Stone Age Husband Raising Jornal

C2 - Shi Li

Although Shi Li’s actions were very strange, Xiong Ye didn’t take it seriously. They had only just fought side by side this morning. As for just now… Shi Li probably had a nightmare?

Xiong Ye continued up the steps and soon came to the entrance to a cave. He shouted, “Aunt Ying!”

This cave was where Shi Li and his family lived. The cave wasn’t big, and it’s location wasn’t very good. The entrance was covered by a door that was made up of pieces of wood tied together by vines and plastered with mud, but it was still extremely thick and solid.

Xiong Ye had prepared this for them last year before the onset of winter.

With a lot of children to raise, Xiong Ye’s mother had never had time to concern herself with him. He had spent most of his childhood with the elderly and children of the tribe and had learned many crafts.

The door opened, and a middle-aged woman who was as thin and weak as a reedy bamboo came out. The area around her eyes and forehead was covered in wrinkles.

This woman was Yang Ying, Shi Li’s mother. She saw Xiong Ye and pulled a long face, “What did you come here for?”

Yang Ying didn’t want Shi Li and Xiong Ye to be together, and her attitude towards Xiong Ye had plummeted ever since Xiong Ye and Shi Li had decided to become mates.

Xiong Ye couldn’t really understand this. He was very strong, so for Yang Ying, him mating with Shi Li should clearly be a good thing, right?

As for being unable to have children… The tribe had so many children, so many orphans. If they wanted children, they could definitely bring a few of them back to their cave to raise… And even if they didn’t have children, what did it have to do with Yang Ying?

However, the person in front of him was Shi Li’s mother, and Shi Li still attached a lot of importance to her, so Xiong Ye’s attitude was always very good whenever he dealt with Yang Ying, “Aunt Ying, I brought down a Lesothosaurus and wanted to send some of it over to you.”

Only then did Yang Ying notice that Xiong Ye was carrying prey in his hand. Her eyes became glued to the Lesothosaurus as she reached out to take it.

But Xiong Ye didn’t give it to her.

Xiong Ye stretched out his hand and tore the Lesothosaurus into two, handing over the larger half that contained the internal organs to Yang Ying, “Aunt Ying, here you go.”

The Lesothosaurus had been dead for some time, so no blood dripped out when Xiong Ye tore it in half. Even so, the scene was bloody enough to stun Yang Ying, her disgust plain on her face as her hands stilled. She no longer tried to accept it immediately.

Xiong Ye saw that Yang Ying wasn’t reaching out to take it anymore and placed half of the Lesothosaurus on the stone platform beside the door. He nodded to Yang Ying and left.

In their tribe, children would leave their mothers after reaching adulthood, and most children left even before then and would no longer live with their mother from then on. At most, when the food that was portioned out to the elderly was insufficient, they would offer some extra food to the mother who had raised them—if their father had also taken on the responsibility to raise them, they would also give their fathers a share.

In their tribe, the relationship between parents and their children was not very close, and everyone was already used to it.

Xiong Ye treated Yang Ying well only because Yang Ying was Shi Li’s mother, but it was impossible to expect him to assiduously take care of Yang Ying.

After departing from Shi Li’s home, Xiong Ye hadn’t taken more than a few steps when he noticed a white-skinned young man sitting on the ground in front of another cave entrance. The man was chewing on what was most likely was a plant stalk while staring at him… or was he staring at the meat in his hands?