Chapter 426 Picnic
Little bun who was busy hitting the stuffed toy that his mother has made for him shivered as he looked up from the brown little smiley version of what can only be called the horror of the village and stared up at the window, he didn’t know why all of a sudden his butt felt really itchy.
Yu Dong who noticed his lack of attention snatched the small stuffed toy from his hand and placed it safely on the top of the dining table sitting next to them. Because Little bun was nourished with spiritual water, he was smarter and much more sharper than the other kids, which was why he caught on his mother sneaking on to him and even taking his teddy bear away. ” Babooh!”
She took it as ‘why did you’ and picked little bun up in her arms as she said, ” I know that you are bored without your daddy entertaining you all day long but you cannot just continue hitting the teddy bear, look you have already changed him from a cute little thing to a bullied little thing.” She raised the teddy bear from the table and showed little bun all the damage that he has caused to the stuffed toy. One of its eyes was missing and his fluffy right ear has already been torn off and thrown somewhere, where, no one knew—— Yu Dong caught Fang Chi making an emergency teddy bear ear earlier this day because little bun was harping at his back.
” See, he looks like he will need to see a toy doctor soon if you keep hitting him like this and he will even tell his friends that you hit him and then no one will come to play with you, all the toys will run away after seeing you.” And as she started to get more and more into the role she was playing, Yu Dong started telling little bun the story of a movie that was released many years in her world. Movies were rare happiness for them in the apocalypse but they somehow still managed to scavenge a few old CDs and DVDs and when they reached the safe house that was like a huge criminal prison-like building with barbed wires and huge mud walls to keep the zombies outside, they would enjoy one or two movies to relieve themselves of the pressure that they have to face every next day.
It was a good thing that she watched the movies though now it was coming in handy to scare her son, who stared at her wide-eyed and snatched his teddy bear from her hand before he hugged it tightly.
Good, now this way they didn’t have to worry about sewing another stuffed toy again.
Mu Zhu, who was listening to the story just as interestingly as little bun turned to his sister and asked, ” Sister is there really something like this ?”
At first, Mu Ran wanted to say ‘of course not duh?’ But then she stopped and remembered the horror of cleaning after her brother who left his toys around the house for her to clean and she swallowed back her words as Mu Ran said, ” Yes if you don’t clean your toys and put them away nicely, they will run away… Do you remember the little wooden horse you loved so much?”
” Yeah,” Mu Zhu nodded, he did remember the wooden horse that he used to play with but later on it sort of vanished and he never found it later on.
” It ran away,” said Mu Ran, this was her first time lying but her brother was such a daddy’s boy there wasn’t anything else she could do about it. Their granddaddy allowed Mu Zhu to do whatever he wanted and though their daddy tried to keep Mu Zhu in check he was still spoiled a little so, it was a good time for her to set him right when their daddy was gone. ” Yiu didn’t take care of it because of that he ran away.”
The truth was wooden got too old and their granddaddy took it away to have it replaced but unfortunately for him Mu Zhu found out and started crying because he didn’t want to be blamed by his precious grandson, Old man Mu didn’t say anything and just coaxed Mu Zhu saying that he will bring a different one for him but it was damn enough to make Mu Zhu create a loud racket until he got a new one.
Mu Zhu who found out this heaven-defying secret gasped and then hurriedly looked around the room. There were toys and more toys and more toys spread around the rooms, half of them belonged to him and half of them belonged to little bun who was already cleaning them up. Little traitor.
But he wasn’t any slower than little bun, getting onto his feet, Mu Zhu started collecting his toys and dumped them into the toy box that was sitting next to him.
Yu Dong saw how Mu Ran was manipulated Mu Zhu into cleaning up his mess and suddenly touched her nose looks like she might have made a little mistake while scaring little bun in an overly exaggerating way. She should have been more careful about it, now that she has done something like this it felt like she pushed a young and innocent child onto a wrong path.
One that her daddy won’t definitely approve of.
Sensing that she needed to do some damage control, like hitting someone and applying medicine to the wounds, Yu Dong clapped her hands and looked at Mu Zhu and little bun who were cleaning up as she said, ” Listen up kids, I know that you have worked hard that’s why I will give you all a good reward. Let’s go on a picnic! A wonderful adventure in the late hours of the night and the ocean, who is with me?”
At least this way she would be able to defend herself against Chu Chang who will certainly ask what she taught his daughter in just a few months.
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Of course, the plan of going to the picnic was out of sheer desperation and nothing else, Yu Dong was also getting sort of bored after being stuffed in the house. Though the house was just as noisy as it was before, the atmosphere inside it was bleak, as if everyone was too scared to say the wrong thing and then invoke another round of waterworks… last time when Mu Ran mistakenly mentioned her daddy in front of Mu Zhu, it was worth two hours of calming him down, including a stuffed toy and a lot of candies, only then did the boy shut up and ever since then Yu Dong was too scared of mentioning anyone including her own husbands.
Because if she said something about Shen Li or Ye Liu then Yu Mai will get all depressed and she too would not feel too nice and if she were to mention Chen Mi then it was worth an hour of calming little bun down who would start hitting anything he can get his hands on, most likely it was similar to him throwing a tantrum because he refused to cry for Chen Mi whom he was dearly missing.
So, tonight Yu Dong decided that she will take her family out and have a good time with them so that they will no longer be as bored and stuffy as they were without the presence of those whom they all were waiting for to return.
” Picnic?” Yu Mai was lying on the wicker couch which sat just next to the dining table facing the big door that opened into the courtyard. Yu Dong has rebuilt the house making it much more warm and comforting thus, she knocked on the wall facing the east and had mother Chen make a window big enough to cover half of the wall so that everyone could sit on the sofa and gaze in the courtyard that was now filled with flora that Fang Chi has grown.
This was Yu Mai’s favourite spot as he liked to lie on the wicker couch lazing around after he was done raising hell on his head.
” Why are we going on a picnic?” he asked as he sat up straight on the couch and rubbed his eyes before blinking away the blurriness and staring at his sister who smiled and said, ” Don’t you think it’s unfair that only your brothers in law got to have fun? Why should we stay in the house and wait for them? We are going to go out as well and have fun just like them! So, everyone go and pack an extra pair of clothing including a hair tie and get ready to meet me in like half an hour or so, you can even take a nap because we will be there for a long time, okay? By then I will cook something for you guys.”
Children were born curious, the second they found out that something exciting was waiting for them, of course, they will get attracted to it.
So, the second Yu Dong said that she was going to take them to a picnic and let them have fun, they all jumped to their feet and rushed to get things done even Mu Ran who was usually the least excited one.
Once they all were gone, Yu Dong wiped the sweat on her forehead, seriously raising a bunch of kids was no joke. Maybe having just two kids was all right?
The three husbands: “…..”No!!!!
Xiao Hua: “…” ???? Excuse me?