Chapter 812: Try scolding if you dare
" You do not have to tell us this, Father in law, we will never do anything to let you and mother in law down," since Tan Mo said that she was going to marry into the Hu family she was going to fulfil her promise, it wasn't as if there were no one in the Tan family, she had a younger sister who lived in another village where the lands of their father were left under her charge.
With her younger sister still carrying the surname Tan, there was nothing to worry about, the same could be said for Xiao Yu, though her relationship with her elder sister was not as good as Tan Mo's relationship with her younger sister, it did not change the fact that Xiao Yu's ancestral line will not end with her marrying into the Hu family.
" As long as you have thought it through there is nothing to worry about," since they did not seem to be reluctant, Old Master Hu placed his heart at ease and then returned to his shack while leaving Hu Bing to cook the rice for his daughter.
Hu Bing looked at the rice which seemed shinier than the days that they spent in the Big Stone Village and could not help but shed a few tears. Though they left their house and lands, he still thought that it was a much better decision than staying in that place, if they had stayed there, he was sure that they would have died sooner or later.
When Tan Mo saw Hu Bing cry, she could not help but feel guilty. It was her fault, her husband told her to be a little selfish but she was a fool and trusted those white-eyed wolves, she looked at Hu Bing and then at Yun Jin who was her second husband and patted the two of them on the shoulders while looking at Lu Jiao who was standing on the side with a soft smile, "Do not worry, I will work hard and earn everything that we have lost today."
Even if she had the land deeds with her, those lands will never come back to her this was something that Tan Mo was very well aware of, and the reason was simple —— Village head Chou would definitely not let this matter go so easily which meant that not only will she plunder their houses but she will also ask the lands to be destroyed even if they cannot be sold, if she was any wiser, she would have thought about opening the land but Village head Chou was not a woman whose wits were at their right place.
In her anger, she ought to do something stupid and even if she destroyed the land, Tan Mo was no longer worried because she had seen Yu Dong. The reason, she trusted that woman was because she had hardly seen such a confident woman who knew what she was doing with her life and Yu Dong was a woman with a plan, the reason she was ignoring the Big Stone Village for now was because there were mers from the Big River Village still living in that village but Yu Dong was not a woman with an exceptionally big heart, Tan Mo knew that as long as her bottom line was not touched, Yu Dong will turn a blind eye to it but as soon as someone crossed it.
Surely, with her pig head Village head Chou will do something like this for sure when that happens, Tan Mo was worried that not only the lands but also the village will be gone.
'It is a good thing we ran away.'
Hu Bing did not say anything, though the future in front of them was bleak, it was still better than nothing which was why he silently agreed to what his wife said and then turned to walk towards the small stove where he started to cook some mushy porridge for Tan Yi.
As the scent of rice permeated the small shack, the little ones of his family and Xiao Yu's family started to salivate hard. Their eyes were locked on the pot in which the rice was cooking and continued to gulp.
Hu Bing looked at his two mer sons and the young daughter of Yun Jin and Lu Jiao's mer son with a smile which was worse than crying.
" I …."
" You four why are you eyeing that bitter porridge?" Hu Pan spoke up from behind while carrying his young daughter in his arms, though the six little ones in his own family were dying of hunger, he did not dare to snatch the porridge which was supposed to Tan Yi. " Its a porridge made with medicine for your eldest sister, if you eat it you will cry out of bitterness just wait for the drum's sound and for the nice guard women to bring you food, then you can eat as much as you want …" but then he paused remembering that they haven't eaten for a long time and changed his words, " Its better if you all eat only a bowl of rice, with your weak stomach it will be twice as troublesome if you were to start having stomachache."
The kids were young but after living in such conditions, they all understood how important food was thus, they agreed with everything that Hu Pan said and left the medicinal porridge for their eldest sister who was still unconscious.
The porridge that Hu Bing was cooking was not hard to make thus, it did not take a long time to cook and soon a soft yet tantalising aroma spread all over the shack, as soon as the scent came, Old Madam Sun started to scold as well which caused Tan Mo to frown but she did not say anything, after all, every village had a shit stirrer, in her village it was Qi Qing and Yang Jie, the famous duo who were not only lazy but also annoying and ruthless. There was no way she could comment anything about Old Madam Sun since this woman was only cursing but the ones in her village were eating people!
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