Lin Qiu smiled, still pressing his face against the newly born female.
Song Mu stayed quietly aside, also enjoying the peace and happiness of the moment.
Caring for a female cub is much more difficult than caring for a male cub. In addition to eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, male cubs can walk as soon as they are born. All you have to do is put them in a safe place and leave them aside.
However, female cubs are very fragile and cannot take care of themselves. They even have to learn to turn over slowly. Their skin is also delicate and they are easily frozen in the cold season and easily suffocated in the summer.
After a while, Caiyu opened her mouth and started crying. Her voice was very loud and clear, and she sounded like a healthy baby.
Song Mu had a keen sense of smell and smelled the foul odor. He frowned and picked up Caiyu. "Why are you pooping before you even eat? Xiaoqiu, lie down for a while. I'll change her into a clean animal skin."
In order to welcome the birth of the little female, Ling Yun and Song Mu prepared several thin sheepskin mats, and then took some cotton cloth to make some diapers and small clothes to cope with the hot summer season.
"It's too hot in the summer. Put a frame on this window and cover it with a piece of animal skin. That way the room will be a little cooler."
Even though it was very hot, Lin Qiu didn't dare open the back window for fear that the draft would give Caiyu diarrhea. He could only try to reduce the impact of the summer sun's scorching heat on the temperature in the house.
After Song Mu and Ling Yun took care of her for a few days, they said to Lin Qiu, "Xiao Qiu, why don't we just send her to Pu Su's care? We have to take care of you too, so we can't take care of her."
The biggest problem is that Caiyu cries when she is hungry at night, and also cries when she has defecated or urinated, which affects Lin Qiu's rest.
Although Lin Qiu didn't mind at all, she was weak now and couldn't get enough rest, so she looked very haggard. Dongxue came to see her once and scolded Ling Yun and Song Mu, blaming them for not taking good care of Lin Qiu.
"She's still so young. Let's wait until she can walk before sending her to the dormitory."
Although Lin Qiu couldn't sleep well day or night because of the noise, Caiyu was his biological daughter after all.
In the tribe, only female babies who have no one to take care of them because their mothers died in childbirth and their fathers also died because of the animal pattern will be sent to the collective dormitory when they are still in their cradles.
"They have experience and can take better care of us," Song Mu said.
Ling Yun also said: "And you can go see her anytime."
"Or, we can send her there for two months. Once you've recovered, we can bring her back."
"Yes, if you really can't bear to let her go, we can just send her over at night."
Lin Qiu saw Ling Yun and Song Mu looking at him at the same time. After thinking for a while, he still couldn't make up his mind: "Send her to the dormitory. The females and elderly people there won't be able to rest well. The most important thing is that she will be afraid of strangers in a new environment. It will be very uncomfortable. It's better not to send her there."
Lin Qiu originally thought that Ling Yun and Song Mu would like this little female more than the male cub, but he didn't expect that they both disliked the female cub so much.
Ling Yun and Song Mu had long lost the desire to be fathers. They only wanted to put Lin Qiu first. It didn't matter to them whether the cubs were female or male.
If there was no other place in the tribe to foster male cubs, they would have thrown those five annoying cubs there long ago.
"Then we can only take her to sleep in that room."
In addition to the two south-facing small houses in the yard, they later built another room next to it for Shao Zheng and others to live in. However, after they got used to living there, no one ever lived in the house outside the yard. Ling Yun and Song Mu discussed it and decided to take turns taking Cai Yu to sleep away from Lin Qiu every night.
"You guys have been working hard these days." Lin Qiu reached out and touched Ling Yun's face, and Song Mu immediately came over.
Lin Qiu smiled and rubbed them: "It will get better slowly. If she can endure it for a year, maybe she won't have to sleep at night anymore."
"A year?"
Ling Yun and Song Mu were going crazy.
"It's all because of what you two did back then." Lin Qiu found it very funny to see them having a headache.
After Lin Qiu finished her confinement, the weather was at its hottest, and Dongxue invited her to her home to knit together. When Lin Qiu went to Dongxue's home, she found that the white-feathered peacock beastman, who seemed to be called Si Bing, had become a partner with Dongxue.
Lin Qiu asked quietly: "When did you...why didn't you tell me?"
"It was just a few days ago," Dongxue, who had just gotten married and was very affectionate with Si Bing, said, "The males of the peacock tribe are very different from the males in our tribe."
"You have good taste." Lin Qiu said.
"Of course. I still say the same thing. It's better to find more males and try more. Don't just focus on Ling Yun and the other two. I think Qing Yuan, who is pursuing you, is also very good. He is very strong and younger. You should consider him."
The two of them were whispering, but the male next to them could hear it clearly.
Song Mu swung his tail in dissatisfaction, but didn't dare to speak.
Lin Qiu said, "Don't think about it. It's fine for the three of us to live together. I don't plan to have any cubs in the future. Now we have a litter of male cubs and a little female, which is enough. When the cubs grow up, the three of us can live together. I don't want to add anyone else."
After Lin Qiu finished speaking, Tan Yuan and Qiu Xiao both cast envious glances at Song Mu.
Song Mu's eyebrows raised slightly.
When Qiu Xiaogang and Dongxue became a couple, he took advantage of Dongxue's newness to him and was very proud of himself, which made Tan Yuan angry for a long time.
Now, he also experienced the sadness of seeing only the new people laughing but not the old people crying. Tan Yuan is Dongxue's first male and has been with Dongxue since childhood. Their friendship is much stronger, so Qiu Xiao does not seem so special.
Tan Yuan knew about Qiu Xiao's psychological gap and comforted him. Now the relationship between the two is pretty good.
Tan Yuan knew that there were very few females who thought like Lin Qiu. Although he envied Song Mu, for him, being able to stay with Dong Xue was the best and happiest thing.
Lin Qiu and Dong Xue tore the hay into thinner strips, twisted them into strands, and twisted them together to make thin straw ropes. With the straw ropes, they weaved them into beautiful small handbags. They couldn't hold anything but a few small fruit cores, but they were very beautiful.
Dongxue looked at the small straw bag from front to back and said: "I can go out and pick some flowers to put in it, it will definitely look nice."
"Yes, and you can put soap in it to drain the water."
"Indeed, you are so smart. Then let's make another one, one for flowers and one for soap." The two of them sat under the tree, looking very leisurely.
Song Mu held Caiyu in his arms and took care of her. Tan Yuan and Qiu Xiao gathered around to watch. It was the first time for them to see a little female at such a close distance.
Tan Yuan said, "Let our children spend more time with Xiao Caiyu in the future."
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