Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 144 - 143: Don’t Include Me
Zhi Le and the others were new Beast Soldiers, so each of their quarters was a pitiful five square meters. Aside from a stone bed, there wasn’t even enough room for a stone table and chairs. Personal belongings were mostly stored in a few rows of stone cabinets carved into the walls.
The reality was that the city was packed with Beast Soldiers, and since the city’s Beastmen also farmed, land was scarce. Being granted such accommodations was already a cause for celebration for countless families.
Fortunately, their family had five Beast Soldiers. They weren’t like other families, where three to five people—or even more—had to cram into a single room!
Yimei’s family, for example, had eleven members, including the cubs, all squeezed into just two rooms.
"Yimei, our family is small and has extra rooms, so we can spare one for you," Si Shuo said. With seven members in their family, four rooms was just the right amount of space.
Yimei smiled, pressing her lips together. "In that case, I won’t stand on ceremony with you, Si Shuo."
"Zhe Heng said we should first see what the arrangements are like in the Beast Soldier Camp. If we end up having to come and go from here often, he’ll trade the small courtyard and farmland we won in the fighting ring for a place nearby."
"That way, it’ll be much more spacious and comfortable for all of us."
Si Shuo smiled and nodded. "My Ji Liang said the same thing. The security here in the camp is pretty good. We can move after they’ve had a chance to scope things out."
The quarters weren’t large, so the Beastmen fenced off four or five square meters in front of their doors with waist-high wooden planks to create small courtyards. During the day, they could boil water and cook there. At night, the Beastmen could sleep on the ground outside, leaving the rooms to the young females and cubs.
Since their family’s rooms were all connected, even after sparing one for Yimei, their courtyard was still ten square meters!
Right then, Ji Liang, Zhe Heng, and Kouba were out exploring and getting a feel for the situation.
Xu Chi kept Si Shuo company while he cooked, and the other Beast Husbands were busy cleaning the rooms and making the beds.
Yin Jiang scorched the inside and outside of the stone house twice with fire to drive out the dampness.
Si Shuo created an "A Curtain of Dreams" and hung one over the doorway of her home and another over Yimei’s. Its top was a lush green, and delicate red aerial roots dangled from the bottom. It was as beautiful as a beaded curtain but didn’t block the light, and it could even catch any insects or ants that tried to wander inside.
"Excuse me, is this the home of the Si Shuo Divine Female?" a female called out with a smile from outside the gate.
She saw that there was more than one female outside; in fact, they had spontaneously formed a line, while their Beast Husbands watched from the side.
Si Shuo understood at once. ’They must be here to buy Spirit Plants from me!’
Luckily, she was prepared. During their journey, as long as she wasn’t eating snacks or playing games, she had spent half of her waking hours converting low level crystal stones into Spirit Plants.
Spirit Plants couldn’t be put into her storage space, so the Beast Skin Bags carried by her Beast Husbands were packed to the brim with all kinds of them.
The system charged a hefty fee to synthesize High Level Crystal Stones from low level crystal stones. However, she had exchanged Second rank Crystal Stones directly for Level 6 ones, which was pretty nice!
The Crystal Stones provided her with an inexhaustible source of power.
"Yes!" Si Shuo replied, smiling from behind the waist-high fence in a silent inquiry.
"Si Shuo Divine Female, we’re the mates of the Beast Soldiers who live nearby," the female at the front of the line said with a smile. "We heard you have the Catalyst Technique, and that the Spirit Plants you create are beautiful, interesting, and especially practical. So we came hoping to buy a couple from you."
Si Shuo glanced at Gong You, who was standing beside her.
He sighed and stood up. "Leave selling the Spirit Plants to us. You just be a good girl and watch from behind us so you don’t get jostled."
Si Shuo nodded eagerly in agreement.
Xiao Cheng had already opened the gate, where he materialized a glittering golden table to continue blocking the entrance and keep the crowd outside.
Si Shuo fell silent. ’It would be amazing if he had a superpower like this back in my old world,’ she thought. ’A piece of gold this big must weigh one or two hundred kilograms. How much would that be in RMB?’
But here on the Beast World Continent, no one treated gold as a treasure. In fact, they looked down on it for being too soft and unable to withstand the Beastmen’s rough handling.
