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Chapter 45: Injured Wool Bug

All of a sudden, Shen Tianyu stopped running and started to look around. Luo Shue, who had been behind the pair the entire time, and Rong Jian stopped also and walked up to her.

"Miss, is there something wrong?" Luo Shue questioned.

"Did you hear it?" Shen Tianyu responded with a question.

Luo Shue furrowed her brows and frowned. "Hear what?"

Rong Jian sharpened his senses to try to catch what Shen Tianyu was talking about. He had been paying attention to the road and her so he hadn't noticed any small changes or disruptions.

Shen Tianyu held her hand out. "Shh... I'm hearing it again," She whispered.

Rong Jian and Luo Shue tensed up, concentrating on their ears, trying to pick up a sound.

Bzzz..

There was a faint sound form their right. It was a cross between a bee's buzz and a ballon deflating.

Frowning, Luo Shue warned. "We should leave it alone. It's none of our business."

"It sounds pretty weak so it might be injured. I think we should help it. Who knows, we might get a favor out of it." Shen Tianyu started walking towards the faint buzz.

Luo Shue sighed and Rong Jian shrugged as they followed her. Shen Tianyu found a something the size of a chihuahua in the underbrush. It looked like a miniature sheep with all the fleece on it's body. It's exposed snout had charcoal-black skin. On it's back were eight string-looking things, four pointing towards the left and right. She assumed, those are it's wings. However, the side it was laying on was bleeding heavily, the blood soaking into the soil and it's soft-looking fleece.

"Hey, are you okay?" Shen Tianyu asked as she slowly walked up to it.

"It's a demonic beast. It won't be able to answer you." Luo Shue said as she followed.

"How do you know that? High-level demon beasts can speak the human language, right?"

"Well, but the looks of it, it's probably not a high-level demon beats." Luo Shue bent down as Shen Tianyu tried to turn it over. Luo Shue examined the demon beast and frowned.

"It looks like it was heavily injure during in a fight, but it's blood smells... weird." Luo Shue reached into the magic bag at her waist.

"Could it just be because it's a demon beast?" Shen Tianyu sniffed it.

"That's not it. I think it may have been poisoned. Either during the fight or when it was running away." Luo Shue took out a porcelain bottle containing some kind of hardened, yellow liquid.

"Hm... really?" Shen Tianyu scooped up some of the blood oozing out of it with he rforefinger and licked the blood off of it.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" Rong Jian panicked.

Shen Tianyu concentrated on tasting the blood for a little before spitting it out.

"Pei! Pbt!" She wiped her tongue with her sleeve. "I think it's hemotoxin, Viper poison. Why would a demon beast lose to a viper snake?"

"That's not of importance right now. If you're so curious, just ask it later when it comes to." Luo Shue replied as she applied the salve onto the bleeding demon beast.

"Hm... That's true. Do you really think I'd say that?! I don't speak..." Shen Tianyu gestured at the demon beast. "...whatever that speaks. Anyways, are you doing okay? Can you even see it's would with it's fleece in the way?"

"Yes, I'm doing fine." Luo Shue said simply.

"It's a Wool Bug." Rong Jian who had kept silent all this time finally spoke.

"A Wool Bug?" Shen Tianyu tilted her head to the side. She then put one of her fist in her other hand. "Ahh... A Wool Bug. The ones that absorb the cold right? They don't have a lot of combat power but are useful for keeping warm... eh?"

Rong Jian looked at her. "Hm?"

"If they have no combat ability and their special ability is only just absorbing the cold... how could they become demon beasts? Wouldn't they have been wiped out by now?"

Rong Jian stroked his chin thoughtfully. "Now that you mention it..."

"I'm done treating it." Luo Shue suddenly got up. "What should we do now? Keep it? Or find it's family?"

"Eh... Let's just bring it with us and see if we meet it's family along the way." Shen Tianyu replied as she carefully picked up the Wool Bug. Just as she was taking a step forward, she heard another noise. This time, it was a mass of loud buzzing. "Ah? Looks like it's family came to us instead." She turned to face the direction the loud buzzing was coming from.

A few seconds later, one zhang (1) in front of the three people was a dense mass of black snouts and fluffy, white fleece.

"Ah... There's a lot of them, huh? Is that why they haven't become extinct yet? Their high procreation rate?" Shen Tianyu mused calmly.

"Perhaps." Rong Jian put his hands on her hips. "How about we try and see?"

Shen Tianyu elbowed him in the stomach and he doubled over, holding where he was hit and groaning.

"Shue'er, what do you think?"

"I'm human doctor, not a demonic beast expert." Luo Shue retorted.

The trio chatted leisurely until the mass of Wool Bugs stopped one chi (2) away from them.

"Whoa. Close." Shen Tianyu commented as she held the Wool Bug in her hand out towards them. "Is this one of yours? We found him on the ground. We treated him." She wasn't sure if they would understand but she tried anyways.

"You mean I treated him." Luo Shue interjected.

"I found it." Shen Tianyu retorted.

The mass of Wool Bugs wordlessly gathered around the Wool Bug in Shen Tianyu's hands and lifted it up. Then, they left as if the trio was never there.

