Clumsy Beast, Keep Your Paws Off novel Chapter 285

Chapter 285: Chapter 285: A Real and Fake Spiritual Plant

Lan Yue leaned in closer, dropping her voice to a whisper as if sharing a royal secret.

"There are rumors that my mother’s health isn’t very good. My fathers love her so much that they actually restrain themselves. They don’t want her to be pregnant too often because it exhausts her spiritual energy. That’s why she doesn’t have many mates or many children. They protect her like she is the most precious treasure in the world."

Su Qinglan felt a pang of sympathy. In this world, a female’s health was tied so closely to her fertility.

She thought of her own husbands...the protective tiger, the stoic snake, the calm wolf and the mischievous fox. They, too, treated her like a treasure.

"Your mother sounds like a very brave woman," Su Qinglan said softly.

"And your child will be strong, carrying the blood of the East Sea and the Dragon City. You must eat more of this fish stew for the baby."

Lan Yue nodded, her eyes moist. "I will. I have to be strong to get back to them. I have to tell my mother that I survived."

Su Qinglan tilted her head, a look of genuine curiosity crossing her face. She looked at Lan Yue’s stomach and then back at her face.

"Since your husband was a mermaid, does that mean you are going to give birth to an egg? Or will it be a baby?"

Lan Yue nodded slowly, her expression turning bittersweet. "Yes... it will be an egg. My husband’s bloodline is very strong. But that is why I am so worried."

She gripped the edge of her wooden bowl, her knuckles turning white.

"In the Dragon Beast City, we have special birthing pools, but for a mermaid’s egg, the best place is the East Sea. If the egg isn’t kept in the right temperature of salt water immediately after it is laid, the shell might become too brittle, or the little life inside might not survive."

Her voice trembled as she continued. "I have to go back. I have to see my mother and my fathers. Only with their help and the sacred waters of the sea can I give birth safely. If I stay here in the mountains... I don’t know if I can protect my child."

The mood in the room suddenly turned heavy and sad.

Lan Yue looked out the window toward the direction of the distant ocean she couldn’t see.

The joy of talking about her family had been replaced by the cold reality of her situation. She was a pregnant female, thousands of miles away from the water she needed, trapped in a forest where she was a stranger.

Su Qinglan felt a pang of sadness in her heart. She looked at her own round belly. She was lucky; her tiger cubs would be born right here in the warmth of her home. But for Lan Yue, every day away from the sea was a day of risk.

"Don’t be sad, Lan Yue," Su Qinglan said, reaching out to squeeze her hand firmly.

"We won’t let anything happen to you or the egg. My husbands are very strong, and I am a witch doctor. We will find a way to get you back to the East Sea, or we will bring the sea to you. I promise."

Lan Yue looked at Su Qinglan, her eyes filled with tears. She didn’t know how a small fox tribe could help her reach the distant ocean, but looking at Su Qinglan’s determined face, she felt a tiny spark of hope.

"Hmm" she nodded with tears in her eyes.

***

Su Qinglan had just stepped out of Lan Yue’s house, her mind still heavy with thoughts of mermaid eggs and distant seas, when a green blur suddenly streaked across her vision.

THWACK!

Before she could blink, Stove had launched himself through the air like a leafy cannonball, wrapping his thick, unruly vines around her waist and rubbing his main stem affectionately against her shoulder. He let out a series of happy, vibrating hums that shook Su Qinglan’s entire chest.

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