Zhao Shuning burst into laughter.
She was amused by Feng Xiaobai.
She put down the rattan in her hand.
Then she kicked Feng Xiaobai's foot.
"Get up," she said.
Feng Xiaobai looked surprised.
"Mother, you're not going to beat me?"
His expression was full of disbelief.
Zhao Shuning replied, "Since you've done nothing wrong, why should I beat you?"
Feng Xiaobai pulled up his pants.
He found it even more strange.
He sized up Zhao Shuning from head to toe.
Then he said, "Mother, have you been replaced by someone else?"
"What? In your eyes, is your mother just an unreasonable shrew who beats you at will?"
Feng Xiaobai nodded extremely honestly.
Zhao Shuning just raised her hand.
Feng Xiaobai quickly covered his head.
Zhao Shuning thought for a while.
Then she put her hand down.
She said righteously, "Your mother is a just person. I won't beat you without a reason."
Feng Xiaobai squinted his beautiful fox-like eyes.
"Tsk tsk tsk—" he clicked his tongue a few times.
"Are you asking for a beating, boy?"
"Mother, you never needed a reason to beat me before. It always depended on your mood."
Zhao Shuning gave Feng Xiaobai a sidelong glance.
"So what? Since I beat you so hard, you might as well stop calling me mother. After we leave this valley town, when you go outside, just pick whoever you like and recognize them as your mother, okay?"
Feng Xiaobai seriously considered it for a while.
Finally, he shook his head solemnly.
"What? You were really considering it?"
"Of course. Mother's words are commands. I must think carefully about what you ask me."
"And what's the result of your thinking? Do you think that in this world, only your mother is reliable? You know, there are really not many women on the Nine Provinces Continent who are as good-looking and gentle as your mother."
Feng Xiaobai rolled his eyes.
He said, "Indeed, apart from your thick skin, you are much better than other women in other aspects."
Looking at the women in the town,
Feng Xiaobai thought seriously.
Although his mother was hot-tempered, she was not fussy when dealing with things. As long as it was good for him and his younger sister, she would always do it no matter how hard it was.
Moreover,
Although Feng Xiaobai was only a little over three years old,
he also understood.
In this world, there should be no one else who could love him and Xiao Qiu'er as much as Zhao Shuning.
Although his mother was careless and unreliable,
when danger came,
she would definitely protect him and Xiao Qiu'er.
Even though
she didn't really have the ability.
So,
To sum up,
Feng Xiaobai thought that Zhao Shuning was a qualified mother.
Although she was not extremely good,
and her character was not perfect,
for him and Xiao Qiu'er,
she was an irreplaceable existence.
"Mother, I'm back,"
came the voice of Xiao Qiu'er from afar.
She was carrying a bowl of goat milk and walking shakily towards home.
She tried her best not to spill the milk.
Zhao Shuning glared at Feng Xiaobai.
She said, "I'll go and pick up your sister. You little rascal, reflect on yourself properly."
Zhao Shuning turned around, opened the courtyard gate,
and walked out of the yard.
Feng Xiaobai immediately trotted over and sat on the stone bench, leisurely drinking the cool spring water.
When Zhao Shuning and Xiao Qiu'er entered the yard, he obediently stood beside the stone bench again.
Zhao Shuning glared at Feng Xiaobai,
then went into the house to feed the two little white wolves.
Xiao Qiu'er came up.
She asked worriedly, "Brother, did you get beaten again?"
Feng Xiaobai replied, "No. I don't know what got into mother today. She didn't beat me."
After hearing this,
Xiao Qiu'er quickly said, "Brother, don't say that. Aren't you afraid that mother will come out and punish you when she hears it?"
"Women are always so unreasonable,"
Feng Xiaobai said, shaking his head.
Xiao Qiu'er said angrily, "I won't allow you to talk about mother like that."
Feng Xiaobai glanced at Xiao Qiu'er.
He said provocatively, "I'm including you too."
With that,
he ran away at full speed.
Xiao Qiu'er chased after him.
In the courtyard,
there was a burst of laughter.
Inside the house,
Zhao Shuning propped her chin on her hand.
Watching the two little wolf cubs eating happily and listening to the laughter of the two children outside, she couldn't help but smile.
In a blink of an eye,
the children had grown so big.
Time really flew by.
Zhao Shuning used to think that she was still a child herself and wasn't ready to become the mother of Feng Xiaobai and Feng Qiu'er.
As a new mother, she had done a lot of things imperfectly.
Fortunately, these two children had never complained about her.
Feng Xiaobai was naturally active. Now that his talent was showing and so many fierce beasts were coming, it seemed that the days to come would not be peaceful.
The appearance of the blood wolves this time
meant that they could finally leave this valley town.
Thinking of the outside world,
Zhao Shuning felt a little hesitant.
She didn't know how many years had passed.
She didn't know how the Zhao family was doing now.
What made her even more uneasy was
that she didn't know how Bu Ran was living.
Remembering what she had seen on the silver plate before,
Zhao Shuning smiled.
She had only seen the woman in coarse cloth clothes and a lively and lovely little daughter beside her. At that time, Zhao Shuning never knew that she was pregnant.
She never thought that
that woman
would be her.
That daughter
would be her child with Bu Ran.
However,
on the silver plate,
why was there no image of Feng Xiaobai?
Or perhaps what she had seen was just the tip of the iceberg in the Star Disk Formation and was not complete.
Zhao Shuning's slender hand stroked the two little wolf cubs.
She felt much more at ease.
Although the two little wolf cubs were still small in size, their eating ability was very strong. The goat milk they had begged for was quickly licked up by them.
Moreover, judging from the situation, they still wanted more.
The two little white wolves looked at Zhao Shuning with pleading eyes.
Zhao Shuning's heart softened immediately. After all, she was a mother. Seeing the listless appearance of the little wolf cubs, she felt extremely distressed.
She walked out of the door.
Zhao Shuning planned to stroll around the village.
She wanted to beg for more goat milk.
Later, she heard that
Uncle Liu at the village entrance had raised a lot of sheep in recent years and had the most goat milk at home.
After thinking about it,
Zhao Shuning went to Uncle Liu's house.
After explaining her purpose,
she took Uncle Liu to see the two little wolf cubs.
Because the little wolf cubs were spiritual, after Uncle Liu had been with them for a few days, he developed feelings for them. So he stopped sending goat milk to Zhao Shuning's yard and instead took the two little guys over.
At first, the people in the village said that Uncle Liu was crazy. He already had so many sheep at home, but he still wanted to feed two little wolf cubs. Wasn't that like sending the sheep into the wolves' mouths?
But Uncle Liu had been lonely for too long. It was rare for two little guys to be so attached to him, so he didn't care what others said.
It was precisely because of Uncle Liu's action
that in the future,
he would receive great blessings.
He would become the richest man in the valley town.
However, these were all things to come.
Just as Miss Yun had said when she left, Uncle Liu's good fortune was yet to come. Although it came a little late, he would have a large family in his later years and never have to worry about food and drink.