Teng Ning stopped and said, "I'm out looking for herbs. The female you brought back from outside is getting increasingly pregnant. I don't know what happened today, but she rushed into the rain like crazy. Her health wasn't good to begin with, and after we brought her back, she started bleeding and had a miscarriage. She had been looking much better these past few days, but now she's sick again. I don't think she'll survive this cold season."
After Teng Ning finished speaking, he ran away immediately.
After hearing this, Ling Yun sighed and went back to tell Lin Qiu about it.
"How pitiful," Lin Qiu held up his chin. "It's normal for a woman who hates males to not want to give birth to her baby. But if she does this, she'll ruin her body."
Maybe she didn't want to live. After all, the animal patterns on her body were destroyed, and there was no need for her to live for others.
"Don't be afraid." Song Mu hugged Lin Qiu.
"I won't be afraid with you around. Okay, let's continue making catapults."
"good."
The catapult is more complicated than the bow and arrow, and Ling Yun and Song Mu are both very motivated.
Ling Yun got some mud outside, dried it, and asked Lin Qiu to draw a diagram on it with a branch.
While Lin Qiu was drawing, he marked Arabic numerals on the side.
Song Mu seized the opportunity and asked, "Xiao Qiu, what is this thing you wrote?"
"These are numbers. Besides numbers, there are also words. They can be used to record important things that are easy to forget. Do you want to learn? I'll teach you."
"OK."
Lin Qiu had one more task, which was to become the teacher of Ling Yun and Song Mu, and taught them the principle of leverage.
The weather turned cold, and they started to heat the kang. A few days later, heavy snow began to fall outside. A layer of ice first formed on the ground, and then it was covered with thick snow.
Overnight, the tribe turned into a sea of white.
Ling Yun remembered what Lin Qiu said. After waking up in the morning, he quickly swept the snow off the roof to prevent the house from collapsing.
When he returned to the house, he was also covered in snow, and Lin Qiu helped him wipe it off.
"Okay, Xiaoqiu, the snow is too cold, don't let your hands get frozen." Song Mu took Lin Qiu's hand and held it in his own palm.
The snow on Ling Yun's head and body melted quickly, wetting his hair. Ling Yun casually touched his hair and said, "Xiao Qiu, I think the sky will be clear soon. We can gather everyone together to make the quarry and traps. It would be best if these things are not used, but just in case, we should prepare them as soon as possible."
"Okay, but it wouldn't be a big deal to wait for the weather to clear up for a few days."
Song Mu said, "This matter is so serious. If the tribe leader sees it, he will only be more wary of us. Why don't you go and discuss it with other males first? What if the tribe leader doesn't want us to do it because he's afraid? Wouldn't Xiao Qiu's idea be wasted?"
Song Mu's words made sense, so Ling Yun nodded and said, "Then we'll talk to others about it in the next few days. If everyone supports it, it won't matter whether the clan leader agrees or not."
"Yes, and there are also feather arrows. We need to convince the females. We can't do anything about it, so we can only let other males go."
Lin Qiu said, "If that doesn't work, wait until the weather clears up and go out to see if we can catch some birds or animals with a bow and arrow."
"That's right!" Ling Yun's eyes suddenly lit up. "We have bows and arrows now. As long as the strength of the animal tendons is strong enough, we can directly shoot birds and beasts flying in the air."
Ling Yun and Song Mu were both very excited: "This way, when we need feathers in the future, we won't have to go and exchange them with the Feather Tribe."
Everything seemed to be solved easily. Ling Yun excitedly hugged Lin Qiu and spun around in front of the kang several times.
Lin Qiu pressed down on his shoulders: "Ling Yun, Ling Yun, put me down, I'm dizzy!"
"Haha, you sit on the kang all day, how boring. Wouldn't it be fun if I carried you for a walk?"
Lin Qiu was indeed bored. She had reached a bottleneck in making the loom and was in a very depressed mood with no way to relieve herself.
But Lin Qiu didn't ask for anything else. Being able to do nothing and just lie on the kang was already a life like a god.
What's more, Ling Yun was there to chat with her, and Song Mu would also tell her about what he had seen and heard during his travels.
Lin Qiu leaned over Ling Yun's shoulders and let him carry her from one room to another. "But I'm getting a little bored sitting at home all day. Since it's not the coldest part of the winter season yet, I'll go out and hunt some fresh prey for you."
Ling Yun and Song Mu are big tigers after all. They run in the forest all day long and stay at home for dozens of days, which has caused their strong muscles to weaken a little. Ling Yun and Song Mu scrambled to use Lin Qiu to practice arm strength, which made Lin Qiu so angry that he bit them each, letting them know what it means that even a rabbit will bite when it is anxious.
It's only a few degrees below zero now, which is completely sustainable for their thick fur.
"That's got to wait until the snow stops," said Lin Qiu.
"Okay, everything will wait until the snow stops."
Most of the days in the cold season are sunny, and there are only about two or three days with snow. It seems that almost all the precipitation falls during the rainy season.
The snow fell for three whole days, and then the clouds cleared and the tiger tribe saw the golden sunshine again.
Ling Yun happily went out hunting, while Song Mu cleaned up another room at home and ventilated it. When it was warm, he would move into this room.
Lin Qiu obtained the approval of the two, wrapped himself in thick animal skins, and stayed in the yard for a while to bask in the sun.
She regretted that she only had a junior high school diploma and had never learned how glass was made, otherwise she would have been able to live in a house with good lighting even in winter.
Lin Qiu looked at the sun in the sky, sighed, and blew out a long stream of mist, which then spread out and gradually disappeared into the air.
"Okay, Xiaoqiu, come back quickly."
Seeing that the tip of Lin Qiu's nose was a little red, Song Mu quickly called her into the house.
"Song Mu, what do you see there? Is that a bird or beast?" Lin Qiu pointed at the sky. Song Mu took a feather arrow from home and looked up. It was indeed a large bird or beast.
Even in the sky without any reference points, the males have the ability to judge the distance and size of prey. It is not a problem for them to judge whether the prey is big when it is close or small when it is far away.
Song Mu estimated that the wingspan of this bird and beast was as big as their kang. The feathers on the wings of such a large bird and beast were enough for them to make hundreds of feather arrows.
Song Mu was full of confidence. He raised an arrow and let go of it. With a whoosh, the arrow flew into the air. In the past, he had difficulty practicing archery in the room, but this time, Song Mu pulled the bow to its full extent.
The feather arrow flew out, and a bird or beast in the sky cried out, then began to fall rapidly, flapping one of its injured wings.
Before Song Mu could even smile, he heard the "bird-beast" fluttering and landing in their yard, then started cursing: "Are you the ones who hurt my wings?"
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