Kipur paused for a moment: "I don't know, I don't have children yet."
"See? See? I told you! It's very difficult for elves to reproduce." Luo Pipi was smug. Ever since she started hanging out with Stone, she had been grateful to her father more than once. Although she always saw him as a womanizer, her erudition was undeniably due to him sending her to the library from a young age. [~]
“Compared to hundreds of years ago, things are much better.” Kipur hesitated for a moment before explaining, “Like my parents, they didn’t have any siblings, but I have a younger sister. I have to thank the great goddess of magic, Princess Irene!”
puff!
Stone really wanted to spit blood all over Kipur's face. Seriously, Irene was also a part-time OB-GYN? No, wait, she was an infertility specialist!
“I agree with that.” Unexpectedly, Luo Pipi nodded in agreement after hearing this: “It is said that in Princess Irene’s time, elves were often captured by humans. Although humans would release the elves after they turned five hundred years old, by then, most of the elves were no longer able to have children.”
Kipur nodded in deep agreement. His eyes were filled with admiration as he looked at Luo Pipi: "My goodness. I never imagined there could be such a learned and talented young man among humans. By the way, human lifespan is very short. Are you about the same age as Princess Yishiyue?"
Luo Pipi looked at the stone with a conflicted expression: "It should be about right, right?"
"How would I know?" Stone rolled his eyes decisively. "I'm not familiar with that person!"
"How could he marry you if he doesn't know you well?" Luo Pipi barely swallowed the rest of the sentence, "Is he out of his mind?" Actually, to be honest, Luo Pipi really doubted Yi Siyue's taste... or rather, his intelligence.
Sigh, just how clueless does a person have to be to be willing to marry a stone?
"What? Could you be the fiancée that Princess Ishizuki is looking for?" Kipur was so excited that he started trembling, making Stone wonder if this guy had a history of epilepsy.
"Stone!" Lopipi was even more excited than Kipur: "The Fourth Prince actually came looking for you! Good heavens, we have to set off quickly, we can't keep him waiting!"
Stone looked at Luo Pipi with a bloodshot face: "Are you in such a hurry to sell me off?"
"How can you say it's sold? You finally found someone who wants it!" Luo Pipi looked at you with a disappointed expression: "Hurry up, before he regrets it."
Seriously, is she really that unwanted?!
"Do you want to go find Princess Ishizuki immediately? Alright, let's set off now!" Kipur was clearly more anxious than Lopipi. Upon hearing this, he immediately reached out and pulled Shitou over. Judging from his posture, it seemed as if he wanted to drag Shitou back alive.
Stone quickly shook off Kipur's hand: "No!" Wow, Kipur's little hands are so smooth, so soft, and feel so good!
"Why? Princess Ishizuki has been looking for you for a long time." Kipur looked at the stone in disbelief, as if she had done something that would incur divine wrath.
Stone felt really helpless. After thinking for a moment, she suddenly remembered that elves didn't have a strong concept of time, so she immediately made up a reason: "I can't go back with you to see Princess Yishiyue because the time hasn't come yet."
"Um?"
Faced with Kipur's innocent, bewildered expression, Stone gritted his teeth and continued making up a story: "My grandmother has passed away, and according to human custom, I must observe three years of mourning!"
Is it easy for her? She even made up a lie about mourning. Who knows if such a thing even exists in this world?
Kipur blinked, unable to process Stone's excuse for a moment, and remained silent for a while. Luo Pipi, however, was astonished by Stone's blatant lying without batting an eye: "Do you have a grandmother?"
Stone turned around, turned his face to the side, and pinched Luo Pipi's left arm hard with all his might. Then, in an extremely sorrowful tone, he said, "Alas, she's gone now... my dear grandma! How could you leave like this!"
Luo Pipi suppressed the urge to scream, quickly covered her arm with her right hand, and looked at Shi Tou with teary eyes: "Oh, he's so pitiful."
