Chapter 766: Big stone village
Yu Dong did not see Qiao Sha off, she knew that the woman must be furious and confused at the moment but she was not terrified of her, at least not for the time being. She knew that Qiao Sha needed her help which was why she will not touch her for the time being, Yu Dong heaved a sigh of relief as she walked inside the house, she caught five pairs of eyes that were looking at her with worry and smiled, " There is nothing to worry about, Marquis Qiao is a wise woman there is no way she will not listen if we speak to her and explain properly."
She did not want her four husbands to worry, and if she was, to tell the truth then Jiang Fenhua would think that he was causing trouble for her and would feel even more guilty which was why it was better if she was to keep the fact that she actually showed off her aura in front of Qiao Sha a secret for the time being, if either of these mers found out that she might have offended the Marquis of their town, they will have her head.
Though Jiang Fenhua was slightly suspicious when Yu Dong told him that his wife left without any fuss, he relaxed upon seeing how calm Yu Dong was —— he also thought that there was no way Qiao Sha would try to suppress a commoner with her power but what he did not know was that his wife never got the chance to show off her power in front of Yu Dong, she was brought to her knees before she could even do something like that in front of Yu Dong.
Yu Dong looked around the table and when she saw that her husbands were eating their breakfast peacefully, she heaved a sigh of relief inwardly before she continued eating her vegetable porridge in silence as well while listening to Chen Mi who was excitedly telling Shen Li that he had come up with another recipe which was mixing grounded strawberry into milk.
" I gave it to the kids, they truly liked it," Chen Mi told Shen Li as he took a small and delicate bite of his porridge and then turned to look at his son who was drinking the milk from his cup, Yu Dong followed his gaze and her gaze softened when she saw how big Chen Mi had gotten.
" He is going to be one soon, right?" Jiang Fenhua asked as he watched Chen Mi wipe Little Bun's mouth which was covered with a moustache of milk, when Chen Mi heard Jiang Fenhua's question he smiled proudly and nodded, " Thats right, my little bun bun is soon going to turn one." As he spoke he patted the long hair of his son and ran his fingers through the silky locks. He still could not believe that his son who was so thin and frail when he was born was now this strong and sturdy.
His milky white arms were as thick as lotus root making him look exceptionally healthy like one of those babies that brought fortune to their family. The more Chen Mi looked at his son, the more proud he felt, he was sure that when his son grows up, he will surely break many hearts since he was born with the best features of him and his wife.
Yu Dong also knew that little bun was going to turn one in a month, she looked at the young boy who was sipping on his milk and smiled, she was not even paying attention to time and in a blink of her eyes, a complete year passed by without even her knowing.
The atmosphere around the dining table was very harmonious but this harmony was broken when village head Gu knocked on the door with a flustered look on her face. Since Yu Dong was now the owner of the village, she did not need to take the job of the village head and thus left the position in the hand of Village head Gu who was now like a follower of her small Gang.
As soon as Village Head Gu knocked on the door, Lang who was cleaning the front yard opened the door. Seeing the flustered-looking Village head Gu, Lang was slightly surprised at first she thought that Qiao Sha had made things difficult for the village because Yu Dong refused to let Jiang Fenhua leave with her but soon she realised that there was much more difficult trouble than just Qiao Sha.
" What did you say?" Yu Dong questioned Village head Gu who was now sitting on the couch wiping her sweat, she had gulped down three cups of the sweet and cold water from the Yu family's well only then was she able to calm down a little but even now Yu Dong could see that Village head Gu was rather scared.
Village head Gu wiped her forehead with the dirty handkerchief that she was carrying and then said in a nervous voice, " I heard from the villagers that the village next to us is suffering from flu breakout, many villagers in that village ate animals that died in the flood and now they are suffering from heavy fever and their skin had turned yellow and sickly… I am afraid that this will cause a lot of trouble for us."
" How can this cause trouble for us?" Chen Mi asked with a frown as he looked at Village head Gu who was sweating a bucket of cold sweat. " We have taken precautions and neither of the villager from our village ate those dead animals except the Sun family but they were separated from others at the earlier stage."
"That's true but…" Village head Gu looked at the young kids and hesitated seeing this Yu Dong turned to Fang Chi and said, " Chi take the kids and go inside your room."
Fang Chi could also see that there was something that Village head Gu wanted to say but could not because of the children who were watching her and was hesitating which was why he took the kids to his room. " Come on, Mai, Bun Bun, Daddy Chi have something to show you two."
The two kids followed Fang Chi inside his room where Fang Chi closed the door to his room such that the two kids will not be able to sneak out. Village head Gu peeked at the closed door and only then she turned to look at Yu Dong before saying in a hushed voice, " The truth is actually like this.."
Turns out that the village next to the Big River village and Big Mountain village was called Big Stone Village, just like its name there were many big boulders in the village and irrigating crops in that village was really difficult. However, the villagers of that village somehow managed to get by and since the big boulder protected them from heavy sunlight and kept them warm in the cold winters, the villagers never moved from that place.
Generally, they did not have to worry about getting starved to death but this time because of the flood, the crops of the Big Stone village were all washed out and since there was no Yu Dong to save them, it could be said that the villagers barely survived.
However, even after surviving the natural disaster, their life did not get easier if anything those who were alive felt like it was better to die in the flood than dying bit by bit by starvation. At first, the villagers were reluctant to eat the dead animals that were left underwater since many were rotten but under hunger and fear of dying they all gave up and ended up taking a bite of the rotten meat, somehow they managed to survive since they were able to stomach the meat.
But the thing was that the villagers who were able to stomach the rotten meat thought that Yu Dong and the other villagers were talking nonsense, thus they found more and more dead animals and started to cook them and eat them. What they did not know was that at the beginning they only ate a bit of the rotten meat and this was the reason nothing happened to them but when they turned around and started eating more and more of the rotten meat of the dead animals, their bodies could not withstand the germs and dirty things that they have fed into their mouth.
Because of this, the villagers started to fall sick one by one, at first no one thought that it was anything dangerous and simply ignored it as nothing but fever but then their fever started to hike up more and more without going down and to make things worse, those people could not stomach anything because of their stomach not being able to digest anything.
No matter what they ate, they will end up throwing up—— and just like that one by one the villagers of the Big Stone village started to die leaving a bunch of widowers and kids behind alone.
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