Chapter 1425: Chapter 1264: Ancient Beast World 30
Although beastmen fear the cold, they make up half of the beasts, especially the Silver Tigers, whose beast form has fur and a strong resistance to cold. Therefore, these beastmen don’t need very thick cotton clothes in the winter.
However, beastmen whose beast form is like Snake Birds, which aren’t cold-resistant, must make thick cotton clothes to keep warm. Otherwise, the winter would be very difficult.
The beastmen are incredibly busy during this period. Besides Shi Li and Zhi Yi Da Shi, those exceptionally skilled hunters who need to go out and hunt every day, others are busy making spinning wheels and looms, as well as weaving and spinning.
Now that the tribe has fields and farms, even if they don’t hunt for one or two months, it’s absolutely fine; they won’t lack food or go hungry.
The reason they still keep up the habit of daily hunting, sometimes without using Illusion Beast Incense, is purely to ensure the tribe’s beastmen’s skills and combat powers don’t decline.
Seeing that the cold season is about to arrive, the beastmen in the tribe are all thinking about making more quilts and cotton clothes before the cold season comes.
Although in the cold season now, beastmen no longer need to go out to hunt to avoid starvation while enduring the cold, they still inevitably have to feed the animals at the farms, clean the farm’s hygiene, and handle various tasks requiring going outside.
Every outing during the cold season is a painful test, not to mention that the cold brings not only cold but also the ensuing frostbites.
Speaking of frostbites, Shuangshuang is busy making gloves and cotton shoes lately; as for mere shoes, they are unnecessary.
Because shoes are useless to beastmen except during the cold season when warmth is needed; when beastmen are in beast form, they don’t need to wear anything.
Even when they are in human form, shoes are superfluous to beastmen because when beastmen’s feet touch the ground, they can perceive a lot of information from nature.
The reason Shuangshuang makes cotton shoes is merely to prevent frostbites during the cold season. Now in the tribe, they don’t hunt during the cold season, so beastmen stay in human form, which fits wearing shoes and gloves; when the weather warms up, shoes are not needed anymore.
The spinning wheels and looms were made first, and these only need enough quantities to be adequate.
The remaining task is weaving and spinning. Shuangshuang doesn’t want weaving and spinning, cooking, and homemaking to naturally become tasks meant only for women.
Therefore, Shuangshuang has long issued a command that in the tribe, both female and male beastmen must cook and do housework together, and now, it’s also added to spin and weave cloth together.
But correspondingly, women also need to continue hunting and struggling like the beastmen, which indeed is a strong burden for women, far more exhausting than merely spinning, weaving, cooking, and homemaking.
Yet Shuangshuang insists on doing so because only by undertaking the same obligations and enduring the same pressures can women invariably have the natural right to stand as equals with men, regardless of status.
Shuangshuang doesn’t want the women of this world to eventually experience being suppressed by men for thousands of years, only to usher in a fair, equal era.
Indeed, Shuangshuang witnessed in the modern world how countless women walked the road of equality with men, proving through strength that they are no less than men.
However, the sad part is that equally many women still rely on men, considering marrying a man who can provide a good life as their greatest achievement.
It’s naturally thought: If you can’t give me a good life, why should I marry you, rather than stand alongside me, share the pressures together, and earn and support the family jointly.
Due to thousands of years of domestication, even when liberated, they still hold the belief that they should rely on men, reach out for men’s money, yet unaware that once they do so, no matter how much they contribute, it becomes invisible to men.
They merely consider it a natural belief: Isn’t it what you should do since you rely on my support?
And because women can’t be economically independent and rely entirely on men for livelihood, willingly or unwillingly, they place themselves in a disadvantaged position, continuing the male supremacy mentality spiritually.
Raising children is arduous, and taking care of children is exhausting, but if they also shoulder the responsibility of supporting the family, at least they can legitimately demand that men accommodate them when they’re unable to work and must share child-rearing and housework duties when they are able to work again.
Because I toil as hard as you do, if men still refuse to take on these responsibilities and choose to be chauvinistic, then such men can be dismissed. I support the family and care for the children; if you cannot share responsibilities, what use are you?
But if you lack the ability and rely on a man’s money, unless you’re lucky enough to meet a good man, all your toil is deemed deserved, as a single line like "I earn money so you don’t have to worry" can silence you.
Shuangshuang aims to lead the Silver Tiger Clan to become powerful, strong enough to form a city, a nation, and even if the Silver Tiger Clan ceases to exist someday, the spirit must be passed down continuously.
Therefore, Shuangshuang would rather have women discard all favoritism from the beginning, strive equally as men, than see women become subordinate to men, with life’s quality solely dependent on whether men have a conscience to kindly treat them.
In a blink of an eye, it’s the onset of the cold season; this world has five seasons a year.
Spring, when everything grows; summer, unbearably hot, equivalent to midsummer; the rainy season, with continuous rain; the harvest season, equivalent to autumn; the cold season, much colder than the modern world’s winter.
Each of these five seasons lasts a hundred days—a year is five hundred days. It’s currently the end of the harvest season, and throughout this entire harvest season, the beastmen have been very busy.
Aside from making cloth, clothes, quilts, shoes, and other items, they need to capture grazing animals for raising during the winter, provide feed, and prepare dry wood for burning during the winter.
Fortunately, the beastmen are nimble, with brisk actions, and with about twenty days remaining before the cold season, everything is prepared.
With these remaining twenty days, Shuangshuang has been contemplating what to do, aiming not to waste time. Firstly, all sorts of dried wild vegetables for winter have been prepared.
The pickling containers are waist-high round coarse pottery jars, which were not invented by Shuangshuang, but an ancient skill mastered early by beastmen.
It’s said to have been learnt by the previous Great Witch of the Silver Tiger Clan during his study in the Super Tribe, later taught to the Silver Tiger Clan’s beastmen.
Shuangshuang merely enhanced this skill, adding glaze to the pottery jars, increasing their density, making them less coarse and more durable.
In truth, pickled vegetables are indeed luxurious food for beastmen; it’s not that vegetables are hard to find but salt is scarce. Families struggle even for a mouthful of salt, who would spare any to pickle vegetables?
