RVW-47.2

Ah Nan pursed her lips in a smile, she sat down and smilingly said, “Lady Zhao, I am the Su Wangfei you are looking for.”

Zhao Qihua was initially surprised to see a maid very calmly fetch a stool here, but when she saw that maid help a seemingly dainty and delicate young lady to sit, Zhao Qihua was already wide-eyed. And when she heard Ah Nan’s words, she attentively sized her up and down for quite some time before then flabbergastedly exclaimed, “Su Wang actually married an underaged girl, how could it be? Don’t tell me his type is actually like this…..”

‘You are deceiving me’ was practically written all over Zhao Qihua’s face.

Ah Nan: =__= ! You are the underaged girl! Your family are all underaged girl!!

Ah Nan suppressed her anger with great effort and politely asked her, “Lady Zhao, if Ben gong is underaged, how could Ben gong have married Wang ye? Ah yes, actually Ben gong heard that General Zhao was concerned about Lady Zhao’s marriage and had worried so much his hair turned white. Hey, before coming to Tongcheng, Ben gong had also heard The Empress was also worried and urging this matter…..” Ah Nan sighed lightly.

Zhao Qihua actually hadn’t taken Ah Nan seriously at first, but when someone actually discussed her older leftover woman status to her face like this, it truly stabbed onto her sore spot ah. For as long as Zhao Qihua had lived, she had always been flattered and coaxed at, when had someone ever dared to say such a thing to her? Anger instantly welled up in her chest, her fingers grasped tightly at the whip at Ah Nan’s unspoken words.

Ah Nan’s expression was entirely sincere as she looked at her and said, “Lady Zhao doesn’t have to be worried, you are such a beauty, you would definitely be getting married¹The RAW actually said ‘discussing over marriage’ as in someone has made an offer to marry her and wanted to discuss the marriage details soon. Becoming a married woman ah, Ben gong heard that one will get even prettier then.”

Zhao Qihua glared at Ah Nan, for quite a while at that, but finally she couldn’t help but stomp her feet and said, “I-, I will tell my father and Su Wang that you said I won’t be able to get married! You just wait and see!!”

“……..”

Everyone’s gaze followed Lady Zhao’s departing figure disappearing quickly, one after another a question appeared in their mind: So what exactly did she come here for?

“I really didn’t say she won’t be able to get married ah? Could it be that her brain isn’t the same as others that she could misinterpret others’ intentions?” Ah Nan’s expression looked completely astonished.

No one replied to her words, all of them thought, was this Su Wangfei really so simple-minded? Such words she uttered really stabbed people’s sore spot.

“Also, so what exactly did she come here for?”

As the same as before, no one replied to her. Only Ru Cui, who god-knows what she was thinking, replied, “Xiao jie, sure enough, there are a lot of fierce women in the borders indeed. See, isn’t this a good example? Right, Ru Lan Jiejie?”

Ru Lan: =__= ! Don’t talk to me, I don’t know you two idiots…..

Zhao Qihua came and went in such a hurry, no one understood exactly what she wanted to do. He Furen looked at the sky and its changing color, then brought her family’s Xiao Niuniu to bid their farewell to Ah Nan. Gu Xiaoyan also thought that she no longer had any business here and thus also bid her farewell, saying that she was going to go back and read some books.

After all the guests had left, the cleaned up little foxes were brought over.

The two little foxes had just been born not long ago and therefore looked like two little kittens, tiny and feeble. The fur on their body was still wet, dripping and sticking onto their body, their clear and limpid black eyes adorably looking at the outside world. The two white furry balls were squeezing their bodies together, as if afraid that humans would harm them, their bodies still trembling all over.

Ah Nan had never raised small animals or pets before, added with the thinking of a modern person that foxes are not only beasts that could bite people but also that they are games that can be eaten, the first thought that came to mind when she saw foxes were: This is an edible meat ah! But at this moment, when she saw these two furry fox balls cramming together as they trembled in fear, Ah Nan couldn’t help but reflect upon herself deeply. How could she have such cruel and savage thoughts about them? How could she treat these two adorable small creatures like that?

