Chen Qi nodded hesitantly.

“It’s okay. He’s not really angry with you. He’s just angry with the past.” Ake gave a paradoxical explanation and went to Ka Luo’s side to help him deal with a small sapling that he could not cut with the bone-knife.

Chen Qi also did not dwell on it. It was fine as long as Ka Luo was not angry with him. As for the reason, he would know when it was time to know. He was not a busybody anyway. The most important thing at present was to finish the house. After all, all other problems were insignificant in the face of the problem of survival. Winter was coming and he had no time to waste.

Needless to say, the piece of land, that looked about 100 square meters large, was soon cleared with their help. Chen Qi tied the cut grass into bundles using the banyan roots and neatly packed them beside the house. These were all materials that could be burned and must not be wasted.

Ake was massaging Ka Luo’s arm, while Ka Luo haughtily glared at him in return, although it was quite enjoyable. Chen Qi didn’t bother to pay attention to the cringy couple since he was sorting out a small pile of green weeds. They were mostly plants that Chen Qi didn’t recognise and didn’t look like they could be eaten, but there were two among them that looked very much like a plant Chen Qi had often seen before— the thistle.

The name of this weed was one Chen Qi learned about while he was researching for a project, because its flowers were purple, and although small, they were very beautiful. Although the two stalks in his hand had not yet bloomed, they had long leaves with thin thorns and Chen Qi could hardly be mistaken. The main reason was that these weeds were more common than dandelions and could be found growing all over the place in the community he’d used to live in. Moreover, not only could they be eaten as a dish, but more importantly, they had a hemostatic function. In this place where there was no medicine at all, Chen Qi was very happy to find this little hemostatic plant.

Chen Qi couldn’t wait to test the thistle’s effect. He picked up a stone that looked clean and brushed it lightly with some hay. Then he took two leaves from one of the thistles and mashed them carefully with the stone. The scratch on his hand from Azhang yesterday had not bled in a while, but the wound was still there. After returning, he’d changed the cloth and kept it wrapped all the time. Now, Chen Qi unwrapped the cloth, covered the wound with the crushed thistle leaves, and then rewrapped it with the cloth again. Just as he finished doing that, he saw Aze return with a warthog and something wrapped in cattail leaves in his hand.

Aze walked over to them, looked at Ka Luo with a little surprise, but asked Ake, “Why are you both here?”

“When I gave Uncle Ali the antelope meat for payment yesterday, He said that you might go to the Loya Forest to gather wool cocoons. So we came over.”

“Fortunately, we came over at the right time.” Ka Luo offered these words while looking at Chen Qi meaningfully.

“You’re back? What’s that in your hand?” Chen Qi carefully put the thistle into his pocket and changed the topic with a ha ha. The vulture incident was already over anyway. There was no need to let Aze know.

Aze happily lowered the warthog and opened the leaves to reveal a pile of potatoes still stained with soil. “I found two of the potato plants from yesterday. There were ten potatoes in total. We can continue to have meat and potato stew today.”