Stone Age Husband Raising Jornal

C16 - Speculation

translator: xiin

editors: apricot & juurensha

The three of them were a little far from the tribe, and the area was quite dangerous, so they didn’t dare to linger there any longer. After Xiong Ye finished slathering his wound with mud, he did the same for the elephant bird to prevent the bloody smell from spreading before transforming back into his animal form and running back to the tribe with the elephant bird on his back.

At four to five hundred kilograms, this elephant bird weighed as much as Xiong Ye. Xiong Ye was completely exhausted from running with it on his back, but they had really gone a bit far, so he only arrived in the vicinity of the tribe two hours later.

“It’s safe here. Let’s wash up by the river and split up the elephant bird before continuing on.” Hu Yue suggested.

Xiong Ye nodded in approval–He was really having a hard time carrying the whole bird any further.

The three came to the edge of the stream and divided the elephant bird among them.

The skin, along with the fur on the outside, was given to Hu Yue who wanted to make a warm nest. As for the meat inside, Xiong Ye took four tenths of it, including a large bird leg, while Hu Yue and Xiong Bai took three tenths each.

Xiong Ye had contributed the most when they were hunting the elephant bird earlier, and he was the one who had carried it all the way back, so the internal organs also went to him.

After the three of them had split everything up, Xiong Ye carried the large bird leg with him and headed towards the valley.

His share of the elephant bird, including the internal organs, added up to about one hundred kilograms of pure meat and was enough for him to eat for twenty days.

However, he didn’t have enough salt on hand. It wouldn’t be easy to preserve that much meat… And they didn’t know when the salt team would return.

The three of them attracted a crowd of onlookers as soon as they entered the valley, and each and every member of the crowd was decidedly envious.

“Xiong Ye is so fierce. He took down some prey again!”

“So much meat!”

“Xiong Ye is hunting with Hu Yue now. He really broke up with Shi Li?”

……

“Speaking of Shi Li, he basically didn’t do anything at all when we went out hunting these past few days. He doesn’t seem to be as strong as everyone said…”

“Shi Li knows a lot. He’s taught us quite a bit.”

“What’s the use of just talking?”

“You should stop criticizing Shi Li. You haven’t contributed as much as he has!”

……

Although Shi Li had attended the recent hunts, he hadn’t contributed much, which led to complaints from some people in the tribe.

However, others didn’t think much of it–Shi Li had taught them a lot of things, and in fact, Shi Li was still very powerful.

Towards the end, everyone switched to envying Zhou Ji, “Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye are living together. Even if he’s unable to get meat to eat, there’s still the bones! His luck is really good!”

Zhou Ji heard these words as soon as he came back.

He very much agreed with them; his luck was pretty good. Xiong Ye was a good person to get along with.