She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 732: 【726】Beast World Farming 36 (2 more)

Over the next two months, Tangtang busied herself with designing the house while joining the Beastmen in construction. The cubs scampered around them, returning to their own caves only when it was time to be fed.

The newly built house’s boundary was as large as a football field, encircling the stream in the center with a wooden bridge constructed over it. On the side with the wall, a wider space was left, and isolation piers made of stone were erected in fear that the stream’s water might surge during the rainy season and cause damage to the wall.

The seeds gathered last year, both wild greens and chilies, were all planted in the front yard, which was quite spacious. She also had them construct a pigsty, sheepfold, and chicken coop, as these animals were ones she planned to raise in the future, so preparing their homes in advance saved the hassle of doing it later.

The toilet was built in a corner of the backyard.

When laying the foundation for the house, they reserved a super-large cellar, not only as a hibernation space for Pan Lin but also for storing food. It was paved entirely out of innumerable bricks with yellow clay applied underneath, left to dry in the sun, and hardened by burning wood before continuing to build upwards.

The house was divided into the main house with four rooms, and three rooms each in the left and right wing. The left side included an additional kitchen, and the right side had an extra storage room.

After the outline of the house was done, it was time to erect the beams. Once the beams were solidly in place, they applied a mixture of dried grass and yellow clay over them. This process was repeated for a total of five layers, and after drying, another layer of tiles was added on top, which she had crafted one by one using molds. Only then was the house truly complete.

The only trouble were the windows. With no glass or paper available, and no alternative found yet, they were left open with a layer of protective netting made from branches.

Finally, it was time to make doors, a relatively easy task. Stones were piled above and below to carve out a hole, with protrusions ground into the door to act as hinges, followed by making a door latch, and it was finished.

Their home had a total of three doors: a main door on the fence, a back door in the backyard, and one for each room in the left and right wings of the main house, making the third.

The frequently walked paths in the yard were also paved with pebbles.

In short, once the house was built, the visiting tribespeople were utterly astounded, and after testing the house’s sturdiness, they looked at Tangtang as if she were a Goddess descended from the heavens. Some even called her the Goddess protected by the Beast God and wanted to crown her as the next High Priest.

However, Tangtang declined because she didn’t believe in gods or monsters, and naturally had no interest in the role.

The tribespeople went out to find clay and locations to replicate the solid and reliable house like Tangtang’s for their own families.

After three months of hard work, the house was completed, and with the rainy season approaching, they moved on a beautiful, sun-kissed day.

The four rooms of the main house belonged to the three Beastmen and Tangtang, with Lang Sen taking one room for him and the male cubs, while the small females initially slept with Tangtang.

Each room had a heated kang, so they were expecting to store even more firewood to securely get through the Cold Season compared to last year.

Of course, when winter came, they could all sleep in the main house, which would save wood.

As the weather warmed and life revived, with the house’s most pressing matter settled, Tangtang began her diligent search for ingredients. It was the time when wild greens proliferated like a plague, and the mountains and forests near their home provided more than enough for them to gather.

Food stored from last year had mostly been consumed after a few months, but the supplies from the cliffs and space remained untouched.

Mainly, the food in the family’s cellar had been consumed by eighty percent, leaving only twenty percent that could last another month. After that month, summer would arrive.

The ewes and lambs had already been moved to the sheep pen, and five or six Gugu Chickens had been captured, yet it was still unknown if they would lay eggs; that would depend on the experimental results.

Now, only the wild boars were left to consider. The Beastmen did not like wild boars, their coarse skin and thick flesh aside, the meat was extremely tough. However, as the ancestors of domestic pigs, it was essential to get them accustomed to being penned up before they could undergo some changes. It was always like this in the beginning; it had to be taken slowly.

Sheep needed grass, and when foraging, they had to bring back their food to them. Lili was now at home taking care of Tom, while the rest followed her out to play, because it was within the tribe’s territory, so the safety factor was quite high. Moreover, Lang Sen had no other duties but to protect her and the cubs, so Pan Lin and the others could hunt with peace of mind.

Therefore, while other Beastmen in the tribe were busy building houses, their family had already started storing new grain.

Of course, they hadn’t forgotten the debts incurred during the Cold Season, it’s just that they were currently unable to attend to repayment.

Indeed, it was not Tangtang’s fault that finding the original source of foods was challenging, mainly because the plants of the Beast World were significantly different from those of their past world. Without understanding them, it was indeed difficult to search for food.

She even wondered if, since rice grew on trees, flour and related kinds of stuff might also come from trees?

So she began to persistently inquire to other females about the taste of any wild fruits they had seen. Of course, if she had tasted them herself, she did not mention them, but for those she hadn’t tasted, she had to ask. However, it wasn’t the season now, and she had no physical references, so relying solely on her power, naturally, it was fraught with difficulties.

Because she was still stuck in the stage of digging up wild greens.

Speaking of wild greens, many of them actually tasted just like the green vegetables and such that they used to eat; she even found many that could be eaten raw.

She used a shovel to dig up and take home any that she thought tasted good so that they could be planted to retain their seeds.

Even the two Sichuan peppercorn and prickly ash trees she had found by the lake were uprooted by Pan Lin and planted in their own yard.

Until one day, while chasing a small rabbit to its den, she came across something similar to potatoes. Ask the rabbit? If only it could speak.

So she brought it back home to ask her tribe members, and sure enough, someone knew and led her to find them; indeed, they were growing underground and were clearly ripe.

Having survived the Cold Season and immediately ripened, it seemed they had a very strong vitality.

Right then, she dug up a basketful, peeled and stir-fried a plate, and upon tasting, found it even starchier and tastier than potatoes.

She got excited at the moment and immediately went with Lang Sen to dig up a few more baskets to bring home. After two days of steaming and stir-frying, she was even more convinced that these palm-sized starch balls, growing in the soil, were the potatoes she was searching for, even if their skin was purplish-red, it didn’t hinder the fact that they were edible.

Since they matured before the rainy season, it seemed they had a longer growth cycle, so she dug up as many as she could and stored them in the cellar. Once they sprouted, she would plant them in a plot of open land and observe their growth process afterward.