Waking up the next morning, Niu Zida quickly checked on Yor's condition. He didn't expect Yor to be in a much better state than he had imagined, and she could even walk on the ground.
Niu Zida was worried that Yor was pretending to be strong. After all, human childbirth required a long period of rest, and there was even the custom of postpartum confinement, but Yor said that she was fine.
"That won't do. You must rest for at least three days and then see how things are."
But Niu Zida stubbornly insisted that Yor rest. Yor was naturally pleased that her master cared so much about her, so she didn't insist and listened to Niu Zida's arrangements, lying on the bed and resting obediently.
"Why haven't these Goblins opened their eyes yet, and they're not eating anything."
In the morning, the news from the old woman was not good. Niu Zida went to take a look. Those newborn Goblins were all listless. They didn't ask for food or cry. If you didn't look closely, you would even think they were dead, only moving occasionally would give people the feeling that they were alive.
"That's really strange."
Niu Zida couldn't figure out the situation. Could it be that these Goblins were going to die as soon as they were born? Although getting pregnant was easy, this was his first achievement after all. If they died before they even became adults, the sense of frustration for Niu Zida would be very strong. What didn't he do well? Did these Goblins get sick? Or is the mortality rate of Goblins originally very high?
Niu Zida asked the Goblins outside, but those people couldn't explain it either. They only vaguely knew that they gradually gained strength and could open their eyes after drinking milk after birth.
Hearing this, Niu Zida realized that the previous little animals also had to drink their mother's milk before they could open their eyes. These Goblins were probably like this because they didn't get breast milk.
"Master... I... feel a little swollen here."
Just as he finished figuring out the situation with the newborn Goblins and returned, Yor approached him, her beautiful, pale face flushed with shame, seeking his help. When Niu Zida lifted Yor's sweater, he saw that her previously snowy breasts had swollen significantly. When he reached out and gently squeezed them, a few drops of milk overflowed, and the scent of milk instantly filled the room.
"Ah... Master, don't do that..."
"I'm... I'm sorry... Yor."
"As expected, you're quite perverted. Miss Yor is so uncomfortable, yet you, her perverted master, still torment her."
"No, I was just confirming the situation."
"Hmph, who knows what your depraved mind is thinking."
Misato Shizuku also seized the opportunity to verbally attack Niu Zida. Fortunately, Yor shook her head, expressing her trust in her master:
"Master, please quickly help me express it. It's so uncomfortable."
"Hmm, you're right."
Niu Zida originally wanted to pounce on her and have a good taste, but considering Misato Shizuku was watching, he knew she would scold him to death if he did such a thing now. So, he could only find a bowl and personally hold it to express Yor's large breasts. Amidst Yor's slightly humiliated gasps, all the milk from her breasts was expressed. One bowl wasn't enough; he filled a total of five bowls, almost using every available container by the end.
He carried the freshly expressed milk to feed the newborn Goblins. Sure enough, these Goblins quickly opened their eyes, and by the afternoon, they could almost walk. Goblins truly lived up to their reputation as a highly reproductive race. By the next day, these Goblins were already jumping and hopping like human children.
He inquired with the other Goblins and learned that Goblins mature within about a week of birth and eye-opening. After all, for a race where most individuals are less than 1 meter tall, if their development period were also very short, they would have probably gone extinct long ago. But even so, this was beyond Niu Zida's expectations; he hadn't imagined that Goblins would develop so quickly.
Of course, it would be too wasteful to give all the remaining milk to the Goblins. Niu Zida gave it to the old woman, asking her to make cheese so it could be preserved for his own enjoyment later.
The process of making cheese was not complicated. The old woman poured fresh milk into a barrel, stirred it to extract the cream, and then placed the pure milk in a warm place to ferment. Once the fresh milk became sour, she poured it into a pot to boil. When the sour milk resembled tofu, she scooped it into a cheesecloth and squeezed out the water. After about a dozen hours, it would be ready to eat the next day. Since it was winter, it could be stored for a long time.
By the third day after delivery, Yor had indeed recovered quite well, and she couldn't stay still in bed. Only then did Niu Zida allow Yor to get up and move around. Of course, bathing was still forbidden, as he feared she might catch a cold. Niu Zida insisted on observing her for another two or three days before allowing it, as the custom of "sitting the month" in his original world had influenced him too deeply. He didn't want his beautiful maid to suffer any postpartum complications and preferred to be cautious.
To avoid disturbing Yor's rest during these days of caring for her, all repair and expansion work had stopped. It wasn't until the third day that Niu Zida once again ordered the Goblins to work. In addition to completing the fences around the area, the farmhouse itself was expanded into a main bedroom with a living room and a nursery. The other side of the nursery was connected to the old woman's residence, so she could easily help care for the young Goblins.
A warehouse was built near the farmhouse to store supplies, while the other Goblins set up tents, lean-tos, and some simple huts around the farmhouse, which had become the main building, for their living quarters. Although these Goblins only lived in caves, they were surprisingly not unfamiliar with building houses. Later inquiries revealed that Goblins were naturally skilled at constructing simple buildings. If they had ample food and a safe, stable environment, they would also build houses and villages themselves. Of course, to avoid being hunted by human adventurers, Goblins closer to human settlements would choose to live in caves to better protect themselves.
Besides that, Niu Zida also briefly inventoried the weapons currently owned by the Goblins. There were about a dozen short swords, which were said to be iron tools collected and processed by the Goblins themselves. They were quite crude; they might be useful for stabbing someone in the dark, but in a head-on battle, wielding these against an opponent, it's likely that even 10 Goblins might not be able to defeat a single human soldier.
It seemed that his current group of Goblins was truly weak and completely incapable of direct combat. Niu Zida had originally thought about gathering Goblins to expand his territory, but with their current strength, they probably couldn't even defeat the group of four or five hundred bandits he encountered before. Speaking of which, that group of bandits hadn't returned since he eliminated a few of their stragglers. What had they been doing lately? Were they still watching Aponia's village?
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