Gray Wolf Tribe.

Wolf Nini, along with her cubs and other orcs, went early in the morning to see off the group heading to Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.

She had no food to exchange for white stones, but she took out the dozen or so intact animal hides she had left in the cave. Every little bit helps, it's better than nothing.

The Gray Wolf tribe has more than two hundred orcs. The chief selected fifteen young, strong, and fast males to exchange for the white stone.

They set off with all the tribe's possessions, and the tribe's orcs naturally came to see them off, praying that they could bring back the White Stone safely.

Once the group had disappeared from sight, Wolf Nini led her cubs back to the cave.

To their surprise, when they returned, they found a fat sheep placed at the entrance of the cave!

As soon as the three wolf cubs saw the fat sheep, they let out a joyful "woof" and pounced on it, jumping and licking it.

Wolf Nini, however, was not happy; she looked around with a complicated expression.

There were no traces left on the ground; to be precise, they had been wiped away, as if someone didn't want her to know who sent them.

Who is it?

Why did you send her prey without letting her know?

Wolf Nini went to ask the other orcs who had been here, but early this morning all the orcs had gone to the tribe's exit to send off the team to Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, and no one had seen anyone come.

There was absolutely no trace of it.

"Awoo~" After licking the fat sheep, the little wolf cub ran to Wolf Nini's feet and nudged her leg with its head, trying to get her to kill and eat the fat sheep.

Although the wolf cubs were young, they knew that their mother saved meat for them every day.

They wanted to give wolf Nini some mutton, but they didn't care where the fat sheep came from; all they cared about was having meat so their mother could eat it.

Wolf Nini still led the sheep back to the cave.

She stroked the heads of the three wolf cubs gently and said:

"Your mother is useless; she can't even feed you. When you grow up, you must repay the beastmen who are our prey."

The three wolf cubs seemed to understand but not quite; their green wolf eyes blinked, their heads tilted, and they looked adorably bewildered.

However, they knew one thing: this prey was hard-won, and they cherished it greatly.

...

After Su Jianyuan and Lang Zhuang left, the family returned to their previous lives.

Everyone in the family was busy with their own things, but Xiao Fu was a little sullen, as if something was missing.

Now that the hunting task has been handed over to Daqing, he no longer needs Xiaofu to lead the way or go to the forest. Su Tang has seen him sitting under a tree several times, staring blankly in the direction Su Jianyuan left.

She looks like she's lovesick.

Su Tang couldn't stand it anymore, so she found him a job.

Grind beans!

Lin Xia asked Su Guodong to make a stone mill, intending to grind soybeans to make soy milk, tofu and other foods. However, the stone mill was made a bit too big, and Su Tang couldn't push it at all!

Seeing Xiao Fu turn into a "waiting-for-his-brother stone," Su Tang had a brilliant idea. She tied a rope to the handle of the millstone, made a loop at the other end, and turned Xiao Fu into a white wolf, putting it on his head.

What makes orcs so special is that their beast form is far stronger than their human form!

Don't let Xiao Fu's young age fool you; his beast form is much bigger than the wolves in the zoo, and pushing a stone mill weighing over 100 pounds is no problem for him.

"Sister, is that so?"

The little white wolf pulled the millstone around in circles while speaking in human language.

"No need to run, just walk, slowly, yes..."

Su Tang directed Lin Xia as she put the soaked soybeans into the hole in the middle. Below was a large earthenware bucket containing the mixture of soybean juice and soybean residue.

When Su Guodong returned midway and saw this scene, he was a little dumbfounded.

He pulled his wife aside and whispered, "Honey, isn't what we're doing a little unfair?"

"Huh?" Lin Xia looked bewildered.

Su Guodong glanced at Xiao Fu, who was pulling the millstone, and said, "It's not fair to treat a young child like a donkey!"

While other families used donkeys to pull millstones, this family went a step further and used wolves.

In the past, Su Guodong would never have dared to dream of such a thing.

That's too much torture!

Lin Xia rolled her eyes at him. "You still have the nerve to say that? You made such a big millstone, who can push it? Otherwise, you can come back and push it. Even a fox can push a millstone."

Su Guodong had no desire to pull the millstone, so he immediately changed his tune, "Little cubs need to exercise more. I think this is quite suitable. It can strengthen their bodies and cultivate their patience."

After saying that, he made an excuse to pee and slipped away.

The five kittens are not here now; I don't know where they've gone. Lately, they've stopped playing outside the shed and start running a little further away, darting in and out of the grass. But they never go far. Su Tang followed them a few times and then left them alone.

Without the kittens causing trouble, Xiao Fu made rapid progress and soon ground a small earthenware bucket full of soy milk.

"Mother, what should we do next?" Su Tang picked up the empty earthenware bucket and the one filled with soy milk, habitually asking Lin Xia.

When it comes to cooking, her mother is still the best.

In the eyes of the three siblings, their mother was an omnipotent being, while their father was just a farmer.

"We need to filter it once to remove the soybean pulp. Xiao Fu, take a break first, we'll grind it again later." Lin Xia put down the soybeans, washed her hands, told Xiao Fu to rest, and then took the earthenware bucket from her.

"Okay!" Xiao Fu replied, bent down to take off the sheath, crawled into a piece of animal skin and transformed into human form, looking excitedly at the freshly ground bean juice he had just made.

“However,” Lin Xia paused, “it seems we don’t have gauze for filtration.”

The finest gauze is used to filter the soy milk, resulting in a smooth texture and no impurities.

Forget fine gauze, they don't even have a piece of cloth now!

This really stumped Lin Xia.

"Would it work to use animal hide? We can poke a few small holes in the bottom," Su Tang suggested, racking her brains.

Lin Xia nodded, "This is the only way we can try, but the hole can't be too big; it has to be as small as possible."

The two began looking for tools to make holes.

Without a needle, it's really a problem to poke a small hole; you can easily make a hole. It's also a filter, so it could be used as open-crotch pants.

Hearing what the two were saying, Xiao Fu suddenly turned around and ran into the grove. A little while later, he came back with a thorny branch.

"Mother, elder sister, is this okay?"

He plucked the thorns from the bramble branch as if presenting a treasure and handed them to the mother and daughter.

Su Tang's eyes lit up. "Great! This thorn is very fine."

I didn't expect this little wolf cub to be so quick-witted.

The thorns on the brambles are thin, sharp, and hard; piercing animal hide is no problem for them.

The mother and daughter pulled a large, clean animal hide, and Xiao Fu squatted down underneath, poking holes to make a filter "cloth" before pouring the soy milk directly onto it. A clean earthenware bucket was placed underneath to catch the soy milk.

Soy milk filtered through animal hides is naturally not as smooth as that filtered through cheesecloth, but that's okay, what more could you ask for with these conditions?

We're lucky to have anything to eat!