Upon hearing that someone was going to die, Chen Xiang's baby face turned serious. He solemnly pried Mo Xuan's hand away and, not forgetting to forcefully pull him into the shop:
"A dead person? That won't do."
Mo Xuan's eyes widened, and he clung tightly to the door frame, refusing to go inside.
"You stubborn little brat, how can you be so disloyal? I've always treated you well, and I saw it clearly. That Madam Xu's expression was different from usual. If it were any other time, it wouldn't be a problem, but today she was slicing cucumbers with murderous intent! You're her junior brother, so you won't die, but I have no relation to her. If I were to die here, wouldn't that add another injustice to the world—oh dear, oh dear, oh dear???"
Chenxiang possessed superhuman strength, and despite his desperate resistance, he was easily pulled back like a cabbage.
"Glug glug..."
The sound of the boiling casserole woke Xu Milu. When she came to her senses, she found Chen Xiang looking at her with a worried expression, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated. Mo Xuan, on the other hand, looked like he was ready to die, as if he was afraid that she would be displeased and he would kill someone.
"Senior Sister? Has someone offended you? Just tell me. Lady Yin always says that if a person keeps things bottled up for too long, they will become ill. Master also said before that only by following one's heart in cultivation can one attain great freedom. If you keep holding back your anger, I'm afraid it will not be beneficial to your cultivation—"
Chenxiang glanced at the white porridge cooking in the clay pot and said cautiously:
"Senior sister, please don't stay silent, I'm a little... scared."
Xu Milu was somewhat dazed. In that instant, Chen Xiang's face and Xu Minian's face seemed to overlap somewhat, both showing the same cautiousness and the same clumsy concern.
"Yes, Madam Xu, at least say something. I've never seen you so...dejected before. If I've offended you in any way, just give the order. Who inside and outside Dongting doesn't know that I, the Black Dragon King Mo Xuan, am the most loyal and righteous person?"
Mo Xuan couldn't help but shout. The fire spirit in the stove shook the flames on its head, and the wisteria tree spirit in the backyard also came over when it heard the noise, stretching out a branch to poke Xu Milu's shoulder to comfort her.
She lowered her eyes and stirred the white rice porridge in the pot with a spoon:
"I just don't know where to begin."
...
...
Like all cliché stories, Xu Haifeng and Liu Hongmei were once an enviable couple. Xu Haifeng was an orphan who married Liu Hongmei, who was nineteen, when he was twenty-two. The two young people came to Ningcheng to work hard and eventually had a small family and their first child, Xu Milu.
In Xu Milu's memory, "Dad" is a very warm word, and it seems that just thinking about it can bring her endless courage.
“When I was a child, I was short and was always bullied. One year, a few bad kids blocked the entrance of the alley and demanded money from me for several days in a row. I was timid at that time and didn’t dare to tell my family. My pocket money was taken away every day, and I had to go to school hungry every day.”
Xu Milu stared at the bubbling white rice porridge in the pot, and said somewhat absentmindedly:
“I… my dad was afraid I would go hungry, so he would cook me a bowl of porridge every morning. Later, he even went to the homes of those kids and beat up the adults. Actually, now that I think about it, I don’t remember the rest clearly. I just remember that the plain porridge was really delicious. When I was hungry, a warm bowl of it seemed to make all my worries disappear.”
It's as if she's still that carefree little child, not having to think about anything or care about anything, never growing up, always able to hide behind her parents, happily splashing in the water with a candied hawthorn.
The shop was quiet. Chen Xiang listened attentively, and Mo Xuan, unusually, didn't act silly; his face even had a touch of seriousness.
"I've only ever heard you mention your mother and younger brother before, this is the first time I've heard you talk about your father! My father is Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the East Sea. He has many dragon sons and daughters, but he loves my mother and me the most. After I moved out of the Dragon Palace, my father arranged for me to be the Dragon King of Dongting Lake, but unfortunately, I was a real disappointment... And then?"
later?
Xu Milu smiled indifferently:
"The story gets a bit cliché later on. He's lived most of his life and suddenly feels that family life is meaningless. His wife's looks have faded, and she's not as young and beautiful as she used to be. So he finds a soulmate, hoping to have some romance in his middle age. But who knew that she wouldn't be interested in him? He was swindled out of all his money and ran away with a huge debt, leaving my mother to raise our two underage children."
She still remembers the scene of the creditors coming to her door:
A group of people were crammed into the small living room, which was less than ten square meters. The grandfather kept smoking, Liu Hongjun and Liu Hongjun, a brother and sister, kept apologizing and saying nice things to the people, Liu Hongmei, with red eyes, asked her to come inside to do her homework, and the creditors were shouting.
"Why would you let the child in? Your daughter is all grown up now and can understand things. Her father owed so much money and ran away, why is she hiding?"
"Now you realize you're shameful? Why didn't you think of that when you were borrowing money? Come on, don't go in, let her listen to what shameless things her father did!"
“Sister-in-law, I’ve always treated Brother Xu like a brother. Now that he’s run away, we can’t just let the debt go, can we? I heard that Dami is in school, right? Raising children is expensive. You all have money to pay your child’s tuition, so why don’t you have money to pay us back?”
The room reeked of smoke. The agitated men came over and started pulling at Xu Milu, one of them lewdly slapping her face.
"That's right! We're not leaving until he pays us back! Xu Haifeng may not care about his wife, but he should at least care about his child, right? If it really comes down to it, we'll take his daughter with us and see if he comes back!"
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