"Xiumano! What do you want to do?!" Shi Li frowned and looked at Xiongye. Xiongye actually invited Zhou Ji to live with him... This never happened in his previous life!
Of course, there was no such thing in the previous life. At this time in the previous life, Kumano was busy hunting and decorating the cave and had no time to pay attention to Zhou Ji. As for inviting Zhou Ji to live with him, that was even more impossible.
That was his and Shi Li's cave, there was no way he would let Zhou Ji live in it.
But at this moment, Xiong Yeli ignored Shi Li and only said to Zhou Ji: "I'll help you move the things."
"Thank you." Zhou Ji was still indifferent. Of course, in the eyes of the people in the tribe, he seemed a little silly and dazed.
As soon as he finished speaking, Kumano helped him pack up his things.
"Xiong Ye, you want Zhou Ji to live with you? Are you crazy?!" Shi Li stopped Xiong Ye.
"What does this have to do with you?" Xiong Ye asked back. The smell of Shi Li made him move away a little in disgust.
He was very sad the past two days, but now that the dust has settled, he doesn't feel anything anymore, except that there seems to be a void in his heart.
"Don't lose your temper." Shi Li said.
Xiong Ye looked at Shi Li impatiently: "I'm not in a bad mood. Also, please get out of the way."
Shi Li didn't want to move away. At this time, Xiong He shouted in dissatisfaction: "Shi Li! What are you doing?"
Shi Li then realized that something was wrong. He wanted to say something, but Xiong Ye had already started helping Zhou Ji move things.
Zhou Ji had a lot of things. Xiong Ye wrapped up the miscellaneous things together with animal skins, carried them in one hand and climbed towards his cave - his cave was a bit high and he couldn't walk up the stairs, so he had to climb a section of the cave.
Seeing this, Zhou Ji picked up a few things and followed.
As a result, as soon as he walked down the stairs, Kumano, who had put down his things and came down from the upper floor, snatched the things in his hands: "It's dangerous to go up, just let me get the things."
Kumano dug some holes under his cave to facilitate climbing, but it was not as convenient as stairs. It was okay for Zhou Ji to climb alone, but Kumano was worried about letting him climb with things in his arms.
After Xiong Ye said this, Zhou Ji simply gave up taking anything and climbed up by himself. After climbing up, he sat down at the entrance of the cave.
He had been to Kumano's cave last night, but it was already dark and he only stayed for a short while. He gave Kumano a piece of meat roasted with the juice of a sedative plant and left, so he did not take a close look at the cave.
Now looking at it, Zhou Ji discovered that this cave was a little bigger than the one he lived in before, and unexpectedly clean.
He liked this hole better.
The cave is located at a high position, there are no messy neighbors around, and it is clean and spacious... The only drawback is that he has a roommate, which makes him not quite used to it.
But Kumano is a good person. If he wants to live comfortably in this tribe, it is necessary for him to have a good relationship with Kumano.
Zhou Ji sat on the stone platform at the entrance of the cave, watching Xiong Ye moving things up and down.
Before, the children in the tribe all coveted his things, and some even secretly took his salt, but after Kumano invited him to live with him, no one touched his things anymore.
Agreeing to Kumano is definitely a good choice.
Thinking of this, Zhou Ji went to see the cave in Kumano again.
The entrance of the Kumano cave is relatively narrow at first, but it becomes quite spacious after going a little deeper, and is divided into two caves - the cave is Y-shaped as a whole, and the two holes inside are the top of the Y. Of course, probably because it is more difficult to dig, the two holes are very shallow, about the size of a bed.
But this was much better than he had initially thought.
Xiong Ye quickly moved all of Zhou Ji's things into his own cave, and then said: "There are two caves inside, you live in one and I live in the other, it's just right for us to live separately." This cave of his had just been dug a few years ago, and it was not as big as it is now when it was allocated to him. Later, he took the time to dig another cave.
The cave is a place to sleep, and most people would not go to such trouble. Kumano did this because he took into consideration that he needs to hibernate in winter, and Shi Li likes to sleep very much and does not like to be disturbed.
