The Blessed (Book 1)

176. Lord Wolf; Pathetic Jingxuan (2)

“Ha ha…”

Yan Shengrui who tied the cow near the factory came back and happened to see this scene, and couldn’t help laughing hard holding door frame. Rarely could he see his Jingxuan get frenzy.

“Growl…”

Two cubs rushed to him and wagged the tails facing him, while the giant wolf always stared at Ling Jingxuan. Ling Jingxuan felt so speechless. After throwing the giant wolf a hard stare, he made a light sigh resigning himself to destiny, and turned to pick up the wood bucket, took a strip of duster cloth and walked to the tatami, and helped them wipe off the dirt on it without complaint.

“In the future, you are not allowed to go on it before taking a bath. If I ever see you jump on it using your dirty paws, see how I beat your asses!”

Under the help of Yan Shengrui, the two of them finally wiped it clean. Ignoring the giant wolf staring at him, Ling Jingxuan threw those warning words at the two cubs. He didn’t want to do the cleaning job for them three times a day.

“Growl…”

Like knowing he was really angry this time, the two cubs whimpered whole lowering the heads. After throwing him a warning stare, the giant wolf stuck out his tongue and picked their heads. Ling Jingxuan shook his head helplessly, then went over and picked one of them up. He also couldn’t tell who was Dahai and who was Xiaohei. Anyhow, they looked the same to him! So he really had no idea how the two buns distinguished them.

“I am not angry, but hope you can stay clean, or later on your body will grow a lot of lice, and it’d be deadly itching.”

“Growl!”

The cub growled like he was answering him. Ling Jingxuan rubbed his head dotingly, and then let him down and touched the other one, finally got up and said to the giant wolf, “I have cleaned your room. From today on, I will come check it every day. You guys take care of yourself. Even if you want to go to the mountains, it’d better be at night.”

This time, the giant wolf ignored him, with a toss of his head, he led the two cubs to walk to the tatami. Ling Jingxuan darkened his face and nearly said swear words again. Yan Shengrui aside tried to hold his laughing and pulled him out of the wolf kennel. Now with the giant wolf joining them, their life would be more and more interesting.

After they went back, got changed and went to the factory, Ling Jingxuan and others already carried all those wild fruit back. Now baskets of wild fruit were neatly piled up inside the jam factory. As they were about to look for Ling Jingxuan to ask whether they should go on picking wild fruit in the mountain or wash those wild fruit at home first, Ling Jingxuan came in with Yan Shengrui.

“Jingpeng, you drive brother Zhao’s ox cart to go to the town to find Shopkeeper Zhang, ask him if he wants some wild boar meat in the restaurant. If he says yes, let him send a carriage to fetch it. Then you go to the grocery store to buy tens of jin of salt, and some sweet potato powder, some chili powder and pepper. I’ll let sister-in-law Song to pickle the lean meat and make it into spicy dried meat this afternoon.”

That was a six hundred jin boar. They could never finish the fresh meat. And he guessed the restaurant also wouldn’t want a lot. The fat meat could be used to extract some oil, while the lean meat would only be made into spicy dried meat or multi-spiced dried meat. As for the offal, he planned to stew them all, to have a rare sumptuous meal today!

“Got it, I’ll go right away.”

The ox cart of Zhao family was tied to the side door outside the factory. Ling Jingpeng responded and then ran away. Then Ling Jingxuan said to Zhao&Han couple, “Brother Zhao, brother Han, you help my dad butcher the boar. These days, don’t cook at home. Eat here. So much boar meat is enough to sustain us quite a few days.”

Usually, Zhao Dalong and Han Fei still stood on ceremonies. So they only had lunch here. As for breakfast and supper, they’d eat at home.

“Hehe…I’ve been wanting to eat the boar meat long ago. This time, we don’t stand on ceremony!”

Rarely, Han Fei made a joke. Ling Jingxuan also laughed, “Yeah, you should have already been like this. Why still take us as outsiders now? I can’t guarantee other things, but three meals a day won’t be a problem.”

“Haha…”

A group of men laughed, then they went to be busy with their own things. After they were almost all done, it was already after the noon. During this period time, Xinyuan Restaurant sent someone to buy a boar leg. After Ling Jingpeng came back, be it old and young, those men started to slice the meat. Yan Shengrui, the only one who didn’t know how to slice meat, was responsible for the fire. The whole family was in full play.

But on the side of old Ling family, it was a total different scenario. As Ling Qiyun was so mad that he nearly wrote the repudiating paper, the old lady finally took out more than one hundred taels of silver she had saved for years reluctantly. Ling Qiyun took it and went to town by water with Ling Qicai. The old lady who got her all her savings taken away shouted abused at home. Ling Chenghu and his whole family shut the door and no one dared to come out, while Ling Chengcai and his family were like they didn’t hear it at all. Then after having had enough, the couple directly locked the door and went to his wife’s family.

Now back to Ling Qiyun’s side, even though they took the waterway, they were still late. When they arrived at the yamen, Magistrate Hu had already announced the sentence-30 planks and three months in prison. When they heard that it was Ling Jinghan who wrote the paper complaint and handed it over, the two brothers grabbed Ling Jinghan who was passing over, looking at him with disbelief. They had thought Ling Jingxuan was the most venomous, but never expected Jinghan who had been ill in bed when he was little was no better than him!

“Why, Jinghan? He is your blood uncle.”

Old lord Ling was like having been a few years older in an instant. He never expected it was he who sent Ling Chenghu into prison.

Ling Jinghan scanned him with indifference and looked at him as if he were a stranger, “Once I gave you countless opportunities, hoping that you could have a little bit of kindness on my parents and brothers, but how did you do it? My blood uncle? When we moved out, I no longer had no blood uncles. There is something you may not know. About my mother’s miscarriage, it was all Ling Chenghua! She did it on purpose. And my mother can no longer get pregnant ever again! When you defended Ling Chenghua while blaming my mother, have you ever thought she is your daughter-in-law? Instead of questioning me here, why don’t go in to check on Ling Chenghu. Don’t let him fall into my hands again, otherwise, the result would be more cruel. I gotta go.”

After saying that with a stern face, Ling Jinghan tossed his sleeves and left, Ling Qiyun had a lurch, if it hadn’t been that Ling Qicai was fast enough to hold him, he should have already fallen onto the ground. Looking at his big brother’s face as pale as ashes, Ling Qicai made a deep sigh. Who to blame? He only had himself to blame for being too partial!