Chapter 732: Chapter 99: Grilled Fish (Two in One)
Pat pat pat!
The urgent knocking sound rang out, followed by the chatter of children’s voices from outside.
Shao Zifeng tied his hair back and, picking up the Crystal Fish he had prepared on the table, walked towards the door: “Coming, coming.”
Upon opening the door, the blinding sunlight caused Shao Zifeng to montarily feel dazed, and he instinctively raised his hand to shield his eyes.
After several days of treatnt and recovery, the symptoms of his snow blindness had lessened, but he would still feel uncomfortable if he stayed outside for too long.
Suddenly, his thigh tightened, as a little girl hugged his leg and looked up at him with a sweet smile: “Zifeng Gegge~”
The other children followed suit, calling out “Zifeng Gegge” as well, their bright eyes scanning the room, and one little fellow even had drool glistening at the corner of his mouth.
Shao Zifeng patted the little girl’s head and asked with a smile: “Katir, why have you co so early today?”
The little boy with snot hanging below his nose said directly: “Roasted fish…”
The little girl hugging Shao Zifeng’s leg turned and hit the little boy, and with big watery eyes, stuttered: “Zifeng Gegge… wants to learn.”
Shao Zifeng laughed heartily and raised the Crystal Fish in his hand, saying: “Alright, later I will check the howork I assigned yesterday. Those who did well can have an extra roasted fish.”
The children’s eyes lit up: “Wow!!”
There’s a saying that food is the first driving force of human progress, and although Shao Zifeng didn’t understand their language, by relying on his decent grilling skills and seasonings from Earth, he had successfully conquered the stomachs of these children.
Moreover, he had discovered that although these people claim not to fear the cold, their endurance also has a limit, so when soone gets frostbite, they too have to find a way to provide that person with so warmth.
Just like Earthlings enjoy eating ice cream, the people here can also enjoy so hot food.
It must be said that the learning capability of children is indeed strong, managing to barely communicate after only a few days… although the length of a day here seems a bit long.
With a group of bouncing and hopping children following behind, Shao Zifeng paraded through the settlent like the king of the kids. The won of the households, from initially being wary and cautious, had beco accustod to his presence, and now, whenever the warriors returned from hunting, people would specifically bring him delicacies from their own hos.
“#￥%*&@#%￥.”
An elderly woman smiled kindly at Shao Zifeng. Her pale hair had lost the silvery sheen of youth, and her wrinkled blue skin also seed sowhat somber.
Katir, who held Shao Zifeng’s big hand, whispered: “Karam… Grandma says, ‘the person who shines like the morning sun greets you.'”
The little one frowned, trying to translate with great effort. Though speaking haltingly, at least Shao Zifeng didn’t have to guess.
Shao Zifeng bowed slightly to the elderly woman: “Hello.”
Katir heaved a sigh of relief and said a long string of words to the woman called Karam, making the old woman laugh so hard she almost couldn’t close her mouth, revealing a toothy grin as her gaze upon Shao Zifeng softened even further.
After bidding farewell to the elderly woman, Shao Zifeng asked curiously: “Katir, how did you translate that just now?”
Before Katir could speak, a group of boys with an exceedingly strong desire to show off started chattering behind her, causing Katir to frown in annoyance.
Although they all spoke unclearly, piecing together their sentences allowed Shao Zifeng to grasp the greeting customs of this place.
When Karam greeted Shao Zifeng with ‘one who glows like the dawn dew,’ it was a way for elders to greet a young person of high status, and the corresponding reply should be ‘like the long and tender song of the sunset,’ to show respect.
Shao Zifeng looked satisfied at his group of little students: “Not bad, you guys. Tomorrow everyone gets an extra roasted fish!”
“Wow wow!”
“Grilled fish Zifeng Gega!”
Shao Zifeng’s face darkened as he corrected, “It’s Brother Zifeng, not Grilled Fish Brother Zifeng.”
“Mmm, Grilled Fish Gega!”
Shao Zifeng: …
The little rascals surrounded Shao Zifeng, and the group giggled their way towards the small square, passing by the unique and spacious wooden house, where Shao Zifeng stole a glance as if it were nothing.
Since the day she had taken him back, that female leader had never appeared again, as if she had forgotten about him.
Although curious about her intentions, Shao Zifeng was not in a rush at the mont. He planned to first heal his eyes while using these children to learn more about this world.
Of course, if he could collect information related to the five ferocious beasts, that would be even better.
