Over the next few days, the Su family members were all busy with their own things.
Su Jianyuan had promised Xiao Fu that he would teach him how to use weapons, and he kept his promise and actually taught him.
Xiao Fu no longer needs to lead the way, but he's been running around the forest with Su Jianyuan even more frequently.
Although Xiao Fu is still young and a greenhorn, orcs are physically strong, which is incomparable to human cubs. He can draw a large bow and arrow with ease, which is a racial talent!
However, being able to draw a bow is one thing, but being accurate is another.
At the beginning of her studies, she barely hit the target at all. Su Jianyuan had a bad temper, but he wasn't in a hurry when teaching Xiao Fu. Although he would occasionally scold her, he would patiently and meticulously guide her most of the time, which gradually dispelled Xiao Fu's inferiority complex.
The construction of the wooden house by Su Jianyuan, Su Guodong, and Da Qing is also progressing steadily.
With her worries resolved, Lin Xia leisurely spent her days at home spinning thread and making clothes and shoes for the family. She had kept all the animal hides from the past few days, enough to make two changes of clothes for each person in the family.
After finishing making clothes for the adults, Lin Xia didn't forget to make little clothes for the five cubs as well.
Even though the five cubs were full of energy and never idle, after Lin Xia dressed them in little clothes, they were like they were sealed away. Some couldn't walk, some rolled around on the ground, and some just lay on the ground resigned to their fate.
This caused the whole family to burst into laughter, and naturally, they didn't continue wearing the clothes.
Lin Xia's beautiful dream of enjoying her grandchildren was shattered.
Su Tang also diligently farmed, and after harvesting the last batch of sweet potatoes, she planted soybeans and sugarcane.
Soybeans and sugarcane mature in four hours. A plot of land can yield ten pounds of soybeans and ten stalks of sugarcane. The price is slightly higher than that of sweet potatoes, and one unit can be sold for twenty gold coins.
Su Tang also discovered that the time it takes for this crop to mature is directly proportional to its selling price.
It perfectly illustrates the saying that time is money.
Even though the price has increased significantly, it will still take quite some time to accumulate five thousand gold coins.
So Su Tang stayed and farmed, harvesting two to three crops a day. Of course, not all of the harvest was kept; there were seven people in her family now! Each person could eat quite a lot.
As soon as this was made, Su Tang immediately took out several pounds of soybeans to cook pig's trotters for her mother.
Peanuts and soybeans are a perfect match for cooking pig's trotters.
There was no salt, but when Xiao Fu came back, he brought back a handful of small fruits the size of mung beans, which had a salty taste when you put them in your mouth.
Xiao Fu said that this fruit can also replace the white stone, but it is hard to find in the forest, and even if you do find it, it has been almost eaten by wild animals.
Wild animals also need to ingest salt.
He had climbed the tree and picked out this small handful by himself; there wasn't any more left.
After hearing this, Su Tang praised him generously and gave him a sugarcane.
"Sister, why did you bring back bamboo? You can't eat it." Xiao Fu said to Su Tang with a bewildered look, holding a sugarcane.
But why is this bamboo green?
“This isn’t bamboo, it’s fruit,” Su Tang explained.
"This is fruit? How come it looks exactly like bamboo!" Xiao Fu touched the sugarcane in shock.
The sugarcane grown on the farm has a black skin and each section is very long. It's not the kind of sugarcane that grows in clusters. Because she didn't have a good knife, it was difficult to peel the sugarcane skin, so she just gave Xiaofu a whole stalk.
"You'll know once you try it, but you can't eat the flesh of this fruit. You have to chew it and then spit out the pulp."
Thinking of the little fruit Xiao Fu brought back, Su Tang was in a great mood and taught him how to eat sugarcane.
Xiao Fu took it and washed it with water. This was what his mother required. No matter what kind of fruit he ate, he had to wash it with water before eating it, otherwise his mother would scold him.
I took a bite right after washing it.
Orcs have exceptionally strong teeth; hard sugarcane is like tofu in their mouths. Xiao Fu held the whole sugarcane in one hand and the bitten-off sugarcane peel in the other.
It's so sweet!
The rich sugarcane juice instantly filled my mouth. The apples and corn I had eaten before were all sweet, but the taste of this fruit was different from all of them!
Xiao Fu initially thought it was a waste, wondering why the fruit pulp had to be spat out.
As a result, once I actually ate it, I spat out the crumbs one bite after another without hesitation!
"Is it good?" Su Tang asked him with a smile.
"Delicious! Sister, all the fruits you brought back are so delicious!" Xiao Fu nodded repeatedly, her face showing both satisfaction and admiration.
His older sister is really amazing; she always manages to find such delicious fruits, and they're all fruits he's never tried before!
They're both orcs, and the fruits all grow in the forest, so how come his sister can find these fruits while other orcs can't?
He felt that although his older sister couldn't hunt, she was just as capable as Su Jianyuan, who could hunt, and Su Shiwei, who could build big wooden houses!
"It's delicious! It's delicious. After you finish eating, I'll pick up all the crumbs you spit on the ground."
"oh!"
Xiao Fu remained grinning foolishly and agreed without a second thought.
Looking at her adopted younger brother, Su Tang realized that after spending time with him, she didn't think the little wolf cub was all that bad.
On their very first day after they arrived, even though the little wolf cub complained about how much it hated them, it still secretly went to the gray wolf tribe to find an old veterinarian to treat them. In the end, it was beaten up by a group of wolf cubs.
These days, free from life's troubles, Xiao Fu has shown even more childlike innocence, and her well-behaved appearance is much cuter than before.
However, some of their sloppy lifestyle habits are not commendable.
Orcs have a rather casual lifestyle. Except for things with a special smell that might attract wild animals and enemies, which they would deliberately throw far away, they just throw everything else away.
Hygiene and such are simply not something they would pay attention to.
He never bathed or washed his feet, had lice on his head, and his clothes would ferment. If it weren't for other people living in his thatched hut, it would probably have become a garbage dump.
When Su Tang and Lin Xia were cleaning up that dilapidated thatched hut, it was practically a garbage dump.
Fortunately, although this kid is sloppy, he won't tidy up on his own, but he will obediently do it when others ask him to.
Of course, this only applies to his beloved older sister and brother, and his dear mother.
Before long, Lin Xia's stewed soybeans and pig's trotters were also ready. She sprinkled some of the small fruits that Xiao Fu had brought back on top. The salt had already seeped into the pig's trotters, making them incredibly delicious!
This is the first flavorful meal Su Tang has had since arriving on the ancient continent.
The family enjoyed their meal very much.
Two days later, Su Tang finally received news from Wolf Nini: the leader of the gray wolves was going to start tallying up the supplies to exchange for White Stone!
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