"Che, not even a nod of gratitude." Shen Tianyu complained as she turned around.

Just like that, half a month passed. The trio managed to encounter some demonic beasts, but not many. The ones they did met, luckily enough, were quite tough so Shen Tianyu managed to get some training in as she initially intended when she entered.

"By the way, I've been wondering, what's your status in Lavender Palace?" Rong Jian suddenly asked Shen Tianyu as they were scavenging for food.


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Chapter 46: Discussion about the Future

"Why do you ask that?" She replied.

"I doubt Lavender Palace would just randomly treat a new recruit so generously. Besides, they let you go so easily."

"You're only asking this now? It's already been a little more than a month since we left the capital."

"Are you going to answer my question?"

"Who knows? How much are you willing to give?" This was already a big clue. Lavender Palace, which also served as an information broker, had one division for information trading, and that is the Inner Palace. This included the Inner Guards and Maids, excluding anyone from Yaodu. The Head Maid of the Inner Palace was not in charge of information trading, rather the Vice Head Maid was, as she was a part of Yaodu. The ones who would ask someone for something in exchange for information from Lavender Palace were usually a part of the Inner Palace.

"My future." Rong Jian acknowledged her clue and gave this answer.

Black lines appeared on Shen Tianyu's forehead. "You're quite the womanizer, huh?"

Rong Jian put his hands on his hips, standing proudly with an indomitable look on his face. "This Young Master's future is quite the hefty price. If Miss Feng can not give an answer worth the price this young master will have to punish you."

"And, how, exactly are you planning to punish me?" Shen Tianyu replied in a bored tone as she ignored him to look on the ground for any edible plants.

"Of course, by having you marry this prince."

Shen Tianyu straightened her back with an exasperated expression and looked at him. "See here, with your wealth, marrying you would only be a benefit to normal women not a punishment. Do you even know what punishment means? In the first place, we're dating right now with that intention right? Why are you so urgent, casually proposing like this at every opportunity."

"If it's so beneficial, why did wifey reject me? And besides, you said dating is more informal than an engagement, and as someone who still has a status of a suitor, it makes me feel uneasy." Rong Jian came clean.

"I said it would be for normal people. Since you've known me for almost half a year now, would you call me normal?"

"Nope." Rong Jian responded without hesitation. Then again, a daughter who would ruthlessly disable and sell her family members in addition to ransacking and burning down their estate would never be called normal even if you went to ask the demons in Hell, so, any hesitation would just be an overly obvious act.

"Exactly. As for your unease..." At this, Shen Tianyu scratched the back of her head as she looked at the ground and hesitated before looking up again with determination. "We can't really say we've known each other for long so if this doesn't work out later, the one on the losing end would be me, as a woman. Being a man, you could just abandon me in some remote courtyard or even divorce me, both of which would deliver a big blow to my reputation. And with our current difference in status, it would be very difficult for me to retaliate. And even if I could, with the societal view on women, a vengeful woman like me, on top of being abandoned by my husband, would be utter undesirable filth. With that being the case, any future prospects of pursuing marital or romantic happiness would be looked down on by others. In the event that there WILL be a man that would stay with me, he would be the ridicule of the world and I would never want such a man, who disregards society's scorn to stay with his love, to ever go through that. More dramatically speaking, he may lose his job or have difficulties finding a job because of this issue alone. Such people are usually taken advantage of and met with a tragic end. Of course, all of this is only the worst case scenario." She explained her stance on the situation. "However, a good scenario for me might not be the best for you. With the many wives and concubines that are at the service of the rich and powerful, their harems are always teeming with schemes. I never want to experience that as that is not only dangerous but also tiring. I've resolved that if I ever marry, my husband can only have me in his entire lifetime and no other woman. Because of this, I've already resigned myself to forever be alone. The notion of 'cheating', or as you people call it 'making the spouse wear a green hat' basically does not apply to men after all so they can have as many women as they like but women can not have more than one man. However, if you are willing and able to promise that you will not have another woman then..." A faint blush surfaced on Shen Tianyu's initially determined and serious face. She coughed into her fist before continuing in a shyer and more reserved tone as she stared at him with wavering eyes. "We could... get engaged... to... comfort some of your unease..." Her voice grew smaller the more she talked but she was unwilling to look away from the man in front of her, for fear she would miss any signs from him.

'Since he was willing to lay bare his unease in this masculine, emotionless men society, I should also be honest with him,' was what she thought.

Rong Jian felt as if his heart had been hit with an arrow as he gazed at Shen Tianyu's lovable appearance in a daze.

After not seeing any sign or hearing anything from the man, Shen Tianyu became anxious. "W-what is it now? You're the one that came on to me so strongly. Can you not promise? Then that's just as well, things are still early so we can end this early. You can leave and Shue'er and I can travel the rest of the way..." She started rambling to try to break the tension in the atmosphere she felt.

Hearing her anxious voice and seeing her fidgeting hands, Rong Jian snapped out of his daze and put a hand on her shoulder. Shen Tianyu started and looked at him.


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