flstandardbreds Chapter 178 External Conflict 18
Chapter 178 External Conflict 18
Chapter 178 External Conflict 18
Everyone has been feeling uneasy these past two days, so after dinner they went to the yard to digest the food, then cleaned up and took a rest.
Qingjiu's hair quality is not very good, and the hair is hard and prickly. Ji Lang usually doesn't like to touch it, but today, for some reason, he likes the prickly feeling very much.
"Your hair is a little long. Will it tie up your neck?" Ji Lang pushed all his hair back and tried to tie it into a small bun.
Qing Jiu wrapped his rebellious hands and stuffed him into the quilt.
"Well, help me cut it some other day."
Knowing that he must not have slept well last night, Qing Jiu gently patted his back twice, as if coaxing a child, "Go to bed early."
Ji Lang was about to agree.
Xiaoman at the side responded, "Well, we need to go to bed early. Father didn't sleep last night."
He was like a little adult, "Father, can you sleep? Do you want me to tell you a bedtime story?" He knew a lot of stories now. Not only Ji Lang told him stories, but also Li and Uncle Lin, and Grandma Xue. Whenever she had free time, the little guy would pester her to tell stories.
Although their stories were not as strange and interesting as Jilang's, most of them were true events that happened. They were thrilling and exciting, and the kids loved them very much.
"Don't worry, I can sleep well. You should go to sleep soon too." Ji Lang tucked the quilt for him.
After a while, the little guy's breathing became steady and rhythmic, indicating that he had fallen asleep quickly.
What an enviable sleep speed and quality.
Qing Jiu pulled the man into his arms, hugged him for a while, and said softly, "After this winter, let him live out." The little light bulb was too bright. He didn't dare to do anything when he wanted to, and he would make trouble when he wanted to say something private. It was really hard to ignore him when he suddenly spoke to him.
"He's still young!" Ji Lang looked up. The outline of Qing Jiu's jaw was particularly obvious in the darkness, and inexplicably sexy. He swallowed his saliva in a cowardly manner.
If you think about it carefully, you are actually not young anymore. According to the calculation method in the previous world, you should be in the second or third grade of elementary school now. It is indeed time for you to sleep in a separate bed from your parents.
Ji Lang felt that he had lost his mind due to lust and actually started to consider moving Xiaoman out to live somewhere else.
"The most important thing is where to live after we separate." Feng, Xiaoying, and Wu now live in a cave where Uncle Lin used to live. Originally, after telling everyone about the last time Li and Uncle Lin happened, it was said that Li would move into Uncle Lin's house. But when it was time to move, Li thought about it and decided to live closer to the pottery kiln, so that she could come over and watch when the pottery was being fired overnight.
So the three and a half boys lived at the innermost part of the yard.
Kefeng and Xiaoying are both about to find a partner, so they definitely can't bring their partners to live together with their friends. If Xiaoman goes to live with them first, they'll have to go through the trouble of changing cave dwellings.
If I had known earlier, I would have dug a few more caves. I didn’t expect the population to increase so quickly.
In fact, Qingjiu had already found a good place. He planned to dig a small cave for Xiaoman next to the doorway, similar to the one where Grandma Xue lived, which could accommodate one or two people. Normally, his clothes and other things would be kept in the big cave.
Even though this kid was tactless and always disturbed his "good deeds", he had watched him grow up and was the child of his old teammate, so he cared about him.
But before he could tell her about this, the person in his arms fell asleep.
Last night in the cave where the apes had lived, even though he had long since developed the ability to resist the cold, he did not dare to sleep. If he fell asleep in such ice and snow, his body temperature would easily drop and he would be frozen to death.
It was rare that the day had already dawned for quite some time and the only sounds in the yard were those of a few dogs moving around.
The wind had been blowing all night and the yard was now a mess. Li and Uncle Lin were old and slept less and woke up early, so they were not in a hurry to clean up the yard. They had been busy for several days and they felt sorry for the children and didn't want to disturb them.
Li sat aside, cleaning the pickles that had just been taken out of the jar. Uncle Lin squatted beside the stove, roasting the fire and adding some firewood from time to time.
The two of them spoke in a low voice in tacit understanding.
"You seemed to feel better after drinking the herbs that Zhou dug up last time. You didn't cough much before going to bed these two nights." Li said.
Uncle Lin smiled and said, "Don't let Ye know, or he'll start asking me to dig more. I'm already scared of the bitter herb I drank before."
"Ye is also worried about you. The child is doing well now. I remember when he was just born, he was very small and his voice was weak. The old people in the tribe said that he would not survive," Li said with some emotion. Life was really hard back then. Every day when he opened his eyes, he would worry about where to find more food. The kids were still very young and could not live without food.
But she was considered to have a relatively good life in the tribe at that time, and life was even more difficult for others.
Every winter season, there are old people who voluntarily or are forced to leave the tribe and find a place to fend for themselves.
They have talked about these things many times, but they still can't help talking about them when they have free time. They are living such a good life now that when they think about the pain in the past, they can no longer feel the embarrassment and awkwardness they felt back then.
Li wiped his hands and said, "Hey, why are you talking about this? Go get some potatoes. I'll stew them in a small pot later. They can be used as dry food when they go out."
The food that the hunting team usually brings when they go out is either dried meat or biscuits, which are dry in nature. If they are out for half a day, the food will be so cold that it is difficult to bite it. So Li also tries every means to let them eat something soft. After the potatoes are cooked, they are taken out. The outside may be frozen hard, but the inside is still soft when you break them open.
After a while, Zhou came into the kitchen carrying a basket of potatoes, and Uncle Lin followed slowly behind.
"Why are you up so early?" Li was not surprised to see that it was him. This child was also very hardworking and sometimes got up earlier than them.
Ah Zhou squatted beside the stove, stretched out his hands to warm them, and rubbed them, "Go down and clean up the outer courtyard later. I have been busy these two days and have not taken care of it. If Brother Guo is up, let him rest in the house for a while."
Usually, it's just the two of them who take care of everything. This time, Zhou was assigned to guard the tribe, so he just had to worry about it and didn't exert much physical energy.
Although he said this, not long after he entered the sheep pen, Guo Qi came in carrying two bundles of hay.
"Are you going out today?" Zhou asked while cleaning the trough.
"We're not going out. Qingjiu said we should go early after dinner and call Aqing to come along. Let him talk to us again, and then we can replan what to do next." As he spoke, he used his legs to separate a few sheep that were eager to eat grass, and prepared to clean up the ground here.
When these sheep first arrived, every time someone entered the sheepfold, they would huddle in the corner, shivering and bleating.
Now I am fearless.