Chapter 61

Several dozen li outside the Silver Eagle Tribe, a dozen or so females, under the protection of the nearby male beastmen, came out to catch their breath.

"Rui, are we about to reach the Silver Eagle Tribe soon?"

A young female with short hair and a pretty appearance suddenly moved close to a gentle‑mannered female and asked, "I don't know if Mu Qing and Leng Xiu can find their females in the Silver Eagle Tribe; I heard their females are even pregnant? No wonder they initially protected their females and left the cave."

"A Li is pregnant?"

Rui, Meng's female, frowned slightly, turned her head to look at the young female beside her, her eyes showing a bit of inquiry and puzzlement, "I and Meng don't know anything about A Li's pregnancy; where did you hear that?"

The young female's face was full of surprise, "You don't know? I thought you and Rui were on good terms with Mu Qing and the others; you should have heard this from them already."

Rui's expression stiffened slightly, but she reacted quickly and made up an excuse on the spot: "Maybe Mu Qing and the others were afraid I and Meng would worry about A Li, so they didn't tell us."

The young female showed an expression of sudden realization, "Oh~"

Rui barely kept her composure; that little "oh" almost broke her calm, and she quickly changed the subject: "So who told you this? I and Meng didn't even know A Li was pregnant, and now only Leng Xiao is by her side—it's really worrying."

The young female went along with her words, "Yeah, it's also fortunate we ran into the Silver Eagle Tribe's beastmen. If we had been almost discovered by two snake beastmen like before, we would have been in danger then; luckily Mu Qing and the others got us out of there quickly."

Rui had tried to get the young female to reveal when A Li's pregnancy occurred, but instead the other led the conversation off to who knows where.

She hadn't gotten to ask what she wanted, and she almost let the other discover that Mu Qing and the others treated Meng and her no differently from other beastmen.

Thinking of how Mu Qing and Leng Xiu would from time to time seek her and Meng out to ask about A Li's past, Rui couldn't help but feel a flash of annoyance.

A Li! A Li!

How annoying she is, just like her mother.

Her mother had finally faded from her world, but now her female offspring began to haunt her incessantly.

Just as Rui was seething with resentment, the young female somehow slipped away from the group, greeted the male beastmen guarding the perimeter, and then walked off in the direction they indicated.

Not far from that clearing, the two tall males and the young female's beast husband had already been waiting there.

"Did you find out anything? Is A Li's father's departure really connected to her and Meng?"

Leng Xiu sat on a rock, looking at the aloof, unspeaking beastman as usual these days; amid their travels, his aura revealed a kind of indescribable ferocity.

The young female glanced at her beast husband, saw him nod at her, then recounted her entire conversation with Rui from start to finish, and finally summed up:

"That's about all we said. Rui always thought no one knew she liked A Li's father, but Meng likes Rui, so he certainly knows this; otherwise he wouldn't have brought A Li's father to Xuancao."

Upon hearing this, Leng Xiu had already guessed the full truth behind A Li's parents—one suffering a difficult birth, the other fleeing far away.

He suddenly turned to Mu Qing and asked, "Are those two snake beastmen still following us?"

Upon hearing that, the young female and her beast husband's faces both showed a sudden look of shock.

But Mu Qing merely nodded, "I'll give them a chance."

Give them a chance to capture Meng; only then can they have a chance to ask the Silver Eagle Tribe for help and smoothly enter it.

Otherwise, the Silver Eagle Tribe might not accept so many of them.

Upon learning they would have to enter the Silver Eagle Tribe through this risky method, the young female couldn't help but frown, but here she had no right to speak, and her beast husband kept giving her looks to stay silent.

"Why must we take this risky approach to the Silver Eagle Tribe? Can't we just go and seek refuge with them directly?"

The young female said, puzzled.

"Don't say that; Mu Qing and the others have no choice either. After all, even if Mu Qing's females entered the Silver Eagle Tribe, us bringing so many beastmen to seek refuge—witch doctors, females, and young ones—would still be fine, since the Silver Eagle Tribe values those who can contribute to the tribe, accepting them wouldn't be hard."

But don't forget the few old beastmen who came with us and those solitary males—are we really supposed to abandon them all now that we've come this far?

If Mu Qing and the others wanted to abandon those beastmen, what's the point of bringing them all this way?

The young female thought of the kind faces of those old beastmen, and fell silent as well.

But if we let Meng tell those two snake beastmen their hiding place, and if the Youbuluo behind them learned they have over ten females and quite a few youngsters, would they really be safe?

The young female returned to the resting small valley, her mind full of worries.

In the small valley, more than twenty youngsters were playing and roughhousing; seeing this, the busy adult beastmen couldn't help but smile slightly.

They endured all this hardship just to follow Mu Qing and Leng Xiu here, didn't they, so that these youngsters could be carefree like they are now?

Soon they wouldn't have to keep living in fear like this.

……

The Silver Eagle Tribe has always had beastmen scouting the surrounding territory within a hundred li, let alone the snake beastmen, their mortal enemies, suddenly charging into their land.

Not long after, the Silver Eagle Tribe sent a number of beastmen to the northwest.

"What happened?"

By now, it's been almost half a month since A Li gave birth to the youngsters, and the youngsters can already crawl.

To relax and get familiar with the surroundings, she held a wooden basin containing a few youngsters and wandered around the tribe.

Seeing the familiar females discussing something, she set the wooden basin down at her feet and sat down beside them.

"It's A Li!"

As for A Li, this pretty and good‑natured female, Xin, after being introduced by Gong Mei, also took a liking to her; seeing the wooden basin at her feet, Xin's eyes lit up with a warm smile, she bent down and stroked the youngsters' heads, saying:

"Your beast husband isn't home; it's really hard work having to take the youngsters out every day."

A Li smiled, echoed her with a word, and quickly changed the subject, otherwise she'd be asked again when she'd bring a male into the house.

Although she and Leng Xiao had tacitly accepted that this would happen sooner or later, the constant stream of males coming to fawn over her made her feel annoyed, and she suddenly found none of them pleasing.

"What were you just talking about? Did the Young Master bring some beastmen back rescued? Was that yesterday?"

Xin saw her dodging their questions about looking for a male, and inwardly she couldn't help but find it a bit funny—going out every day, perhaps she'd been frightened off by those enthusiastic males.

"Yes, yesterday the Young Master rescued some beastmen, but there were quite a few; yesterday only the females and youngsters were arranged to enter the tribe, while the other beastmen still have to wait for the Young Master and others to investigate their backgrounds thoroughly and confirm there's no problem before they can be settled in the tribe."

"Oh, by the way, I heard there are two Qing Rank beastmen among them, said their females are in the Silver Eagle Tribe…"

As the other female's words finished, A Li seemed to realize something and jerked her head up.