Si Yan and the two wolf cubs returned to White Eagle City carrying baskets of herbs.
After a full day, Si Yan had a good income and was very happy. She could already imagine herself drying these herbs and filling her tree hollow with them.
When she was in a good mood, she relaxed and turned around to chat and laugh with the two wolf cubs.
However, when she wasn't paying attention, a girl who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old suddenly rammed into her, knocking her to the ground.
Xiao Siyan fell to the ground, and her basket was knocked away and overturned on the ground.
She rummaged through her basket, which was already full of medicinal herbs, and then a group of beasts walked by, trampling and ruining many of the herbs in her basket.
Before Si Yan could even get up, she hurriedly said, "Don't step on them! Don't step on my herbs!"
Little Tyson and Little Yin Hong quickly stepped forward to help Si Yan up. They asked anxiously, "Si Yan, are you hurt?"
Si Yan didn't have time to reply to the two wolf cubs. She ran forward to protect her herbs. The little six-year-old female was exceptionally stubborn.
Don't step on my herbs!
"Ah!!" The fifteen or sixteen-year-old female who had just bumped into her suddenly fell down, landing right on Si Yan's basket and breaking it.
Many of the herbs that hadn't spilled out of the basket were also crushed.
Si Yan scrambled to her feet and rushed over; she was on the verge of tears.
"Don't put weight on my basket!"
Si Yan quickly picked up the broken basket, but many of the herbs had been trampled and damaged. Si Yan put the damaged herbs back into the basket.
As she pretended, tears started falling down her face.
"Si Yan!" Tyson and Yin Hong were extremely anxious.
Little Si Yan stood up and pointed at the fifteen or sixteen-year-old female white eagle, Bai Kui, saying, "Why did you bump into me? Why did you break my medicine basket and herbs?"
Bai Kui feigned innocence and said, "No, I didn't. I fell by accident. I really didn't mean to. I'm sorry."
Si Yan said angrily, "What's the use of saying sorry? My basket and medicine are ruined."
Bai Kui said, "I really didn't mean it. Si Yan, I know you are the High Priest's apprentice, you know more than me and are more capable than me. I don't recognize these herbs, and I don't know what a basket is. I'm just an ordinary female white eagle."
As she spoke, Bai Kui knelt down on the street, looking extremely pitiful.
"I really didn't mean it. Look, I've already knelt down. Let's just let this matter go."
The passing white eagle beastmen shook their heads.
"What's going on? Everyone's kneeling down."
"Yes, isn't the High Priest's apprentice going a bit too far? What could possibly make another female kneel before her?"
"Relying on the high priest's backing, they've become a bit lawless."
"It seems that Bai Kui broke Si Yan's things, so Si Yan made Bai Kui kneel down."
"It's just that something was broken, is it really necessary? Why make the female kneel down?"
"That's going too far."
This was the first time Si Yan had encountered something like this. Her basket was broken, and her herbs were trampled. She argued with the person who caused the damage, but it was clearly their fault, so why were they all blaming her?
She recalled how she had excitedly wove baskets that morning, how she had endured insect bites on the mountain, and how she had gathered herbs with two wolf cubs. She returned home elated, thinking of drying the herbs and preparing them for use during a plague.
She was full of enthusiasm.
But they didn't understand why they were being stepped on repeatedly.
She was being blamed by everyone.
"Why are you destroying my things? Why do you say it's not necessary? I don't want you to kneel, you pay for it! Pay for my basket, pay for my herbs!!"
Bai Kui immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
"Si Yan, I'm sorry, I'm just a nobody, and I haven't studied under the High Priest. I don't know how to make this basket, and I don't recognize any herbs, so I can't give it to you..."
Si Yan tried to pull her away, saying, "You pay for my things, I don't want you to kowtow!"
The orcs of White Eagle City couldn't stand it and said, "Si Yan, don't be so stingy, it's just a few blades of grass."
"Yes, Bai Kui kowtowed for such a small thing. Good heavens."
"It's nothing serious. You're the High Priest's apprentice, after all. You should care about the High Priest's reputation."
"Yeah, let's just forget about this little bit."
Si Yan was very upset. Why did everyone say that about her?
She did nothing wrong, so why is everyone advising her to be magnanimous?
Just because I have a relationship with Bai Feng, am I supposed to be treated like this?
Although she didn't see clearly how Bai Kui bumped into her at first, Si Yan later saw it clearly: Bai Kui deliberately fell on the basket and intentionally damaged it.
Why is everyone so unable to distinguish right from wrong? Why should she be so magnanimous and suffer this injustice?
Tyson and Yin Hong had never seen anything like this before. The two boys shielded Si Yan behind them, preventing others from seeing her disheveled state and protecting her in this way.
Little Tyson anxiously shouted, "Si Yan spent the whole day picking these herbs, and her body is covered in insect bites. Now that the herbs are spoiled, shouldn't you compensate her?"
One of the male orcs said, "What herbs? What would a six-year-old know about herbs?"
"Isn't this just wild grass on the back hill? There are patches and patches of it on the back hill."
"These kids just pick wild grass and use it as medicine."
"Hey, Si Yan, even if you don't think about yourself, you should at least think about the High Priest. How can you do this to the High Priest's reputation?"
Bai Kui kowtowed forcefully.
No one saw what happened clearly, but Bai Kui knew she did it on purpose.
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