Chapter 460 There was no one before
"Are you okay, Xiao Hua?" Yu Dong turned to look at Xiao Hua once Ke Lixin's parents were gone, though she did want to take care of him first but dealing with those troublesome pests was more important. " Did they try to hurt you or something?"
Xiao Hua shook his head, with his hands clasped in his lap, he stared down and said, "It's just that I cannot get that sight out of my mind, I can't believe that someone would do something like that …like they really think that I would appreciate something so horrible as them cutting off someone's tongue and then placing it in a box like its some sort of precious gifts? They have to be out of their minds. I...I just can't wrap my mind around what happened…."
He trailed off before slumping on the ground.
" Woah!" Yu Dong immediately caught him before he could fall to the floor and dragged him up on the sofa before turning to look at Little Zimo and Li Hanjing. " I will be disturbing you, get his room ready, will you please?"
" There is no trouble at all," said Little Zimo already on his feet as he started to walk towards Xiao Hua's room. " This is what we are supposed to do, after all, Brother Hua is like our biological brother."
" Thank you," Yu Dong carefully picked Xiao Hua up in her arms and carried him over to his room, she was surprised that he was lighter than Chen Mi even though when he was like a year or two older than Chen Mi. " Is he not eating properly?" She asked with a frown, looking at the limp figure that hardly had any flesh in it.
" Brother Hua is used to starving himself," said Little Zimo from the front as he moved to open the door of Xiao Hua's room. " He hardly ever eats everything that I give him … back in the tavern we used to eat one meal because Madam Xiang didn't want us to get fat and ruin our figure, so she only gave us a meal back then and because we would get hungry at the evening, brother Hua started to eat only half a meal in the noon, so that he could have the rest at the night. Usually, mers who entertained guests would eat something but Brother Hua hates eating with a stranger, so he hardly ever ate anything worried that they might slip something in it. As a result, he grew to eat less and less."
" Later on he became influenced by the noble master who maintained their figure as thin and wimpy," said Li Hanjing while walking beside Yu Dong, staring at the unconscious Xiao Hua. " I tried to tell him that compared to those rich masters who can eat whatever they want to fill their stomach, we were different but he never listened to anything and kept on continuing with that unhealthy habits of his, that's one of the reasons why he is tinier than other mers… he hardly eats anything so the necessary nutritions are often skipped." He shook his head and sighed. " I just don't understand why he is so bothered by how he looks."
" That's right, you should see him screech when he gets a pimple or boils on his face," said Little Zimo with a smile. " He will raise the entire house on his head and huddle himself in his room until the pimple goes down and will only come out when he is sure that the pimple has left his face for good."
" Don't make me remember it," said Li Hanjing trying to suppress his smile as he looked at Yu Dong. "There was a time when he was going through puberty and ended up getting a load of pimples on his face, it wasn't ugly just a bit awkward to look at because he was such a pretty young and of course, Xiao Hua was the most upset with it, he immediately started to do strange remedies. We didn't use to serve customers back then, so we weren't able to get much money…all our money was taken away by Madam Xiang… so, he would do whatever he could do that he could without spending his money."
" Then there came a time where a mer who disliked Brother Hua that the secret to his glowing skin was cow dung's wine."
Yu Dong's face scrunched up almost immediately as she watched little Zimo push open the door and said, " Cow dung's wine?"
" That's right, I am pretty sure that there was no such thing as that but the mer told brother Hua that there was and he should try it, and Brother Hua, who was desperate was willing to take his chances… I and Brother Hanjing had to spend at least two weeks guarding him…only then did he drop the idea."
" That too when his pimples were gone," said Li Hanjing with a soft smile, his eyes reminiscent. " He was really hard to deal with back then, still is but when he was young… he was harder to deal with."
" And no one came to trouble him when he was at the tavern?" she asked looking at Li Hanjing. He shook his head and sighed in frustration, " I know that you are asking me this because you want to know about the identity of the woman but I can assure you that no one ever came to disturb Xiao Hua like this before, which is completely surprising. Because if that woman really liked Xiao Hua then she would have come to see him when he was at the tavern after all he was there for sale… if she wanted she could have bought him from there, now troubling him out of nowhere is a completely wrong thing to do, don't you think so?"
"It is not that she came to trouble him out of nowhere or that she didn't have the thoughts to purchase him, it's just that she has never seen Xiao Hua before and now that she has seen him, she knows that she can no longer have him," Yu Dong lay Xiao Hua on the bed and then turned to look at Li Hanjing and Little Zimo with a frown.
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