CHAPTER 194: CHAPTER 185: BIG FAT SHEEP_1

After Si Yan left, Dongchi and Nan Mo whispered to each other.

Dongchi Dao: "Nan Mo, Mother is earning money to buy scar removal cream for our youngest sibling. We can’t just sit around doing nothing."

Nan Mo listened earnestly to his eldest brother Dongchi.

Dongchi Dao: "We need to find a way to make money too."

Nan Mo nodded vigorously, "Big brother, Mother is so tired, I feel so bad for her. I want to help Mother earn money as well."

Dongchi Dao: "Nan Mo, let’s walk around the city and think of ways to make money."

Nan Mo: "Yes!"

With this conversation, the two youngsters left the tavern and wandered around Myriad Beasts City.

They saw a street stall on the ground, and Dongchi bent down to ask, "What is this, and how much does it sell for?"

The vendor glanced at the two youngsters and said, "This is high-quality beast thigh meat; it takes two beast hides to trade for it!"

Dongchi’s mouth twitched. High quality? Beast thigh meat? Seriously?

The meat scraps hunted by their good-for-nothing dad were better than this.

Dongchi, pulling Nan Mo along, stood up and continued walking.

They walked around for most of the day, studying the street stalls and food shops of Myriad Beasts City, but still had no clear ideas.

Dongchi hit his own head and said, "Why can’t I be as clever as Mother? Her ideas just keep coming one after the other. Why can’t I think of anything?"

Nan Mo wanted to comfort Dongchi, but just then, Dongchi heard someone complaining on the roadside.

"Ah, HISS, how is this calculated again? That Tiger Beastman paid me five beast hides for a piece of wood, and then seven hides for a Black Dragon Fruit, so how many beast hides does he actually owe me?" The person couldn’t figure it out, even with his fingers and toes.

Dongchi stepped forward, his young, naive face suddenly appearing as he said, "Twelve beast hides."

"Twelve hides?" The man tilted his head to look at Dongchi—a cute little white-haired, red snake beastman.

"But he only gave me ten beast hides. No, no, you must be wrong; it definitely is ten."

However, Dongchi was very firm. "Uncle, you’ve miscalculated; it is twelve. He has shortchanged you! Catch him before he gets too far and ask for what he owes you!"

The beastman didn’t believe Dongchi.

Dongchi, in a hurry, picked up some small pebbles and started moving them around.

"Uncle, look, five stones, seven stones, one, two, three, four, five... twelve." He counted them one by one.

"Twelve! Oh my gosh, it really is twelve!"

Once the man realized it was indeed twelve beast hides, he hurriedly turned to ask the buyer for the two hides he was shorted.

After some explanations and delays, the man successfully got the two missing beast hides back.

Looking at Dongchi, he seemed a bit excited and thanked him profusely, saying, "Little guy, you can actually do arithmetic! You’re amazing, really amazing."

"It’s nothing special, just simple addition, really."

Mother’s teachings of the chicken and rabbit cage problem were way harder than this.

Thinking of this, Dongchi’s eyes suddenly lit up.

"Nan Mo, I think I’ve found a way for us to make money!" he exclaimed excitedly.

On the Beast World continent, beastmen who could do arithmetic were very rare. But these brothers had all been educated by Si Yan and had already mastered addition and subtraction within a thousand.

Now, with so many merchants in Myriad Beasts City who couldn’t do arithmetic, they were in dire need of someone like him who could.

If he seized this opportunity to trade his arithmetic abilities for a reward...

Oh my, what a brilliant idea!!!

Dongchi and Nan Mo quickly made a plan and got down to business.

The reserved Nan Mo wouldn’t show off his Telepathy in front of strangers, so he just stood there as Dongchi’s little helper.

Dongchi was small but clever. At every stall or shop, especially in the bigger ones, he negotiated his fee to provide arithmetic services.

The two youngsters were doing brisk business, and their pockets soon filled with one Green Crystal after another, making them grin from ear to ear.

They were helping Mother out; this was absolutely fantastic.

However, amidst their joy, the two unaware youngsters didn’t notice.

In a dark corner, a female dressed in a red beast hide skirt was staring intently at them.

「...」

Si Yan arrived inside Myriad Beasts City.

