Chapter 36

Chapter 36

Chapter 36

(12.2)

Mu Qing, with a pale face, almost flew to that ditch in the settlement. She forcefully wanted to expel what he had left in her body the night before. She was aware that doing that even right after the matter wasn’t very effective, not to mention doing it after an entire night had passed? But she couldn’t help herself, she had to do it.

She nervously felt that she had to do something about it, there was no other measure of remedy in this place.

When Mu Qing walked all the way back, her entire person was in the daze, and she didn’t even hear Youyou calling for her name. She only reacted when she came forward and grabbed Mu Qing’s hand. She forced herself to smile at her and said, “I’m not hungry.”

She thought Youyou was telling her to go eat breakfast, and she answered using the native words she had just learned.

Much later, Mu Qing would learn that the snake was a symbol of fertility in this clan. When women wished to have children, they would beg their men to hunt a female snakeskin and bring it to them, so that they could make it into a skirt to wrap around themselves. It was believed that this could allow them to have the same ability to reproduce as snakes.

And this snakeskin, was the very kind they dreamed about.

It was the kind that was difficult to see usually, the method to catch it was to light a fire in places where they might appear. The female snake, feeling the fire, out of their nature that feared fires, would swarm towards the fire, and secrete mucus with their body to extinguish it. That was the only good opportunity to catch them, but the chances to draw them out using this method were very low, so each one of these snakeskins was invaluable.

At this time, naturally Mu Qing did not know the meaning behind the snakeskin, she only thought that it was probably something like a luxury and precious kind of item. But she guessed more or less the meaning behind Naduo’s actions. Naduo was obviously talking about her getting pregnant.

After spending so many days with each other, she guessed that Naduo was probably Li Mang’s elder sister or some other kind of very close blood relative, which was why their relationship was so close.

But that didn’t mean she could calmly accept Naduo’s good intentions with open arms. Just thinking about what the man had done to her the night before, before early in the morning, carrying in a haste the snakeskin to tell Naduo about it, and then asking her to make a snakeskin skirt for her, she felt embarrassed, her face and her ears turned red, feeling like she had been insulted. If felt as if the snakeskin was a reward in exchange for her flesh, or like he was paying for the service of a prostitute.

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Translator : Laura

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