"In two months, the martial arts tournament will be held at my house. All the girls in our building should come and have some fun."
Zhang's mother served Huo Xiaolong a bowl of rice and then pressed it down with a spoon.
"That's enough, Auntie."
"Okay, you eat first. If you're not full, just tell Auntie."
Huo Xiaolong sniffed twice, his nose stinging from the spiciness, and stared at He Yi and Cen Ang as he spoke.
"My dear mothers, I want to go."
He Yi glared at her and said
"You're not going to school anymore, are you?"
Cen Ang smiled, pinched her little cheek, and said the same thing.
"I think as long as we don't have to go to school, our Long'er will be happy to do anything!"
"It was during autumn break, I want to go~ Please, Mom!" Huo Xiaolong got off the table and ran to He Yi's side, pleading.
Seeing that He Yi was unmoved, he ran to Cen Ang's side and tugged at her sleeve, shaking it back and forth.
Actually, the two women were already trying not to laugh, even though they hadn't said they wouldn't take her. She was acting like a monkey.
"Alright, alright, go ahead, go ahead. It just so happens that your dad and your brother are going back to train during the autumn break. We'll take you with us then," He Yi said.
"My two mothers are the best!"
"Then let's all the girls in our building go together. Old Zhang's family isn't far from here, and he should be back in about a month. I'll transfer a few girls from Beining. All the girls in our building will go. Nobody is allowed to stay at home, understand?"
Cen's mother pointed her chopsticks deliberately at a young woman sitting at the very end. The young woman was dressed entirely in pale yellow. Knowing that the woman was talking about her, the young woman lowered her head and smiled shyly.
“Especially you, Fen’e, don’t pretend you can’t hear me.”
The young lady parted her red lips slightly and said
"Mom, I don't want to go out."
"You can't not want to, you're always in the room making perfumes, you're practically marinating yourself. Besides Long'er and those ladies who often come to see you, who else have you spoken to?"
"And my little maid."
The young woman's voice was calm, but Cen's mother felt her blood rush to her head.
Fen'e was also an old member of the brothel, and she was bought back with Chunying. Perhaps the child had suffered too much trauma before, because she rarely spoke to people. It wasn't until Huo Xiaolong came to the brothel that the young lady came out of her room.
After leaving, I greeted Cen's mother and then searched the whole building for the little dumpling. Once I found her, I coaxed her to go to her room to play.
"Sister Fen'e, please go! All the other sisters are going, so why don't you go too?"
The young woman looked at the ground with her almond-shaped eyes, pondered for a moment, and said...
"Okay, I'll go with you."
Huo Xiaolong was overjoyed and said that there was no sister she couldn't win over.
“We don’t need Master Wu in the building for now,” Miao Cuifang said to her younger siblings.
"ah……"
The girl's voice betrayed her disappointment.
She wanted to stay here, but there wasn't much of a reason. Just like Miao Cuifang had done before, the food was delicious, plentiful, and good.
“However, you can stay and work as guards,” Miao Cuifang continued.
He was a little worried because his two younger siblings weren't with him, especially his sister, who was the most beautiful girl among the younger generation in the Miao village. He was just afraid something might happen.
Those scoundrels in the martial arts world are wicked. All the people in Miao territory combined can't be as cunning as Huo Xiaolong. It's better to keep his sister by his side.
So the man asked Cen's mother to let his two younger siblings stay and look after the house, even though the brothel didn't need to be watched over.
But how can I put it? They're all family. How can such a large brothel not support two children?
"Really? Brother?" the boy asked.
"real."
"It's just that my monthly salary is a bit low, only five taels a month, and the work assigned to you by the employer is paid separately."
"Five taels a month! My family doesn't even need five taels a year! As long as we work here for a full year, we can save at least sixty taels of silver, and then we can add a pig to every family in the village."
Miao Cuifang looked at her younger sister, who was muttering about calculating accounts. The man smiled and thought, "Things will definitely get better for our Miao village."
"Brother, is that the kid who spends so much money that you mentioned in your letter to Grandma the one who ate with us?"
Huo Xiaolong, who happened to be out causing trouble, overheard this and hid in the corner to eavesdrop.
"Um."
"He seems like a perfectly good child, how could he possibly cause harm?"
The little dumpling looked at the crossbow bolt in her hand. This was the second one she had broken this month. It was still a bit difficult to put the chariot and the crossbow bolt together.
She and Lu Wangji finally figured out how to build that crossbow that could fire twenty bolts at a time. Now, Huo Xiaolong wants to assemble the chariot and the crossbow together, and he's constantly handing over silver notes to the Mo family genius to do the work for him.
That little mouth of hers is quite the talker.
“Brother Wangji, look, this one silver note can buy Sister Mantuo a dress, and also a bunch of toys and snacks for Xiao Siman. We can’t all be freeloaders in Fengyue Tower. As a genius of the Mo family, you have to set an example for them!”
"Although we're marrying into the family, we're capable."
Do you know what your fellow disciples in the Mohist school are saying about you behind your back?
Lu Wangji put down the protective hidden weapons he was making for Mantuo and his daughter, looked at Huo Xiaolong, and asked...
What did you say about me?
"You're a freeloader!" Huo Xiaolong said.
Lu Wangji married into the brothel, and Mantuo not only didn't boss him around but also doted on him. Who wouldn't envy that? The man at home didn't earn as much money as Mantuo, and he could still enjoy his wife's gentleness and affection.
If word gets out, everyone in the martial arts world will be green with envy.
"We can't be like that, you know? We have to stand up for ourselves!"
"That makes sense."
The man pulled the silver note from Huo Xiaolong's hand with his reddened fingertips bearing some marks, and said...
"I'll definitely make it for you within three months."
"Okay! This will be the deposit!"
"No need, this is enough. Your sister will get angry if you add more."
Returning to the present, Huo Xiaolong looked at the small crossbow in her hand. She wasn't extravagant; if she had to say she had any, it would only be a tiny amount!
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