nycdaug Chapter 4 He was sleepy
Chapter 4 He was sleepy
Yunyi turned her head and met a pair of big, dark eyes. However, those eyes were instantly filled with fear, and tears welled up in her eyes. She tried to hold them back, but because she wasn't quick enough, they fell to the ground with a thud. But she still didn't dare to cry.
"Come here." Yun Yi ignored the little radish head's fear and instead beckoned to him.
"What are you going to do?" Er Ya and San Ya rushed over together, shielding Qi Bao behind them. "If you want to hit someone, hit us instead. Xiao Bao didn't mean to look at you."
"Since he's not coming, then you two come over here," Yun Yi said expressionlessly.
Er Ya and San Ya exchanged a glance, but still walked over with a death-defying spirit.
"Take this bowl to Grandma and make sure she finishes it." Yunyi handed most of the bowl of dumpling soup to Erya. "If she doesn't finish it, don't come back to eat it."
"you……"
"Go now." Yunyi glared at me. "Can't you see how tired I am from holding it?"
"I'll go then." Er Ya hurriedly took the bowl, but instead of leaving, she took a small sip herself.
"Second sister!" Sanya exclaimed in fright. "I'll do it. I'm a cripple anyway, so if anyone's going to be poisoned, let them poison me first."
Yunyi could only roll her eyes again, but she didn't stop the two sisters from interacting.
Finally, Sanya also took a sip, and not only was she fine, but her stomach started growling.
The two of them immediately felt embarrassed and hurriedly went inside.
Sanya almost fell because she had a limp.
At this moment, Da Bao had already given Liu Bao the medicine and returned to the kitchen. Looking at Yun Yi, his face was extremely ugly: "I don't know what tricks you're up to this time, but let me tell you, if you dare to hit your sister-in-law and grandma again, I will definitely kill you."
Yunyi glanced at him: "I fell before because I stepped on the stone you threw, right?"
A hint of guilt flashed in Da Bao's eyes, but he quickly regained his composure: "You have no evidence."
Yunyi didn't bring up the topic again, but instead took a sip of a bowl of noodle soup and said, "You're in charge of distributing these to them." She paused for a moment, then added, "If you want to kill me, you'd better become stronger first." After saying that, she took her bowl and went back to her room.
As for what those kids will think and do, that's beyond her control.
The children were indeed shocked. This was flour, and eggs too! This wicked woman just fed them like that? No, something was definitely fishy. Was she going to feed them until they were full before selling them?
"Big brother, if you really have to sell me, I'd be willing to eat my fill before being sold." Qibao had just turned three last month, and the little guy hadn't had a full meal in a long time. Looking at the white dumpling soup and the egg inside, he couldn't stop drooling. He felt that if it could fill his stomach, he would be willing to be sold.
"Let's eat." Da Bao took a deep breath and finally made a decision. "If anything happens, we'll be better off fighting her after we've eaten our fill." That vicious woman was right. If we want to kill her, we have to become stronger first, otherwise we'll only get beaten up.
So, after Xia Songshi and Liu Bao had eaten, the remaining six children divided up the big pot of dumpling soup, even scraping the pot clean.
After drinking the dumpling soup, Yunyi pulled out the camphor wood chest again and took out the large bundle.
The bundle contained seven brand-new pieces of cloth, two of which were silk. There were also two purses, one of which was somewhat worn, but the material was expensive brocade, embroidered with twin lotus flowers. The other, new, was made of very ordinary cotton cloth, with only the character "福" (fortune) embroidered on it.
In the old purse, there was a handful of copper coins, which I counted to be eighty-two coins, and three pieces of silver, which I weighed and estimated to be about three taels.
Inside the new purse was a jade pendant and a dark bracelet.
The jade pendant was very ordinary; it was more like a stone pendant than a jade pendant, because the material was clearly just a piece of stone, and the carving was mediocre. It was obviously made by a poor person for their own amusement.
The bracelet looked like it was made of silver, but it was probably oxidized and looked black.
Both of these items were things that the original owner always carried with her. They were left to her by her mother, and they weren't taken away by human traffickers because they looked too cheap.
The original owner of this body had also gone to a pawnshop, but the pawnshop only offered ten copper coins for the two items, so she didn't pawn them. However, she resented her mother for not leaving her anything good after she died.
However, Yunyi immediately noticed that the jade pendant was disguised. With a forceful movement, cracks began to appear on the surface of the jade pendant, and soon the outer skin peeled off, revealing its true nature.
Inside the ordinary stone was a piece of emerald green imperial jadeite of the glassy type. The jadeite was not large, only about one-third the size of the previous jade pendant, roughly the size of a modern one-yuan coin, and its shape was somewhat like a fish.
One side is carved with a character that looks like "元" at first glance, but it is actually the character "亓" (qi). This character is also a surname, but the original owner's mother's surname was Qi. Although the pronunciation is similar, it is not the same surname at all.
As for why this character was carved, the original owner didn't know, and Yunyi couldn't guess it for the time being either.
The reverse side is carved with... an eye?
I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel like the eyeballs in those eyes moved a little, but when I look closer, it's just an eye-shaped pattern.
If this jade pendant were in modern times, it would be worth a small fortune. Even in ancient times, it probably wouldn't be cheap. So, I just hung it around my neck and carried it with me so I wouldn't lose it.
Looking at that dark bracelet, in modern times, you could just wipe it with some toothpaste or soak it in cola and that would be fine, but in this era... well, let it stay dark. It's not conspicuous because it's dark, so I put it on my wrist, and it fits quite well.
Meanwhile, Xia Songshi and Liu Bao, who had drunk porridge and medicine, had fallen asleep, while the other six children sat in a row under the eaves of the main room, ready for battle.
Why? Because they felt that Fang Yunyi, this wicked woman, was feeding them such good food because she was definitely going to poison them or knock them unconscious so she could sell them off.
After all, death row inmates can have a good meal before they die.
"Oh dear, Qibao has fainted!" Wuya suddenly exclaimed.
The rest of the kids all stood up when they heard that.
Qibao leaned her little head against Wuya beside her, but after smacking her lips a couple of times, she started muttering, "The dumplings are delicious, the eggs are delicious too, I want more..."
Da Bao breathed a sigh of relief, went over and picked up Qi Bao: "It's okay, he's just sleepy." Then he carried him into the house and placed him next to Liu Bao.