Chapter 240: First Visit
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Edited by Aelryinth
While Zhang Che was thinking about these matters, Miss Tienan thought he was having cold feet. She teased, “Hey, hey, Zhang Xiaoche, are you scared of going?”
Zhang Che came back to himself and intentionally put on a bitter face, saying, “I’m worrying over what gift to bring. After all, I’m s.n.a.t.c.hing his precious daughter away. If the gift isn’t up to par, I’m afraid he’ll beat me up. I won’t dare to retaliate, either!”
“Aiya, Zhang Xiaoche you’re really asking for a beating!”
The two broke out into a “fight” again, and Zhang Che started suffering again.
This pitiful guy wasn’t a real pure little virgin boy. Such a fragrant, beautiful, and coy girl was before him, and yet the most he could do was kiss her and hug her. How could he endure it?
Most importantly, Miss Tienan was obviously aware of Zhang Che’s suffering, and she still teased him intentionally. This was simply intolerable.
Zhang Che had no choice but to divert his attention.
“Right, Tielan, what’s with that pet of yours from earlier?” Zhang Che remembered that little rainbow spider from before. This was the first time he had seen a newborn exotic beast, and it turned out to be Miss Tienan’s pet.
As expected, his guess from before was true; beastmasters truly had a chance to get themselves pets.
At the mention of this, Huang Tielan grew very excited.
“Do you remember when we went for our first outdoor combat training in school?”
Zhang Che immediately thought of those Five-Colored Poison Spiders. He asked, “Could it be that it’s linked to those spiders?”
“That’s right. At that time, my dad went deep into the southern suburbs to investigate, and in the end he discovered a terrifyingly powerful rainbow spider hiding in a valley. It even injured my dad’s phoenix!” Huang Tielan said animatedly. Zhang Che finally learned the part of the accident that was unknown to him.
What happened afterwards, Zhang Che could guess even without Huang Tielan explaining. His future father-in-law called for back up to slay the spider boss and obtained its egg. In the end, Miss Tienan hatched that little spider and turned it into her pet.
Thinking of this, Zhang Che grew a little curious. He asked, “That spider boss only left one egg behind?”
Huang Tielan shook her head. “My dad said that there were originally quite a few of them, but he shattered most of them during their battle, leaving only two behind. The remaining one was given to Grandpa Fu’s grandson, but he failed to make it acknowledge him as its master in the end.
“Oh, right, Grandpa Fu is my grandfather’s comrade-in-arms. When my dad went to slay that spider, he asked Grandpa Fu’s son, Uncle Fu, to help him out.”
Zhang Che nodded. It seemed like getting a newborn exotic beast to acknowledge you as its master wasn’t something so easy to accomplish.
That was true, thinking about it. He had the rainbow crystal, and even he didn’t dare guarantee that he was able to tame all the exotic beasts. Naturally it would be even harder for ordinary beastmasters without any cheats to tame them.
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Time slowly pa.s.sed while the two conversed. It was already afternoon before the two of them noticed.
“Eh? Right, Zhang Xiaoche, are you hungry yet? Should I prepare some food for you?” Huang Tielan remembered that Zhang Che was now an appet.i.te king, and was afraid that he was starving after not eating anything for half a day.
Zhang Che chuckled, “I’m fine. I had a hearty meal in the morning. I’m not really hungry yet.”
Zhang Che realized that although he had become an appet.i.te king, he would go hungry faster if he ate normal food instead of exotic beast meat. As such, he went to have a big meal after settling down Chen Lishan, before he contacted Huang Tielan.
“Then let’s go buy groceries first. We’ll go to my place after dinner,” Huang Tielan suggested.
Sun Lan was still sleeping deeply. The two went to the courtyard and started the car, heading for the closest supermarket and buying a big pile of food.
During dinner, although both Sun Lan and Huang Tielan were already aware of Zhang Che’s shockingly huge appet.i.te, they were still surprised by the way he could eat.
The amount this guy ate for one meal could last others for at least ten days!
