Pampered in the Beast World: The Frail Beauty Has Many Children and Much Fortune – Chapter 32

Ch 32: Is This Again Helping Me Reciprocate Favors?

The Feng Chuan tribe was located by the lake. In the early morning, the males had already gathered and set off for the hunt, while the females were also carrying baskets, heading out in groups to gather.

Si Shuo woke up naturally again, habitually touching her wrist.

She didn’t see Xu Chi, but at the entrance of the shack, there was a wooden bucket filled with water and a soft, clean beast hide.

After Si Shuo finished washing up, she came out of the shack and saw Xu Chi sitting by the campfire, roasting a bamboo rat.

She walked over briskly and sat down next to him.

Xu Chi, smelling the warm fragrance on her body, silently moved a little to the side.

Si Shuo…

The bamboo rat’s belly was stuffed with many mushrooms, wild vegetables, and fruits, and honey was brushed on the outside. It was delicious, but Si Shuo couldn’t adapt to having meat as the main food. Without some steamed buns or rice, even if her stomach was full, she still felt like something was missing.

While walking around the lake to digest, Si Shuo couldn’t help but ask the few Little Beastmen who were following her.

“Are there fish, shrimp, and crabs in this lake?”

The Little Beastmen nodded in response: “Yes, but the fish are too clever and hard to catch, and the bones are too small and numerous, so they easily get stuck in your throat and taste fishy.”

“The seabird Beastmen like them, and they occasionally come over to catch them.”

Si Shuo blinked her eyes, “So, living around the lake, you haven’t caught much fish?”

The Little Beastmen continued to nod, “Si Shuo is a cat beastman, you like to eat fish, right? We don’t like to eat them.”

It had nothing to do with race. In her previous life, she wasn’t a cat, but she still liked to eat all kinds of river and seafood, right?

In fact, many people didn’t dislike eating them, but were afraid of the hassle and disliked the fishy taste.

Xu Chi asked: “Does Si Shuo want to eat them? I’ll go catch some for you.”

Si Shuo had shrimp cages in her space, but it wasn’t good to take them out in front of everyone, so she planned to weave a simple one with vines.

Hearing Xu Chi’s words, Si Shuo asked curiously: “How are you going to catch them?”

Xu Chi directly snapped his fingers, and a whirlwind appeared in the lake. As the wind turned, the lake water and the river meat inside were sucked ashore together.

After the whirlwind disappeared, the water and fish, shrimp, and crabs all fell with a crash onto the lawn by the lake.

The Little Beastmen all exclaimed “Wow!” and ran over happily, picking up the shrimp and crabs to play with.

Si Shuo couldn’t help but give Xu Chi a thumbs up. This male had really mastered the wind!

Moreover, he snapped his fingers…

Seeing this, Xu Chi continued with another snap of his fingers, but this time the whirlwind roamed back and forth in the lake twice, and when it returned to the shore, it was mixed with a dark mass of fish, shrimp, and crabs.

Si Shuo’s eyes lit up. This skill was absolutely amazing! It completely reenacted the news from her previous life about fish, shrimp, and crabs falling from the sky with rainstorms.

The commotion of the tornado attracted the Little Beastmen playing in the tribe and the females who hadn’t gone out.

Si Shuo couldn’t help but roll up her sleeves. If she remembered correctly, she had seen potatoes among the supplies gathered in the tribe last night.

Potatoes could be used to extract starch!

Everyone helped them pick up the fish, shrimp, and crabs, and even loach, eels, water snakes, and turtles, and other river meat, and put them into rattan baskets.

Si Shuo asked a middle-aged female if she could exchange some river meat for potatoes.

The female smiled and waved her hand: “Si Shuo is a guest from afar, no need to exchange. You can take as much as you want. We can still gather more. There aren’t many other good things here, but potatoes are everywhere!”

After saying that, she called over a few Little Beastmen from her family to move a basket of potatoes for Si Shuo.

