Chapter 24: Hard to Coax
"Can you please stop being angry?" Bai Su frowned and said aggrievedly.
He felt that he had been humble and coaxing for quite some time, but why was this centaur like a big wooden stake, with a stern face, and was walking faster and faster?
Bai Su had to jog. At this time, he was a little annoyed by Keos's long legs.
Keos led Bai Su and walked quickly through two blocks like a race walk. Bai Su was sweating, and his forehead and nose were covered with fine water droplets, making him look particularly embarrassed.
Later, he couldn't walk anymore, so he just sat down on the ground and buried his head in his arms.
I feel like crying a little, but I shouldn't cry.
I can only sulk.
He is not a pretentious person. All his friends have always described him as open-minded and tolerant. So this time, when he noticed that something was wrong with Keos's mood, Bai Su immediately stepped forward and tried to comfort him.
But Keos was unwilling to communicate.
His unwillingness to communicate wasn't the kind of thing where he ignored people, but a weird, awkward feeling.
The place they stopped at tonight was still the same village as last time. During their stay, Eli asked to sleep with Bai Su. Bai Su didn't think there was anything wrong at first, so he nodded in agreement, and then led his luggage and Eli into the room.
Afterwards, everyone gathered together to eat noodles - speaking of this, Bai Su was almost tired of eating noodles after eating them for four days in a row. He decided to eat more bread and salad when he returned to change his taste.
Afterwards, Bai Su suggested that he wanted to go for a walk in the village and investigate the business development there. After all, since he had decided to open a grain and oil store, he had to implement it in every place where people lived.
The accompanying representative wanted to accompany Bai Su, but Bai Su first asked Keos if he was willing to go with him, and Keos agreed.
Just before the two of them left, Eli, who had eaten and drunk his fill, stood up, rubbed his stomach, and said frivolously, "Come back early. I'll be waiting for you in the room."
Then, Keos, who had softened a little, returned to his cold and ruthless poker face.
When Bai Su talked to him, he would answer, but he just didn't look happy.
Bai Su simply didn't know what to do.
He asked tentatively, "Don't you like me being with Eli? I neglected you a little this afternoon. I'm sorry, Keos. Please don't be mad at me, okay?"
The stern young centaur disagreed: "I'm not angry."
Bai Su thought, "You still say you're not angry?" Then he continued to coax her gently, "Then I won't play with him tomorrow. I'll still chat with you by the window, okay?"
Keos suddenly stopped, looked at him intently, and then began to quicken his pace, forcing Bai Su to jog to keep up with him.
In the next ten minutes or so, one of them said nothing and the other was almost talking nonsense.
…
Bai Su didn't know what went wrong that led to such a strange state.
I feel so wronged.
A few seconds later, two dark gray horseshoes with horseshoes, brushed to a shine with olive oil, appeared in my lowered field of vision.
Bai Su slowly raised his head.
In the sparsely lit night, Keos stood in front of Bai Su like a sculpture. His eyes were stern, like a god in ancient Greek mythology looking down on all living beings, or like the domineering ruler in some movies, making people want to surrender.
The backlight gave his body a blurred outline, making his muscles appear even more knotted. Bai Su couldn't help but think that if there was a god of war in this world, he would probably look like this.
An irresistible sense of power.
Now, a certain Centaur God of War remained silent, as if he had to wait for Bai Su to give him another way out before he would step down.
Bai Su sighed. He didn't want the cold war to become a barrier, so he chose to compromise.
So the black-haired young man smiled good-naturedly and asked him, "Are you feeling better now? Can you forgive me?"
Suddenly, Keos said something completely unrelated: "How come you're not so sharp at this moment?"
Bai Su was stunned: "What?"
"I mean, I'm not mad at you for having new friends and hanging out with new people."
"But……"
"But do you really consider him, that snow leopard orc, as a friend?"
"Of course." Bai Su answered without hesitation, "Eli is Alan and Gabi's uncle. He is very kind and helped me find the precious gold cake. I have no reason not to consider him a friend."
"But you did a lot of things to him that friends shouldn't do."
Bai Su blinked in confusion.
Keos said quickly with a straight face, "You called him cute, touched his body, and even kissed him."
Keos heard all of this outside the car.
He continued to accuse: "In the afternoon, you even slept with him in your arms."
Bai Su: “…”
Bai Su suddenly felt guilty.
As if Keos had sensed his guilty conscience, his mysterious square equine pupils scrutinized Bai Su suspiciously, and he asked coldly, "Did you do this on purpose?"
"I didn't! I wasn't!" Bai Su blushed in embarrassment, "I was just petting the cat..."
