Infrastructure Craze (BL) (Full English Translation)

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Chapter 8: Young Chieftain, You've Really Misunderstood

A group of raggedy kids, their hair disheveled, gathered around in tattered animal skins, their bellies swollen from drinking soup. They felt so full, they hadn't felt this satisfied in a long time.

Zhuang Yu was a bit worried, but the kids seemed perfectly fine.

Not far from the cave, a kid wearing a small leather cap was salivating incessantly. Whatever they were drinking seemed really delicious, and even from a distance, he could smell the aroma.

The kid with the leather cap licked a shell continuously, as if that would help him determine the taste. He also wanted some soup, but it was from Yu, whom he detested...

The kid with the leather cap struggled internally. When he saw everyone else drinking bowl after bowl, it seemed they were almost finished.

"Forget it." The kid with the leather cap gritted his teeth, then hid his cap, rolling around in the dirt until he was all dirty. Now, he was also one of the kids from the collective cave.

He ran towards the cave with his shell in hand.

Zhuang Yu watched as the dirty kid, with his head down and holding a shell, approached for soup. Zhuang Yu couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth. Did he think getting dirty would make Zhuang Yu not recognize him? Wasn't he the kid who had passed by his cave thirteen times riding a deer today?

The kid with the leather cap was now especially embarrassed because he had pretended to be one of the kids from the collective cave, holding a shell and waiting for Yu, whom he disliked, to give him soup.

But he didn't care anymore. For the sake of food, he was willing to do anything.

At that moment, Zhuang Yu suddenly said, "Why have you been hanging around my cave entrance all day, Kid with the Leather Cap?"

The kid with the leather cap dropped his shell, being... being recognized. Oh no, it was so embarrassing. He used to always look down on Yu, and now he was here to mooch off him.

The kid with the leather cap turned red in the face, then turned and ran away. How would Yu, whom he had always despised, look at him now? It was too embarrassing.

Zhuang Yu, who was about to serve soup to the kid with the leather cap, also froze. What was going on? Why did he suddenly not want the soup?

What a strange child indeed.

The kid with the leather cap ran far away, feeling ashamed and somewhat angry. He had been looked down upon by Yu. It was just bone broth soup, he had seen it clearly just now. Hmph, he could make it too.

So the kid with the leather cap started making bone broth soup himself. But when he took the first sip with great enthusiasm after it was done, he spat it out immediately. What devilry was this? Why was it different from Yu's? Although he hadn't tasted Yu's soup, just the smell made him drool.

Actually, what the kid with the leather cap made was just bone-washing water, barely boiled, and without salt. It was fishy and stinky. It was a miracle if it tasted good.

Meanwhile, outside Zhuang Yu's cave, a group of kids who had finished their meal hadn't left but instead were helping Zhuang Yu catch bugs in his chili field.

In this world without pesticides, there were many bugs.

Zhuang Yu watched in astonishment. Did these kids, who had drunk his soup, consider this their way of repaying him?

What an interesting group of kids. Had they formed a bug-catching team for his chili field?

Zhuang Yu ignored them, as long as they didn't step on the seedlings. Then he returned to his cave, brought out the beehive he had made, and called Feng Wen over. After some coaxing, Feng Wen finally managed to get all his bees into the beehive.