Si Shuo chuckled and didn’t refuse, directing Xu Chi to wash the potatoes, peel them, chop them up, and put them in water to stir and squeeze.

Xu Chi continued to use his Wind Affinity to complete these three tasks easily and quickly.

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Si Shuo explained to the females that she was doing this to obtain the potato starch, which could be preserved for a year after being dried.

However, she planned to make fish balls and shrimp balls, directly using the thick slurry that was squeezed out of the potatoes the first time and filtered. Add various river meat fillings, salt, minced scallions, ginger, garlic, and pepper. These seasonings could all be found as substitutes using the plant guide.

After mixing evenly, add egg liquid and continue to mix evenly. Then, find a beastman with Ice Affinity to help refrigerate and solidify it.

The meat filling was kneaded into moderately sized balls, and then they became handmade river meat balls.

Whether these balls were pan-fried, deep-fried, roasted, or boiled in soup, they tasted good, had a chewy texture, and were nutritious!

Drinking the delicious meatball and wild vegetable soup, everyone was very curious. The river meat not only lost its original fishy smell but was also so salty, fragrant, and delicious that people couldn’t help but want to swallow their tongues. It really lived up to the name “river meat.”

With one more major source of food, the beastmen in the tribe were especially happy. This meant that the males’ hunting pressure would be reduced, and some old, weak, sick, and disabled beastmen would also be able to fill their stomachs.

It could be said that when the weather turned cold, if they stockpiled more of these meatballs, they could save the lives of many tribesmen, which was of extraordinary significance.

Their way of expressing gratitude was particularly straightforward, holding the things they thought were the best in their homes with both hands and giving them to Si Shuo, such as eggs, meat, fur, and crystals.

Si Shuo couldn’t refuse even if she wanted to. People put down their things and turned around to leave, making her a little dumbfounded, as if she had come here to deliberately accumulate wealth.

“Accept them. I’ll help them catch more river meat,” Xu Chi stroked her head.

Si Shuo tilted her head to look at him, chuckling as she asked, “Is this again helping me reciprocate favors?”

Xu Chi nodded honestly. His eyes were still clear and cold, without a trace of affection, but wherever his gaze reached, it was her.

Si Shuo couldn’t help but beckon him with her finger.

Xu Chi took a step forward in confusion, but just smelling that faint fragrance and looking at her delicate and soft appearance with a smile, that strange desire in his body rose again.

His expression changed and he suddenly took a big step back, “If Si Shuo has something to say, just say it. I can hear you clearly even if I stand here.”

Si Shuo was amused by his reaction. Was she a flood or a beast, scaring him so much that his face turned pale?

She said, word by word: “I have nothing to say!”

Xu Chi hesitated, taking a small step toward her. Seeing that Si Shuo was still slightly raising her chin, he braced himself and leaned in, in a posture ready to run away at any sign of trouble.

Si Shuo’s eyes flickered slightly, and she suddenly leaned forward, startling him to jump back three to five meters away…

She was a little dumbfounded, “Xu Chi, you have to explain to me clearly, what’s wrong with you? Could it be that I can eat you?”

Xu Chi pursed his lips, “I’m afraid I’ll eat you.”

Si Shuo was stunned for a moment, and then her face flushed red, “This, this is daytime, what are you thinking?”

“You’re not afraid?” Xu Chi said with a solemn expression, “There are examples of females eating males in the Insect Clan.”

Si Shuo couldn’t help but frown slightly. Insect Clan? Xu Chi was from the Insect Clan?

Was that Insect Clan the one with wings and horns, or the one with linen color?

“Are you a big moth?” Her face turned pale. That really wouldn’t work!

Insect Clan was a no-go, but a moth was even more of a no-go!

So, when choosing a beast husband in the Beast World, you can’t just look at their appearance, you also have to look at their beast form.

Xu Chi…

“No, I can’t control wanting to be close to you. There’s an urge to swallow you into my stomach,” he said with a hint of frustration on his face.