Chapter 104: He's done everything, what do you do?

Shi Jin jerked awake, eyes flying open, and said unhappily, "If you hadn't blown out the lamp last night, would I have ended up like this? And you still yell at me!"

That's how it was.

Xiao Shitou whispered: "Mother, I'm fine, let him go."

"What's it to you to plead for him?"

Shi Jin glared over.

Qiao Sheng picked him up and walked out.

Seeing she really intended to throw him into the river.

Shi Jin panicked; he had two fears: darkness and water.

Though frightened, he refused to yield, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "You wicked woman, let me go, let me go! Help! Someone's trying to kill a child!"

Qiao Sheng laughed in anger; he was quite something, actually shouting like that.

Zhang Qiao happened to hear and came over, seeing Qiao Sheng carrying a child toward the riverbank; at first she thought it was Xiao Shitou, but on getting closer she realized it wasn't him.

"Lianhua, what are you doing?"

Qiao Sheng blinked at Zhang Qiao and said: "Qiao'er, it's you. Here's what happened: a friend entrusted a child to me to look after, I thought he was too disobedient, so I planned to toss him into the river to knock some sense into him."

"Oh, I see. I'll head home first then."

Zhang Qiao turned and left, carrying the vegetables she had picked.

Shi Jin: "……"

At last someone showed up, and it turned out to be someone she knew!

Qiao Sheng held onto Shi Jin and continued toward the riverbank.

Upon reaching the riverbank, she proceeded to put him into the water.

He could see his feet about to touch the water.

Shi Jin begged for mercy: "I was wrong, I was wrong, isn't admitting it enough?"

"This time I'll let it slide, but if there's a next time I'll really throw you into the river."

Qiao Sheng set Shi Jin down.

Shi Jin raised his hand to push Qiao Sheng.

But he didn't expect.

Qiao Sheng moved, seized his hand, and threw him over her shoulder, slamming him to the ground.

Of course Qiao Sheng controlled her strength; otherwise Shi Jin would have been in pain all over. Even so, it was enough to keep him from acting up again.

Shi Jin slowly got up and asked: "You, what kind of martial art is this?"

"Want to know? I'm not telling you!"

Qiao Sheng set off toward the Mountain God Temple, and Shi Jin hurried to keep up.

Whether at home or with Feng Qingyang and the others, Shi Jin usually had a hearty breakfast; suddenly eating so poorly, he had no appetite.

"Not eating? Then go hungry."

Qiao Sheng didn't urge him; she just picked up her bowl and started eating with Xiao Shitou.

Shi Jin pursed his lips, hesitated a moment, then lifted the congee and drank it; he didn't eat the egg, because he didn't want to.

Xiao Shitou finished the congee and took the bowl to wash.

Shi Jin stared, bewildered: "You make such a little kid wash dishes?"

"Strange?"

Qiao Sheng said in a moderate tone: "My Xiao Shitou not only washes dishes, he also washes his own clothes, tends the fields; besides, the congee we ate today was cooked by him, and the egg you didn't eat was also cooked by him."

"She's outright abusing a child!"

"How could his uncle have found him such a woman!"

Shi Jin glared at Qiao Sheng and said: "He does everything, what do you do? Is that how a mother should act!"

Upon hearing that.

Xiao Shitou defended her fiercely: "I won't let you talk about my mother like that! If it weren't for my mother, I'd be dead already; she's the best person in the world to me. I do those things willingly; she's never forced me."

"How could a mother like that be the best mother in the world?"

Shi Jin looked at Xiao Shitou with the expression of someone looking at an idiot.

Qiao Sheng scooped up Xiao Shitou, gave him a kiss, and said: "Starting tomorrow, you'll follow Xiao Shitou and learn to do these chores; if you do them poorly, you won't get to eat."

(End of chapter)