“Three years… Oh, I see, you mean you want to spend three years mourning?” Kipur also adopted a sympathetic expression: “Yes, I do. When my grandmother passed away, my sister cried for a full five years.”
puff!
Stone was really trying to squeeze out some tears to gain sympathy, but he was so provoked by Kipur's words that he almost spat out his drink.
Honey, is your sister the reincarnation of Lin Daiyu? Even if she is your biological grandmother, isn't it a bit too much for her to cry for five years straight?
"Cough cough, she's pitiful too." Luo Pipi covered her arm, not daring to rub it too hard, her face twitching with a conflicted expression.
"Excuse me, how many years have passed now?" Kippur finally had some sense and knew this was crucial.
Shi Tou looked up at the sky and asked, "Can she say that our grandmother just passed away yesterday?"
Glancing at the elves gathered around her, Stone silently calculated how many days she had been in the Moon Goddess's Forest: "Uh, it's been two months already." She decided to say a little more to avoid giving herself away later.
"Two months?" Kippur looked bewildered. "How long is two months? Is it the same as two years?"
This time, Shi Tou started coughing up blood: "Cough cough, two months is... a year has twelve months, do you understand?"
"Oh, only that little time?" Kipur lowered his head in disappointment, a look that softened even the hardest heart.
"No, three years will pass quickly." Stone covered her cheek, her tooth aching. She was truly helpless. Although Kipur was very beautiful, for the sake of her happiness for the rest of her life, she was not willing to marry that submissive Yi Shiyue!
Who knows if that guy is even capable? Maybe he's a submissive type from the inside out!
“That’s true, three years will pass quickly.” Kipur suddenly turned to Green Cloud, who had been watching the show for a long time: “Young man, may I stay in the Moon Goddess’s Forest?”
Green Cloud was nudged by the elf next to it and came to its senses. It nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, yes! You can live in the best tree hole."
Stone's disdainful gaze swept over Green Cloud. Why? They get to stay in the best tree hollows right away, while they can only pitch a tent in the open air.
“That’s great. We won’t be staying long, three years will be enough.” Kipur happily leaned over to Green Cloud to explain the details of their life together, leaving Stone to languish in the wind.
"Luo Pipi, I can't live like this anymore!" After finally getting Kipur and the others to have a meal and rest with Green Cloud, Stone rolled straight into the tent.
"Poor thing, so pitiful," Luo Pipi joked heartlessly. "When you get married, I'll remember to give you a red envelope. Don't worry, it'll have at least a hundred gold coins."
Stone rolled around on the thick wool carpet in a very unladylike manner: "Aww, if you marry in my place, I'll give you a big red envelope, how about a hundred purple gold coins?"
The exchange rate between Purple Gold Coins and Gold Coins is 1:100.
"Tsk tsk, what a high price. But, may I ask, is the Fourth Prince really that bad?"
"Not bad at all, not bad at all! He's handsome, virtuous, kind-hearted, skilled in martial arts, and wealthy..." As soon as he heard that Luo Pipi was interested, Shi Tou perked up immediately. He jumped up and started praising him non-stop.
"Hmm, it seems really good."
"That's exactly right! If you like it, you can marry in my place!" Stone looked at Luo Pipi with shining eyes; she desperately wanted someone else to take her place in the tiger's den.
“If I didn’t know you so well, I probably would have agreed,” Luo Pipi said seriously. “Unfortunately, I know you too well. How should I put it? When there are benefits, you just rush forward, and when there are difficulties, you just push others forward.”
"Am I as bad as you say?" Stone slumped down dejectedly.
"It'll only be worse than I say!" Luo Pipi gloated as he pondered how to trick Shi Tou.
"Actually, I can take your place..."
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The pan-fried buns shamefully continue their visit to relatives; the great draft box is at your service! (Your support is my greatest motivation.)
Chapter 225: Stone's Confession Leads to Leniency
"Xue'er?!"
"Xue'er, how could you be so foolish?!"
Stone and Luo Pipi stared at Xue'er in horror, completely unable to believe that those words had just come from Xue'er's mouth.
