The Daily Life Of Mei Furen Doting On Her Husband - Chapter 116

“Master, Master! I found something delicious!” She lowered her voice and shouted softly. She ran to the couch in one breath, knelt on the paint-peeled footstool, and put her head covered with grass leaves into the tent.

A lazy male voice sounded from inside the tent, “What delicious food is worth being so happy about?”

The male voice was gentle and pleasant, with a hint of nonchalance, and very nice to hear. However, the owner of that voice was not a handsome man, but a white mouse lying on a soft straw pillow.

The white mouse turned over gracefully and looked at the little girl who had stuck her head in. The little girl was really miserable and pitiful, with a pale face and skinny body, but a pair of bright eyes.

“It’s pastries, sweet ones. Master, you said that I would be able to steal some delicious food if I went to the small Buddhist temple in the west room today. Sure enough, I got it, and no one found out. Master, you are so awesome!” The little girl, who was lying on the edge of the bed with a happy look on her face, was covered in dust. She looked more like a dirty little mouse than the leisurely white mouse with pure white fur on the straw pillow.

As she spoke, she carefully took out the food box she was holding, opened the lid, and placed it in front of the white mouse like offering a treasure, swallowing her saliva while saying, “Master, you eat.”

The white mouse then climbed up, took a look in the food box, picked out the smallest flower-shaped pastry, and took a bite.

“It’s too sweet and greasy,” he said with some disgust.

The little girl blinked her eyes and took a piece as well. She held it in her hand and nibbled it with squinting eyes. She looked very satisfied. “It’s delicious and sweet! When my mother was still alive, I think she also gave me such sweet cakes.”

Seeing her chewing on a few pieces of cake, the white mouse said, “I’m thirsty. Pour me a glass of water.”

The little girl immediately got up, ran to the low table beside her and poured a glass of water for the white mouse. The white mouse took a sip and waved its paw to indicate that it didn’t want it anymore. So the little girl didn’t show any disgust; she picked up the water and drank it herself, then continued to happily nibble on the cakes, looking greedy and hungry.

The little child was concentrating on eating, looking very pitiful.

The white mouse, Pei Jiya, had been there for two months. He was seriously injured in some incidents and almost died on the mountain road. Fortunately, he met the carriage of the Tao family. He was picked up by Tao Afu, the eldest lady of the Tao family, and brought there in the honor of a white mouse.

Tao Afu was the girl who was sitting on the bed and eating cake. She looked only twelve or thirteen, but in fact, she was almost sixteen. She was so thin just because she had not had enough food and warm clothes for many years.

The Tao family was wealthy, but Tao Afu, the biological daughter of Mr. Tao, had become so miserable. There was indeed a reason. Mr. Tao was just a small peddler before, married a farmer’s daughter, and lived a poor life. However, he was lucky for some reason; his business got better, and within a few years, he became a wealthy man.

After that man became wealthy, he began to dislike his original wife for her vulgarity, ugliness, and poor family background, so he abandoned his wife and daughter and married a beautiful young lady from an official family, who gave birth to three daughters. The new wife and three daughters were the apple of Mr. Tao’s eye. Mr. Tao was annoyed by the sight of Tao Afu, the “silly daughter” born to his ex-wife, a peasant woman. In addition, her stepmother was not kind-hearted either. Therefore, Tao Afu, whose biological mother died early and whose father did not love her, had a miserable life.

Mr. Tao had only seen his daughter a few times. She was silly and knew nothing. Compared with her three spoiled sisters, she seemed dull and stupid. He thought she was a fool, so he ignored her even more.

It was not until more than two months ago that Mr. Tao brought his family back to his hometown to worship their ancestors. He barely remembered Tao Afu, his eldest daughter who was also on his family tree, and took her with him. It was only then that Tao Afu accidentally saved Pei Jiya, who had turned into a white mouse.

With Pei Jiya’s intelligence and means, it was easy to coax a little girl to be obedient. Previously, he was seriously injured and could hardly move, and it was Tao Afu who took care of him. He said he was a monster, and Tao Afu believed him. Later, he said he was actually an immortal, and Tao Afu foolishly believed him again. Pei Jiya said he would teach her the “immortal art” to keep her well-fed and warm, so Tao Afu happily called him master. Under his guidance, she had lived a much better life in the past two months than before. Tao Afu admired her master even more and obeyed his words.

Pei Jiya was not in a hurry and just stayed in that broken yard to recuperate, not caring at all about what trouble the Pei family might cause outside because of his disappearance.

Every day he would occupy the little girl’s pillow to recuperate and eat the food and water the little girl offered. Although his life was poor, Pei Jiya was in a good mood. It was really funny to see the little girl, Tao Afu, being stunned by his coaxing.

Tao Afu was thrown into that yard and could not go out casually because Mr. Tao did not want her to go out and embarrass himself, and her stepmother did not want to see her either. So a maid was guarding outside the yard, saying that she was responsible for taking care of her, but in fact, she was guarding her and not letting her go out. She was not doing her job well and often forgot to bring food to Tao Afu.

Afu was small and couldn’t run away, so she almost starved to death. The next day after Pei Jiya was picked up by her, he summoned a black-armored animal in front of Afu. The animal crawled out of the soil and chiseled a hole in an inconspicuous corner of the wall, just enough for Afu to crawl out.

From that day on, when Afu was hungry, she could crawl out of the hole to find food. She told Pei Jiya the location of various places in the house, and Pei Jiya instructed her when to go, where to find food, and how to avoid people. Tao Afu listened and followed his instructions, and was never discovered. She ate well during that period and finally gained a little weight.

After finishing a box of cakes, Afu was ordered by the white mouse to go to the yard to fetch water to wash the quilt and bed curtains. Pei Jiya could tolerate not having dragon liver and phoenix gall to eat, nor good wine and tea, but he could not tolerate lying in an unclean place.

Fortunately, although the little girl Tao Afu was a bit dull and slow to react, she was very obedient. She would do whatever he asked her to do and never asked why or refused. This little girl, who was very easy to satisfy, washed the quilt and bed curtains, and then invited Master White Mouse to come out to bask in the sun.

Her arms were thin, and she had no strength to wring out the quilt. When she put it on a tree branch, water dripped down from it. Fortunately, the sun was strong, so the quilt was dried.

The white mouse felt comfortable in the sun, so he changed to the other side. After a while, he felt it was too sunny, so he knocked on the pillow. Ahfu, who was washing her hair, ran over with wet hair, moved him to a cool and shady place, and ran back to continue washing her hair.