Chapter 21

At the end of the day, I can only vaguely say something like "let’s talk about it later", but compared to that straightforward refusal, Tan Tu was very happy. Other females also notice that he’s thinking about it and didn’t continued the topic.

Several females spoke a few words together. Mostly discussing about what kind of plants are better in these fields, while the males could only follow and watch.

Tan Tu watched his sweetheart seriously asking questions about life and work, he recalled his tacit attitude before—whether he just wants to avoid embarrassment or for any other reason, it gives him a feeling that "if he pursues hard, there will be results".

Ah Ce is really soft-hearted...Tan Tu thought. Perhaps he knew how to keep him.

Su Ce didn’t know what Tan Tu was doing but he didn’t want to hang him out for a long time. Although Mo La kept hanging out his pursuers. However, in Su Ce’s view, he still couldn’t adapt to the atmosphere of females being "highly protected". As a man, he’s required to "produce gentlemanliness" on Earth. Even if his character is too serious, he always respect people more... But now he was totally turned in the opposite direction here, making him feel very unaccustomed.

In this Orc world, the male-female relationship is too unbalanced for him. If it’s only the relationship between attachment and being attached, and local Orcs living together, it’s absolutely not enough for him.

But...why did he suddenly think of "living together"?

Su Ce glanced indifferently at Tan Tu, who was currently in a daze. This guy...

He was certain that when he was thinking about it, what crossed his mind was a huge golden lion and a man’s face he was already familiar with.

But...

The conversation didn’t last long. Mo La still had a lot of work to do this afternoon. Ai Guo and Ai Mi also found some weeds needed to be remove from their fields. After Mo La whispered a few words to them, Tan Tu could only lead Su Ce to do the rest.

Their next destination is the sillworm house where red silkworms are raise

Tan Tu and Su Ce walked side by side, either because of the general attitude of the tribe or because Tan Tu knows Su Ce’s physical ability is much weaker than ordinary females, when treating Su Ce, his attitude is more careful than that of twins.

To tell the truth, it’s not that bad to be protected, but Su Ce thinks Tan Tu is being overly careful... Still, Su Ce’s nature is not too pretentious. Because Tan Tu has developed such temper, he’s not unable to accept it. There’s no need to force each other, but the atmosphere of getting along becomes abnormal

Perhaps because it’s difficult to raise red silkworms, the place where they raise was a wooden house which isn’t tall compared with other houses. The exterior looked like it was made of thick wood, there were no windows, only a thick fur curtain hung there.

Tan Tu reached out and lifted the hide. He took Su Ce and walked in.

There were a few dozen people in the room. There are several broad wooden frames on the wall, each has large things like gigantic plates made of rattan, covered with green and thick leaves and some dark red worms crawling on it.

In the middle is a huge wooden table, about five or six meters long and three or four meters wide, which occupies half the area of the room, the females are scattered on four sides of the table, there’s ample distance between each other.

Perhaps they noticed someone was coming, several females looked up. Su Ce recognized one of them was La Ya, whom he had seen before.

Tan Tu raised his hand and greeted, “Hey, La Ya, the bones are at the door of your room. Did you see them?”

La Ya laughed, “I see, there’s no problem.” The he took another look at Su Ce and said, “You also come?”

Tan Tu replied, “Ah Ce is interested in this, so I took him over to see.”

He said and pulled Su Ce forward.

Su Ce nodded to La Ya. He thought that these people should be "women", but when he saw these "men" who were somewhat stronger than him, he felt he couldn’t really treat them as "women"—even if they could have children!

“Hello.” He said.

La Ya smiled, “Ah Ce is new here. Are you also interested in sericulture?”

Su Ce nodded, “En, there are some principles I want to know.”

Tan Tu pulled Su Ce to the other side, “La Ya is the best one here. He will tell you how it works,” Then looked at La Ya again, “Right, La Ya?”

La Ya smiled and nodded, “Of course, I welcome Ah Ce.”

Su Ce walked over and found a rattan basket at La Ya’s feet, almost one meter high with transparent silk threads all rolled on a kind of wood to form a spindle. La Ya also has tools in his hand. One is a silver-like thing with thin tooth rows (like a comb), and the other is slender slightly curved top like a needle, which looks strange.

