"May I say no?"
"Oh, then I'll ask again later."
"..."
Su Yan fell into silence. He felt a deep powerlessness towards the pure girl in the dark blue dress before him.
They may not know each other from childhood, but could you tell me your name first?
He did not even know her name, yet she was already discussing sex. He could not accept it.
Su Yan looked at the fist-sized pearl in his hand, then at the girl in blue, who was a head taller than him and had a pair of horns on her head.
"Let's talk about mating later. You should let me know your name first, right? I'm the white fox Su Yan of the fox beast clan. What's your name?"
"Me? I'm Jiao Nanwu. I'm from the mermaid clan. I've just reached adulthood this year. My cultivation is at the Aurous Core level, and I have the most beautiful and fat tail in the clan."
Sitting on the chair, Jiao Nanwu looked at Su Yan and said seriously, "Can we mate now?"
Su Yan, "..."
"Ordinary beasts are like this. You just need to get used to it."
Aunt came out of the kitchen with a tray. She looked at the powerless Su Yan and smiled, "This girl has stored enough fat for winter. Now that winter is less than a month away, she is very anxious to find a suitable male."
Jiao Nanwu did not need to hibernate, but the mermaid's activities would be greatly reduced during winter. It was also the most leisurely time of the year.
Spring was when they just came out to exercise so they would not encounter any natural enemies.
Therefore, it was most suitable for mermaids to breed before winter arrived. Now, there was only one month left before winter arrived.
As an adult mermaid, the main task of Jiao Nanwu this year was to give birth to one baby.
Aunt first explained to Su Yan why the mermaid in front of him was so eager to have sex.
Then, she sat on the chair, put down the dishes in her hand, and said to Jiao Nanwu, "I know you're anxious. But our little fox is still in its infancy. Even if you cracked his hip, he can't give you what you need now."
The nine-tailed fox and the true dragon were both late-maturing species. Su Yan's appearance began to mature now.
Moreover, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old's appearance should not change at all in the next two hundred years.
Only when he reached his youth would there be some slight changes.
Therefore, Jiao Nanwu had found the wrong man. Other than losing her virginity, she could not obtain the powerful bloodline seed she had hoped for.
"Is that so?"
For the first time, Jiao Nanwu showed a surprised expression. Her serious face turned into disappointment, "In that case…Why is he emitting an alluring scent in the river? I always thought the powerful beast race was preparing to reproduce, and I had been searching for him for a few days."
Some time ago, when the mermaid's transport team was swimming back in the river, they noticed a pheromone emitted by a powerful beast race in the river's water. It emitted a sweet fragrance.
The smell was like courtship. The mermaid transport team returned to the underground water system and informed the mermaid in the tribe of this news.
All the mermaids, ready to reproduce, gathered in the Xia Yu River to look for the beast that emitted the sweet pheromone.
The night before, when Su Yan was dumping the dirty water again, a friend of Jiao Nanwu intercepted the water source.
After careful inspection, she was sure that the powerful beast courting was in the brothel.
After her friend received the message, she immediately passed it to Jiao Nanwu, telling her to quickly find him, lest the other beasts found him before her.
Jiao Nanwu came here with hope but did not find any powerful male beasts. She only found a little white fox with no sense of morality in its infancy.
"Fox! It was normal to have a stench on his body. Moreover, he had smelled of milk previously!"
As aunt spoke, she winked at Su Yan to ask him to show his true form, to prove to the mermaid that he was young and could not have sex with her.
As a wily old fox, Chong Qiong was not as ignorant as Su Yan.
If it was a good match, Aunt would allow them. Anyway, her little nephew would not suffer any losses.
However, the merfolk was a beast race that paid more attention to collective interests.
If Su Yan still stubbornly proved that he was tough, the merfolk would rush over at all costs and kidnap Su Yan to be a breeding male.
The mermaid was a friendly race, but they were particularly stubborn regarding the race's survival.
They had always adhered to the ancient tradition of their ancestors, which involved discarding their son-in-law after exploiting him.
Unless they possessed enough power to compel the mermaid women to marry outside their clan, they would engage in wild mating for two months before bringing some spirit stones ashore.
Despite being somewhat impoverished, Chong Qiong had no interest in the three to five cities of spirit stones offered by the Merfolk clan.
She had pushed her little nephew into a pit.
"Come, show your fox form to the mermaid."
Aunt was frantically hinting at Su Yan. Although Su Yan did not understand why, he knew his aunt would not trick him for no reason, so he knew very well to show his white fox's true body in front of them.
When Jiao Nanwu saw Su Yan's appearance, her expression froze, and she immediately crouched under the eaves.
It was difficult to determine the age of a transformed beast, but once their true bodies were revealed, beasts of the same beast race could very directly see what period the other party was in.
Infant stage, youth stage, and adult stage.
After Su Yan revealed his true form, Jiao Nanwu could tell that Su Yan was still in his infancy.
To put it bluntly, this little beast had been weaned for less than three to five years. He was too young.
They did not find any powerful beasts, but they found a little fox that had just been weaned.
Jiao Nanwu had completely isolated herself.
"Transform back into your human form before eating. Don't leave hair all over the table."
Little aunt scolded Su Yan, urging him to revert to his human form to prevent his hair from littering the table. Otherwise, he would be forbidden from having supper.
"I haven't even grown all my fur, so how can I shed my fur!"
Su Yan jumped down from the dining table when his aunt slandered him.
He stood on his hind legs, raised his arms, and twisted his hips crazily.
After shaking for a while, not a single fox fur fell off his body.
"I have white fur all over my body. I'm cute and clean. If I dirty my fur at home, my mother will put me on the washboard and rub me violently before drying me on a bamboo pole."
As a white-haired fox, Su Yan's hygiene habits were taught by his mother.
Suppose he played with mud outside. His mother would pinch the back of Su Yan's neck. She sat by the river and put down the washboard. She put Su Yan in the cleaning solution and rubbed him on the washboard until he was clean.
"Then... What is this?"
Aunt picked out a yellow-white hair from the dishes with her chopsticks and placed it in front of Su Yan.
After a brief comparison, she realized that it did not match.
Aunt and Su Yan looked back at the pair of round black eyes by the kitchen door.
They looked at each other for a long time without saying a word. Then, the backyard was in chaos again.