Chapter 7: Arriving at a New Home

Currently Lin Manzhi's warehouse has only two slots, each slot holds one kind of food, with a maximum limit of 1,000 jin per slot, and future upgrades will require spending coins.

The other half was sold in the Mall; one Lettuce costs 1 coin, yielding 200 coins, and she still spent 10 coins to buy a packet of Lettuce seeds and replant them.

Finally, after Lin Manzhi repeatedly harvested lettuce four times and lay there until her limbs were nearly sore, the world once filled with green was replaced by earth and sand, and everything she saw was a sand-colored, barren landscape.

At high noon under the blazing sun, Lin Manzhi finally reached the farthest Rosanya tribe on the border of Ansen City.

The scorching sun baked the endless yellow sand, and the horizon in the wide view was cut off by a towering barrier; five brown horse Beastfolk then accelerated, leapt over several Beastfolk wrapped in beast hide, and kept accelerating.

Lin Manzhi lifted the curtain and looked ahead; as she got closer, she discovered the barrier was actually a city wall.

It wasn't built with stone blocks but with natural massive sandstone, its history of wind‑sand erosion unknown, later carved by Beastfolk, rising dozens of meters and appearing like a sheer rampart.

They passed through an archway over ten meters high.

The brown horse's speed slowed, and low sandstone houses appeared in the sand; the ruined low houses were built in concentric circles inward around the sandstone city wall, and a few scattered Beastfolk on the street, upon seeing the imposing brown horse convoy, showed fearful eyes and gave way.

Such a strong and powerful male beast would not normally appear in a place as desolate as this; heading toward the tribe's center, who knows what major event awaits?

Amid the passing Beastfolk's speculation, Lin Manzhi sat on the brown horse's back and arrived at the future residence of herself and Mo Lie.

The leading brown horse male beast transformed back into a tall humanoid, brown beast hide wrapped around his waist, revealing a body of ancient pine‑colored robust tendon flesh, and said to the female on the brown horse's back:

"Lady Lin, we have now arrived at your residence; please move in."

Embarrassed by the address, Lin Manzhi lowered her head, the hanging cloth fell down, covering her eyes and revealing only her small white chin, "Fine, open the courtyard gate and move all the luggage inside."

"Yes."

Few would refuse a female's words; the brown horse male beast bowed, helped the rabbit duo Tu Li and Tu Yong who came around from the rear of the squad, and with a creak pushed open the stone door.

At this moment, Mo Lie flipped off the brown horse, dismounted, and landed lightly on the sand; beneath his Black Cloak, his tightened black leather belt glimmered with the characteristic sheen of beast hide, and his slender figure stood tall and strong.

He slightly lifted his head, his blue eyes gazing toward the five‑meter‑high brown horse's back; under the black Headscarf, his pale face, eyebrows, and eyes were delicate, deep, and handsome.

The contradictory, contrasting aura merged in Mo Lie, making him especially attractive.

A large hand with defined knuckles extended from beneath the Black Cloak, Mo Lie raised it toward Lin Manzhi on the brown horse, his voice a low hoarse tone, like a piano note lowered an octave, pleasant: "Wife Master."

The brown horse male beast, following the motion, bent its front hoof and knelt, lowering its body about four meters above the ground; to allow the female on its back to descend, a hanging wooden ladder dropped from the side of the horse's back.

The wooden ladder was as thin as a child's arm, its sides bound with beast hide, each rung fell from the horse's back to the yellow sand, so narrow that only one foot could step on it, and it wobbled under weight; such a wooden ladder could not bear much force.

Previously, when stopping to rest on the road, she always felt uneasy climbing down and almost fell several times.

Sitting on the horse's back near the carriage edge, Lin Manzhi stood up, glanced at her severely injured Beast Husband's hand, and hesitated for a few seconds.

Mo Lie's inner self, unknown to others, was aware; now staying clear‑headed and standing alone was merely a forced effort, and he felt no shame in letting a patient help him.

Lin Manzhi bent down, hand grabbing the beast‑hide of the wooden ladder: "You step back a few steps, I can manage myself..."

There was no ripple in Mo Lie's eyes.

In these few days together, although he didn't know why the female treated him so cautiously, which was strange, this kind of interaction had become a wonderful companionship he had never imagined before.

As a Beast Husband, taking on the responsibility of protecting his own female is beyond reproach.

He lifted his single arm, grabbed the female's hand, pulled her forward into his embrace, then clasped her waist and placed her beside him.

The slightly hoarse voice finally sounded in Lin Manzhi's ear: "I'll carry you down."

With her foot on the sand, Lin Manzhi was stunned by Mo Lie's action of moving before speaking, "You..."

Mo Lie withdrew his hand from her waist, hearing the female's voice beside him, lowered his gaze toward Lin Manzhi: "Wife Master, any other orders?"

"... Nothing." Lin Manzhi thought for a moment, then swallowed her concern about asking about his health.

The permanent pain caused by the Spirit Core had no solution now; asking more would only be like sprinkling salt on the wound again.

She thought most patients probably don't like being treated so carefully as patients.

Lin Manzhi shifted her thoughts to the moving, entered the stone gate, and arrived at the courtyard of her new home.

The Rosanya tribe is located on the edge of the desert; the novels Lin Manzhi had read gave little description, so she combined the remaining scattered memory fragments with the residence before her.

The sandstone courtyard wall, about two meters high and uneven, the stone gate missing a corner, enclosed a sand courtyard of roughly eighty‑plus square meters, which had long been unclean and yellow‑dusty.

Inside the courtyard stood a two‑story large house built of sandstone, three rooms on the ground floor and three rooms in the basement, that's the whole layout.

—Quite poor.

No wonder the City Lord took away all the other properties Mo Lie had accumulated over the years, leaving only this house; what good ground can there be in the desert? Whatever is needed is lacking.

In the brown horse male beasts' eyes, the house was especially small, unable to house many Beastfolk; food in this wasteland was scarce, entertaining a guest required great effort.

The brown horse male beasts helped move the luggage, then stood in the courtyard drinking water and resting.

Tu Li and Tu Yong obeyed their master, escorted the two here; to make Lady Lin more comfortable, they also tidied the house, then promptly came to report.

Lin Manzhi, with Mo Lie, followed Tu Li and Tu Yong into the house; they had already arranged the belongings they brought.

One floor has three rooms: a bedroom on the left, a kitchen on the right, a vacant large hall in the middle; the second floor is a warehouse.

Each room's floor was laid with stone bricks; after cleaning, it still looked grayish but was very clean and tidy.

Lin Manzhi walked around, finally followed them to the left main bedroom; Tu Li, a bit nervous, said: "Lady Lin, the bed we brought is placed in this main room; we hope you will be satisfied."