When Su Cha returned home, she found a Beastman squatting by the door.
Seeing her approach, he hurriedly stood up.
“Su Cha.” Lu Ming greeted her first before continuing somewhat shyly, “You mentioned before that you needed these onions.
I heard you were feeling a bit better, so I brought some over.
Do you still want them?”
Unlike the tall and imposing figures of typical Beastmen, Lu Ming’s build was much more slender.
His newly adult face still retained traces of youthfulness, and the bashfulness unique to young men brought a faint blush to his cheeks.
He looked innocent and pure.
“Yes, I do.
Help me carry them inside,” Su Cha replied with a smile.
Su Cha led him outside the kitchen and pointed to a nearby corner.
“Put them all there.
Just count them yourself and let me know how many there are.”
“Okay,” Lu Ming answered crisply, his voice carrying obvious joy.
He carefully took the onions out of his woven basket one by one, stacking them into a neat pile.
Then, he turned to Su Cha.
“There are thirty-five large ones and twenty-two small ones.
You just need to pay one hundred and forty beast coins.”
Su Cha smoothly took out one shell crystal and forty beast coins, handing them to Lu Ming.
“Do you go out with the gathering team every day?” she asked casually.
Lu Ming nodded.
“Yeah.
Our deer clan has poor combat abilities, so it’s very difficult for us to hunt wild beasts.
We have to rely on gathering more things to trade for meat.”
After Lu Ming left, Su Cha stored most of the onions into her spatial dimension.
She then grabbed a few wild eggs from the yard, planning to make a simple dish of scrambled eggs with onions.
The wild chickens had been caught using traps she set on the back mountain.
She had clipped their wings and kept them in captivity.
Besides the chickens, she had also caught about a dozen rabbits.
Now, there was hardly any wild game left on the back mountain; they were all in her yard.
Because Cang Yuan didn’t join the Hunting Team, most of the meat in their home was traded by Su Cha using beast coins with the Beastmen in the clan.
If there was no meat, Cang Yuan would also eat the vegetarian dishes she cooked.
After living together for a while, she found that the villain’s personality was surprisingly adaptable.
When the original owner abused him, he endured the hardship, sometimes even eating grass roots and tree bark.
Now, when she cooked delicious meals every day, he ate them without any burden.
When she didn’t cook, he would make porridge and roast meat for himself.
From start to finish, he never voiced a single complaint.
She thought, “Hmm, he’s actually quite easy to keep.
Plus, he doesn’t talk much and isn’t annoying.”
Moreover, whenever she asked him to make things for her, like baskets or swings, he would silently craft them.
There was absolutely no trace of the gloomy, ruthless killer who would later go on a massive slaughter.
However, at this moment, the “easy to keep” Cang Yuan was staring with a hint of disdain at the teary-eyed female who was clumsily chopping the strange plant.
His brows furrowed over and over again before he finally stepped forward and took the bone knife from her hand.
“Go rest.
I’ll do it.”
Su Cha sniffled.
She thought, “Goodness, why are the onions in this beast world so pungent?”
After washing her hands and rinsing her eyes with clean water, she suddenly remembered a crucial question.
“Do you know how to cook this?”
“No.
You teach me.”
“Oh, okay.
Just dice the onions exactly how I was doing it earlier.
“Then, crack about five eggs into a bowl and whisk them.
You should know how to crack an egg, right?”
…
Su Cha guided him from the side, and Cang Yuan earnestly followed her instructions.
A meal that would normally take her half an hour to cook took Cang Yuan a full hour.
“You put too much salt in the eggs, and the meat slices were stir-fried for too long so they’re a bit tough,” Su Cha commented objectively as she tasted the food.
Cang Yuan maintained his icy expression, neither refuting nor reacting.
Su Cha was already used to this.
History is always strikingly similar…
CRASH!
The newly repaired wall collapsed once again.
Su Cha mechanically turned her head, a piece of green vegetable hanging from her mouth.
The corner of her lips twitched imperceptibly.
Beside her, Cang Yuan’s face had already darkened.
“You’re a bit late today.
We’ve already eaten,” Su Cha remarked with a faint, mocking smile.
A black figure climbed up from the ground, awkwardly straightening out his appearance.
