Seeing that everyone didn’t believe in her, Jin Xiaoyu swore, “I swear on my life, okay? If I were to badger Xiao Baoshan, I would be killed by being stricken by lightning.”
Feng Sheng thought about it for a while and finally figured it out. It turned out that Xiao Baoshan and Jin Xiaoyu had a relationship before.
He expressed support for Jin Xiaoyu, “Didn’t General Xiao get injured and could’t remember anything? So you couldn’t just blame her on this. If she knew that General Xiao was married, she might have sent him back to you.”
Wang Mudan asked Feng Sheng, “Does she have to stay here? Can’t she go somewhere else?”
Feng Sheng replied, “She really has no place to go, and this is what the Seventh King meant. For the Seventh King’s sake, can you take them in? The Seventh King would take care of all the expenses they need.”
Liu Yuanwai said, “The Seventh King values her so much. I guess… the two of them must be very important to the Seventh King.”
Everyone immediately thought of some rumors about sex scandals.
With Jin Xiaoyu’s charming appearance, it was not surprising that she could attract the Seventh King.
Besides, Li Chengru was of much help to the tribe. If he wanted to hide two people here, they had no reason to refuse.
After a moment of silence, Liu Qianqian said, “But only us agreeing to keep them doesn’t count. Baoshan and Little Ye must agree in the first place. If they disagree, we can’t take her in.”
Everyone looked at Xiao Baoshan and Ye Xiaoxian.
Ye Xiaoxian didn’t know why, so she threw the problem to Xiao Baoshan. “You guys don’t have to ask me. Just ask Xiao Baoshan’s opnion. If he said yes, then yes.”
In fact, she wanted to see how Xiao Baoshan would react.
For any reason, Ye Xiaoxian would agree to take in the people that Li Chengru wanted to keep, regardless of Xiao Baoshan’s opinion.
Therefore, everyone turned to Xiao Baoshan.
Others might not know, but Xiao Baoshan knew very well that the little boy next to Jin Xiaoyu was not her brother, but Prime Minister Xun’s grandson. He didn’t know why Jin Xiaoyu saved the little boy but knew that he was responsible for protecting the child.
Thus, he quickly nodded, “I agree as well.”
After he said this, Ye Xiaoxian’s heart skipped a beat as if it was sinking.
He agreed. He voluntarily agreed!
Feng Sheng said, “Since everyone has agreed, please take care of the two of them for the sake of the Seventh King and me, alright?”
No one objected.
Ye Xiaoxian left the yurt quietly while Xiao Baoshan followed behind.
……
Ye Xiaoxian just wanted to have a rest at the hill but Xiao Baoshan followed.
After so long, it was the first time that Xiao Baoshan took the initiative to talk to Ye Xiaoxian. He seemed very sincere, “Little Ye, may I explain?”
Ye Xiaoxian didn’t say anything so Xiao Baoshan said directly, “That little boy is not Jin Xiaoyu’s younger brother.”
Ye Xiaoxian thought to herself, what does it have to do with me?
It was better if you didn’t explain, but as soon as you did, it would seem that you had a guilty conscience.
“I agreed to let Jin Xiaoyu stay,” continued Xiao Baoshan, “Not because I still, like her or maybe I want to marry several wives or something, but because I want to take care of the little boy.”
Ye Xiaoxian snorted coldly.
What an absurd reason!
“That boy does not have an ordinary identity. He might be the descendant of a loyal minister from the imperial court who fled here because of persecution. However, it is improper for me to tell his specific identity. This is something that needs to be kept secret, so I told no one but you.”
Ye Xiaoxian thought to herself that even if he was the descendants of a loyal minister, there was no need for you to protect him. It was as if you were great and upright while the others were unaware.
She remained silent.
When he saw that she didn’t say anything, he stopped talking and stayed besides her silently.
Ye Xiaoxian thought it was quite boring, so she went to look for Li Hongmei and the others.
Li Hongmei and Wang Mudan were gathering to arrange a place for Jin Xiaoyu to live.
Jin Xiaoyu was someone Li Chengru had designated them to take care of, so naturally, they must take it seriously and couldn’t let her share the mattress with them. After all, she was raised up rich.
Ye Xiaoxian also heard their discussion.
Wang Mudan said, “Hongmei, I think it’s better to ask Little Ye for her opinion. See where we should build their room. If it’s too far away, the Seventh King would be unhappy but if too close, I’m afraid Little Ye would be unhappy.”
Chen Ju said, “Eating is also a problem. Will they eat alone or with us? We have to ask Little Ye about this, otherwise she would be unhappy.”
Li Hongmei sighed, “I dare not ask her. You didn’t see her reaction just then. She clearly didn’t want them to stay, so she left the question to Baoshan. But Baoshan already agreed. Alas… Let’s just set up a room that is neither too far nor too close. As for dining, let’s just give them a pot and the ingredients and let them cook themselves.”
Wang Mudan and Chen Ju decided to follow Li Hongmei’s suggestions.
