Chapter 11: Not bad, there is progress

Chapter 11 is good, there is progress

Vegetable fields are best fenced. In ancient times, fences were used to enclose yards to delineate territory. Si Yan felt that the same applies here.

 Fresh air, fresh food, simple environment, and land that can be expanded at will.

　　Don’t let this kind of day be too beautiful.

She crossed her chest and looked around her palm-sized territory.

 The cave should be surrounded by a yard and the vegetable plot should also be fenced.

 Thinking about it this way, she still has a lot to do.

After eating, Si Yan knitted the hay with processed hay. The two cubs were attracted by the meticulous workmanship in her hands. They looked at her curiously, their round eyes watery and cute.

 “Hey, what are you doing?” Xiqing asked.

Si Yan replied lazily: "I don't call you hey, I call you mother."

Xiqing curled his lips and said, "Tsk. What are you doing?"

 “My name is not Che.”

 Xiqing was too lazy to pay attention to her.

Bei Ji asked her curiously: "Mom, what are you doing? You look so awesome! Is this the soft thing on the bed?"

Si Yan freed up a hand, patted Bei Ji's head with a smile and said, "Mother is weaving straw curtains."

Bei Ji's watery eyes looked at her intently: "Mother, what are the straw curtains for?"

Si Yan said with a smile, "You will know in a minute."

"What's so great." Xiqing turned away from Si Yan, looked at the straw mat on the bed, and then looked at Bei Ji.

 His expression suddenly turned bad again.

 Does the female not want them to sleep on the bed, so she puts a mat on the ground for them?

 The sweet dream of sleeping with the female is like a flash in the pan. Sure enough, snake orcs are born not to be loved by their mothers, and the warmth in dreams is just a dream.

Xiqing's face was tense, her lips pursed into a line, and she turned her face away.

 He is angry. What is he angry about?

 Obviously having a thin mat on the ground is much better than sleeping directly on the ground before.

 He should be content.

The two cubs didn't speak, and thought quietly for a while. After Si Yan finished weaving the straw mat, she stood up and beat her waist.

 So tired.

Si Yan smiled and said, "Help me."

Bei Ji stood up and pulled Xiqing, and Xiqing stood up reluctantly.

Si Yan took out a torch and handed it to Xiqing. Xiqing's face turned particularly ugly in an instant. He quickly backed away and pressed against the wall of the cave. Si Yan was startled by Xiqing's reaction, and Bei Ji immediately took it. Got the torch. "Mom, what do you want to do?"

Si Yan was confused by the reaction of the two Zaizai: "I need a little light, just hold the torch for me."

After Bei Ji realized that Si Yan did it unintentionally, he nodded and said, "Mother, I will lift it."

Si Yan nodded thoughtfully.

Si Yan took the straw curtain to the entrance of the cave. Two small holes had been drilled in the cave. Si Yan went from the side to the top of the cave, nailed two animal teeth in, tied the straw curtain with a straw rope, and hung it up.

Xiqing was a little afraid of fire, so he hid far away, but after seeing the straw curtain hung up, he and Bei Ji exchanged glances again.

 The mat made by the bad female does not seem to be a mat for them to sleep on. Did the bad female make something to cover the hole?

Si Yan was very satisfied with the straw curtain. She explained to the two Zaizai: "When we need it in the future, we will put down the straw curtain. When we need ventilation, we will braid the straw curtain up like this. You understand ?"

Bei Ji nodded quickly excitedly. "Mom, you are so smart."

 “Why didn’t you do this before?” Xiqing suddenly asked.

 After Xiqing's words came out of his mouth, the air seemed a bit colder.

In the past, their female mother behaved a little crazy, and was afraid of snakes. She had a fear of snakes and would beat or scold them.

She is dark, bad, ugly and crazy, but her cubs are still very attached to her.

 Until...she hurt Xiqing. Until...she sold her Zaizai.

The hearts of the four cubs were completely cold. They gritted their teeth and dug out their precious females from the bottom of their hearts.

 From now on, this woman is just a bad female. That's all.

Bei Ji was sensitively aware that something was wrong in the atmosphere, and he immediately said: "Xiqing, what are you talking about?"

Isn’t such a warm and soft environment what they dream of? What if the gentle female disappears again? What if the crazy female from before comes back? !

Si Yan slowly lowered the straw curtain. The atmosphere in the cave was tense, and Si Yan took a deep breath.

 “Bei Ji, Xiqing, sleep.”

She cannot tell them that your mother is dead and I am not your biological mother now.

 She couldn't say. So some things just have to be done.

Although they didn’t get along for a long time, she accepted and liked these two cubs from the bottom of her heart.

  She will work hard to heal them little by little from the injuries they have suffered.

Bei Ji was very cooperative and got into bed happily.

 Xiqing stood there without moving.

 Yesterday he refused to go to bed. Although the female put him on the bed in the middle of the night, he was still in an awkward situation.

Si Yan asked: "Xiqing, can't you go to bed to sleep?"

This Zaizai is different from Bei Ji. He seems to hate himself more. Si Yan is not a person who puts a hot face on a cold butt. She wasn't sure if this Zaizai would be willing to go to bed if she hadn't secretly carried him to bed.

