Chapter 22 - Quilts For Everyone !
After purchasing the three goats Yu dong left with Yu Mai.
The three goats were very sick the one who has given them something unhealthy to eat really wanted them to die . Yu Dong couldn’t help but sigh , people can be really greedy and selfish not only didn’t the person who did this to these goats wanted the mer ‘s wife to die they even wanted to kill off the three goat’s so that there will be no option left for the mer to save her wife .
And from what the mer just told her it was clear that the person who fed these goats poison was actually his brother in law ! .
Yu Dong couldn’t help but ponder what grievances could possible be there between the brother in law and the wife of the mer but then Yu Dong thought about the original owner .
Even though the original owner was a good for nothing her mother still acted as the back bone of the Yu household but instead of raising the original owner after her parents died! The Yu family actually kicked the original owner out of the family with her husbands and an unborn child without even a care of the world .The original owner ‘s family members were so cruel to the original owner despite snatching the house that belonged to her that they didn’t even care how the original owner and her husbands might survive alone in this world with nothing but a measly sum of twenty taels .
They didn’t even remember that if not for original owner’s mother they wouldn’t have even have a roof over their heads! however Yu Dong couldn’t possible do anything to provide justice to the original owner . She could only pray that those evil Yu family members get their retribution
Yu Dong then stopped thinking about such depressing thoughts and then started taking care of her brother Yu mai who was excitedly waving his hands at the stand that was selling candied hawthorns !
Yu Dong who had hundreds of taels in her pocket did not act thrifty at all , she took out 20 cents out of her pouch and went to the stand and brought four candied hawthorns for her husbands and Yu mai ! Then she handed one hawthorn to Yu MI and kept her other three candid hawthorn in her baskets.
After purchasing the candied hawthorns she walked around for a while before she took a sharp left – according to the original owner’s memory this street was the one where the poor people generally brought their clothes .
She had seen that except the original owner no one owned quilt in the house, even though Chen Mi was pregnant he only had a thin sheet of patchwork of old clothes , there wasn’t even a mattress on his bad except a thin bedding made from the old clothes , mattresses might really be pricy because the original owner didn’t have one either ! However , This couldn’t go any longer , even though the original owner treated the three mers like slaves , Yu Dong couldn’t bring herself to ignore their sufferings , so she had decided to buy some quilts , mattresses and clothes for Yu Mai and her husbands .
She looked around for quite some time but neither of the shops sold the type of the quilt she wanted to buy .
Even though it was autumn now in just a few months winter will arrive and then with her house condition it would be really very difficult for her husbands to survive this year winter without a decent quilt over their bodies .
And there was also the matter of no mattresses at home even though Yu Dong was use to harsh conditions this body that her soul was occupying was raised in a rather pampered manner so without a mattress Yu Dong would wake up with a backache ache every morning .
And She couldn’t help but pity the three mers who were living like this for months even with her spiritual energy she still felt her back aching every morning .She didn’t even want to imagine how difficult it would have been for three mers who were weaker in comparison to her .
After walking for quite some time Yu Dong finally arrived at a run down shop , it was quite ordinary looking in comparison to the shop that were aligned next to it .
However Yu Dong could see that the quilt and mattress in the shop were much more fluffy and thick in comparison to the other shops .
Yu Dong at once knew that this shop was much better to the other shops that she has seen !
She entered the shop and just as she entered , immediately a girl came running in her direction .
The girl beamed at Yu Dong smiling so brightly that Yu Dong felt her heart go mushy .
” are you here a to buy quilt older sister ” asked the young girl.
Yu Dong put the goat that she was carrying in her arms inside the basket that had another goat inside it already , she wanted to take the goat that was in Yu Mai ‘s arm and keep it inside the basket as well but Yu Mai refused hugging the small goat in his arms , Yu Dong didn’t stop him instead she let him do what he wanted and placed the basket that she was carrying on her back on to the shop ‘s floor , the goats have been treated with her spiritual energy for quite sometime and now all of the were breathing with ease , their abdomens rise and fell together in sync without any difficulties .
Yu Dong looked at the little girl and smiled ” that right I am here to buy some quilts and mattresses for my family can you help me to select five mattresses and three quilts for grown up and one for this ” pointing at Yu Mai, Yu Dong added ” for my little brother ”
The girl looked at Yu Mai who was caressing the goat in his arms and smiling foolishly , she pondered for a bit then looked at the red lotus glimmering at the centre of his forehead , surprised she couldn’t help but gasp thinking how good this young mer ‘s life was , his sister was actually buying him a quilt ! Ah , what a great luck !
However , this boy wasn’t her family’s mer and she couldn’t say anything regarding this in the end , she returned to look at Yu Dong with a smile and said ” sister , young mers goes through a growth spurt when they are ten , why don’t you buy an adult size quilt instead of a smaller one ? With younger brother ‘s built , its clear he will get his growth spurt in one or two years why waste a good quilt by buying a smaller one ?”
I have a wrist injury so I’m taking time off