"Long'er, wake up! Your girlfriends are all up and coming to play with you," Cen Ang whispered to Huo Xiaolong from beside the bed.
But the little girl didn't want to move, so Huo Xiaolong arched his back, leaving only his bottom facing Cen's mother. The woman reached out and patted her bottom twice, saying...
"Xiangxiang has already washed up and gotten dressed to come play with you, why aren't you getting up yet?"
"Oh dear! Mom~"
"I finally get a break from practicing martial arts, why can't I sleep in?" Huo Xiaolong whined lazily.
"Hurry up, I've already prepared the water for you to wash your face. Get up and wash up."
The little dumpling, with its messy hair, crawled out of bed and asked sleepily.
"Mom, has Xiangxiang been back for three days?"
"No……"
"She's only been back for two days, why is she back again?"
Huo Xiaolong's heart broke when he thought of her paper.
"Alright! Hurry up and sit down, I'll comb your hair."
After a chaotic scene in the main house, Huo Xiaolong, dressed neatly, appeared in front of Cheng Xiangxiang.
"Sister Xiaolong!"
Good morning, little sister.
"You should call me Sister Xiangxiang! You're younger than me! You're the kid!"
Huo Xiaolong nodded vigorously and said...
"Okay, little sister."
Cheng Xiangxiang reached out and pulled Huo Xiaolong to the corner of the Huo family's backyard wall, whispering...
Do you have any more paper?
The little dumpling looked like she'd seen right through her; she knew it! Cheng Xiangxiang's visit was never good news!
"You've run out of yours?"
Two days ago, when Cheng Xiangxiang left, I gave her a small purse, and it's all gone in just a few days.
"But I can't just use it myself, my grandparents use it too, it's so comfortable!"
Ever since Cheng Xiangxiang used soft toilet paper for the first time after using the toilet, she has been unable to bring herself to wipe with toilet paper, finding it disgusting.
"Give……"
The little girl grabbed Huo Xiaolong's hand and placed a large silver ingot in it, which looked to be at least ten taels of silver.
What are you doing!?
The little dumpling felt a little sorry for the girl, but it wasn't to the point of giving her money. Besides, her grandfather had just given her the jade pendant a few days ago. Even if she didn't understand social etiquette, she shouldn't take the money.
"Buying paper," Cheng Xiangxiang said.
"Take it now, stop with all this nonsense," Huo Xiaolong said, pushing the money back.
"I'd feel bad using it for free, especially since I use a ton of it."
Cheng Xiangxiang and Huo Xiaolong stared at each other, neither willing to back down, until finally the older girl relented and said...
I have something else to ask you about today.
"What's up?"
My mother will arrive in Pingyang County in a couple of days.
"Yeah, and then what?"
Do you think she'll take me home? I don't want to go back.
"Then let's not go back," Huo Xiaolong said, sitting face to face with her on the stone floor, his bottom feeling a bit cold.
"Then my mother..."
Did you tell your maternal grandparents about what happened when your mother was at home?
"I told him, my grandfather said he wants my mother and father to divorce."
"Yes! Then let's get a divorce."
Divorce is so great! Take the children with you, get your dowry, you'll have money and kids, and you can happily go home and live the life of a pampered princess.
"But my grandmother said that my mother wouldn't divorce my father for my sake."
"So she's just going to suffer like this her whole life? You're just going to watch your mother suffer like this her whole life?"
If Cheng Xiangxiang could stand by and watch, this little girl wouldn't have run all the way from Beining County to here by herself. So Huo Xiaolong knew that she would definitely try to persuade his mother to get a divorce, but he didn't know how.
The little girl remained silent for a while, looking somewhat downcast. Huo Xiaolong continued...
Do you know the restaurant that delivers octopus to our brothel every day?
Cheng Xiangxiang had stayed at the brothel for a few days, so she had seen the Hu family deliver goods. She nodded, and Huo Xiaolong continued...
"His family's seafood business is doing quite well now; they've also rented a pond in the village to raise shrimp."
"Huh?" Cheng Xiangxiang was a little confused. What did this have to do with her mother's divorce?
Do you know how to make the most money from shrimp?
"I don't know," the little girl shook her head.
"To accelerate the reproduction of female shrimp, shrimp farmers remove their eyestalks. This is because the eyestalks of female shrimp contain glands that regulate fertility, and removing them increases the chances of successful reproduction."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Xiangxiang felt something sprouting in her heart, a feeling that seemed about to overflow, hot and burning, and her nose also felt a little sore.
"So taking off their eyes is to make them lose their ability to control themselves. It's similar to doing it to people. By blindfolding women, they try to use every means possible to manipulate every woman's world with the power in their hands."
"So... being a good wife and mother, virtuous and gentle, being content after death, managing the household, being generous and tolerant, having a magnanimous and forgiving nature... these are all..."
"These are all just a veil they're using to blind women."
Huo Xiaolong stood up and looked down at Cheng Xiangxiang, who was still stunned by his words. It wasn't that she wanted to show off, but the ground was too cold. Wasn't Xiaoxia cold? She could still sit down.
The little dumpling reached out her hand
The little girl stared straight at her from the ground. Cheng Xiangxiang wasn't a stunning beauty, but she had delicate features, single eyelids, and deep-set eyes that added a touch of liveliness to her appearance.
Cheng Xiangxiang will probably never forget this day for the rest of her life, she thought.
The girl in front of him, a few years younger than him, seemed to radiate light, opening the door to a new world for him.
So, women don't have to follow the rules of female virtue and precepts. Those are just what others want them to be like. But what about herself? What kind of person does she want to be?
The little girl grabbed the hand in front of her, and Huo Xiaolong pulled her up from the ground with a forceful pull.
This hand will guide her step by step through the years to come, showing her the lights of countless homes and letting her experience all the flavors of life.
"Do you understand what I mean?" Huo Xiaolong asked.
"I understand. I will definitely make sure my mother and father divorce."
Cheng Xiangxiang had never seen what her mother looked like before she got married, but even if she was worse off, it couldn't be worse than when she was with her father.
Huo Xiaolong didn't reply, he just nodded.
The little girl is out of toilet paper again, and she doesn't have much left either. The ones Chunying ordered for her a few days ago are still drying. She can't just give away all her own, or pretend she's rich when she's not.
"Long'er, your little sister's grandparents are here!" Er Ya's voice was still as loud as ever.
The two little girls held hands and ran towards the main hall of the Fengyue Tower.
"Grandma and Grandpa, what brings you here?"
"May Grandma and Grandpa rest in peace."
Huo Xiaolong gave the two elderly people an awkward bow, and Cen Ang's signature polite smile immediately appeared on his face. When she was in the palace, she learned etiquette and rules the fastest and best. There was no better tutor in Beining County, no, even in the entire Great Yan.
Honestly, she chased after Long'er every day to teach her, and this is how she turned out!?
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