Chapter 5
Just as the sky was getting light, the whimpering sound of a cub could be heard from a small courtyard in a remote corner of the Jiang Mansion.
Jiang Mingyan hurried out from the east kitchen. Dust raised by the fire fell on the corners of his clothes and sleeves. His handsome face was also covered with black and white spots, and he looked extremely disheveled.
But he didn't care about the dirt on his face and body. He walked quickly forward, opened the door, and approached the small bed.
The quilt on the small bed was in a mess, and a little baby with messy hair was sitting in the middle.
The little baby opened his big round eyes, which were filled with sparkling water. There were a few tears on his soft little face. The tip of his nose was red. He looked pitiful and cute, and looked very aggrieved.
"Hehe..." As soon as the little guy saw Jiang Mingyan, his eyes lit up and he stretched out his chubby paws to ask for a hug. His every move was full of intimacy and dependence.
"Brother is dirty, so he can't hold Sui Sui for the time being." Jiang Mingyan looked at the little guy who was looking up at his round face and asking for a hug. Thinking of the dust on his body, he had to refuse cruelly.
"Ah..." The little fellow muttered aggrievedly, retracted one of his chubby paws, and pointed the other paw at the door: "Ah, Ah!"
There was urging in the baby voice.
Jiang Mingyan hid the sadness in his eyes and coaxed him softly: "Father and mother went to a very far place. From now on, I will live with my brother."
"Brother will take good care of Sui Sui."
"Ahhh..." The tears in the little guy's big black and white eyes fell, leaving round wet marks on his little clothes.
I miss my father and mother every year.
"Hehe..." The little guy called his brother dependently, hoping that his brother could easily fulfill his wish like he used to do by bringing him sweet fruits.
Jiang Mingyan felt bitter in his heart.
He turned his eyes away, avoiding the little guy's expectant gaze, and lowered his voice: "Brother, go wash up, and come back to feed Sui Sui, okay?"
The little guy didn't get his brother's promise and looked at his brother with tears in his eyes.
The little kid didn't understand why his parents had been away for so long this time, but he saw that his brother was deeply tired beneath his usual appearance.
So, he responded with a sweet "babble".
Jiang Mingyan didn't dare to look at the little guy in the crib and hurried out of the room.
After stepping out of the house, he slowed down his pace.
Tired, weak... a series of negative emotions squeezed his heart, and the spiritual power in his body was running sluggishly. Now he couldn't even perform a small Dust-Removing Technique.
He should change his clothes, clean himself up, and then have dinner with Sui Sui.
However, Jiang Mingyan just stood in the yard with a confused look on his face.
Neither my father nor my mother likes the presence of other people in the house, so they have always hired an aunt to cook for him and Suisui on time.
When his father and mother were around, Jiang Mingyan didn't notice anything.
The meal was prepared by his aunt, he just needed to tell her in advance what dishes he wanted to eat.
There are secrets to removing dust from clothes and the house. Dad and mom just need to move their fingers and everything will be clean and tidy again.
But now, everything has changed.
From the day I heard the news of my father and mother's death, my aunt never showed up again.
My father and mother had already given me enough spirit stones for a whole year, but now it's only been three months and my aunt has disappeared.
Jiang Mingyan didn't have the energy to find out why his aunt never came over again.
There are only a few things.
The threats from the self-important Jiang family members, seeing that the two brothers were now alone and helpless, made them unwilling to fulfill their promise...
Besides, even if he wanted to investigate, what could he do?
He didn't know the aunt's name, but he vaguely remembered that her husband's surname was He, so everyone called her Aunt He.
He didn't even know where Aunt He lived, so where could he find her?
In just a few days, Jiang Mingyan seemed to have gone through a long spring and autumn.
Food won’t be served automatically just because you want to eat it, dirty clothes will stay dirty if they’re piled there, and you have to boil hot water yourself...
Before his spiritual roots were broken, Jiang Mingyan was busy with cultivation, and no one would bring these "miscellaneous matters" to him.
After his spiritual roots were broken, all the flowers and plants disappeared, but he still had his father and mother. He only dared to utter those sarcastic and mocking words when his father and mother were not around.
His father and mother provided him with a world of their own.
However, now that this world is shattered, he is forced to face the raging waves that are coming.
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Jiang Mingyan stood quietly in the yard for a while, then he lowered his eyes, went into a room nearby, changed into clean clothes, and wiped off the dust on his body.
He walked into the kitchen and brought out the small bowl of minced meat specially prepared for Jiang Sui Yan.
"Sui Sui, it's time to eat." He softened his voice and tried to coax the soft little ball on the crib: "We're out of Ningling fruit. Let's eat some meat first, okay?"
The little guy buried himself in the quilt. When he heard his brother's voice, he poked his head out and said, "Ah..."
He hesitated, his round eyes seemed to dim a little, like a listless kitten with flat ears.
Jiang Mingyan knew that Suisui loved all kinds of fruits and had a special liking for fruit puree.
But now, due to limited conditions, I have to put up with it temporarily.
He stroked the cub's matted fur on the bed and promised, "When it gets light, I'll go buy Ningling fruit for Sui Sui. Please bear with it for now."
He was so busy yesterday that he only remembered to put the little guy to bed on time. After the little guy fell asleep, when he went to clean up the mess in the yard, he noticed that the Ningling Fruit was all used up.
It was late at night, so he had no choice but to make a note of this matter.
The little fat cub had a flat belly, and even though he was a little reluctant in his heart, he blinked his round eyes and opened his little mouth with an "Ah~" like a bird waiting to be fed.
Jiang Mingyan felt soft in the heart and scooped up a small spoonful of meat paste and put it into Yuanyuan's little mouth.
