Retired Villainess Transmigrates into a Cannon Fodder

The Strongest Fox-Demon (6)

The scholar went out and asked his mother for food. Chu Xiang and Bai Yi, who had good hearing, heard the woman say with displeasure, “How much do we have to feed those two? Isn’t it better for me to save this money for you to eat a few eggs? Ah, right. We also have two chickens. Foxes love to eat chicken, right? Will they eat our chickens when we’re not looking?”

Bai Yi pursed her mouth in disgust, approached Chu Xiang and said: [Who will eat that stuff? I might not think it’s delicious even if it’s cooked. Why do I get the feeling that savior’s mother doesn’t like us? Are we not beautiful? Not well behaved?”

Chu Xiang said lazily: [She can’t even eat enough. How can she care about whether the foxes look good or not? To her, we are just a burden. She’s willing to raise her son. Raising the chickens was to have eggs for meals and later chicken meat. Why would she be willing to raise us?”

Bai Yi froze. She grew up cultivating, and has strong magical skills, so she has always been valued and respected by the small demons. Suddenly becoming disliked and viewed as a burden caused her to be a bit overwhelmed.

She hesitantly said: [Then I …… can catch a few more chickens to bring back to her?]

Chu Xiang said with amusement: [You’d better observe and try to understand their circumstances first.]

Bai Yi nodded and looked at Chu Xiang. [Xiang’er, how come you seem to know everything? You’ve never been out of the mountains just like me, but you sound like an experienced senior now!]

Chu Xiang casually made up a lie. [Of course, I heard about these from the seniors. You only listen to their tragic stories, while I listened to all their experiences in the human world.”

[Oh, I see.] Bai Yi felt ashamed. [I did not think about coming to the human society, I just wanted to cultivate. Those stories were listened to for fun, I did not really pay attention to the experiences. Xiang’er you are so amazing to have remembered it all. If it wasn’t for you, I would have been in trouble. I’ll be relying on you when I’m around savior!]

Chu Xiang laughed a little. In fact, these were only small matters that would not cause big trouble. Even if they get into trouble, it does not matter. Was there anything they could not solve? However, she did not tell Bai Yi about this so the latter would be more careful since she was too naive.

Compared to those cunning fox demons she had seen before, Chu Xiang still preferred Bai Yi’s innocence, as if she was a child who had just come into contact with the new world; it was quite cute sometimes.

In the end, the scholar still managed to get food from his mother, although not much. He placed the food bowl in front of them, sighed, and stroked Bai Yi’s head, “When I become a government official, things at home will no longer be like this. At that time, I will let you have a chicken leg to eat every day.”

Bai Yi gently nuzzled the scholar’s palm and dubiously transmitted voice to Chu Xiang, [Xiang’er, two days ago when savior went to see us, did he not also give us chicken legs? Are chicken legs so expensive? So …… what savior gave us to him by his mother to get more nutrients in his body?]

[Probably.] Chu Xiang pretended to have eaten, but she instead threw her share of food into her inventory space.

Bai Yi said heartily: [Savior is too good to us. He did not keep the goods to himself and gave them to us because he saw we were injured.]

Chu Xiang smiled, [Yiyi, if you have something good, who will you give it to first?]

Bai Yi responded without thinking. [Of course, it’s to you! Did you have to ask? Well …… the second one will be for our savior. I want to get a lot of good things for him!]

[So, you said his mother gave him a chicken leg. He hid it and gave it to two foxes to eat. Why didn’t he give it to his mother?] Chu Xiang prompted.

Bai Yi froze there, dumbfounded by Chu Xiang’s sharp question.

The scholar’s mother was so good to him, and could even be said to be the scholar’s most important person. They could know from watching just now that the scholar felt bad to see his mother working so hard washing clothes. Thus, why did he not give the chicken leg to his mother to eat, but to the two foxes? They were only two beautiful ordinary foxes in the scholar’s eyes, weren’t they?

[He …… Maybe he was afraid that his mother won’t eat it? Uhh …… that …… you know? His mother will certainly not eat. The chicken leg is his. Uhh, he has a good heart so …… so he took pity on us ……]

Chu Xiang was a little sleepy, and also did not care about this thing. She merely made an “oh” sound and closed her eyes, curling into a round ball of fiery red hair.

Bai Yi always felt that something was not quite the same as she thought, but what exactly, she could not say. She wanted to talk to Chu Xiang, but when she saw that Chu Xiang was resting, she silently quieted down and did not disturb her.

The thing she could not figure out did not bother Bai Yi for long, and she soon abandoned those thoughts to see what the scholar was doing. She heard him talking to his mother and neighbors and learned that his name was Zhuang Yulang and his mother was Zhuang Liu. His father died ten years ago and his mother brought him up alone.

Zhuang Liu’s greatest wish was for him to become a government official, while Zhuang Yulang’s greatest wish was to become a government official and give his mother a good life.

Bai Yi noted this wish seriously in her heart. She said she wanted to repay savior well and let him live the best life, so if this was savior’s wish, she had to help him achieve it.

To improve life itself had to start from the fundamental problem of food and clothing. None of it could be lacking.

Bai Yi took advantage of their inattention to sneak out. Chu Xiang’s eyelids moved, but she used her fluffy tail to cover her face, not even bothering to open her eyes.

Bai Yi ran into the forest and with little effort, she caught a pheasant with one paw.

She heard the conversation between Zhuang Liu and Zhuang Yulang. It was as if the chicken was important and the chicken leg was also important too. If Bai Yi could not catch and bring the chicken back herself, she could always let it run into the house “willingly” in on its own, right? That would have nothing to do with her as a fox.

Bai Yi intimidated the two pheasants and ordered them to follow her back. She disappeared in a flash before they reached the house, and the two pheasants jumped over the wall and into the yard.

Zhuang Liu was the first to spot the two pheasants and was surprised and delighted, “Oh my! Two chickens flew into our house! These are pheasants, not domesticated ones!”

Zhuang Liu could not stop smiling, and rolled up her sleeves to catch them, “This is really a blessing from God!”