Novel Full Chapter 1081: Jingle bell
Lu Huo nodded. He had nowhere to go anywhere but with a job in hand he could at least save himself from the beatings for the time being.
” Can I really live here?” Lu Huo asked. He had been fooled by everyone whom he trusted, his mother promised to treat him better because he looked good enough to marry someone from the family of high officials. Maybe if he worked hard enough he could have been sent to the Imperial Family as well.
And later his wife did the same thing as his mother. In the beginning, she promised she would treat him better and coaxed a lot of secrets out of him but then once she coaxed out those secrets, she sent all of those secrets to his mother causing him to be in trouble right now.
Thus, he could not help but be a bit wary of Yu Dong and her family. Were they really helping him or did they have something planned, if not why would they help him so much when he could not even do anything for them?
Yu Dong understood Lu Huo’s psychology. Thus she smiled at him and then said, ” You can. If you are doubtful then we can sign a contract, if we break the contract then you can take us to the Yamen and no one will say a word to you, is that okay with you?”
When Lu Huo heard that Yu Dong was willing to sign a contract with him, he heaved a sigh of relief and nodded. With Ye Liu learning how to write contracts, it did not take much time for the contract to be finished and signed. Lu Huo kept the copy that Ye Liu handed him carefully in the room which was allocated to him.
” Oh, are you here to work?” Lu Huo heard someone speak from behind. He turned to look at the mer who came with a large basket of laundry from the back of the servants’ quarters.
He nodded in response which made the mer chuckle.
” There is no need to be shy, I am Meng Jing,” the mer introduced himself to Lu Huo with a soft smile playing on his lips. ” And I am your roommate as well, since we will be leaving together now, it will be better for us to get to know each other.”
Seeing Meng Jing’s friendly attitude Lu Huo was slightly relieved. He was a bit nervous when Ye Liu told him that he would be living with another mer, after all, he was ugly and no one would like to be friends with him but after seeing Meng Jing, Lu Huo was no longer afraid.
Yu Dong gave Lu Huo half an hour to settle down before she sent Lang to call Lu Huo. Since he was here to work, it was better for him to start learning as soon as possible.
She sent Meng Jing and Lu Huo to bring manure from the shed. The livestock raised by her family ate the leaves of the plants which were grown by the spiritual water and the water they drank had to be infused with spiritual energy or else they would refuse to drink it. Thus, their manure was like an organic fertilizer.
Yu Dong and the rest of the family on the other hand moved around carefully such that they would not wake up Yu Mai. This little mer had grown big and now he had his own ideas and hardly listened to Yu Dong.
Ever since the spring farming started, Yu Mai had been causing a ruckus saying that he wanted to go to the fields with the family as well. According to him, he was a big mer and could farm in his fields but Yu Dong still wanted to let him grow up properly.
Yu Mai’s brain was affected because of the fever that he had when he was just a baby, she did not want him to take on any hard tasks until he was sixteen.
Grandma Yu also understood why Yu Dong was so careful with Yu Mai and thus she too did not wake up Yu Mai. But who would have thought that the sneaky child actually tied a string with a bell on Grandma Yu’s ankle?
The second she moved the bell on her ankle jingled causing a light twinkling to echo in the room and then——
” Aha!” Yu Mai jumped out of bed and rushed out of the room to catch his sister and the rest in the act. ” I knew you would leave me behind!”
Yu Dong: “…” I walked slower than a snail, he still woke up?
” Sorry about this Dong Dong,” Grandma Yu stepped out of her room with the bell anklet in her hand behind her, Grandma Fang was trying her best to hold back her laugh. ” He tied this on my ankle and woke up the second it started to ring.” She glared at Yu Mai and pulled his ear lightly, ” You little witty goblin, you have now learned to play with your grandma huh!?”
” Oww, Grandma let go of my ear or it will stretch and I will be an ugly goblin,” Yu Mai grimaced lightly.
Grandma Yu was only trying to teach a lesson to Yu Mai, she did not want to hurt him too much thus, she let go of his ears and glared at him, ” The next time you try to act smart with your grandma, let’s see how she will clean you up.”
Yu Mai rubbed his ear and then turned to look at Yu Dong before saying, ” Sister I want to go too! Take Mai too! Mai works hard and earns money!”
Seeing him act like such, Yu Dong did not know what to say, ” Why do you want to earn money?”
” Because Mai wants to support sister Ruru,” Yu Mai replied with a smile on his face. ” Sister Ruru said that she was kicked out of the academy and could not become a scholar for now. She has no money, so Mai makes money and raises her! Mai takes care of Sister Ruru!”
Cough!
” Wife!”
” Dong Dong!”
The four mers screamed in panic when they saw Yu Dong cough out blood.
” LANG RU!”