Su Nian and Chu Beichen returned home with a full load again. They were smart and bold. Although it was not the best time for hunting, they still had a good harvest. In a short time, the storage room was almost full.
In fact, in the cedar forest area, although the climate is cold in early winter, it is the best time to store prey. If you hunt in large quantities in autumn, the prey is not easy to preserve and can only be made into dried meat.
Air-dried meat is much inferior in taste and nutrition, but the prey hunted in early winter can be stored directly outdoors and quickly frozen in this natural and environmentally friendly large refrigerator. When eaten, it tastes almost like fresh meat.
Just as the couple were chatting and laughing and moving the prey into the storage room, a group of people came outside the fence.
The bearded village chief led the way. He smiled and beckoned the two women beside him to go inside. "This is Chu, and this is his current spouse. As long as you get his spouse's permission, you can live in this wooden house!"
Su Nian was very surprised when she heard this. She looked at the two women following the bearded village chief. The two women were wearing coarse linen clothes popular in Donghuo Village, covered with thick animal skin vests. Their hair was braided into small braids, and their skin was healthy and shiny. It seemed that they were living a good life.
"Wait a minute, Village Chief, why did you bring outsiders to our house?" Chu Beichen hurriedly stopped the bearded Village Chief.
His natural action caused the surprise of the bearded village chief, "Why? Isn't this custom common on the south bank of the Gangwa River?"
Chu Beichen was shocked, "What habit?"
The bearded village chief gave him a look that only men could understand. "You're such an excellent hunter, how can you only keep one woman at home?"
Chu Beichen was startled and pointed at the two women beside the bearded man, "Are you saying I want to support them?"
The bearded village chief nodded solemnly and winked at Chu Beichen, saying, "Of course, this depends on whether you like it or not, so I brought them here for you to see. They'll be staying here tonight, you know!"
In this brief moment, Chu Beichen felt as if he was struck by lightning. He looked at the two women and saw that they both had shy smiles on their faces and kept blinking at him.
At this moment, Chu Beichen felt a sharp pain in his arm. It turned out that Su Nian was pinching him hard through the thick winter clothes.
Chu Beichen suddenly came to his senses, and with a straight face, he began to lie, "Thank you very much for your concern for me, but there is no such custom in my hometown. We are monogamous, and it would be unlucky to bring an extra woman home!"
"Is there still such a rule?" The bearded man felt extremely regretful. "This rule is really inhumane!"
Donghuo Village has an advantage, that is, although they abide by traditions, they do not force others to do so. Since Chu Beichen emphasized that there is no such custom in his hometown, the village chief waved his hand to signal the two women to follow him and leave.
However, one of the fairer-skinned women smiled and looked at Chu Beichen boldly, "You're lying! I've seen people from the south bank of the Gangwa River. They don't have this custom at all. On the contrary, they have many more wives than we do in our village!"
This is possible because the Gangwa River area is rich in resources and has a relatively developed economy, so their ability to keep wives is definitely much greater than that of Donghuo Village.
The village chief was stunned. He looked at Chu Beichen, then at Su Nian, and suddenly realized.
"Chu, you're probably worried your wife will get jealous. Don't worry about them. Women are just flowers and leaves, the foils of a family. We men are the branches and fruits, the leaders of a family. Just leave them here. If you're not satisfied, just don't touch them. I'll come and pick them up tomorrow morning!"
After saying this, the bearded village chief left happily. He felt that he had done a good thing. Since Chu Beichen was an excellent hunter, he was definitely capable of supporting several wives and having several more children for the village.
Seeing two more women in the yard, Chu Beichen frowned. According to the village chief, he could have sex with any woman he liked, but if he didn't like her, he just had to ignore her.
After figuring this out, Chu Beichen felt relieved. He pointed to the barn and said to the two women, "You can spend the night there!"
These two women are relatively young and beautiful widows, no more than 20 years old, and are usually the objects of admiration from other male villagers.
It's just that because they have better conditions, they are more picky, so they don't form a partner with other male villagers.
Seeing Chu Beichen, who was tall, muscular, and handsome, the two women had already been aroused. However, they never expected that Chu Beichen would arrange them to live in the barn with just one word.
The woman with lighter skin pointed at herself with an expression of disbelief and questioned Chu Beichen, "You actually let me live in a barn?"
Chu Beichen nodded. "You heard right. There are quite a few animals in the barn. You won't get cold if you stay there all night!"
Chu Beichen was not lying. There were five elk and two bison calves in his barn now. The ground was covered with loose hay. At night, these animals could lie on the hay to sleep. It was a very comfortable place.
As long as there is no snowstorm outside, it is completely fine for people to spend the night in a shed like this.
But in that case, it would be impossible to seduce Chu Beichen and have sex with him.
The white-skinned woman felt her pride hurt. She snorted, "You're so stupid! Doesn't everyone think the more women the better? You're actually pushing someone away who's right here at your doorstep. Are you stupid?"
Chu Beichen shook his head. "It's not that I'm stupid, but you're too ugly. If I had a woman like you at home, I wouldn't be able to eat!"
Now, except for the white-skinned woman, everyone else at the scene laughed. The white-skinned woman's face turned red. In Donghuo Village, the competition of men's strength depends on their hunting ability and physical strength, while the competition of women's strength depends on their appearance.
The white-skinned woman was mocked in person for being ugly, which shows that in Chu Beichen's heart, she has no competitiveness at all.
A woman with slightly darker skin watched her companion being ridiculed. She already understood Chu Beichen's thoughts, "Chu, you don't want to find another partner for the time being, right? Then I won't bother you anymore!"
The woman with slightly darker skin finally maintained her dignity and stood up and left before being driven to the barn.
The white-skinned woman looked at Su Nian and Chu Beichen hatefully, then left reluctantly.
Chu Beichen breathed a sigh of relief after watching the two women disappear into the night.
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