Chapter 985, Fluffy Fruit

Translator: Silavin

Sha Lan hesitated for a long time before asking. “Does the Shaman truly want to help with this matter?”

Sha Lan felt the Shaman was the Tribe’s most precious person, while girls’ monthly matters were private affairs. Previously, no one had ever brought it up for discussion. Now that the Shaman actually wanted to manage this matter, many people in the Tribe would probably have something to say about it.

“You needn’t worry about others’ opinions. For the sake of everyone’s safety, I absolutely must do this.” Su Bai said decisively.

He naturally knew the people in the Tribe might not be able to accept this, but this was something that had to be done.

This was also within his scope of responsibility. Moreover, only he could resolve it.

Who told him he possessed modern knowledge! Resolving this aspect wouldn’t be too difficult at all.

“What does the Shaman need us to prepare?” Yan Hua mustered her courage to ask.

She had long since grown tired of being uncomfortable for several days every month. Although this did not affect training, daily life, and such, ultimately, her entire body still felt uncomfortable, and it was also extremely unhygienic.

“We need to prepare some cotton, or some plants with relatively good water absorption.” Su Bai blinked his dark eyes. “We don’t currently have cotton, so we can only find some more absorbent plants.”

That was right, he wanted to invent sanitary pads in the primitive era. This was a wonderful thing that liberated women.

Before sanitary pads were invented in modern times, every time their good friend came for those few days, female friends had no choice but to endure those difficult days. Moreover, lying down, sitting, standing up, and walking all required extreme, extreme care everywhere.

This wonderful thing was invented during the First World War by a female nurse serving in a certain country. She used bandages and medicinal cotton to create the earliest sanitary pad. The invention of the sanitary pad was undoubtedly great, and its significance was even more era defining.

Precisely because of this, it was honoured as ‘one of the ten inventions that influenced humanity in the twentieth century.’

There was no reason for such a wonderful thing to be discontinued here, and it was not as if there were no materials to realise it here.

“What plant is cotton? I’ve never heard of it. As for plants with good water absorption, there seems to be only one type,” Yan Hua said, pointing her index finger at her chin.

“I know what it is. That would be Fluffy Fruit, but it’s raining now. I’m afraid many Fluffy Fruits have spoiled,” Sha Lan looked towards the window at the pattering raindrops outside.

“Have someone go collect some back. Try to collect some dry ones. If there aren’t any, we’ll think of another method,” Su Bai instructed.

Upon mentioning Fluffy Fruit, memories surfaced in his mind. These were memories the Old Shaman had passed to him.

Fluffy Fruit was very similar to cotton. Actually, one could also say it had no difference from cotton whatsoever.

It was just that Fluffy Fruit in the primitive era was very much like a large pomelo. After peeling it open, the inside was completely filled with fluffy material, which was essentially cotton.

Fluffy Fruit’s water absorption was extremely strong. If one opened up a Fluffy Fruit and placed the fluffy material into a cup of water, the water in the cup would be immediately absorbed clean.

“It’s not very far anyway. I’ll do my best to have the Warriors retrieve some dry ones back,” Yan Hua immediately nodded. She turned and left at once.

Just as Yan Hua left, Yu Ying walked out of the room extremely embarrassed.

She kept her head lowered throughout, not daring to raise it. The flush on her face explained everything. Her pink fox tail also drooped the entire time.

Yu Ying felt this was simply a large-scale social death scene. She felt somewhat annoyed. Even if she had been rushed this morning, she should have dealt with it first.

Sha Lan slowly walked forward and held the other’s hand, saying gently. “The Shaman says this is very normal. Don’t feel there’s anything wrong with it.”

Sha Lan actually understood Yu Ying’s current state of mind. All she could do was help her relax a little.

“Don’t feel pressured. This isn’t something wrong. This is a completely normal bodily matter.” Seeing Yu Ying’s appearance, Su Bai knew physiological knowledge absolutely had to be added to the learning curriculum.

After all, education must start from childhood. Adults would definitely need some time to slowly reverse this mindset, but children were innocent. Whatever you taught them now was what they would believe. Therefore, while they were still children, they needed to be given some positive values.

“Won’t the Shaman feel it’s especially dirty?” When Yu Ying said this, she also didn’t dare raise her head.

“This is a normal phenomenon for you girls. There’s no question of dirty or not dirty. As long as you handle it properly, there’s nothing…”

Su Bai very patiently explained to her, and the explanation was also extremely detailed.

“Shaman, actually I’m very curious why only we girls have this, and what’s the situation with the bleeding?” Sha Lan asked.

Sha Lan had never known what the actual reason for this was. All along, she only knew it came every month, and when it came, she didn’t feel very comfortable.

But she never knew why it came, what happened when it came, what happened when it didn’t come, and such.

“*Ahem.* This is a long story and relatively complex. I’ll slowly tell you in the future.” Su Bai coughed lightly a few times and said with a flushed face. “But you only need to remember one thing. This coming every month is only to make your body better. It’s equivalent to the function of detoxification.”

He could only explain it this way. If he truly had to explain it to them in terms of biology, who knew how long that would take?

Moreover, they completely didn’t understand. Explaining these things to them at this time would be useless.

Only after written language was more widely popularised in the future would he consider incorporating biology into the teaching scope.

“I see. I thought it was bad for the body. After all, bleeding so much every month, and the body also feels very tired when bleeding.”

Sha Lan nodded thoughtfully. With the Shaman’s explanation, she immediately felt reassured.

She had truly been very worried that something was wrong with her body. At the very beginning, she had foolishly thought she might die.

She wasn’t the only one with such thoughts. Yu Ying and Yan Hua were the same.

During adolescence, the three girls had secretly discussed this problem. They had all been considering what they should do.

“Shaman, you truly won’t throw me away because of this, will you?” Yu Ying asked cautiously.

Yu Ying still had a sacred little girl’s heart. After all, the thoughts others had instilled in her at the beginning were too deeply rooted. Even after receiving an explanation, her heart still harboured some worry.

Su Bai took hold of her hand and said very seriously. “No matter what happens, I will never toss you away.”

When he spoke, every word was forceful. He also spoke very firmly. His gaze was even more so.

“En!” Yu Ying nodded heavily. That sense of embarrassment gradually began to dissipate.

“Don’t worry. The Shaman will definitely help us,” Sha Lan said, still envious when she saw this scene.

“Yes!” Su Bai saw through the cat-eared girl’s thoughts.

He extended his other hand and grasped hers, returning the gentlest smile.

Silavin: I know my reader base is mostly guys, but I have some advice for the girls if they are reading this.

If you have unusual periods, like period cramps, or delayed periods and etc, try to go to a TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine). Here is Singapore, a ton of girls go to them for abnormal periods. It works out better than medicine from western doctors. It’s one of those things where TCM actually works well in, better than normal pills.

For some reason, period problems are a more common issue than I thought when I first heard about it. I think it’s the food. But who knows?