Chapter 16: The Idea of Planting Vegetables

Knowing that everyone had the idea of leaving the tribe, Bai Er was excited and determined to go out more these days to see what food there was, to gain everyone’s trust, so that they could resolutely follow Cang Yan and leave the tribe.

He knew the setting of this world. It was roughly divided into Warm Moon, Hot Moon, and Cold Moon, with twelve months in a year, but forty days in a month. Here, there were five Warm Moons, three Hot Moons, and four Cold Moons. There were still three Warm Moons left before the Cold Moon arrived.

If they wanted to leave the tribe, they had to do it early, because once they left, they needed time to find the next suitable place to settle down, and also prepare food and firewood, set traps, and arrange their dwelling so that they could withstand the attacks of ferocious beasts—

A trap that could resist ferocious beasts even if they only had a dozen or so people!

Because he was full of hope for the future, Bai Er was in a good mood. He covered the wooden basin containing the Bitter Leaf Grass fruits. “It’s so late, let’s go into the cave.”

The faint voices of the tribesmen in the distance had also disappeared, they had probably all gone inside.

“Father, I’ll carry you.” Cang Yan half-squatted in front of Bu Ji.

Bai Er sensitively noticed a trace of guilt and shame in Bu Ji’s emotions. Indeed, in the wilderness, being unable to move was a burden. Some cruel people would even carry their relatives who had lost their ability to work and abandon them, some would even be used as bait. And no one would blame the person who abandoned their incapacitated relatives, because this would reduce one burden. Raising a useless person in the wilderness was very stressful. Sometimes, even they couldn’t get enough to eat during the Cold Moon, how could they give food to someone who was useless?

Therefore, in everyone’s eyes, it was abnormal for Cang Yan not to abandon Bu Ji.

And Bu Ji initially didn’t want to be a burden to his son. He tried to crawl into the forest several times, but was found by Cang Yan and Man Da. Man Da cried and begged him, so Bu Ji had to give up the idea of dying. But although he stayed, there was always a knot in his heart, feeling sorry for his children.

“Sigh, if only I could also gather food, your burden wouldn’t be so heavy.” Bu Ji sighed.

“Father, what are you talking about!” Man Da pouted disapprovingly. “You’re overthinking again!”

Bai Er smiled and continued, “Indeed, it would be great if Uncle Bu Ji could gather food. But the forest is so far away, and there are ferocious beasts, it’s too unsafe. If possible, it would be best to be able to help gather food without leaving the camp.”

Man Da’s eyes widened. “But there’s no food to gather in the camp.”

That wasn’t necessarily true.

Bai Er smiled, for him, nothing was impossible. In the modern world, where did they need to go up the mountain every day to pick wild vegetables? When they encountered suitable vegetables to plant, wouldn’t it be great to let Bu Ji weed and pick vegetables in the camp?

But these were all things for the future, it was still uncertain now.

He followed Cang Yan into the cave.

There was only a pile of firewood in the cave, it was dim and hard to see anyone clearly, but he could see that the best spots were already occupied by the chief, Bai Ling, and Chi Wei.

Seeing Bai Er following Cang Yan in, the voices of the people in the tribe who were already discussing them became even louder. It seemed that what Bai Ling said was true, Bai Er really got together with Cang Yan!

Was Bai Er’s mind broken? Chi Wei was a Level 5 Warrior, Cang Yan was only Level 3, and he was cursed, how could he compare to Chi Wei?