Chapter 90: Another Way

"This poison made from drowsy grass, if I use it to hunt beasts, it won't make the beasts inedible, right?"

Seeing Yun Li interested in the poison at their stall, the Scorpion Tribe quickly sent a beastman over to answer her.

After receiving a negative answer, Yun Li's mouth twitched up ever so slightly.

An otherworldly anesthetic—this trip was truly worth it today.

"Then this one, and those few jars, I'll take them all; tell me how many Crystal Cores you need for the exchange."

The male of the Scorpion Tribe glanced at the poisons she selected: three jars of lethal venom, one jar that temporarily numbs pain, and one jar of hallucinogenic powder.

"Eighty Crystal Cores."

He told Yun Li.

Yun Li nodded after hearing, took off her beast‑skin pouch, and handed over the eighty Crystal Cores.

The Scorpion Tribe beastman took the Crystal Cores, placed the poisons she wanted into a makeshift wooden box, and then handed it to Mu Qing standing behind her.

After passing the Scorpion Tribe's stall, Yun Li and the others soon stopped at a stall of the White Turtle Tribe.

The White Turtle Tribe's stall mainly sold fish, shrimp, and some aquatic plants.

Naturally only Yun Li was interested in those items; Gong Mei and the others had their eyes on jewelry made from turtle shells, river stones, and pearl shells.

The four of them caused another buying spree at this stall; Yun Li, for those two bites, somehow bought nearly half of the stall's goods.

Seeing this, Gong Mei wanted to advise them but didn't know where to start.

After all, the food here isn't expensive, it wouldn't cost Yun Li many Crystal Cores, and more importantly, her Beast Husband had no say at all.

And they were just friends; meddling in Yun Li's spending of Crystal Cores seemed inappropriate.

But what Gong Mei didn't expect was that any edible thing Yun Li hadn't seen before, she wanted to buy some to try.

In contrast, Gong Mei's party this trip only spent a few extra Crystal Cores on poison and exchanged some Crystal Cores for accessories.

"You've exchanged so many items here; how will you carry them back?"

Gong Mei stared at the pile of items and felt a headache coming on.

Even if their Beast Husband helped carry them, they still couldn't bring everything back; the items are too scattered.

Finally, Chang Yue rushed over when he heard the news: "I'll send people to deliver them for you; when your other Beast Husbands arrive, they can bring the items inside."

Yun Li gratefully thanked him.

However, on the way back, the group happened to run into Leng Xiu and Leng Xiao, who had just finished their business and were looking for them.

By instinct, the two brothers immediately saw that Chang Yue intended to dig into their corner.

But in front of Yun Li, they showed no sign of anything unusual.

Only after returning to their base did Leng Xiu bring up Chang Yue's matter.

"A Li, do you like him?"

Yun Li replied as usual, "I neither like nor dislike him. Do you dislike him?"

"He's ugly."

Leng Xiao, without hesitation, said beside her, "A Li, rather than letting a Youbuluo male into your home, you'd be better off forming a Mate Bond with Ji Xuan."

The biggest issue is that Chang Yue always wears a smiling face, making him seem insincere.

Yun Li looked at Leng Xiao oddly, "Why do you keep staring at Young Master Ji Xuan?"

If she didn't know he liked her, she would have thought he had some improper intentions toward Young Master Ji Xuan.

She can't recall how many times Leng Xiao has brought up Ji Xuan in front of her; before she only suspected Ji Xuan might be interested in her, but now she feels an urge to have him enter her home immediately.

Something always feels off.

Leng Xiao stroked his chin and said, "He's powerful; if A Li formed a Mate Bond with him, no female in the Silver Eagle Tribe would dare bully you."

More importantly, knowing the Silver Eagle Tribe plans to trade away females makes him uneasy about A Li.

A Li doesn't dislike Snake Beastmen, but she hates females being treated as trade goods.

If A Li formed a Mate Bond with Ji Xuan, the Silver Eagle Tribe couldn't possibly send away the Young Master's females, could they?

Yun Li was speechless, "With Mu Qing and you all here, who would dare bully me?"

Besides, she got several jars of poison today; if anyone dares to bully her, she'll make them regret it.

Leng Xiu rubbed her head and said, "He's just worried about you."

He knew his brother perfectly; the earlier mention of Ji Xuan was because of Ji Xuan's strength, bringing a more powerful male into the house, which could only benefit A Li.

Moreover, Ji Xuan had visited the house a few times then; Leng Xiao saw that A Li didn't dislike Ji Xuan, and Ji Xuan didn't dislike A Li—if there's no dislike, there's conversation, so it's possible.

"The Silver Eagle Tribe hasn't agreed to our terms; they take this trade with the Youbuluo very seriously.

So we need to think of another way to stop them."

"What's going on?"

Yun Li furrowed her brows and asked.

One sugar‑making skill plus one clothing‑making skill isn't enough to make them relent and spare those females, is it?

Leng Xiu repeated to her what he had just told Leng Xiao.

A complex expression appeared on Yun Li's face, "The outside big tribes actually have writing?"

Leng Xiu, listening, slightly furrowed his brows and asked, "A Li, have you ever heard of any place that has writing?"

"I heard it from my father; he dealt with beastmen of the nomadic tribes, and most of those beastmen can read."

Yun Li's remark was fabricated; after all, she can't claim she reads, since the beastmen of the Flat Mountain Tribe are illiterate, even if she could say she invented her own script.

But with the outside big tribes already having writing, the simplified characters she knows are like modern minority scripts—unaccepted by most people and eventually forced to yield to the widely used Han characters.

Unless she has the influence to force the continent's beastmen to adopt her simplified characters.

"But the Silver Eagle Tribe sending those females out just because of that literate old beastman seems a bit excessive."

"Because only the Silver Eagle Tribe's beastmen can read, future outgoing beastmen will be able to bring back things from outside."

A Li, don't lose heart; we still have time to stop them.

Leng Xiu knows she cares about this, so he isn't planning to give up so easily.

"But we don't know when they'll act."

Yun Li also knows that being discouraged now is useless, so she quickly followed Leng Xiu's words and thought of a plan.

"Earlier I said that if talks with the Silver Eagle Tribe stall, we can go to the chief of the Youbuluo; conveniently, the two cubs we rescued on the way are the chief's offspring."

"If I tell Changyue that we want to see their chief, it should be easy."

"Then tomorrow, Mu Qing and I will accompany you."

Leng Xiu, knowing the matter couldn't be delayed, immediately said they would go tomorrow to find the Youbuluo chief.

Yun Li nodded, then thought of another matter: "Did you tell Ahe and the others not to be alone after arriving at Red Grass Valley?"

"We told them, but they might not listen."

Leng Xiao frowned and said, "However, among the females that came, two have already formed Mate Bonds with males of the Silver Eagle Tribe."

Yun Li, after hearing, also let out a sigh of relief, "Fortunately they themselves know how to save themselves; they're not that stupid."

If after learning this they only complain and blame the heavens, Yun Li would be furious to the point of half‑dying.