Chapter 1159: What kind of fruit
At this point, someone who seemed to be quite nosy could not help but ask, " Anyway, when is Yu Dong going to marry Xiao Hua? I am not saying anything but they should at least get engaged right?" Everyone in the village knew that Yu Dong and Xiao Hua were together. It was impossible not to know given how close Xiao Hua acted with Yu Dong.
Thus they were very much aware of the relationship between the two.
" I also thought that the two would be engaged by now but Yu Dong has never mentioned engagement. Are they really going to get married?"
" Maybe Xiao Hua is angry with what happened, I mean Sun Jie got married to Yu Dong before he could, even though he did not get married like the rest but he did cut the line. Maybe Xiao Hua is angry with Yu Dong?"
As soon as the mer finished speaking, the mers next to him also became silent. This might be possible, they recalled how Xiao Hua was a rather jealous and possessive mer even though he was willing to share Yu Dong with the rest of her husbands, it did not mean that he would be willing to let someone who was not even in the line cut in between. He must be upset with Yu Dong or Sun Jie.
Most likely it was possible that he was furious with Sun Jie more than anyone else.
Of course, it was possible that they were the ones who were reading too much into the lines and nothing like that was happening. Then again, if Xiao Hua was not upset then why did he not step out of his house and meet with Yu Dong? They have heard that Yu Dong went to the house of the mers but she returned without seeing Xiao Hua.
They could not help but doubt whether or not there was trouble in paradise.
" We should not worry about them," just as the mers were going to say something else, Chu Cheng who came to survey the fields stopped them. He looked at the mers and then sternly said, " There is no way we would be able to find out the truth, so we might as well stay quiet. Anyway, we need to harvest these vegetables and then deliver them to the Yu house. Your next journey awaits at M V L
It's not good to talk bad about others, especially the ones who have employed you, we wouldn't want trouble to arise, now do we?" He said all these things with a smile but the mers all felt a chill crawl up their spine.
As they all piped down and started to work again in the fields.
Sun Jie and Yu Mai were playing next to the fields, thus they overheard everything spoken by the mers. Yu Mai turned to look at Sun Jie who was standing still and then said, " Brother Jie, you are really good. No one hates you!"
In Yu Mai's eyes Sun Jie played with him thus he was better than most of the mers who did not play with him but worked on the fields.
" Yes, no one can hate me," Sun Jie nodded but at the same time he was worried that Xiao Hua was angry with him. Were the mers right? Did he do something to make Xiao Hua angry? Sun Jie could not help but worry which was why he hugged Yu Mai and then said, " I know a place. It's really good!"
And before Yu Mai could refuse, Sun Jie brought him to the mountains. He didn't take Yu Mai deep into the forest but Yu Mai who had been warned again and again couldn't help but be worried as he said to Sun Jie, " Brother Jie we cannot go up the mountains, Brother Li said that the wild animals are coming down and if come up the mountains then we will go in their tummies."
" We are not going up the mountains!
There is a place where I want to take you, we will bring a gift to Brother Hua and he will be no longer angry with me," Sun Jie spoke to Yu Mai as he took the little kid to a trail that led away from the mountains, they did not walk up the mountains inside they walked past the forest and then headed towards the caves where Sun Jie brought Yu Mai to a climber plant and then started to pluck a red fruit.
Seeing this Yu Mai could not help but say, " Brother Jie, you cannot do this! This fruit is wild fruit and if you eat them then your tummy will go bad and it will hurt."
" It's not going to hurt," Sun Jie said with a wide smile. " He peeled the fruit and revealed the white pulp with brown seeds attached to it and then said, " This is really tasty and sweet, I found it when I was hungry. Really nice."
Yu Mai was still hesitating when he saw Sun Jie eating the fruit and being completely fine.
" Is it …Is it really delicious?" He asked with a tentative voice. Though he was a bit wary, for some reason, the fruit indeed looked a bit tempting.
" It's really delicious, you are missing out if you don't eat it," said Sun Jie who handed the red fruit to Yu Mai who took it tentatively and then took a bite from it after peeling it.
To his surprise, the taste of the fruit was indeed a bit distinctive but it was indeed delicious. The two of them ate a few pieces and it was only when the fruits in their hands turned less and less that they snapped out of their daze and then hurriedly stopped.
" Oops we came here to bring these fruits to Brother Hua," Sun Jie winced as he looked at the pitiful amount of fruits in his hand and then turned to look at the climber before he started to pick the remaining fruits that were left on the climber.
As soon as they finished picking the fruits the two of them gulped heavily before turning to look away, they could…they could not eat it!
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