"Cat petting?" Koos paused. "I'm afraid I don't know what cat petting is, but I know that Eli is a female half-orc. Bai Su, do you know?"
"I know..." Bai Su covered her face and said in shame and anger, "I mean, I know Eli is a female half-orc, but I like cats very much, so I can't help but pet them... touch them..."
Bai Su finally understood what was going on.
He avoided looking at the face of Keos who was enforcing the law impartially - he was afraid of being arrested as a gangster.
"...It's because Eli's human form is too similar to me, and there's no difference between him and a human male, so I subconsciously ignored his gender..." As Bai Su spoke, his voice became smaller and smaller, as thin as a mosquito.
Finally, he scratched his hair and said righteously, "In short, I absolutely have no intention of being a hooligan. I was just confused by the snow leopard's appearance. If he were in human form, I would never have any unnecessary physical contact with him."
It was visibly that Keos's serious expression relaxed a lot.
He asked, "You really didn't treat him as a female?"
"I didn't, and to remind myself of that, I decided to exercise more restraint and maintain the proper social distance from him even in his snow leopard form."
"very good."
Seeing that the misunderstanding was resolved, Keos no longer hesitated. He bowed slightly, stretched out his hand, and motioned Bai Su to stand up first.
Bai Su put his hand into the centaur's dry and warm palm, then followed his strength and stood up, but stumbled and fell into the man's arms.
"What's wrong?" Keos looked at the person in his arms.
Bai Su felt his face turning red again. After making sure he could stand steadily, he pulled his face out of Keos's abdominal muscles, took a step back, and explained softly, "I've been squatting for too long, and my legs are numb."
After confirming something crucial, Keos regained his gentle and considerate demeanor. He ruffled Bai Su's black hair and said, "Then hold my hand and walk away."
Bai Su followed his words and gently pulled his arm, but remembering the main purpose of tonight, she pouted and said angrily, "I spent a long time coaxing you, and now it's dark, and we still haven't found a place."
"Found it, look behind you."
Bai Su turned his head and saw a crowd of people and dim lights not far behind him.
It turned out that he just had to follow Keos and walk a little further, and then he would reach the commercial street in the village.
Bai Su wrinkled his nose and complained, "You didn't say a word to me on the way and walked so fast that I couldn't keep up with you at all. If you had told me earlier, I wouldn't have sat on the ground for so long just now."
In fact, Keos also realized that he was indeed very emotional just now, so much so that the two of them had their first quarrel since they met.
"I promise, next time if there's anything, I'll tell you properly."
"good."
…
The two of them strolled leisurely through the entire commercial street.
In fact, it cannot be called a commercial street. It is more like a temporary night market in the center of the village. There is not even much buying and selling here.
It is a more primitive form of barter.
People use their surplus products to exchange for what they need but others don't want, thereby obtaining satisfaction for their daily necessities.
Bai Su took a fancy to a handicraft, and when he took out a copper coin to pay, he received a surprised look from the stall owner.
The stall owner was a little flattered and said, "Oh, thank you... I mean, very few people here use currency."
She could tell at a glance that Baisu and Keos were from a big town.
Bai Su smiled slightly: "I think it won't be long before you get used to paying with currency."
On the way back, Bai Su sighed, "I really didn't expect the gap between the rich and the poor to be so huge—the capital is prosperous, Oat Town is also very wealthy, but the ordinary villages in between are still bartering."
Keos told him, "It's because supplies are too scarce. The villagers are wealthy, but there's really nothing new here. It's just handmade goods and agricultural products. The extra goods can't be sold at a high price, so we just trade them with others for what we need."
Bai Su nodded.
Before the prevalence of currency, barter was the most primitive form of trade.
Bai Su didn't notice that even though his legs were no longer numb, he still kept holding Keos's arm, skipping along the way and saying confidently, "Soon, when we come here next time, we will make sure that all the residents here can eat rice and use their money to buy the best agricultural products!"
…
After returning to the inn, Bai Su rushed into the room immediately.
He first rushed to the bed, buried his head in the snow-white belly and took a deep breath. Then, before the snow leopard could get angry and scratch him, he withdrew, kept a little distance, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Eli, I can't sleep with you tonight."
The snow leopard glared at him: "Why?"
"Because you are a female." Bai Su said as he packed his luggage, "I'm going to sleep with Keos."
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The author has something to say:
Explain the gender setting of this article:
1. The orcs here are similar to the old furry stories (the kind with universal BL). Females are indistinguishable from human males in appearance, but they have the ability to reproduce. This setting is to spread out the KPI of having children.
2. This article contains female alphas and female omegas. It is assumed that women are very rare. Only humans and centaurs with stable bodies have women.
3. This article has 50% anti-theft and supports unit skipping.
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