Chapter 302 - Free-Loading for a Meal is Forbidden (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

The child frowned and looked a bit unhappy, as he jumped down from the chair and walked out through the door.

“Dog, why are you here?” Just like him, the child at the gate was an orphan who suddenly appeared in this village and lived in dilapidated houses at the periphery of the village. Both of them had lived here for five or six years, relying on occasional assistance from the kind villagers.

Yet despite their similar experiences, the two did not have much association, possibly due to incompatibility of character.

“I’ve told you to stop calling me Dog, my name is Jing Qi!” He frowned. He then remembered something and shook the sweet potato in his hand. “Mother Wang gave me a sweet potato, shall we share it?”

“I don’t need it.” The child shook his head.

Yet Jing Qi did not listen to his words and pressed the sweet potato into his hand. He had to take it.

“Eat it, eat it!” Jing Qi urged him, as he took a bite himself, and looked at him as he talked. “Our lives are connected. It is only normal that we help each other.” He chuckled, with a generous look on his face. He then rolled his eyes, thought of something and said with a cold “Hmph, this village is full of unkind people. Despite all the talk about protection from immortal families, their yearly good harvests and rich life, they hardly take care of both of us. Where is the grace of immortal families in that? Aren’t they just bullying us because of our young age?”

“…” The child was stunned. He took a look at the sweet potato in his hand and frowned subconsciously. He felt that there was something wrong with this talk, but couldn’t say exactly what.

Yet Jing Qi was becoming angrier as he talked. As if anxious for recognition, he patted his shoulder. “Wild kid, don’t you believe that one day I will be an extraordinary man, and then I will no longer need to rely on anyone. I will tread underfoot all these guys who have their noses in the air.”

The child was stunned, yet after a while he nodded, only hoping for him to leave soon.

“I knew that you are the only one who can understand me!” His expression was happy, as he laughed like a grown-up, “For your good faith, your brother I will take care of you in the future! Would you like to go out for an adventure with me?”

“Out of the village?” The child shook his head immediately. “Everyone says that it is dangerous out there, we shouldn’t go out of the village.”

“And you actually believe in this?” Jing Qi rolled his eyes, snorted and said, “Soon, it will be the inside of the village that would be dangerous. If you… eh, what is that smell?” He sniffed suddenly, and his eyes brightened as if he remembered something. “Oh yeah, I heard Mother Wang say that she gave you two salted fish, you must not know how to cook them? Let me help you.”

And without waiting for a response, he pushed the door open and walked straight in.

“Wait…” the child went chasing hurriedly.

Yet the other boy had already seen Shen Ying sitting inside, the unfinished feast in front of her.

He was completely stunned, apparently never expecting a sight like this. He looked straight at the table full of dishes and made some swallowing sounds.

The child chased over hurriedly, and his little face wrinkled in displeasure as he looked at the one who just burst in.

That child called Jing Qi struggled to control his longing look towards the food. He smiled at Shen Ying in a way that he thought to be polite, and said in an innocent voice, “Big sister… are you eating?” After that, his tummy made some grumbling sounds cooperatively.