NOVPUBChapter 322: Chapter 320: Little Furball Eggy
Chapter 322: Chapter 320: Little Furball Eggy
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Auro went out early in the morning to set up a stall to sell jerky.
Sally was bored at home, so she simply followed along.
Dressed in the fine clothes Ming Linyuan had prepared for her, she stole the spotlight on the entire street, attracting all sorts of onlookers.
Sally, serving as a live advertisement, began to shout and peddle the goods.
Before long, the jerky had all sold out.
Taking advantage of Auro packing up the stall, Sally started to stroll along the street.
There were fruit vendors, vegetable sellers, and all sorts of everyday items for sale—it was very lively.
Sally stopped in front of a fruit stall; the fruits were all very fresh, so she waved her delicate hand and bought the entire lot.
In the end, she even unexpectedly discovered a cluster of Seven-Star Scarlet Fruit. The stall owner, happy and unfamiliar with the Seven-Star Scarlet Fruit, gave it to her as a free gift.
Having fortuitously found Spiritual Material, Sally was in an excellent mood and continued browsing the street.
She came to a stall selling young beasts and birds.
Inside was a cage of little chicks, among which was a drab one that looked just like Manman when she was born. She had the vendor take it out for a closer look.
Apart from the eyes lacking the special light of young Beastmen, it looked almost the same in all other respects.
“How much for this one?”
“One Red Coin.”
“I’ll take the entire cage, charge it to my dad.”
“Today a noble has graced my store, thank you, little Sally.”
“It’s because Uncle’s goods are good. Oh, what kind of young beast is this?” Sally’s gaze fell on an old cage, inside which was a small and skinny furball, its fur matted and scruffy, covered with a fetal membrane over its dull grey eyes.
“I set a beast trap for seven days and only caught this thing. It looks like a wild cat cub. Little Sally, you don’t want this dirty thing.”
“Wild cat cub? Our home is by the mountain, right? There are always some big beasts and the like, keeping a wild cat wouldn’t be bad.”
“Well then, I’ll give this little thing to little Sally.”
“Okay, and take that cage of ducklings as well, charge it to my dad.”
“Done.”
Sally saw some straw sandals for sale, took off the fluffy and beaded blue satin embroidered shoes from her feet, put on the straw sandals, and felt an instant cool and breezy comfort. She bought twenty pairs in one go.
In the end, Auro pulled over a cart full of jerky and headed back with a cart full; Sally had nearly spent all the earned Red Coins.
But Auro was happy with the spending, wishing Sally would buy even more.
Sitting on the ox cart, Sally ate the Seven-Star Scarlet Fruit and observed the little furball.
[Xiaomei, are you online?]
Xiaomei did not respond to her.
[…]
Sally began to examine the little furball herself and asked Auro, “Dad, do you recognize this thing?”
“Wild cat cub. The chickens and ducks you’re going to raise will be eaten by it,” Auro laughed.
Sally: “…That won’t do, I was looking forward to eating chicken and duck eggs.”
The father and daughter chatted idly as they made their way home.
When they arrived at the entrance of their home, they saw Zulu standing like a wooden post with a large bundle at his feet.
Just like before, he had been kicked out of his home after the cancellation of his engagement… Sally couldn’t help but suppress a chuckle, yet she felt unexpectedly pleased.
“Is this running away from home?” Sally asked with a smile.
“Engagement canceled, swept out of the house,” Zulu replied, his unease vanishing as he saw the smile on Sally’s face, “I’m seeking shelter.”
Auro was stunned, “This…”
Sally got down from the ox cart, “Are you also trying to be my sworn brother?”
“No, I want to be a Beast Husband,” Zulu said, his gaze fixed on her with determination.
Sally laughed, her eyes sparkling as she looked at him, “No way!”
Zulu wasn’t surprised, but as long as Sally didn’t dislike him, that was enough, “It’s okay, I will wait until you agree.”
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Eastern District, Beast Emperor’s Palace.
Since receiving the news that Ming Linyuan was about to undergo Tribulation in seclusion, Zi Qi knew his plan had failed.
He placed Little Shiqi in the sunlight, watching it hop around catching its own shadow, a faint smile on his lips.
“Forget it, if she likes it, then let her keep it.”
“What did Your Majesty say?”
“Can a rabbit with a Yellow Rank Talent cultivate to the Spirit Rank?”
“Never seen a pure Rabbit Clan member at the Spirit Rank, but I have seen a mixed-blood Rabbit Beast that looked like a rabbit but had a bird’s beak, at the mid-Spirit Rank.”
“Mixed-blood…” Zi Qi mused.
“Your Majesty, recently the Dark Continent seems to be planning to make a move on the Western District.”
“The business of the Beast Emperor of the Western District is not our concern.”
“But what about Consort Su in the Western District? Could she be unsafe?”
“The Beast World collapsed, and yet she survived just fine,” Zi Qi said with a sigh of resignation.
Yu Yan: “…”
His Majesty has been acting stranger and stranger lately and even started cultivating. Could it be he has encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation?
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Sally gave the little furball a bath.
Looking at the now clean little yellow furball, she gave it a name, “Eggy.”
Eggy loved to drink cow’s milk and would wait obediently every day for her to feed it. It gradually got rounder and fatter, behaving very docilely.
Sally’s belly also grew bigger day by day, round and plump.
The day for giving birth was fast approaching, only one day left.
Zulu was arranged by Auro to stay in an old house closer to the outskirts of the tribe. Every day he would go hunting in the Beast Forest and then come to Mountain Stream Residence the next day with his catch to help Auro with chores.
In reality, he was there to keep company with the pregnant Sally, and as long as he could see her, he was extremely happy and content.
Sally saw him carrying a basket of vegetables and holding a wild pig as he entered, “Where did the vegetables come from?”
“The vegetables in the garden over there have grown. Those planted outside the wall have been plucked clean by the neighbors; these were planted behind the house.”
“I almost forgot we had vegetables planted there,” Sally said as she pulled out a handkerchief from her sleeve and handed it to Zulu, “Wipe your sweat.”
“No need,” Zulu said, looking at her big belly, “Don’t walk around too much.”
“I’m fine,” Sally said, touching her big belly, “Could you, um, not go out these next few days?”
For some reason, she had been feeling anxious these past two days. She asked Xiaomei, and all the children were doing well, and they were aware that she was about to give birth to Little Shiba, which made them very happy.
Especially the second, third, and fourth, knowing that their Father Beast was alive, cultivated even more diligently.
This was also why Sally decided to keep Zulu around.
Xiaomei was right, her indecision was indeed her greedy desire fermenting. She knew Zulu deserved a better happiness, but she just wanted to keep him by her side.
Her soul was human, she couldn’t do as the Beastmen do, relegating feelings behind cultivation and offspring, selfishly not wanting Zulu to be with other females.
If Zulu hadn’t come looking for her, she would have been able to rationally restrain her own desires.
But since he had come, he could only be the Father Beast of her children.
“Okay,” Zulu also knew she was about to give birth, and with the children’s Father Beast not having returned, she must be feeling anxious.
Only Sally knew that she was worried about Zulu encountering danger while she was giving birth.
She vividly remembered that he had died on the day she gave birth to her children.
“Eh? Eggy seems to be feeling unwell,” Zulu noticed Eggy lying on the ground vomiting.
Sally said, “I saw it sneaking some grass earlier, it might be coughing up hair.”
