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“I’ll go cut some grass and widen the bed a bit.”

Feng Xun, suppressing his joy, immediately spoke up.

“No need, my beast form is very small. I can just transform into that,” Fan Zhou shook his head.

“How small?” Feng Xun couldn’t help but be curious, thinking about the small bed in the cave.

“…Very small, very small.”

Fan Zhou blinked and transformed into his beast form.

Feng Xun suddenly widened his eyes. The slender youth, a head shorter than him, had turned into a… Tu Zhou so small that he had to squat down to see it!

It was even smaller than his head!

How could a beastman’s beast form be so small?

It was smaller than many newborn cubs!

“Alright, you’ve seen it.”

Fan Zhou transformed back into his human form and quickly put on his leather skirt. He pointed towards the creek and said, “You wait over there, I’ll go get some cooling grass.”

Time to wash up and sleep.

Feng Xun felt regretful; he hadn’t seen enough.

So cute!

After cleaning his teeth with cooling grass, Fan Zhou and Feng Xun went back to the cave to sleep.

Fan Zhou transformed into his beast form and jumped onto the bed.

His beast form was only as big as an adult’s head, occupying just one corner of the bed, not affecting Feng Xun’s sleep at all.

Feng Xun lay on his side, propping his head with one hand, curiously observing him.

“…Close your eyes, sleep.”

He spoke helplessly.

I knew it would be like this!

Beastmen in this world generally have large bodies, so the original owner of the body had suffered much discrimination. The original body didn’t like transforming into his beast form, and neither did he.

Although Feng Xun didn’t mean to discriminate, he didn’t want to be watched like a monkey.

Hearing Fan Zhou’s tone, Feng Xun immediately lay flat. “Okay.”

Fan Zhou snorted and closed his eyes.

Today, after traveling all day and staying up late—by the standards of the wild world, he definitely stayed up late tonight.

Fatigue overtook him, and though he wasn’t quite used to sharing a bed with someone, he quickly fell into a deep sleep.

Feng Xun was also tired, but his mind was oddly excited. Listening to the steady breathing next to him, he cautiously turned his head to look at the rabbit beside him.

The torch used for lighting in the cave had already gone out. All he could see was a small ball of fluff, so cute, and so fragile.

He pressed his lips together. This tiny Tu Zhou, gradually turning into the knowledgeable Tu Zhou, must have endured a lot of hardship.

From now on, he would hunt more prey for the little Tu Zhou to eat!

Fan Zhou woke up when the sky had already brightened.

The wooden door of the cave was open, and the cool breeze blew in. He couldn’t help but shiver twice.

He had slept soundly until morning, and there was now a beastman in his bed. Surprisingly, he didn’t feel uncomfortable at all.

The sound of firewood breaking came from outside. He didn’t linger in bed, transforming back into his human form and walked out of the cave.

Feng Xun was chopping wood with his bare hands. When he saw him come out, he immediately said, “There’s not much dry wood left, so I went into the forest to gather some. I also ended up catching two gray birds.”

There wasn’t much prey around the tribe, but he had managed to find a few gray birds. His luck was really good!

Fan Zhou, hearing this, looked at the wooden basin next to Feng Xun and saw that the gray birds had already been cleaned out, their insides removed. He couldn’t help but smile. “You’re amazing!”

Having a roommate was great; even if he didn’t go hunting in the morning, there was fresh meat to eat.

However, the cave was tens of meters off the ground, and Feng Xun had a limp, so climbing up and down was very inconvenient.

He said, “I’ll handle the wood gathering and hunting from now on.”

“What will I do?” Feng Xun asked curiously.

“You’ll have plenty to do, like making salt, making hemp cloth.”

“I don’t know how to make hemp cloth,” Feng Xun said, a bit surprised. This Tu Zhou knew how to make hemp cloth?

“I’ll teach you.”

It was just hemp cloth. He understood how to make it.

The tribe needed a lot of salt, but they only had a small bundle of cotton for filtration. Beastmen usually sewed leather clothes using beast tendons, not plant fibers, and the original body’s memories didn’t help him here.

So, before transporting stones to the valley, he had checked out the plants around the tribe to see which ones had fibers that could be easily extracted.

