Yu Dong wanted to go back and make some nourishing soup for her husbands. Though they got a fresh delivery of seafood whenever they wanted, Yu Dong still liked catching fish whenever she had time.
She also caught a bunch of small fish while fishing at the shore and decided to use these small fish to make pickled fish. The bones of these fish were not too strong and with the right condiments and preparations the bones of these fish could be softened.
This way even Yu Mai and the rest of the kids could eat them without any trouble.
She turned to look at Fourth Brother Shen and asked him, “How was it? Did you like catching fish?” She had brought Shen Li’s youngest brother as he was in a bad mood in the morning.
It all started because Yu Mai showed off his skills in cooking. He was already turning eleven and was learning how to cook. Who would have thought that Yu Mai was so talented in cooking that he would learn everything that Chen Mi taught him?
He also cooked breakfast earlier in the morning which included three dishes and one soup.
Fourth Brother Shen who had tried boiling water last night as he wanted to cook some noodles but failed as the noodles turned mushy received quite a blow in the morning.
So, Yu Dong brought him with her to cheer him up.
“I am happy!” Fourth Brother Shen nodded happily and seeing him smile Yu Dong also smiled at the same time she decided to speed up the process of building the school.
She wanted to teach these mers that just cooking, sewing and embroidering well did not mean anything. The world was wide and they could do something much greater than just these household chores.
‘Maybe I will ask the second princess to change the laws a little?’ Yu Dong thought with a frown on her face. She knew it would be a bit hard but wouldn’t it be better for the nation if mers could also become an official?
With that thought in her head, she returned home but as soon as she walked over—
“You bastard! You really have no shame, do you? Your wife hasn’t even died for three months and you are already out here seducing women?”
Yu Dong: “…”
She looked up at the sky and then rubbed her eyes.
“What wrong sister in law?” Fourth Brother Shen asked as he looked at Yu Dong who seemed tired.
“It’s nothing. I was just asking the heavens if I could have a single day of peace,” Yu Dong sighed as she turned to look at the commotion. But no sooner did she turn her head, than she saw her husbands standing outside the house, and every single one including Shen Li was peering out of the gates.
Clearly, they wanted to sip the hot tea that was being served to them.
“I didn’t do anything! Sob sob sob! Just because your wife came to help me in need you are calling me all kinds of names. Is there any justice in this world? Sob!” Another voice rang out as Yu Dong carried Fourth Brother Shen home. “Why should I be beaten up like this over a small bowl of rice?”
“Pah! He is such a liar, I know very well that Lin Qiong handed him more than a bowl of rice,” Chen Mi who was munching on the sunflower seeds commented while stretching his neck and looking at the drama.
“I know right? I definitely saw more than a bowl. It had to be three catties,” said Fang Chi while peering out of the door just like Chen Mi.
“What in the world are you all doing?” Yu Dong asked as she looked at the mers who were stretching their necks like ostriches. Why didn’t she know that her husbands were such gossipy mers?
No sooner did she finish speaking, every single one of them turned to do the thing that they had in hand as if they were not looking out of the door just now.
Yu Dong: “…”
Did they all take her as blind?
“Ahem, it’s nothing,” seeing that Yu Dong was not fooled (of course she wasn’t, he was cutting onions at the gates of the Yu family house after all), Chen Mi relayed the matter to Yu Dong, “Its like this, you know the new mer? Fu Yun? He came with his wife a few months ago after they escaped from the drought and refugees at their village.”
“What about him?” Yu Dong asked with a frown. She of course had no idea who this Fu Yun was but given that her husband was so eager to share the gossip with her, she was supposed to know who it was, even if she did not.
She learned the hard way to never stop her husbands from spilling the tea. Especially when it was hot.
“His wife died a few months ago,” said Chen Mi in a hushed whisper. “And now he is going around seducing well-to-do women. He would do anything to get a few grains of rice or catties of meat. I heard that many women sneak in his house late at night and he serves them all.”
“Isn’t it shameful?”
“Yeah,” Yu Dong nodded as she was supposed to agree. She paused and asked, “Is the mer that pretty?”
No sooner did she finish speaking, all five mers turned to look at her causing Yu Dong’s hair to rise at the end.
“What—Why are you looking at me like that?” Yu Dong asked with a troubled and confused expression.
“Why did you ask that mer is pretty or not?” Ye Liu asked as he pointed the knife in his hand with which he was skinning the chicken. “Is having a harem of your own not enough for you now that you want to go for a shameless mer as him?”
Yu Dong felt so wronged that she looked up at the sky.
“Why are you looking at the sky?” Shen Li asked with a frown.
“I am waiting.”
“For what?”
“For snow to fall in summer.”
She was after all more wronged than Dou E!
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