Headache. Headache. Big headache!


Looking at her mother’s serious look, Cheng Xiao Xiaojust wanted to turn around and run away. Sheis getting a splitting headache from this!


“Mom, there’s no rush. Why don’t we discuss this when dad ishome?”


“Okay, wait till he is back and I will bring it up to him!” Mrs.Cheng smiled. She thought she had successfully convinced her daughter to listento her. She didn’t know that her daughter was just too lazy to respond.


Cheng Xiao Xiao did not wish to continue the topic. She looked atthe steam from the boiling pot and asked, “Mom, do we have more tea leaves inthe house? Dad is going to get some villagers to come and help us out. We aregoing to need to prepare more tea to serve everyone!”


“Asking the villagers to help? Oh yes, I vaguely heard part ofyour conversation about the bamboo forest. What is going on?”


The mother was not yet looped into this, so Cheng Xiao Xiao had nochoice but to explain the whole bamboo forest idea to her. Mrs. Cheng wasecstatic afterward. She nodded in support, “This is great! Okay, we will steepmore team. Oh, and we should slaughter a few more chickens and ducks for them!”


“Okay, whatever you like mom!” Cheng Xiao Xiao responded with asmile, “Mom, I will go get more tea leaves.”


“Go!’ Mrs. Cheng looked on tenderly at the back of her fairdaughter and mumbled to herself, “If we were still with the family, we would beable to find her a good husband. Being where we are now, it will be difficultto find someone that Xiao Xiao will be happy with. I will definitely need tohave a talk with ye when he gets back.I wonder if the was serious when he talked about the match with the Gu’s.”


She sighed when she got here, “Aye, even if he was, I’m sure theGu’s have regretted. Our family’s current situation…”


“Mom, mom, we don’t have a lot of tea leaves left!” shouted ChengXiao Xiao from outside of the kitchen. Mrs. Cheng paused for a second and gotup.


The two met up just outside of the kitchen. Cheng Xiao Xiao shookthe ceramic container in her hand, “Mom, we have maybe enough for two moreservings. That’s not enough to serve all the guests!”


“No more tea leaves? That’s a problem. Even if we collect morefrom the mountain we will still need to fry them. Unless we go and buy themfrom the town!”


Collect tea leaves from the mountain?


Cheng Xiao Xiao’s eyes brightened, if she can translate tea treesto the dimension…


Thinking of that, Cheng Xiao Xiao was very excited. She handed theceramic container to her mother and said, “Mom, I am going to collect tealeaves from the mountain. I will have Zheng Yuan come back to help you out!”


Immediately acting upon her thoughts, Cheng Xiao Xiao left thehouse empty handed.


“This kid, going into the mountain again?” Mrs. Cheng shook herhead, she didn’t know what was on her daughter’s mind. But she wasn’t go tostop her either, so she just let her go and do her thing.


When Cheng Xiao Xiao pa.s.sed by the bamboo forest, she had theyounger brothers and sister go home to help out and went into the mountainalone. She had heard her parents mentioned the location of the tea leavesbefore so she headed straight there.


At the same time, Innkeeper Zhu of Lai Yue Inn was gettingworried. The server just saw him walking around in circles and was veryconfused. It was almost like he was failing on something big.


He certainly had no idea what was going on. Innkeeper Zhu wascrazy worried for others. He couldn’t imagine how the two deacons, who left inthe middle of the night, had never returned.


He had a pretty good idea where they had gone, but, with theirskills in martial arts, how was it possible that they have not yet returned?Unless they had left Qing"an Province after the mission was accomplished?


That’s impossible!


Innkeeper Zhu shot down that idea. No matter what, they wouldn’thave left before the situation with the Cheng’s had been resolved. Unless,there was an accident?




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