Chapter 121 Raising a Canine Demon Beast as a Guard

Chapter 121: Raising a Canine Demon Beast to Guard the Home

Jiang Yingxue's voice was icy. "Where I move my stall to is any of your business? We've cut ties. Get lost. You're not welcome here."

Wang Ailian was furious and raised her hand to strike. "You wretched girl, you're looking to die!" This girl cost her son his money! If not for her, they could've gotten a share of her sister-in-law's things!

"My son's a Lu! He deserves a share!"

Jiang Yingxue grabbed the manure stick to block Wang Ailian's hand and shoved back, sending Wang Ailian sprawling.

Jiang Yingxue sneered, "You're the ones asking for it, you trash. Didn't I spell it out at Lu Taifeng's banquet that my stall isn't hiring? But your family's stone deaf, with foul mouths to match."

"If you can't understand polite words, then you don't need ears." With a wave of her hand, she silently cast a spell on one of Wang Ailian's ears that would take effect in two days.

"As for the mouth..." She looked down at the manure bucket, and a plan formed.

Jiang Yingxue pried Wang Ailian's mouth open with the stick and dumped the chicken and duck manure inside.

Liu Dani and Lu Guangzhong were stunned. When they snapped out of it, one rushed forward with incoherent cries, while the other hurled curses and tried to kick and punch, but neither touched Jiang Yingxue's hem.

Jiang Yingxue lightly tapped the manure stick twice, sending Liu Dani flying aside, and Lu Guangzhong landed beside his mother.

"This is fertilizer for the vegetables—consider yourselves lucky." Jiang Yingxue pried Lu Guangzhong's mouth open, ignoring his murderous glare, and poured in the manure.

Her lips curled into a cold smile as she cast a contemptuous glance at the dumbfounded Liu Dani. "It's a good thing you're mute and can't spew filth, or you'd be eating manure too."

Wang Ailian and her son vomited until their stomachs were empty. They were so disgusted they wanted to cut off their own mouths, their gazes filled with hatred and fear.

"You... you wretch! You'll pay for this!"

"Just you wait, I'll find someone to kill you!"

Jiang Yingxue said, her face blank, "It seems you still haven't learned your lesson."

With that, she gave them another dose of 'fertilizer' until they shut up.

Looking at the mother and son, finally too weak from vomiting, Jiang Yingxue said, "If you know what's good for you, act like you don't know our Jiang family. Otherwise, it won't be just fertilizer next time."

She turned to Liu Dani and smiled gently. "You understand this best, old woman."

To Liu Dani, that gentle smile seemed like a demon's—this seemingly delicate girl doing such unexpected things.

Suddenly, her heart trembled. She thought of something, widened her eyes, pointed at her own mouth, then at Jiang Yingxue's hand, her eyes blazing.

"Ah wu wu!" It was you! You little wretch, you harmed my tongue, didn't you!

Jiang Yingxue's face still wore a gentle smile. She did not answer.

Before leaving, Jiang Yingxue burned the manure stick. "It's touched two filthy mouths. Even a manure stick is too dirty now. Burn it."

After it turned to ash, she carried the empty bucket back.

Lu Caiyun glanced down. "You went to fertilize."

"Mm, I fertilized Wang Ailian and her son."

Lu Caiyun looked up, surprised. "Wang Ailian and her son?"

Jiang Yingxue set the bucket aside lazily. "Yeah, Grandma, you have no idea how outrageous they were. Trying to snatch my stall and money is one thing, but they cursed me with words filthier than this manure."

"I got angry, so I used manure to wash their mouths."

Lu Caiyun worried, "They didn't hurt you? Did anyone see? Manure is so dirty—don't get yourself dirty too."

Jiang Yingxue smiled. "Grandma, trust my abilities. They couldn't hurt me. I took them to the woods—no one saw. Just wasted my chicken and duck manure."

Lu Caiyun also laughed. "As long as you're not hurt, I'm relieved. But you're sorry over a bucket of manure?"

"Yeah, that's our farm fertilizer. The vegetables love it."

Jiang Yingxue felt a warm glow at her family's protectiveness.

She was often away at noon. With Xiao Yang and Xiao Feng cooking at the site, that left only her grandparents home for long stretches. It didn't feel safe.

What if some clueless people came, like today?

"Grandma, I want to raise a dog."

"Alright."

"Not an ordinary dog."

"What kind?"

Jiang Yingxue opened the *Basic Demon Beast Atlas* to the Ferocious Black Demon Hound page. "This kind."

Lu Caiyun took the atlas. "That kind feeds on anger and resentment. Can we raise it?"

"We can. Besides that, it eats other things, like Sorrow Pills."

"You have them?"

Jiang Yingxue nodded. In the cultivation world, she'd once obtained a banner of sorrow, resentment, anger, and hatred. She'd refined the dark auras into pills for her treasury.

These Sorrow Pills would be perfect for the hound.

"Alright, raise it then."

"Great, thanks Grandma."

With approval, Jiang Yingxue went to the Demon Beast Forest and picked the gentlest Ferocious Black Demon Hound.

For her family's safety and its absolute loyalty, she contracted it first, naming it Jiang Kui, nickname Xiao Kui.

It was a third-tier beast. Most forest demons gained intelligence at the seventh tier.

When contracting Xiao Kui, Jiang Yingxue awakened its intelligence and gave it a Speech Pill. She withheld a Transformation Pill.

Its cultivation was too weak for that now. She could give one later.

"Xiao Kui, your duty is to protect the family, guard the home, and keep strangers out. Understand?"

"Sister, I understand. I'll protect the family and guard the home well!"

"Mm." Jiang Yingxue patted Xiao Zhao's head. "Xiao Zhao, take Xiao Kui to play."

"Okay, Sister."

Xiao Zhao and Xiao Kui chased each other in the garden, careful not to damage the plants.

Perhaps because Xiao Kui was the only one of Jiang Yingxue's beasts that couldn't transform, Xiao Zhao felt a kinship. The dog and the bird became inseparable friends.