Upon hearing this, Song Mu tightened his grip on Caiyu and turned around: "Don't give me that."
"Lin Qiu and Dong Xue have such a good relationship, they'd definitely want their children to get along as well. Since they're a little older, they can help take care of Cai Yu together in a couple of years. What do you think?"
Tan Yuan fought for his cub, and Song Mu glanced at the yellow tiger cub playing with Shao Zheng and the others nearby.
The cubs looked different every year. Tan Yuan's cub was a size bigger than theirs, but it was pinned to the ground and bitten.
A bunch of useless people want to get close to their house to mine jade?
Tan Yuan followed Song Mu's disdainful gaze and looked at his own child, pursed his lips, and then touched his nose awkwardly.
White tigers are indeed born to be better at fighting. Ling Yun and Song Mu have been the best among them since childhood, so Tan Yuan feels that the little female in their family will definitely be very strong when she grows up.
"As for the children, let them play together." Tan Yuan said with a smile.
Song Mu looked down at his little female and said indifferently, "Let's talk about it when she grows up."
Tan Yuan still smiled.
Ling Yun took some time to go to the trading center. Now there were always people coming to the trading center one after another, and everyone was trading here very harmoniously. Even if there was a conflict, they would secretly make an appointment to fight behind the mountain. No one dared to cause trouble in the trading center or nearby.
The reputation of the Tiger Tribe also spread throughout the Somali Continent. Many tribes were showing goodwill to the Tiger Tribe, and the Tiger Tribe became the new center of the Somali Continent.
Ling Yun found people to be responsible for various parts of the tribe, which lightened his burden a lot. With the addition of the bird orcs, simple manufacturing was outsourced to other tribes, which greatly reduced the workload of the tiger males. The males had more time to take care of themselves and the females.
In the past two years, none of the tiger cubs have died and they are all growing up healthily. In another ten years or so, the tiger tribe will be much larger.
Ling Yun now takes care of Lin Qiu at home all day long.
Corn can be harvested once more before the rainy season arrives.
Lin Qiu asked Ling Yun and Song Mu to take her to the cornfield outside the tribe, and she asked Ling Yun and Song Mu to break off a few corn cobs for her.
Song Mu went down to the field and broke off three corn cobs nearby and gave them to Lin Qiu, who asked him to peel the skins.
"Is the corn harvest this time better than last time?"
"Well, maybe it's because the temperature this time when we planted the corn was higher than the first time, so it grew better."
"That's probably part of the reason, but when we harvest this time, we can look for corn cobs that are larger throughout the plant. We can save those for seed and distribute the rest to everyone as food. Large whole plants are best, followed by large individual cobs."
Lin Qiu didn't quite understand, but selecting high-quality seeds based on visible traits was the simplest method at present. After selecting like this for a few seasons, the corn yield would slowly increase.
"I understand. I will then pick out the good-looking corn kernels from these cobs, and distribute the ugly ones to everyone." Ling Yun said.
A large part of the land outside the Tiger Tribe has been cultivated into land where potatoes, konjac, and corn are grown. The land within the tribe is planted with various vegetables and herbs.
Last year, the tiger tribe tasted the sweetness of raising yaks and is gradually reducing the yaks' activity space, allowing them to eat more and move less, grow more meat, and produce more milk to supply the tribe.
Because the ox was rather monotonous, Ling Yun and his men did the same thing, driving a group of woolly beasts into the fence they had enclosed, and also got a pair of deer beasts.
Ling Yun discovered that as long as these wild beasts were given enough space, they would not starve to death. After they gradually got used to it, he could reduce their living space.
They raised a lot of wild animals and used them as food during the cold season. When the weather was good, they still mainly went out hunting. After all, it was the nature of male tigers to hunt, and this could not be changed.
After taking Lin Qiu to see the cornfield, the tribe organized a corn harvest. Dozens of males were in the cornfield, carefully selecting corn cobs for seeds and putting the discarded ones in animal skin bags.
After these were carried to the tribe, they were all peeled and dried. Lin Qiu also taught everyone to collect the leaves on the outside of the corn. After drying, the more complete ones could be used as mats for steaming steamed cornbread, and the incomplete ones could be twisted into knots and then wrapped into pot lids, which were lighter than wooden pot lids. If they could not be used, they could be kept for burning firewood. In short, they were convenient to use in any way and should not be wasted.
The corn is dried and threshed, the seeds are stored, and the rest are distributed to everyone, 30 kilograms for each female and 5 kilograms for each adult male.
Lin Qiu suffered from the lack of males in his family and only got 40 kilograms of corn. It sounds like a lot, but it was actually just a small animal skin bag.
Ling Yun picked up a kid and said, "Grow up quickly. Next time, we'll distribute food by head, so your mother can have more to eat."
"When they grow up, the things they get will be given to their females." Lin Qiu said with a smile.
Ling Yun and Song Mu immediately ground the dried corn into powder. Most of it was ground finely to make steamed buns and rice cakes for Lin Qiu. They also ground a small bag of coarser grains, added some water, and cooked it into corn paste in a pot. It tasted very fragrant and Lin Qiu and Cai Yu both liked it very much.
Ling Yun and Song Mu are not really interested in these things. They find them refreshing to eat a little bit, but they still like to eat meat, all kinds of meat.
Now the tribe has achieved freedom of chili peppers, and the meat with a little spiciness is very appetizing. Shao Zheng and his friends are young, and Lin Qiu doesn't let them eat too much spicy food, so they are all crying out in greed.
Today I made fried konjac with pork, but because I added a little chili, I didn’t serve it to the kids.
Caiyu was still babbling and didn't understand anything. She was sleeping in the small basket woven by Ling Yun.
But this year, the male cubs who went to eat on the kang looked down at their own bowls, then raised their necks to look at their father's bowl.
"Ahhh!" Shi Wei put his paws on the table. This kid has a big appetite and is growing big too. His head is almost sticking into Ling Yun's bowl.
"Go away and eat your meal, little fat boy."
Ling Yun pulled Shi Wei's head away with one hand.
Shi Wei arched his back from under the table to Song Mu's legs, humming: "Woo woo woo—"
"Your mother won't let you eat it."
Song Mu pushed Shi Wei aside.
Hearing this, Lin Qiu laughed angrily: "At that time I told them not to try it, not to try it, and now they have tried it and think it's delicious. Aren't they greedy every day? I have become a bad person."
If they didn’t know what fried pork with chili tasted like, why would these kids be so greedy?
"How can Xiaoqiu be a bad person? Songmu, you actually say that about Xiaoqiu." Ling Yun stepped on Songmu casually.
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