Chapter 513: Hunting for witch
" But I don't think that you came here to ask how I was doing right?" Xiao Zimo slammed the knife into the chopping board such that its tip was embedded into the wooden platform and tucked a strand of his hair behind his ear. " I bet you have something to say to me?"
Yu Dong looked at the knife that was shaking ominously on the chopping board and was half prepared to say ' Oh it's nothing, I came knocking on the wrong door' but she somehow managed to hold herself back and said, " The villagers … I brought a few villagers with me, among them, there are few children and grown-up mers, I want you to make them some warm ginger and brown sugar water. In case either of them falls sick, it will be really troublesome, so if you don't mind can you make some…while I look for some dry clothes they all can wear.. of course, if you don't want to then you don't have to, I will do it after I am done looking for my old clothes."
" Now that you have told me I can't possibly say no to you can I?" snapped Xiao Zimo as he picked up a bunch of ginger and brown sugar from the aisle that was behind him and then turned to look at Yu Dong with an eye roll. " Since you have saved my life and I am grateful for that, I will brew some ginger water for the villagers but from next time you have to tell everything to me in advance or I will have you write an apology letter. I already have enough on my plate while cooking for all the mers, those good for nothing, they have been pampered rotten by me."
Yu Dong didn't take his words to heart, Li Hanjing told her that Xiao Zimo had it hard when he was young because he was the oldest mer son of his parents, he was sold away at the age of ten and ever since then he has been bought and returned by a ton of women, all of them were pretty upset with Xiao Zimo's lack of sweet tongue. He did not know how to filter his words much less mince them, so even when he meant well, he was misunderstood and was returned to the slave trader, in the end even the slave trader got annoyed by his constant returns and sold him to the tavern when he became an adult.
" Thank you, I——" owe you one was what, Yu Dong wanted to say but then a cry that sounded very much like little bun echoed in the surroundings and she immediately turned to rush inside the house as she called over her shoulder. " Thank you Little Zimo, I will give you a box of strawberries once everything gets well."
" Pshh, just look after yourself," Xiao Zimo shouted back as he placed a big vat on the stove and poured water in it, leaving the water on the stove, he turned to chop the ginger when he saw Li Li walking up the platform with an entangled look on her face.
He placed the knife down on the counter and then put his hands on his hip and said, " So you have finally shown yourself? Didn't you say that you were going to help me clean the rabbits, why is it that I as a delicate mer have to clean them and you being the sturdy woman you are, ran away having fun?"
Li Li looked at her and then shook her head as she said, " I am not…I didn't go to have fun, I was looking for the witch."
" The what?" At first, Xiao Zimo thought that he misheard her but then Li Li walked close and slammed her hands on the kitchen aisle leaning until she ate up almost all the space between the two of them. " The witch, The witch… I have seen her in the forest, she does weird things like hunting animals and then tearing their limbs one by one, I think is trying to do something strange again, I saw her heading out in the forest but then she vanished and I couldn't find her."
" Hah," Xiao Zimo snorted as he nodded his head and flicked Li Li on her forehead. " So just like the elves that you brought home—- " he pointed to the pile of weird-shaped stones sitting in the corner of the kitchen. " You now went hunting for a witch?"
" That's right," Li Li nodded her head with all her sincerity looking at Xiao Zimo with a solemn expression on her face. " I went hunting the witch before she hurts anyone——- Owwww Owww Owww, not my head, don't hit my head! You are not my mother!"
Yu Dong hardly stepped inside her house when she heard a mournful shout from someone from behind, she wanted to turn around and see what was happening but she didn't get a chance to do that. Because no sooner she stepped inside the house she saw someone rushing towards her in a blur of white and pink and jumping on her calves, for a minute she thought that it was a stray cat but when she looked down she was surprised to see that it was not a stray cat but her son.
But the thing was that he did not look like her son at all, instead of wearing his favourite blue pants and matching shirt, currently, he was dressed in a baby pink long, wide pants and a white shirt with sleeves that were carefully embroidered and had a fluffy lace attached to them. Because Little bun was nourished by the spiritual water in their well thanks to Yu Dong's powers his hair was long and thick with shiny lustre. Usually, it would be tied in a small bun and left alone but today, it was carefully braided in a delicate side braid and to top it all up, Little bun's eyes were teary as if he has been bullied by someone.
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