Shu Hanyu stiffened slightly, his gaze a little shifty.
“Mhm, really are quite sly.” Shu Hanyu repeated.
Shu Jintian keenly discovered Shu Hanyu’s abnormal behaviour. This tyrannical big snake, why would it suddenly become all foolish?
Something’s fishy! There must be a problem.
“Where’s my meat ne? Did you forget to bring it?” Shu Jintian looked at Shu Hanyu suspiciously.
“What? Tiantian, are you talking about this meat? It’s still here!” Shu Hanyu withdrew his left hand which was wrapped around the female and showed him the meat.
So it’s here ah! Why was Shu Hanyu acting so strange then? Could it be his misconception? It seems that he really was messed up from holding his breath.
His eyes felt a little uncomfortable, and Shu Jintian carelessly rubbed it with a hand.
“Let’s go back ba, my skin is about to wrinkle from soaking for too long.” Shu Jintian squinted and touched his slightly pale skin. His skin was a little itchy from being swollen.
“Okay!” Shu Hanyu bit the Rock Cowrie in his mouth and turned into a Spiritual Snake.
Shu Jintian didn’t wait for the big snake to wrap around him and took the initiative to hug the python’s body.
Shu Hanyu’s eyes brightened, and after pausing for a while, he speedily swam towards the shore.
Shu Hanyu’s speed was very quick, and they soon returned to where they had first entered the water.
Shu Jintian got off Shu Hanyu’s body, then felt that there was something wrong with his body having such freedom. …Ah, the big snake didn’t coil around him this time ah! I even fucking hugged him myself. When did our relationship become this natural???
Shu Jintian paused and felt horrified. Laozi was nearly tamed by a python, fuck me!
With his feet on solid ground once more, Shu Jintian’s steps were still a little unsteady. His vision was also a little blurred, and everything he looked at seemed to be covered by a layer of fog. The things he looked at appeared big and round.
At the start, he had assumed that it was because they had emerged from underwater where everything he saw was just the boundless seawater, and so he didn’t really notice. Shu Jintian had only thought of it as his eyes failing to adapt, but now that they were ashore and he could see various objects, the fuzziness of his eyesight became more apparent.
Shu Jintian found a shady and cool place to sit, and blinked in pain, feeling like his eyes were a little swollen. He rubbed it with a hand, but it still didn’t improve.
“Tiantian?” Shu Hanyu wrapped himself around Shu Jintian and looked at him in concern.
Shu Jintian rubbed his eyes and squinted while saying, “My eyes feel a bit painful; I can’t see clearly.”
Shu Hanyu took away the female’s hand that was constantly rubbing his eyes and leaned in for a closer look.
Shu Jintian couldn’t see Shu Hanyu clearly and only blinked his eyes, then opened them wide.
Shu Hanyu held the back of Shu Jintian’s head with a hand and moved closer. The black of Tiantian’s eyes were shining, and would have a stubbornness whenever he contradicted him. Right now, he had a relaxed expression and so it felt as gentle as water, layered with a dense, hazy fog. His entire person was like a big cat whose claws were worn down.
Shu Jintian opened his eyes but still couldn’t see Shu Hanyu’s expression. As such, he blinked, then opened his eyes wider.
Suddenly, he heard the hissing sound of the forked tongue by his ear. Through his hazy vision appeared a scarlet forked tongue covered with a glowing layer, flicking up and down before his eyes and almost poking them.
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Shu Jintian was startled, and instinctively leaned back to avoid it.
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Shu Hanyu picked up the female and carried him over to sit back on the broken wood.
“I’m fine, I’m fine. Hurry up and let me down!” Shu Jintian’s conditioned reflexes kicked in and he began to struggle. The arms wrapped around him suddenly tightened. Shu Jintian froze, then his reaction was to immediately become obedient.
Shu Hanyu relaxed a little and touched the female’s chest, helping to soothe him.
“Was Tiantian hurt from the fall?”
“No no.” Shu Jintian repeatedly shook his head. Actually, his back had fallen on some soil and it was quite painful. However, when Shu Hanyu touched him, he only felt himself turn cold and his hair rise. Yet, he did not dare to avoid it. He only sunk his body downwards and nestled in Shu Hanyu’s embrace to evade Shu Hanyu’s gentle caresses and strokes.
Shu Hanyu felt the weight on his body become even heavier, and thought that gentle strokes had comforted the female. Because of that, he began to even more patiently pat Shu Jintian’s chest. So the female likes being touched at the chest; he’ll dig into his embrace with a touch, noted.
“Eh, hehe… I’m hungry.” Shu Jintian was touched by Shu Hanyu’s so-soft-it-seemed-boneless hand that his back stopped feeling pained, his eyes stopped feeling sore, and his heart was soon about to stop beating.
“Mn, Tiantian go eat ba!” Shu Hanyu did a final stroke and let him go.
Shu Jintian immediately shot out of Shu Hanyu’s embrace, bouncing off to a distant area.