"My God! Xue'er, you have such heavy tastes!" Shi Tou swallowed hard, glancing at Linda out of the corner of his eye: "I thought only Linda would be interested in that fourth prince!"
"Miss! How can you slander me like that? You're the one who can't get married, not me!" Linda retorted, "What does this have to do with me?!"
“Linda…” Stone narrowed his eyes dangerously. Seeing this, Linda could only lower her head dejectedly and move to a corner to count her fingers.
Xue'er pursed her lips and said nonchalantly, "I heard that the fourth prince is Yilin's direct descendant?"
What?! Is that true?!
"Yes, that's what they say. Oh, and the Fifth Princess, it's said that only the two of Princess Irene's descendants are left." Luo Pipi was very familiar with the history of the Luo Ming Empire, and Irene was someone she had always admired, so she knew a lot about Irene.
Stone was at a loss for words. With a long face and a forced smile, she silently cursed her past life.
So what if you time-traveled? Why are you so obsessed with picking up handsome men? Even if you did, there's no need to rush to have a baby, right? And you've left yourself with such a huge mess...
"That's good! Stone, I'll marry in your place!"
Shi Tou turned his head and glared at Xue'er with an expression that suggested she was an idiot: "While I admit that Yi Siyue isn't very smart, he's still quite a distance from being utterly stupid. Putting aside everything else, no matter how many years I ran away from my marriage, I could never transform from a human into a beastman, okay?"
Xue'er hesitated for a moment: "Isn't there a way to cover it up?"
"There's probably no way to fix it. Appearance is easy to deal with, since he hasn't seen me many times. But... these racial characteristics..."
"He's very smart?"
Shi Tou really wanted to roll her eyes. This wasn't just a difference between yellow and white people; it was a difference between different races! If they couldn't even distinguish this much, she seriously wondered if that Yi Siyue could just be sent back to the furnace for a fresh start.
"Xue'er, wait a minute. Can I ask you why you're willing to marry the Fourth Prince? You haven't met him, have you?" Luo Pipi finally couldn't hold back anymore. She felt that the topic was taking a strange turn.
"Because he is a descendant of Irene."
Luo Pipi looked bewildered: "What's the direct connection between these two things? Or is it that you, like me, admire Princess Irene so much that you'd be willing to marry any of her descendants? No! You're a beastman, how could you possibly admire Princess Irene?"
Stone nodded in agreement. "Exactly," he said. "Orcs should all hate Irene; they would never have such a strange feeling as worship. Hatred is more like it."
etc!
"Xue'er, you're not thinking of taking revenge on Yi Siyue, are you?" Shi Tou gasped, finally realizing that something was wrong.
"Yes." To everyone's surprise, Xue'er nodded without hesitation: "Marry him, then torment him, and finally torture him to death!"
Thump!
Luo Pipi's legs gave way and she fell to the ground, while Shi Tou fell on top of her: "Shi Tou, get out of my way!"
Rolling off Luo Pipi's belly, Shi Tou struggled to his feet: "Personally, I think you probably can't beat Yi Siyue."
"Don't worry. I won't fight with him."
"So what do you want to do?"
"Um... I haven't decided yet."
Faced with Xue'er's honest attitude, Shi Tou felt utterly powerless: "Okay, I think we should hurry up and slip away."
"If you won't go, I will!" Xue'er wasn't so easily dismissed: "Irene killed so many of my people and destroyed such a large orc kingdom. I won't let her off so easily!"
Stone felt a chill run down his spine: "You could actually go dig up graves, really!"
This idea... Even Linda, who was squatting in the corner counting on her fingers, turned around and gave her a disdainful look.
"How about, for your sake, I leave him a whole corpse? Don't worry, I won't eat him!"
Does this mean they have a lot of face?
Shi Tou sat on the ground, pondering a serious question: Should she go and inform them? Although Yi Siyu was unreliable and Yi Siyue had never done anything dependable, they were, after all, her bloodline from her previous life, and they hadn't done anything immoral, had they?