He glared at Cang Yuan first before turning to Su Cha.
“I’m not here to eat.
I have something to tell you.”
Su Cha raised an eyebrow, observing the subtle exchanges between the two men.
She wondered what had happened between them over the past few days.
“Hmm.” Su Cha dragged out the syllable, speaking at a leisurely pace.
“I’ll allow you to make your excuses, but once you’re done, fix the wall.”
Mu Beichen was speechless.
Exasperated, he burst out, “How can a female like you be so heartless?
I’m going back to my tribe.
If it weren’t for that stingy male of yours locking me out every time I come over, would a dignified Fifth-rank Beastman like me need to climb over a wall?”
Su Cha glanced at Cang Yuan, who looked completely unfazed.
She thought, “Is he being stingy?
Or is it possible that he just simply can’t stand you?”
“Oh,” she replied.
Going back was his business; there was no need to notify her.
Seeing her indifferent reaction, a trace of disappointment that he hadn’t even noticed himself sprouted in the depths of Mu Beichen’s heart.
“I want to invite you to our tribe.
You’re always being bullied in this tribe anyway.
You’d be much better off with us.” After a moment of hesitation, Mu Beichen finally gathered the courage to say those words.
Females were considered the wealth of a tribe, and generally, they wouldn’t easily let them go to other tribes.
However, if a female insisted on leaving, there was nothing they could do to stop her.
Mu Beichen looked at Su Cha nervously.
Cang Yuan also turned his gaze toward her, waiting for her response.
Su Cha merely raised her left hand, completely unbothered, shattering his expectations.
“Why would I go to your tribe?
Who in this tribe even dares to bully me now?”
Cang Yuan withdrew his gaze and resumed tidying up.
“If you come to our tribe, you’ll have plenty of meat to eat.
You won’t have to trade for it with beast coins like you do now,” Mu Beichen tried to persuade her one last time.
“I think you just want me to go over there so I can cook delicious food for you, right?
Keep dreaming.”
Mu Beichen admitted to himself that this was partly true, but he genuinely wanted to bring her back.
He was momentarily at a loss for words to convince her.
Suddenly, Su Cha changed her tone, her eyes sparkling.
“Wait here for a second.
I have something to give you,” she said, heading back to her room.
Hearing that she had something for him, Mu Beichen’s previous disappointment vanished instantly.
His charming, phoenix-like eyes lifted, and he flashed a smug smirk at Cang Yuan.
When Su Cha came back out, she was holding four bamboo tubes.
“What are these?” Mu Beichen asked curiously.
She opened one and showed it to him.
“These two are barbecue seasoning.
Didn’t you really like it before?
I’m giving these two tubes to you so you can take them back for your friends to try.”
She then opened another one.
“This is fine salt, even better than the salt from the Balin Tribe.
Take this back too.
Since you’ve spent so much money here, consider it a free gift.
If you want more in the future, you can buy it from me.
The barbecue seasoning is only a hundred beast coins per tube, and I’ll give you a discount on the salt—four hundred per tube.
It’s a guaranteed bargain.”
Su Cha had already asked the Clan Leader and the others about the market rates.
A tube of salt from the Balin Tribe sold for three hundred beast coins, and the Clan Leader had explicitly stated that her refined salt could easily sell for five hundred.
Mu Beichen almost laughed out of sheer anger.
Gritting his teeth, he said, “Are beast coins and shell crystals the only things in your eyes, female?
If you want to earn beast coins, you might as well come back with me yourself.”
“I’m not going.
If you don’t even want these when I’m giving them to you for free, then forget it.” She moved to take the items back.
Mu Beichen quickly snatched them away.
“Alright, alright, I’ll help you.”
Even though the little female had an ulterior motive, at least she had given them to him as a gift.
Su Cha’s face bloomed into a smile reminiscent of a profiteer.
In a good mood, she didn’t force Mu Beichen to repair the wall anymore.
Helpless, Mu Beichen reverted to his usual cynical and carefree demeanor.
“After eating your cooking, I’m afraid I won’t be able to stomach the food back home anymore.
I really want to just tie you up and bring you back.”
Su Cha rolled her eyes at him and shooed him away with a look of utter disgust.