…
In the great hall of the wooden house, a girl in a blue long dress sat on a chair, with a white tiger lying across her feet, its soft fur faintly shimring with a blue glow.
The barefoot girl rested her forehead on her slender arms as she lay atop the tiger, taking a rest.
The cascading silver-white hair fell down, hiding her face, and with her breath, the soft strands fluttered slightly, like a serene painting.
“Clan leader.”
A woman’s voice ca from outside the door curtain, and the girl lazily humd in response, stretching her body, “Is that you, Sister Casie?”
“It’s , clan leader.”
The girl kicked the tiger beneath her with her feet, joyously greeting, “Sister Casie, please co in.”
The animal skin door curtain swayed gently, shaking off the settled snow dust, as a tall woman entered.
She wore tattered leather armor, a curved dagger hanging from her slender waist; the woman appeared as if she had just been in a great battle, with dried blood on her face.
Looking at the long-dress girl in front of her, Casie’s indifferent face softened, and she knelt on one knee, “Clan leader, Casie has returned to report.”
The girl quickly pulled Casie to her feet, chiding, “Sister Casie, I’ve said there’s no need for formalities in private.”
As she spoke, she examined Casie up and down, “Sister Casie, you’re not hurt, are you?”
Casie shook her head, “I’m fine, clan leader. This ti I have scouted so information…”
“Let’s not talk about that just yet,” interrupted the girl in the long dress, taking her hand without minding the bloodstains, and made Casie sit on the chair, “Sister Casie, you’ve been on the road; let have soone bring so food first, and then we can discuss official matters after eating.”
Casie’s face showed gratitude, “All right.”
Before long, a few won rushed over with plates of at and fruit, set the food down, and then left.
The girl in the blue dress propped her cheeks with her hands, watching Casie eat, a delicate smile on her pretty face.
Casie swallowed a piece of at and curiously looked at the girl, “Clan leader is in a good mood. Don’t tell during my absence, you’ve taken a fancy to a man?”
“Quick, tell who the lucky fellow is.”
Upon hearing this, the girl paused, feigning indignation, “How bold, is this how you talk to your clan leader?”
Casie’s expression revealed a sense of panic, “Clan lady, your subordinate knows her mistake.”
The young girl gave a slight cough, “Then this clan lady will forgive you.”
Before long, the two girls of a similar age were laughing together in a heap.
The humanized white tiger lying on the ground rolled its eyes in annoyance and continued to sleep after shaking its ears.
After frolicking for a while, the blue-dressed girl’s expression slowly turned serious, “Sister Casie, did you find anything this ti? Did you find the whereabouts of the clan totem?”
Casie fell silent at these words, and after a mont whispered, “This ti I led ten people to scout for the clan and found that the situation is getting worse.”
“The clan’s main force has successively defeated the Ice Tusk Clan and Frost Clan, and now they are marching toward the final Snow Wolf Clan. Along the way, countless small clans have been wiped out, and the once pure ice plains are now perated with the scent of blood and death.”
“As for the clan totem, I suspect that It has also been controlled by that devil.”
The young girl clenched her fists tightly, her face very unsightly, she took several deep breaths, and said with a trembling voice, “Then… what about clan father and clan mother?”
Casie’s face turned gloomy, “I don’t know. With the Ice Tusk and Frost Clans broken, those monsters are becoming more nurous. We dare not get close, and…”
The young girl pressed on, “And what?”
Casie inhaled deeply, a flicker of fear passing through her eyes, “And just before we retreated, the main force kept splitting off squads of monsters to sweep around. On the way back, we encountered several attacks. If they continue to expand their reach, I’m afraid that sooner or later, they will find where we live.”
“With our current military strength, we simply cannot resist. Clan lady, should we continue migrating?”
The young girl did not speak. She rose to her feet, her bare soles stepping softly on the fur beneath, and walked to the front of the bed to silently gaze into the distance.
Casie approached her with a puzzled, “Clan lady?”
The young girl did not answer her question but suddenly asked, “Sister Casie, have you ever eaten grilled fish?”
“Grilled fish?” Casie was a bit puzzled; because of their physical nature, they generally ate fresh fruits or raw ats—why go to the trouble of grilling fish to eat?
“Yes,” the young girl’s hand touched the glacial ice of the window, her eyes closing slightly, “Golden roasted fish sprinkled with exotic spices is truly an addictive flavor.”
Casie was increasingly confused, feeling that the clan lady was acting strangely.