"Thank you." Zhou Ji said. He noticed that the larger cave was paved with wood, and there was nothing in the smaller cave next to it. So he took the animal skin and walked towards the smaller cave, preparing to use the animal skin to make a bed for himself. He had a hard time in the apocalypse, and after coming here, he paid more attention to the quality of life.
"You can live over there." Xiong Ye pointed to the larger cave and said, "Wait a minute."
Kumano climbed out of the cave and went to where the elders and children of the tribe lived together.
He had previously asked someone to make two thick cushions out of dinosaur skin for his wedding, and they should be ready by now.
The mat was indeed ready. It was made by an old orc who was the only one in the tribe whose animal form was a monkey. Kumano always called him Grandpa Monkey.
Grandpa Monkey drilled holes in the dinosaur skin, then tied the skins together with thin ropes and stuffed soft hay in the middle. The mat was ready. It was comfortable and warm to sleep on. If you feel cold in winter, you can put some more hay on it.
Kumano had seen Grandpa Monkey sleep on a mat like this before and liked it very much, so this time he took out animal skins and meat and asked him to make it.
"Wild boy, are you really not going to form a partnership with Shi Li?" asked Grandpa Monkey.
"Yeah." Kumano folded two thick mats in half and tied them up.
"It's spring now. You don't want to look for Shi Li anymore. Have you ever thought about looking for someone else?" Grandpa Monkey asked again.
Xiong Ye said: "I don't know either."
He really didn't know what to do. If it didn't work, he would just look for it later.
In the past, Kumano would have been happy to chat with Grandpa Monkey and other elders in the tribe, but he was in a bad mood today, so he didn't stay long and went back with the two mats.
When he returned, Zhou Ji was standing in the cave, waiting for him obediently.
After Xiong Ye invited Zhou Ji to live with him, he was a little worried that Zhou Ji would be difficult to get along with. Now that he sees how well-behaved he is, he feels relieved.
He placed the mat he brought back on the wood he had laid out, and said to Zhou Ji, "You can live here."
He had made this bed with great care because he wanted a partner to live with. Now that he no longer has a partner, he doesn't want to sleep on it anymore.
What's more, he had always slept in the smaller cave before and was used to it.
Thinking of this, Kumano put another mat into the smaller cave and spread it directly on the ground.
"Thank you." Zhou Ji thanked again. He was very happy to live in a better place.
But Kumano helped him a lot, and he should give something back... Zhou Ji began to think about how to repay him.
Xiong Ye, however, was thinking about going out hunting: "I'm going to go hunting, you can take your time to clean up."
"Okay." Zhou Ji agreed.
Kumano turned around and walked out.
After Xiong Ye left the door, Zhou Ji put the mat away, lay on it comfortably, and gave birth to a seed.
The seed turned into a vine, which quickly grew longer and branched into several branches. Then, these vines began to sort out the messy things in the house and put them neatly in place...
While Zhou Ji was using his mental power to observe the situation outside, he was also using his mental power to control the vines to tidy up the cave. After a while, he had tidied up the cave. He also learned how to make the mat under him and made himself a curtain to hang in front of his "bed".
Of course, what he used to tie the animal skins was not a twisted rope, but vines.
Zhou Ji was very satisfied with the curtain he made. With this curtain, his privacy in the cave was guaranteed.
After Zhou Ji finished all this, he created a bunch of food for himself. While eating, he released his mental energy to listen to the gossip in the tribe.
After eating, he fell asleep.
While Zhou Ji was eating and sleeping, Xiong Ye was hunting outside.
He came out alone this time. He lurked for a long time but no prey fell into his trap. As for active hunting... he didn't dare to easily attack the larger ceratosaurus, and he couldn't catch the smaller ornithopod. In the end, he caught nothing after struggling for most of the day, so he had to go to the river to catch fish instead.
There were not many fish in the river on their side. After fishing for several hours, he only caught five palm-sized fish and a snake as thick as two fingers.
It was already dark, so Kumano killed the fish and snakes, cleaned them, tied the fish together one by one with grass from the river, and carried them home.
