After the two finished chatting about the mountain stream tribe, Xuan quickened his pace and trotted back to the place they had chosen.
Lie and Mu were still diligently helping them build a house. Seeing them coming back from a distance, Mu couldn't help but reveal a slightly resentful look. Lie raised his hand and hit him on the head.
"Lie! Why did you hit me!" Mu turned around and said to Lie who was retracting his hand as if nothing had happened.
"I didn't do anything! I just know that if you keep looking at Xuan with this look, once Xuan sees your expression clearly, you won't be able to take a slap from me so easily." Lie crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows.
Hearing Lie say this, Mu immediately restrained his expression, then sighed and said, "Xuan is getting busier and busier now. Will we be as busy as this when we grow up?"
"If you don't want to be busy, no one will stop you." Lie glanced at Mu and turned around to continue working.
"Who said I don't want to? I'm just lamenting that our most comfortable days are coming to an end. Next year we will be adult beastmen."
Mu chuckled, put his arm around Lie's shoulders and continued.
"Then we two will put on our battle robes and go to the market, pretending to be the most handsome cub, and bring back sub-beasts from other tribes to increase the number of people in our tribe."
Lie stopped what he was doing and opened Mu's hand, then glanced at Xuan and said, "Xuan will also go to the market. Are you sure you can be the most beautiful one? Xuan and I are pretty close."
Mu was not convinced, "Why can't I do it? My beast form is also very majestic and domineering."
As he spoke, he bent his right arm and poked his biceps with his left hand, "I'm also very strong in human form."
Lie rolled his eyes. There was no way he could communicate with this bear.
When Xuan and Meng Yuqing came over, they saw Lie working silently, looking as if he didn't want to talk to Mu. Mu, on the other hand, kept surrounding Lie and saying something, "I'm sure I can beat you."
Lie understood the secret of perfunctory learning without a teacher, and said, "Yes, yes, you are right."
But his hands never stopped moving.
It was obvious at a glance that Lie didn't listen to Mu at all.
Meng Yuqing covered his mouth and laughed secretly. After he finished laughing, he got off Xuan's back. Xuan also turned back into human form and followed him.
When Lie saw the two of them, it was like he saw a savior. He immediately put down what he was doing and ran behind Meng Yuqing to hide from Mu.
He found that Meng Yuqing was almost a head shorter than him and could not stop him at all, so he walked behind Xuan and hid.
"Xuan, tell me, who is prettier, me or Lie?" Mu's face was covered with dust. He stared at Xuan, asking Xuan to give him an answer.
"You, you, you are the most handsome orc in the tribe, okay?" Lie could no longer bear it. He popped his head out from behind Xuan and said something, then shrank back behind Xuan.
This was something he and Meng Yuqing learned. He found that hiding behind Xuan was really a good idea.
"What you said doesn't count. It's Xuan who should speak." Mu shook his head, disagreeing with what Lie said.
"Lie is right, you are the most beautiful." Xuan looked into Mu's eyes and said sincerely, "So, the most beautiful orc in the tribe, we should continue to work."
"Okay, get to work." After hearing Xuan's answer, Mu nodded with satisfaction.
If it was Lie who said that, he wouldn't believe it. Lie looked like he was annoyed by him and wanted to end the topic quickly, so he said that nonsense. It wasn't sincere at all.
Xuan is much more sincere, but he is still modest. He is still a little worse than him, but definitely better looking than Lie.
Meng Yuqing turned around and covered his mouth to prevent himself from laughing out loud, but his shaking shoulders betrayed him.
However, Mu, who was fooled by Xuan, did not notice that he was laughing, and was now continuing to work happily.
"Hey, Yuqing, what are you holding in your hand?" After Lie got rid of Mu, he saw Meng Yuqing holding a strange little beast in his hand.
It is yellowish and has few feathers. It looks like a newly born bird and is very weak.
"This! It's a cuckoo. Its name is Xiao Huang. I plan to raise it." Meng Yuqing raised the hand holding the little chick.
"Xiao Huang?" Xuan looked at Meng Yuqing puzzledly.
"Yes, it's just been given a name. From now on, just call it Xiao Huang." Meng Yuqing poked Xiao Huang and said softly, "Xiao Huang, grow up well."
Lie Geng was bewildered. "Are you raising them to eat? Why did you only bring one back?"
He has no concept of "pets". He only knows that the livestock in the breeding area are raised by them and can be eaten.
"Xiao Huang can't be eaten. Just think of it as something I'm keeping for fun because I think it's cute." Meng Yuqing didn't explain too much.
After all, Xuandu didn't really understand the meaning of pets, and even after Helie explained it to him many times, Helie still didn't quite understand.
Lie didn't ask any further questions. He just remembered that this cuckoo beast was raised by Meng Yuqing and was not for eating.
After the house was rebuilt, Meng Yuqing asked Xuan to bring some orcs to learn how to dig a cellar.
Xuan's idea was very simple. The burrowing orcs were most familiar with digging holes, so he called all the meerkats and groundhogs over.
After they have learned how to dig cellars, they will also be tasked with digging ice cellars for the tribe.
Meng Yuqing looked at the orcs who were digging according to his requirements, and suddenly thought that if there were more people, or when the tribe was completed and they had free time, they might be able to dig out an underground city.
He remembered Kun saying that they could live directly underground.
Although they would not live in the underground city directly after digging it out, it is generally warm in winter and cool in summer underground, so it can be used as a shelter when necessary.
He glanced at the distant mountains and narrowed his eyes.
After the new house was rebuilt, Meng Yuqing made some food to entertain the tribesmen who came to help.
Although they said, "No, no, the witch is too polite. It's only natural for a tribe to help."
But when it came to eating, they showed no mercy. Some orcs even nearly went out to compete for the last piece of meat.
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