Chen Qi handed Ali a wooden board with camouflage clothing designs on it. “I want to dye the cloth this color.”

Chen Qi originally wanted to use salt to add the texture to the cloth, but salt was a rare commodity over here and it would be too wasteful to do so. Only thus did he plan to use mud instead. Obviously, for Chen Qi, who was a novice at dying fabric, it was quite difficult to dye the camouflage pattern.

Looking at the green and red patched cloth after washing and drying, Chen Qi was afraid that even if it was used as a cleaning rag, he would still think it was dirty. He sighed at the failed product then started to mix another plate of grayish green dye-fruit. He put the cloth in the dish and dyed it two or three times. Only then did he dye the cloth to normal color. Then he took a brush and manually painted the camouflage pattern onto it with some yellow and black dye.

Looking at this imitation of crude camouflage clothing with satisfaction, Chen Qi waved Ali over, “Ali, you can help me make a camouflage suit according to this design. Just make it according to Aze’s size.”

Chen Qi explained the main points of camouflage clothing to Ali in detail. When Ali began to make it, he instead started to make leather belts, real leather belts.

Chen Qi had only made a leather belt once, which was when he got married. Naturally, it was easier to make now than before. It was just that the one he’d made before was really rough looking now and didn’t match the color of the camouflage clothing, so he planned to make another one.

The leather used for the belt was a kind of cowhide, which was brown and had a certain toughness to it. Chen Qi first cut it to length, then polished the edge with a smaller grindstone and colored the edges with a brown dye-fruit solution, before finally polishing the belt with turpentine after it was dried. Then polished the belt with rosin after it was dried. There was no other way, as there was no suitable material here, so he could only reluctantly use rosin as a replacement.

The buckle, made of bone and the cowhide, was very tough, so he spent a long time punching holes into the belt. By the time that Chen Qi finished polishing the belt well, and sealed the belt with a layer of melted gum fruit, Ali had already almost finished making the clothes.

Chen Qi couldn’t wait to ask Aze to come back and try it on. Every evening and early in the morning, the snow in the yard needed to be cleared. Chen Qi just needed to stand by the door and call out for Aze for him to hear it.

When Aze changed into this set of clothes that had taken several days to make, Chen Qi couldn’t help whistling, “Aze, you are even more handsome than those young fresh meat looking for well-connected patrons.”

“Is there any other use for this kind of clothes?” Ali watched Chen Qi toss a lot of time from making the cloth to the final finished product. He even painted the strange patterns on the fabric meticulously, stroke by stroke. Previously, he hadn’t paid much attention to the other clothes. He always just threw the design draft to Ali, and at most he’d explain a little more if Ali didn’t understand it and inquired.

“Won’t they need to go hunting in the forest after summer begins? Wearing this kind of clothes should help to camouflage them better, so that it would not be so easy to be spotted by prey.”

Most of the cloaks that Chen Qi prepared for the females during winter were made of white animal hides. As long as they wore the hood and laid down in the snow, it would be difficult to see that there was another person there. However, animal skins were rarely green. Dragons were much smarter than the creatures on the plains. Aze told him that hunting in summer was not so easy. Then he realized that if he could make a few sets of camouflage clothing, it should increase the success rate of the females’ hunts a little.

“This suit really suits you.” Chen Qi walked around Aze several times. Aze’s back was very straight and he stood there with a bit of a soldier’s heroic posture.

Aze’s ears were red. He liked to hear Chen Qi praise him.

After hearing Chen Qi say that the clothes could increase their camouflage, Azhang, who had followed behind to join in on the excitement, also went over to have a serious look. Apart from the strange colored patches on the clothes, he really couldn’t see how the clothes could help camouflage. However, this still didn’t reduce his enthusiasm for the so-called camouflage clothes. Azhang returned to Ali’s side and said coyly, “You can help make one for me too.”

Ali gave him a grumpy look, picked up another piece of cloth that had not yet been dyed and asked Chen Qi how to paint the camouflage pattern.

The cloth at home was just enough to make three sets of camouflage clothing, so the three females just happened to get a set each. Unfortunately, Chen Qi had not yet worked out how to simply dye the camouflage pattern, so they would have to spend a lot of time painting it with a brush each time. Fortunately, Ali’s learning ability was very good and he could draw a similar camouflage pattern similar to the one he’d drawn.

Although the snow showed no signs of stopping, Chen Qi was worried that the snow really would keep falling until summer. When he was free these days, he asked Aze and the others to start digging a drainage ditch at the edge of the wall so that when the ice on the wall began to melt, the water would not flow back to the houses.

It was another Moonless Day. Aze was out for guard duty in the middle of the night. Because of the cold weather, Chen Qi’s old problem of staying in bed in the mornings emerged again. He tossed and turned in the bed for more than half an hour before he grit his teeth and prepared to get up. Before he could get dressed properly, the heavy wooden door was suddenly kicked away with a “bang”, and the cold wind which carried snowflakes blew in. Chen Qi could not help shivering, and even the sleeping Ajing was also awakened by the sounds.

Aze was still breathing out puffs of warmth in the cold, and he walked to the bed quickly, he had no time to explain and just picked up a hide quilt to wrap around Chen Qi’s body, then carried him onto his back, followed by picking up Ajing with one hand and the little wolf cub, who was still drooling in his sleep, with the other. Before Chen Qi could ask what was happening, Aze quickly ran to the door, and with a few jumps, climbed onto the tall fig tree nearby.

“What happened? Was there another hyena-drake attack?” Chen Qi asked nervously in a low voice.

Aze shook his head and lowered Ajing down. “It’s not an attack.”