Chapter 306: Moving into a New Home, Accompanied by Fine Wine!
After everything inside the brick house was prepared, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls began moving all the beds from the wooden house into the brick house. Each Beast-eared Girl and Winged Girl picked out a room for themselves, while leaving the largest room in the center for Lin Ye.
Once all the beds were moved in, Lin Ye began to make fur coats with the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls. The only requirement was warmth, not a perfect fit. The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls made their own fur clothes, and Lin Ye had only taught them how to sew pants and add sleeves to their clothes.
The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls learned quickly. However, after the pants were made, they encountered a new problem: they didn’t have any underwear. So, after putting on pants, they felt a bit uncomfortable and itchy. As Sakura put it, it was “ticklish.” However, for the sake of warmth, Lin Ye still had the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls overcome this difficulty.
The Winged Girls’ clothes had an extra step compared to the Beast-eared Girls’: they had to cut two holes in the back for their wings to extend. Shoes were even easier to solve; they just needed to wrap a layer of leftover fur scraps from making clothes around their straw shoes.
One by one, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls put on their new clothes and all smiled brightly. Although they weren’t very attractive, they were made of pure wild beast skin and were truly warm. Lin Ye, on the other hand, used the saber-toothed tiger hide he had to make a tiger skin cloak for himself.
After finishing the clothes, Lin Ye began to make tables, chairs, and benches. For the table, he directly cut down a tree with a diameter of over two meters. After measuring the trunk, he planed it into a rectangular prism and then carried it into the brick house, where it became their dining table.
Next came the stools. Using the same method, he chose a much thinner tree. This time, he planed it into a square prism, then sawed it into individual cubes. Each cube became a stool. Covering it with a piece of beast skin made it very comfortable to sit on.
The next task was the final one: installing all the doors and windows. With this, everything inside the brick house was ready. It finally felt like a home. Anything they lacked later could be added little by little. For now, everything was sufficient.
As the last door panel was installed, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls stood outside, looking at the brick house they had built with their own hands. After exchanging excited glances, they all cheered jubilantly. Even Grandma Nanrong stood to the side, beaming, and kept smiling as she looked at the brick house. Lin Ye’s face was also filled with a smile. Being able to build a brick house in this primitive world filled Lin Ye with a sense of pride.
Seeing the excited appearance of the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, Lin Ye smiled and shouted to them, “Alright, tonight we’ll have a good meal to celebrate moving into our new house!” The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, who were already very excited, erupted in even more enthusiastic cheers upon hearing Lin Ye’s words. Sakura, Diona, Setsuna, and Ling, the four little girls, ran around crazily with joy.
After a period of excited cheering, Shi led some people to start cooking. It was just after noon, but since Lin Ye wanted to celebrate, Shi planned to make everything she knew how to make. They could eat whatever they wanted.
Meanwhile, Lin Ye walked into the cave. Four jars of wine were buried there. These wines had been brewed long ago, but Lin Ye had been waiting for this day. Moving into a new home was a joyous occasion, and what better to accompany it than delicious wine? Thinking of this, Lin Ye’s face broke into a happy smile. He dug out all four jars of wine from the ground. Each pottery jar was still tightly wrapped in a piece of beast skin. Holding the ropes tied to the beast skins, he carried two jars of wine in each hand and returned to the brick house.
He placed the four jars of wine on the table. Lin Ye then went to the storeroom and found two clean pottery jars and two large spoons. The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were by the stove and fireplace, watching Shi and the others busy cooking. Lin Ye, at the dining table, peeled the beast skin off the pottery jars containing the wine. The pottery jars, still wrapped in beast skin, were unchanged from when he buried them.
Lin Ye then slowly opened the lids of the pottery jars. A smell of rotting grapes mixed with a faint aroma of alcohol wafted out. Lin Ye held his breath and peeked into the pottery jar. He saw that the grapes, which had been crushed by the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, were now floating on top of the liquid. The original half-jar of grapes had also increased in volume. This was because all the juice from the grapes had secreted out, but the gaps within the pulp had not closed. Since the grapes were now floating on the wine, the contents of the pottery jar appeared to have increased. It was like pouring out the water from a mineral water bottle; the bottle remains the same size, but the water seems to have increased.
After looking for a moment, Lin Ye’s eyes were irritated by the smell from the pottery jar, and he had to step aside to let it dissipate. After opening all four pottery jars, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls also smelled the aroma emanating from the jars. “Sniff! Sniff~!” Several Beast-eared Girls with their keen sense of smell twitched their noses and looked towards the source of the smell. Seeing Lin Ye sitting by the dining table with four pottery jars in front of him, and the four pieces of beast skin on the side, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls suddenly remembered that Lin Ye had once taken them to make something called wine.
So, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, who couldn’t help with cooking, all gathered around. As they got closer, the smell from the pottery jars became even more intense. Sakura came up to Lin Ye, frowning, and asked, “Ye, is this the wine we made before? Why does it smell like this?” After Sakura finished speaking, Ling sniffed the air and also asked, “Yeah, Ye, is this wine really good? It smells so bad.” The other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls gathered around also nodded at Lin Ye, hearing Sakura and Ling’s words.
Lin Ye looked at the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls and shook his head with a smile, then said, “This is just the accumulated smell inside the pottery jars for such a long time. You’ll smell the aroma of the wine in a little while.” Hearing Lin Ye’s words, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls all looked at the four pottery jars on the table with doubt. The smell of rotting grapes was indeed unpleasant, but after this smell dissipated, it would be the true aroma of the wine. Lin Ye sat aside and waited patiently. The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls also sat down. After smelling the aroma for a long time, they got used to it.
Gradually, the unpleasant smell began to fade away. Soon, a fragrance that the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had never smelled before emanated from the pottery jars. Upon smelling this aroma, Lin Ye’s face broke into a smile. Moreover, judging by the smell, the wine’s alcohol content was likely not low. He could clearly smell the strong scent of alcohol in the aroma.
After sniffing the aroma for a while, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were all captivated. Sakura closed her eyes and kept sniffing with her little nose, her body involuntarily leaning forward. The other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls did the same, closing their eyes and savoring the fragrant aroma. Lin Ye stood up with a smile. He picked up a large spoon and began to scoop wine from the pottery jars. Lin Ye’s movements were very careful. When scooping the wine, he tried his best not to include the pulp, as it would affect the taste of the wine. However, it was inevitable that some pulp would be included. Even the most expensive wines sold on Earth have some sediment of grape pulp, and there are people who prefer this; they believe that this kind of wine is brewed according to the strictest winemaking standards.
