SFS Chapter 103 The Rainy Season Has Truly Arrived
Chapter 103 The Rainy Season Has Truly Arrived
Only then did Ge realize that the wooden wine barrels he kept at home were just the tip of the iceberg; the real bulk of them were at He's house.
After hearing the little girl's explanation, Ge silently doubled the amount of the thank-you gift he had prepared for He.
It's really been a lot of trouble for Brown to help take care of things; now he even has to give up half of his own home...
The group continued their conversation, and soon the topic returned to jam.
Then Goe discovered that what he thought was all the jam and fruit in his house was all there was.
But in fact……
"What? You're saying there's still a lot of fruit at Mao's house?" Go was shocked.
The little girl nodded happily, "Yes, there are many, they all belong to Luo."
Looking at the cub, Go was instantly filled with deep self-doubt. How long had he been away from the tribe? How could the cub have taken over two other people's homes so quickly?
Is it because there isn't enough space in your own home?
Yes.
Another gift of gratitude to Mao was added to his mind, and Ge was not too surprised to hear Chi's name again.
Okay, so he was wondering where the cubs got so many fruits from. Turns out, Red had helped them.
However, there's no need for a gift for Chi, because Ge already knows from the little girl Xi's words that Chi will help pick fruit and bring it over; it's a task given to Chi by the shaman.
The shaman is in charge of Chi's reward, and Ge cannot bypass the shaman to do anything.
Moreover, Ge also learned that Chi had taken a liking to his cub's cooking skills and had come over to freeload a meal, initially intending to make a deal.
Then there's no need to give any thank-you gift as you would with Brown or Mao.
Not asking for payment for the cubs' hard work is already a great act of generosity from Ge.
Jiang Luoluo hesitated for a moment upon hearing this. She suddenly remembered that Mao's father, Ke, had returned yesterday. If he knew that she had piled up those fruits at his house, wouldn't he feel uncomfortable?
Although Mao took the initiative himself and was not asked by Jiang Luoluo, he had benefited from the deal, so he couldn't pretend to be innocent.
Let's go to Mao's house around noon. If Mao's father, Ke, has any complaints about this, it's not impossible for her to move back home.
Fortunately, no.
Not only that, Mao's father, Ke, did something that surprised Jiang Luoluo—he accompanied Mao to the Taz Forest to pick fruit for Jiang Luoluo.
Jiang Luoluo: Huh?
For a moment, Jiang Luoluo herself didn't know what to say... No, she really didn't need the fruit that much, so why did the whole family have to come together?
The amount of fruit wine to be made has actually been used up. Although more can be made later, shouldn't this be a backup option when there is leftover jam and the remaining fruit is about to rot?
Suddenly, she has such a huge workload!
But seeing Mao and his father Ke become less estranged during these parent-child activities, Jiang Luoluo didn't show any objection.
Never mind, as long as you two are happy... As long as your cave can hold them all.
After a busy day, not only did the amount of fruit for making jam not decrease, but it actually increased. For the first time, Jiang Luoluo was looking forward to the arrival of the rainy season.
Hurry up and come, she needs to rest!
Whether it was Jiang Luoluo's idea that was particularly clever, or some other reason, the rainy season really did arrive.
The next day, when Jiang Luoluo woke up in the morning.
Jiang Luoluo squatted at the entrance of her cave as usual, using the ashes from burning wood, along with twigs and grass leaves, to brush her teeth.
—The wood ash is burned separately, not taken from the fire.
Jiang Luoluo was also afraid that she might kiss her ancestor while brushing her teeth... that would be too ambiguous for her to accept.
As she was pondering a hellish joke that only she could understand, large raindrops suddenly pelted her face, causing a sharp pain.
Jiang Luoluo looked hesitantly at the wooden stick in her hand, which she was brushing her teeth with halfway. She had her head down, so why was the rain hitting her face?
Slowly raising her head to look at the sky, Jiang Luoluo suddenly realized that it was rain falling from above, and the splashing water droplets hit her face... large water droplets splashing up?
In that very moment when Jiang Luoluo was lost in thought, she saw a waterfall of water-colored light descend from the sky.
Yes, that's right, the waterfall is cascading down from the sky.