His luck was good; he had found a plant similar to ramie.

This plant was called “teeth-grass” by the beastmen. It didn’t require long soaking in water. You just peeled off the outer layer of skin, and you could immediately extract the fibers.

However, he had been busy preparing for a long trip at the time and didn’t have time to work on it.

Now that Feng Xun was unable to hunt, he could do this job.

After all, it was just for filtration, not for making clothes, so the technique didn’t need to be very refined.

“You can make hemp cloth?” Feng Xun was astonished.

Even at the temple, only a few beastmen knew how to make hemp cloth.

“I can barely manage. Oh, and we need to make a millstone,” Fan Zhou automatically ignored Feng Xun’s surprise. Since the beastmen here were so simple, as long as Feng Xun didn’t dig too deep, he wouldn’t explain.

Sure enough, Feng Xun’s attention was diverted. “A millstone?”

“Jingjing said the gathering team would be collecting grass seeds these days. The millstone can grind the seeds into powder.”

The grass seeds mentioned by Xiong Jing were actually a plant similar to sorghum.

The beastmen referred to this plant, which had ears, as grass seeds.

Once the grass seed’s ears were dried, they could be stored for a long time. The beastmen used it as winter food reserves.

Fan Zhou also planned to store some.

However, seeing Lang Xun frowning, seemingly pondering what the millstone looked like, he snapped his fingers to draw Lang Xun’s attention back. “Let’s eat first. This morning, we’re having mud-baked gray birds.”

Which was essentially “beggar’s chicken”!

Feng Xun had never seen this method of cooking, but after trying it once, he fell in love with it. It was a good method—it didn’t burn the meat!

After breakfast, Fan Zhou asked Feng Xun to grind the stone slab while he went out hunting.
The gray birds were too small, about the size of a large goose. He and Feng Xun ate the leftover mud beast’s entrails from last night, along with a few hard nuts, and only then were they full.

There wasn’t much food left in the cave, so he had to go hunting.

There weren’t many large prey around the tribe, so if he wanted to be full, he would have to travel further. After walking for nearly two hours, he finally discovered a herd of big-big-horned beasts.

The big-big-horned beast resembled a deer but wasn’t quite one, and its meat was very tender. He easily used a water whip to bind two of them and brought them back.

He tied the two big-big-horned beasts with rope and led them back to the tribe.

Just when he reached the foot of the mountain, he ran into Xiong Jing.

Xiong Jing had come to deliver meat.

The hunting team had caught a lot of prey yesterday and was resting today, so she went out and hunted a big-big-horned beast.

She had promised to bring Fan Zhou more meat once her body recovered, but in reality, she had been eating Fan Zhou’s food all along, which made her feel very embarrassed.

Worried that Fan Zhou might offer her meat again, she dropped the big-big-horned beast and ran off without even complimenting him—Fan Zhou had caught two live big-big-horned beasts, while the one she brought was dead!

Feng Xun, hearing the conversation, crouched at the edge of the rock by the cave entrance and looked down. He saw Xiong Jing running off quickly and was pleased with her actions.

She didn’t eat for free; she knew how to repay the rabbit.

She was a good panda.

So now Fan Zhou had three big-big-horned beasts, enough for him and Feng Xun to eat for two days.

In the afternoon, he went to cut the “teeth-grass.”

After carrying the teeth-grass back, he taught Feng Xun how to peel off the outer skin and extract the inner fibers.

After extracting the fibers, he repeatedly pounded them to soften them, then washed them, and they were ready to be woven.

Fan Zhou couldn’t make a loom, so he used the method of weaving baskets. He first placed the fine hemp threads vertically on the ground, then took a hemp thread and weaved it horizontally through these vertical threads.

This method was quick and simple, and before long, he had woven a small piece of rough hemp cloth about the size of a handkerchief.

The precious hemp cloth was actually made like this, and Feng Xun felt a bit conflicted.

At the temple, hemp clothes were a symbol of status. He had once owned a set, but when he was expelled from the temple, that set of hemp clothes was taken back.

“Hey, this feels better than I imagined,” Fan Zhou, unaware of Feng Xun’s thoughts, held the small piece of hemp cloth and carefully examined it.

