Chapter 69 [VIP]
"I want to eat braised pork knuckle, and I'll eat whatever dish is best. I want to celebrate. If you can get me a whole roasted lamb and a roasted suckling pig, prepare them all for me."
Mi Yao was constantly pestered by Xiao Chuan with the excuse that he was about to get busy and that the contraceptive medicine couldn't be taken for nothing. When she mentioned the first and fifteenth of the month that he had set for her, he pretended to be stupid.
Before dawn, by the dim light from outside the window, he stared at her for a long time. Seeing that she did not wake up, he kissed her awake before finally leaving, satisfied.
She felt no reluctance when the person left, only a sense of liberation. She had Shiya change the bedding, which was filled with the scent of Xiaoxu, and rolled around on the big bed a few times. Even though she wasn't sleepy, she closed her eyes and forced herself to fall asleep again in order to enjoy the feeling of sleeping alone.
After waking up, she stretched and started ordering food, but after she finished, she called out to Shiya, "Never mind, I can't eat this in the middle of summer."
In the past, if she couldn't finish the food, she could just order some and leave it on the table; the servants would take care of it in the end anyway.
But now there are disaster victims everywhere.
Besides the floods, there were also people forced to flee their homes by war and exorbitant taxes.
Having given up on the idea of celebrating, Mi Yao couldn't think of any way to vent her emotions, so she just lazily propped her face up on the table and stared blankly.
"well."
Mi Yao thought she was the one who sighed, but when she looked to the side, she realized that she wasn't the only one who looked listless.
The three younger children lay listlessly on the table.
That sigh sounded like it was Xiao Liang's.
"What's going on? You've made so many friends here, and you're all having so much fun that you don't want to leave."
Speaking of this, she originally wanted to use this as an excuse to argue with Xiao Chua, but in the end, she didn't.
They were in a small border town of Jingzhou, and the family said they had been affected by a disaster and were seeking refuge with relatives.
The relatives arranged by Xiao Chuan were wealthy, so Mi Yao and her group didn't need to be too reserved. They couldn't wear fancy clothes, but they also didn't need to wear patched clothes to pretend to be poor.
Previously, seeing that Xiao Chuan did not restrict the three children from going out to play, she suspected that Xiao Chuan did not take them out of Yizhou to seek refuge, but was tired of sleeping in the bed in the Xiao Mansion and wanted to sleep in a different place.
Xiao Chuan calmly offered an explanation for her provocation.
“Unlike Yizhou, which can maintain a semblance of harmony, the largest power in Jingzhou is the Ji family. Other places are fragmented and occupied by various local forces. The person in charge of Fencheng is Hong Feng, and he has long since secretly defected to me.”
“These streets are all under my control. If any outsiders appear, I will know immediately.”
His tone was calm and casual, but Mi Yao could hear the peacock spreading its tail feathers in his voice.
He adopted a posture of deep conversation, but she pretended not to see it and did not ask him what charm he had that made the Hong clan submit. She only took the time to advise Zhen Jing to go out more with Xiao Shan and the others, take more walks, and maintain her exercise level to facilitate childbirth.
Thinking about it, she glanced around and saw that Zhen Jing wasn't in the courtyard; she probably went to take a nap.
"Mother."
Xiao Liang called out to Mi Yao, then sighed.
"What's wrong? Are you reluctant to leave your father?"
Thinking of this possibility, Mi Yao frowned. If they were troubled by other things, she could help them solve them. But if they couldn't bear to part with Xiao Chuan, then their mother-son relationship would be severely damaged.
After she finished speaking, Xiao Liang quickly waved his hand, afraid that if he hesitated even for a moment, Mi Yao would misunderstand him and bring Xiao Chuan back.
“Father finally has something important to do, I don’t miss him at all.”
Xiao Shan quickly followed, saying firmly, "I don't want to either!"
Seeing this, Xiao Yi wanted to scold his younger siblings, but seeing Mi Yao smiling because of their words, he silently swallowed his words.
Although he wasn't used to seeing his father several times a day, and even every single day, he still preferred his father to be home. His younger siblings might not understand how chaotic things were outside, but he did. His father's absence meant danger.
However, a true man should stand tall and protect the people and his family, especially in times of danger.
Mother must have been willing to let Father go out because of this. Mother is a woman of great vision and extraordinary character. Just as the Master said, he will surely benefit a lot from growing up by her side.
“My father monopolizes my mother every day, and I haven’t even seen her face for a day. My father’s zodiac sign isn’t pig, so how come he loves to sleep more than me, this little pig?”
Xiao Liang pouted, realizing he had gotten himself involved in the whole process of scolding Xiao Chuan.
"Two days!"
Xiao Shan made two "two" gestures with both hands, her face full of anger. One day she went to bed early, so she saw Mi Yao one day less than Xiao Liang.
Speaking of this, Mi Yao was speechless.
Before, in the Xiao family mansion, the place was large and everyone could see each other every day. But now that they live in this place, they live in two courtyards, and what she sees most often are Xiao Xu and the bed curtains.
Once, when Zhen Jing saw her, she gave her a strange look and said, "I was a little envious of Commander Xiao's good health, thinking that your brother was a civil official, which was inferior to a military official. But now I'm not envious at all. Only with good health can one withstand Commander Xiao's insatiable demands."
