In the morning Yu Mai together with Lang Ru went out to play just as Yu Dong left for the fields with Shen Li and Ye Liu, the watermelon and strawberry seeds that she had planted months ago. In the blink of an eye, a lot of time had passed after the incident when the villagers tried to burn her crops, the crops that might have been burned to a crisp were now flourishing with vitality. In Yu Dong's ten mu of farmland, the watermelon and strawberry plants were now extending and the green leaves appeared as if they had been fed with some short of speed, they appeared lush and dewy. And the white and yellow flowers on the strawberry and watermelon vines have already sprouted.
Thus, Yu Dong would often visit her farming fields to check up on them from time to time. After she, Shen Li and Ye Liu were gone, Yu Mai would often get bored at home. Even though Chen Mi stayed back he had to take care of little bun who was on his own small adventure to venture every corner of the house, so he too didn't have any time to play with Yu Mai and Lang Ru who were young and often got bored with things pretty soon.
In the end, Yu Mai who was bored after playing alone with Lang Ru decided to venture outside and look for something interesting, the two of them only went out to play but the novel toys that Yu Mai had like a slingshot and soft toys soon became an attraction to many children in the village at first no one wanted their daughters or mers to play with Yu Mai because of Yu Dong's fame but now things were different, Yu Dong was no longer good for nothing hooligan, she was rich and the money she earned was no joke either.
Even the clothes that Yu Mai wore was more expensive than their entire house! The villagers all knew that Yu Dong treated this slow Yu Mai really well and they all wanted to get closer to Yu Dong, after all, Yu Dong was rich and she was good-natured as well, no one would say no to become an acquaintance of a rich woman! And what's more, if their daughters got closer to Yu Mai who knows in the future they might become childhood sweethearts with Yu Mai and get together with him? Of course, they weren't going to force such things because they were very clear on the different situation Yu Mai and their daughters were but still-
Similarly, the parents of the mers thought that there was no problem with their mer sons playing with Yu Mai, the latter was living a life like that of a young master, if their sons could become friends with Yu Mai then it was all good! This way their family son might be able to build a good name and become friends with Yu Mai.
Thus, when the kids were attracted to Yu Mai's fancy toys.. their parents didn't stop them from playing with Yu Mai, now Yu Mai had quite a lot of friends and of course, this was something Lang Ru had a very complicated feeling about, she was happy that Yu Mai had a lot of friends but she was upset that her best friend's attention was taken by others.
Today as usual Yu Mai went to look for his friends to play with but somehow today was different from yesterday, his friend Xia Xuerou was crying while sitting under the usual spot where they all played together. His friends were surrounding Rourou as she cried, trying to console her but Rourou was just too upset to listen to anyone, she just kept crying and crying until Yu Mai got closer to her and asked " Rourou, why are you upset? Did someone scold you?"
Yu Mai only cried when someone scolded him and thus, he thought that something similar happened to Xia Xuerou but he didn't know that by saying this he ended up stepping on a landmine. Xia Xuerou didn't only stop crying, her cries become even more severe – which startled Yu Mai so much that he jumped and hid behind Lang Ru.
Lang Ru looked at the tail that was hiding behind her and felt her lips twitch, she had a feeling that whoever will fall in love with Yu Mai in the future will surely have a hard time, later on, his lack of tact was really worrisome. She turned her attention to Xia Xuerou before taking out a small candy that Yu Dong gave her for her good work in protecting her daddy and Yu Mai and handing it to Xia Xuerou.
Xia Xuerou took it because the kids from the village hardly get a chance to taste sweets, she immediately stopped crying and ate the candy before bursting out aggrievedly " my daddy and mother don't want me anymore!"
This was something Yu Mai has gone through and immediately felt sympathetic towards Xia Xuerou and asked with a pitying gaze " Rourou, did your parents lose all their money?"
Because Yu Dong sent him away that bad because of the lack of money Yu Mai thought that something similar happened to Xia Xuerou who shook her head and wiped her tears " my daddy brought a younger sister for me and he only wants her, mommy too just pays attention to that younger sister, she doesn't play with anymore! I don't like that younger sister, I don't want her in my house but daddy doesn't send her away and when I tried to give her to the neighbourhood uncle, he even spanked me!"
This was something neither Yu Mai nor Lang Ru had gone through, Yu Mai was the younger sibling so he didn't have to go through the jealousy between siblings stage and Lang Ru was the only daughter who didn't know what it means to feel jealous of younger siblings, in the end, the two turned silent as Xia Xuerou cried again.
" Maybe your dad was angry because you didn't send your younger sister to the correct place?" Lang Ru could only think of this if Xia Xuerou 's daddy brought her younger sister from somewhere he will definitely get upset if Xia Xuerou gave her to someone else.
" That's right, you should I ask from where your younger sister came from before sending her away," said Yu Mai who looked at Lang Ru with a worshipping gaze, thinking that his friend was really smart to think like this!
Xia Xuerou hesitated and then said, " But I don't know and my daddy won't tell me."
Yu Mai blinked his innocent eyes and pouted if Xia Xuerou's daddy don't tell her then " it's alright I will ask from my third brother in law, he just had a baby. He will know where we get babies from"