Travel through the daily life of the dragon clan

Chapter 550: The woman brought by the husband made the daughter-in-law feel like she was facing a formidable enemy

"The purpose of this place is to be a home for two people. Perhaps we have never considered Zhuo. He was born so extraordinary that he attracted the attention of God."

"That child... oh my, he's my son after all. I feel like it's a bit cruel to say that. Fufu - Zhuo looks at everyone without any emotion. Even when facing Shuichi, although he looks respectful, he actually doesn't have any emotion."

"Of course, I am the only exception. My eyes always sparkle when I am breastfeeding."

Sachinko put one hand on her waist, as if she was very proud of something, and Zero looked at her with a speechless look, as if to say, "Is this something you can just tell your daughter-in-law?"

"When I first went to school, there was no change. At that time, Shuichi and I wondered if we were just focusing on ourselves and that children should grow up in a lively environment. Soon after, Shuichi bought a house on the street and started a life like this. This place became a time-space gate connecting Zhuo and this world. On weekdays, the girls in the town would enter it to explore, waiting for the real princess and prince to meet."

"Your metaphor is really hard to describe." Zero murmured.

Sa Chiko grinned: "But it's useful~~ Zhuo has started to be interested in girls. Although I am troubled that the target of interest is not people of the same age but their mothers, but... well, anyway, as long as there is love, there is no problem."

"You really..."

Zero was speechless.

She even suspected that this factor was also a factor in Zhuo's feelings for her. After all, when they were together, Zhuo was the one who was pampered more, and sometimes he did behave like a child.

Ah, based on what Zhuo had already known about my situation, he might have been able to tell that I was actually an old lady when they first met.

When Zero's eyes gradually became a little hopeless in her wild thoughts, Sa Chiko pulled her to the ivy-covered swing and said to Zero:
"This swing wasn't made by Shuichi and I. It was made by Zhuo. He was only in elementary school at that time, right?"

Sa Chiko tapped her lower lip, her eyes drifting upwards, and she said as if reminiscing, "But we never played with it once after we made it. Now that I think about it, it was because Shuichi and I were too intimate at that time, so the child has been thinking about future family matters since he was young."

"And there are a few trees over there. I remember they were peach trees, pear trees, and pomegranate trees... Anyway, thanks to the sea surrounding Izu, they can survive even without anyone managing them. These were planted by that child, thinking that when he grows up, he can live here and pick fresh fruit in the yard if he wants to eat it. Eh? Now that I think about it, that child has been thinking about my Shuichi's inheritance since he was a child!"

"You don't want it anyway."

Ling subconsciously defended Zhuo, but he felt something was not right as soon as the words came out of his mouth.

The person who said bad things was Zhuo's mother. How could she really think that Zhuo was a bad boy? Even if he was a bad boy, as a mother she would probably choose to tolerate him.

Because of his own experience, these common sense things are more like knowledge learned from books, such as "apples fall because of gravity", to Zero.

So when she thought of this, Wei Zhuo's dissatisfaction took control of her first, and the thought that "I am talking unnecessary words" came to her only a little later.

As expected, not only did Zero's accusation not make Sa Chiko angry, but instead he crossed his arms and stared at her with a smile, which made Zero feel ashamed as if he was "showing off his sword in front of Guan Gong".

"Well, you're right. Come and sit down and try it. I sat on it once before, but was pushed away with an absurd excuse like 'you'll break the swing'. Really, you have a well-controlled body! There's no way it will break."

Is that the point? -- Knowing that saying these words would only make Sa Chiko even more aggressive, Zero wisely chose to remain silent.

Then, he was pushed by Sa Chiko to the swing and pressed on the wooden board covered with ivy.

"How does it feel?"

"……cold."

Sa Chiko released her hands and stood aside, put her finger on her lips again and said "Is that so?", she didn't seem to have any intention of helping to push it.

But when Ling wanted to use her own strength, she found that because of her height, her feet were suspended in the air and she couldn't do it at all.

Even so, Sa Chiko was giggling as she watched this scene, but it didn't look like she had any intention of giving a push.

