Tiger Tribe IIJiang Yu’s mind, which had been floating away, returned as the boy called him. When he looked at the boy"s flushed face, he couldn"t help smiling.
After absorbing the memory of original body, he now knows why the boy is so bashful.
The boy’s name is Ya Qi. He is a very loveable chimera, only sometimes he acts foolishly. Ya Qi secretly likes a very outstanding shapes.h.i.+fter in the tribe, Qi.
Qi is the leader of the tribe’s young shapes.h.i.+fters. Basically, the hunts and training taught by adult shapes.h.i.+fters are all organized by Qi.
Ya Qi frequently praised Qi in front of the person whose body Jiang Yu was now in. Basically, of every ten sentences out of his mouth, three would be about Qi.
Thinking of where they were, Jiang Yu looked around, curious about Qi, and saw an apparently only ten-year-old child with a poker face scolding an even younger child. Jiang Yu could not stifle his laughter.
Qi Ruo felt something and looked at them. With only a glance, the pressure around Qi instantly dropped greatly. Then he looked away with a cold expression.
It looks like he hates me very much.
Jiang Yu rubbed his nose somewhat embarra.s.sedly.
Given the original body past actions, it seems that causing people to like him will quite difficult.
"You like him, so why didn’t you greet him?" Jiang Yu, cross, looked at Ya Qi’s totally red face and started to ridicule him.
"What, not me!" Ya Qi was shocked. His eyes were huge and wide, his tail stiff and rigid.
Before Jiang Yu could continue to tease him, Ya Qi, who had been frightened a moment ago, immediately became very sad. His furry ears and tail drooped, his whole person enveloped in a shadow. "I am just a shapes.h.i.+fter, how can I possibly be suitable for him?"
Ya Qi’s eyes were red, and he looked like he was on the verge of tears.
Jiang Yu awkwardly patted his shoulder and hurridly comforted him. "What does that have to do with anything? Isn’t Qi’s father a shapes.h.i.+fter? And didn’t he marry the head of the clan and give birth to such an outstanding shapes.h.i.+fter as Qi?"
He only wanted to tease Ya Qi a little. Who would have thought that his friend would start crying?
At this time Jiang Yu is only five years old. His head barely reaches Ya Qi"s chest, so patting Ya Qi"s shoulder is a little difficult.
Jiang Yu had no idea whether his words comforted Ya Qi or not, but at any rate, Ya Qi didn’t cry. Instead, he rubbed his red eyes pitifully and said, "Ah Yu, you seem different than before."
"......How am I different?" Jiang Yu felt uneasy.
Obviously, he’s changed. He is not really a 4 or 5-year-old child, so how could he possibly pester others endlessly and be as arrogant and willful as the original body?
Ya Qi pondered for a long time. Then he shook his head, at a loss: "I do not know, but I like the present you very much!"
As he finished speaking, Ya Qi"s eyes started to s.h.i.+ne and he swung his tail.
Jiang Yu could not help laughing. "Then in the future, I’ll stay like this, okay?"
"Mmm!", Ya Qi nodded fiercely, eyes s.h.i.+ning.
Jiang Yu had no choice but to admit that he likes this child. He’s kind, lovable, mindful of others’ kindness, and always in a positive mood.
The primary reason Ya Qi is friends with the original body is that the original Ah Yu once unknowingly helped Ya Qi.
One year ago Ya Qi"s father has been injured while hunting and required the pulp of the Lili fruit to apply externally. By coincidence, a child in the forest, Ah Yu, had unexpectedly found that fruit. Relieved, Ya Qi rushed to Ah Yu and offered valuable treasures, but because the fruit smelled extremely bad, Ah Yu was disgusted by it and conveniently tossed the fruit to an extremely anxious Ya Qi.
Ah Yu’s inadvertent action earned him Ya Qi’s heartfelt grat.i.tude.
From then on, Ya Qi had followed the original body.
When the original body was with Ya Qi, he did nothing but order Ya Qi around. Besides ordering him to do menial labor, Ah Yu would mock and ridicule him. However, although Ya Qi was hurt by Ah Yu’s sharp language, he would always return to his foolish and happy att.i.tude in the blink of an eye.
Jiang Yu sighed, comprehending his influence over Ya Qi.
In the future, he must protect this child. He cannot let others bully such a slow-witted child.
Jiang Yu wants to touch Ya Qi"s head, then awkwardly realized their height disparity. He embarra.s.sedly patted Ya Qi"s hand instead.
At this time, Jiang Yu suddenly felt a stinging gaze on his hand.
He vigilantly looked around and only saw Qi’s cold countenance.
Jiang Yu looked at Qi, perplexed. Was that him a moment ago?
"h.e.l.lo, clan leader!", the young shapes.h.i.+fters present respectfully shouted to someone in unison.
That person was of a powerful build and extremely strong.
"Little Ah Yu, how are you feeling?" The head of the clan walked toward Jiang Yu, his expression gentle. With such an expression on his fierce appearance, he looked very strange.
