Title: A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse
Translator: Little Bamboo Spirit
Chapter 236 - That's very likely. Try your best to stay away from him. (2)
Dansui finally came back from her date at lunchtime. When she brought up the dishes, her gaze would flicker to Bei Nuan's face. She seemed like she wanted to say something, but didn't dare to.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Bei Nuan exposed her thoughts.
Dansui looked embarrassed as she said, "Saint… I want to ask you… Is it possible… To assign Brother Wen Qin as one of your servants? He can just be an ordinary worker."
Ah, so that's what she wanted.
It wasn't a big deal. Bei Nuan easily agreed, "Sure, no problem."
Glowing with joy, Dansui left. Shortly after, she came back with a young man.
Wen Qin looked to be around the same age as Dansui. He was tall and slender, had fair skin, and a delicate and attractive appearance. When Dansui led him to Bei Nuan, he kept his head lowered, probably out of shyness.
Dansui nudged him and quietly told him to salute.
Wen Qin bashfully bowed deeply and said, "Thank you, Saint."
Great Sage was holding a dragon fruit and eating it. Before Wen Qin could get up from his bow, Great Sage suddenly screeched and leapt onto Wen Qin's neck.
Great Sage quickly hopped back and forth between Wen Qin's head and shoulders. It used his body like a jungle gym and was going crazy with joy at seeing him.
Wen Qin lost his shyness and hugged Great Sage.
"A'Mang, why are you here? I looked everywhere for you!"
It was a pity that the young money couldn't speak and could only wildly hoot. Finally, it had enough scuttling around. It plunged into Wen Qin's arms and rubbed itself against his chest while whimpering.
They were like a father and son that had been reunited after a long separation. They hugged each other and refused to let go.
Dansui was still stunned. She blankly looked at Wen Qin and shouted, "Why are you holding onto the holy monkey? Put it down!"
Busy with his reunion, Wen Qin shyly smiled and replied, "This is the monkey that I told you about, the one I lost, it's called A'Mang."
Dumbstruck, Bei Nuan looked at them. So this Wen Qin not only abducted Dansui's affections, he was stealing her monkey too?
Lu Xingchi walked over, put his arm around Bei Nuan's shoulder, and said, "Your monkey found its owner."
While Bei Nuan was happy for Great Sage, she felt indescribably sad. She wanted to lean against Lu Xingchi's chest and cry.
"Let's sit down and talk." Lu Xingchi pointed at a chair.
As it turned out, Wen Qin was Great Sage's owner. Wen Qin had found Great Sage in the woods near his home before the zombie outbreak.
There were plenty of monkeys in the wild as well as poachers. People had been secretly hunting monkeys and selling their bones as medicinal materials.
When Wen Qin met Great Sage, its leg had been shot by a gun. He guessed that the poachers had killed its mother, and the injured Great Sage had been able to escape. He brought Great Sage home, carefully took care of it, and raised it to its current size.
Not long ago, when the zombie virus had spread to here, he and Great Sage had accidentally separated when they were fleeing from a group of zombies. They had gotten separated near the house where Bei Nuan and the others had stayed.
It seemed that Great Sage was quite smart. When it lost its owner, it had snuck into the nearby house where he could be protected from the weather and could rummage for food in the kitchen.
Dansui stuttered, "B-but, it's clearly the saint's holy monkey…"
Bei Nuan shook her head. "It's not a holy monkey. It's A'Mang. We picked it up during our travels."
Bei Nuan shared how they had found Great Sage and quietly asked Wen Qin, "Is it okay if I keep calling it Great Sage?"
Wen Qin quickly replied, "Of course. You're the Saint. You can call it whatever you want."
Since Wen Qin had been transferred over to work for Bei Nuan, she simply assigned him to take care of Great Sage full-time. Dansui led the happy pair out.
Bei Nuan watched them leave. Great Sage was tightly hugging Wen Qin's neck. Just as she was in low spirits, she suddenly felt Lu Xingchi hugging her from the back and softly kissing the top of her head.
"Great Sage found its owner. It's a good thing," Lu Xingchi comforted her.
Bei Nuan sniffled.
Lu Xingchi thought it over. He sounded as if he was making up his mind while speaking, "How about we raise a little monkey once we find a stable palace?"
"Can we raise little monkeys in our country?"
For a moment, Bei Nuan freely pictured them living in a place free of zombies, living a normal life, and raising a small monkey. But then, she suddenly realized that was impossible.
By then, wouldn't she have completed the Holy Mother tasks and left this world?
Bei Nuan turned around, pitifully raised her head, and looked at Lu Xingchi. "No matter what the future holds, I really want to be comforted now."
Lu Xingchi's heart stopped for half a beat.
"How do you want me to comfort you?" He asked.
Bei Nuan thought it over and seriously said, "I especially want someone to crouch on my shoulder and let me feed it cassava chips."
Lu Xingchi: "..."