While Ling felt helpless about Sachiko watching the fun, he also understood why Sachiko asked him to sit here - probably that's the reason. Even Zhuo himself had never expected that he would fall in love with such a petite girl. The height of the swing was designed according to the body shape of an adult woman.

When thinking about this, Zero felt that "emotions are so unreasonable and no one can predict it", and at the same time, he felt a little depressed sitting here and unable to move.

So it was because of these thoughts that Zhuo never brought her here - Ling felt that if Zhuo were here, she would definitely punch that person.

"Although this is the house that Shuichi and I built, it no longer belongs to us. The trees and flowers in the yard were planted by Zhuo since he was a child, and the furniture in the house was arranged by you. This feeling is really wonderful."

Zero looked up at Sa Chiko, who rarely showed relief and sentimentality, and let her hand stroke his hair without resisting.

"Shuichi and I have always felt that choosing a partner should be like picking flowers in a garden. You don't have to smell them one by one, nor can you play with them one by one. But you have to see all kinds of flowers before you can make a choice and pick the one you like the most. It seems that Rei-chan is that flower."

"I……"

Zero's heart was suddenly touched, and she suddenly understood why Sa Chiko told her this.

Maybe it was because I didn't complete the whole process on the wedding day, so I didn't have the chance to say this kind of baton-like words to her in person. After that, she and Zhuo also stayed in Tokyo, and even when they returned home, they were always together, so there was no chance.

You will definitely be reluctant to let go.

Although Ling couldn't empathize with the emotion of his son, whom he had raised since childhood, being abducted by another woman, he understood the melancholy.

In order for Zhuo to be able to choose his other half maturely, he will be brought to see all kinds of girls since he was young. This is a very reasonable approach that consumes time and energy. Only when a child grows up under such pressure can he still retain his vision for the future and will not fall in love casually because of the impulse of adolescence or the influence of the surrounding atmosphere.

The final result was naturally her.

Zero actually didn't know what to say, and he got stuck after saying "I..." Fortunately, Sa Chiko took over the conversation in time.

"After a few decades, when you can no longer stay in Tokyo or your children graduate from high school and have no more ties, you can move here with them. The land deeds here are permanent~"

As Sa Chiko said this, she handed over a notebook that she had been carrying with her for some unknown period of time.

After hearing what Sa Chiko said, Ling looked at the house deeds in her hand, and a scene emerged in her mind, where she and Zhuo had become old men and women with white hair, and came here together to live a peaceful life decades later.

But Ling's heart still felt as sweet as if he had drunk hot cocoa:

“We’ll all be old by then.”

"Don't worry about getting old. Although I can't hold my head up in front of you, she is Shuichi's child and is very caring~" Ling Xin said that was not necessarily true. She would probably look the same until she died, and he might never have a chance to show off in his life.

However, Ling really had no way to refute these words. No matter when he was down and out or useless (Zero thought he was suffering from menstrual cramps or injured), Zhuo was indeed more reliable than her.

……

A lot happened today, so much so that this plan to go out and relax turned into something else.

Reimoto thought that she felt irritable because she had too much free time, and she couldn't eat because she didn't have enough activities on weekdays. However, Sa Chiko, who also saw and was worried about her, did accompany her for a walk, but in the end, Rei still felt that her condition had not improved much.

It was already evening when we started our journey back home, and heavy rain began to fall outside again.

In the heavy rain, Zero, who was walking beside Sa Chiko, received endless invitations from people in the town to come in and take shelter from the rain. One old lady, after seeing them, came out with an umbrella and gave Zero two raincoats that were too big for him.

Walking on the road, Ling looked at her rolled-up sleeves and couldn't help but say:

“Everyone is a good person.”

"That's true, but what you said is weird, Rei-chan! It will make the boys sad!"

Ling: “…” Suddenly I understood where Zhuo’s many unfunny jokes came from.

After returning home, Sa Chiko sat on the sofa. Seeing that she had no plans to prepare dinner, Ling wanted to go by himself, but was stopped and embraced on the sofa.

