The Daily Life Of Mei Furen Doting On Her Husband - Chapter 114

Wu Zhen wanted to ask Mei Zhuyu to turn into a cat so that she could pet him.

Mei Zhuyu didn’t want to obey at first, but Wu Zhen was very good at pestering people. Even though she was a few years older than Mei Zhuyu, she still liked to call him “Young Master” sometimes. She had no psychological burden to act like a spoiled child. She held his hand and said many nice things to him, which made Taoist Mei so angry that he agreed to her request and turned into a cat awkwardly.

Wu Zhen picked up the tabby cat, looked closely at the belly, and after looking at it for a while, she said, “It looks like the belly hasn’t gotten any bigger.” Then she happily put the cat on her lap and stroked the fur for a long time.

However, it was only that one time. After that, no matter what Wu Zhen said, Mei Zhuyu refused to transform into a cat again because after he transformed back and put on clothes, he was molested by Wu Zhen, and it was a really painful experience.

The two also met other people on the way, including ordinary travelers, caravans, and ordinary farmers living in nearby villages.

One day, Wu Zhen, who was riding a horse, suddenly clasped her hands together, abandoned her horse, and got on the ox carriage. She said to Mei Zhuyu, “Guess what’s in my hands?”

Mei Zhuyu looked at her folded hands and guessed, “Is it a flower?”

In the past few days, Wu Zhen had done many elegant things like picking flowers for him. After all, there were many beautiful wildflowers blooming along the way, and Wu Zhen would destroy any beautiful ones she saw.

Wu Zhen shook her head, “No, no, guess again.”

Mei Zhuyu asked, “What kind of interesting little monster is this?”

Wu Zhen had a problem. Whenever she met an interesting goblin, she would catch it and bring it to him for a look. Along the way, countless ignorant goblins had been disturbed by her.

Wu Zhen shook her head again, “It’s still not right.”

Mei Zhuyu couldn’t guess it, so he asked her, “What is it?”

Wu Zhen still refused to reveal the answer and said with a smile, “Close your eyes and feel it.”

Mei Zhuyu cooperated in such a small matter. He closed his eyes and reached out to touch the object in her palm. He felt something warm and furry. He opened his eyes and saw a small, furry object in Wu Zhen’s hand.

“Is it a duck? There are no houses around this road, where did the duckling come from?” Mei Zhuyu asked curiously.

Wu Zhen said, “Wrong, this is a goose, not a duck.”

They both had soft yellow fur and red beaks. Mei Zhuyu had never raised one before, so he couldn’t tell the difference. Wu Zhen stuffed the little goose into his hands, leaned against the window of the ox carriage, crossed her legs, and said, “Just now, an old man on the road was driving a cart to the city to sell goslings. I thought the cart full of little things was interesting, so I went over to take a look. Unexpectedly, this goose was very fierce and dared to come over and peck my finger, so I bought it from the old man.”

This kind of impulse happened to her more than once, and Mei Zhuyu didn’t think it was strange. Holding the fluffy, pitiful, and cute gosling, he felt that it didn’t look like the little creature Wu Zhen described.

It felt quite comfortable to touch.

Wu Zhen saw him looking at the goose and said with a smile, “Let’s keep it first, it’s better to roast it and eat it after a few days.”

Even so, she had no intention of eating the goose in the next few days. She would hold the goose in her hand while riding her horse every day, and when she was resting, she would ask Niu Yi and Niu Er to catch insects for the little thing to eat. Maybe because there was nothing to amuse her while traveling, she had a lot of fun playing with the goose.

She even gave the goose a name, “Ezi”, which made Mei Zhuyu not know if he should laugh or cry.

The only time she was disgusted with it, throwing the goose to Mei Zhuyu was when the goose was defecating. Wu Zhen picked up one of the goose’s wings and threw it into the carriage, shouting to Mei Zhuyu, “I don’t want this dirty thing anymore. I’ll boil water to pluck its feathers and stew it to eat in the evening!”

As a result, she forgot about it that night and continued to play with the little thing in her hands.

Sometimes when Mei Zhuyu saw her struggling like that, he couldn’t help but start to worry about their future child. It was foreseeable that if the child was born and Wu Zhen was asked to take care of the child, she would probably be like that, holding the little one in her arms and playing when she liked, and then throwing the child to someone else to take care of when she saw that she was in trouble.

As he thought about it, Mei Zhuyu shook his head and smiled for some reason. It was a pity that Wu Zhen was busy scolding her “goose” and didn’t see her husband’s smile.

During these days, they were not only on the road but also looking for the missing cousin of the Pei family. The Pei family servant who found Chang’an brought a team of palace soldiers assigned by Wu Zhen to look for Pei Jiya on the road from Chang’an to Kunzhou. They walked fast, and Wu Zhen’s men, traveling light, were overtaken by them two days ago. The team didn’t know that Wu Zhen had also left Chang’an to look for the said counsin. When Wu Zhen saw them passing by her, she didn’t approach them and just pretended not to know them.

Firstly, she and her husband were not in a good position to be with so many people in their current situation; secondly, the circumstances surrounding Pei Jiya’s disappearance were unclear, and Wu Zhen intended to have their large group of people search in public, while it would be more convenient for her to act secretly.

On that day, in a city called Tangshui in Puzhou near Kunzhou, Wu Zhen finally got some news about Pei Jiya. She received this news from the rat monsters and insect monsters in the city, which were summoned by Mei Zhuyu.

Wu Zhen had the power of a cat in his body, which was different from the spiritual power of ordinary monsters. Although the identity of a cat was not so useful outside Chang’an, it was still no problem to control some small monsters. Mei Zhuyu practiced without a teacher, and in a short period of time, he was able to use the power in his body freely. After finding a comfortable inn in the city to rest, he summoned a group of small monsters as he had done in previous instances and asked Wu Zhen to inquire.

These weak monsters knew more than the ordinary people living there. One clever monster said, “I saw a weak but handsome man named Pei with a group of servants and guards two months ago. They rested for two days at the Lu family inn ahead and then left the city.”

Wu Zhen asked them again who knew where Pei Jiya had been after leaving the city. After a while of noise from the monsters, a timid monster stood up and said, “I haven’t seen him, but I have relatives living outside the city. Maybe they have seen him. I’ll ask  tomorrow.”

Wu Zhen was satisfied and nodded in agreement. She took something out of her pocket and handed it to them. “Thank you very much. If you can really do this for me, I will reward you handsomely.”