Chapter 499: Chapter 499: Strong Foundations(02)
Su Qinglan’s eyes sparkled with excitent.
"Perfect! Now, one group keep cooking and stirring the cent paste. Another group, start pouring it into the trench. As soon as it’s in, press the first row of stone bricks firmly on top. Then pour another layer of paste over the bricks and add the next row. We’ll keep stacking until the walls are done!"
The tribe worked together like a well-oiled machine. Males carried stone bowls of the warm, thick paste and poured it carefully into the trench.
Others lifted the heavy stone bricks and pressed them down with solid thuds, making sure each one sat straight and tight. Paste went between every layer, sealing everything perfectly.
Layer by layer, the walls rose.
One row... two rows... three rows...
Everyone’s eyes were wide with awe. "Look at that! The wall is already standing straight and tall!"
"It’s so fast! And so strong!"
From a short distance away, the females and cubs of the tribe gathered, blinking curiously.
Little heads peeked out from behind their mothers, ears perked up, tails flicking with wonder. "Mama, what are they building?" a small cub whispered loudly. "It’s so big!"
An Mo and Xuan Long stood at the edge of the crowd, each holding babies. The cubs gurgled happily in their arms, watching the construction with big round eyes.
The two beastn had been told to keep watching the little ones today, so they could only observe from afar, but their faces showed the sa excitent.
"Qinglan really knows how to make things better," Xuan Long murmured, smiling.
An Mo nodded. "Of course, this female is really good."
Su Qinglan noticed her father was nowhere to be seen.
She wondered briefly if he had gone back to the City Lord’s house, maybe to et her mother.
But she didn’t want to pry into his private life, so she simply smiled and kept working.
By the ti the last light of day was fading, the walls of the test house already stood more than three hundred centiters high, and they kept going.
Su Qinglan had adjusted the plan after seeing how tall the males were in their human forms, almost two hundred and twenty centiters.
To make sure everyone could comfortably turn into their full beast forms inside without bumping their heads, she wanted the walls to reach four hundred centiters.
"Keep going just a little higher!" she called out cheerfully. "We’re almost there!"
The males laughed and cheered with every new layer. "For our females and cubs!" one shouted.
"For warr winters!" another added.
Paste, brick, paste, brick... the rhythm continued under the glowing twilight sky.
The first real stone house of the fox tribe was rising fast, strong, and beautiful, built with the whole tribe’s excitent and hard work.
Su Qinglan stood back for a mont, hands on her hips, a proud and happy smile on her face.
After the surrounding walls of the test house finally stood tall and strong, everyone was very tired but extrely happy.
The stone walls reached more than four hundred centiters high, looking solid and neat under the last light of the day.
Su Qinglan clapped her hands and raised her voice so everyone could hear.
"Alright everyone, let’s pack up our work for today! Don’t touch anything now. Let the cent harden overnight. When we wake up tomorrow, it should be much harder and stronger, okay? Let’s all eat and sleep. We still have a lot of work tomorrow!"
The tribesn cheered loudly, their tired faces breaking into big smiles. "Yes, Sister Qinglan!"
They quickly made the fires even larger. Soon the hunting team returned from the forest, carrying many fresh kills. They had already cleaned and processed the at by the river, so now it was ready to roast.
Su Qinglan did not go back to her house to cook anything fancy. Roasted at was the easiest and tasted good too. They only needed to sprinkle so salt and spices over the at and roast it over the fire.
Xuan Long had already prepared a big fire pit. The three babies were sitting neatly beside him and An Mo.
An Mo was already drooling as he looked at the fresh at, clearly planning to eat a lot tonight.
Everyone sat down around the warm fire. Hu Yan took thin sticks and skewered smaller pieces of at, especially for Su Qinglan and the cubs.
The other males simply grabbed huge chunks of at with their bare hands and placed them directly on the fire to roast.
They didn’t bother cutting the at into small pieces.
Everyone was too hungry and tired after working so hard on the house, and it was already late at night.
The cubs looked sleepy, their little heads drooping. Su Qinglan looked at their tired faces and asked gently, "Do you want to drink milk? Why not drink so milk and go to sleep early?"
The three babies shook their heads at the sa ti. "No... no... we want at!"
Su Qinglan smiled lovingly and touched their soft heads. "Okay, Mama won’t force you then. Just eat so at with Mama. Father is cooking it for you."
The cubs nodded and snuggled closer into her arms. Looking at their droopy, sleepy faces, Su Qinglan’s heart lted.
She felt a little guilty. Why didn’t they eat earlier? Why did they wait for her? She should have co back sooner to eat with them so they could have slept earlier.
She softly asked, "Why did you wait for Mama? You must be very hungry and tired."
The cubs murmured sleepily, "No... want Mama... want Mama..."
All three of them snuggled deeper into her arms. It seed staying in human form for such a long ti had made them extra tired. They really needed sleep.
Soon the roasted at was ready. The first pieces Su Qinglan took were for the cubs. She fed them carefully before eating herself.
By the ti everyone finished eating, the cubs were already fast asleep. Xiao San rested in Hu Yan’s arms, Xiao Er in Han Jue’s, and Xiao San in Rong Ye’s arms.
Su Qinglan was also very tired. She had done so much work today. She yawned and said, "Let’s go back to our house. We have to wake up early tomorrow too."
Xuan Long nodded. Without saying much, he gently picked her up in his arms. Su Qinglan rested her head in the crook of his neck and closed her eyes.
She felt muddy and sticky all over because she had not bathed yet, but she was too tired to open her eyes.
She muttered sleepily, "I still haven’t bathed..."
Xuan Long spoke softly, his voice low and warm. "Just sleep. Don’t worry about bathing."
He thought to himself that he would just wipe her body clean once they reached the house.
Su Qinglan didn’t hear his thoughts. She had already fallen fast asleep in his arms, tired but happy after a long, exciting day.
The whole family marched together toward their current house under the quiet night sky.
The sound of soft breathing and small insect noises filled the air. Tomorrow, they would see how strong their new stone house had beco.
If this house could last them a year, it would beco a prized treasure in the beast world after all, what they lacked most was proper housing.
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