After finding the white-grain fruit, Shi Shen no longer had to go ten days away to look for plants that could replace rice. The white-grain fruit could serve as a substitute.

Shi Shen saw that she was devoted to storing food. When she closed her eyes, she was sleeping, and when she opened her eyes, she went out to look for things. He had no choice but to keep digging caves to serve as her granary.

She paid very little attention to him these days, but seeing how happy she was, Shi Shen cooperated with her.

Another morning when Shi Shen woke him up, Xi Lu was stunned for a while before leaning into his arms out of habit, "Shi Shen, where are we going to find food today?"

"Go a little further, there are Cuckoo Beasts over there. Many female beastmen like to eat their eggs. You might like them too. Next to the Cuckoo Beasts are the Gaga Beasts. Their eggs can also be eaten."

"Gugu beast, Gaga beast?" In the past few days, Xi Lu also learned some of the names given to wild beasts in the animal world. They are simple and crude, named according to their calls.

A bleat beast is a sheep, a moo beast is a cow, and so on.

These two pronunciations should be chicken and duck.

"You'll know when you see it."

Xi Lu climbed onto Shi Shen's back skillfully, and he led them to open a new map.

Suddenly, a majestic white tiger appeared in the forest. The cuckoo beasts that were jumping around in the forest looking for food flapped their wings and flew onto the branches, then disappeared into the forest in a few more jumps.

The white tiger raised its paw, and a cuckoo beast's wings were pressed down under its paw.

After Xilu came down, Shi Shen knocked the Gugu beast unconscious with his claws and turned into a human form.

Xi Lu looked at the unconscious Cuckoo Beast. Well, it was indeed a chicken, but its size was many times larger.

A bit of white appeared in the weeds.

Xi Lu squatted down and compared with her hands. The eggs were bigger than her palm. After eating one, she didn't need to eat any other food.

Shi Shen tied up the unconscious Cuckoo Beast with vines, thinking of taking it home to make soup, as she loved soup very much.

"Pick some fruit yourself, and I'll weave a big basket and take the eggs back."

“I want to edit it too.”

"Okay." Shi Shen pulled out a few thinner vines for her, pulled out some thicker ones for himself, and sat with her under the shade of the tree to weave baskets.

After the big basket was woven, Shi Shen picked up half of the basket's eggs. Then, after catching a Cuckoo Beast that popped out, he took her to find a Gaga Beast. After catching two, he also picked up half of the basket's eggs.

On the way back, Xi Lu was carrying a small basket of fruits. Seeing Shi Shen next to him carrying an oversized basket with a Gugu beast and a Gaga beast hanging next to the basket, he thought to himself that humans and orcs really cannot be compared.

Seeing that she was looking at him, Shi Shen picked her up with one hand and said, "You must be tired after walking for so long."

"Isn't it heavy for you to carry?" Xi Lu put her arms around his neck as usual.

"It's not heavy, it's easy to carry, and it doesn't feel heavy even if I carry another basket."

"Well, you beastmen are really strong."

"Um."

Xi Lu thought that she was living a different kind of pastoral life.

At night, after she fell asleep, Shi Shen went hunting, processed the prey and put it back to the kitchen, then continued to set traps around the cave according to Wanjiezhu's instructions.

After finishing, he went back to sleep.

Looking at the person who wrapped herself in animal skin, Shi Shen quietly moved towards her.

On the last two nights of the dry season, the moon, which had been covered by dark clouds for several days, finally came out. Under the light of the two moons, vision was clear at night.

"Shi Shen, I want to go out and see the moon." Xi Lu said excitedly as Yue Mang slipped into the cave through the gap in the straw curtain.

"Okay." Shi Shen covered her with a fur blanket and held her while sitting beside the cave.

Xi Lu nestled in his arms, wrapped in a fur blanket, and didn't feel cold.

She raised her hand and poked his face, "Shi Shen, you are so warm."

Shi Shen held her fingers and met her eyes under the hazy moonlight. "It will be warmer to hug each other in the rainy and cold seasons. So, there are many benefits to letting me be your beast companion."