Chapter 118: They Will Come Again
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Su Ying and the rest continued digging in the fields until it was dark before calling it a day and heading back.
At noon, everyone only had some dry food. When they got home, they were all famished.
Su Ying gulped down a bowl of water noisily in the hall before she was able to cool her body down.
As the oil content in their food was lower, Su Ying had added ginseng energy sugar to everyone’s water containers. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to work so hard and last until the night with that little bit of dry food.
“How’s the fish pond digging today?” Xiao Jin looked at Su Ying’s flushed face. She looked like an alluring fruit that made one drool.
Su Ying took the wild fruit he handed to her and took a bite. Instantly, the sweet and sour taste filled her mouth, and it made her drool even more.
“There was no major problem, but there was a small interlude.”
Xiao Jin raised his eyebrows with a puzzled look. “What happened?”
“We accidentally dug someone’s grave when we were digging the fish pond. Some people came to make trouble, but they probably wanted to extort me. I’ve already beaten them up and sent them away.” Su Ying briefly explained the incident during the day to Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jin was silent for a while. “Since those people want to extort us, most likely they are shameless scoundrels. I’m afraid they’ll come again.”
Su Ying also felt that they wouldn’t give up just like that. “Cheng Ming said that he would bring a few people to guard the fields at night, just in case.” Many of the seeds had just been planted, and if they were destroyed, they would have worked in vain.
When he saw that Su Ying had thought of everything, Xiao Jin didn’t say anything else.
At night, Hea Shouyi fried two wild rabbits that he caught with Wang Su when he went to chop firewood. He also cooked a wild vegetable and egg soup and stir-fried the remaining pork. There were not many dishes, but the amount was sufficient. The pig that was slaughtered previously was refined into a lot of lard. When the lard was used to stir-fry vegetables, it made the dish especially fragrant.
Hea Shouyi now divided the food into two big portions. One portion was for themselves, and the other was for Number One and the others. This was Su Ying’s order. She said that if they didn’t eat their fill, they wouldn’t have the energy to work, so Hea Shouyi would make sure there was enough food for each meal.
Su Ying held the bowl as she drank the soup. As the weather changed, she thought of the tiger bones in her interspatial store and the resources she had hoarded from the various cities. She wondered how she was going to get them out.
Hea Shouyi had said before that soaking the tiger bone in wine was very nourishing. She had to find a chance to get those things out.
After resting, Su Ying brought the hot water to the bathroom. To make it more convenient for them to take their baths, Tian Mu had specially built a bathroom at the back of the main building when they were building the house. This way, Su Ying and Xiao Jin would have their own private bathroom.
As Su Ying poured the hot water into the big bucket, the two little ones followed her in.
“Mother, I want to take a bath with Mother.”
The younger toddler Ling hugged Su Ying’s leg the moment she entered the room. She stared at Su Ying with her big puppy-like eyes.
“Alright. Mother will take a bath with you.”
When she saw that Su Ying had agreed, Ling was so happy that she started dancing around excitedly. However, she did not forget about her older brother. “Big Brother, let’s bathe together.”
The older toddler Ji furrowed his tiny brows, feeling a little conflicted. “I can’t do that.”
Ling tilted her little head curiously. “Why not?”
“Father said that I’m a man. I can’t take a bath with a girl,” Ji said with a straight face.
Ling widened her eyes when she heard that. “You’re talking nonsense. I clearly saw Father and Mother taking a bath together!”
Su Ying was utterly speechless.
“Ling, I think you’re mistaken. Maybe your father was just passing by.”
“Impossible! I clearly saw Father helping Mother bathe!” Ling spoke very loudly as if this could prove that what she said was true.
Ji looked at Su Ying doubtfully. “Really, Mother?”
Su Ying rubbed her brows and suddenly felt that she had to be more mindful of her little ones’ sex education. “No, it’s not true.”
“Mother, but Aunt Lin also saw it! And Aunt Bai Shuang also saw it, and… Boo hoo hoo! Boo hoo hoo…”
Ling struggled and used her hand to slap at the hand that was pinching her tiny mouth. Su Ying glanced expressionlessly at Lin Zhuyu, Bai Shuang, and the others who were passing by silently in the courtyard. She slammed the door shut with a bang.
“Alright. Ling, your big brother is right. He’s a man, so he can’t take a bath with us. What happened in the past doesn’t count. He won’t be able to do this anymore in the future, understand?”
Ling puffed up her tiny face resentfully. “Why not?”
“Because Ling has grown up.” Su Ying pinched her chubby cheeks. “Ling, you are a girl, so you can’t take a bath with a boy. Not even with Father, okay?”
When she saw how serious Su Ying was, Ling nodded though she did not fully understand. “Alright, Mother.”
Su Ying led Ji out of the bathroom. She asked Jiang Yang and the others to help give the boy a bath.
Su Ying then brought Ling along with her.
After washing up, Su Ying had just helped Ling put on her clothes when the little one hurriedly ran out.
When Su Ying followed her out of the room, she overheard Ling say to Xiao Jin, “Father, you’re a man. You can’t sleep with me. Take the blanket and go to the room next door to sleep.” After saying that, she wrapped the blanket up and stuffed it into Xiao Jin’s hands.
Xiao Jin raised his head and looked at Su Ying, his eyes filled with displeasure and a quizzical look as if he was asking what was going on.
Su Ying saw his look of humiliation and tried to hold back her laughter. “Don’t look at me. You said yourself that there is a difference between men and women.”
The veins on Xiao Jin’s forehead quivered momentarily. That wasn’t what he meant when he said there was a difference between men and women!
“Ling, Father and Mother are husband and wife, so we have to sleep in the same room,” Xiao Jin patiently explained.
The younger toddler Ling did not understand. “So husband and wife can hug-hug, kiss-kiss, and hold each other high up?”
Su Ying was speechless.
Xiao Jin was also speechless.
“Is that so? Is that so?” Ling persisted in her questioning.
“Yes,” Xiao Jin replied eventually.
Ling turned around and scampered over to Su Ying with her short legs. She dragged Su Ying to Xiao Jin’s side.
“Then… I shall bring Mother for Father to hug-hug and kiss-kiss.”
Su Ying was speechless. “Listen to me. Thanks a lot but…” she thought.
Xiao Jin looked at Su Ying, his deep, dark eyes revealing a thoughtful look that she couldn’t understand.
That look was like the insuppressible excitement a wolf felt when it saw a wild boar.
Su Ying’s eyebrows twitched as she thought how she might be a wild boar that was about to be devoured… She hurriedly carried Ling to the window. “Alright, Ling. Go to sleep. Mother is already sleepy.”
Xiao Jin’s eyes narrowed as he watched Su Ying’s flustered effort to avoid him. He felt that he had to let Su Ying know what it meant to be husband and wife.
As the night went on, almost all the people in the Tiger Base were asleep.
There were only a few isolated lamps illuminating the field. Cheng Ming and Numbers Three to Six, who were on guard duty, took turns patrolling the field.
At this point, a few figures were hiding in the dark in a furtive manner.
“Damn it! They have actually gotten people to guard it. How are we going to make a move?”
“What’s the hurry? Let’s wait a little longer. I don’t believe they can patrol all night. I saw during the day that they planted a lot of potato seeds there. If we can dig them out, god knows how long they can feed us!”
“Quick, look! Those two are leaving.. Now, go!”
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