Chapter 857: Groundhog service
She did not tell such a scary thing to her husbands because she was afraid that they will be scared. Sure enough, when the mers heard that people were waiting outside their village hoping to catch anything that was edible, their faces turned pale.
They were not the only ones even the mers who had no relation to the woman turned to look at their wives whose expression was solemn as they looked away, it was not that they were not willing to fork out the money to buy the grains but the path to town was so dangerous that they could not summon the courage to go outside the village, what if they left and never returned?
When the woman saw that the mers were quaking with fear, she no longer dared to say anything. The snow was too heavy, everyone was afraid of death, and when others were afraid of death they would do anything to survive.
Da Qiao who was the village head of the Big Mountain village was already having a headache, many women had died trying to fend off those who were trying to steal their grains, under Yu Dong's lead they had created a barricade as well but the losses that they suffered were great.
It was only because of Yu Dong's cautious attitude that their village did not lose anyone yet.
The mer who just questioned Yu Dong turned pale.
Kidnapping … and Eating …?
They were so desperate to catch anyone who stepped out of the village to buy grains, in case they were to realise that their village had excess grains would they not rush inside and try to plunder their village? Even his in-laws will be implicated …as for the food …who knows whose belly it will go after all, his wife was not a warrior how will she fend off those cruel people?
Every other mer also figured it out and did not dare to say anything.
Seeing that they all were frightened and were no longer fighting, Yu Dong once again opened her mouth, " I am not unreasonable as long as your in-laws are willing to give up their lands and stay in this village without taking anything outside they can come and live here, but of course, they will have to rely on your wives as for anything else you can forget about it!"
The mers did not dare to say anything, they have never heard of a wife supporting their in-laws, especially in a situation like such forget about taking care of their in-laws, and if they were to force their wives they might end up getting pushed out of the house!
In a few days, a new year was going to arrive, and neither of the mers wanted to return to their maternal house which was why they agreed with Yu Dong's suggestion.
Once the mers were settled down, Yu Dong made a team of women who were good at using machetes and bows. She did not care whether they were good at it or not since she would be the one who will be taking care of the hunting team and the other team comprised of mers who were asked to scavenge anything including edible tree barks if they could find one.
Since the new year was around the corner, no one wanted to rely on simple porridge and wanted to eat meat which was why the women were exceptionally excited to go on a hunt.
Yu Dong sent them to get prepared while she too went inside the house to get changed. As soon as she entered the house, she saw Chen Mi stomping to his room without looking at her and was speechless, though she understood that he was heartbroken that his mother had to suffer while they were living in comfort this was where Yu Dong could not pamper and spoil him.
" You do not need to worry about him," seeing that Chen Mi had stopped cooking and went to his room when he saw Yu Dong, Shen Li took over his task and coldly spoke, it was not that he was an unreasonable mer who wanted to take advantage of Chen Mi's temper tantrum to gain more attention from Yu Dong.
He was satisfied with the way things were but he was just like Yu Dong when it came to not bothering with Chen Mi when he was acting like a brat. Yu Dong was clearly in the right and even though he understood that Mother Chen was in a hard position, so were they—— Yu Dong had to take care of all the villagers who were living in the village lest something happened to them who will be blamed? Would it not be Yu Dong?
But because Chen Mi was overly concerned about his mother, there was not a moment of peace at home.
" I won't," Yu Dong did not wish to give the cold shoulder to Chen Mi but he was being too hardheaded and there was nothing that she could do about it. She tried to make him understand but Chen Mi who was spoiled and rather young did not wish to listen, his concern was his mother and sisters who have pampered and raised him with love and care even after being kicked out of the house when they refused to sell him.
In his eyes, what he was doing was nothing but being unfilial and there was nothing getting through his thick skull.
Ye Liu and Fang Chi did not say anything, they were not in any place to speak up, after all, Fang Chi's grandmother was living with them and Ye Liu had long broken his relationship with his family, only Shen Li's family was outside and his younger brother was even sick but he did not dare to make a move to help him.
Even Shen Li could be hard-hearted when facing his younger sibling's fever so what else can they say?
" I will go and hunt something," though Yu Dong had a stock of seafood, she could not take it out for the time being, with the path to the ocean getting frozen it was getting more and more dangerous for her to hunt seafood, she still needs to send it to the mer bar which she had opened in the town if she was to share the seafood with the villagers what will she use to earn money?
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