Stone couldn't help but remind him, "It's the fire tongs, your Seventh Brother!"
“Oh, that’s my seventh brother,” Doragar repeated with a look of sudden realization.
The little orc frowned, clearly not wanting to offend Huoqian. After a moment of stalemate, she said, "I'll come back tomorrow and ask Kagaral to help me find my pet as soon as possible."
Watching the little orc disappear into the distance, Stone and Pipi looked at each other in bewilderment: "Why do I feel so passionate?"
"Cough cough." Luo Pipi choked on Shi Tou's words: "Well, dwarves and orcs can't marry each other."
"Why?"
Luo Pipi looked up at the sky and after a long while, he finally spoke: "It's for no reason, just like humans can't marry dwarves."
"What if they intermarried?" Stone knew that there were precedents of dwarves and humans having children, although the ending was not good, but they did indeed intermarry and have children.
After choking for a while, Luo Pipi replied with a conflicted expression, "Under normal circumstances, intermarriage between different races doesn't end well."
"Oh? That fire tongs is so pitiful!" Stone and Doragar both looked at each other with sympathy.
"You brat! Who are you calling pitiful?!"
Chapter 210: Mo Yingxue Searching for Her Pet
Seeing the furious Fire Pliers, Stone cowardly hid behind Pipi. Actually, she wanted to hide behind Doragar even more, since that was Fire Pliers' younger sister. But unfortunately, Doragar was too small and it seemed she couldn't hide Stone.
"Stone! Do you think I'm blind? Come here!" Fire Pliers roared, and Stone obediently came out.
"Brother Huoqian..."
"Don't play innocent with me, you're never innocent!" Huoqian threw the large sack on his back to the ground and roared angrily.
Stone's eyes darted around: "Fire tongs, are you really Karagar?"
Upon hearing this, Huoqian immediately bristled!
"Stone! How many times have I told you? I'm Huoqian, not Kagaral. Kagaral died nine hundred years ago!"
Stone looked pitifully at Fire Pliers: "But just now a little orc came looking for Kagaral."
"ah?"
"It's a small dog-like orc. She has a terrible temper and yells all the time. She even asked you to help her find a pet."
"Oh, it's her!" Huoqian suddenly realized. "Ignore her."
Stone glared resentfully at Fire Pliers. Of course you can ignore her, but please, that orc is a violent person!
“Brother Fire Pliers…” This time it wasn’t Stone who spoke, but Doragar: “Doragar doesn’t like such fierce little dogs.”
Huoqian glanced at Doragar and suddenly deflated: "Alright, alright, I'll take care of her, you don't need to worry about it."
solve?!
Stone's eyes suddenly lit up: "Are we having dog meat tonight?"
Huoqian didn't react for a moment: "No, Mom only prepared a lot of rat meat for you."
“That’s not what she meant.” Luo Pipi realized what she meant. But she looked embarrassed: “She was talking about that little beastman.”
"Ah?! You want to eat orcs?!" Huoqian was terrified. Ever since he regained his memories of his past life, he hadn't known how to treat Shitou. But thinking back, although Shitou in his past life was mischievous, he wasn't exactly a cruel child!
"Aren't orcs tasty?" Stone was just saying that casually; orcs, regardless of her actual race. She was in human form, and Stone wasn't that bloodthirsty. "By the way, what's her pet? Why did it suddenly run away?"
Huoqian looked at Shitou with fear, and it took him a while to calm down: "Pet? I don't know either. She only told me that her pet was lost and asked me to help her find it."
Is this okay?
Stone was bewildered. That little beastman, in essence, was still a beast, not a human, right?
Seeing the bewildered look on Stone's face, Huoqian explained, "That orc has been here for a long time. I remember it was not long after you left. She appeared. At first, she took over this place, and later when I came up to find you, I even fought with her."
"Then why didn't she eat you?" Stone's tone held a hint of concern, but more so, doubt.
Huoqian stared at Shitou with a black line on his forehead: "What orc would eat a dwarf?!"
"Not eating?" Stone's impression of orcs was still stuck on that morning when she almost died at her hands: "Oh, if you don't eat dwarves, then you eat humans?"
"They won't eat humans!" Huoqian looked at Shitou with a puzzled expression. "Shitou, sometimes I really admire you. Orcs are just like us; they won't eat humanoid creatures."
Stone still looked at him with a puzzled expression.
Huoqian really wanted to kneel down to Shitou: "Shitou, those are orcs, not magical beasts! Don't confuse the two, okay?!"
"Aren't they the same?"
“Of course they’re different!” Huoqian rolled his eyes and patiently explained, “Orcs, dwarves, humans, and those humanoid creatures. We all have one thing in common: we have intelligence, nations, and laws…”
"So, even if you hadn't shown up that day, that little beastman wouldn't have eaten me and Luo Pipi?"
Huoqian nearly choked on Shitou's words: "She won't eat you, but she'll kill you, you idiot!!!"
Stone shrank back: "Oh, so you're still our savior. Um, savior, do you want me or Luo Pipi to repay you with their bodies?"
Huoqian was so angry at Shitou that he almost vomited blood: "No need! It's not like I can't find a wife!"
"Really..." Stone muttered to himself, "No good deed goes unpunished. We were just worried you'd end up like you were in your past life, a virgin!"
"Stone!!!"
Stone flashed quickly and disappeared into the ring space, ignoring how much the fire tongs outside were jumping up and down.
"Gaga, Master, are you bullying Kagaral again?" In the pet area, Baozi was very happy because Yarn was missing.
"Hmph, you brat, once I find the yarn, I'll make it teach you a lesson!" Stone only realized the yarn was missing after waking up from her unconsciousness. She asked Huoqian, but Huoqian only said he didn't know. In fact, the fact that he dragged Luopi back with him was already quite humane.
