Chapter 22: Life Back Home

  "Mo Yu'er, what do you think?" Li Ke asked Mo Yu'er with a smile. The brick kiln and the construction of the fire kang were all organized by him, and now he urgently needed Mo Yu'er's affirmation.

  Mo Yu'er didn't answer him immediately, but instead walked around the kang a few times and found that very little smoke escaped from the gaps in the kang. This showed that the kang was indeed well-built. The several kangs built after her departure were slightly different from the first one, as Li Lu and Chu Yan had made some improvements after discussing it together. Mo Yu'er thought to herself that Li Lu was really suitable for building this kind of thing. "Very good, Li Lu, you've done a great job."

  Li Ke was very happy. Although all the villagers had praised him before, it wasn't until he got Mo Yi'er's affirmation that he felt like he really did a good job.

  Mo Yu'er entered the cave and after a while, Xiao Rong followed closely behind her feet without making a sound, just like before when he hadn't transformed into human form. This made Mo Yu'er feel slightly more at ease. She looked around happily at the busy or leisurely tribe members, but felt that something was missing. Suddenly, she slapped her forehead and turned to ask Chu Huo: "Chu Huo, where's Fan Ge? Has he gone hunting?" All the men from the hunting team were present, so why wasn't Fan Ge there? Had he gone hunting alone like the first time she met him?

  "Fan Ge has gone to the Luoyan tribe, he knows you will be very happy when you come back." Chu Yan looked towards the outside of the cave, Fan Ge had been gone for many days, didn't know if he was getting used to life in the Luoyan tribe.

  "Why did he go to the Luojia Village?" Mo Yier asked Chu Yan with a puzzled expression, not seeing Fan Qiao, her heart felt empty and uncomfortable.

  "Fan Ge is likely to become the next wizard, now studying with other tribal boys chosen by Ao Hui Wizard...". Chu Ge briefly told Mo Yi'er about Fan Ge's situation, and she had a general understanding.

  Mo Yu's heart was somewhat depressed, first because she couldn't see Fang Ge for the time being, and secondly because she didn't want Fang Ge to become a witch doctor. She still remembered the incident where Ao Hui witch doctor killed a young girl during a ritual, and if one day Fang Ge did something like that, she would not be able to accept it.

  "What's wrong with you, Moyi'er? Don't you like being a shaman?" Chu Yan was very sensitive to Moyi'er's affairs and asked anxiously when he saw that Moyi'er's expression was not right.

  Mo Yi couldn't express her thoughts, even if she was Chu Yan, she couldn't acknowledge her own thoughts in her heart. She just shook her head and didn't say much.

  When having dinner, Xiao Rongqiu went out to find food by himself. Mo Yier told him not to run too far away and if he wanted to leave like before, he must tell her first. She didn't want to worry about or feel sad for Xiao Rongqiu again like before.

  Cai Feng'er took off the things tied to its back and let it find food nearby. However, since the grass and trees had just sprouted, there wasn't much to be found. Mo Yi'er couldn't bear for it to go hungry, so she asked Chu Xiang: "Is there any leftover corn?"

  "Also, want to eat corn?"

  Mo Yu'er shook her head slightly, looking a bit embarrassed: "It's for Cai Feng'er to eat!"

  Chu Yan nodded, giving the food to a bird to eat. In other tribes, this would be absolutely impossible, but here, no one would blame Mo Yi for raising something that shouldn't be raised and wasting food.

  Chu Yu brought Mo Yuer to a small cave where food was stored and said, "There's meat, dried seaweed, and some corn here. You can take whatever you want whenever you want."

  "This isn't too good, is it? The weather just warmed up, will the food in the tribe be enough to eat?" Mo Yier didn't know what the situation was like in the tribe after a winter away, but seeing that there was still quite a bit of food left in the storage cave, it seemed they hadn't gone hungry.

  "Enough to eat. Mo Yi'er, thanks to you, on this cold day none of our tribesmen froze or starved to death, thank you, thank the gods." Chu Yan bowed his head slightly and said with great piety. This made Mo Yi'er feel a bit embarrassed: "I am also a tribesman who fell from the cliff, these are things that should be done."

  "These plain words moved Chu Yan's heart extremely: 'Yes, you are my kin! Forever will be!'"

  Because Cai Rong Er is very beautiful, women all like it, not only no one opposes taking out food to feed it, but also someone will find grass seeds to feed it, even in the spring when plants are withering and yellowing, they won't let it starve.

  Before dinner, Mo Yi'er went to see the wild rabbits she raised again. They had grown from two to eleven, and the original rabbit hutch was too small. Chu Ge said that the current rabbit hutch was rebuilt by Fan Ke, which is large enough for the eleven rabbits to live in. Because there wasn't enough grass to feed the rabbits in winter, the little rabbits were a bit thin. Mo Yi'er couldn't help but say: "When the grass grows out, they will be plump again. In just a few months, the number of rabbits will increase again, and then we can eat the rabbit meat we raised ourselves."

  "Ah, Bango also said that, Mo Yier, this idea of yours is really good." Chu Yan looked at the hopping and jumping rabbits and said. "Those traps are not bad either, every few days we go back to collect the prey, even in heavy snow, we can catch prey."

  "Hehe, that's good. But some prey will escape, we can add something to the trap so they can't escape again." Mo Yier has been having a lot of ideas about hunting recently.

  "Alright, whatever you say we'll do. Let's rest well today and talk about it again tomorrow." Chu Yan said with concern, seeing Mo Yi Er just returned but already thinking for the tribe.

  "Good!" The two of them finished watching the rabbit and turned back to the cave. Dinner was already ready, Sang Zhen had roasted the tenderest beef leg for Mo Yi'er, cooked a delicious seaweed small fish soup, and also had a roasted sweet potato.

  These familiar flavors made Mo Yi'er's nose turn red, it had been a long time since she last ate them. On the mountain top, however, she couldn't eat seafood and fish. But before long, she would start to miss the delicious carp in the lake on the mountain top, as well as the old man who always quarreled with her, wondering how he was doing.

  "Mo Yu'er, have some more." Sang Zhen used a wooden spoon to scoop another bowl of soup for Mo Yu'er, wishing she could feed her an entire pot.

  "San Zhen, that's enough, you should eat too!" Mo Yier smiled at San Zhen. She had already drunk a big bowl of soup, but San Zhen was only taking care of her and hadn't even taken a sip of water herself!

  "I'm not hungry yet, you eat first." Sang Zhen smiled foolishly. In the tribe, she and Mo Yier had the most contact, and their feelings were also the deepest among women. After Mo Yier's disappearance, she secretly cried many times. Now that Mo Yier was back, she just wanted to stare at her, afraid that if she wasn't careful, Mo Yier would disappear again.

  It's not just Sang Zhen who has this idea, even the usually confident Chu Xiang is a bit nervous and can't help but glance at Mo Yier from time to time, only feeling at ease when he confirms she's by his side.