Xiqing really said with a cold face: "I don't want to sleep on the bed!"

Xiqing looked at Si Yan, and Si Yan looked at Xiqing. The two of them looked at each other for a while. Xiqing pursed her lips tightly, looking very stubborn.

Si Yan said: "If you don't want to sleep, you won't sleep. Just sleep on the ground!"

Xiqing huddled in a corner on the ground and slept a little angrily.

 He actually remembered how soft and comfortable the bed was when he slept on it last night.

 I feel a little regretful.

 He gritted his teeth.

At midnight, Si Yan got out of bed and hugged Xiqing on the bed. The sleeping Zaizai is still very cute.

Si Yan touched the awkward little face of Zaizai.

 Really, what a bad habit, you have to sleep on the ground.

 The next morning, the weather was fine.

When Si Yan woke up, she was a little surprised that the two cubs were waiting for her to wake up in the cave this time.

 “Not bad, there is progress.” Si Yan lazily touched the heads of the two Zaizai.

Xiqing knocked off Si Yan's hand, and Bei Ji accepted Si Yan's head touch with a smile.

Si Yan felt very happy looking at the two cute little cubs.

 After washing up, I cooked sweet potato porridge for the kids to eat. After breakfast, she used snake scales to chip wood into a few simple shovels. The two Zaizai, each with one hand, followed Si Yan and started cultivating the land near the cave.

 The two Zaizai worked very hard, a kind of hard work that Si Yan had never seen in the last days. It's as if they feel that working is a sacred and glorious thing from the bottom of their hearts.

With the help of Zaizai, Si Yan felt much more relaxed. The land was cultivated very quickly. Halfway through the cultivation, Si Yan washed her hands and came back to cook. Yesterday's pumpkin was not finished yet, so it was just steamed and cooked for the kids to eat.

The pumpkin is ready, and the cubs have washed their hands and come to eat the pumpkin. After eating, Si Yan took her two Zaizai to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, and also scattered some pumpkin seeds that she had injected with wood energy in an area.

After doing this, she picked the overripe pumpkin from the field and prepared new insect repellent powder just like yesterday.

The medicinal powder was placed in a glass bottle in her space, and the entire bottle was quickly filled.

 The medicine was prepared, and Xi Qing Beiji and Si Yan took it one after another. Soon, they got a lot of bugs. But it was much better than the first day.

Si Yan said with certainty: "We should be fine after just two more days of eating!"

Beiji's face was excited. Knowing that he would not die, he gave a heavy hum.

 Then he suddenly stepped forward and said, "Mom, can you give me some more medicine?"

"What do you want the medicine for?" As soon as she finished speaking, Si Yan suddenly realized what the two children wanted to do.

On the second day after crossing over, the two cubs took away the potatoes and potato stew. She just thought that they would eat it themselves.

 Actually, probably not.

 They also have two brothers, Dongchi and Nanmo.

After the original Si Yan sold Dong Chi Nan Mo, the two cubs have been living a bad life. They barely survived because Xiqing and Beiji always helped them.

Bei Ji suppressed his emotions until his face turned red: "Mother...I...I am..."

Si Yan immediately said: "Wait a minute, I'll find a leaf to wrap it up."

 She found a few leaves, washed them, and wrapped them in four packages.

If you want to use Dongchi and Nanmo, it will last for two days.

Si Yan ordered: "Take one sachet a day, just drink it with water."

Bei Ji nodded: "I understand. Mom, can I get some more pumpkins?"

 “Wait a minute.” Si Yan took another big leaf and wrapped it in a large piece of steamed pumpkin. "Take it with you."

Xiqing and Beiji nodded, and the two little cubs ran out.

Si Yan looked at the direction Zaizai was leaving and sighed softly.

 …

Xiqing and Beiji passed by caves one after another, and an unpleasant noise could be heard coming from the caves. As they passed by, they could see five or six males and a female fighting in the open caves.

There are only 17 females in the Yanxiang tribe, and almost every female’s cave has such a spectacular mating scene. Only Si Yan's cave is unique in that there are no males.

 From this point of view, Si Yan is better than other females.

Xiqing and Beiji finally arrived at Xiong Rou's cave after going around several caves.

 Previously, Dong Chi and Nan Mo were sold to Xiong Rou with two animal skins by the bad female.

 Xiong Rou is a female who has more than a dozen male orcs, but she has only given birth to one litter of cubs. They are the four bear cubs who stole Xiong Nai's red ground fruit a few days ago.

Xiong Rou doesn’t like cold-blooded snake orcs, and even likes to bully and abuse them. She exchanged two animal skins for Dong Chi and Nan Mo just to bully them.

Dongchi and Nanmo were sold to Xiong Rou as slaves. Xiong Rou gave them almost no food and forced them to work every day. They didn't even have time to find food themselves and were often hungry.

Slaves had no rights and lived a life worse than death. If it weren't for Xiqing and Beiji's constant support, they would have starved to death long ago.

 Dong Chi and Nan Mo, who were sold, hated Si Yan, a bad female, even more than Xiqing and Bei Ji.

 (End of this chapter)