"I’m doing well. I’ve already recovered", Jiang Yu replied respectfully.
"What do you mean you’re all right? Ah Yu, you’re too kind-hearted. If it wasn’t for that good-for-nothing Mu, yo
u wouldn’t have fallen so seriously," a young shapes.h.i.+fter spit out, blazing with anger.
With this outburst, the remaining young shapes.h.i.+fters were unable to remain silent.
"That good-for-nothing Mu should not exist in our tribe. Clan leader, he even pushed Ah Yu off of a tree. We must kick him out of the tribe!"
"He dares to do this kind of thing to our precious female! You certainly cannot forgive him this time, clan leader!"
"Be quiet!" Qi’s frigid voice suddenly interjected. "You guys know how to talk, but have you trained enough to back up your threats?”
The young shapes.h.i.+fters who had been previously swept up in the general excitement calmed down immediately. Although they felt vaguely slighted, n.o.body dared to open their mouth again.
In this world, fists stand in for words. Naturally whoever is stronger will be listened to, and none of the young shapes.h.i.+fters can win against Qi.
At this time, a person dragging a child with blood on its face walked over, his face full of anger.
"Clan leader, I never imagined that this useless little b.a.s.t.a.r.d would dare to be so ruthless to a precious female. I’m itching to beat him to death!"
It is clear that the person is not exaggerating; he is full of a murderous aura.
He really wants to murder the child he is dragging.
The child suddenly vomited blood, his eyes gla.s.sy and deathly still.
Jiang Yu unconsciously clenched his hands.
This child is Mu.
And the person grabbing onto him is none other than his father, Bo.
"Peng" Bo maliciously threw Mu down with a loud m.u.f.fled sound.
Mu, his face b.l.o.o.d.y, was directly pounded into the ground.
Because of the pain, his entire body curled up, and he panted weakly.
Jiang Yu saw red. He clenched his hands tightly, his entire body trembling.
"This good-for-nothing was embarra.s.sing me anyways. If he wasn’t Ah Qi’s kid, I would have killed him long ago."
"I thought I would raise him for a few years even though he shows no promise, but I had no idea he would turn out to be so vicious. He even dares to harm our own people and act cruelly to the precious female!"
"He is a worthless piece of tras.h.!.+ Being weak is not a big deal, but for him to harm a delicate female? You are no child of mine!" Bo became more and more indignant as he spoke. When he finished, he bent down and his hand flew and hit Mu.
Mu’s weak and trembling arm tried to support his body. Instead, he violently vomited a mouthful of blood.
A young shapes.h.i.+fter ran to him, rolled him over, and then kicked him several times maliciously.
"Stop!" Jiang Yu was so mad he was trembling, he couldn’t endure it anymore and shouted out.
Mu heard the sound and weakly looked at him. His gaze was flowing with poison as if he wished to tear his tendons and flay him, bite his bones and suck his blood!
Jiang Yu suddenly froze, his whole body ice cold. He couldn’t move even if he wanted to.
"What do you want with Ah Yu?! You b.a.s.t.a.r.d, how dare you look at Ah Yu like that!" The person who had just kicked and beat him a moment ago and had paused because of Jiang Yu"s voice now became full of anger and resumed kicking Mu, who was bloodied all over.
Jiang Yu whole body was stiff. He glanced around.
Besides Ya Qi, who could not endure looking, and Qi, who looked on coldly, everyone resented Mu extremely and only wished they could be the ones to kill him.
Jiang Yu suddenly felt cold.
"Stop" Jiang Yu’s voice was somewhat hoa.r.s.e and did not have as much strength as before.
"Ah Yu, do you want to beat him up as well?" The young shapes.h.i.+fter hesitated. "Although he is hateful, your body is weak. It’s not worth hitting him if you injure yourself. It’s better if I do it."
Then he increased the force of his foot.
By this time Mu had almost become a blood snowman.
(*The original wording is 血人, but because 血 (blood) and 雪 (snow) are both p.r.o.nounced "xue", the author is playing on words to allude to a snowman (雪人))
"I. Said. STOP!" Jiang Yu forced each word from between his teeth, his whole body trembling.
All the children gawked. They had never seen Ah Yu act this way before. Some were so shocked that they stopped kicking.
At this time, the clan leader opened his mouth.
"Ah Yu, this little animal pushed you down from a tree, so what do you want to do with him?" The clan leader made an effort to be gentle to Jiang Yu.
Jiang Yu shook his head. "It’s not his fault."
The clan leader was dumbfounded. "What?"
"I said it’s not his fault!", Jiang Yu shouted loudly, his eyes red. "It was me who wanted to go to the forest to play, and I dragged Mu along!"
"I came up with the idea to climb the tree! Mu did not want to go in the first place, it was only because I insisted that he carried me there!"
"It’s because I made him run so much that he became tired and fell from the tree, it’s definitely not because he wanted to hurt me. You are wrongly accusing him!"