Chapter 107: Ambition First Emerges

Hearing Qu Ji's words, Qu Cao bit her lip and lifted her head from her beast husband's arms, "Ya, is she really okay?"

She won't be pregnant with a snake pup, right?

Although the Snake Beastman who forced her apparently had a change of conscience in the end (actually he was scared off by their screams), he didn't go all the way with her.

But Ya actually fainted that day; Qu Cao knew Ya was cautiously trying to please that Snake Beastman just to make herself feel better, and she hadn't imagined the Snake Beastman would be so ravenous.

And aside from the first day they were threatened by the Snake Beastman, in the following days, as long as they couldn't leave those stone houses, for food and supplies, unless the request was especially unreasonable, they would do their best to fulfill them.

There were many unfamiliar males who came to see them each day; even from a distance, but Ya is at least a yellow‑tier beastman, so after she discovered it she told them about it.

If they weren't truly afraid of the Snake Beastmen, among those males there were actually quite a few who looked exactly to their liking.

"It's nothing; just go back and get a good sleep."

Saying that, Qu Ji fixed his gaze on Qu Cao, "Stretch out your hand, I'll show you as well."

Since I've already looked at one, looking at another is just as easy.

Qu Cao hesitated briefly, and after her beast husband coaxed her a few words, she finally extended her hand.

Qu Ji stared for a while, then said, "It's fine, go back and get a good sleep," and Qu Cao's beast husband instantly thanked Qu Ji gratefully, after which the two females were taken home by their beast husbands.

"Uncle Qu, thank you for making the trip."

Hearing Yun Li's words, Qu Ji shook his head, "If there's nothing, then we'll head back."

"Wait, Uncle Qu, there's something I want to show you."

Yun Li thought of the thing she had A Qing and the others make from hollow trees; although she's not well‑versed in Chinese medicine, in her previous life her grandparents were rural folk who trusted Chinese medicine, so her family would consult an old Chinese doctor far more often than they would go to a hospital for Western medicine whenever someone felt unwell.

Consequently, Yun Li had seen many of the tools used by Chinese doctors when handling herbs at a Chinese medicine clinic.

The herb sieve, herb plaques, and herb baskets are all made of bamboo; Yun Li found hollow trees in Red Grass Valley, so she could ask Mu Qing and the others to craft these items.

Qu Ji and his under‑age disciple followed Yun Li and the others to the wooden shed attached to the stone house where they stored things; the shed was a temporary structure built with branches as thick as an adult beastman's arm and a slanted roof of hollow trees, and it actually looked quite decent.

But Qu Ji and his disciple's eyes were drawn to the bamboo baskets and the various sizes of bamboo plaques; of course Yun Li had only roughly seen what a bamboo plaque looked like before, so her guidance to Mu Qing and the others inevitably led to some mistakes, resulting in few finished pieces, while half‑finished and ruined items made up the bulk.

Yun Li crouched down, picked up a few decent finished pieces, and showed them to Qu Ji, "I just finished making these, and I thought Uncle Qu you could use them; normally when you dry herbs, if you have these bamboo plaques you won't worry about lacking a place to put them.

Make a wooden rack like this, place the bamboo plaques on it, and you can store many herbs, making it easy for you to glance at them at any time…"

Yun Li introduced the few items in great detail; Qu Ji understood everything, but recalling that Yun Li had previously given him a mortar jar, herb grinder, and herb bowl, he couldn't help feeling a hint of doubt.

The females of Mu Qing's family should be doing well in the Silver Eagle Tribe; the tribe now has more than one Witch Doctor, so why doesn't she give these things to the other Witch Doctors to win their favor, which would make it easier for her to treat her own family later.

Having that question in mind, he asked.

Hearing that, Yun Li smiled at Qu Ji, "Because you saved me before, I trust you, Uncle Qu. Moreover, people have degrees of closeness and distance.

The Witch Doctors we interact with most in the Silver Eagle Tribe are just the Silver Granny, but we don't know the temperaments of the other Witch Doctors, nor are we sure that sending these items over without proper explanation would just annoy them."

Qu Ji shook his head, "Even so, A Li, you gave us so many things; there must be some other motive, right?"

He has lived this long after all; how could he be fooled by her three words?

He believed Yun Li's earlier statements, but the latter part, he guessed, was just this junior coaxing him.

"Even if we have other thoughts about you, we would never harm you, right?"

Yun Li laughed, "You are a Witch Doctor, and no one in our family can treat illnesses; isn't it natural to win your favor with good things? Moreover, today A Xiao called you over, and you came without saying a word, right?"

The other Witch Doctors in the Silver Eagle Tribe aren't as easy to talk to as you.

When that final remark came out, Qu Ji suddenly saw the shadow of that adult in Yun Li.

He instantly understood, "I get what you're saying."

"A Ai, take all the things Yun Li Adult gave us."

A Ai didn't notice her teacher's sudden change of address toward Yun Li, and simply replied cheerfully upon hearing it.

With these items, he won't have to worry every day about where to dry herbs.

Mu Qing originally intended to escort the two back himself, but Leng Xiu intercepted him.

"Let A Xiu deliver to Old Qu, A Qing I still have something for you to help with."

While Ke Si and the others still had a strong impression of her, Yun Li urged Mu Qing to quickly make a bamboo rack, then sent out a few pieces of candy wrapped in cloth.

She thought Ke Si, being a clever beastman, would certainly understand her meaning; even if he couldn't grasp it at first, wouldn't there be Chang Yue?

The words she said to Chang Yue today weren't said in vain.

After Mu Qing also went out, Yun Li finally had the house to herself to rest properly.

The four wolf pups hadn't seen Am for almost a day, and feeling unaccustomed, as soon as they saw her lying down in the lounge chair at home, they all ran over.

The third pup, with Leng Xiao's help, immediately claimed the best spot in Am's lap.

The other three male pups clawed at Yun Li's legs, and only after Am called them "father" were they lifted by Leng Xiao into Yun Li's lap.

But the four pups were all crowded in Yun Li's lap; a moment's inattention could cause them to fall off, or step onto her face.

She couldn't keep sleeping; she had to pat each one's head, give each a kiss, and then coax them, saying:

"Go play by yourselves, okay? Am is tired and needs to sleep a while on her own."

The pups didn't understand Am's words; they thought Am's kisses were a sign of affection, and they stepped on Yun Li's body even more merrily.

Yun Li: *sigh! *

She held the four pups, doing her best to play with them for a while.

Until Leng Xiao brought over minced meat and processed exotic beast milk, finally freeing Yun Li.

She watched Leng Xiao's interaction with the pups; although each pup ate heartily, there were occasional moments of discord, and at those times Leng Xiao had to pull apart the pups who were about to fight or cause trouble…

As she watched, the female (Yun Li) unknowingly fell asleep.