However, Ye Xiaoxian walked in at this time. She pretended that she didn’t hear them and asked, “So you are planning to set up the yurt?”
Li Hongmei said, “Ah…Yes. Yes, we found a small yurt. Since only the two of them will live in it, there is no need to set up a big one. We don’t have enough for our own.”
Ye Xiaoxian asked again, “Where are you going to set up this yurt?”
“Well… Just build it near the slaughterhouse. It’s far away from us, but… not too far away. It’ll be easier to find them if something happens.”
Ye Xiaoxian smiled, “Why so far? Just stay nearby. They just arrived at the tribe and are not used to many things. They might need our help at any time. If it’s too far away it would be a burden for everyone.”
Li Hongmei was surprised.
Ye Xiaoxian pretended to stay calm, “Let’s see if we still have extra cotton sheets. We can also send some over to them, as well as daily necessities. After all the Seventh King is paying for all of this. Next time when he comes, we’ll let him pay us back.”
Li Hongmei and the other girls stared at one another, wondering if Ye Xiaoxian had lost her mind.
Ye Xiaoxian didn’t care about them. Instead, she started to give them commands on what to prepare and went out to find someone to set up the yurt for Jin Xiaoyu and the child.
Jin Xiaoyu also came out from the other room. Seeing that they were busy and Little Ye was standing in the middle as a commander, she walked over to Ye Xiaoxian and asked, “Is this the new yurt prepared for me?”
Ye Xiaoxian nodded.
Jin Xiaoyu asked, “You’re not edging me out. I thought you would let me live on the mountaintop.”
“If you want to live there, you can.” Ye Xiaoxian said.
Jin Xiaoyu laughed at once. “I’ll just stay here. It looks pretty good.”
Ye Xiaoxian didn’t reply.
Jin Xiaoyu added, “I should thank you for taking me in.”
“No need to thank me. You should rather thank the Seventh King and Xiao Baoshan. He agreed to let you stay.”
“You deliberately threw him the problem. I didn’t expect him to agree. You must be very angry now, but you can’t blame me. I promise I won’t bother him. You can be sure about this.”
“Even if there is something between you and him, I won’t mind, because he and I are no longer husband and wife.”
Jin Xiaoyu was surprised, “It’s been so long, yet you still refuse to forgive him?”
“I don’t want to talk to you about this,” Ye Xiaoxian said and went into the room again.
……
After Jin Xiaoyu and Little Xun entered their new room, which was actually a tent, they were quite satisfied.
It was the first time the two of them had lived in such kind of room. The scenery here was beautiful, and there were children asking Little Xun if he wanted to go out to play. Little Xun was not used to it and refused.
But he was still very happy.
“Little Xun, I will take you out to take a look at the scenery here,” said Jin Xiaoyu.
Little Xun immediately agreed.
Jin Xiaoyu took Little Xun’s hand and went out.
Jin Xiaoyu was outgoing and open-minded. She looked around and asked others whenever there was something that she didn’t understand. Men liked her very much, but women hated her and thought she was a slut.
However, Jin Xiaoyu just did whatever she wanted, regardless of what others thought. She didn’t care whether others liked or disliked her. She just wanted to know what the tribe people were working on.
The place for beef marination was stinky and she didn’t like such jobs.
Another team had brought back a bunch of wood they had just chopped. She didn’t like this either as she was not strong enough.
There was also the logistics team. She felt that these tasks were too trivial and she was unwilling to do it.
Casting accounts and buying necessities for the tribe didn’t sound bad. But at this point it was inconvenient for her to travel around, in case being recognized.
On the other hand, she new that she couldn’t be a freeloader and the only job she could do, then, was cotton-picking.
Both she and Little Xun could do this.
As she was walking, she met someone.
Xiao Baoshan was in charge of carrying water to fill the tribe’s water tank, and now he was just walking toward Ye Xiaoxian with a bucket of water.
When he saw her, Xiao Baoshan paused for a while and Jin Xiaoyu was stunned.
At once, Jin Xiaoyu grabbed Little Xun’s hand and turned around to leave.
Little Xun even asked, “Sis, are you afraid of that uncle?”
Jin Xiaoyu took a deep breath, “No, of course not!”
“Sis, your hands are trembling,” Little Xun added.
Jin Xiaoyu paused for a moment and laughed, “Maybe he’s too tall, and he’s skin is too dark. I can see that he’s good at fighting. Little Xun, try not to piss him off in the future, ok?”
“He doesn’t look like a bad person.”
“Bad persons wouldn’t write the word ‘bad person’ on their faces, right? Look at those who are chasing after us, do they have the word ‘bad’ on their faces?”
Little Xun widened his eyes in confusion.
Although the bad guys didn’t have any words on their faces, they looked like bad guys.
Anyway, whatever she said was right. I shouldn’t make objections, in case she became angry.
……
Jin Xiaoyu took a short rest in her room before someone called her for dinner.
It was already late. Besides the female workers being busy outside, everyone else went into the public room for dinner.
