Chapter 75: Living in the Dong Family Courtyard was also an accident?

Early the next morning, the groggy Mo Xiaobai felt something sticky on his face.

It seemed like a long, thin tongue was playfully circling on his face.

“Um~”

Mo Xiaobai actually enjoyed being licked, but after becoming slightly more awake, he noticed something was wrong.

Wasn’t I supposed to sleep alone back at my manor?

Why was someone else here?

He shook his head drowsily, and finally managed to open half of his eyelids.

Then, Mo Xiaobai saw that a pile of golden fur was less than five centimeters from his eyeballs.

“What is this thing!”

In an instant, the half-asleep daze vanished. Mo Xiaobai instinctively shot up like a spring, his eyes filled with shock and fear.

“Big Yellow?”

“Why is it you?”

After about four breaths, Mo Xiaobai finally realized what that yellow lump was.

It was the Bear-Lion Dog, Big Yellow!

“Um~ Why does my face feel so fishy and smelly?”

The scene he imagined didn’t happen. Mo Xiaobai looked at the tongue-panting Big Yellow with disgust.

His face was sticky and wet; who knew how long this guy had been licking him while he was asleep?

“Also, why am I here? Isn’t this the Dong Family Courtyard?”

After carefully examining the surroundings, Mo Xiaobai smelled a familiar medicinal scent. He immediately frowned and got off the wooden bed.

Yesterday, he had gone drinking with Li Ji and the others, and he seemed to have gotten drunk.

After that, something else must have happened. What exactly was it?

He couldn’t remember!

Rubbing his head, he stepped forward and pushed open the door with a “creak.” He saw Dong Zhen arranging some freshly sun-dried medicinal herbs in the courtyard.

“My Lord is awake?”

Seeming to sense someone walking out from the room behind her, Dong Zhen didn’t stop turning the herbs with her right hand. Her lips moved slightly as she said, “There is cool water drawn out there. My Lord should wash up first.”

“Oh, ah, thank you.”

Seeing Dong Zhen, Mo Xiaobai still hadn’t realized why he had stayed here overnight. He scratched his head and walked over to the wooden basin on the tripod, wiping his face vigorously.

“Miss Dong, I yesterday!”

“My Lord said last night that he was drunk and wanted to sleep. Yiyi and I sent you to the Guest Room to spend the night.” Dong Zhen spoke directly before Mo Xiaobai could finish asking. “Although the newly brewed Lingzhi Wine from the Winery is very nourishing, drinking a full cup will surely make you drunk. As a Lord, you must be self-disciplined.”

“You even know about that wine?”

Being scolded by a girl, Mo Xiaobai felt a bit embarrassed on his face, but when Dong Zhen said Lingzhi Wine was a wonderful tonic, he couldn’t help but be curious.

“Master Yi came to ask me before brewing the wine. I kept a cup after opening the first barrel.”

“Oh? What does Miss Dong think of the taste of Lingzhi Wine?”

“I didn’t drink it. I just studied it, and in the end, I let Big Yellow drink it.”

Such good wine, you don’t drink it yourself but give it to the dog?

Hearing this, Mo Xiaobai was speechless. No wonder Big Yellow was causing trouble on his face so early in the morning; that guy must be a drunkard among dogs.

At this point, Dong Zhen had tidied up the herbs and picked up a basket to start collecting them. “My Lord, instead of worrying about the Lingzhi Wine, shouldn’t you go back to your manor now?”

“Back to the manor? Yes, I need to go back. I didn’t have dinner last night because I was drunk, and now I feel terribly hungry.”

“So it seems My Lord doesn’t know who visited last night?”

“What happened last night? Did someone come to visit?”

Mo Xiaobai still couldn’t remember, but Dong Zhen’s next sentence made his eyes widen in shock.

“My Lord, your mother and your younger sister have come to Daming Village.”

Mom? Little Dot?

They came?