"Ah~" The little fat boy took a bite and put all the meat paste on the spoon into his mouth.
"Ah..." He moved his mouth twice, then swallowed, his little face wilting.
Jiang Mingyan didn't understand why, but the little fat boy didn't open his mouth anymore, letting the small spoon filled with meat paste linger around his mouth.
Jiang Mingyan felt the little fat boy's determination, thought for a moment, and looked at the meat paste in the small bowl.
He tasted the meat paste originally prepared for the little fat boy in the small spoon and was stunned.
...too salty.
Jiang Mingyan lowered his eyes and saw the chubby little boy looking at him obediently with his bright black round eyes.
Although the little fat boy was stuffed with a spoonful of meat paste that was so salty that it tasted bitter, he was not annoyed at all. When he saw his brother looking at him and no longer holding the spoon to let him eat, he opened his little mouth to reveal a sweet and soft smile.
Jiang Mingyan couldn't help but feel frustrated and disgusted with himself.
He tried hard not to show any embarrassment. "Brother, I didn't notice. There's still some spirit beast milk in the kitchen. Sui Sui, how about drinking some first thing in the morning?"
The little fat boy didn't understand what was going on, but when he heard that he didn't have to eat salty meat anymore, he immediately smiled and nodded hurriedly: "Yeah! Yeah!"
Jiang Mingyan walked out of the house holding a small bowl, walked into the kitchen step by step, poured out the meat paste in the bowl, took out a new clean small bowl, and finally opened the special jade pot filled with spirit beast milk.
There was a light layer of milky white in the jade pot. After filling the small bowl, the remaining spirit beast milk became lighter and clearly separated from the large black wall of the pot.
Jiang Mingyan took a steady look, the fatigue in his sharp eyes becoming more and more obvious, and the frustration in his heart could not be concealed.
What's wrong with him?
The Ningling Fruit was gone, and he didn't discover it until last night.
There was only a thin layer of spirit beast milk left, but he still hadn't figured out where to buy it.
Why didn't he remember to taste the meat paste before feeding it to Sui Sui?
The emotions intensified, something stuck in my throat, and unspeakable disappointment surged in my chest.
"Sui Sui is still waiting for me." Jiang Mingyan murmured for a long time.
He returned with the small bowl.
The door was half-open, and he pushed it open gently. However, before he stepped into the house and saw the situation inside, Jiang Mingyan's heart stopped.
The half-foot-long snake was pure green all over, with a thin black line running across its body from its front jaw, winding all the way to the tip of its tail.
It's a bamboo green black-lined snake.
Jiang Mingyan had seen the name of the Bamboo Green Black Snake in the Complete Encyclopedia of Spiritual Beasts.
The bamboo green black-lined snake is extremely poisonous. Even a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi training would not be able to escape its fangs, let alone a baby like Suisui who has never practiced cultivation?
At this time, the bamboo green black-striped snake was only a few steps away from the crib, curled up its body, slightly raised its head, and its fangs were slightly exposed.
What made Jiang Mingyan's breathing even more rapid was that the little fat cub on the crib had stood up with the help of the crib railing. He looked at the bamboo green black snake on the ground, his round eyes full of curiosity, like a kitten eager to try, as if he was about to stretch out his claws to poke it or something at the next moment.
"Sui Sui——" Jiang Mingyan uttered the syllables in a hurry.
He seemed to hear the sound of his heart beating in his chest and the roar of his blood. His eyes were fixed on the slender body of the bamboo green black-lined snake.
One hit.
There is only one chance.
Jiang Mingyan ordered himself to calm down.
Sui Sui's life was in his hands at this moment, he couldn't panic.
Soon, the bamboo green snake moved and shot towards the child in the crib like a sharp arrow.
But a swift black shadow was faster than it!
“Zheng——”
The bamboo green black snake was pierced through seven inches by a long black sword and was firmly nailed to the ground.
Jiang Mingyan breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that he was covered in cold sweat. The hand that had been holding the sword was shaking constantly, and the small bowl in his other hand had been crushed by him unknowingly. The fragments scratched his palm, and blood mixed with spirit beast milk dripped onto the ground.
But he didn't care about these details. He strode towards the crib and said in a cold voice, "Jiang Sui Yan! What were you doing just now? Why are you curious about everything?"
The scolded little cub looked at his brother. He was not frightened by his brother's cold and stern questioning. Instead, he curved his round eyes into small crescents, leaned forward on the railing, and stretched out his two lotus-root-like little arms from the gap in the railing to hug his brother who was close at hand.
——It was not a gesture of asking for a hug, but a hug with the scent of milk that was given to Jiang Mingyan.
Brother, don’t be sad.
The little fat boy was ignorant, but at this moment, he seemed to understand everything.
Jiang Mingyan was stunned.
He murmured to himself, "What am I doing?"
Sui Sui didn’t understand anything. He didn’t understand that the bamboo green black snake was dangerous. He didn’t understand that its sharp fangs could take his life in an instant.
He should teach Sui Sui, tell Sui Sui what he can and cannot do, instead of venting his fear and tiredness on Sui Sui.
Jiang Suiyan picked up the soft ball in front of him from the crib and apologized in a low voice: "Sui Sui, I'm sorry, it's my fault. I shouldn't have been so mean to you."
"Hehe..." The little fat boy opened his big black and white eyes and looked at Jiang Mingyan, babbling haltingly: "Hehe... No, don't cry."
Jiang Mingyan's eyes were sore, and his thin lips formed a stubborn arc. Before the tears fell, he buried his face in the soft neck of the little fat boy in his arms.
Tears welled up in his eyes. He had silently swallowed all the sorrow these days. The young boy who worked hard to support this family sobbed silently, and his tears soaked the little fat boy's clothes.
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