She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 747: [736] Beast World Farming 46 (2 updates)
She didn’t make paper for writing, but for wiping her... bum, because ever since she arrived in the Beast World, she had been using leaves.
Luckily, she hadn’t gotten her period yet. How miserable would that have been?
However, she heard that when females got their periods, they would just lie on animal hides and not move until it was over, and during this period, the cleaning of the hides was handled by the Beastmen, who would take them out to clean them. Despite these conditions, it sounded really... unsanitary.
Fortunately, when she saw the Beastmen cleaning, they scooped water from the stream to wash separately. If they had used flowing water for cleaning, she thought she would have vomited.
Of course, now that she had cotton and cotton cloth, she would never shortchange herself in the future; she planned to make her own menstrual pads.
As long as the stinky fruit tree didn’t die, she would have plenty of cotton to use in the future. She only feared that it might be chopped down like firewood.
For safety, she planted grain fruit, stinky fruit, hemp peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, and various other trees ten meters around the area she had chosen, incrementally expanding her territory. She planned to build a farm in the future and enclose what belonged to her to prevent the trees from being cut down.
With the invention of paper, going to the toilet became much easier. Although the paper was rough, not as soft as in her previous life, she was grateful to have it and decided, when she had time, to teach the Beastmen and the cubs in her family some counting and writing.
Members of the Vine Mountain Tribe came by occasionally, partly to ask about building houses and partly to bring them meat from their hunts.
Though they worked for her, her help during the Cold Season had been vital to their survival, so the conscientious Beastmen would occasionally bring her mushrooms, wild vegetables, and fresh meat as a token of gratitude. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
In return, she symbolically gave them eggs.
When there were too many eggs to consume, she would either preserve them as salted eggs or find materials like quicklime, yellow ocher, ground tea leaves, soda ash, and plant ashes—mostly using plant ashes from her home—and mix them with salt and the existing ground tea leaves to process the eggs into century eggs, which could be made from either chicken or duck eggs.
In the second month of the rainy season, the sows, cows, and ewes each became pregnant, and she believed that before winter, their families would expand.
She had been reluctant to kill any of these pigs, cows, or sheep since they were still gaining weight and still had uses, so she kept them alive.
However, for the chickens, the non-egg-laying hens were slaughtered for meat, and with each batch, the aggression of the wild chickens noticeably decreased.
As the weather got hotter, she wove cloth and made several sets of underwear for herself and Lili. In addition, she made four dresses. She had thought she was all thumbs, but to her surprise, the needle moved smoothly in her hands, and her occasional dexterity in cutting clothes was also quite handy.
She wove cloth and dyed it every day. Lili loved the clothes she made, and when the sisters went out, the females in the tribe immediately surrounded them, asking all sorts of questions. Tangtang was open and shared everything she knew. When they learned the clothes were made from stinky fruit, they were all stunned.
"It doesn’t smell at all!"
"I’ve washed it many times, more than ten times from when I got it to when I wore it,"
But they did not understand what "ten" meant, so she drew ten lines on the ground, and then they realized how much effort it took to make such clothes. Some who were less skillful immediately gave up, while the more beauty-conscious went home to ask their males to find stinky fruit.
However, the stinky fruit was just sprouting at this time, and the original batch had already been harvested by Tangtang and her group, so it was unlikely they would find any.
After returning home disappointed, they started visiting Tangtang’s home occasionally to see how she did it and to learn. It was good to be prepared before the next stinky fruit harvest.
Through this event, the females came to admire Tangtang even more because she seemed to always turn what they thought useless into something miraculous.
What level of intelligence was required to achieve this?
Indeed, the title of Goddess was not just for show.
During their visits to learn, the eager females also indirectly learned how to make paper, how to cure meat, how to make dried plums, and how to raise Gugu chickens, cattle, sheep, and even birds (pigeons, quails), with each day’s meals never being the same.
