Chapter 210: Breaking Up

"Grandfather!"

Hearing this voice, Lengao saw who it was and immediately happily pounced toward Mu Qing, "Why are you here?"

Although Lengao wasn't his own child, Mu Qing had watched him grow up, so when the boy pounced over, Mu Qing directly picked him up and set him on his shoulder.

"Came to find you all and take you home for a meal. A Li is waiting for us at home."

"But we have food here, and we haven't even eaten much yet. It's all because Father keeps snatching my roast meat."

Sitting on Mu Qing's shoulder, Lengao's legs swung happily as he spoke, and he even waved at his younger siblings in a show-off manner, making Lengshuang and the others suddenly feel that the roast meat in their hands wasn't as tasty anymore.

Watching his older brother showing off on Grandfather's shoulder, Xi Yun frowned slightly, then lowered his head to bite his own roast meat while silently thinking about how to get his brother a beating.

"Grandfather."

Seeing Mu Qing approach, Lengshuang stood up, unsure whether they should leave or stay and keep eating.

"This meat isn't much for you all."

Mu Qing took in the meat in the bamboo baskets by the bonfire and quickly made a decision in his mind, "I'll wait until you finish eating before we go home for a meal."

There were over a dozen cubs here. The meat Lengao and the others had gotten themselves, plus what Leng Xiao had brought, didn't even amount to a hundred catties. How could they possibly get full?

Seeing Mu Qing sit down, Leng Xiao lifted Lengao off him, then looked at Yun Ya, who was closest to the bamboo baskets, and said, "Bring all the meat over and let your Grandfather cook it for you."

"If you keep cooking, you'll probably get upset stomachs tonight."

Although the possibility was small, Leng Xiao really didn't want to eat any more of these cubs' half-raw roast meat.

Hearing this, Yun Ya blinked, then walked over and handed the skewered meat he had in hand to his Father and Grandfather.

Seeing this, Leng Xiao fell silent:...

The male felt his eyelids twitch fiercely, "I told you to bring all the meat over. Can't you just carry the whole bamboo basket of meat here?"

Yun Ya's face showed an expression of "So that's what I was supposed to do"?

Mu Qing took the meat skewers and ruffled Yun Ya's head, "Go bring the bamboo basket over. Grandfather will roast meat for you all."

"Oh~"

Yun Ya obediently went back and moved all the meat over. Seeing him carry several bamboo baskets over, the other cubs exchanged glances, then gathered around the two adults, Mu Qing and Leng Xiao.

Seeing this, Leng Xiao couldn't help frowning. Just as he was about to say something, Mu Qing shoved a meat skewer into his hand.

"Cook together. Once we've fed this bunch of cubs, we'll go home."

Leng Xiao clicked his tongue lightly, thinking that the other cubs weren't his family, so why should he roast meat for them?

But when Mu Qing and Lengao handed the skewered meat to him, Leng Xiao said nothing and resignedly started roasting meat for his own cubs and the others' cubs.

By the time Mu Qing and the others brought the cubs home, Yun Li had already fallen asleep in the courtyard for an afternoon nap with the little ones.

"A Li, did we wake you?"

Yun Li was at least a Green-rank beastman now, and she had never slacked off in training her strength, so as soon as someone entered the courtyard, she immediately woke up.

But after seeing that it was Mu Qing and the others coming in, Yun Li lay back down and pulled the few snake cubs who had been sleeping in her arms but were about to fall off back into her embrace.

"The food is all kept warm on the stove. After they finish eating, remember to tell them about the matter."

Having said that, Yun Li closed her eyes again, drowsy.

"Mm, I'll tell them. Sleep well."

Mu Qing said, reaching out to smooth the stray hair on the female's forehead. Feeling a dampness in his palm, he didn't hesitate. He picked up a round fan and began to fan Yun Li.

On the other side, Leng Xiao stood with his arms crossed, his face full of displeasure as he watched the cubs eating happily.

"Second Father."

Lengshuang, unlike her older brother and younger brothers, couldn't completely ignore Second Father's gaze, so she had to look up and ask, "Do you want to eat meat with us too?"

Leng Xiao's mouth twitched, "I don't want to eat!"

If he didn't want to eat, then why was he staring at them like that?

Lengshuang thought silently to herself, or maybe it was because of what they had done earlier that made Second Father angry.

But Leng Xiao was actually just angry about the Ke Si matter. He had already sent out the message of his goodwill, yet Ke Si had shown no response for so long.

He hadn't been willing to lower his head in the first place, but who would have thought that bastard Ke Si actually seemed to have given up on A Li.

Logically, this should have been good news for Leng Xiao, but thinking that a male who clearly liked A Li would give her up so easily after facing some difficulties, Leng Xiao couldn't help but feel a surge of anger.

Damn it, what did he take A Li for?

Meanwhile, Ke Si, whom Leng Xiao was thinking about, had finished talking with Priest You and was now sitting alone in the room, lost in thought.

Until Chang Yue walked over to him, Ke Si suddenly asked, "When you were pursuing A Li before, did you ever think about sharing the same female with other males in the future?"

Chang Yue hadn't expected Ke Si to ask him this. His pursuit of Yun Li was something from ages ago.

He hadn't really liked that female that much anyway. It was only after seeing how much she cared about her snake beast husband that he got the idea of becoming her beast husband.

"Isn't sharing one's female with other males perfectly normal? Why would the Witch Doctor be troubled by this?"

He thought the question Ke Si asked was utterly absurd.

In this world, females could have multiple beast husbands, while males could only be loyal to one female for their entire lives. Wasn't this the consensus of all beastmen?

Did the Witch Doctor actually delude himself into thinking he could monopolize a female? But Yun Li had clearly already had several beast husbands before she met them. If he cared about this, he shouldn't have indulged Yun Li's approach to him in the first place.

"That's right. You all think that way."

Ke Si's tone carried a hint of sarcasm, then suddenly dropped heavily, "But why should it be this way?"

Why should females be able to take the sincere devotion of several, even a dozen, males for granted, while males, no matter how hard they tried, could only pursue the favor of one female in their entire lives?

How utterly ridiculous!

Ke Si recalled Yun Li's face, and an indescribable feeling of irritation and anger filled his chest.

"Yun! Li!"

He gritted his teeth and muttered that female's name.

Compared to seeking but not obtaining, having clearly possessed something only to discover it was all a lie—perhaps the latter is even harder to bear than the former.

Thus, in the days that followed, not only did Leng Xiao never receive a reply from Ke Si, but the two times he took the initiative to visit, he was also turned away.

By now, if Yun Li and the others still couldn't grasp what this meant, they would truly be fools—the matter of Ke Si and Yun Li's Mate Bond was thus shelved.

However, the alliance between the two Tribes did not face collapse because of their breakup; this was perhaps the great fortune amidst this unfortunate incident.

For just as Jicheng and the Priest had worried, some outsider beastmen had come to the Silver Eagle Tribe with malicious intentions.