"Which kind do you like?"
Qi Shan tilted his head slightly and looked at Su Shang.
"Meow~~~"
Su Shang obediently crouched on his shoulder.
Once the feline overlord of Fugu City and now the feline overlord of Ruyao, she was exceptionally docile with the one who fed her. Even her meows came out soft and sweet.
Her long, thick, soft tail drooped against her servant's back, swishing lazily from side to side now and then. Cats didn't shed much this time of year, and Qi Shan had deliberately worn clothes close to Su Shang's fur color today, so the loose hairs didn't show.
Qi Shan said, "Shopkeeper, eight taels of each, please."
This shop's dried fish was pretty good.
After looking around this shop, they planned to head to another.
To buy a live chicken or rabbit.
The weather hadn't warmed up yet, and mice were harder to catch than usual. As Su Shang's servant, he naturally had to keep her pantry well stocked and occasionally give her a change of taste. Su Shang loved the organs of all kinds of animals—chicken, duck, cattle, sheep, and rabbit—and sometimes she wanted an egg, too.
Her fur was the smoothest and thickest in the entire Ruyao cat crowd: sleek and glossy, the sort that made you want to reach out and feel it.
Su Shang lifted a paw and patted her servant's shoulder.
Qi Shan deftly pulled out a strip of dried fish.
"Don't eat too much. There's more at home. If you eat too much now, you'll have to watch your daughter eat when we get back." When he'd moved away from Fugu City, Qi Shan had taken Su Shang and the two youngest of her kittens with him. He'd left the others at the Fugu administrative office, figuring the officials