Demon King's Repayment - chapter 258

The little girl wanted to come because she came a lot on weekdays. She was very familiar with Dahua, and took the food handed to her with both hands.

She had a pair of dark round eyes, looking at Yuan Xiang, and inadvertently said, “Sister, your dog is so big and beautiful.”

Yuan Xiang was very surprised. That was the first time she met an ordinary person who could see the demon itself. She couldn’t help but remind her of her childhood when she could see demons. There were little spirits living in crowds everywhere.

Fortunately, Dahua, who was very nervous, found no loopholes in the little girl’s tone.

Yuan Xiang was sipping tea and saw the little girl Dong’er, breaking a piece of peach blossom cake in half before anyone else, and quietly handed it to the little spirit who was pulling on the window sill.

The spirit happily held half of the cake above their heads and ran away quickly. After a while, two small hands on the window sill were raised again, and two wild flowers common in summer were placed on the window edge.

When Dahua went to prepare dinner, Yuan Xiang asked Dong’er, “Dong’er, you can see it, right?”

The little girl watched her on guard while she was eating snacks.

“I am the same as you. I have seen them since I was a child,” she raised one of Nan He’s paws, “This is Nan He, my good friend.”

The little girl lowered her eyebrows and gave a soft hmm.

“Then tell me, is there anything strange happening in Lianghe Town recently?”

“Yes, there are more demons and the river God is gone.”

“The river God is gone? What do you mean?”

“He’s gone, no more, I can’t see him anymore,” the five-year-old said as much as she could.

Before dinner, Dahua’s sister-in-law came to pick up Dong’er. Although her sister-in-law dresses plainly, she observed etiquette in her words and deeds, and her actions revealed the gentleness and grace of a woman.

“I troubled my younger sister again. Dong’er likes you the most. I heard that there was a guest here, but I never thought it was such a beautiful younger sister.”

She took out a small purse with exquisite hand embroidery from her arms and handed it to Yuan Xiang, “Dahua often mentions her sister. We are meeting for the first time, just a little gift.”

Yuan Xiang thanked her, and took the purse that was embroidered with a koi carp. The tail fin was swaying and vivid, strangely looking at the light. The fish seemed to have a pair of wings on the back, but it wasn’t seen clearly.

At night, Yuan Xiang slept in the guest room. Dahua waited for her mother-in-law to go to bed with the foot washing water, and sent supper to her husband’s study room. After busying with all kinds of housework, she got into Yuan Xiang’s bed.

“It’s great, Ah Xiang, thank you for coming to see me. I don’t know how long I haven’t slept with you like thi,” she held Yuan Xiang’s neck with her hands and acted like a baby.

She was obviously still a child who had never grown up. Yuan Xiang chuckled, and the two laughed in the bed for a while.

“Where’s your dog? Do you want to bring it into the house? You kept holding it all the way,” Dahua asked.

“No, no, he is probably on the roof.”

Dahua looked at the roof in the dark night, “Ah Xiang, when I got married, my mother cried. I didn’t understand at that time. I didn’t know why my mother was crying until I got married. My mother was reluctant to send me to someone else’s house to endure hardship.”

Even her marriage was a rare good marriage in the eyes of many girls. After marrying someone, who didn’t need to take care of in-laws and do housework, from morning till night?

“It’s really not easy to be someone else’s daughter-in-law.” Dahua sighed in the dark night, “I really want to go back and stay with my parents forever.”

Yuan Xiang: “All the girls in this world have a hard life.”

“Ah Xiang, I really envy you, do you know that all the girls envy you? You can read, you can learn, you can travel around. You can even…you can choose the person you like.” Dahua hid in the quilt, A pair of eyes were shining, with the memories of her dreams, “Tell me, in a long time, will there be a day when all the girls could be like you?”

“Yes, I promise you that girls will be treated fairly like men. This would not take too long, maybe one or two thousand years would be enough.”

“One or two thousand years is not a long time? Ah Xiang, you are so bad.”

There was a small skylight on the roof, covered with a bright tile, and a faint starlight penetrated into the dark world of the house.

Suddenly, there were a few rude curses from a man, and the crackling sound of broken dishes.

Yuan Xiang opened her eyes.

“It’s my husband’s elder brother who is back.” Dahua said softly in the darkness, “He likes to drink, and he is always like this when he comes back. I pity my sister-in-law, she is such a gentle person.”

In the dark night, fists and insults kept ringing, but no words from the victim were heard, as if it were just a ridiculous one-man show in the night.

That was why Dahua felt that she was still happy, because her husband never beat her. In that world, men were given excessive rights, so that as long as they did not exercise such atrocity, they would be considered a good husband.

An inaudible sound of walking came from the roof tiles.

Then there was a loud bang.

“Oh, a meteorite fell from the sky and made a hole in my big brother’s roof.”