Mother Chen was a great mason, with a lot of experience but she was used to people haggling with her, it was really difficult for her to earn fifty cents even after building an entire house with a shed, people would always haggle with her from the beginning because of the rumours that her second sister spread around after Mother Chen split of the family, her second sister went around calling her unfamiliar for breaking the promise of taking care of her siblings that she made to their dead parents, so eighty cents for a day was a very generous offer for her.
Being unfilial was a very big thing whether in this world or on earth, if someone was accused of being unfilial then it was a huge issue no matter what time or space it was, people would always discriminate against you even if what you did was completely right, a human was a human whether a mer or a girl, Mother Chen's second sister's daughter had no right to sell off Chen Mi but in the end, it was Mother Chen who in the wrong because she broke the promise.
Because Mother Chen had her own problems, she understood Yu Dong's predicament. Usually, one own villager would help in the construction of their houses, not only that they would also charge less and work longer because they don't need to commute anywhere. However, something like this was impossible for Yu Dong, her reputation wasn't good, and she didn't have any friends in the village either, so even if Yu Dong wanted to look for help in her own village, the villagers might not agree to Help her.
Once the pay was decided Mother Chen didn't try to stand on ceremony with Yu Dong, because she was really in need of money. Her eldest grandchild would soon come of age and she needed to save for his marriage, the same could be said for the second one, with a decent groom price, Mother Chen might be able to look for a better girl for her second grandson who was searching for a wife.
The eldest daughter of Mother Chen was good at laying bricks, once the material that Yu Dong brought in the town was delivered, Mother Chen and her two daughters started working, for several days they continued to commute from their village to Yu Dong's village, though Chen Mi's brothers in law didn't come again after their first visit, Chen Mi's daddy would make sure to follow his wife and daughters every day. Each day he would bring some snacks for Chen Mi, Shen Li and Ye Liu, and while the three mers were busy gobbling on these snacks, Daddy Chen would take advantage of the situation and play with little bun and Yu Mai, he was really fond of milking the goats and feeding Little bun.
And since Little bun was a good child, he hardly ever cried. Even though Daddy Chen was a stranger, he would let still let his grandfather feed him without fussing at all, and after several days, as Little bun got closer to his granddaddy, he started to go on a rampage. From tugging his grandfather's hair to peeing on his grandfather, he did everything that might make anyone angry yet Daddy Chen was even more doting than Chen Mi, for once Chen Mi might get angry at his son for causing his grandfather trouble, Daddy Chen didn't get angry at all instead he would scold Chen Mi for being too strict to Little bun when the latter was only a baby.
And in this daddy Chen wasn't alone, Mother Chen would also back her husband when he said such things. She would scold her most precious son for being too harsh on her grandson, in the end, Chen Mi who was thrown to a corner by his own parents would rush to Yu Dong who was working in the kitchen. Leaving his parents alone with their precious grandchild.
" what happened? Did they scold you again?"Yu Doing was now used to Chen Mi's eccentric ways, they doted on their grandson too much even though the latter was a mer. Their doting of Little bun has long surpassed Chen Mi's who became an abandoned carrot in his parent's fields, while Little bun became rare ginseng. In their entire family, only Little bun was of importance whether it was Chen Mi or Yu Dong they had to sit aside and watch their son rule over their heads with the backing of his grandparents.
Shen Li who was stirring the porridge looked up and watched as Chen Mi who came out of his room with a pout, waddled like an angry penguin and hugged Yu Dong who already had her arms open to take Chen Mi. Even though this has become a daily routine, Shen Li still felt a bit envious of Chen Mi who could act like a baby in front of Yu Dong as he was the youngest.
" they just like little bun more and more, I'm nothing compared to my own son" Chen Mi complained unhappily, it wasn't that he was jealous of his son but he still felt that his parents were being too much. Little bun still came out of him, he was his son, so Chen Mi had all the rights to scold his son and it wasn't that he was in the wrong. Little bun was getting fussier by the day, his appetite was getting pickier as well, now he didn't like to eat mushy rice with vegetable soup, instead, he wanted rice with bone soup!
Chen Mi just said a few words and tried to feed Little bun the mushy rice with vegetable soup, yet his daddy scolded him. Asking him not to force his child to eat what he didn't want to eat, his daddy even went so far as to say that with Chen Mi's current financial situation he can easily afford bone soup so there was no need for him to be stingy! Is he stingy? No! He just doesn't want to spoil Little bun who was getting out of control because of his grandparents extreme doting.
Can someone believe that? A two and a half-month-old baby was getting picky with his diet! He could distinguish between vegetable and bone soup!
Another child might not be able to do that but Little bun who drank milk and ate food instilled with spiritual energy could easily differentiate between the two soups.
With Yu Dong's spiritual energy, Little bun's growth was really good when compared to his peers!