Chapter 879: How dare they attack us?
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Yu Dong did not think much, this was not her mess to take care of which was why she asked her husbands to huddle around in the corner and take a nap, though it was only three to five hours until dawn, she knew that it was going to feel like ages for some.
She took off her coat which was slightly thick and then handed it to Shen Li who was trembling lightly and said, " Here put it on."
" I am fine," as he spoke his eyes instinctively fell on Ning Yu and Shi Xi who hugged the shivering children in their arms. Though the bunker was considerably warmer than outside, once in a while a cold gust of wind would come hurtling causing them to shiver in cold.
Ning Yu and Shi Xi were the poorest of all the villagers, the cotton-padded jackets they were wearing were ripped and torn in many places and from the inside Yu Dong could see that the cotton seemed to be poking out making their cotton-padded jackets uneven.
Yu Dong took a look at Ning Yu and Shi Xi before turning to look at Shen Li who seemed to be reluctant to take the jacket and seemed to be inclined on handing the jacket to his fathers and siblings. With a sigh, she turned on her heel and then headed towards Ning Yu and Shi Xi who was trembling and stretched out her hand which was holding her jacket and said, " Here, the weather is too cold wrap your children in the jacket to make sure that they stay warm."
" No…there is no need," Ning Yu was slightly surprised when he saw Yu Dong talking to him, he had heard from his wife and daughter that Yu Dong did not treat his son well and even hated and despised him for not being able to give birth to a child, so why was she even offering this jacket to him?
Even Shi Xi was stunned as he looked at the thick jacket and then turned to look at Ning Yu who was staring at Yu Dong with an awkward expression and did not dare to reach out and grab the jacket either. Though he very much wanted to take hold of it and bundle up his children, he knew that he was not in any position to do so.
Ning Yu was Yu Dong's father-in-law yet he did not even reach out to hold her jacket, so how can he take it?
"It's all right, if not for you we all will be buried inside the snow and would have to suffer a lot more ——- father in law, so give me some face and wear this," Yu Dong did not wish to entangle with the Shen family but now that she saw the terrible conditions in which these mers and children were living she could not ignore them.
From one glance she could see that Ning Yu and Shi Xi did not eat anything good for weeks and even though they seemed to be caring for their children there was only a little mers like them could do.
Ning Yu did not expect Yu Dong will suddenly accept him as her father in law, he awkwardly looked at Shen Li who was sitting huddled up closer to his brothers and watched his son nod his head only then did he reach his hand and took the jacket from Yu Dong as he bowed his head and said,
" Thank you."
He was not used to taking alms from others given that he was a mer who had his own pride even when he was in the village, he would do odd sorts of jobs to make sure that his children would never go hungry. But now that he was in this situation for the sake of his kids, he could only lower his head and receive the alms which were being given to him.
" What are you thanking us for? We should be the ones who should be thanking you." Aunt Wang stood up from the ground and then took off her jacket as well before handing it to Shi Xi. " You are Yu Dong's father-in-law and the saviour of this village, it will be too much of us if we were to ignore you like this."
When the villagers heard Yu Dong and Aunt Wang's words, they all got up and helped Ning Yu and Shi Xi make a bed for their kids while handing some dried snacks which they grabbed on their way to the bunker to the eldest Shen Yiqian.
" I … I don't know what to say," Ning Yu was speechless and in awe when he saw the villagers of the Big River village helping him and Shi Xi, he was thinking that he would have to stay in the corner and silently suffer throughout the night before leaving. He did not expect that he will be treated so well just because Yu Dong called him, her father-in-law.
"It's all right just take a nap, in the morning we will go and take out our stock which is buried in the snow." Yu Dong told the two mers to go to sleep while she turned on her heels and headed towards the entrance of the bunker where she met with Wu Junfen who was already waiting for her.
" Are you going out?" Wu Junfen asked as she looked at Yu Dong who seemed to be heading towards the mountains.
" Of course," sneered Yu Dong as she stepped out of the bunker and then headed towards the mountains. " I refuse to believe that this was simply a natural catastrophe and not something made by humans."
" Aiya, so you are saying that someone deliberately did it?" As Wu Junfen and Yu Dong headed towards the mountain someone else followed which was why when she heard Yu Dong's words, she could not help but exclaim loudly causing Yu Dong and Wu Junfen to turn around and look at Aunt Wang, Village head Gu and many other women who were tottering after them, seeing them follow her Yu Dong was speechless as she said, " What are you doing? Why are you following me?"
" What else? Someone dared to attack us! How can we not make a move against them? Do they think that our Big River Village is easy to bully?"
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