Chapter 244 (1/2)

Madam Liu set dinner on the kang table [1], poked her little head, and said with a smile, ”What do you have that's worth scheming for? Could it be you got a cold from the cold winds on the field? Tomorrow, when you go into town, remember to go get some medicine from Tongren Medicine Hall.”

Madam Liu was always worried about her youngest daughter's health. When she was born, the doctors all said that she wouldn't be able to survive. Although there weren't any problems in the past two years, how could one accurately predict an illness that was present since she was a fetus?

Several times, when her youngest daughter was close to dying from her illness, Madam Liu would always blame herself. She thought that her body was a letdown for causing Xiaocao to take medicine every day as a meal when she was young, letting her suffer for so many years. So Madam Liu preferred to indulge this daughter of hers. It turned out that their indulgence didn't make their youngest daughter spoiled but even brought more and more benefits to their family.

Madam Liu was convinced that her youngest daughter must be a treasure bestowed onto them by the heavens!

Yu Xiaocao turned over and sat up from the Kang table, and then she cleverly went to helped her mother set the dishes and chopsticks. Ever since her G.o.dmother moved back to town because her due date was nearing, Xiaocao had stayed by her G.o.dmother's side. Although she had gone back to Dongshan Village from time to time over the month, the time she stayed at home was very short.

Every time she left, she would feel bad when she saw her parent's reluctant eyes. After transmigrating into this strange world, it was her parents that gave her the most selfless love and tolerance. This moved her and gave her a sense of belonging in the family.

Her acceptance of Fang Zizhen as her G.o.dfather, on the one hand, was because Fang Zizhen treated her well, on the other hand, it wasn't without uses. After all, this world was a vicious cla.s.s society. If she wanted to openly do something and had no strong backing, she would more than likely become the target of some powerful people and eventually become their slave.

Fang Zizhen, who was a third-ranked general, had appeared at just the right time. After recognizing him as her G.o.dfather, Fang Zizhen wanted to give her the best of the world and treated her well from the bottom of his heart. Her G.o.dmother also treated her as if she were her blood-related daughter. Humans are emotional creatures. Yu Xiaocao naturally returned their treatment with sincerity. With the effects of the mystic-stone water, she healed her G.o.dfather's difficult problem and successfully got herself a new little brother.

Her G.o.dparent both said that she was a fairy bestowed by the heavens to help them, but it was more accurate to say it was love traded for sincerity. She treated them sincerely because of their love for her. The couple had entered her heart and became recognized as her 'family'.

Now that they had their own child, maybe she could quietly retire. After G.o.dmother finished her month of confinement after childbirth, she could go back to Dongshan Village and accompany her parents, never leaving again...

The next day, Yu Xiaocao rode her little red pony. On both sides of the pony's back, she had tied several big watermelons with straw ropes. She was also carrying several muskmelons that had matured early in her hands. This year, Xiaocao had gotten several melon seeds and planted them in the melon field, which had gradually begun to mature.

Upon remembering the several fruit trees in the corner of the backyard, Yu Xiaocao's mood suddenly became better—she wouldn't have a lack of fruit to eat in the future. There originally weren't many fruits in this era, and even fewer are suitable to plant in the north. Fruits were a luxury that only the rich could eat. Although with her family's current financial conditions, they could also afford fruit, Xiaocao felt that it was a waste of money to buy those fruits, which weren't very tasty and was extremely expensive.

Since they had their own land, as long as they could find the seeds or seedlings of the fruits, and with the little divine stone present, there wasn't anything they couldn't grow. She had found that the taste of fruits and vegetables watered by the mystic-stone water had improved by more than a bit. So why not just do it?

Dongshan Village's villagers, who went to town in the early mornings for the early market, would see a little girl in elegant riding clothes, riding a little red pony that was trotting on the flat official road. Tied onto the pony's back, there would be heavy watermelons—this was Yu Xiaocao who had decided to go to town early in the morning.

Upon meeting the familiar villagers, Xiaocao would show a sweet smile and greet them. The villagers of Dongshan Village, thinking about yesterday's scene of welcoming the royal prince and the fact that her family was acquainted with a princess consort, naturally didn't dare to slight her. So they all answered with a sincere or fawning smile.

Madam Zhang, who was going to town to see her son, walked by. The corners of her mouth turned down as she glanced at the person and the horse. She looked steadily ahead and continued walking forward.

After the lawsuit, Yu Bo's reputation in town had gone down the drain. In this lifetime, he would never be able to enter Rongxuan Academy. With his moral conduct, even his original academy kicked him out, let alone Rongxuan Academy, where people were accepted based on their talent and moral integrity.

He was instilled with the idea that in the future he would obtain fame and become a high-ranking official since childhood. Naturally, he wouldn't give up the idea of studying, but in Tanggu Town, there wasn't any academy that didn't know his reputation. Who would accept him? Presently, Yu Bo could only follow his father-in-law, who was a county official and review the knowledge he had learned before.

Madam Zhang didn't learn from her previous actions. She believed that her son was delayed from his prospects by Yu Hai's family. If it wasn't for that girl, Xiaocao, then they would have just lost some money. They could earn the money back, but once a scholar's reputation was destroyed, he would lose everything. No, she couldn't allow her ten years of hard work to be thrown to the winds!