Rebirth from Conan

Chapter 212 Another child marriage?
Pat took the cigarette in a daze.

Then he looked at Xia He, who was just over one meter tall, and then looked down at the cigarette in his hand.

Such a young child, smoking...

Is it really possible?
He was a little confused.

But then I thought, as a member of the Jiu Nio tribe, there shouldn’t be anything wrong with smoking a cigarette occasionally... Bullshit!

"How can you smoke?" Pat said speechlessly, "Children are growing up, and these cigarettes and alcohol are very harmful to the body. How many cigarettes do you have? Hand them all over to me."

"Why, do you want to smoke it all by yourself?"

Xia He frowned and turned to look at Pat, "That's a bit too much, Pat. Don't think I have to indulge you just because you're heartbroken."

Pat: “?”

Are we talking about the same thing?
He wanted to say a few more words, but he saw Xia He had already lit a cigarette and started puffing away.

Pat: “.”

A child less than one year old was smoking right in front of him...

Even in the world of One Piece, for Pat, a "native", this scene is quite explosive.

But he didn't say much.

After all, I am not in a position to preach to my benefactor.

So I just lit one myself.

One big and one small, the two of them squatted beside the table and "hissed".

About five minutes later.

"What...are you doing?"

Minnie rubbed her eyes and walked out of the house.

Pat turned his head with a cigarette in his mouth, looked at her and said, "Hey, can't you sleep either?"

"Hmm?" Minnie Ann blinked, then frowned and stepped forward, pulling the cigarette out of his mouth. "How can you smoke in front of a child? Do you know how harmful tobacco is to children?"

"But Xia and himself..." Pat stopped talking halfway.

Xia He, however, started coughing first: "Cough... cough cough cough... It's okay, Minnie Ann, let him cough, I just cough a few times at most, it's no big deal."

Pat: (⊙_⊙)?
Eh, no.

It was you who clearly handed me this cigarette.

He opened his mouth and was about to say something.

Snapped!
Minian, with a "井" character all over her head, raised her hand and slapped the wound on his stomach.

"what!"

The screams suddenly resounded over the courtyard.

……

Time flies, more than half a month has passed.

With the anti-tuberculosis drugs produced by Xia He, Minian's parents' symptoms have begun to improve.

During the past half month, Xia He and others had concealed the fact that the two of them were suffering from infectious diseases. Until now, the villagers still believed that Minnie's parents had suffered serious injuries and therefore could not get out of bed.

That day, after Minnie Ann took Xia He to another family's home to treat a disease, she was stopped by the village chief and his wife on the way before she could return home.

"Thank you for your hard work, Dr. Minian. This is the rice we made from the rice we harvested two days ago and dried it in the sun. I hope you can accept it." Kedemo handed a bag of rice to Minian.

"This..." Minian looked at the big bag of rice, her face looking a little hesitant.

But she knew that it was extremely difficult to harvest rice in this remote and poor place.

However, the other party directly gave me such a big bag...

She didn't know how to refuse for a moment.

But Xia He suddenly reached out and grabbed the bag, and said in a childish voice: "Wow, sister, I want to eat rice! I want to eat rice! I want, I want, I want!"

Minian: “?”

The village head and his wife looked at each other and immediately seized the opportunity to interrupt and said, "Children are growing up, so they should eat more rice." "That's right, come, let us help you carry the bag back."

After saying that, without waiting for Minian's answer, he picked up the bag and walked towards the cabin at the entrance of the village.

And on the way, he mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally: "Well... I think your brother is quite cute, how about we arrange a baby marriage?"

"Child marriage?" Minian was stunned.

Xia He, who was held in his arms, also glanced sideways at the village chief's wife who made the suggestion.

"Yes, it's a childhood marriage." Cradona nodded. "Look, your brother is four years old, and my child is not yet eight years old, so the age difference is less than four years. They are similar in age. How great would it be to wait until they grow up and get married?"

"Yes, yes, my child looks a lot like her mother. She will definitely be a great beauty in the future." Kedemo agreed with a silly smile.

Hearing this, Minnian glanced at Cradona.

She is indeed a very pretty sister.

but……

"Xia He... um, my brother. He's still two months away from turning one year old." Minnie An said.

"Ah?" The couple were stunned for a moment when they heard this.

"One year old? Has he grown this big?"

Ke Demo thought, when his daughter was one year old, she was still breastfeeding in her mother's arms, but this child in front of him could not only talk, but could even run on the ground...

Isn’t the gap between these children too big?
"Seven years older...that's not too much older, right?" Cradona curled her lips again.

Kedemo continued to agree with his wife: "That's right, when your brother comes of age, my daughter will only be 25 years old, which is the right age for marriage..."

Minnie Ann: “.”

Xia He: "."

So you two discussed this for two weeks, and the final plan you came up with was to arrange a marriage for Minnie Ann to stay with you?
Xia He looked at the couple with his half-moon eyes.

At the same time, he couldn't help but recall the scene in his previous life when he was engaged to his first wife, Suzuki Sonoko.

And that seemed to have happened two hundred years ago.

"Let me think about it." Minian smiled awkwardly.

After a while.

The four of them returned to the cabin together.

Just as Kedemo was about to carry the rice into the house, a sheriff immediately came out of the house, took the rice and said, "Let me do it."

Kedemo: “Uh…”

"Sorry, the room is a bit messy, so it's not convenient to entertain guests." Pat put out his cigarette and looked at Kedemo with a smile.

"The room is too small!" Xia He suddenly said, "Eight or nine people squeezed together, it's so uncomfortable!"

Especially when there is a girl involved.

You can imagine how inconvenient it is.

"We were inconsiderate." Cradona apologized immediately.

Pat waved his hand and took Xia He behind him. "Haha, kids don't know much. I was just joking."

"What, Uncle Pat, didn't you say yesterday that you wanted to build a bigger house near the village?" Xia He puffed up his cheeks and complained in dissatisfaction.

"I was just kidding. After all, this is someone else's territory. How can we take the initiative to build a house here?"

"of course can!"

Pat had just said half of his words when Kedemo interrupted him impatiently.

They really wanted Minnian and her group to stay here.

"Really?" Pat pretended to be surprised. "Since the village chief has no objection, then it's settled."

……

(End of this chapter)