Becoming the Villainess: I Dominate the Cultivation Realm with My Wok!-Chapter 491

"What are you doing?" A hunchbacked, skinny middle-aged man pushed the door open, and Chen Muxue instinctively kicked her legs and crawled under the bed; blood began to seep again from the cloth strip on her hind leg.

Xiao An was straightforward, she stared directly at the man: "I’m feeding the cat, he’s injured."

"Where did you get the fish? Hmm? How long has it been since we’ve had such food in the house, yet you secretly cooked for yourself? I knew it, you collect quite a few herbs every day, did you stash away the money after selling them?"

The middle-aged man looked shady, presumably Xiao An’s father; luckily Xiao An didn’t inherit his looks, or Chen Muxue might not have trusted Xiao An from the beginning.

Xiao An frowned slightly: "The weather’s turning cold lately, the season for Gold and Silver Flowers is over. I haven’t gathered anything, can’t sell for money; last time the old street vendor sold an old book full of herbs, you didn’t pay for it, I don’t know other medicinal herbs, how can I earn money?"

"You’re the talkative one! Alright, you’ve learned to earn money; gotten bold, dare to talk back to your father?!" Xiao An’s father stepped forward and aggressively grabbed Xiao An’s ear, as if he wanted to tear it off. Watching from under the bed, Chen Muxue felt a pang in her ear.

"Let go!" Xiao An was no longer at an age to endure meekly; given her precocious nature and understanding, how could she tolerate such an "educational method"?

Xiao An’s father, as skinny as a bag of bones, couldn’t stand it when Xiao An kicked him; he clutched his thigh, undisguised hatred in his eyes unbecoming of a father, muttering "Good, good, good!" as he backed out of the room.

Xiao An maintained her defensive stance like a hedgehog until her father left; only then did she hurriedly let Chen Muxue out, scooped up Chen Muxue, and ran outside.

"My dad will definitely go tattling to my mom now; tricked her before, but if she finds out this time, she definitely won’t let us off easily. I need to take you somewhere safe, you’re too injured to catch mice; you should go someplace where food and drink are no concern..."

Xiao An muttered to herself, expertly climbed out past the woodpile, over the fence with Chen Muxue in one arm, and Chen Muxue couldn’t help but worry about her knee during the jump.

Xiao An pondered where she could leave the cat so he could be well cared for, inadvertently ending up at Wang’s Cloth Shop.

Though called a cloth shop, it actually seemed more like a larger convenience store to Chen Muxue. This wasn’t a wealthy area.

"Wang Yiyi once said she wanted to keep a kitten..." Xiao An hesitated about leaving the cat at Wang’s Cloth Shop, doubting Wang Yiyi’s character, especially since this was a pure black cat.

The sky had darkened, with Chen Muxue in her arms like a ball of shadow, her green eyes open, somewhat eerie at first glance.

"Little girl, what are you doing here?" A shop hand, closing up the store, couldn’t help but ask when he saw Xiao An standing alone at the cloth shop’s entrance; immediately meeting those green eyes startled him.

"Girl, why are you holding a black cat?! Move! Move! Don’t stand at our shop’s door, don’t ruin our business! Leave!" The shop clerk’s attitude changed rapidly, whether genuinely believing black cats were unlucky or just covering up his fright.

Xiao An instantly changed her mind; if even the staff behaved like this, the owner would surely be worse. It’s said merchants are quite superstitious...

"Meow!" Chen Muxue, who had remained quiet in Xiao An’s arms, suddenly meowed.