Su Mingxuan’s face lit up with joy. "Of course! I’m more than happy to look after my grandsons," he replied warmly.
"You go ahead and do your work, Lanlan. I will take good care of them."
Su Qinglan patted the cubs’ heads gently. "Be good with grandpa, okay? Listen to him." The cubs nodded their little heads and waved their tiny paws. "Grandpa, play with us!" Xiao Yi said in his soft voice. Su Qinglan laughed and left them with her father.
She then walked toward the new stone house that the tribe had been building.
When she arrived, she could not believe her eyes. The walls were so sturdy and straight. They looked fine and strong. Everyone in the fox tribe stood around the house with wide, excited smiles.
"Wow, look at these walls!" one fox beastman said loudly. "They are so straight and solid. I can’t believe we made this ourselves!"
Another laughed happily. "Yes! It feels like a real house, not a cave. We did it!"
The structure of the house was entirely complete. It had two rooms, a kitchen, and a bathhouse. The outline of all the walls was ready. Now they only needed to make the roof and the gate.
Su Qinglan looked around proudly. "Everyone has worked so hard. The walls are excellent," she said. She pointed at the entrance area. "For the gate, we will use real wood. The trees here are very big. We can cut one into square pieces and arrange them nicely as a strong gate."
A young fox male nodded eagerly. "Yes, Sister Qinglan! We will choose the best tree. It will look beautiful and last long."
For the roof, Su Qinglan explained her plan.
"We will make a triangular shape on top. First, lay strong wooden beams across. That will be the base layer. Then, on top of the wood, we will use huge waterproof leaves. They are thick. When it rains, the water will slide down both sides and not leak inside."
She continued, "We will bind the leaves tightly with strong vines and straw. If the leaves get rotten later, we can easily change them with fresh ones. With some straw added, our house will be completely ready and warm."
The fox tribe members cheered. "That sounds perfect!" one said. "No more worrying about rain leaking into the house."
The lion tribe and rabbit tribe members were also very happy. "We can finally have big houses for ourselves," a lion male said with a big smile.
"And we can build as many as we want now. No more fighting for space in those dark caves."
The happiest ones were actually the single males. They had always been left out whenever it came to housing.
Females and their families always got the good places first. But these males who were not bonded yet always had to squeeze with other males.
Sometimes almost twenty males had to share one single cave. That was really suffocating, especially for males like them who were territorial and liked their own space. But they had no choice before and had to do it.

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