Ling Yun placed his head on one of his paws. Being snuggled up to by the female, with the cub she had given birth to in his arms, Ling Yun felt as if his heart was tightly surrounded by a pool of warm water.
This feeling of security and comfort made Ling Yun couldn't help but secretly curl his tail.
Lin Qiu placed them in the smallest animal skin nest he had sewn before. These little cubs slept almost all day long, and when they woke up they just drank milk. They had nothing else to do.
But they sleep a lot and grow fast, and they become furry in the blink of an eye.
The patterns on its body gradually appeared, and it began to look a bit like its father, opening its mouth and calling softly.
Although there was some pain during childbirth, Lin Qiu recovered quickly and was like normal after three or four days. However, Lin Qiu, who had lived in the human world, decided to stay on the kang for a month before making any decisions.
The trees outside have begun to sprout new buds, the ice and snow have completely melted, and thin grass has grown on the ground, as if it were a furry green quilt.
Dongxue had been talking to Lin Qiu almost every day these days: "Come out and play with us. It rained a little last night, and there are a lot of beautiful mushrooms growing in the tribe. Let's go pick some together."
The mushrooms are poisonous, so they just pick them and put them at home for appearance, but they don’t eat them.
Lin Qiu shook his head: "The road is too slippery now, I don't want to go out."
"You're such a long-term stayer! If I had, I would have run away long ago. Why don't you want to go out and play after finally getting through the winter?"
Dongxue glanced at the five cubs sleeping soundly in the den. "These cubs are quite strong, and their white fur is really nice. You've broken the rule that white-haired males can only give birth to two cubs at a time. Five is a lot for us tigers! Could it be because you're from the rabbit tribe?"
Lin Qiu thought about it and thought that maybe it really had something to do with this. The rabbit tribe’s reproductive ability was indeed very strong.
It’s a bit embarrassing to say this.
"If you can give Ling Yun and Song Mu a few more pups, our tribe won't have to worry about food and clothing. When they grow up, they will surely become strong males like their father. Our tribe will surely become stronger and stronger in the future."
In a dozen years or so, these little guys will become big tigers who can stand on their own.
"Tan Yuan is also very strong. You told me last time that you would never give birth to a child for him again."
"I just said that out of anger," Tan Yuan had obviously coaxed Dong Xue into submission. "Tell Ling Yun not to arrange for Tan Yuan to leave the tribe to work. I don't want to be away from him for too long."
"What are you doing outside the tribe?" Lin Qiu was holding a pillow filled with the fluff combed by Ling Yun and Song Mu, and looked at Dong Xue with a puzzled look.
"Didn't Ling Yun tell you? That's right, the two of them won't leave the tribe. Tan Yuan was assigned to the Horse Tribe to the north of us to negotiate a deal. We want them to help us polish some stone tools, and our tribe will provide them with animal skins and bones."
It is still relatively difficult for herbivorous orcs to obtain these.
"Oh, they have mentioned these things at home before." Lin Qiu thought to himself, Ling Yun has been doing a lot of things outside silently, and cooperation with foreign races has even been put on the agenda.
"Anyway, when he comes back tonight, you can talk to him about it. You can switch to another male in our family."
"If you do this, other males will be jealous."
"Who told them they weren't as strong as Tan Yuan, and couldn't please me as well as Tan Yuan?"
Dongxue is different from Lin Qiu. She is too lazy to serve others and she doesn't feel guilty about being partial.
Lin Qiu also understood, so he said, "Maybe Ling Yun thought Tan Yuan was more capable, so he let him take charge of this matter. I'll ask him tonight."
"You must talk to him. If all else fails, just let him do something else in the tribe."
Dongxue chatted with Lin Qiu for a while and left when it was time for lunch.
Ling Yun usually goes out early and comes back late, so Lin Qiu only eats lunch with Song Mu.
"I heard from Dongxue that Ling Yun has arranged for others to help our tribe make tools?"
Song Mu replied, "We're making tools to send to the rat tribe over there. Do you remember them? They're the rat tribe with the potatoes. Since they're so productive, let them plant more. Didn't you say anything can be planted? Watering and fertilizing, etc."
"Yes, this is indeed going to be quick." Lin Qiu pouted angrily, "You guys don't even discuss this kind of thing with me."
"You're recuperating now, and we don't want you to worry. Once the tools are ready, we'll come and ask for your advice. The tribe has already cultivated the flat land, and we want to grow some crops ourselves."
What they had done now had not reached the point where they needed to trouble Lin Qiu, so Song Mu and Ling Yun came here together after discussing it.
"There's nothing wrong with this arrangement. However, if there's any spare manpower in the tribe, we can have everyone repair the roads in the tribe. This will make it much more convenient in the future."
"Repair the road? Repair what?"
Song Mu didn't understand. How should the road be repaired?
"We need to expand the small and narrow paths in the tribe into flat and wide roads, straighten the winding roads, and fill the rough roads. This way, even females can walk easily. Currently, some of the paths in the tribe are difficult even for males to walk on. Building roads is also to facilitate the lives of the tribe."
Song Mu thought about it and felt that these were not too difficult for them.
He nodded: "Okay, I'll discuss it with Ling Yun when he comes back."
"Meow——"
The little tiger cub couldn't howl yet, it could only hum and even meow.
"Are you awake?"
Lin Qiu put down the half-eaten food and picked up the little tiger that was sleeping in the nest. He stroked it in his hands and said, "Are you hungry, little baby?"
"Meow."
The little tiger cub hummed and sniffed Lin Qiu's hand. He closed his eyes and seemed to be trying hard to find food.
Lin Qiu found it funny, this was just the one that ate the most!
Compared to the two fathers, Lin Qiu found that each of the babies in this litter seemed a little different. From a biological point of view, Ling Yun and Song Mu were identical twins, while the five brothers were fraternal twins.
This is quite normal. Most of the brothers in the tribe look different. Even if there are some who look similar, none of them look as similar as Ling Yun and Song Mu.
At first, Lin Qiu was worried that she wouldn't be able to distinguish her own child.
"Give it to me, I'll feed him."
Song Mu took the cub over and picked up the other four as well: "I'll take them to feed, you eat first."
The wild animals that Song Mu caught were also carnivorous. If no one was watching the cubs while they were drinking milk, they would be bitten or even eaten by the wild animals. When he was there, the mother animal would not dare to move.
"Thank you for your hard work."
Lin Qiu felt that giving birth to this baby was quite worry-free. Song Mu took care of the child during the day, and Ling Yun took care of him at night.
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