章 21: Fishing Net
編集者: Dragon Boat Translation
"I haven't transformed yet, so I can't control my body temperature well."
Jiu Nanwu leaned against the bed and revealing the secret of how mermaid maintained her human form.
In Su Yan's eyes, her body slightly expanded, and her originally fair long legs turned into a fishtail. The scales on her body were dark blue mixed with light purple.
Its ears had also turned into large fan-shaped fins, but her upper body did not change. It still maintained its human form.
The merfolk's original form was like a mermaid. Their upper bodies were human-shaped, while their lower bodies were fish-like.
"We usually breathe through this place."
Jiao Nanwu gently raised her hand, showing Su Yan the unique point of her dress. There was an opening under her armpit. If one looked inside, they would see an opening in her ribs that looked like gills.
There were three openings on the left and right sides of the chest. Mermaids usually breathed through the gills on both sides of the chest in the water.
After transforming into a human form through the secret technique, the merfolk characteristics on their bodies would completely disappear, and they would breathe through their noses like humans.
However, the merfolk race's transformation technique could not be maintained for a long time. Every seven days, they had to immerse their entire body in the river for a day to cool down.
Otherwise, it would cause unbearable pain to the mermaid's body.
"What a fat fishtail."
Su Yan found that Jiao Nanwu's appearance had not changed much. She still had that slightly dull face, but her body was much bigger than her human form. Her chest and fishtail were fatter and less flexible.
"Hmm... Mermaids are not active in winter, and our breeding season is in winter, so we will eat a lot to store fat in autumn."
Jiao Nanwu did not think there was anything bad about being fat. She raised her hand and patted her large fishtail. It made her fat fishtail look soft and comfortable.
"Do you want to touch it?"
Jiao Nanwu waved her fish tail and let Su Yan pinch her tail so that he could experience the smoothness of the mermaid scales.
Although the fox fur was very smooth, it was not as smooth as the fish scales.
Su Yan touched it with his hand. After pondering for a while, he said, "Some scales look like snake demons. They are very smooth. I can feel slightly warm."
There was no need to feel the temperature with a meat pad. The merfolk's body temperature was slightly higher than the environment. It was not as cold and uncomfortable as before when you touched it. Overall, it was quite comfortable to touch it.
He could not touch it for too long, or it would stick to his hand.
Jiao Nanwu was actually a fish, and fish needed to keep themselves moist. When they left the water where the surrounding humidity was not enough, they would secrete body fluids to ensure that their fish body could maintain a suitable humidity, so that they would not feel uncomfortable on land.
Jiao Nanwu gave Su Yan a general introduction to the mermaid race. Then, she looked at Su Yan and asked, "Hmm... I'm just at the right age to reproduce. When will your clan be able to give birth?"
As he spoke, he performed his secret technique again, concealing all of his mermaid features. However, his clothes were completely soaked. Previously, because he felt that the humidity in the environment was insufficient, he began to secrete bodily fluids to ensure that he would not become a small fish jerky because of the dryness on land.
"Probably..... In a few years."
Su Yan made up a random number because he was a rather special individual. In the history of the Nine-Tailed Fox Race, he should be the first one to mix with the dragon race. There was no precedent as reference for when he could reach maturity.
"Oh..."
Jiao Nanwu looked at Su Yan and nodded. He did not tell Su Yan what he was thinking, "Then… Let's go!"
"Where?"
"I'll treat you to a meal. Grow up quickly after you're full!"
Jiao Nanwu pulled Su Yan out, preparing to go shopping with him.
...
"What a bright sunlight."
The glaring sunlight blinded Su Yan as he left the back door.
It was not even 10.00 am, and Su Yan usually slept in his room. He would only wake up for breakfast around noon and go out with his aunt at three to four o'clock in the afternoon.
After that, they opened for business at dusk. Since Su Yan had stayed at his aunt's place, he had been staying at home during the day and going out at night. It had been long since he had gone out in broad daylight.
"Squeak..."
Su Yan stood at the back door of the brothel for a while to get used to the morning sunlight. Coincidentally, he bumped into the three spirit monkeys who had gone out to buy food in the morning.
The three spirit monkeys dragged a fully loaded handcart and greeted Su Yan. They parked the handcart at the door behind the brothel and moved the fresh food they had bought in the morning into the kitchen.
There were nearly thirty girls among which were many female cultivators who had a huge appetite.
The spirit monkeys usually pulled carts to buy groceries in the morning. Otherwise, they might not be able to carry so many food.
"Squeak?"
The spirit monkey looked at Su Yan and asked if Su Yan would come in.
After Su Yan shook his head, the spirit monkeys worked together to close the back door and began sorting the food. They were busy preparing breakfast for the girls at noon. It was very lively.
"So, food doesn't come out of nowhere." Su Yan complained secretly.
During his stay in brothel, when he was hungry in late night, it was his aunt who would run to the backyard kitchen and bring out the dishes. Su Yan thought that his aunt made the food in the brothel through magic.
It was not until he saw the spirit monkeys that Su Yan realized that the room in the backyard that looked like a firewood shed was a nanny's room.
In Xia Yu Kingdom, people used natural gas instead of firewood. They used natural gas. They only needed to dig a gas well in the ground, and natural gas would come out endlessly from the well.
The living habits of the Xia Yu Kingdom were completely different from the area where Su Yan lived before.
There were not any spiritual monkeys in the Southern Region. When Su Yan's mother was too lazy to do housework, she would usually wait at the entrance of the Su Residence with a fishing net. She would then casually fish some Fiendish Cultivators back to be her slaves.
They would do washing, cooking, mopping the floor and cleaning work to solve his mother's problems.
Su Yan was surprised when he first knew it, but later on, he got used to his mother's violence and became accustomed to it.
The housework could be done by magic, but for the sense of ritual, his mother liked to boss people around to clean the courtyard and clean the fish pond with a brush.
In the Southern State, violence was the truth, and cultivation was justice.
Su Yan's mother said she did it to create a good environment for him to cultivate.
In the Southern Region, if one did not want to be a slave, one could only work hard to cultivate and turn others into slaves.
Those girls would laugh at your cultivation if you did not work hard on cultivation, even if you went to the brothel. They would see you as innocent and childlike, enjoying your naivety.
Fortunately, using fishing nets to catch fish in Xia Yu. Otherwise, without his mother by his side, Su Yan would have to spend countless years to reach the Xia Yu.
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