ch 42.1 - Unreasonable Ask (1/2)

Headache. Headache. Big headache!

Looking at her mother’s serious look, Cheng Xiao Xiaojust wanted to turn around and run away. She is getting a splitting headache from this!

“Mom, there’s no rush. Why don’t we discuss this when dad is home?”

“Okay, wait till he is back and I will bring it up to him!” Mrs. Cheng smiled. She thought she had successfully convinced her daughter to listen to her. She didn’t know that her daughter was just too lazy to respond.

Cheng Xiao Xiao did not wish to continue the topic. She looked at the steam from the boiling pot and asked, “Mom, do we have more tea leaves in the house? Dad is going to get some villagers to come and help us out. We are going to need to prepare more tea to serve everyone!”

“Asking the villagers to help? Oh yes, I vaguely heard part of your conversation about the bamboo forest. What is going on?”

The mother was not yet looped into this, so Cheng Xiao Xiao had no choice but to explain the whole bamboo forest idea to her. Mrs. Cheng was ecstatic afterward. She nodded in support, “This is great! Okay, we will steep more team. Oh, and we should slaughter a few more chickens and ducks for them!”

“Okay, whatever you like mom!” Cheng Xiao Xiao responded with a smile, “Mom, I will go get more tea leaves.”

“Go!’ Mrs. Cheng looked on tenderly at the back of her fair daughter and mumbled to herself, “If we were still with the family, we would be able to find her a good husband. Being where we are now, it will be difficult to find someone that Xiao Xiao will be happy with. I will definitely need to have a talk with ye when he gets back. I wonder if the was serious when he talked about the match with the Gu’s.”

She sighed when she got here, “Aye, even if he was, I’m sure the Gu’s have regretted. Our family’s current situation…”

“Mom, mom, we don’t have a lot of tea leaves left!” shouted Cheng Xiao Xiao from outside of the kitchen. Mrs. Cheng paused for a second and got up.

The two met up just outside of the kitchen. Cheng Xiao Xiao shook the ceramic container in her hand, “Mom, we have maybe enough for two more servings. That’s not enough to serve all the guests!”

“No more tea leaves? That’s a problem. Even if we collect more from the mountain we will still need to fry them. Unless we go and buy them from the town!”