Jiang Luoluo had never understood the concept of the rainy season that the tribesmen feared so much, and she couldn't understand why just rain could make the tribesmen feel like they were facing a great enemy.
But at this moment, she understood.
Why is it the rainy season? Why can't we go hunting? Why can't we participate in any social activities?
Like an ordinary waterfall, the rain rushes down from a great height with such force that it can knock a person off their feet, and the downpour acts like a curtain, completely obscuring everyone's view.
There's really nothing I can do.
Jiang Luoluo couldn't help but try to stretch her hand outside to personally feel the impact of the rain.
As soon as she stretched her fingers out, she felt a sharp pain, as if someone was hammering her fingers with a small hammer.
As Jiang Luoluo withdrew her hand, she unsurprisingly saw the red mark on her finger...
How terrifying! This thought involuntarily surfaced in Jiang Luoluo's mind. She had previously thought of herself as a little girl who liked rainy days.
Right now, I just feel like a fragile child who's afraid of rain.
Young Ge, on the other hand, remained calm. He walked over and pulled the cub back to prevent it from being splashed by the rainwater, then skillfully rearranged the wooden door.
Only two gaps were left in the middle, making the cave feel less like it was completely enclosed and more oppressive.
As for the cub reaching out its hand to catch the rain, Ge saw it but ignored it.
He wanted to raise the cubs properly, but not to turn them into weak, helpless wretches who couldn't even withstand the slightest harm.
The rainy season is something that cubs must experience. As long as a cub wants to live, it cannot avoid the existence of the rainy season.
Rather than keeping the cub under tight surveillance and keeping her away from all dangers, it's better to let her experience things for herself and then determine for herself which dangers must be avoided.
Things like catching rainwater with bare hands might only cause the cubs' hands to turn red for a while, or even let them get wet in the rain for a bit. It's not a big problem, as the tribe's people are physically capable of handling it.
After all, the impact of the rainy season on the tribes has never been the harm it can cause.
Instead, it's about obstructed vision, an inability to find one's way, difficulty distinguishing between day and night, and prolonged hypothermia.
Today, none of her friends will come to help, leaving only Jiang Luoluo and Ge, who are making jam while watching the waterfall outside.
There's still a sense of leisure.
Jiang Luoluo gestured curiously to Ge, "Will the rain during the rainy season keep falling this heavily?"
Where did all that water and such heavy rain come from?
It will continue for another month or two. It sounds really surreal. In her previous life, the total rainfall in the entire world probably didn't even equal the amount of rain in a single day during the rainy season here.
“Not exactly.” Ge shook his head. “The amount of rain during the rainy season can vary.”
Jiang Luoluo nodded, realizing that it hadn't always rained this heavily.
"Rain like this isn't even the heaviest yet," Ge said.
Jiang Luoluo looked up in shock. "Huh? This isn't even the heaviest rain yet? It's already like a waterfall! How much heavier could it get?"
Ge thought for a moment, then scooped up a handful of water from the basin where he was washing the pot, lifted it to a certain height, and let it slip from his palm back into the basin, splashing water droplets onto the fruit on it.
"This is the rain right now."
Then Ge dipped his finger in water again, made a hooking motion, and suddenly flicked it hard, sending the water droplets flying off his finger and landing on a fruit.
Tiny water droplets pierced through the entire fruit, leaving a hole.
"Heavy rain is like this."
The heavy rains of the rainy season don't mean that there's more and more rain or that the raindrops are getting bigger. Such rains are actually not very threatening. At most, it's like being slapped in the face repeatedly while you're outside. It's not pleasant, but you can grit your teeth and get through it.
A true downpour is when the raindrops fall like needles, dense and continuous, and they fall without making much of a sound... silently piercing everything.
The skin of adult tribe members may last longer, but for the young cubs who haven't grown up, a single poke will leave a bloody hole.
Fortunately, such heavy rain is not common, occurring only once or twice during a rainy season, and it doesn't last long. As long as you can avoid it in time, it's fine.
Otherwise, if the rainy season were to continue with such heavy rains, not to mention the situation in the tribe, there might not be many living creatures left in the entire Taz Forest.
After all, the tribespeople could rely on the supplies they had stored in advance to get through the rain, but most of the wild animals in the Taz Forest had to go out in the rain to find food. Going out in such heavy rain was tantamount to suicide.