The Yellow-spotted Zao spread on the floor already had a dried exterior after having left the ocean water. The fishes were also already half-dead, their open mouths spitting out foam. The flesh attached to the Rock Cowrie had also stiffened as well. Shu Jintian used a finger to tug it, peeling off a piece of shellfish meat and revealing a blue shell the size of a coin.
The Rock Shellfish’s exterior was terribly dirty, but the shell’s interior was very clean. The blue shell surface had a layer of greasy quality, faintly gave off a purple gleam, and was very smooth to the touch. It was also very tough.
Shu Jintian’s eyes brightened. That’s right, the shell could be used to boil water! …Could boil soup. … And probably could stir-fry dishes.
“You want to eat the shell?” Shu Hanyu had arrived behind Shu Jintian at some unknown time, and wrapped his arms around his waist.
“Ah! You scared me to death; why didn’t you make any sounds when walking? Huuu~” Shu Jintian pressed a hand over his chest, his heart rapidly thumping from the fright.
Shu Hanyu licked Shu Jintian’s earlobe and stuck by his ear to softly say, “Not tasty, it’s very hard.”
Shu Jintian felt that the breath by his ear was cool, and it made his ear itch.
He shrunk in Shu Hanyu’s embrace, evading Shu Hanyu’s breath.
Shu Jintian rolled his eyes and said, “Who said I want to eat the shell?”
Shu Hanyu asked, “Then what are you going to do with it?”
Shu Jintian smiled, feeling pleased with himself. “I just want to use it to cook meat. It’ll definitely succeed. In the future, I can cook all sorts of food. Ah! Goodbye, my roasted meat! Hahaha~”
Shu Hanyu didn’t really understand, and indifferently said, “It’s good if Tiantian likes it.”
Shu Jintian suddenly thought of something and twisted his head to ask Shu Hanyu, “Right, is there any freshwater here? Seawater can’t be used to cook meat ba! I also want to take a bath; I keep feeling like my body is covered in salt.”
“En, I’ll take you there.” As Shu Hanyu said that, he turned into a snake.
Shu Jintian hastily packed up his things and carried the clothes he wasn’t wearing on his back. All the food was placed in the shell.
This Rock Shellfish was about the size of a small round table, and Shu Jintian discovered that it was quite heavy after removing it from the water.
Shu Jintian decided not to wear his clothes since he would have to take a shower anyways, so he was still wearing the underwear he went into the sea in.
Shu Hanyu’s snake tail hooked around Shu Jintian’s waist, and wanted to gather him up.
Shu Jintian took a step back and said, “No need. In any case, it isn’t very far, so I’ll just walk with you.”
Shu Jintian knew that there was a river here because when they were travelling here, they had rested at a riverside.
Shu Hanyu paid no attention to the female and suddenly tightened up his tail, wrapping around him and slithering over to the nearest river.
Shu Jintian sighed and helplessly leaned over the snake’s back. Being oppressed all the time, his mood would inevitably become depressed.
This river wasn’t more than a thousand metres away from where they went into the sea, and Shu Hanyu soon reached the riverside while towing along the female.
Shu Hanyu stopped but didn’t release the female, only hissing as he poked out his forked tongue.
“What’s wrong? Hurry up and let me go ah.” Shu Jintian patted the big snake, twisting his body that was a little discomfited from being coiled around.
It was then that Shu Hanyu released Shu Jintian. When the female stood up, he somewhat urgently pushed him towards the river bank with his snake tail.
Shu Hanyu’s strength was very great, and his tail was always indiscreet. Shu Jintian was pushed into a stumble and his steps were unsteady. Before him was the river; as a result, Shu Jintian was directly thrown into the river.
The river was very wide, as well as deep, and was much bigger than the one in the forest. Shu Jintian had been dumped into the river and felt some suppressed anger. He fiercely shook his head in the water before surfacing the water.
“Big… Hanyu, why don’t you have a wash too ba; the water’s quite clean.”
Shu Hanyu was looking ahead, his gaze ice-cold. He lowered his head to look at the female when he heard him speak, then shook his head, coiling by the river to wait for him.
Shu Jintian could perceive that Shu Hanyu didn’t seem right, and no longer bothered him.
The mood suddenly became a little cold and desolate, and Shu Jintian couldn’t relax despite being in the water. After a quick wash, he came out to put on clean clothes, then wrung the underwear he had just worn and hung it on a branch to dry.
Shu Hanyu was still coiled on the ground. Seeing that the female was done, he slinked over to him.
Shu Jintian heard a sound and saw that the big snake was crawling to him again. His conditioned reflex was to take a step back, but when he saw that the big snake’s eyes became, as expected, dangerous, he hastily explained, “I haven’t had a meal yet ne, I’m going to go cook.”
In a bad mood, Shu Hanyu glided to the shade of a tree, but his gaze was still firmly staring at Shu Jintian’s figure.
