Chapter 116: Chapter 116: Fourth Brother, What Should We Do?

“I’m fine, but if you come over, then there might be trouble.”

Yi Meng responded to Qi Quanjin while observing the wolves’ reaction.

Indeed, not a single wolf was looking at her; they were just staring intently in the direction of the three men, Qi Quanjin among them.

The atmosphere felt eerily strange, an unsettling quietness.

Until a wolf in the middle of the pack panted heavily, and the Wolf King appeared.

With something in its mouth, it came directly in front of the water vat.

In the next instant, the lead wolf dropped the item it was carrying into the vat.

With a plop, the water splashed, and Yi Meng’s heart trembled with it.

Surely, it’s not what I think it is, right?

The thing being dropped into the vat, it couldn’t possibly be a wolf pup, could it?

Yi Meng hesitated between stepping back or moving forward, but the lead wolf had already picked the little creature from the vat, delivering it to a spot about a meter away from her.

The light from the fire allowed Yi Meng to see the little creature on the ground clearly.

It really was… a wolf cub.

Newborn, not a hair on it, bare and with eyes still closed.

“You… want to give it to me?”

Yi Meng tentatively asked.

The lead wolf didn’t look at her and instead turned back to the pack, returning shortly with another wolf cub.

It was thrown into the vat again, soaked in the spring water, and then retrieved, placed beside the first cub.

Then the lead wolf led the pack ten or so meters away, just beyond the reach of the fire’s glow.

Yi Meng’s mouth twitched.

Previously, they offered prey, then excrement, and now they’ve upgraded to gifting wolf cubs?

They say even a tiger, despite its fierceness, won’t eat its own cubs; Yi Meng truly didn’t believe that the Wolf King intended these for her to eat.

The two wolf cubs lay on the ground, having been soaked, and now shivered and whimpered from the cold.

In the end, Yi Meng couldn’t bring herself to ignore them, stepping forward to cradle the cubs in her hands, and then placing them into the space.

Inside the space, Xiao Bai sensed the entry of a new species and instantly stood up, flicking its tongue repeatedly.

Yi Meng used her mind to create a simple nest in the space, using scraps of cloth from home.

Placing the two small cubs inside, she instructed Xiao Bai not to harm them, and immediately withdrew her consciousness from the space.

Looking at those hidden in the greenness of the forest, Yi Meng pursed her lips in thought, she then poured the water from the vat into a trough, refilling it, and finally laid out some dried meat secretly stashed inside the space.

“I’ll take care of your wolf cubs, as long as they obey. This is for the she-wolf, let’s part ways.”

Yi Meng didn’t say anything like “until we meet again.”

She didn’t know if it was because the space now housed two wolf cubs, but Yi Meng had a feeling that they and those wild wolves would eventually meet again.

After extinguishing the fire, Yi Meng turned to walk down the mountain, only to encounter the three brothers waiting anxiously a few steps away.

“Wife!”

Upon seeing Yi Meng, Qi Quanjin rushed over, gripping her arms, nervously inspecting her from head to toe.

“Don’t worry! I’m fine, the wolves are gone.”

Yi Meng smiled, then addressed the other two, “It’s late, let’s all head back!”

“Fourth sister-in-law, just now…”

Qi Ercai opened his mouth as if to say something, but eventually, he said nothing.

Although there were many trees separating them from their fourth sister-in-law, he had seen some scenes around the fire.

For instance, the lead wolf approaching their fourth sister-in-law, placing something down and leaving, then returning to place more things before leaving again.

After that, their fourth sister-in-law moved something with great effort and squatted beside it for quite a while.

Separated by the fire, Qi Ercai couldn’t clearly see what it was, but it seemed to resemble a water vat.

But in this desolate mountain wilderness, how could there be a water vat?

Thinking back to the recent events, Qi Ercai decided he must have been seeing things.

Seeing he had no intention of continuing, Yi Meng didn’t press the issue, instead urging Qi Quanjin to quickly return downhill and reunite with their family.

As for the wolves on the mountain, perhaps they’d leave soon or they might linger for a while.

But regardless, Yi Meng was sure that the wolves wouldn’t harm them anymore.

Upon returning to the group, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone asked what had happened up on the mountain because they’d heard the wolves howling.

But all four of them tacitly agreed to say they hadn’t detected the wolves.

Upon seeing her mother approach, Qi Manman immediately asked, “Mom, is there any meat to eat?”

“You little girl, you’re the plumpest of us all, yet you still think of eating meat.”

Yi Meng gently tapped her daughter’s nose, “We’ll have dried meat soup later.”

“But…”

Qi Manman pouted, wanting to say the meat she was thinking of wasn’t dried meat soup.

But recalling grandmother’s words, she obediently closed her mouth.

Oh well, dried meat soup is still meat soup, and Manbao was the best-behaved baby who would never be picky!

Although they hadn’t seen the wolf pack, everyone remained extremely cautious.

The group took turns keeping watch while the others rested.

In the middle of the night, while patrolling the surroundings, Qi Quanjin suddenly heard sounds from the nearby woods.

Just as he was about to call others over, pairs of green eyes appeared.

Wolves!

Qi Quanjin quickly called everyone to prepare, but to everyone’s shock, the wolf pack, just like before, appeared carrying various types of prey.

They placed the prey ten or so meters away from the fire, then created a “protective circle” for them and without asking for water, turned and ran back into the woods.

Everyone looked at each other, dumbfounded.

“Are these wolves crazy? Do they really think we’re a portable toilet?”

Qi Quanli scratched his already messy hair, speaking irritably, “Such an occurrence every few days, even the bravest person would be scared to death.”

“Shut up! You criticize them for being scary, yet you never ate one less bite of meat.”

Qi Zheng, not wanting to pay attention to this foolish and foul-mouthed younger son, turned away.

Qi Quanli puckered his lips, remaining silent.

Qi Ercai looked at Qi Quanjin, “Fourth, what do we do?”

“Let’s move the prey over. The next leg of the journey will avoid the forests as much as possible, so getting wild game won’t be easy.”

Qi Quanjin said, leading them beyond the fire and “protective circle” to collect the prey laid out.

But upon seeing one particularly large item among them, not just Qi Quanjin, but everyone else turned pale.

“Did they… really give this to us?”

Qi Ercai felt his voice and body trembling uncontrollably.

Qi Quanjin looked at the item on the ground, not answering his brother’s question.

Because he, too, wondered about this.

Was such a big gift really specially prepared for them by the wolf pack?

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