People who cook will feel full because of the smell of food that always lingers in the kitchen.

It was for this reason that Sa Chiko resolutely refused to let her enter the kitchen after she came back this time.

However, after Zero quietly observed Sachiko's face, she thought that Sachiko must have prepared something for this, so she stopped her from going even when she was not cooking. It might be a surprise to cheer herself up, or it might be a carefully prepared meal brought back from outside.

Even though she was used to seeing and eating so-called grand meals, Ling was prepared to try to act cheerful, even though she knew she would be exposed and would most likely not show any surprise.

The only surprise she was aware of was the night Zhuo proposed to her. Tears fell before she even realized it, and it must be difficult for her to fake an uncontrollable situation.

Sa Chiko beside him was watching TV silently, so Zero had to pretend that he knew nothing.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

Zero accompanied Sachiko to open the door, and saw Shuichi wearing a furry hat and a raincoat. His figure was disguised like a fat bear and he hid something under the raincoat.

"You're back. Come in. Who is this?"

"Ah, it's Zero's friend, Zero you...Zero?"

"Zero-chan?"

What surprised Shuichi Sachiko and his wife was that Zero, who was introduced by a friend to visit, had no intention of coming forward. Instead, he instantly pulled out a long-handled umbrella from the umbrella bucket and held it in his hand, staring at the woman outside with a gloomy face.

Sa Chiko patted Ling's shoulder worriedly, and then looked back at the woman her husband brought back. To her, this scene was quite abstract. Her husband brought back a woman who claimed to be her daughter-in-law's friend, but she didn't react much, but her daughter-in-law was furious.

Zero used his other hand to protect Sachiko behind him, and then, under Sachiko's shining eyes, he rotated the umbrella in his hand 180 degrees with his palm as the axis, and then held it steadily with his backhand.

The entrance is narrow, so the dagger-swinging method is more appropriate in this environment.

During this process, Zero didn't have time to pay attention to Sachiko's exclamation of "This, this, this is amazing——", and his eyes were always on the woman behind Shuichi.

Compared to Sachiko's jumpiness, the more rational Shuichi, even if he couldn't recognize what Zero was doing, could see that she was on guard against the woman behind her.

Shuichi smiled gently, "There's nothing we can do, Sachino. She's figured it out. It looks like the surprise will have to be a dinner party instead."

As he said that, Shuichi unbuttoned his raincoat, revealing a box of food full of food underneath. He said, "Even if we are discovered, this piece of tuna is worth looking forward to. Zero, take a look." Then he calmly walked away from the woman behind him and approached Zero at the entrance.

Seeing this scene, everyone was maintaining the status quo, and Shuichi walked in front of Zero.

The woman finally moved.

It wasn't like what they imagined, where he would pull out a Desert Eagle from his waist and point it at his forehead.

The woman just smiled, took a few steps forward, her steps were graceful and calm, and she walked slowly forward. Under the gazes that were so vigilant that they could be called angry, she lifted her long skirt and bent her knees:

"I'm Sakurai Kogure, a friend of Mr. Utsunomiya. I've come from afar just to bother you for a few days."

Amidst everyone's stunned gazes, only Sa Qianzi's eyes were becoming brighter and brighter.

She looked at the girl kneeling in the rain, her stunning beauty. Sakurai Kogure's smiling face was more colorful than the falling cherry blossoms.

“…So beautiful.”

"You're overly flattering."

Sakurai Kogure bowed to Sachinko again, then turned to Zero, took out a piece of paper from his furisode, and presented it to him with both hands.

Zero hesitated for a moment but still chose to take the note. Even so, her eyes were always on the other person. It was not until Sakurai Kogure took two steps back and stood completely in the rain that Zero looked down to check.

After another moment, Zero looked up and sighed, glanced at Sakurai Kogure, and then looked at Shuichi.

"Father, please let me get it for you."

"Hmm? Thank you then."

Shuichi smiled again, realizing that this might have been a misunderstanding.

(End of this chapter)