Even Ru Lan and Ru Cui were also struck stupid by the foxes’ cuteness that they forgot they were foxes. Each of them held a clean towel and wiped their bodies down to dry the fur.

Ah Nan let the two little foxes be put on the warm Kang and didn’t dare use much force to touch them. She caressed one and kept her hands on the other, she really truly liked them. The two little foxes were allowed to lie on the clean, warm, and very comfortable Kang, and as they saw no one would come and harm them, they started to relax and lay down their stomachs onto the Kang and rubbed each other’s head, their eyes squinted shut as they fell asleep.

Ah Nan was very satisfied and happy with these two little fox kits. She immediately rapped the gavel and gave the final verdict for their names: Da Bai, Xiao Bai²Literally means Big White and Little White. Very rustic and old fashioned name for pets.

The one with some tuft of yellow fur on the forehead was Da Bai, the one that was white all over was Xiao Bai.

“Xiao jie, these names aren’t good, still not as good as Xiao Bai and Xiao Huang³Little White and Little Yellow.” Ru Cui hurriedly gave them names herself.

“What Xiao Huang? Both of them are obviously white!” Ah Nan rolled her eyes at the sub-standard maid. 

Ru Cui smacked her lips and said, “Xiao Huang is easier to remember ah. I remember when I was little in the village back then, an elderly grandpa raised a dog called Xiao Huang, it was very obedient. As long as it was given bones to gnaw it would never gnaw on any vegetables. The ones we raised also looked like Xiao Huang, as long as we let them gnaw on veggies they would never gnaw on bones.”

“Hey!” Ah Nan’s face was covered with black lines, could this fool actually forget that these were foxes? She actually wanted to raise them into vegetarian foxes!

……..

Ru Lan: =__= ! These two fools, the names they gave were all too lacklustre! Their conversation contents were also too absurd⁴Actually the RAW said innutritious (literally), basically refers to pointless and absurd things that is useless for your brain, I suppose it’s closer to calling them fools sharing one brain cell together!

In the end, these two fox kits’ names were still decided based on Ah Nan’s will, Da Bai and Xiao Bai.

When Chu Baning came back at night, Ah Nan’s expression was full of flattery as she followed him. She was especially attentive as she served her Wang ye to eat, drink, wash his face, and rinse his mouth. Chu Baning was quite surprised to see it.

Because of this girl’s very enthusiastic flattery, even the onlooking Ru Lan and Ru Cui just wanted to cover their faces and leave, let alone the Wang ye who slept on the same bed and shared the same pillow with her everyday.

Chu Baning’s eyes twitched. He knew what’s going on. Smiles flitted in his eyes, but the expression on his face didn’t change even a little as he sat. Ah Nan who was following him around like a little maid, wrapped herself around his body, transferring heat to the cold, letting him feel around and straight up⁵The character 挺 can mean directly or straight up doing something, but can also mean erect, so yeah sexual innuendo enjoy himself.

As a result, the pleased dragon⁶龙心大悦 literally means the dragon’s heart is satisfied/pleased, the dragon usually refers to the emperor (exchange the dragon with phoenix (凤) and it refers to the empress), but it can also be used to refer to influential and powerful member of the imperial family Wang ye didn’t pursue the matter about a certain someone who said she wanted to make those two fox kits into game meat to eat. As the night went late, the Wang ye hugged his little wife who now finally had some meat in her person, and then went rolling on the bed sheets together with her. He vigorously tormented and tossed-and-turned a certain someone, giving Ah Nan no time to ask about Zhao Qihua’s matter.

Translator’s note:

Everyone, please do to not change your pets’ diet as you please. Foxes may be omnivorous (though they are primarily carnivorous), but limiting their diet to veggies only is an abuse and bound to cause some problems 🙂

Feed your pets (and other animals) properly, kay.

Also, I don’t think eating fox meat is as common as this novel made it out to be? To be honest many thought they are kind of like uncommon kind of meat, but some people do eat them, yes, as with other uncommon ingredients.

P.S. No china bashing with ‘savage’ or ‘uncultured’ please 🙂 It’s no utopia (nowhere is) but let’s not make it into some sort of dystopian shit hole