Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 158 - 157: Incomprehensible but Impressive
Si Shuo’s handwriting was exceptionally beautiful, like it had been printed, but without being too rigid; it possessed a certain unrestrained spirit.
The three males looked on, their eyes filled with awe and admiration. Though they didn’t understand it, they knew it was something special.
Si Shuo smiled, her lips pursed. She pointed to the brush, then to the paper and ink stick. "Xiao Cheng took his clansmen to select trees to make this: paper.
Ji Liang and Xu Chi will go to the grasslands to collect furs, which will be attached to shafts to make writing brushes. We also need to make ink sticks. We’ll sell all of it in our shop.
That way, people won’t have to go through the trouble of carving words onto tree bark, turtle shells, and bones."
She counted on her fingers as she continued, "We can also carve out all the Beast Text, arrange the blocks, apply ink, and mass-produce books!"
Ji Liang hissed softly at the thought. Just yesterday, they had gone into the Shell Bookstore, where the most popular items were branded Beast Skin Scrolls. The Beast Skin Scrolls were easy to carry. A thin metal rod would be heated in a fire and used to brand words onto the Beast Skin one stroke at a time. According to the shopkeeper, they were all records of observations made by outstanding members of great families.
The Beast Skin Scrolls on the shelves were transcribed copies, and a single scroll cost five Level 6 Crystal Stones. Back then, Si Shuo had thought, ’The price for my Spirit Plants is way too reasonable!’
According to the little female’s plan, they could print in bulk. Even if they sold them a bit cheaper, the speed at which they would rake in Crystal Stones would be astonishing.
Zhi Qi couldn’t help but give her a thumbs-up. "Kitty, what else do you have stored up in that head of yours?"
Si Shuo chuckled. "Plenty more. The Beast God must have found me useful and just stuffed all sorts of random things in my head.
But turning these ideas into reality depends on everyone! You all have to support the family, put up with my projects, and eventually raise cubs. It’s going to be a lot of hard work."
Xu Chi stroked her head. "It might be a little hard, but it will be more fulfilling and grounding. It’s having nothing to do that makes a person feel awful.
A Shuo, are there any specific requirements for the Beast Skins?"
Si Shuo took out a notepad and a pen from her space again and wrote down the requirements, such as needing rabbit pelts with only black-tipped fur on the back, and specific grades for the wool.
Ji Liang and Xu Chi listened attentively. After putting the piece of paper away, they closed the door and headed to the market together.
Most of the residents in their area were families of Beast Soldiers. On the main road, many people set up stalls to sell things they produced themselves, forming a market right on the street outside their home.
The current weather was neither too hot nor too cold, perfect for raising Golden Headed Chickens. Their family was large, and with Zhi Le and Zhi Qi being Snow Leopards, Ji Liang being a Snake Beast, and Si Shuo being a Cat Beast female, they all particularly loved eggs.
Xu Chi selected quite a few. He planned to build wooden coops along the twenty-two-meter fence in their small courtyard to raise Golden Headed Chickens, Black-beaked Ducks, and Red-hatted Geese.
Next to the eastern room, he would dig a one-meter-wide ditch and fill it with water for the ducks and geese to use.
Aside from poultry and livestock, they didn’t lack for most things sold at the market. However, since they planned to settle down in Guangshou City, there were many things they couldn’t use out in the open.
So, they purchased some clay pots, ceramic bowls, a clay stove, a broom, a dustpan, and other necessities.
Zhi Qi made several trips back and forth, carrying things home. They ate a meal of sliced meat congee outside before finally returning.
Si Shuo sat at the stone table, pondering how to teach.
Ji Liang was coiled up beside her, conveniently blocking the glaring sunlight. He had a banana-leaf fan tied to his snake tail, which he used to slowly fan her. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
Xu Chi had found a large amount of dried wood from somewhere. He used his Wind Ability to shape the wood into suitable planks, which Zhi Qi then hammered deep into the ground. The planks were thick and heavy, with grooves cut at equal intervals. This allowed other boards to be slid in horizontally without nails, making the structures easy to manage.
Yimei and the others heard the commotion and came over to help.
The poultry coops they built were flush with the fence. The fences of Little Captains’ homes were generally quite high, about two and a half meters, which was perfect for shielding the yard from view and providing some privacy.
The poultry house was divided into three levels. The slightly taller first level was for the ducks and geese, while the upper two levels were for the chickens. The roof was covered with a layer of waterproof Beast Skins, which was then tightly overlaid with wooden planks.
Each level had forty-five compartments, and with three levels in total, the depth was enough for two or three adult birds to rest in each one.
In other areas, they used wood to build a sparse, L-shaped enclosure around the eastern outer wall and the northern fence to prevent the poultry from escaping. They left nearly a meter of space between the enclosure, the coops, and the pond for the birds to move around.
Inside the enclosure and outside the fence, they tossed about a hundred thorny Spirit Plants. These plants coiled aggressively like finger-thick snakes, their bodies covered in shiny black thorns to guard against small beasts that might try to steal the poultry.
They also placed some Hedgerow Flowers, Floating Fragrance Vines, and Green Cloud Vines. These beautiful, brightly colored flowers decorated the enclosure. Their detoxified fragrance was light and elegant, and with the Hedgerow Flowers constantly fanning their petals, the smell from the coops wouldn’t spread into the yard.
On the roof of the coops was a row of "A Curtain of Dreams." They would open during the day and close up tightly at night after all the poultry had returned to their nests.
The Clock Vine had large, plate-like flowers. It was only afraid of the powerful aura of Beastmen, not at all of the poultry, which were even more timid and unenlightened. Xu Chi tossed some of them in as well, tasking them with using their large flower-plates to pick up the eggs laid by the poultry, carefully sort them, and place them in a row of clay pots by the enclosure’s entrance.
The Spirit Plants had only just awakened their Spiritual Sense and were still very naive; they needed long-term learning and guidance to become more clever. However, they could perform these simple tasks with perfect precision!
Their family bought forty Black-beaked Ducks, thirty Red-hatted Geese, and two hundred Golden Headed Chickens. They were all half-grown, so as long as they were well-fed, they would start laying eggs in a month or two.
After a full day of work, with five or six males taking turns, they finally finished building the poultry coops.
All the poultry were put inside, and Xu Chi tossed in a good amount of hay. Startled by the new environment, the birds flapped their clipped wings in a panic, flying and bumping into things randomly. Many scurried directly into the coops. Gradually, as they grew accustomed to their surroundings, they began to scramble for the hay to build nests in the compartments they had chosen.
Back in Puchang City, when the system helped them purify and process the meat of Fierce Beasts, Si Shuo had already thought about raising poultry in Guangshou City. She hadn’t been willing to let the system throw away the various Fierce Beast organs. The quantity was quite substantial!
Now was the perfect time to take them out, chop them up, mix them with various grain husks and wild vegetables, and steam them to make feed!
Once the food and water were put out, the tired poultry pecked vigorously at the trough, a delightful sight to see.
Yimei said with a smile, "Building these coops has cut the yard’s size in half, but there’s still enough space for eating, washing clothes, and drying them.
When I get back, I’ll have one just like it built at my place. We’ll eat some of the eggs the poultry lay, sell half, and stockpile the other half."
Si Shuo nodded and smiled. "In that case, I’ll have Zhi Le and Gong You help you tomorrow..."