The young girl turned to look at the perplexed Casie with a smile, extending her hand toward the direction of the square, “Look over there.”
Casie looked intently and saw a group of children playing happily around a fair-skinned man with black hair.
The mont Casie saw the man, her breath caught, and she instinctively reached for the curved knife at her waist, “He’s a human from that world, clan lady, why keep him here?”
A soft hand pressed on Casie’s own that held the knife, and the young girl said with a smile, “Look carefully, doesn’t he look familiar?”
Casie’s eyes began to grow hazy as she gazed at the man with a clear smile; a mory buried deep in her mind slowly surfaced.
The girl watching the man from behind the ice stone scread, “Ah—A’mao, use Frost Roar!”
Then the mory shattered with the erupting Ice Roar, and Casie closed her eyes tightly, trying hard to recall.
The fragnted mory fused together again, and the fair-skinned man’s face bore a sinister smile, with green flas flickering in the depths of his eyes.
He spread his fingers, and abstract faces danced over the dark ring on his finger as a whisper-like voice erged from the depths of her heart, “Your attack killed , defenseless, leaving only blood and corpses at the scene. You felt sick to your stomach and ran back quickly to your companions.”
“You told your companions everything you saw, told them you had completed the mission, and you would completely forget everything that happened here once you returned.” (Note: From Chapter Four Hundred and Twenty-Three.)
She couldn’t understand a single note of these words, but she could grasp the aning behind them.
Casie’s body shook, as she snapped back from her mories, her eyes wide open: “It’s him!!”
Then she looked at the young girl with a faint smile on her face: “Clan girl, are you trying to…”
Kadu (the clan girl’s real na) looked at Shao Zifeng and said, “That demon was gravely injured when it descended upon our world, suggesting that there might be even more formidable beings in that world.”
“In our most desperate mont, the heavens brought this man to us, it must be the arrangent of the fate totem, if it really cos down to the last resort…”
Kadu didn’t continue, but Casie understood what she ant, lightening her heavy heart slightly.
She turned her eyes, suddenly curious: “Clan girl, is that roasted fish really that delicious?”
Kadu rembered the tender and juicy taste of the roasted fish and the strange fragrance bursting in her mouth, and couldn’t help secretly swallowing her saliva.
But in front of Casie, she had to maintain the image of a clan girl, so she slightly raised her chin with an indifferent expression: “Of course.”
Casie had already noticed her little gesture; the corner of her mouth twitched: “How did Clan Lady manage to taste it?”
Kadu’s expression dodged slightly, pretending to be calm: “Of course, it was presented by that person for the clan girl to consu.”
“Oh~~” Casie drew out the sound: “I sohow feel that’s not the case.”
“Humph.”
Kadu’s face couldn’t hide her embarrassnt, and she turned to leave. Just a few steps away, Casie’s voice ca from behind.
“Eh, isn’t that little clan girl Katir? How co she’s mingled with those wild kids?”
Kadu stopped in her tracks, saying sowhat unnaturally: “That person is teaching the children their language, and as my sister, Katir certainly shouldn’t miss this opportunity. Is there sothing wrong with that?”
“Wrong, very wrong.” Casie fought back a smile, her tone feigning sudden realization: “Clan Lady, you didn’t steal sothing from the little clan girl to eat again, did you?”
Kadu spun around, her cheeks growing bluer with embarrassnt and annoyance.
She suppressed the sha in her heart, took a deep breath: “Casie sister, if there’s nothing else, you should go ho.”
Watching Kadu’s ever-changing expressions, Casie let out a hearty laugh.
…
In the square, Shao Zifeng looked thoughtfully at the uniquely styled wooden hut, a puzzled look on his face, as he had distinctly felt soone spying on him just before.
Just then, an icy little hand tugged at Shao Zifeng: “Zifeng Geg, Zifeng Geg, Katir got… bitten by a fish.”
Shao Zifeng was startled, seeing Katir’s purplish face, he quickly picked her up and perford the Heimlich maneuver.
“Cough cough…”
Relieved to see the lump of at spat out onto the ground, Shao Zifeng sighed, thankful that she was just choked. If it had been a fishbone stuck, it would have been troubleso.
He set down Katir and scolded: “Eat slower, no one’s competing with you.”
Little did he know, upon hearing this, the little girl seed to think of sothing upsetting, and with a pout her lips, she burst into tears.
(PS: Maomao asked to combine the chapters for posting, sigh~)
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