My husband is too wild, I need to go home and find my mom.

Chapter 90 The baby in her belly is starting to grow.

Bai was envious that Linni always sat in Feng's lap, so she teased him. He was thick-skinned and could joke around. Yan, on the other hand, was wherever needed. Although she couldn't be too intimate with him because they weren't yet partners, they had worshipped the Beast God together, so talking to him was fine. Yao was the best cook, so whenever he was home, he would cook. Of course, she had to sleep in Yao's arms at night. Although they were all her partners, people's hearts are biased; her true love was undeniably Yao. Since she was close to Yao at night, she could only comfort the other three during the day.

Lin Ni sat up and opened her arms to Yao. Yao immediately went over and hugged her, kissing her lips and asking with a smile, "Little Ni, did you deliberately send them away?"

Lin Ni blushed. It sounded like she was deliberately creating opportunities to be alone with him. But now that she thought about it, she realized it had been a long time since she had been alone with Yao. So she kissed him and leaned against his chest, saying, "I want you to hold me."

Yao smiled broadly and said, "Okay."

Lin Ni rubbed her face against his fur-lined clothes in his arms and asked in confusion, "Why is Bai always clinging to you?"

Yao thought for a moment: "No! But the day he turned into human form, he said that I would be his older brother from now on, and you were there at the time."

Lin Ni recalled the scene, but Bai's soul hadn't fully merged yet, so his speech and actions were a bit strange. It got much better after the complete fusion. At the time, she thought he was just overjoyed, but she hadn't realized he was serious! Lin Ni thought for a moment and then said, "I don't want anyone else to hug you, and you can't hug anyone else either."

Yao nodded: "Of course, I am your Yao."

Lin Ni looked up with satisfaction and kissed his rosy lips, then lay down on the heated kang, experiencing a double satisfaction of body and soul. The two entwined tirelessly for an entire afternoon. Seeing that it was getting dark, Yao wrapped Lin Ni in animal skin and carried her to the hot spring for a bath.

Linni used to love soaking in hot springs, often for half an hour at a time. But today, she only soaked for ten minutes before feeling uncomfortable. Looking at the open-air hot spring, she wondered why she hadn't thought of having them build a small house here when the weather was nice. That way, they wouldn't have to worry about rain or snow. What a blunder!

Lin Ni rubbed against Yao and said, "Yao, I want to go back."

Yao kissed her: "Leaving so soon today? Didn't you say you were tired and wanted to take a nice bath?"

Lin Ni blushed and said, "Isn't this all your doing!"

Yao smiled contentedly: "I love Xiao Ni so much."

Linni said sweetly, "I like Yao the most too!"

The two spent a while longer being affectionate in the hot spring. Lin Ni found the smell of the hot spring rather unpleasant, so Yao reluctantly wrapped her in animal skin and carried her home.

The next day, the people of the Tiger Beast Tribe visited the stone house where Linni and her companions were staying. To avoid unnecessary trouble, Linni only let them see the dining room and bedrooms; the cave was blocked off with a wooden door. The beastmen touched the warm heated kang (a traditional heated platform bed), and were amazed by the stone stove used for cooking and the multi-functional stove in the dining room that served as a table, brazier, and barbecue grill. They praised her, saying, "No wonder she's a naturally gifted female blessed by the Beast God; she's so clever!"

In just two days, Feng and his companions taught everyone in the tribe who needed to learn how to make a heated kang (a traditional heated platform bed). He, Bai, and Yan even helped build a stove for their female beasts, Mei and Li, in their cave. These things were actually quite simple to make; it was just that no one had previously considered that the females would also drink soup, though they would place the bowls on the ground. Seeing Lin Ni's combined stove and table, and the stools made from wooden stakes, everyone realized: "Oh, so that's how it can be done!"

So during the long and boring winter, the beastmen of the Tiger Beast Tribe began to furnish their homes instead of just using caves to store food and sleep.

Linni then asked Bai to find a large piece of wood. She wanted to make a long wooden sofa and several chairs with backrests—chairs, not stools. As she gestured and explained, she even drew a rough outline on the ground with burnt twigs—she could only draw a rough outline; she couldn't draw anything detailed.

When Feng first heard that they needed to make a chair with a backrest, he said, "Lin can just lean on me, there's no need to make a special chair."

Linni could only say, "It's comfortable to lean against now, but it won't be good in the summer and dry season. It'll be too hot for you."

Bai: "Then you can lean on Ye. Didn't you spend the whole day on him during the dry season?"

Lin Ni blushed. It was unbearably hot back then, and she thought it was just her and Ye! So she glared at him and said, "You weren't human back then. Just pretend you didn't see what you saw."

Bai: "Okay, I really wasn't human back then."

Feng: So you don't mind who Lin leans on, but you mind leaning on me!

Lin Ni couldn't help but laugh: Someone actually admitted that they weren't human.

Six chairs and a sofa were finished in two days. Lin Ni spread an animal hide on the sofa and lay down: "Mmm, very comfortable!" So they had hot pot together that day. The atmosphere was great, and she accidentally ate too much. She touched her slightly protruding belly: "I've been eating too much lately! I'm not exercising enough, and I just eat and sleep every day. I've gained weight, and I even have a little belly!"

Yao sat down next to her: "That's because the baby in Lin's belly is starting to grow."

"?!" Lin Ni suddenly stared at Yao, her eyes filled with disbelief and confusion, then sat up abruptly: "What? Yao, what are you talking about?"

Yao looked at her expression and remained silent for a moment. Lin Ni turned to look at her other companions. Bai and Yan were both looking at her with strange expressions, while only Feng had his eyes downcast, his eyes unfathomable. Lin Ni then looked at Yao, who slowly said, "I mean the cubs in Lin's belly are already over forty days old, so Lin needs to eat more food so that they have enough energy to grow."

Linni gently covered her lower abdomen with both hands. No wonder she said her period was so late this time. The last time it came was in the fall. Back then, Feng and Yan were still out cleaning up the cursed land and hadn't returned. She gently pressed her abdomen, feeling a little hard, and unconsciously murmured, "The baby in my belly."

Bai asked curiously, "Didn't Lin pray to the Beast God for it the night Ye left? Why does Lin seem unaware of it?"