In the end, Lu Yuelan, the supposed victim who had been scratched, hadn’t even started crying yet, but the little one had burst into loud sobs on the spot instead. This left Lu Yuelan completely flustered, hurriedly trying to comfort the aggrieved little white cat.
After a lot of effort, she finally managed to calm it down. Lu Yuelan couldn’t help but wipe the sweat from her forehead. This was really not easy. Cute little creatures were adorable, yes, but when they cried, they were also deadly. Fortunately, the cuties she had been dealing with recently all belonged to someone else, so she didn’t have to constantly take care of them. Otherwise, her head would have exploded.
For a moment, she completely lost the desire to ever have a cute little child of her own.
Not far away, hidden in the shadows and secretly following Lu Yuelan, Meng San (Third Meng) saw that the young master was crying and immediately started meowing loudly.
“Big brother, big brother! The young master is being bullied! Let’s hurry over and teach that bad person a lesson!”
Beside the chubby orange tabby “Meng San” was Meng Er (Second Meng). With a single “meow,” it slapped the silly, overly innocent cousin who was trying to rush forward right back into place.
“Silly brother, if you’re stupid, don’t act recklessly. If you make the young master unhappy, you’ll have to take another trip through the [1]“Yama hell realm” is a direct reference to East Asian mythological cosmology, but the translation is a bit compressed and slightly awkward in English. “Yama” refers to Yama (also known as … Continue reading jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_2307949_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_2307949_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });Yama hell realm.”
Meng Er put on a melancholic expression, but Meng San clearly couldn’t stand his cousin’s pretentious act and immediately shot back.
“You make it sound like you’ve never done it before. Everyone’s done it, why is it suddenly my fault alone?”
“That’s because those guys went too far, always deceiving our innocent and adorable young master. I couldn’t stand it, so I acted. That’s completely different from your single-minded, brain-dead thinking.”
“So I’m the only one wrong now? Everything’s my fault? Want to fight then?”
Meng San let out frantic meows, restlessly kneading its paw pads as if preparing to fight its second cousin to the death.
“I’m not talking to this idiot anymore. It’s lowering my intelligence.”
“Who’re you calling an idiot? Second Brother, I’ve long been annoyed with you. Come on, let’s have a real fight!”
Meng San, impulsive and short-tempered, felt looked down upon by its second cousin and immediately pounced on it, determined to settle things the “manly” way.
“Big Brother, look at Third Brother! It doesn’t even care about brotherly bonds, it starts fighting just because of a few words!”
Meng Er was smaller in build compared to the third brother and was completely no match for its larger frame. It quickly turned to the nearby Persian cat “Big Brother,” meowing urgently for help.
“Both of you, quiet down. Things don’t seem to be what we think. Don’t panic and make us look like a joke in front of the other beasts.”
Big Brother Meng had always had sharp instincts that had never been wrong. It felt that the situation didn’t involve the person bullying the young master as they assumed, and it impatiently tried to calm its two troublesome younger brothers.
“Big Brother, don’t tell me you think that woman is pretty and can’t bear to deal with her?”
Meng San pressed its fluffy paw on its second cousin, looking suspiciously at its wise and mighty eldest brother. Surely Big Brother wouldn’t be so foolish as to put beauty above loyalty and forget the kindness their master had shown them?
“What nonsense are you spouting? Keep your eyes on the young master’s every move up ahead. If anything happens and he’s bullied, we’ll be betraying the master’s careful upbringing of us.”
Meng Er let out a low warning meow, telling Meng San not to act recklessly. It had already noticed that the Big Brother’s face had turned as dark as the bottom of a pot. If Third Brother kept talking, it would inevitably end up receiving a round of “loving education” from Big Brother.
More importantly, it was still pinned under Third Brother’s paw. If Third Brother got unlucky and was beaten by Big Brother, it would also be dragged into it and beaten by association.
“Hmph, fine, just watch. What’s the big deal? You always say I’m stupid, this time I’m going to make a name for myself and show you I’m not to be messed with.”
“What’s that sound?”
The noise from Meng Er and Meng San’s earlier scuffle was too loud. When Lu Yuelan was coaxing Meng Yemo, she had already sensed something was off, but she had no spare attention to deal with it at the time.
Now that the little one had been calmed down, she finally had time to look elsewhere.
Lu Yuelan shifted her steps and walked toward the direction where the sound had come from.
Could it be enemies tracking them? That wouldn’t do, it could threaten both her and the baby’s safety.
“Teacher Lulu, let’s hurry! The supermarket is launching new products today. I heard the effects are really good, and all the beasts are fighting over them. If we’re late, everything will be sold out~”
The earlier noise had been so loud that even a human like Lu Yuelan, who wasn’t particularly perceptive, had noticed it. As the young cub of the Beast King, Mengmeng had naturally sensed it long ago. At first, it had thought it had nothing to do with it and had simply been enjoying Teacher Lulu’s gentle comfort.
But when it saw Teacher Lulu actually heading in that direction, Meng Yemo suddenly remembered that it seemed it was accompanied by three rather eccentric subordinates sent by its father.
“Damn it… don’t tell me it’s those three idiot beasts again? I hope it’s not them. And even if it is them, please, please don’t let them be stupid enough to attack that young lady.”
A trace of annoyance flashed in Meng Yemo’s eyes. It followed the beautiful big sister forward, ready to step in immediately to protect her if anything went wrong.
It didn’t trust those three beasts at all. Every friend it had ever made had been driven away by those three weirdos. This time, no matter what, it couldn’t let them scare off Teacher Lulu, whom it liked so much.
Preferably, they’d be busy with something today and wouldn’t have time to interfere.
Holding on to a sliver of hope, Meng Yemo followed Teacher Lulu. Unfortunately, reality was cruel, what you fear most tends to happen. Teacher Lulu’s excited voice confirmed it: the beasts inside were indeed its three eccentric subordinates.
“Wow! Baby, look, there are so many cat brothers here! Cute little kitties, you all need to get along well, you’re not allowed to fight each other~”
With one hand, Lu Yuelan lifted a plump, twenty-jin big orange cat; with the other, she picked up a smaller ten-jin local orange cat, separating the two little troublemakers who had been fighting fiercely.
After breaking up the fight, Lu Yuelan turned around with a bright smile and waved at Meng Yemo, gesturing for it to come over and take a look at its cat brothers.
“Teacher Lulu, we should hurry and go into the supermarket to buy things! The staff close the store at noon for lunch break, they don’t operate during that time.”
Meng Yemo looked at the unusually fat big orange cat and the other orange cat that had been groomed until its fur was glossy. It immediately recognized them as two of the eccentric subordinates sent by its father from that bizarre trio. These were the ones who had repeatedly ruined Mengmeng’s friendships with its companions, embarrassed it by taking back gifts it had already given out, and forcibly retrieving them.
The trio had done plenty of such absurd things before. With these two around, the third Persian cat was probably hiding nearby as well.
Meng Yemo didn’t want the beautiful big sister to interact too much with them, in case she got bullied by them and it lost yet another friend it could trust.
“Oh? So the supermarket closes at noon and doesn’t allow shopping?”
Lu Yuelan looked at Meng Yemo in confusion. In the real world, supermarkets and convenience stores often operated 24 hours a day. She didn’t expect that in this other world, supermarkets would be so “democratic” in their operations, closing completely at noon just because staff were taking a nap.
“Sort of. You can still buy things, but you have to check out each item individually with no discounts at all, everything at full price. And if someone has offended a supermarket before, all branches under that supermarket group will charge them extremely high prices. It’s even worse during staff lunch breaks.”
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