Ancient Eden - Chapter 122
Chapter 122
(38.2)
Mu Qing stared straight at the deep snow marks that appeared in the middle of her half-concealed upper body, without blinking.
Mu Qing was so amused by his reaction that she couldn’t help but giggle. Just when she was about to take it off with the intention of washing it and wearing it tomorrow, he extended his hand and massaged her chest a few times through the fabric, before then exploring behind her back and opened the knot in one go.
Perhaps bras were originally invented for women to put on and then for their men to take it off?
As Mu Qing was being carried to their sleeping place, such a thought actually popped into her head.
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In the blink of an eye, almost two months had passed since they settled here. The coolness of early fall gradually turned into the coldness of late fall, casting a glance at the distant jungle, although it was still deep or shallow green, but this green had been infiltrated with pieces of gold.
These days, it was getting hard to get the same juicy and plump fruits as before, and the few that remained on the branches were withering and shriveling. But Mu Qing wasn’t too worried. She had already stored a lot of dried fish, dried fruits, dried wild vegetables, mushrooms, and starch-rich plant roots that she had dug up in the neighborhood.
Li Mang went out hunting almost every day, and more or less every day there were catches. Thus they had more and more meat and furs every day. All these things, together with firewood, Mu Qing stored them in a smaller cave next to their cave. Mu Qing cleaned the cave thoroughly and inspected it at least two or three times a day, touching and counting this and that, to calculate how many days these foods could feed her and Li Mang.
Seeing the cave being filled with more and more things each day gave her a sense of fulfillment, and even the smell of pickles, which she used to avoid like a pest before, was now a source of great satisfaction for her.
Among their existing furs, Mu Qing’s favorite was the skin of an animal that looked like a faon. She had heard Li Mang say that it could often be found in the jungle, and that in the summer, when it was hot, the fur was not thick, it was only a short layer of velvet, so it could be used as clothes to wear in the summer season. But when the weather gets colder, the fur would thicken up. Most of the people in their old settlement relied on this kind of fur to keep warm during the winter.
Mu Qing washed and dried the peeled skin, and then used the method Li Mang taught her which was to soak it in ashy water for a day and a night, and then dry the skin in the shade. Not only would it lose its odor, but it would also become much softer to the touch, and the fur attached to the skin also became much stronger.
Only two or three such skins were needed to make a mattress. She and Li Mang were now sleeping on such a fur mattress, with thick hay spread underneath. At night, she was squeezed in his arms, and the soft fur underneath them was so warm that they didn’t need to burn a fire. Moreover, the clothes she and Li Mang were wearing were made of this kind of thin leather, which was very suitable for the current weather.
Mu Qing was a bit irritated these days. The reason for her irritation was the monkeys in her neighborhood.
This group of monkeys did not seem to have the habit of storing food, before when the fruits were plentiful they would eat one bite and then drop it, without any concern, but now that they saw that there were not so many sources of food compared to before, they started to get the idea of snatching the dried meat and fish that Mu Qing was putting outside to dry.
Mu Qing at first did not know, but later she noticed that some of the food she left drying outside would always inexplicably be missing, but she thought that it was Xiao Hei making trouble. But after reprimanding Xiao Hei and keeping an eye on it, she found that food would still be missing, and after a careful investigation, she realized that it was actually the monkeys that were stealing the food.
Translator : Laura
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