La Ya noticed Su Ce’s line of sight and shook the slender one, “This is called "hook stab". Then he pulled a stool beside him, “Ah Ce, come and sit. I’ll slowly explain it to you.”

Su Ce looked back at Tan Tu. Tan Tu hurriedly raised his hand, “I’ll be here with you.”

Su Ce went and sat down.

In front of La Ya, there was a bamboo strip and a wooden basin. The wooden basin was soaked with a transparent cocoon cut into two halves, its upper part was still steaming with heat. The bamboo strip was all kinds of blood red pupae curled up together.

La Ya picked out a pot of cocoon with a hook, held it with his hand, and picked it up lightly on the top. He pulled out a thin thread that was barely visible. Then he brought in a piece of wood with an arms length, wrapped the thread up, and rolled it with his hand. After a while, he pulled out the silk on the half cocoon. Then smiled at Su Ce, “This is the twisted silk. But a hot water must used when soaking to make it soft.”

Su Ce nodded, looking at La Ya pointing at the two females in the open space outside the table. Among them was a wooden frame with two horizontal shafts. Long wires hung on the shafts like a piece of cloth. The two females were divided into two sides and combed the silk with something like a comb from two directions, and said, “That is called a silk rake, which is used to arrange the silk threads.”

Su Ce nodded again, indicating that he understood. He carefully watched the other females movements. Some of them cut the whole cocoon with a finger-length knife and poured out the pupae. Some poured hot water, some picked silk, some combed silk, some rolled silk, and some erected two thin woods and continuously weaved them in the middle. Their movements were very flexible...

It’s really like what Ai Guo said, it’s a very complicated craft.

Su Ce watched it for a while. After being familiar with each step, looking back, Tan Tu stood not far from him. Unshakable, like a rock, making him very...soft. Even after meeting his eyes.

Tan Tu looked at Su Ce’s expression, feeling that it change from his previous situation, so he called out a little puzzled, “...Ah Ce?”

Su Ce retracted his eyes. He nodded to La Ya first and to the other females who were watching him, and said, “We’re leaving now.”

After receiving the same polite response, he turned around and walked over Tan Tu, “Tan Tu, let’s go.”

Tan Tu’s head tilted, “Ah Ce’s done watching?”

Su Ce nodded gently, “I know everything I need to know.”

Tan Tu smiled, “Then, let’s go.” He whispered in his ear, “Ah Ce is the best!”

After saying goodbye to the females handling the red silk, Su Ce and Tan Tu left the room.

Tan Tu looked at Su Ce, his face full of apologies, “Ah Ce, let’s go to the Patriarch’s place and talk to him about the land.”

Su Ce reacted and nodded, “...En”

Tan Tu showed a big smile, about to stretched out his hand but immediately retracted, “Ah Ce, are you tired?”

Su Ce shook his head, “Not tired.” When he saw Tan Tu’s disappointment, he said, “I’ll tell you when I’m tired.” After that, he saw Tan Tu’s happy expression back, making his heart slightly relaxed.

He’s increasingly unable to refuse Tan Tu’s plea...

When there were no major incidents, the Patriarch always stayed in the tent. Su Ce and Tan Tu raised the tent skin and went in, they saw their Patriarch, Sa Ta, as usual.

“Hey, Tan Tu, you’re here again?” Sa Ta smiled brightly, “Ah Ce, didn’t you let Tan Tu show you around?”

Su Ce nodded slightly and said, “I’ve seen some places already, thank you for your concern.”

Tan Tu said, “Patriarch, we came here to take Ah Ce’s land. I was too rushed yesterday that I forgot.” He scratched his hair, a little uneasy.

Sa Ta raised his brows, turned around and grabbed a wooden sign from the skin bag on the wooden frame, picked up a little juice with his fingernails, wrote a few words on it and handed it to Su Ce.

Su Ce then took a look. It was his name on it

Sa Ta smiled and said, “Just stick this one on the edge of the land you choose.”

Su Ce thanked him and left again with Tan Tu.

Coming out, Su Ce felt the bright light shining on him, then his whole body seemed to be pierced by a needle. Every inch of his skin was sharply tingling—

He couldn’t help but feel dizzy and fell back softly.

In a hazy, a pair of strong arms catches him. However he passed out the next moment, the vague anxious call in his ear disappeared with the distance of consciousness...