CH 11.1

Chapter 11: Runaway (1) Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.

As long as she could be lazy and not work, Shu Lan was willing to do anything!

She turned around full of anticipation, raised her neck, and looked up at Xiao Lang: “Speak quickly, as long as your method works, except for eating me, I will listen to you!”

“Then you remember this sentence!” A light flashed in Xiao Lang’s deep eyes. He grinned at Shu Lan and climbed down swiftly. He stood in front of Shu Lan and said with a smile, “You are so stupid. Aunt doesn’t really want you to work, she just wants you to learn it. In that case, if she asks you to wash the dishes when you go back, you should do it obediently. When your sister comes back, she will definitely not let you do it in the future. Aunt also asks you to do other things, you just need to be obedient, just learn how to do it. You can get a lot of lazy time in exchange for working hard a few times. How wonderful!” He reached out his hand naturally and led Shu Lan back.

Shu Lan thought about it carefully, and it seemed to make some sense.

Wait, did she forget something?

“Ah, by the way, why did you kiss me on the tree just now?” Shu Lan cried out in disbelief. Mother said you could only kiss someone if you like them, and only on the face, the mouth was reserved for the future husband. How could Xiao Lang secretly kiss her?

Xiao Lang paused. Looking at her with deep eyes, he grinned, showing two rows of white teeth, “I check if you’re delicious first. Hmm, the flesh is not strong enough now. It’s almost ready to eat in a few years. So, now you don’t have to worry about me eating you, and you don’t have to hide from me, just call me older brother obediently, older brother won’t let you suffer!”

These words successfully caused Shu Lan to get goosebumps. Her body stiffened, and she mechanically followed Xiao Lang out of the forest.

Before walking out of the forest, Xiao Lang carefully tidied up Shu Lan’s clothes to make sure Qin-shi couldn’t see anything strange and then gave a serious warning before going home.

Qin-shi spread a layer of coarse cloth on the dining table, put needles and threads on it, and sat in the kitchen to sew Xiao Lang’s summer shirts. She looked up at the door from time to time. She didn’t know where Xiao Lang had taken her daughter. At that time, she was also angry and didn’t stop him. Later, she thought her daughter always liked to fight with Xiao Lang, let alone listen to his advice. As long as they didn’t fight, she would burn incense and pray to Buddha.

Just thinking about it, a little girl in a pink shirt walked slowly to the fence gate. Who was it if not Shu Lan?

“Oh...” She accidentally pricked her hand with the needle. Qin-shi put down the needle and thread. She wanted to go out, but before she got up, she forced herself to sit still. No, she couldn’t be too enthusiastic, otherwise, she would be eaten by her daughter, so she pretended not to notice Shu Lan. She still lowered her head to mend and only used the corner of her eye to pay attention to the movement outside the yard.

Even though Xiao Lang said that Shu Lan was still a little frightened. She was leaning on the fence gate and secretly looking at her mother. The feeling of being beaten on her buttocks was deeply imprinted in her mind. At that time, her mother was so angry, would she continue to beat her? Also, her mother obviously liked the evil wolf, which made her very unhappy.

She was just clinging to the fine fence gate, looking at Qin-shi with her round almond eyes. She knew her mother liked to look outside. If she still loved her and saw her like this, she would definitely run out and hug her. When she was young, her father took her out to play, and every time she came back, she would enjoy that kind of treatment. After going out for so long today, her mother was worried, right? Actually, she didn’t want to make her mother angry, but she was just lazy. It was really hard letting her work!

Qin-shi didn’t look up at all, so Shu Lan could only look at her eagerly. The two of them had their own thoughts, so they were more patient than the other.

Gradually, Shu Lan was drowsy from the sun, and her eyelids became heavy. In the end, she blinked and curled up on the ground sleeping. Taking the sky as the cover and the earth as the cottage, this sentence was more suitable for her.

Qin-shi was so angry she was going crazy!

To say that the first thing she disliked was her daughter’s laziness, then the second thing she disliked and even hated was her daughter’s bad habit of falling asleep on the ground when she wanted to sleep! Except for a fool, who would sleep on the ground? Not to mention the cold and dirty clothes, if others see it and spread it out, who would dare to marry such a girl in the future?

With anger rising, Qin-shi put down the needle and thread in her hand. She strode to the gate. Without waking Shu Lan, she carried the person back to the house and closed the door. She picked up the sweeping broom on top of the heated-brick bed, and hit Shu Lan on her buttocks, “When I told you to sleep, did I teach you to lie down and sleep on the ground? The two fools in the village who have been without a mother since childhood are better than you. Do you think I can’t discipline you as a mother? Ah?” Her hand showed no mercy at all and papapa down.

Shu Lan’s buttocks were swollen from the beating of Qin-shi, and now she was beaten mercilessly by the broomstick, she couldn’t take it anymore and woke up shouting, “Mother, stop hitting me, I’ll clean the bowl, I’ll clean the bowl now, don’t hit, wuwuwu...”

The bowls and chopsticks have been cleaned by her, who still needed her to clean?

Qin-shi paused and asked with her eyes sideways, “Are you going to sleep on the ground in the future?”

Shu Lan was stunned, and then she thought of Xiao Lang’s words. He said, no matter what Mother asked her to do, just nod her head and agree. When Mother was happy, she wouldn’t make things difficult for her... Now Mother asked this, was she letting her sleep on the ground?