It didn’t prick the skin much.

That was a big surprise.

Since it didn’t prick the skin, it could be used to make clothes. The leather skirt was stuffy and hot, and in such hot weather, it made him feel uncomfortable!

Excited, he called Feng Xun to sit down. “Come, I’ll teach you step by step.”

They should be able to make two small skirts before dark.

Feng Xun obediently sat down and, following Fan Zhou’s earlier example, placed the hemp threads vertically on the ground.

“Weaving more pieces of cloth can make clothes, and we can also trade them for grass seeds with the tribe. It’s very useful.”

Fan Zhou said, his face full of excitement.

Feng Xun nodded firmly. When the tribes from the central continent came to the temple to trade for salt and pottery, they all wanted to exchange for a set of hemp clothes.

But unfortunately, unless they could offer something the high priest was satisfied with, they could forget about getting the clothes.

Most beastmen on the Wild Continent had never seen hemp clothes, but once they knew that clothes were more comfortable than leather, they would definitely want to exchange them with precious items!

Fan Zhou and Feng Xun worked quickly, and before the sun set, they had indeed woven two large pieces of hemp cloth.

They sewed the two ends of the hemp cloth together with bone needles, and a bucket-shaped skirt was completed.

When worn, you just need to tie a hemp rope around the waist to keep it from falling off.

Fan Zhou, with a bit of curiosity, walked around wearing the hemp skirt and even ran to the creek to look at himself.

Feng Xun found it somewhat amusing, but when he first wore hemp clothes, he was the same, even reluctant to take them off at night when sleeping.

“Tu Zhou, Tu Zhou, are you there?”

Suddenly, a voice called from below the mountain.

Feng Xun walked a few steps to the edge of the rock and called her up.

As soon as Mao Yu came up, she immediately noticed Fan Zhou by the creek and exclaimed in surprise, “Tu Zhou, what are you wearing?”

It looks so nice!

“This is a hemp skirt.”

Fan Zhou smiled and twirled around to give Mao Yu a better look.

Mao Yu rushed over to him. As she was about to reach out to touch him, he quickly stopped her. “I have another piece of hemp cloth. I’ll show it to you.”

It was the handkerchief he had woven the first time.

Mao Yu’s eyes sparkled as she looked at him. When she got the handkerchief, she raised it and began comparing it to her body.

Fan Zhou quickly explained, “This isn’t for wearing; you can use it to wipe sweat. It’s better than leather.”

Mao Yu immediately raised the handkerchief to wipe her face.

It didn’t prick the skin much, but Mao Yu couldn’t tell if it was useful or not at the moment. She looked at the skirt Fan Zhou was wearing with sparkling eyes. It was so unique.

“Tu Zhou, can you make one for me? I’ll trade meat with you.”

“Okay.” Fan Zhou agreed after only thinking for two seconds.

Mao Yu was very happy and jumped in place twice. “I’ll bring the meat over tomorrow.”

After settling the clothes matter, she suddenly remembered that she had come to see Fan Zhou to trade for some honey.

Ever since she had eaten honey-baked meat, she had been thinking about the taste.

After hesitating for a while, she ultimately chose the clothes.

She was part of the hunting team, and tomorrow she would go out with everyone. She had to hunt for the tribe before doing her own thing.

Mao Yu skipped away happily, and Fan Zhou asked Feng Xun to start the fire for dinner while he took the bone knife to cut more teeth-grass.

There wasn’t enough teeth-grass prepared today to make clothes for Mao Yu.

When he carried the teeth-grass back, not only was Mao Yu there, but many beastmen from the tribe were also present!

Mao Yu had spread the word, and these beastmen had come to see the hemp skirt.

The desire to be beautiful existed among beastmen too. Several female beastmen wanted to trade for hemp clothes from Fan Zhou, but not every female beastman was skilled in hunting.

Most of the female beastmen worked in the gathering team.

Fan Zhou thought for a moment and said to them, “You can find some plants with strange smells or seeds that I haven’t seen before. Bring them to me, and if they’re useful, I’ll trade the hemp clothes with you.”

Spices, fine rice, and fine flour… he was really craving them.