Surviving in the Beast World with a System

Chapter 492 - 383: Yuan Lang’s Butt Is Too Big

Watching the two little ones eat until their eyes squinted shut, the female’s heart felt even sweeter than if she had eaten the fruit herself.

In contrast to the female’s happiness, Wu Yue was feeling rather dejected as she stood in her own courtyard.

The reason was simple. Now that they had sturdy, warm stone houses to live in, the people of the Snow Tiger Tribe had completely accepted Wu Yue as their next witch. They treated her with an incredible amount of respect, and so...

Qingcao, carrying a basket on her back, walked in to see a pile of strange-smelling green fruit in the courtyard... No, they should be called cucumbers now.

That was what Yue called them. Although Qingcao didn’t know why the green fruit should be called a cucumber, if Yue said it, you just had to listen.

That’s what Amu had told her.

But when she looked up and saw the miserable look on Wu Yue’s face, Qingcao silently hid the basket behind her back.

But Wu Yue had already turned to look at her. "You’re not here to give me more cucumbers, are you?"

Qingcao gave an awkward laugh and held out the basket. "It’s just that this is the season when the green fruit ripens, so..."

"Just put it on the stone table."

Wu Yue’s voice was tinged with helplessness. "I put all the cucumbers the tribespeople brought a few days ago in the storeroom. When I came back today, I smelled something strange and went to check. I found that a lot of the cucumbers had already gone bad."

Wu Yue’s heart ached at the sight of all the spoiled food.

The tribespeople were afraid she’d refuse their gifts, so they always snuck them into her house. Unfortunately, in this weather, the cucumbers didn’t keep well and spoiled in just a few days.

’If I had found them earlier, I could have shared them with the other tribe members or eaten them sooner.’

"Last time, Amu and the others blanched the cucumbers with hot water, then put them on straw mats to dry with the wild vegetables."

At this point, Qingcao’s expression twisted. "But when we checked on them the next day, the cucumbers had grown moldy. They were all slimy and smelled really weird."

"You didn’t just dry them whole like that, did you?"

Qingcao nodded with great honesty. "We did."

Wu Yue patted her friend’s shoulder. "After blanching them and then trying to dry them whole? You’re lucky the cucumbers didn’t jump up and attack you."

Hearing this, Qingcao froze in horror. "J-Jump up?! Cucumbers can jump up?"

’Heh. Kid, aren’t you missing the point...’

"Go back and bury them. Those cucumbers have gone bad; you’ll get sick if you eat them."

Qingcao waved her hand dismissively. "Oh, we threw them out long ago. I ate one and got a terrible stomachache. I spent the whole day squatting over the pit."

"I’ll go find some herbs for you."

Wu Yue looked at her friend with worry. ’This girl actually ate a rotten cucumber. Who gave her the courage to do that? The Beast God?’

Seeing her concern, Qingcao quickly grabbed her arm. "I’m already fine. A stomachache just means squatting over the pit for two days, and then it’s fine."

And then it’s fine...

It’s fine...

Fine...

Looking at Qingcao’s expression, which basically said, "This girl is tough, not like a little weakling like you who gets sick all the time," Wu Yue wished she could just take the concern she had just felt and feed it to the dogs.

"Since you’re in such good shape, why don’t you come and help me with something?"

The little abacus in Wu Yue’s mind was clattering away.

Qingcao gave another awkward laugh and prepared to slip away. "Aha, I just remembered, Amu told me to come home early."

But before she could take a step, the beast skin skirt around her waist was grabbed, and Wu Yue’s laughter rang out. "Is that so? Why don’t I go with you?"

’Oh, crap!’

Qingcao’s scalp tingled with fear. ’She recalled how fond of and respectful her Amu was toward Yue. If Amu found out she tried to sneak away...’

’The consequences would be... uniquely dreadful!’

"Haha, what’s going home compared to helping my best friend? What do you need done? You can count on me!"

Watching her friend’s lightning-fast change in tune, Wu Yue gave her a look that basically said, ’Alright, you’re a true friend.’

Then she pointed at the pile of foul-smelling, spoiled cucumbers in the courtyard. "On your way home, help me take these bad cucumbers out and throw them away."

Qingcao looked suspiciously at her habitually black-hearted friend. "That’s it?"

"What? Were you hoping to do something else?"

As she spoke, Wu Yue started to get up.

Seeing this, Qingcao dashed over to the pile of weird-smelling cucumbers like a gust of wind, scooped them all into her basket in one go, and turned to run out.

"You just keep busy, I’m off to throw out the cucumbers!"

The moment the words left her mouth, she had already run past the courtyards of several other families.

All that was left for Wu Yue were a few fading echoes of her voice.

’Have I been working my friend a little too hard lately?’

Wu Yue couldn’t help but reflect on her actions, her conscience pricking her for a moment.