Ji Yu had just walked a few steps away with the little fox in his arms when the little fox bit Ji Yu's thumb hard with its teeth.
"Hiss..." Ji Yu couldn't help but cry out in pain.
Fortunately, the sound was very small, and the tribesmen nearby did not notice anything unusual about Ji Yu.
"Little fox, how can you bite people so casually!" Ji Yu's voice was filled with blame.
The little fox looked at the scar on Ji Yu's knuckles, from which crystal clear blood beads were oozing out bit by bit.
After seeing the bleeding, the little fox regretted biting too hard and couldn't help but stick out his tongue to lick the wound.
"Lili, you can't bite people casually."
Ji Yu lowered his voice and spoke close to the fox's ear. Although his voice was very low, the fox could also hear that there seemed to be some anger mixed in his voice.
Before Ji Yu could say anything, the fox started to feel aggrieved.
"Humph! You're still mean to the fox. It was obviously you who stared at her first. You've changed your mind, haven't you? You think she's cuter than the fox."
"I'm angry. I really am."
"Why don't you come and comfort me, stupid wolf!"
"I'm so pissed. I'm going to bite off the stupid wolf's eyes so he won't look at other females anymore."
"I'm so angry. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.9... Why doesn't he come to comfort me?"
Her self-boasting tone sounded like a crosstalk. Ji Yu was so fascinated by the fox's thoughts that she completely forgot about coaxing the fox.
"Don't be angry. I don't like rabbits. White rabbits are not pretty at all. Fiery red foxes are the prettiest."
After listening to Ji Yu's explanation, the fox not only did not come to his senses, but started to sulk again.
"How do you know she is the White Rabbit? Did you know her before? Lord Wolf King, I hate you, you ungrateful wolf!!"
Ji Yu really didn’t know how to explain it. In Ji Yu’s impression, all rabbits are white, so he subconsciously said white rabbit.
"I don't know what color rabbits are, I just said that. I don't like rabbits no matter what color they are. I only like foxes."
Ji Yu put his hands close to the fox's ears, and a tingling sound reached the fox's ears. The fox instantly felt hot.
"Will Lord Wolf King marry me in the future?"
As soon as the fox asked this question, before Ji Yu had time to answer, his fellow tribesman next to him called out to Ji Yu.
"Lord Wolf King, we have found the sea beasts that sell salt."
Ji Yu quickly followed his tribesmen and walked towards the direction of the sea beast tribe.
It's not surprising that Ji Yu was anxious, mainly because salt was too hard to come by in this era. Not only was it hard to collect, but it also took the sea beasts several days to walk from the sea to the forest.
If you can’t buy salt at the gathering, you’ll have to wait another forty or fifty days until the next gathering of the sea beasts.
Ji Yu brought his tribesmen to the salt stall, where a group of sea beastmen had already gathered.
Ji Yu was too lazy to squeeze into the crowd, so he simply stood on the edge of the crowd and let the few wolves accompanying him squeeze in.
"Master Wolf King, look at the mermaid."
Following the direction the little fox's paw pointed, Ji Yu saw three mermaids at a glance.
As soon as Ji Yu walked to the stall, the leading merman said coldly: "We don't have salt, we only have pearls."
Ji Yu stared at the crystal clear beads and couldn't help but praise them: "Dazzling, really beautiful."
Instead, the little fox muttered quietly: "It's useless if you can't eat it."
Pearls are really useless to orcs. They look good but are not worth eating or drinking.
But Ji Yu still thought the beads were pretty and couldn't help asking, "How much are they?"
When the mermaids saw that someone really wanted to buy their stuff, they became more excited than the other and their attitudes became much more enthusiastic.
Finally, the three of them discussed for a long time and offered a price.
"All it takes is a small piece of meat in exchange for a bead."
Ji Yu took out a piece of dried meat from the package made of leaves and handed it to the three people.
Then Ji Yu squatted down and started to select beads. He felt that each one was more beautiful than the other and he was indeed a little dazzled.
"Little fox, which one do you like?"
The little fox casually dug around a few times and finally pointed at the biggest one.
Anyway, just pick the biggest one and you won’t suffer any loss.
Ji Yu looked at the thumb-sized pearl with a pink luster. It really looked beautiful.
Ji Yu picked out the pearls and was about to leave with the fox, but the little mermaid next to her called out to her.
"Brother, buy some more!"
The little mermaid looked pitiful, and it was hard to tell whether it was male or female. The other two larger mermaids beside him had already transformed into human form, but he was the only one still dragging his tail. He must have not yet successfully transformed.
Ji Yu waved his hands and said helplessly: "But pearls are useless if you buy too many!"
Ji Yu was not lying.
I guess apart from Ji Yu, there shouldn’t be anyone else who would be so stupid as to buy something as flashy as pearls today.
The little mermaid shook her head in disappointment and finally sighed deeply.
"It seems that we have no food to go back with after all. Otherwise, my parents will sell me to the turtles! They have always wanted to buy me back after I transform. If you tell them in advance, they should agree."
The little mermaid's tone was full of despair and resignation.
Ji Yu felt that his damn compassion was beginning to overflow again.
"You..." Ji Yu resisted the urge to help and asked casually, "Why don't you sell salt?"
The mermaid's father was the first to answer: "The turtle tribe is so numerous that it is difficult to collect sea salt. We did collect some sea salt. But the turtles said that the animals in the forest prefer shiny things."
"As a result, we brought a lot of pearls with us, but now we can't exchange them. We can't even afford food for our return trip."
The two old mermaids cried as they talked, and the young mermaid was now ready to sell herself.
Ji Yu thought about it, and finally said: "I can provide you with food for your return trip. But I have a request."
The little mermaid's eyes had originally lit up, but they dimmed when she heard the request.
"We sea orcs can only leave the sea for thirty days at most. So it's impossible for me to go back to the tribe with you."
The little fox stared at the little merman's androgynous face and said with a grin, "Lord Wolf King, are you into this kind of thing again?"
Ji Yu patted the little fox's head soothingly and explained to the merman, "I don't need you to come back with me, and I don't want you either. To be precise, I just want to make a deal with you."
"What deal?" The little mermaid seemed to be calmer than both of his parents.
“Salt making!”
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