Walking through his residence, taking in the sights, Edrick quite liked what had been done to the place, it was significantly larger now, demonstrating just enough opulence whilst retaining a nice homey feeling, of course, the great size of the place now meant that the few people inhabiting it made the residence feel quite gloomy and unsettling, especially when there wasn't a single noise to be heard, at night, it could absolutely feel like unseen beings were lurking behind every corner, staring at your nape and always disappearing just before you could get a glimpse of them…
Such sensations did not really reach Edrick though, and as for his wives and maids, they were happy to get to live in the same place as him and experience nothing but cosiness in this residence, it was the guests that would have to endure this feeling, and even then, in the future, there would be a sizable increase in the number of people living here.
Soon, Edrick would have two additional maids, meaning four wives and four maids in total, overall, there were ten residents when counting the little sasquatch…
Anoteros reached the backyard, there was a small area that had been cleared, but for the most part, out of the bounds of the residence itself, the terrain had mostly been left to nature, with only the small gardens and the greenhouse being around, the one who tended to such places was sitting on a stool by some fragrant flowers, playing a small flute with a moderate amount of success.
Amongst his wives, Fanqia was definitely the most curious, always doing something or trying a new thing, whenever she wasn't practising something in her dedicated room, she would most likely either be tending to her plants and flowers, or sitting right here, testing something out.
She seemed to have taken a liking to the flute, it wasn't the first time Edrick had seen her with it, and she had gotten a bit better at it, the melody wasn't great, but she was just a rookie, so it was far from bad.
Seeing her husband, she stopped playing and smiled brightly.
"Lord Anoteros, have you come to watch the flowers?" she asked, Edrick walking up to his wife and pushing a strand of her hair behind an ear.
"I am here for something prettier than that… Let's go on a walk, shall we?" he replied, making Fanqia blush, still greatly enjoying his compliments.
"Of course" putting the flute away, she took the hand Edrick extended to her and stood up, the duo walking deeper into the wooded area behind the residence, being at the very end of the area granted to special disciples, they could not encounter anyone else by going deeper into here, in fact, they could even encounter some wild animals here, Anoteros was allowed to hunt there in a certain amount, but had never actually done so, much preferring to venture into the wilder forest.
Walking for a little while, Fanqia casually went from just holding his hand to hugging his arm, pressing her breasts against him.
"Lord Anoteros, is the training of the two new maids going well?"
"No worries on that front, they are well-behaved"
"They better be! Receiving your attention is a privilege, I couldn't imagine anyone who wouldn't submit after getting a taste!"
She laid her head against his arm as well.
"What about Yin? Are things going as you would like?"
"I am taking a different approach with her, so it will take a while longer… But let's not talk about other people too much, tell me about yourself- How are you doing lately? It's been a little while since we spent some time together, are you getting used to your role as the matriarch?" he redirected the conversation whilst also leading the way toward their destination.
"Ah, everything is great as usual! I must admit that I am not certain if I am doing very well as the matriarch, however, everything I read about my role tells me that I should be domineering and clearly establish my superiority in the household over the other wives… But that isn't appropriate, is it? We all get along, and in the examples I have seen, there is only one wife and concubines, but we are all your wives here…" Edrick put his hand over her head.
"Indeed, our situation is not quite the typical one, but do not fret, you have been doing well as is, my wives need to nurture good relationships, be they between themselves, or even with the maids, I would greatly disapprove of any sort of tension in my house…"
The two exchanged some more words before they arrived at a relatively small body of water, with crystal clear water and a bottom made up of sand.
"Remember when I taught you how to swim back at the mountain residence?"
"Of course, Lord Anoteros! You taught me even more than how to swim that day… It is a very memorable one" Fanqia felt all excited as she remembered what had happened, she had been so inexperienced back then, struggling to use her mouth and tongue to please her lord-husband, things had certainly changed a lot since then, she knew how to satisfy him much more thoroughly now.
Though, admittedly, when she didn't have the assistance of Linmin, Hui, and Luxuli to perform the marital duty with Edrick, it was more him satisfying her than the other way around, he was simply too strong, too vigorous, his libido and technique just too perfect for a single one of them to do the job thoroughly.
But Edrick still spent time with them one at a time, like now, and it truly made Fanqia feel loved.
Anoteros caressed her soft cheek with his thumb, whispering a few words to her :
"Let's take a dip, take off your clothes"
Fanqia nodded, not even questioning the somewhat public setting, even if inside the woods behind the residence, this was still the inside of the Myriad-Arm Sect after all, but Edrick's orders trumped over that, and frankly, she did not mind being nude in public as long as he was there with her…
The couple swiftly undressed themselves, Edrick stepped in first and helped her get in as well, the water was not exactly warm, but it had been decently heated by the sunlight nonetheless.
'Mmh… I wonder if they have swimsuits at all in this world?' Edrick questioned something as he looked at Fanqia's bare chest, the two great peaks were just as impressively round and voluminous as usual, he couldn't help but reach out and squeeze one of them lightly, his first wife smiling bashfully at him.
Although very tempting to move forward with some erotic actions from the get-go, Anoteros had brought her here to speak, and he knew that Fanqia wasn't exactly the most receptive to words after the act…