.

Since he found something to do, his life has been much more fulfilling.

Sometimes Cheng An still misses the days when he didn’t have to do anything every day, except eating and sleeping.

But it’s just a thought. Cheng An is now weaving fishing nets when he is free every day. Yu is embarrassed to be idle, so he follows Cheng An to weave. It took about three or four days, and they finally weaved all the bundles of fine grass into fishing nets.

After doing all this, Cheng An was so tired that he lay on the ground. His claws didn’t want to move again in this life!

It was really, too! Tiring! !

“Okay, don’t lie on the ground and play tricks.” Yu knocked on the rice bowl, but even the smell of rice couldn’t tempt Cheng An to move?

This is really a rare thing, it seems that he is still tired.

 Yu walked over and picked up Cheng An while rubbing his head: “You’ve worked hard, go eat some meat. Haven’t you been thinking about fishing after the fishing net is ready? Now that the fishing net is ready, we can collect everyone’s fishing nets and go fishing in the lake. Be happy.”

Cheng An didn’t move. He let Yu pick him up and carry him to the rice bowl.

The rice bowl was in front of him, but Cheng An was too lazy to move. He just lay on the fur and watched Yu put away the fishing net.

Although Yu said so, he was really too tired and needed to take a break.

“Tomorrow.”

“Hmm?” Yu didn’t understand why Cheng An suddenly mentioned tomorrow.

“Tomorrow, I’ll check everyone’s progress, and then connect the fishing nets into a whole big net.” Cheng An recovered some energy, stood up and gnawed a few bones. Then he explained what he meant by the “tomorrow” that just popped up.

“Too tired, I need to take a break first, so let’s talk about it tomorrow. After connecting the fishing nets into one, if it’s still early, we can take the tools to the lake to dig a few ice holes and put the fishing nets down.”

Cheng An watched several documentaries about fishing in the big lake in winter. Although he didn’t try it himself, after reading so much information, he can be considered a half-experienced fishing expert, not an expert, right?

Whether you can catch fish depends on this fishing net!

 “Okay.” Yu nodded and put on another fur coat. “I’ll go out and tell them. You stay in the cave.”

“Mm!” Cheng An nodded while eating.