C10 Winter Came, Building a House.

When Wu Xiaoming returned home on his tiger, the clansmen who were busy preparing breakfast were stunned. "Human, did you catch the meat this morning?" Chang'e stared at the tiger below Wu Xiaoming. Her sparkling eyes clearly looked as if she had seen a huge roasted chicken.

"Huh, when did Chang'e become a glutton?" Wu Xiaoming looked at her jade-like beautiful face and secretly cursed. "Alright, everyone, don't be dazed. This is my mount, it is used for transportation." Just as he finished speaking, he ran over while panting.

Wu Xiaoming casually found a piece of beast skin and tied up the tiger. Then, he prepared breakfast with everyone.

After breakfast, Uncle Di and the others were originally planning to go hunting. However, Wu Xiaoming stopped them. The wall that was destroyed by the Water Pattern Flame Wolf Python yesterday had not been repaired yet. Furthermore, it was already very cold, and it was about to be winter. With only half of the cave covered, it would freeze to death in the winter! Most of the clansmen were basically naked, and the men only had a short beast skin skirt. The women had better clothes, but most of their bodies were exposed. Spring, summer, and autumn were not a problem, but winter was not good! When he went out to practice the Tendon Altering Scripture this morning, he felt cold to the bones. It was better after he exercised a little.

He had to build a house. He had originally planned to build one a long time ago, but he did not obtain any merit for building a fire. Wu Xiaoming's heart turned cold. Furthermore, he felt that living in the cave was not bad. However, once the weather became cold, he realized that the cave was not easy to live in.

Wu Xiaoming used a tree branch to plan out the layout of the house. There was a row of houses in front, and the back was used as a passageway to each cave. This way, they could live in the caves during winter. They could also leave a smoke tunnel as a fireplace in advance, so they could keep warm during the winter. The left side of the house was used as a toilet, and a ditch was dug up to connect to the river. The house was built with bamboo. After all, there were mountains of bamboo beside them, and the outer layer of the beast skin was enough to make a big hole.

Wu Xiaoming asked Uncle Di to lead the ten people to repair the wall that was destroyed by the Water Pattern Flame Wolf Python yesterday. The rest of the people would build the house with him.

Because the bamboo was thick and tall enough, it was easy to build the frame of the house. In a day, sixteen houses were built. The roofs were the same as modern roofs, with a 45-degree angle. The lower layer was covered with beast skin, and the top layer was covered with weaved straw.

Originally, he had planned to put the beast skin on the outside of the house the next day. However, he did not expect that the next morning, when Wu Xiaoming was about to practice the Tendon Altering Scripture, the accumulated snow on the ground was half a person deep. There was even a large amount of snow falling from the sky.

He did not expect the winter to come so suddenly. Wu Xiaoming had planned to teach his clansmen how to sew beast skin clothes. Looking at the tiger chicken in front of him who was shivering from the cold, Wu Xiaoming felt a little guilty. He held it and brought it to a house, then went to the place where he stored the bamboo rice. He took out 30 to 40 catties of bamboo rice and sprinkled it in front of it.

By the time Wu Xiaoming returned to the cave, the other clansmen had already woken up. Dong looked at Wu Xiaoming with embarrassment, "I fell asleep and didn't wake up early. I will definitely wake up early tomorrow." Chang'e curiously sized them up and did not understand what they were talking about. "Why did you wake up so early? You wake up much earlier than me every day."

Wu Xiaoming ignored them and sat with the other clansmen around the bonfire. The huge stone pot was boiling the bamboo rice and deer meat porridge. The smell of the meat and rice wafted through the cave, making it very warm.

"It's snowing! This winter has come early and also very suddenly. Fortunately, we have stored a lot of food, so it should be enough. Thank you, Human Emperor. Otherwise, we would probably starve to death during this winter." Uncle Di looked at Wu Xiaoming sincerely, "It's only right. After all, I'm the chief. It's a pity that I didn't have time to prepare much." Wu Xiaoming drank a mouthful of the deer meat and bamboo rice porridge and said.

After eating, Uncle Di and the others huddled in the cave. It seemed that they did not plan to move anymore. Now, Wu Xiaoming understood why the primitive people ate and drank so much in the autumn. The entire winter was dependent on the berries and plant pieces that they gathered. According to the primitive people's appetite, it was impossible for them to provide what their bodies needed. They could only huddle in the beast skin and reduce their activity as much as possible. They would sleep like bears and rely on the energy stored in the autumn to survive the cold winter. But now, there was still a lot of food. The deer meat was more than 300,000 kilograms, the fish meat was more than 2 million kilograms, the bamboo rice was more than 2 million kilograms, and there were more than 3,000 kilograms of berries and plant pieces that they had gathered. It was enough for more than thirty people to survive the winter. Wu Xiaoming thought about it and felt that it was terrifying. In his previous life, if humans had this appetite, more than 5.5 billion people would starve to death.

Wu Xiaoming did not plan to stay in the cave for a whole winter. Just as he was about to teach the Eastern Tendon Altering Scripture and the Marrow Cleansing Scripture, he did not expect to hear a gurgling sound outside the house. Uncle Di and the other eleven warriors immediately picked up the javelins and Stone Axes and quickly walked to the entrance of the cave. One of the warriors carefully walked out of the cave with a long spear in his hand. He walked along the bamboo house to the bamboo door, opened the door, and looked at it before quickly retreating. "Human Emperor, the outside is surrounded by tigers and chickens. There are about three hundred of them."

