Ancient Eden - Chapter 134
Chapter 134
(42.1)
After that tiger skin was done soaking in ash water to treat it, Mu Qing could not stop touching it. She couldn’t bear to cut it to make clothes because it just looked too perfect. The oily and moist brownish-yellow undercoat was embedded with gold and black stripes, and it was gorgeous no matter from which angle one looked at it. Moreover, tigers in ancient times not only had long teeth, but even their fur was long, and spread on the ground, when Mu Qing laid down on it, half of her body was almost covered by the long fur.
After rolling back and forth on it many times, she finally decided to hang it on the cave wall beside their “bed”. She would wait until the arrival of the real winter, if she couldn’t handle the cold, to decide what to do with it. Besides, she thought it was all just Li Mang’s opinion. She didn’t think she was as delicate as he thought she was.
Li Mang did not go out hunting every day anymore, which made Mu Qing very happy.
She remembered that once upon a time, she herself, and everyone around her, those she knew and those she didn’t, apart from eating their fill and dressing warmly, would have to rack their brain every day to think of every way possible to get one more zero on their account, and then another, and it would never come to an end.
But here, as Li Mang said, as long as one had saved enough food, fur and firewood for the winter, one should not ask this jungle for more than that. Otherwise, one day, the gods of the forest would get angry, and their wrath was not something that men’s greed could bear.
When he said this, Mu Qing felt that he was actually a philosopher, one of the most simple philosophers in history.
That earthquake a few days ago brought some changes to Mu Qing’s life.
It was now early winter, and although the amount of water in that waterfall behind their cliff was smaller, and the stream had narrowed a bit, the difference wasn’t that big compared to before. It was only after the earthquake that Mu Qing realized that the water level in the stream was slowly dropping every day, revealing the snow-white pebbles in the stream bed on both sides, and sometimes she found some fish in the cracks of the rocks that had dried up and died because they were too late to keep up with the dropping water level.
Mu Qing was a little worried at first, afraid that their water source would be cut off if this went on. However, after careful observation, she realized that the amount of water in the waterfall was actually not much different from before, and only the water level that finally converged into the stream was declining. This meant that the water was actually seeping below the surface.
Mu Qing suspected that it was that previous earthquake that had caused the seepage from the surface of the stream bed.
She went to see it almost every day. Six days later, she noticed that the water level in the stream had finally stopped declining after dropping to nearly one-half of its original level.
Mu Qing scratched a mark on the side of the stream bed to indicate the water level. When she came to check for a few more days, the position had never changed.
Although the water level was now half as low as it had been, but it shouldn’t have any major impact on their lives. She breathed a sigh of relief.
Very quickly, she found a new surprise.
That day, she was shoveling the barren land in front of their cave entrance together with Li Mang, with the intention of getting rid of all the barren grass and vines covering it and turning over the ground, so that they could plant something later when spring comes. At this time Xiao Hei ran over to them, huffing and puffing.
Recently Xiao Hei was very crazy, it often slipped outside during the day to act wildly, and would not come back until dark. Sometimes it came back with a wild bird or rabbit in its mouth. But it was really not common for it to come back this early.
Mu Qing was busy collecting the yellowed and withered grass and vines with the shovel, intending to carry it to the sun, so she didn’t have time to pay attention to Xiao Hei. But Xiao Hei looked a little abnormal …… or should she say excited, it was shaking its head uncontrollably, using its claws to push at Mu Qing’s feet, and wailing with its throat. So Mu Qing and Li Mang put down the work on their hands and followed it out together.
Translator : Laura
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