Ancient Eden

Chapter 68

(22.3)

Li Mang noticed her intentions, and looked a little unwilling, he tried to retract his hand and hide it behind him, but she didn’t let go of him, he wasn’t able to take back his hand, so in the end, he just let her do what she wanted. Mu Qing slowly cut off his excessive long nails. Considering that if the cut was too deep, he might not be used to it, she didn’t cut his nails from the root, and left a short section, but she trimmed them all very neatly. At the end, she also ended up trimming his toenails by the same occasion.

People here did not have special nail trimming tools, so they generally let their nails grow long, until they cracked and broke. Mu Qing trimmed Li Mang’s nails, while thinking that after a few days, once she’s no longer so busy with work, she would have time to also help Youyou and her younger siblings trim their nails.

Li Mang clenched his fist and loosened it, repeating it several times. He looked like he wasn’t used to it, and his expression looked like he wasn’t too sure about this.

When he looked up, he saw Mu Qing standing in front of him, looking at him with a smile. A gust of night wind blew past her and ruffled a few strands of her long hair behind her which pounced on his face, the itch felt like it was scratching his heart, and he couldn’t help himself, he immediately hugged her and went back into the hut.

Mu Qing took the bone reaping hook to the field the next day to try it, and it was indeed much easier than the day before. Besides, she found that Li Mang was very clever, he had wrapped the handle part tightly with soft barks from a tree unknown to her, so that even if there was sweat on her hands, it would not slip out of her hands.

This reaping hook attracted the attention of Naduo and the other women, and they took it one by one to try it. They all had a happy smile on their faces, and everyone wanted it. Naduo smiled and pushed Mu Qing onto the crop field, pointed to the children in the tribe who had come along, playing in the fields, and said a few words to her. Mu Qing understood a few words, she was probably telling her not to work in the field, and to just look after the children.

She suspected that Li Mang had secretly asked Naduo to take care of her. When he saw her swollen and red palms last night, his expression seemed to look a little distressed.

Mu Qing felt that she really wasn’t of much help in the field, and she didn’t evade it, so she simply took the children with her to look for wild fruits and vegetables to pick nearby. She had been here for more than twenty days, and gradually she learned to distinguish which ones could be eaten and which ones couldn’t.

During the lunch break, although the people here did not have the habit of eating lunch, everyone seemed very happy to eat the fruits she had picked with the children and the soup she had cooked with the wild vegetables.

The next day, Mu Qing found that almost every woman had a bone reaping hook similar to hers. It seemed that when they went back last night, they asked their men to make the same. Their speed was much higher than the previous two days, and by the third day, the harvest was completed, and the pounding step to remove the shell began.

Mu Qing could feel that most of the women in the tribe were much closer to her than before because of her invention.

In the past, they might have used to think she was a different kind, and although they were polite to her because of Li Mang, it was an alienating kind of politeness. 𝒃𝒆𝒅𝒏𝒐𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝒎

But now when they met her, they smiled brightly at her, and they no longer prevented their children from playing with her. In addition to the cat cradle’s game, she also taught them the game of hopscotch, the game of cat and mouse, and she even made a swing under a tree. This game instantly won the children’s love, and not only girls, but even boys rushed to play with the swing. Mu Qing seemed to have become the queen among the children in the tribe.

Now, except for Naonao, who seemed very hostile to her, everything was going in a good direction.

But Mu Qing couldn’t be happy, on the contrary, her heart became heavier and heavier, because she couldn’t wait for her period to come.

Translator : Laura

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