After returning home, Zhou Quan went straight to his own courtyard. Li Mai wasn't home, so he put the grapes on the table and went to the main courtyard.
It was nearly dusk when he arrived. The courtyard was bustling with activity, with Zhuzhu and Xiao Piaoliang chasing rabbits and chickens all over the yard.
The magpies blocked the entrance, preventing them from running out.
Li Mai and the two elders stood under the eaves, laughing heartily as they watched the lively courtyard.
Seeing Zhou Quan return, Li Mai smiled and beckoned to him, signaling him to come over and not disturb Zhu Zhu.
Zhou Quan walked along the wall to the eaves of the main house, stood next to Li Mai, and asked in a low voice, "What is Zhu Zhu doing?"
Li Mai said with a smile, "Zhuzhu thinks that Xiao Piaoliang has been eating too much lately and has gotten fat. She can hardly carry him anymore, so she let the rabbit and chicken out to chase each other and make them lose weight by running."
"Isn't she afraid that the pretty girl will kill the rabbit and the chicken?" Zhou Quan asked in a low voice.
"Zhuzhu said she warned Xiao Piaoliang that if it dared to bite a rabbit or a chicken, she would only feed it a little bit of food each day and starve it until it got thin. Anyway, it's getting fatter and fatter, and Zhuzhu can hardly carry it anymore," Li Mai said with a smile.
Seeing the young couple standing together talking in hushed tones, the Zhou family elders quietly went back into their house.
After watching the two elders enter the house, Zhou Quan pulled Li Mai to stand a little further away. Looking at the little beauty in the distance, he whispered, "Xiaomai, do you think that one day this Qilin might suddenly mutate into a mutant Qilin like those others and attack humans?"
“I don’t know about the future, but it probably won’t for now. It can’t transform yet, so it must have been severely injured, and its primordial soul is incomplete. There are more and more mutated beasts these days, so we do need to be on guard. I’ll send a message to the capital and ask Chu Yan to bring his Qilin over when she has time!” Li Mai said after thinking for a moment.
Zhou Quan responded, "Then I'll send a message to Elder Yang. My brother will be returning to Beijing in a few days, right? I'll ask him to pass on the message to Chu Yan."
Li Mai nodded. "Okay, you can arrange these. I'll start trying out dyeing at the dye shop tomorrow."
Zhou Quan nodded, "I'll go with you. I'll pass on the message to them tonight."
Now he is in contact with Mr. Yang through special channels.
"Oh, right, that person came again. They brought you grapes. I guess they saw you were always with someone, so they waited for me on the way and gave them to me. I took them back to our house," Zhou Quan said softly.
Li Mai glanced at him with a chuckle and said in a low voice, "Why don't you bring it over?"
“He said he’d give you all the food, so you could eat more, it’s good for the baby,” Zhou Quan said with a grin.
Li Mai glanced at him. Gu Zhe said that, so this guy wouldn't even let his parents and children eat him?
That night, after returning to their small courtyard, Zhou Quan washed a small basin of grapes for his wife, placed it on the table, sat up straight, and carefully peeled the grapes for her. After peeling one, he put another in the spoon in the bowl in front of Li Mai and told her to eat it with the spoon.
After he finished peeling the next quinoa, seeing that he hadn't eaten a single one yet, he patiently waited while watching the quinoa.
After finishing the piece of jewelry in her hand, Li Mai put down her pen, glanced at him, then at the washed grapes, and said, "Take two bunches to Dad, Mom, and Zhuzhu."
Zhou Quan glanced at the basket. "There are nine strings left."
“Go ahead and send two skewers over. I’ll eat the rest every day. Next time you see Gu Zhe, tell him to send more when he delivers things. We have a lot of family members, and it’s not enough to eat,” Li Mai said to him.
Since this man wanted to show what it's like to be a doting father to his daughter, she would just go along with it. At least the things he brought were all good, and Li Mai could feel the spiritual energy emanating from these fruits.
Could it be that the Southern Nether Kingdom is rich in spiritual energy? Or did he grow it in his spatial dimension? Judging from the things he could easily take out, Li Mai knew that he must also have a spatial chip.
Perhaps this space of mine was placed here by them.
Thinking about it this way, Li Mai suddenly understood why the Azure Dragon could disappear from her space.
Perhaps, that azure dragon is also related to ancient ochre.
Zhou Quan thought Li Mai was right. This way, next time Gu Zhe would give less, and after Xiao Mai shared her share with her parents and Zhu Zhu, there wouldn't be much left for her.
"Okay, I've got it!" Zhou Quan replied.
After Zhou Quan took a small basket, picked up two large bunches of grapes, and went outside, Li Mai put the grape basket into her spatial storage and continued drawing.
When Zhou Quan returned, he found a tree and used the communication magic left to him by Elder Yang to invite Elder Yang over. He explained to him the situation of the mutated beasts they had discovered and expressed his hope that after returning to the capital, Chu Yan could bring her Qilin to visit as soon as possible.
Old Yang agreed, told Zhou Quan about the situation on the Xu family's side, and then left.
When Zhou Quan returned home, he told Li Mai about what Old Yang had brought over.
In the past few days, Yun Chang has helped the Xu family stabilize the clan.
There were more than a dozen families who wanted to leave and establish their own households. Chief Xu assigned them household registrations and let them go without hesitation, allowing them to settle elsewhere or return to the ancestral home of the Xu family in the east of Yongzhou City.
He also gave each family fifty taels of silver as a resettlement allowance. The silver was given by Yun Chang. The Xu family currently does not have much cash on hand, only some real estate.
Those families who committed offenses were directly sent to the government office by Yun Chang, and the county magistrate was to lock them up and deal with them at his own pace.
After all, the Jiang family and the Yao family are also involved.
If Yun Chang wants to take action against those two families, she needs to go back to the capital as soon as possible to investigate the matter from higher authorities; otherwise, it won't be effective.
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