Capítulo 35: It's You! It's You!
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
"The Ministry of Official Personnel Affairs bribery case has been finalized, but the current situation is still not optimistic for us. The people of Nightmare Town have caused the Beast Suppression Department to be in a terrible state."
Zou Tong took a sip of tea and sighed. The people of Nightmare Town used the customs of Xia Yu to sneak into thousands of white-haired foxes' homes. They lurked until Xia Yu was ready to make a big deal during the new year, and then they were going to disgust Wu Sheng Emperor.
There were tens of thousands of white-haired foxes registered in the main city alone. It was normal for there to be 30,000 to 50,000 in the entire Xia Yu Dynasty.
Although the Beast Suppression Department had the method to identify the people of Nightmare Town, it was still very troublesome to investigate all the foxes and find out all the people of Nightmare Town within three months.
It involved all the civil and military officials, government offices, and nobles.
To put it bluntly, the people who could raise white-haired foxes in Xia Yu were some high-ranking officials and nobles who asked for peaceful mind.
Ordinary people usually raised some ordinary foxes or worshiped statues of white-haired foxes on the altar.
The Ministry of Official Personnel had found out it was a white-haired fox, but who knew if the people of Nightmare Town had snuck into the ranks of ordinary foxes? Or perhaps it was just a blindfold, and the people of Nightmare Town were just here to play with Wu Sheng Emperor?
Although there were many possibilities, it was necessary to investigate Xiayu City!
What if something happened?
No one could take responsibility!
"I don't know what you're thinking. It's not like you don't know that Xia Yu has been on the frontline of the anti-evil law."
Aunt took a sip of tea and shook her head.
"Uh… Because my sister introduced me to this place! She said that I would be able to enjoy life as long as I worked for a hundred years. I do not need to fight and kill to be able to get a salary from the imperial court. It is a lie." Zou Tong said with disappointment.
You could never enjoy life in the Beast Suppression Department. Other than the basic salary, one must calculate the contribution points and time spent on missions to obtain cultivation techniques, medicinal pills, divine weapons, and fame. It was not possible to sit around and wait to die.
If one put in enough effort, they could obtain rare techniques from the national treasury in the Beast Suppression Department. It was even possible to purchase a territory and establish oneself as a king with a different surname. The Wu Sheng Emperor had left this opportunity for those who prioritized wealth over their own lives.
It was also a department that did not require any qualifications. Everything was based on one's ability to quickly rise to the top.
If you were tired of it one day, you could leisurely live your retired immortal cultivation life.
"Master…"
Just as Aunt and Zou Tong were chatting and Su Yan was cracking nuts for them, a hurried girl barged in from the open door and shouted.
Su Yan's relaxed expression suddenly frowned slightly.
This girl sounded familiar.
"Here!"
Zou Tong stretched her arm out of the wooden railing and waved. Su Yan also stood up on the table and looked at the hall.
Su Yan looked at Yu Yanning.
Yu Yanning stopped in her tracks as she climbed up the stairs. Her almond-shaped eyes suddenly widened as she looked at the white fox standing up. Yu Yanning raised her hand and pointed at the fox as she exclaimed, "It's you, Fortune Little Fox!"
Su Yan's fox face was shocked, and his entire fox fur stood up.
Yu Yanning loved holding his balls.
"You left a letter saying you would be rich and powerful and then ran away without a trace. It took me a lot of effort to find you."
After seeing the furious Su Yan, Yu Yanning was even more certain that this fox was the one she had lost. She ran to the fourth floor aggressively and lifted the white-haired fox sitting on the tea table and cracking a walnut.
"I fed you delicious food every day. How can you leave me and go to the brothel!"
Yu Yanning was teasing Su Yan under his armpits. Then he struggled to pretend to bark like a dog.
"It's useless to change your voice. You're the fox I picked up by the roadside!"
Su Yan was moaning in his fox form, but he couldn't change his voice now. Yu Yanning recognized Su Yan not by his voice but by his fur and the expression on his fox face.
When Su Yan transformed into human form, his face would be extremely human-like with a leisurely look. His front legs would cross as if he was at peace with the world, and his eyes would be slightly narrowed with a smile.
This was different from other foxes, and it was something that Su Yan himself wouldn't notice.
"Your fur is pure white, even in summer. In addition, you will lose hair when you are madly stroked."
"Woof!" Su Yan once again said, "Woof" He pretended to be dead.
Yu Yanning was very knowledgeable about foxes. She raised at least a hundred foxes at home, including the wild foxes she fed.
In terms of being a fox, Su Yan might not be able to win against Yu Yanning, who was a fox breeder.
No matter what fox breed, the fur's colour would change slightly according to the temperature of the four seasons. If you wanted to see a pure white fox, you could only see it in winter.
In the hot summer, the white fox's hair color would also appear black or yellow, not pure white.
Only Su Yan's fur had always been snow-white and flawless. Moreover, it would not fall off, no matter how hard you stroked it. Yu Yanning had actually suspected that the white-haired fox was a beast long ago, but Su Yan had always relied on his cute face to pass the test when he was in the carriage.
It was not until the first day she came to Xiayu, when Yu Yanning went to the examinee inn to register the time of the martial arts examination, that Su Yan contacted his aunt to pick him up and left a letter with a fox paw print on the table for Yu Yanning. Only then did Yu Yanning confirm that Su Yan was a fox beast.
"Don't make my nephew throw up."
Aunt grabbed Su Yan's back neck and forcefully rescued him from Yu Yanning's shaking. She raised her hand to stop Yu Yanning from snatching Su Yan back and said, "You scared my nephew. Please calm down."
"Do you know each other?"
Zou Tong looked at Yu Yanning and Su Yan, who were blocking him with his tail. He was slightly stunned and asked Yu Yanning.
"Of course, I know him. He is the little fox I picked up on the roadside when I went to the capital to take the exam. This heartless fox abandoned me and ran away when he reached Xia Yu."
Yu Yanning looked at her master with a wronged expression, asking her master to punish the heartless fox.
"I treated him well on the way, but he abandoned me after we reached Xiayu."
"Oh?"
Zou Tong looked at Chong Qiong with a puzzled expression.
Aunt and Su Yan's expressions were very strange. Aunt looked down at Su Yan and then at Yu Yanning, who was staring at the fox in her arms. Her voice was slightly trembling as if trying to hold back her laughter.
"My little nephew is afraid of your disciple, so it's normal to pretend he doesn't know her. Which young lady would hold someone else's balls and call it soft?"
Yu Yanning's face turned red, almost to the back of her ears. Even her neck and the back of her hand were red. Her body temperature was rising rapidly.
"I didn't know it was a fox beast before. I thought it was a little fox." Yu Yanning mumbled softly.
"Not even beasts that have yet to develop their spiritual intelligence!"
Zou Tong held his forehead speechlessly and patted Yu Yanning's head with his tail. She bowed to Chong Qiong and Su Yan, and apologized, "No wonder I didn't recognise you."
"Little Fox, show yourself and let this naughty girl make a cup of tea for you to apologize."
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