Because of the rainy season and the inability to go out, Jiang Luoluo and Ge got bored and started making jam at home.
Although Jiang Luoluo lived at the same pace before the rainy season, staying home and being unable to leave home are two different experiences.
However, the rainy season does have some advantages, Jiang Luolu thought with a wry smile. At least she didn't have to go out to fetch water; she could just use rainwater, which was faster than running water from a tap.
At this time, the rainwater is far from dirty, since there are no pollutants. The people in the tribe still drink spring water and river water.
What we really lack is firewood.
However, this is not something to worry about. It's hard to say whether it's the effect of the fire or whether the firewood used for burning is inherently durable.
Without cooking, a few pieces of wood can easily burn for a day and a night if you only maintain a basic fire size. Even if you want to make jam, it will only consume one or two times more firewood.
The firewood in the cave has been replenished in a timely manner, and with the continuous boiling of jam every day, it can last for at least half a month.
During those two weeks, whenever Ge took a break to go out, he could bring back enough firewood—if it got wet, he would put it next to the fire to dry it.
Basically, it has no impact.
After all, as long as she's not afraid of the rain hitting her, even Jiang Luoluo can go out for a walk; the worst that can happen is she won't be able to walk back.
But Go will definitely not have this problem. Even if the rain obscures his vision and he can't see the way, he can still cut down a few trees to use as firewood.
You could find your way home with your eyes closed; I'm not kidding.
Perhaps she was just too bored and had nothing to do, and Ge wasn't the type to chat with Jiang Luoluo non-stop, so Jiang Luoluo felt that she was cooking jam much faster.
It wasn't until lunchtime that Jiang Luoluo got up and stretched. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the dried rabbit hanging by the door and suddenly remembered the stir-fried dried rabbit she had made for Chi recently.
On a whim, he turned to Ge and asked, "Can you eat some firecrackers?"
Ge didn't understand why the cub was suddenly asking such a question, but he still obediently answered, "You can only eat a little bit. If you eat too much, your bloodline will become restless."
Jiang Luoluo looked Ge up and down, thinking that he was indeed a promising genius in the tribe, following in the footsteps of Chief Jing.
Generally speaking, those who can eat roasted chili peppers directly are undoubtedly strong, because only a powerful body can withstand the damage and harm caused by roasted chili peppers without suffering a stomach breakdown.
It's also worth mentioning that roasted chili peppers have a certain effect on orc bloodlines—they make orc bloodlines more active.
Therefore, those who have average control over their own strength cannot normally consume large amounts of roasted chili peppers. Being so spicy that they transform into a monster in the tribe is not a joke.
Ge only awakened his orc bloodline and became an orc warrior last year. In just one year, he was able to control his orc bloodline to this extent. No wonder his people have such high hopes for him.
Jiang Luoluo planned to arrange something else for herself to do besides making jam, so that she wouldn't feel so bored.
For example, she plans to make a stir-fried pork slice with roasted chili peppers for Ge so that he can taste the flavor of spicy food, and then make some new dishes in the evening.
Even if I can't eat it myself, it's still interesting to see Ge's reaction.
Previously, when cooking for Chi, Jiang Luoluo would add several chilies at a time. Considering that Ge said he could only eat a little spice, Jiang Luoluo only added one chili for the first time to see how much Ge could tolerate.
As it turned out... Ge was indeed being modest, but he really couldn't handle spicy food as well as Chi, so Jiang Luoluo didn't add any more chili peppers.
It's better to use things in moderation; there's no need to max out the intensity all at once.
Ge did not disappoint Jiang Luoluo. Although it was not very obvious, the bright eyes he had after eating still made Jiang Luoluo feel very satisfied.
When I'm cooking, I love getting this kind of response.
The first day passed uneventfully.
Then came the second day, the third day...
On the fourth day, Jiang Luoluo finally couldn't take it anymore. Looking at the waterfall rain curtain outside that seemed unchanged, she let out a long sigh.
The task of making jam had completely fallen to Ge, and Jiang Luoluo seemed restless, pacing around the cave.
He'd touch this for a while, look at that for a while, but after picking up one thing, he'd put it down again and go get another.
Even if Go was slow to notice, he still noticed the cub's boredom.