The culture shock, combined with her otherworldly love for gold, was something she couldn’t get over so easily!
Aside from the Spirit Plants coiling around her hands, she also wore heavy golden bracelets and Big Gold Rings, not to mention the Yingluo Necklace hanging around her neck.
Since Xiao Cheng was manning the table, the ones lining up were the females, but the ones taking out Crystal Stones to pay were one of their Beast Husbands.
"Ladies, we have a limited number of Spirit Plants," Xiao Cheng announced. "So that more of you can enjoy them, each person is limited to purchasing two types!"
The females had already heard about these rules from others who had come from Dongye Middle Square. Compared to the previous limit of one Spirit Plant, this was already better than they had expected.
This meant that besides the rootless flower, they could choose one other kind.
Each type of Spirit Plant cost one Level 6 Crystal Stone. The males handed over the Crystal Stones without batting an eye, and in exchange for their little female’s delight, they would grin foolishly right alongside them.
Soon, the entire camp was filled with females and cubs, all flapping their beautifully colored wings!
Many of the females even deliberately packed a few things and took their Beast Husbands back to their parents’ homes to show off.
As a result, even more females, drawn by her reputation, came to buy Spirit Plants.
The line grew quite long, so Zhi Le and the others opened a few more service points. Even the Beast Husbands from Yimei’s family pitched in to help.
The fruits of Si Shuo’s labor from over twenty days were sold out in just over a single Beast Hour, exchanged for two Beast Skin Bags filled to the brim with Level 6 Crystal Stones!
The females who rushed over only to find they couldn’t buy any Spirit Plants were extremely disappointed, and they all started asking when more would be available.
Ji Liang, who had just returned from his walk, announced lazily, "Sales will be held every morning after group training. We’ll only have one hundred Spirit Plants each time. This is the absolute limit of what my little female can provide, so I hope you all can be understanding."
’The family doesn’t lack Crystal Stones, so there’s no need to make his little female work so hard. Earning one hundred Level 6 Crystal Stones a day was quite conspicuous, but it was just below the threshold where the major families and tribes would bother to cause trouble.’
After closing the gate, Ji Liang saw Si Shuo’s slightly disappointed expression. He smiled and ruffled her hair. "Not happy?"
Si Shuo chuckled and shook her head. "No, not really. It’s just... seeing that pile of Crystal Stones right at our doorstep and not being able to reach out and grab them feels a little cruel..." 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
Ji Liang couldn’t suppress a chuckle. His little female had three very distinct traits: she loved to eat, she knew how to act cute, and she had an insatiable love for Crystal Stones and gold.
’That last trait was definitely his influence as a trader. It’s a shared interest; having Crystal Stones on hand can solve a lot of problems.’
"My silly Shuoshuo," he said. "When I said we’d only sell a hundred, did you really think we’d *only* sell a hundred?"
Si Shuo’s eyes lit up, and she grabbed his arm. "Ji Liang!"
Ji Liang said leisurely, "Little Shushu, one can never earn enough Crystal Stones. On the road, you were bored, so we all let you be, allowing you to create Spirit Plants to pass the time."
"From now on, just spend one Beast Hour a day creating Spirit Plants. For every hundred you make, you need to take a little break. That should come out to about four hundred per day."
"We’ll sell one hundred from a stall here at home. As for the other three hundred, we’ll sell them discreetly to the traders who travel between the Beast Cities. That way, we won’t attract too much attention, and on top of selling them for Crystal Stones, we can also put other traders in our debt."
Si Shuo nodded emphatically and gave him a big thumbs-up. "That’s a brilliant plan! We can use scarcity marketing on the females in Guangshou City, while also selling our Spirit Plants across the entire Beast World Continent without ever leaving home. No risks, no exhausting travel, no unwanted attention from the city’s elite, and we can even build good relationships with the traders. It kills so many birds with one stone!"
Yin Jiang shot her a look. "Shuo’er, if you want to praise Ji Liang, then just praise him. Don’t drag me into it."
Si Shuo slapped her forehead. ’Right... Yin Jiang is from the Eagle Falcon Beast Clan, and Beastmen have a pretty blurry definition of eagles, hawks, and falcons...’