Sitting on the highest stone chair were her adoptive parents, Xue Lin and Huamei.

The original owner of this body had left Myriad Beasts City many years ago. Additionally, pregnancy, childbirth, her current state of health, and the immense changes to her appearance and aura meant that her present look and scent were vastly different from when she was a child.

Therefore, Xue Lin and Huamei did not recognize her.

Si Yan watched Xue Lin and Huamei, a grin playing on her lips. These two fat sheep.

The City Lord and Mistress of Myriad Beasts City are loaded with money!!

Si Yan’s straightforward smile made Xue Lin feel that he... should be quite likable to Si Yan.

He wrinkled his nose.

"City Lord, and the City Lord’s Mistress," Si Yan politely said.

The cold-blooded snake Beastman lifted his head and coolly sized up the City Lord and his Mistress before lazily leaning on Si Yan’s shoulder.

Xue Lin had a sharp eye; after circling his gaze twice over She Wang and Si Yan, it settled on Si Yan.

He said with a smile, "Master Brewer."

Si Yan said, "Lord of the Castle, my name is Si Yan."

Xue Lin smiled and said, "Master Si Yan, do you really know how to brew wine?"

"I do."

"Have any good wine?"

"I have. Does the Lord of the Castle wish to buy some?"

"Show me, and if the wine is good, I’ll definitely buy!"

Si Yan smiled and took out a small stone wine jug from her bosom; the jug contained wine she had previously drawn from a red vat.

"Would the Lord like to try it?"

Xue Lin said excitedly, "Hand it over, quickly!"

Si Yan passed it to a Beastman, who then handed it to Xue Lin.

After getting a whiff of the wine’s fragrance, Xue Lin completely lost his bearings.

He was eager to drink it right away.

"Wait," Si Yan said. "Lord Xue Lin, my wine is not cheap."

Xue Lin lightly sniffed the wine and was immediately intoxicated by the aroma. "How much?"

Si Yan said, "Ten Red Insect Crystals."

"How much?!" Xue Lin was taken aback, looking at the clear rice wine.

Si Yan repeated, "Ten Red Insect Crystals."

Xue Lin looked at the wine again in surprise.

Si Yan chuckled, "If you try it, you’ll know it’s worth it."

In the peaceful days before the apocalyptic age, even in ancient times, the markup on wine was very high.

Good wine from ancient eras could sell for a lot of money. In peaceful times, a bottle of vintage wine could even go for tens of millions.

In any era, wine held a fatal attraction for the male species.

Sure enough, looking at the rice wine in the stone jug Si Yan had handed him, Xue Lin gritted his teeth and said, "I’ll buy!"

"Xue Lin! Wait a minute!" Huamei, thinking he was being impulsive, tried to stop him.

"Mistress..."

Xue Lin looked pitifully at the wine, then yearningly at Huamei.

The panda Huamei’s heart softened, and she turned around, leaving him with a view of her triangular-shaped back.

Forget it, just drink it; she couldn’t be bothered anymore.

Xue Lin immediately had a Beastman hand over ten Red Insect Crystals to Si Yan.

After receiving the Insect Crystals, Si Yan smiled and said, "Lord of the Castle, a pleasure doing business with you."

Xue Lin was so impatient to drink the rice wine in his hand that, after taking a small sip, his eyes lit up.

"Great wine! Great wine!!! Rich and full-bodied, lingering on the lips and teeth... truly great wine! Great wine, such great wine!"

Xue Lin couldn’t stop praising it. If it weren’t for his limited vocabulary, he would have offered a much longer list of compliments.

Si Yan said with a smile, "I’m glad the Lord of the Castle likes it."

Xue Lin eagerly said, "Master Si Yan, do you have any more? Any more of this wonderful wine?"

Si Yan: "I do."

Xue Lin’s eyes lit up. "How much do you have? I want it all!"

Indeed, what a fat sheep.

Si Yan quoted without any mental burden, "If you want five jugs or more, I can give you a discount: nine Red Insect Crystals per jug."

Xue Lin said excitedly, "I’ll take it!"

Then he said in confusion, "Nine Red Insect Crystals per jug... so how many Red Insect Crystals for five jugs?..."

Si Yan: "..."

She had forgotten this world didn’t understand multiplication!