Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 310 - 309: The Rainy Season Is Here

The return of the males didn’t mean they could rest after their hunting and trading. On the contrary, they were even busier.

Once the rainy season began, the Beastmen of the entire Beast World Continent would hunker down and practically stop working. Therefore, before it arrived, they had to make final preparations for stockpiling supplies and carry out repairs.

Si Shuo still kept to her own rhythm, waking up naturally every day. After finishing her morning routine, she would begin her slacker’s daily life of teasing the kids, flirting with her husbands, and playing games.

The rain gradually became more frequent. Every morning and evening, it would drizzle—not heavily, but with a lingering persistence that urged everyone to speed up.

The vegetables in the fields were perfectly plump and tender for harvesting, and the poultry on Bamboo Forest Mountain had also reached the end of their lives.

Feeling for her busy Beast Husbands, Si Shuo took the cubs to help wash vegetables. They placed the greens on a heated kang bed, built according to her specifications, with a wood fire burning underneath to roast them, turning them from time to time.

They had raised a total of seven to eight thousand poultry. It seemed like a lot, but the rainy and coldest seasons were long, lasting about two hundred and seventy days. Their family was large, having grown to fifteen members, and that wasn’t even counting the Snake Cubs in her belly.

The males had large appetites. A supply of twenty-seven or twenty-eight poultry a day, supplemented with other food, was enough for their two or three daily meals.

The poultry had to be processed one by one: slitting the neck to collect blood, scalding with hot water to pluck the feathers, and gutting. The cleaned feathers were kept. After the blood coagulated, it was stored in the Sumeru Space. Eighty percent of the whole poultry was put into the Sumeru Space, fifteen percent went into the ring’s space, and the rest was cured...

While they were eating lunch, it started pouring again. The rain wasn’t light, making one feel a little irritable.

A faint knock came from the door. Xiao Cheng, who was sitting by the entrance, resignedly got up, grabbed a Beast Skin umbrella, and went to open the front gate.

A moment later, he returned shrouded in damp air, carrying a string of ceramic jars.

"Honey!" Tuanzi yelped excitedly, pattering forward to hug a ceramic jar and rub against it, not caring that it was wet with rain.

Xiao Cheng smiled and nodded. "Wei Jin’s father sent it. He said that Song Ying’s mother was exploring west of Bamboo Forest Mountain a while back to gather supplies and found a lot of honey. He gave us most of it—enough for the cubs to have for half a year!

"Wei Jin’s father also said that since the rainy season has started, they won’t come over unless it’s important... and that we should let them know right away if we have any problems..."

’Each jar is huge. Eight of them is a really generous gift. They probably even included portions for Wei Ce and me, right?’

Recently, both Wei Jin and Song Ying had been sending things over every few days, worried that this small, newly formed family of young Beastmen wouldn’t have enough supplies.

It wasn’t just the two of them. The Iron eating Beast Clan Members were grateful for the elixirs Si Shuo refined and even more grateful that she had led them in raising poultry on Bamboo Forest Mountain, which greatly eased the pressure of stockpiling supplies this year. The clan had also sent many good things in its name.

Xiao Cheng placed the items in front of Wei Ce, who stored them in his space.

However, Wei Ce only kept one jar, coaxing Si Shuo into storing the rest in her Sumeru Space.

"We’ve now fully entered the rainy season. From now on, the Beast Soldiers will patrol for half a day every ten days, and the mid-rank squads will make a round every five days."

"We can retreat to the valley and hunker down." After the meal, Yin Jiang went out for a meeting. He flew home through the downpour and transformed into his human form upon entering, the rainwater on his body and Beast Skins instantly drying as if baked.

Si Shuo nodded. Even though she had transmigrated from the modern world, she preferred living in the cave; even their spacious and clean courtyard house couldn’t compare.

The cave’s main hall was massive, over a thousand square meters, large enough for the cubs to run around wildly. Each of the Beast Husbands had his own cave, which they could carve into as many rooms and halls as they needed. One side of their caves opened directly to the outside, while the other connected to the main hall. They weren’t far from each other, and since the caves were seven or eight meters above the ground, there was no fear of being flooded during the heavy rains of the rainy season.

Outside the main hall was a corridor about ten meters wide that served as an open-air balcony.

The group had only lived in the courtyard house for six or seven days, but they were already eager to go back.

That afternoon, they left the Si Teng plants raised by Yin Jiang and Ji Liang to guard the house, and the family of fifteen returned to the cave. Yin Jiang’s Si Teng was of the Fire Attribute, unafraid of cold snaps, while Ji Liang’s Si Teng was of the Ice Element, equally undaunted by the damp chill.

After cleaning the cave, Yin Jiang gave it a thorough drying with his heat. Thick, waterproof Beast Skins were hung over the doors and windows, and Gong You placed four lamps in the main hall. He was a Light Ability User, and each spell could light the lamps for a quarter of an hour. But he also had the Time Law. By applying a tenfold multiplier, he could stretch that single quarter-hour into ten, which was equivalent to more than one Beast Hour.

After tidying up their own rooms, the family sat in the main hall, each busy with their own tasks: practicing calligraphy, sewing clothes and bedding from Beast Skins, weaving various bamboo baskets for storage, or playing with the kids and making snacks.

It was a warm and leisurely scene. Si Shuo lounged in a rattan chair, holding a magazine and feeling drowsy. ’Rainy days always make you so sleepy!’

Seeing the little female looking listless from being cooped up in the cave, Gong You felt a pang of pity and whispered, "During the rainy and coldest seasons, I can activate the Time Law. I’ll set it to a ratio where one day passes inside the cave for every ten days that pass outside. That way, nine months will be shortened to less than one."

Activating the Time Law constantly would be a challenge for him. Previously, when he used the Time Law for acceleration, he had only applied it for a day or two outside the Array.

But this time, the Array would need the effect applied continuously for half a year!

Si Shuo smiled and nuzzled against him as he drew near. "You don’t have to do it 24/7. Just three to five hours a day will be fine. That will shorten the nine months to five or six, which is perfect!

"This way, you won’t get too tired, Gong You, and we won’t have to stay cooped up in the cave for too long. We can still rest properly and enjoy this warm, happy time together as a family."

Gong You nodded. "Alright, I’ll listen to my good girl!"

It did get a bit stuffy inside the cave, so the cubs liked to play on the corridor. The cave’s eaves curved slightly outward, and the heavy rain fell like a curtain, obscuring the view outside. The air was a little damp and chilly, but also fresh and pleasant.

The cubs had thick, somewhat waterproof fur. Even the female cubs, who had superpowers, had physiques far beyond that of ordinary little females.

Si Shuo felt refreshed after a nap. She felt even more energized after nibbling on a Dust Cleaning Talisman and couldn’t resist pulling out two decks of cards to play Fight the Landlord with her Beast Husbands. Four people played at a time, and whoever lost had to switch out and watch the cubs.

They used low level crystal stones as chips for fun, creating a lively atmosphere as they played with their little female.

Si Shuo loved the atmosphere of having the whole family together. Her face was always bright with a smile, and every day she would only go to sleep when she was so tired she was practically nodding off.

Her mind was too excited during the day. Now that her belly was starting to show, she had canceled all "in-depth exchanges" with her Beast Husbands at night. They would only get a little intimate, which left them both feeling like furnaces.

So she started having strange dreams at night. When she opened her eyes, Si Shuo covered her face. ’In my dream, I had a stomachache and spent the whole night looking for a toilet. I even had a couple of rumbles... so embarrassing.’

She hugged the Beast Skins and rolled over, only for her thigh to press against something hard...