Wu Xiaoming understood that it was definitely his mount that caused the trouble. He had fed it nearly forty kilograms of bamboo rice this morning. It seemed that he had treated it as his food and clothing. It actually summoned all of its brethren.

"Do you want to kill them all and treat them as food?" Uncle Di asked Wu Xiaoming.

"No, Uncle Di, all of the warriors will go and tame one as a mount. I want the largest one. This thing is quite fast. It will definitely be useful for hunting. In the future, when we tame more powerful animals as mounts, we can also act as hunters." The gloominess of the snowy morning was swept away. Wu Xiaoming listened to the gurgling sounds excitedly, as if it was a sound of nature.

It was very cold outside. It was about four to five degrees below zero. Although the clansmen were basically naked, they did not care about it. Later on, Wu Xiaoming found out how cold it was in this world. It was so cold that it could freeze one's nose. It was even lower than the temperature in the South Pole of his previous life.

Only now did Wu Xiaoming truly feel the difference between him and Uncle Di and the other warriors. Uncle Di had directly chosen the largest tiger chicken, which was more than four meters tall. The tiger chicken immediately grabbed the head of the tiger chicken and the other tigers also swarmed forward. It was indeed like the chicken in his previous life, fighting for food. Uncle Di was not at all flustered. He grabbed the chicken claws and threw the tiger chicken more than ten meters away. Then, he punched the tiger head that was pecking at it and sent it flying. The other warriors also copied him and kept sending tiger chickens flying out. In less than a minute, the ground was covered with tiger chickens.

It seemed that he needed to increase his strength as soon as possible. There were more than three hundred tigers! In less than a minute, all of them were knocked down by the twelve warriors. Wu Xiaoming had still underestimated the strength of his clansmen.

Wu Xiaoming and the other clansmen tied up the mouths and feet of the tiger chickens that had fallen to the ground with the beast skin ropes. Uncle Di and the others chose the twelve tigers with the largest bodies and planned to use them as mounts according to Wu Xiaoming's instructions. The other clansmen also chose their own mounts. They basically chose male tigers because they were obviously bigger and prettier.

"Ah!" A pleasant cry shocked the clansmen who were tied up the tiger chickens. It turned out that Chang'e was jealous of Wu Xiaoming riding on a tiger chicken. She had secretly chosen a beautiful tiger chicken and mounted it. The tiger chicken had never been ridden by anyone before, so it had never been tamed. When she rode on it, the tiger chicken flapped its wings and flew. Although it was not flying very high or very far, it did scare Chang'e.

Wu Xiaoming quickly pulled out his tiger chicken and chased after Chang'e. The cold snow kept hitting Wu Xiaoming's face. In a few minutes, the tiger chicken carrying Chang'e flew to the edge of the forest. It stopped there and kept jumping around. It seemed like it wanted to throw Chang'e off.

Wu Xiaoming turned around and looked back. His clansmen had also caught up, but their speed was obviously much slower. He was afraid that the tiger chicken would scare off. He shouted at his clansmen to stop.

Chang'e tightly hugged the tiger chicken's neck with her hands, her face turning pale from fright. "Serves you right! What a troublesome girl!" Wu Xiaoming cursed and slowly drove the tiger chicken close to the four-meter tiger chicken. When it was close enough, he jumped onto the tiger chicken's back.

Wu Xiaoming's tiger chicken saw that its master had come down from its back, so it didn't run. Instead, it kept throwing snow at the edge of the forest, lowering its head to nibble on the grass under the snow.

"Little girl! Let's see if you dare to do anything funny in the future." Wu Xiaoming grabbed the feathers on the tiger chicken's back and teased Chang'e.

"Hurry up and save me. I'm begging you!" Chang'e looked at Wu Xiaoming with a crying face.

Wu Xiaoming was completely enraged when he saw Chang'e's pale face. The little chicken dared to scare his sister. He punched the tiger chicken's broad back mercilessly. The tiger chicken lay motionless on the ground after a while.

"Is Chang'e alright?" Wu Xiaoming hugged the trembling Chang'e, and his skin touched Chang'e's pale face, causing her to blush unnaturally. He didn't do it on purpose. He let go of Chang'e and pulled her down from the tiger's back. The clansmen also ran over, and when they saw that Chang'e was fine, they heaved a sigh of relief.

Wu Xiaoming called out to the mount that was eating the grass, and with his right hand dragging the dead tiger, he returned home with the clansmen.

Looking at the tiger chickens lying on the ground, Wu Xiaoming wanted to raise them all, but it was obviously not possible. How many bamboo rice did he need to eat every winter? The bamboo rice was enough, but the clansmen definitely wouldn't agree.

He picked fifty of the female ones, but he couldn't do it. All the clansmen chose the male ones, and he didn't plan to change his mount. After all, that one was very obedient. The rest could only be killed. Originally, he planned to let them go for the sake of his mount, but Uncle Di was the first to object. The other clansmen, including Chang'e and Dong Du, objected. In their eyes, a tiger chicken was a pile of meat, and letting it go was the same as asking for their lives.