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After eating their fill, Zhang Che and Huang Tielan bade farewell to Sun Lan and drove straight to Huang Tielan’s residence.
It was only when they were in the car that Huang Tielan realized Zhang Che was actually carrying a bag. Curiosity got the better of her as she asked, “Eh? Zhang Xiaoche, you even brought presents? Can you tell me what that is?”
“I’m not telling you. You’ll find out later,” Zhang Che replied cheekily.
Huang Tielan pursed her lips, “Tch, who cares!”
The engine rumbled. The car accelerated very quickly!
Zhang Che: …
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When they arrived at the Huang family’s ancestry home, lights were starting to turn on everywhere.
The huge mansion before them had strict security, occupying a vast piece of land. Zhang Che couldn’t help but fantasize about the day when he too would attain such success. At that time, there shouldn’t be anything he was afraid of, right?
The Huang ancestry home was built in a cla.s.sic northern Chinese landscape garden architectural style. The two pa.s.sed through the front courtyard, walked through a hallway, crossed a crescent-shaped arched door and finally arrived at the main hall.
Before they walked into the main hall, Huang Tielan called out loudly, “Dad, I brought Zhang Xiaoche here!”
“You silly girl, always acting so casually. Hurry up and bring your little boyfriend in and let grandpa and grandma have a look at him,” an elder woman’s voice rang out from inside. It sounded like she was reprimanding her, but her voice was filled with love.
Zhang Che followed Huang Tielan walked into the hall and saw two elders sitting in there, looking at him with stern, yet curious gazes.
“Grandpa, grandma, this is Zhang Che. Zhang Xiaoche, they are my grandparents.”
Zhang Che hurriedly bowed and greeted them, “h.e.l.lo grandpa, h.e.l.lo grandma.”
Grandpa Huang waved his hand, “No need to be so formal, Xiaozhang. Take a seat first; your Uncle Huang will need a little bit more time to get here.”
“Thank you, grandpa,” Zhang Che bowed again. Afterwards, he placed the bag he was carrying onto the short table in the hall, saying, “This is a spiritual fruit I found by chance in the beast world. I’m not sure of its exact effects, but take it as a little token from me.”
The frisky monkey found a total of about a dozen of those red spiritual fruits. Zhang Che directly gave more than half of them away; one was a present for his first visit here, and second, he wanted to find out what effects these things had through the Huang family’s influence.
However, Zhang Che didn’t really care even if these fruits had whatever effects. Under the Unicorn’s treatment, his mother’s health had recovered to its peak.
Moreover, with the frisky monkey, Zhang Che really didn’t have to worry about his supply of spiritual herbs. Once that fellow advanced another tier, he could find spiritual herbs wherever he went.
The Huang elders didn’t act like ordinary people. Since it was a gift from a junior visiting them for the first time, they didn’t reject him out of courtesy, and instead took out the spiritual fruits from the bag with interest, looking at them carefully.
“It’s good stuff!” Grandpa Huang exclaimed in surprise. “Although I have no idea exactly what spiritual fruit this is, either, I can sense a faint spiritual fluctuation from it! Xiaoliu, immediately bring one of these to the military research inst.i.tute and get them to help with some lab tests, see exactly what the effect of this treasure is.”
“Yes, Chief!” the attendant called Xiaoliu replied respectfully, finding a gla.s.s box. He packed one of the red spiritual fruits into it and headed off.
Zhang Che was speechless watching this. -This Grandpa Huang is no simple man! Even I can’t sense any spiritual fluctuation from the fruit, and yet he felt it with just a look. He must be a high-tier beastmaster!-
Since Huang Juyun wasn’t here yet, Zhang Che accompanied the two elders and chatted with them.
Of course, the conversation was mainly Grandpa Huang asking him questions unrelated to his secrets, while Grandma Huang only looked at him from the side, all the while wearing a smile on her face.
If Huang Tielan hadn’t been interjecting some of her own comical comments, Zhang Che really would have wanted to run away. This situation simply gave off the feeling of a joint hearing from three officials…