lcionline Chapter 265 The Little Rat Cub
Chapter 265 The Little Rat Cub
Seeing his worried and anxious expression, Lin Baiyan finally relented and agreed.
Hearing that he had agreed, Hu Luan's face lit up with joy, and he was about to run off when Lin Baiyan quickly called him back.
"Elder Hu Luan, although you don't need to participate in the statistics work now, you still need to complete your daily study tasks. This is what you promised before, to set an example for the clansmen and the cubs." Lin Baiyan looked at Hu Luan leisurely at that time, and that gaze made Hu Luan's scalp tingle.
"We can't set a bad example, can we?"
Hu Luan escaped statistics but not studying. At this moment, he really wanted to rush over and slap his boastful self!
"I'll learn, okay?" Hu Luan agreed to the daily basic lessons with a long face, and then disappeared in a flash, afraid that Lin Baiyan would call him back to give him extra lessons.
With Hu Luan gone, only three elders remained in the accounting area. When Lin Baiyan arrived, Hu Zhen was checking the work points of each clansman.
It must be said that Foxzhen has a talent for learning. Despite being an old orc, his mind works quite quickly. He is quite good at Chinese character calculations and can now perform simple calculations and character recognition.
Of course, this is also thanks to the simplicity of naming in the Beast World. People usually use their beast form as a prefix, and then add a character. Most of them are named after things like mountains, rocks, forests, sun, moon, stars, rivers, plants and trees and other natural things.
The three elders each held a charcoal pencil, and even Hu Xia was dragged over by them.
Logically, with the snow season approaching, Fox Xia and Fox Bing should be huddled in their bearskin coats, shivering in their caves.
However, after arriving at the Cangyan Tribe, as soon as the snow season began, Lin Baiyan arranged for the two of them to have charcoal braziers. Charcoal braziers were placed in all four corners of a room, making the room warm and cozy.
Before they could even enjoy a few days of freedom during the snow season, they were dragged over to work.
Fox Xia almost shed a tear of bitterness for herself. She thought to herself that he was already in his forties or fifties, and shouldn't he be enjoying his retirement now?
why why why!
Fox Clouds looked at Lin Baiyan with a hint of resentment, "High Priest, what brings you here?"
You annoying little Flame!
Lin Baiyan didn't understand Hu Xia's resentful gaze. His face was serious. "I came to ask if you guys think this year's snow season is a bit strange?"
Hearing him speak seriously, everyone put down their pens.
"What do you mean?" Tu Lin asked with some concern.
Lin Baiyan shook her head. "I don't know either, I just feel a little uneasy."
"It wasn't this cold at this time last year."
Hu Bing frowned and thought for a moment, "Really?" He didn't feel cold anywhere; it had been quite warm this year.
Lin Baiyan explained, "That's because we started burning charcoal braziers as soon as winter arrived."
Hearing him say that, Hu Bing thought about it and agreed. Before, they relied on campfires for warmth, which consumed a huge amount of wood and wasn't even warm enough.
This charcoal brazier has been a great help since we arrived at the Cangyan tribe.
He never knew that the snowy season could be so warm.
Tu Lin then interjected, "It does seem a bit cold."
Hu Kuo nodded, "But there's no need to worry too much. The weather on the Orc Continent is unpredictable, and this kind of weather has happened before."
Lin Baiyan pondered for a moment, "From now on, we will burn more charcoal to ensure the basic needs of our people. We need to store five times more charcoal than before."
"Anyway, these charcoal won't spoil if they're just kept in the warehouse, so it's always good to have more on hand."
With so many more people joining the tribe this year, even five times the amount of charcoal is not enough.
Everyone nodded in agreement. Not long after, the Second Company had a new task: to collect wood and then pile the wood blocks at the Third Company's camp, where orcs who specialized in burning charcoal would burn the wood into charcoal.
Rat Moon would occasionally go over to provide technical guidance. You should know that Rat Moon was a master at making charcoal in the Azure Flame Tribe. The charcoal he made was both sturdy and durable.
When Lin Baiyan went to inspect the charcoal-making team, he happened to run into Shu Yue, who was checking the quality of the charcoal. His profile was gentle and serene, and he was speaking softly to the Silver Tiger Clan sub-beastman by the river while holding a piece of charcoal.
The current Rat Moon is completely unrecognizable as the timid and cowardly sub-beastman she once was.
He approached and listened quietly to what the Rat Moon was saying.
"This piece of charcoal looks like it's been burning for a while; it's shriveled up into a ball. It doesn't burn very well, so next time you can burn it for a shorter time."
The orcs nodded hurriedly, thanked them, and were about to leave when they turned around and saw their high priest standing behind them. The orcs were startled. "High Priest, what are you doing here?"
Upon hearing his voice, Shu Yue turned her head and, sure enough, saw Lin Baiyan smiling at her. "Come and see how your charcoal is burning?"
Shu Yue smiled and told the sub-beastman next to her to go about his business before greeting Lin Baiyan, "We've increased the amount of charcoal these past few days. Don't worry, it definitely won't affect the tribesmen's ability to get through the winter."
Lin Baiyan looked at him carefully. "How are you feeling?"
If he remembers correctly, the Rat month should have been more than four months old, right?
Why doesn't her belly look very big?
Perhaps this is the most fundamental difference between subhuman beastmen and female humans: they do not need to go through a very long pregnancy period, and their bellies do not become very large.
According to Lin Baiyan, after Yang Ye and Shu Yue found out they were pregnant, they did whatever they were supposed to do, except for the things he had told them. They did not experience any strange physiological reactions such as nausea, vomiting, or swelling of the limbs.
They don't even have their period once a month.
However, every advantage has its disadvantage. Both male and female orcs cannot personally feed their children, as if this ability was automatically eliminated during the evolution process, so they recover very quickly.
When he asked, Shuyue smiled gently and touched her belly, "I can feel it, the cubs are about to come out."
Lin Baiyan was startled. "Then why are you running around like this instead of staying in the school!" As he spoke, he tried to help Shuyue sit down.
Shu Yue waved her hand, somewhat amused, "Bai Yan, don't be nervous. I know what I'm doing. He doesn't want to come out yet."
"Can he move now?" Lin Baiyan looked at Shu Yue's belly with some curiosity. His belly was about the same size as the little bellies of those little girls on Blue Star who had eaten their fill.
At this point, Shuyue also looked excited, "He moves! Sometimes when I'm sleeping at night, I can feel him turning over in my belly!"