Chapter 122 Another Life

Summer came, and every tribe just finished their offerings to the Beast God. However, this doesn't mean that everyone will go back to what they are. Some of them are still busy.

Every first day of the season, except for the Summer which is the second day, females who are going to become ten whole seasons old will celebrate with their family for their adulthood.

Today is the second day of Summer, they will have a celebration later. The others are now preparing for the celebration of their little female who will now become an adult. And one of them is the family of Hu'er. 

The sun wasn't even up when Song Li, Jiu Lin, Hou Yu, Zhi Wu, Shui Lan, and Jiu Hu were already getting the ingredients ready. The others are also busy.

Song Li will cook some lotus-related food. He is actually excited. Cooking a variety of lotus food made him happy. Especially for Hu'er's adulthood celebration.

Jiu Lin chose to handle the drinks, dragging Ke Rin and Xin Hua to work with him. They are squeezing so many berries and other fruits, filling up five barrels.

Hou Yu focuses on fish dishes. That's the only thing he can cook but is very good at. 

Zhi Hu was tasked to cook vegetable foods. He did not just cook it, but also made some salad.

Shui Lan is going to cook food that he learned from other tribes. He also has some assistants. After all, he did learn quite a lot about food.

Jiu Hu with the help of Qiang Li and others processed the meats that will be used for the foods they will make.

Jia Ting, Yun He, Chen Bin, Wu Yang, Fang Shou, Bao Hu, and Mu Qixi haven't arrived yet. However, they did promise to miss the family celebration for Hu'er. They should be back before then.

Hu'er brothers will also come but were asked not to bring their sons or even their females to avoid any disputes that can happen.

The students they accepted also went home. They are not allowed to live near a Hu'er for a while. By winter they could come back but for now, to avoid getting Hu'er in an accident they let them go home first.

The celebration will be on the first floor where their Daddies live. They will eat together by late dish then walk Hu'er and Jiu Lin to the gate towards their part of the territory.

They won't go in and let Jiu Lin guard Hu'er until she got her heat. No one shall go in. Ke Rin and the rest already took the things they need and transferred to the students' rooms in the meantime.

When sunset came someone opened the gates that are in front of their Daddies' home.

"Hey! I'm back! Didn't know the house is this big." Jiu Su came in, looking around. Following him are his brothers. They all waited for each other before going in.

Jiu Hu reprimanded him, "Stop looking around, help us decorate before Hu'er goes down."

"Sure, sure. Yo, son! You'll soon know how great it is to have a mate. Good luck." He laughed. It seems like Jiu Su never changes. He is still mischievous and acts like a cub.

The brothers of Hu'er went to their Dads to help out obediently and didn't speak much. Even the young ones busied themselves with decorating.

"Stop teasing Shun Su." Jiu Se glared at his son who wouldn't grow up.

"Dad favors Shun Su over his son now. How sad…" He acted childishly making Jiu Se feel goosebumps and cringe at him.

He turned his back and didn't care about his son anymore. Jiu Se feels like he is getting older just talking to him.

Min He noticed that Jiu Hu is just looking at the interaction between Jiu Se and Jiu Su. He remembered that Jiu Hu still need to talk to Hu'er and bless her. "Jiu Hu don't dawdle. Go up now, and talk to Hu'er."

"Aye." Jiu Hu chuckles and nodded. He went straight and go upstairs.

On the other side, Song Li went near Shun Su, "That's your dad?" He never met Hu'er's brothers who have mates already. They never visited Hu'er. This also made sense, most beastman only visits their moms.

"Yeah," he said embarrassingly.

Even though his dad would act like that, he would never deny him. Jiu Su, his dad, was the reason why he was chosen by Hu'er. He helped him take all the obstruction on his way to becoming Hu'er's mate.

"He is the son of Uncle Jiu Se..?" Song Li hesitatingly asked.

Shun Su nodded. "He is."

"Wow." Song Li couldn't believe it. He looks at Shun Su, then Jiu Se lastly Jiu Su. Jiu Su caught him looking and nodded at him with a grin.

He immediately looked away and whispered, "You three have different appearances."

Shun Su stopped squeezing the berries and looked at him. He explained, "Grandad… Jiu Se looks like an Old Lady, my great-grandmom. Dad looks like Grandmom, I look like my Mom."

Song Li couldn't help but nodded, "Ohhh that's why!"

Jiu Lin saw them whispering around. The berries are all squeezed. "You two can talk later. Hu'er will soon go down. We still need to clean up this mess."

After Jiu Hu talks to Hu'er they will both go down. By that time they should finish everything so Hu'er can just eat with them.

"Yes." Shun Su immediately went away to get a cloth to wipe the berries that spilled.

"Will do!" Song Li beamed and went to his station to clean up and wash the things he used.

They started another round of work. Busying themselves and waiting for Hu'er to come down.

Jiu Lin might look calm, but he actually wasn't. He is very nervous right now. His hands are even trembling.

Jiu Lin looks at the stairs. He could feel how excited his heart was. He is afraid yet looking forward to his soon-to-be new life with Hu'er beside him.