"Gah gah! Master, you can't do this to me!" Baozi wailed. In its eyes, the yarn was useless except for causing trouble. "If Baozi shows Master something, Master will promise not to look for the yarn back, okay?"
Looking at something?
Shi Tou paused for a moment, her intuition telling her that Baozi was definitely up to no good: "No, what good stuff could you possibly have there? Forget it, I'd better hurry up and go find some yarn, lest it really get lost."
Actually, Stone still had doubts about whether Yarn was the little beastman's lost pet. But she also vaguely remembered that the little beastman seemed to have seen Yarn before.
"Gaga! Master, Baozi knows he was wrong! How about I give you Kagaral's portrait?"
A portrait of Kagalar?!
Stone's eyes widened, a gossipy glint in them: "You have a portrait of Kagaral?"
"Giggle, Baozi doesn't have a portrait, Baozi only has memories!" Baozi twisted its body, showing off smugly, "Baozi can draw for its owner!"
"Okay, hurry up and draw, I want to see!"
"Huh? Master, are you still looking for the yarn?"
Stone rolled his eyes at Baozi and said decisively, "I'm not looking anymore." We're too lazy to look. We'll ask Huotong to help us look.
"Giggle, Master, you're such a kind master!" Baozi chuckled and skipped away, "Wait for me a minute. It'll be ready soon!"
Stone stared in disbelief as Baozi vanished in a wisp of smoke, her ears still ringing with Baozi's words, "You are a kind master"...
"You little brat! How dare you insult me in such a roundabout way?!"
Despite his deep dissatisfaction with Baozi, Shitou was overjoyed when he saw Baozi's hand-drawn portrait of Kagalar—"Does Baozi have hands?"
"Kagalar!" Jumping out of the tree hollow, Stone was so startled by the magnified face before him that he fell to the ground with a thud: "Ah!!!"
"What are you howling about?!" Huoqian was also quite startled. He had no idea that Shitou would suddenly reappear: "What do you want now?"
Stone glanced at the fire tongs. He then saw Doragar and Luopipi eating around the campfire behind the tongs, and immediately became agitated: "You guys are going too far! Eating all by yourself!"
"Eating alone?" Luo Pipi looked up in surprise: "There are three of us, this is called sharing."
Stone was speechless, completely stumped. Huo Tong, who had only intended to grab some firewood, was instead drawn to what Stone was holding: "Stone, what are you holding? A rag?"
Strictly speaking, the stone is indeed holding a piece of cloth, but it's not a rag; it's an extremely rare type of silk cloth.
Silk fabric is produced in a grassland kingdom extremely far from the Fallen Empire. That country is also a human nation, but their main economic source is various kinds of cloth and wool, and silk fabric is a specialty there, produced in considerable quantities. However, it is a rare find in the Fallen Empire.
"Fire Pliers. You're so ignorant! This is silk cloth, a very high-grade fabric!" Stone hadn't opened the cloth, so Fire Pliers didn't know that there was a portrait of his past life on it.
"Hmph, just plain silk cloth. What's so special about it?" Indeed, it wasn't special. Over six hundred years ago, the Grassland Kingdom was a vassal state of the Fallen Empire, and it had to pay tribute in large quantities every year. Huo Qian was, at that time, the first prince of the Fallen Empire. With his status and position, let alone plain silk cloth, even the more luxurious Shui Xi cloth would be insignificant to him.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Stone also thought of Huoqian's past life identity: "You were once the first prince, so of course you don't care! But I do care a lot. Silk cloth is already very valuable, but more importantly, there are very precious things on it!"
Although Stone said this, he showed no intention of unfolding the cloth. Stepping past the fire tongs, Stone walked to Pipi and Doragar and carefully unfolded the cloth a little: "Look!"
"Wow!" Doragar exclaimed, "He's even more handsome than my brother!"
Luo Pipi was also shocked, but she didn't lose her composure like Dora Jiaer: "Prettier than your brother? But anyone you pick out is prettier than your brother!"
puff!
Stone spat without hesitation, "Little Pipi, even if you're an honest child, please don't tell the truth directly to someone's older brother, okay? Tsk tsk..."
“Not my dwarf brothers, but my brothers from before.” Doragar paused for a moment, then quickly explained, “I used to have three older brothers. My eldest brother was very, very tall, and not good-looking at all. My third brother was always sick and not good-looking either. Only my fourth brother was the most handsome!”
Luo Pipi already knew Doragar's identity, so she quickly understood what Doragar meant: "Oh, I know, you're talking about the fourth prince, Yisiyue, who's famous for his beauty?"
"Yes, isn't my brother handsome? But I still think this person is more beautiful."
Stone nodded in agreement: "I think so too. I think even the flamboyant Ishizuki can't compare to the First Prince Kagarar!"
"Stone!"
Huoqian was initially confused by their conversation, but he couldn't bring himself to get a closer look at Shitou's precious fabric. But now, after hearing what Shitou said, he couldn't resist any longer.
After glaring fiercely at the image of Prince Kagaral with unparalleled beauty on the fabric, Huoqian's gaze turned sinister as he looked at the stone.
"Uh, fire tongs. We're talking about girls' stuff, please go ahead." Stone's expression cracked slightly, but who was she? Her skin was thicker than a city wall, and she quickly recovered.
The fire tongs ground their teeth fiercely. After glaring for a long time, they finally spoke, threatening, "You brat, do you believe I'll have Xue'er eat you up!"
Stone looked at him blankly: "Who is Xue'er? Your girlfriend?"
"Idiot! Xue'er is that little beastman!"
"Huh?" Stone was completely dumbfounded: "A little dog named Xue'er?"
What a horrifying world this is!