After Dong Zhen said this, Mo Xiaobai suddenly recalled the Intellect Brain’s prompt sound he heard when he was drunk at dusk.

He remembered!

At that time, the Intellect Brain had asked if there was a nearby territory belonging to close relatives that had been captured, and asked if he wanted to open a teleportation gate.

At the time, he was so groggy he was almost asleep, so he didn’t react at all.

Fortunately!

Fortunately, he hadn’t chosen to refuse back then.

Mo Xiaobai took a deep breath and spoke, “Thank you, Miss Dong, for the reminder. I will go back first.”

With his mother and sister having arrived, Mo Xiaobai could not continue wandering outside. He quickly walked out of the courtyard and headed straight for his manor.

Crossing back to the Baron’s Manor at both ends of the entire Territory, Mo Xiaobai had just entered the manor when he heard his mother’s voice.

“Are you learning to cook from Cheng Liya?”

Hearing the commotion, Mo Xiaobai smiled wryly. At home, his mother never entered the kitchen. Why did she want to start cooking as soon as she came to his place?

Walking towards the kitchen following the figure, Mo Xiaobai saw his mother and called out, “Mom.”

“Back, you scoundrel?”

Hearing her son, Mother Mo turned around. Seeing Mo Xiaobai approach, she immediately put down the cleaver in her hand and took two or three steps forward to scold him: “Where were you last night? You asked your dad and me to come to Daming Village to rely on you, yet you get drunk like a dead pig and make your sister and me search all over for you.”

“Um, that accident yesterday.”

Mo Xiaobai explained with a blush, but Mother Mo was not letting up. “Living at the home of that Doctor Dong was also an accident?”

“Man, how drunk was I at the time? How could I know where I was?”

“Never mind, never mind. You are grown up now, and I am too lazy to manage you.”

Mother Mo waved her hand, then whispered quietly, “Where did you find such a hotel chef? This morning, he steamed buns for me and Yiyi. The taste was absolutely amazing, even better than Dog’s Not Going.”

“He was hired in Juancheng.”

“You scoundrel, you are becoming more and more like a rustic rich man. You hire a cook to make food at home but still have to go to a big city to get him.”

“Isn’t it because Mengde has high standards? It’s good that I can treat you and Dad well like this.” Mo Xiaobai grinned, but in his heart, he was thinking, I haven’t told you Cheng Liya’s real profession yet. If you find out that his hands can hold not only a cleaver but also a battle-axe, I can’t promise you’ll still be able to eat so happily.

“By the way, Mom, why don’t I see Little Dot?”

“She, along with the younger sister of that doctor in your Territory, went out to play with a rat. You know what? The other Big Yellow dog they raised looks really spirited, just like our old Simba back home.”

Our family used to have… Simba?

That real Pekingese dog?

Hearing this, Mo Xiaobai’s mouth twitched. He really didn’t know whether to tell his mother the truth.

The dog our family used to raise was really just a dog, but Dong Yiyi’s, it is actually a Divine Beast!

While the mother and son were chatting, Cheng Liya walked out carrying a plate of dumplings. “My Lord has just woken up from a hangover. Please have some vegetarian dumplings first.”

“Good, thank you for your trouble, Mengde.”

Mo Xiaobai took the tray and his eyes lit up. “Is this a ceramic plate produced by our own Territory?”

“Yes, it is from the first kiln opened. General Li sent many of them.”

“It does look quite decent.” Mo Xiaobai looked at the gleaming ceramic plate before him, and his appetite increased a bit more.

Finding a cool pavilion within the manor to sit, Mo Xiaobai ate and spoke while chewing. “Mom, why did you and your sister come alone? Didn’t Dad give up the Territory with you?”

“Don’t mention it. I didn’t come to rely on you to support me by giving up the Territory. Your sister and I encountered unreasonable Players and couldn’t defend that small village.” Mother Mo, seeing Mo Xiaobai bring up this matter, could not help but show a look of anger.