After the people of Qingyuan Town celebrated Su Linyuan and Zhu Yi's victory over the demon, they found themselves in a strange situation.
No matter how hard the townspeople tried, they couldn't escape the snow snake's encirclement.
To make matters worse, due to the previous devastation caused by the demonic serpent, the townspeople have had a poor harvest this year, and running out of food is no good thing.
Zhu Yi's food rations were almost gone. She rummaged through her food box and storage bag, and after confirming that she had no more food to give to the people outside the inn, she shook her head helplessly at the innkeeper.
Then Zhu Yi fled back to her room in the top tier as if her life depended on it, unable to bear looking at the owner's earnest, grateful, and pleading eyes once more.
"Jinbao, do you really have no food left?" Zhu Yi didn't believe this guy wasn't hiding anything.
Jinbao nestled on the soft, fluffy bed, having just slept soundly all night, ignoring Zhu Yi's countless daily questions.
"Yes, I have it, but I don't want to take it out."
Zhu Yi's eyes widened. "Are you really my kind, selfless, cute, adorable, and noble senior brother Jinbao?"
Jinbao scoffed, ignoring the flattery: "My master once said, 'When you are successful, you should help others; when you are unsuccessful, you should cultivate your own virtue.' Even if I were to give away all the grain, it would only allow the townspeople to eat for ten more days."
"If you still can't find your way out in the next ten days, and you encounter a monster's counterattack, what will you do if you're too weak from hunger to fight back?"
"But what if I can win?" Zhu Yi was really unconvinced. She hadn't thought that much about it when she left home, and she never expected to encounter such a large-scale famine here.
"If we don't have food for ten days, everyone will starve to death!"
"Believe it or not, even if people run out of food from you, they can still come up with many ways to survive, like checking their own pots and pans or slaughtering some sheep..."
Jinbao rolled her eyes, feeling that the child's intelligence was a bit lacking. She had previously given everyone so much food that they couldn't finish and had been saving it all.
When he went for a walk in the evening, he heard several families talking about this. The gist of it was that they had some surplus grain at home, so they would eat the food that Zhu Yifa had given to everyone first.
This is only natural, and Jinbao could understand it, so he turned to Zhuyi and advised, "Don't think of them as too weak. Use the remaining grain you haven't distributed to help the old, weak, sick, and disabled first."
"My master said that as a dog, I don't need to care about human morality. I just need to make sure you have food to eat and can escape in times of danger."
"Moreover, human beings are born with eight kinds of suffering. How do you know that this catastrophe is not a calamity destined for them?"
Jinbao seemed to think his twisted logic made a lot of sense, and he got more and more carried away as he talked. His honest and straightforward manner made Zhu Yi want to grab his head and give him a good whack.
Take a closer look to see if it's filled with paste; how could someone say such a cold-blooded thing?
"I advise you to guard your own share of necessary supplies. Otherwise, you're so righteous as to give away all the food, but what will you use to defend yourself when the monsters retaliate?"
Zhu Yi was speechless. Indeed, if it came down to arguing, she wasn't truly without any food left; she had simply set aside the last rations she had reserved for Su Linyuan, Jinbao, and Xiaobaizhi, and hadn't touched them...
Don't blame her for being ruthless. She also has selfish motives in the face of danger, hoping to protect the people she cares about first.
She originally thought that after clearing out the remnants of the Snow Serpent's gang, Qingyuan Town would be able to return to its former peace and prosperity.
Unexpectedly, a bunch of demonic beasts and plants suddenly appeared from outside and surrounded Qingyuan Town.
The great monster from outside continued to control the snakes to beat against the wall, changing the pattern every day, preventing everyone from leaving and intending to trap them here like fish on a chopping board.
"We've been at the mercy of these powerful demons for so long, it's so frustrating! I don't even know who they are! What's worse, they're even demanding that Brother Lin Yuan become their son-in-law!"
Zhu Yi grew increasingly angry as she spoke. After much thought, she concluded that there were only two women in the entire cultivation world who wanted to marry Su Linyuan: one was Zhu Qianying, whose face was now disfigured, and the other was the demon princess Li Mei…
"So, is it Li Mei who's been clamoring outside these past few days about marrying Brother Lin Yuan?"
"Didn't she get a severe beating after being locked up on the Cliff of Repentance last time?"
“The stories in the human world really do make a lot of sense.” Jinbao took a breath, regained his handsome appearance, and a folding fan flew over in mid-air, tapping Zhu Yi’s forehead twice.
He said with exasperation, "Did your brain go haywire after you fell in love with someone? How can you be so stupid? What kind of demon would you be if you knew you were going to reform?"
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