Chapter 133 - Parker Begins to Plant Crops (1/2)

All the sadness Bai Qingqing felt instantly disappeared. She looked up at Cortis and asked, “Don’t you like kids?”

“I want you to bear me a child because I like you, and you females will show more affection to the child’s father,” Cortis answered her without hesitation, despite his intense dislike of his own kind—especially his own children—for distracting his female.

Bai Qingqing’s face flushed and she said shyly, “That’s not the point, okay? The point is that I get… that thing every month. It’ll be bad news for me if people find out.”

Cortis chuckled softly and replied, “Don’t worry. This house is my territory. I won’t let anyone come near it, so no one will find out.”

Bai Qingqing felt a huge burden being lifted off her shoulders upon seeing how calm Cortis was. “Mm.”

“I brought you the thorny fruit.” Cortis pulled away from Bai Qingqing and held out the plant in his left hand.

Bai Qingqing rubbed her eyes and looked at it. The thorny fruit wasn’t what she had expected. It looked like a cape jasmine plant, with its mulberry-like leaves and many small, thorny fruits.

Bai Qingqing’s face lit up instantly. She clapped her hands and said, “It’s still fresh. Let’s go plant it.”

When Cortis opened the wooden door, Parker was digging a hole outside.

Bai Qingqing was itching to plant a tree. However, Cortis pushed her back into the house and said with an authoritative tone, “Don’t come out.”

“Okay, then.” Bai Qingqing grabbed a stick from outside and placed it under the door. “But I can still keep the door propped open, right? I want to watch you guys plant it.”

Bai Qingqing had difficulty placing the stick under the door despite using all her strength as the rain was too heavy. In the end, Cortis helped her to keep the stick in place so that the door would stay propped open.

When Parker returned after the tree had been planted, he felt happy seeing that Bai Qingqing was no longer as gloomy as she had been over the past few days.

“Qingqing, I’ll head out to hunt,” Parker said.

Bai Qingqing glanced at Cortis’s stomach and guessed that the snake hadn’t fed for the past three days. She asked Parker softly, “Parker, could you catch one extra prey?”

Parker paused for a moment before he smiled and replied, “Okay.”