This string of fish looks like a lot, but there is very little meat, and fish meat is not filling... He's afraid he'll have to eat his stored food today.
Kumano returned to the tribe with a little disappointment, and saw a fire lit in the valley. The people in the tribe were talking and warming themselves by the fire, and having dinner.
Kumano thought about it and decided to go home to eat the meat he didn't finish last night. As for the fish, he could save it for tomorrow.
After saying hello to the people in the tribe, Kumano took the fish and climbed back to his cave.
When he climbed to the entrance of the cave, he looked into his cave with some surprise - there was a fire in his cave and he could also smell the aroma of meat.
When Xiongye went in, he saw Zhou Ji had lit a fire at the entrance of the cave. There was a stone rack above the fire, and on the rack was a small stone pot, or a larger stone bowl. In the bowl, there was meat and some unknown thing cooking.
This scene made him feel a little warm, because his body, which had been cold from fishing in the river, immediately warmed up.
The meat he had stored showed no signs of having been touched, and when he helped Zhou Ji move things before, he found a few pieces of bacon pickled with salt. Was this Zhou Ji's dinner?
When Xiong Ye was a child, he ate a lot of meat cooked by the tribe, but none of that meat smelled as good as the meat in front of him... He looked at Zhou Ji in surprise. He didn't expect that the silly Zhou Ji could actually cook meat.
Although he had eaten a lot last night, Kumano, who had not eaten anything today, could not help swallowing his saliva.
"Here, eat it." Zhou Ji pointed at the meat in front of him and said to Xiong Ye.
"This is your food." Kumano shook his head.
"I've already eaten it. This is for you, thank you." Zhou Ji said. What was cooked in the pot was the front claw of some unknown dinosaur that Kumano had given him before. Today he woke up from a nap and saw that it was dark, so he got some water to boil the pickled front paws, and added some bamboo shoots to it, intending to feed it to Kumano.
There are bamboos around the tribe, but they are not very big, each one is only as thick as a finger. The shoots of this kind of bamboo are also very thin and taste a bit bitter.
However, his special ability can make the bamboo shoots less bitter.
Bamboo shoots cooked with bacon definitely taste better than those dark dishes of dinosaur intestines cooked with wild vegetables in the tribe.
When Xiong Ye heard that Zhou Ji had already eaten, he didn't refuse: "Thank you, I'll give you a piece of meat later." Zhou Ji gave him meat yesterday, and again today. If this goes on, Zhou Ji will have nothing to eat!
"No need...why don't you give me the fish?" Zhou Ji looked at the fish and snake in Kumano's hand.
He had not been here for long, and could only confirm that dinosaur meat was not tasty, but he had never eaten fish or shrimp.
"Okay." Xiongye gave the fish directly to Zhou Ji, then picked up the stone pot and wanted to eat the meat inside.
But it’s too hot…
Zhou Ji handed over a pair of chopsticks: "You can use this to eat."
Xiongye took the two small sticks given by Zhou Ji, poked a piece of meat with the two sticks, picked it up and started eating.
The meat was pickled and tasted very delicious. Kumano ate the meat and didn't care about the heat. He just held the stone bowl and started drinking the soup.
The soup is especially delicious!
Kumano didn't know that soup made from marinated meat could be so delicious!
But besides the meat and soup, there was something else inside… Kumano pointed at the thin bamboo shoots and asked, “What is this?”
"This is a wild vegetable." Zhou Ji said.
Although Kumano didn't like vegetables, he could eat them. He used two sticks to pull the bamboo shoots to the edge of the bowl and ate one.
This wild vegetable is surprisingly delicious, and it is especially fresh after being soaked in broth!
After a while, Xiong Ye ate everything up, but he still felt unsatisfied - there was not much meat in it, not enough for him to eat, and it was so delicious, he wanted to eat more...
Kumano didn't even know that he was actually a greedy person.
Zhou Ji said, "Can you get some firewood so we can cook some fish?"
"Okay!" Kumano said, and as soon as he finished speaking, he had already started crawling down into the cave.
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