Shu Jintian let out a sigh of relief, then hurriedly went to make food when he saw that the big snake was still staring fixedly at him.
Shu Jintian used a dagger to remove the meat that was mostly stuck to the shell, then washed it clean.
Shu Jintian chopped off the heads of the little fishes, cut open their stomachs and threw away the innards, because he didn’t know which part could be eaten and was worried he’ll eat the wrong thing, so he was left with just the fish bodies.
The Rock Shellfish’s meat that he cut into small pieces, as well the sea mushroom and the unnamed seaweed, were all washed clean. He then put them all in the shell and cooked up a large pot.
Shu Jintian crouched by the open fire and stirred the soup with a branch, secretly stealing a glance at Shu Hanyu.
Shu Hanyu was resting at the side, but his snake head was still facing him, watching his each and every move.
Shu Jintian’s glance was discovered by Shu Hanyu, who flicked out his forked tongue at him.
Shu Jintian turned his head back and continued cooking. Clearly, he had washed everything clean, but there were still so many yellow bubbles being produced as he cooked it.
Shu Jintian used the branch to flick the bubbles away, tossing them out of the pot. After a moment, there were a few bubbles again. However, it was just a little, so it didn’t affect much.
Feeling that the food was just about cooked, Shu Jintian swallowed his saliva and picked out a mushroom, blew on it, then took a bite.
The juices splashed in his mouth and it scalded him, making him directly stick out his tongue. However, the flavour was really delicious. Even though it was cooked in fresh water, there was still a salty taste. This light flavour, for someone who hadn’t had salt for almost a month, was no less than exotic delicacies.
Shu Jintian carried down the shell pot and filled a tree leaf with some meat, cooling it as he ate.
“Hanyu, come over and eat too ba, it’s really tasty. Come on.”
Shu Hanyu stretched lazily and turned into his human form. He walked over to the back of Shu Jintian and hugged him from behind. The open fire was perfectly blocked by Shu Jintian, and he wouldn’t get roasted.
Shu Jintian picked out a sea mushroom that had cooled and placed it before Shu Hanyu’s mouth. “Try it?”
Shu Jintian looked at Shu Hanyu with an eager gaze. Actually, he also had some intentions to suck up to him and make the big snake feel at ease with him so that he had more chances to escape.
Shu Hanyu looked at the female, then expressionlessly took the mushroom in his mouth and swallowed it directly. The Yellow-spotted Zao cooked by the female was all soft and flabby like a rotten, dead fish. He didn’t like it.
Shu Jintian turned his head over and asked, “Is it tasty?”
Shu Hanyu nodded and made a sound of assent. Shu Jintian took up a piece of fish and wanted to give it to Shu Hanyu, but Shu Hanyu shook his head in refusal.
“Tiantian eat.” Shu Hanyu was very happy. The female seemed to accept him more and more. Now, he probably won’t refuse his carnal proposition anymore ba!
“Oh!” Shu Jintian’s chopsticks made a turn and stuck it in his own mouth as he took a bite of the fish. This fish was also a little salty, but the flavour was a little fishy.
Shu Jintian swallowed it with a frown, a little regretful that he hadn’t fed it to the big snake first. Tsk, what a pity.
Shu Jintian ate up all the meat, and let out a satisfied burp.
Too goddamn enjoyable; how long had it been since he ate something salty? Ever since he came to this other world, if it wasn’t raw, then it was roasted. Finally, he could have something cooked.
Perhaps this shell could also be used to saute dishes; it really was useful. When the time comes, he must take a few more. He could hide it, then go and pick it up after escaping.
“Let’s leave after you’re done eating ba!” Shu Hanyu rested his head against Shu Jintian’s shoulder.
Baobao Notes
Chapter abruptly cuts off. I personally added ‘Jintian’s shoulder’ because that’s how abruptly it cut off.
uwaaa what a dog food chapter
+1
Was he suffering from altitude/pressure sickness or something ? That’s really to scary getting sick or random swelling when all you have is an unreliable snake who resists modern comforts because they’re to possessive and rightfully worried their pet female will run away to civilization
Thanks for the chapter! ^ ^)/
Thanks for the chapter! 😘
So cuteeeeeeeee
Oops, I said ‘rates’ but I meant to say ‘Raws’. Enjoy the coffee!
Maybe Hanyu was giving the stink eye because he remembers the last time they went by a river? Tian tian ran away and caused him to hurt himself by jumping down. Probably not a pleasant memory. Plus he’s been doing his best to treat his ‘female’ (lol) right and hasn’t gotten anything other than obligatory kisses xD
That “carnal proposition” part, makes me excited, but there’s no feeling for this be a nice scene, and I’m still thinking of the barbs, and it scares me….
Thank you for the chapter
Still thinking about escaping…it is better to be with someone than try to survive in wilderness when you are not capable enough
Thank you for the great translation ♥️♥️♥️
“Laozi was nearly tamed by a python, fuck me!“ he will XD