Chapter 828 A drunken promise ——2
Chapter 828: A drunken promise ——2
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Ning Yu sighed, he was honestly happy that his sons were living a better life without them but at the same time, he was upset when he thought about how they will never be able to get rid of their mother who was like a clingy ghost who would latch onto anyone as long as they had money because he was worried he could not even eat properly and continued to get anxious about what was going to happen the next morning.
Yu Dong had no such worries as Ning Yu but she still had a dark cloud looming over her head as soon as she stepped inside the house every one sensed that something was wrong given how often Yu Dong was sighing, Chen Mi who had placed the bamboo shoots rice on the table could not help but ask, ” Is everything all right?”
” That…” Yu Dong shook her head as she took the water vat from Ye Liu and then washed her hands and face before wiping them with a clean piece of cloth only then did she open her mouth and started telling about the locust plague. She was a bit confused when she thought about how their village and the town where so many officials lived were not receiving any help from the imperial family, it was only now was she realised what was going on.
With a sigh, she opened her mouth and said, “It’s going to be a bad year, at first I thought that the imperial family was ignoring us commoners but now I know that they simply have too much happening in their hands.” As she spoke she took out the dead locust which she was carrying with her and placed it on the table. ” I found this flying outside my window when I was working.”
Shen Li and Ye Liu had never seen a locust before but Chen Mi had seen them before and what more he was more than aware of what they can do when they appear in large numbers immediately his complexion went pale as he looked at Yu Dong and then at the locust which was on the table before raising his head and asked, ” Thi…This is a locust, right? I have seen them when I was five.”
Chen Mi’s village was far from Big River Village and thus, he had seen locust swarming over his village which was close to the forest many times. Every summer they would start attacking their village and by the time they left the lands will be barren and many people would be left to cry behind in their houses.
Even though they were small in size when they came in a huge number it was simply impossible for them to not cause any disaster.
“That’s right, this is a locust,” Yu Dong answered Chen Mi as she stood up from the couch and then went to the kitchen where she took out the wine which she got from the market and then poured a generous amount into her up. Though she was not a heavy drinker at this moment she wished to drink her worries away!
Just how unlucky can one get? She escaped zombies but now she had to face these natural disasters one after another! It was terrible!
Yu Dong took a sip of her wine and then walked over to Fang Chi where she tilted her head and looked at her son who was now looking at her with those sharp eyes of his, he did not make a noise nor did he do anything else but he did move his eyes and looked at Yu Dong while sucking on his finger. Seeing this she could not help but be amused, ” I thought that young kids do not start sucking their fingers unless they start teething, looks like he is growing even faster than the little bun.”
When Little Bun heard his name he looked up from the blocks which Yu Dong made for him and turned his head to look at his mother as if to ask what was the matter with her.
Fang Chi was helpless when he heard Yu Dong’s words, he rolled his eyes and then said, ” He is not sucking his finger because he is teething, Brother Mi made some strawberry jelly according to your recipe after successfully creating gelatine, he offered some to everyone and this hungry ghost—-” he poked his son’s nose with his finger before he said, ” He snatched a taste for himself when I was eating, he liked it so much that he is still sucking it.”
” He ate jelly? Is he fine?” Though her kids were nourished by the spiritual water, Yu Dong was still worried that they will end up getting a stomach ache if they were to eat something they were not supposed to eat.
” He is fine,” Shen Li replied while setting down the baked carp on the table along with some milky white fish soup and some shrimp which were roasted to perfection with garlic and butter. ” We called Doctor Gu earlier and she told us that he is fine since it was only a small bite, she just asked us to make sure to not let it happen again.”
Yu Dong nodded as she lightly poked the cheek of her son and spoke in a babyish voice, ” You little glutton, you are already sneaking food?”
Little Bo Bo did not have any idea what his mother was speaking, he looked at her with his sharp eyes before turning to look away as he raised his eyes and blinked at his father as if complaining.
” You are really amusing,” Fang Chi could not help but chuckle when he saw that his son was looking at him after being scolded lightly by his mother. Just wait for him to grow up, he will definitely throw a tantrum which will make their house shake.
Yu Dong was also amused by his antics but she only chuckled as she walked back to the dinner table and poured herself another cup of wine as she sighed, ” Tomorrow, I will go and buy some more grains and maybe a cow and sheep as well… I am also thinking of buying some piglets and building a shed for them. It’s fine to grow them as long as they can be used later on.”
When Shen Li and the rest heard that Yu Dong was going to town tomorrow they were immediately alarmed. If she was to go to the town and Madam Shen was to run into her…what will they do?
Shen Li exchanged a look with his brothers who looked back at him with worry before zeroing their gazes on the wine jar….maybe …this was better. A drunken promise was still a promise!