Back when they lived in the Xiao residence, I only thought Mi Yao slept soundly at night. Now that we live in a cramped place, even if I can't hear any noise, I can guess what the couple is doing, since they're locked in the room every day.
Mi Yao blushed after Zhen Jing's words, but she felt that she had done a good thing, at least so that her brother would suffer less of Zhen Jing's disdain and maintain harmony in her brother and sister-in-law's nightlife.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the past two weeks have been particularly difficult for her.
Xiao Chuan was filled with excitement at the imminent outbreak of a major battle, and he had nowhere to vent his emotions. In addition, he felt that he and she were on the same wavelength, so he kept pestering her to have in-depth conversations.
However, as time went by, knowing that the situation would not improve but only get worse, they needed an excuse to vent.
So she often found Xiao Chuan annoying during this period, but she still found a lot of relaxation in the couples' activities.
They experience anxiety and insomnia.
"I miss my mother."
Xiao Shan and Xiao Liang snuggled against Mi Yao's chest. Because Mi Yao's embrace was warm and fragrant, their bitter faces turned into soft, fluffy white buns, easy to squeeze.
Mi Yao used both hands, "Your father, but what was that sigh about? Could it be that you wanted to eat roast suckling pig? Listen?"
"Shan'er, elder brother, is this how you are?"
Xiao Liang frowned, looking at his brother and sister with a grimaced expression. He then brought up the topic of gluttony with the two of them before sighing, indicating that he was different from them and that he was frowning because of something important.
"It's because of that dirty girl, Mother. That dirty girl is so pitiful. Her stepbrother wants to sell her to a cannibal. Let's help her, okay..."
Xiao Shan originally wanted to argue that he didn't like the food, but when he heard his second brother talking about serious matters, he forgot for a moment and grabbed Mi Yao's arm: "Mother, save me!"
With Xiao Liang's explanation and the additions from Xiao Yi and Xiao Shan, Mi Yao understood what had happened.
Previously, when they lived in the Xiao residence, Mi Yao didn't like to go out, while Xiao Liang and Xiao Shan would play inside the residence.
After arriving at this place, Xiao Chuan complained that they were looking for Mi Yao every day, especially Xiao Shan who would bang on the door if he couldn't find her, so he kicked them out of the house to go out and play.
At first, Xiao Shan and the others felt a little uncomfortable, but later they met other children their age and found something to have fun with. They were never home without Xiao Chuan chasing them away.
They met the dirty girl while they were out having fun.
They didn't know what the dirty girl's name was, and seeing that she was very dirty and smelled bad, they kept their distance from her, just like everyone else.
Later, Xiao Shan saw that the dirty girl had injuries on her face, so he ran over to ask her what happened. Xiao Liang asked the servants for medicine, applied it to her face, and then advised her to take a bath.
"At first, the dirty girl was afraid of us and didn't dare to talk to us. Later, Shan'er and I kept talking to her, and she told us that she deliberately didn't take a bath and got dirty, otherwise her stepmother and her father would sell her to cannibals for money."
"Dirty Girl originally had an older brother, but her stepmother sold him. However, her brother was too old and was a boy, so the cannibals didn't want him and sold him to work as a laborer. Dirty Girl doesn't know where her brother went."
As they spoke, the three children began to frown again.
They never imagined that anyone would eat human flesh, especially young, fair-skinned children; it sounded terrifying.
When the dirty girl said that their stepmother was bad, Xiao Liang and Xiao Shan tried to argue that their mother was very good. Then the dirty girl showed him the scars on her body, saying that they were all caused by her stepmother and stepbrother.
"The dirty girl isn't applying ointment to her wounds. She says her stepmother hasn't been hitting her lately, probably to let her skin heal so she can sell it for more money. So she's trying to injure herself."
Xiao Liang felt more and more sorry for his new friend as he talked, and hugged Mi Yao and said, "Mother, let's help her. Shan'er and I talked to our older brother, and he said we can buy her, but we need an adult to find the dirty girl's biological father and stepmother."
"So you were deliberately making that sigh for me to hear?"
Hearing that the three of them had made plans, Mi Yao raised an eyebrow and smiled.
Xiao Liang scratched his head; he really was doing it on purpose.
However, he had no choice. His father found them annoying, his aunt was pregnant and couldn't do strenuous work, and his aunt Yu Xiu didn't like the poor child.
They could only make sure their mother knew about it when she woke up.
"If buying can solve the problem, I will take care of it for you."
Xiao Liang spoke of cannibalism with a look of horror, and Mi Yao wasn't much better off listening to him.
In chaotic times, anything can become food, including human flesh. But some people are born perverted, and even if there is something to eat, they still consider human flesh a delicacy. There is a supporting character in the book who enjoys eating human flesh.
That person appeared at the end of the Daxing period, when various regions were divided and the people were suffering. That minor character occupied a place and proclaimed himself king.
Many officials, in order to please the man, did not stop his hobby. In order to protect their own positions, they kept offering him beautiful women and young children, saying that these two kinds of meat were the most delicious.
If the ruler does this, then the officials who want to curry favor with him will naturally eat meat together at the same table, and some will even cut off pieces of their own flesh to offer to the ruler as a sign of loyalty.
Thinking about all this made Mi Yao feel nauseous, and she didn't drink a single drop of the minced meat porridge that Shi Ya had prepared for her.
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