Chapter 16 The Enviable Red-Haired Kid (Seeking Recommendation Votes and Monthly Votes at the Beginning of the Month)
In the early morning, the night is getting dark.
The originally heavy downpour has subsided a lot, and only a thicker fog can be seen gradually rising.
There was also a huge black ship that gradually stopped at the port through the fog on the river.
In response, the woman on duty at the port just looked at it from a distance, as if she recognized the owner of the ship, showed a normal smile, and let it go directly without even stepping forward for questioning and interrogation.
But just as the woman was about to leave, she heard a shout from the boat.
"Showers!"
The woman called "Sudden Rain" stopped and turned to look at the two figures walking in the distance.
Especially after seeing the girl running towards him with short legs.
The woman opened her arms subconsciously.
"Aunt Xuyu! Hug!"
Poof! Poof!
Xiaoyu jumped directly into the woman's arms and rubbed her hard, burying her little face in her soft parts and making coquettish sounds.
"Hey! Xiaoyu?"
A gentle smile appeared on the woman's face. She looked up at Mei Yu who was approaching and said in surprise, "Mei Yu-kun, didn't you go to purchase goods? Why are you back so soon?"
"Oh, I met a group of water thieves on the way. What a bad luck."
Mei Yu stopped, scratched her head with a simple smile, sat down next to the woman very familiarly, and said in an envious tone: "Speaking of which, your life is really comfortable."
"A woman like me who no one wants has no choice but to live like this." The woman covered her mouth and chuckled, as if she was laughing at herself, but her eyes looked at Mei Yu with some resentment.
"……Do you have time now?"
Meiyu scratched his head, hesitated for a moment, seemed to have made up his mind, and suggested: "Would you like to go have a drink? I am friends with the owner of the newly opened izakaya next door. The food and soju there are very good."
Hearing this, the woman raised her eyebrows, as if surprised by his initiative today, and asked jokingly: "Is today some kind of festival? I remember that your and Xiaoyu's birthdays shouldn't be today, right?"
"I was just taught a lesson."
Meiyu sighed, remembering the conversation on the boat.
"Forgive me, but as far as I know, Ling Zheng has been dead for three years."
Yun Chuan's tone was very pitiful and said: "Maybe it's for reasons I don't know. Last night, Xiaoyu had a nightmare and kept calling her mother. Later I woke her up, held her in my arms and told her a story before falling asleep. "
"You don't have to be so polite. After all, Xiaoyu is really cute, well-behaved and sensible, and I like her very much. However, sometimes, she is so sensible that it makes me feel bad. If I remember correctly, she is only three years old this year."
"It turns out that you died in the hands of water thieves...is that so? It's really a pity. However, even though it's a little overestimating what you say, but just for Xiao Yu, I still hope that you can come out."
"...Wait a minute, what image do I have in your eyes?"
"Don't think of me as someone who deserves to be hanged from a street lamp. I consider myself a leader with high moral character and caring for my subordinates, right?"
"I've told you many times that with me, as long as it doesn't affect the overall situation, you can choose your own life."
"Of course, I won't be polite when I really need you. Rather, you'd better be prepared to be woken up by me in the gentle land. I hope you won't blame me then."
Yun Chuan's distressed expression vaguely echoed in his ears, making Uncle Meiyu shake his head and laugh.
He quickly came back to his senses and looked at the woman in front of him.
This woman who has been waiting for him for three years is waiting for his woman at the port day and night.
He already knew the answer, didn't he?
"Oops! I've really been seen through, hahaha!"
Mei Yu laughed and scratched her head, looked at the confused woman in front of her, reached out and held her hand and said, "Sorry, I kept you waiting for too long."
For a moment, the woman was stunned. After she realized what she was doing, her pale face turned a little red.
"It turns out that the dull Meiyu-kun can have such a presumptuous side!"
She subconsciously insulted Mei Yu, but did not shake off Mei Yu's hand.
The two looked at each other, and the atmosphere gradually became ambiguous.
It wasn't until there was a faint laughter in her ears that the woman took out her hand as if waking up from a dream, and looked at the snickering girl in her arms with a blushing face.
"Then can I change my words in the future?" Xiaoyu blinked and smiled word by word, "Aunt Xuyu, no, it should be, Mom."
As soon as these words came out, the woman's face suddenly turned redder. She made a vicious look, rubbed her pouty little face and said, "Yes, I will be a vicious stepmother from now on! Please be prepared for me!"
After saying that, she looked at Mei Yu who was smiling at the side, and said calmly: "Mr. Mei Yu, I will take Xiao Yu to change into clean clothes first. I will excuse myself for now."
She stood up and just took steps, but suddenly stopped, and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "If you can, please thank Mr. Yunchuan for me, otherwise, I don't know how long I will have to wait. , I can’t wait until I hear you say this.”
Looking at the two figures, one large and one small, gradually leaving, Mei Yu subconsciously took out a cigarette from her arms, and the smile on her face gradually disappeared and then became deeper.
"The Kingdom of Rain, the Kingdom of Wind, the Kingdom of Earth, the Kingdom of Water, the Kingdom of Fire, the Kingdom of Whirlpool, the Kingdom of Thunder...War, the disgusting war, is coming again."
He is old.
I am too old to do frontline work.
My only daughter has no talent to become a ninja.
"Although Lord Kumokawa has given us the opportunity to choose a way of life that suits us, and although I don't want my daughter to choose the most dangerous frontline work, but..."
Thinking about it, Mei Yu suddenly sighed: "When I think about dying in bed in the future instead of dying on the road to pursuing peace, and my daughter can't take over my responsibility, I feel a little unwilling."
While thinking, big raindrops hit his fingers holding the cigarette.
He came back to his senses, looked up at the still cloudy night sky, and turned his head to look at the room where the sounds of fighting and laughter were faintly heard.
After a moment of silence, Mei Yu took the cigarette back into his arms and put on a smile on his face again.
Yes, war, disgusting war...
However, in order to protect everything that he finally has, he can only continue to go on, otherwise he will only watch everything he has taken away and the complete and beautiful family will be shattered like three years ago.
In order to give his daughter the opportunity to choose her life in the future, and to achieve a noble goal, he and his companions are willing to use the most despicable means.
Even if that despicable means is the war they hate!
Meiyu believes that all the old friends gathered around Lord Kumokawa have this awareness.
"By the way, Lord Kumokawa also brought back a red-haired kid before."
He suddenly remembered a touch of red that impressed him deeply, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said to himself: "I wonder if the children brought back this time can compare with that little guy in terms of talent?"
That little guy who is so good at both ninjutsu and assassination that he is enviable and even jealous.
The red-haired kid who was fortunate enough to be given a surname by Lord Kumokawa.