A soft whisper reached his ears.
Chen Yu turned his head to the side.
Standing beside him was the Bee Woman he had met in the flower garden. She was pushing a small cart, a few drops of shimmering sweat on her forehead. She gently wiped it away, her large eyes looking at Chen Yu with anticipation.
This Bee Woman was truly persistent. She had actually followed him.
“Is it okay?”
The Bee Woman blinked, a smile gracing her face.
“I am very smart and know many things.”
“Sis!” Hei Dou’s eyes widened with excitement, his small claws incessantly tapping Chen Yu’s leg, making faces at him.
Chen Yu also looked at the Bee Woman beside him for a good half minute.
“Why are you insisting on following me?”
“I want to follow you, can’t I?” the Bee Woman blinked. “I heard you just now, you said you needed a training teacher. I’ve come to apply.”
“Aren’t you planting flowers?”
“If you need me to plant flowers, I will plant flowers. If you need me to be a training teacher, I can be a training teacher. I can do anything.”
“Interning with our enterprise doesn’t pay much.”
“I don’t want a salary,” the Bee Woman shook her head. “I can be self-sufficient in everything and won’t burden your enterprise. Even if there’s no place to live, I can build a small tent for myself.”
“Living here, that’s fine.”
Chen Yu glanced at his camp.
There were plenty of rooms.
“Alright, given your admiration for our enterprise, I’ll let you join our benevolent enterprise,” Chen Yu whispered, sitting on a stone. “I have to be upfront, our enterprise doesn’t support idlers.”
“I am not an idler!”
The Bee Woman rummaged through her small cart and took out several packets of seeds.
“Look, I brought flower seeds. I can plant flowers for you. These flowers can be made into various dyes. I also know how to make beehives and can brew honey for you. Normally, I can also help with employee training. I am very capable.”
The Bee Woman, with her small head raised, was beaming with a bright smile.
Truly a diligent little bee.
Indeed capable!
“I can also take care of your daily life, like your face-washing water and foot-washing water. I can get them for you, and I can also serve you as you wash your feet,” the Bee Woman said.
“Uh…”
Chen Yu’s mouth twitched upon hearing this.
This…
This seemed a bit much.
“You don’t need to do these things. In our enterprise, you just need to do your job well,” Chen Yu said with a smile. “You’re not a servant; you don’t need to serve others by washing their faces or feet.”
“Oh!”
The Bee Woman nodded.
She was actually very eager to promote herself. Now, it seemed that the person in front of her was very different from the rich young masters in the city.
At least, he didn’t treat her as a servant or a slave.
Then why did he keep muttering about slaves?
The Knight’s heart.
The flower-planting girl was truly unfathomable.
“Sir, am I officially part of our group now?” the Bee Woman asked, puckering her lips and blinking, her face full of smiles.
“Consider… consider it so.”
Chen Yu, sitting on the stone, looked at her for a long time.
“What’s your name?”
“Noa.”
The Bee Woman tilted her head.
【Ding: Bee Woman Noa has voluntarily joined your survival camp】
A notification suddenly appeared on the personal page.
Chen Yu raised an eyebrow.
In the member options of the camp page, he saw Noa’s name.
Bee Woman Noa (Voluntary): Loyalty ∞
Above her name were the names of Hei Dou and Chen Yu.
Chen Yu (Owner)
Hei Dou (Spirit Contract): Loyalty ∞
Their loyalty was actually infinite?
Hei Dou was understandable.
He and Chen Yu had a spirit contract relationship, sharing honor and disgrace. The newly joined Bee Woman also had infinite loyalty, which saved him the trouble of enslaving her.
It seemed that not everyone would need to be enslaved in the future.
If they joined voluntarily and had high enough loyalty, there would be no need for such troublesome methods of winning people over with virtue.
“You can go and get busy,” Chen Yu stood up and extended his hand to the Bee Woman. “Welcome to our benevolent enterprise. I hope you can realize your dreams here in the future.”
“My… my dream is to grow the most beautiful flowers in the world,” the Bee Woman said with a sweet smile.
“You can do it.”
Chen Yu gently held her small hand and nodded with a smile.
“Our enterprise camp area isn’t very large right now, so I’ll entrust these two areas to you for management,” Chen Yu said, pointing to the protruding sub-camps on both sides.
At this moment, Chen Yu’s camp was like this—
Sub-camp, Sub-camp, Sub-camp
Sub-camp, Main Camp, Sub-camp
Sub-camp, Empty, Empty, Sub-camp
He handed over the areas on both sides to the Bee Woman to manage, plant flowers, and raise bees. Every time he left or returned to the camp, he could see vibrant flowerbeds, which would surely improve his mood.
“Really?”
The Bee Woman’s eyes were filled with excitement.
“You’re willing to give these two areas to me?”
“I hope you don’t feel wronged,” Chen Yu whispered. “These two areas are smaller than what you planted before. Believe me, they will grow larger in the future.”
“This is already enough.”
The Bee Woman’s face was filled with a bright smile.
When she came here, she was prepared for the possibility of not being able to plant flowers. Now, Chen Yu was willing to allocate two camp areas to her for planting flowers, which were actually not of great use in survival underground.
She was already very touched.
“This is a very gentle knight,” the Bee Woman whispered to herself, her smile growing even brighter, feeling that she had not followed the wrong person.
“You can make beehives and dyes, right?” Chen Yu whispered.
“Mhm, mhm, mhm!” the Bee Woman nodded vigorously. “Don’t worry, I will definitely make these two flower gardens valuable. I will absolutely not disappoint you.”
“Good, go and get busy.”
“Mhm, mhm!”
The Bee Woman ran to the small cart and pushed it into the courtyard. After a few steps, she stopped again and lifted a jar from the cart.
“Right, this is for you.”
Holding the jar, the Bee Woman put it down with a thud.
Her nose twitched slightly.
Chen Yu smelled the rich aroma of honey within.
“This is the honey I collected, for you,” the Bee Woman then pulled a cloth bag from the cart. “These are some things I received as gifts from the King of Sweet Country when I was there. I don’t use them, so I’ll give them all to you. Thank you for saving me back then.”
Chen Yu was somewhat surprised.
He truly hadn’t expected the Bee Woman to give him a thank-you gift.
He slowly opened the cloth bag.
The moment he opened it, Chen Yu was so stunned he couldn’t close his mouth. He pointed at the bag, swallowed, and exclaimed.
“All for me?”
“Yes, all for you,” the Bee Woman said with a pout. “These must be very important to adventurers like you. I’m just a flower-planting Bee Woman, so I don’t need them. You can use them. Actually, I have more, but with the dimensional shifts, many of my treasures…”
Before the Bee Woman could finish speaking, she felt herself being embraced tightly.
He heard an excited, trembling shout in his ear.
“Noa, you are my angel!”
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Quite capable. If you can see this, and truly make it to chapter 150, I guarantee your satisfaction. If not, feel free to blast me with rockets and votes!
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Author's Notes:
Good afternoon. Have you eaten?