My wife is a dragon.

Chapter 182 Wildness Exposed (4.3K)

My grandmother's house is an old-style bungalow. The tiles on the roof are old and covered with thick, deep moss.

Although Fang Xia had hired someone to deal with it not long ago, the rainy and humid climate in Shu Province is most likely to grow moss, especially in the summer, and it will grow all over the roof if you are not careful.

After arriving at the destination, Fang Xia turned left and right and drove the car into the yard.

Not seeing the old lady, she got out of the car, opened the door and walked straight inside.

"Mom, Old Xia has been very busy these past two days, so this time only Xia Li and I are back..."

"Yes, he also brought his girlfriend back."

As people walked further and further away, the sound became smaller and smaller, and was gradually swallowed up by the small building.

Xia Li pulled Lucia out of the car, and they went to the trunk to move things.

"Why don't they use a key to open the door..."

Lucia didn't know what was going on in her mind. She stared at the iron door in the yard, thinking about something.

The door opened with a slight push, as did the door inside the house. All the doors Lucia saw along the way were open and no one had locked them.

Is the anti-theft awareness of people here so weak?
Or is it that the customs are different from those of city dwellers?
"Everyone knows each other well in rural areas, so there's nothing to be on guard against. Elderly people like my grandmother who live alone like to sleep with the door open, so that if anything happens, it's easy to call for help."

As Xia Li spoke, he picked up the large plate of pork ribs that Fang Xia had bought from the car, and used his free hand to get a box of milk.

Lucia stood there thinking about it and found it amazing.

Sleeping with the door open...

Even the dragons themselves knew that they had to create an illusion at the entrance of their nests where humans were present, otherwise their homes would be robbed.

But this small village had no such precautions at all.

"Don't you think it's strange? There is the least surveillance in the countryside, and everyone trusts their neighbors... Do you know what this is called?" Xia Li turned around and asked Lucia a question.

Lucia thought about it and said, "This is called 'knowing everything'."

"It's called 'simple'."

Xia Li couldn't help but smile.

"Oh, simple." Lucia nodded, thinking about the word carefully.

"I'll come, I'll come!"

Fang Xia in the room had put on a white apron with a chicken essence advertisement printed on it at some point.

As she was tying her apron ribbon, she looked back and saw Lucia carrying rice, so she walked over without stopping and took the rice.

The moment Fang Xia picked up the rice, her arms felt heavy. Lucia was clearly holding it as if it were a toy, but it was so heavy in her hands that she bent over.

I guess when Xiaolu was at home, she helped to move heavy things at home...

Thinking of this, Fang Xia began to feel sorry for the girl again.

She stuffed all the rice into Xia Li's arms.

"Just ask Xia Li to run a few more times for these things. It's cold outside, go inside and warm yourself by the fire."

Fang Xia pulled Lucia into the house.

Lucia looked back every few steps to look at Xia Li.

"It's okay. It's normal for a man to lift heavy objects. Don't be too accommodating to him. For things like rice, he should be the one to do it..."

She naturally knew that the little girl was reluctant to let her son go, just like when Xia Li was a child, Fang Xia was reluctant to let the little Xia Li carry heavy objects.

Later, Xia Li grew up and took on the corresponding weight on his shoulders. Fang Xia no longer watched her son as closely as before.

Now, someone has come to keep an eye on Xia Li for her.

Fang Xia felt very relieved when she thought of this.

"Are you cold? Let me get you a hot water bottle."

Fang Xia held the little girl's hand in hers, with a smile that was hard to refuse.

The more I look, the more I like it.

As a woman, Fang Xia's intuition told her that Lucia really cared about Xia Li.

Her every look, every action, every gesture revealed her affection.

"Auntie, I'm not cold."

Without Xia Li, Lucia was like a headless fly, and had no way to deal with the situation that followed.

Fortunately, there were not many people at Xia Li’s grandmother’s house. Apart from her grandmother herself, no one else lived in this small house.

Lucia raised her eyes and looked over.

The sunlight outside the window was dazzling on the cement road. The light in the house was dim. Under the incandescent lamp without a lampshade, an old man walked slowly towards me with a cane.

The old face reminded people of a dry branch, and the old eyes were as turbid as a quagmire, but it was not difficult to see that the shape of the eyes was somewhat similar to Xia Li's.

The old man's hair was a colorless silver-white, a color that reminded Lucia of herself in human form on the continent of Aize.

"Here, eat some candy."

This was the first sentence Xia Li’s grandmother said after seeing Lucia.

She opened her hand, and the coin-sized eight-treasure candy appeared in her palm.

The old woman does not understand the preferences of modern young people. When Xia Li was a child, she liked to eat candy, so she always remembered that the child liked to eat candy, but she did not know that the child she was thinking about had already grown up.

Perhaps even the old man himself was a little unconfident. He stretched out his hand and then took it back tremblingly, with a hint of apology on his kind face.

"I have a tablet computer next to my bed. Let me see if I can use it..."

Lucia remained silent because she was shy and didn't know how to face such a scene.

But after seeing the apology on the old man's face, she panicked again.

I thought that even without Xia Li, with her current level of communication, she would be able to deal with humans more than enough.

But now Lucia realized that leaving Xia Li... simply couldn't do it!
"Grandma, eat some strawberries."

Following the principle of "barter", Lucia took out two big strawberries from her pocket, walked up to the old woman and stuffed them into her hands, then exchanged them for candy.

Lucia peeled off the plastic bag covering the eight-treasure candy and stuffed the candy into her mouth without hesitation.

The candy is very big, probably the biggest candy you can buy at the village market, and it tastes sweet in your mouth.

"Good times!"

Lucia had a happy smile on her face.

Every time she smiled, it was so sincere that there was no trace of perfunctory emotion at all.

"Mom, this is Xia Li's girlfriend, her name is Lucia."

Fang Xia helped the old man over and introduced him enthusiastically.

The wrinkles on the old woman's face deepened after she smiled. She looked at Lucia with her cloudy eyes and nodded vigorously.

"……Hello."

For their generation, the chance to see their grandchildren is really one less time.

"Hello, Grandma. I'm Lucia, Xia Li's only girlfriend... Happy New Year, Grandma."

Lucia also greeted him generously.

Xia Li taught her before they set out.

During this period, if you don't know what to say, just say "Happy New Year" to everyone you meet.

"Mom, the things have been moved to the kitchen. Is everything alright? If nothing goes wrong, I'll take Lucia for a walk...Grandma."

At this moment, Xia Li, sweating profusely, stepped over the threshold.

When he saw Lucia's rosy little face, he roughly guessed what was going on.

"It rained last night, and the fields are all covered in mud. You can go play later, but come over and give me a hand first."

After Fang Xia gave the order, she helped the old lady back to the house and sat down.

Xia Li hasn't seen his grandmother for three years.

Grandma didn't change much. In Xia Li's memory, she had always been gray-haired and her movements became slower and slower every year.

Fang Xia took the old man back to the inner room, and Xia Li took Lucia to the kitchen. The old man lived alone at home, and there were not many things in the house, but everything was kept clean.

"What did you guys just talk about?"

“…We haven’t started talking yet.”

The kitchen at my grandmother's house still uses the oldest type of wood-burning stove. Xia Li brought all the firewood piled outside the wall and piled them together.

It was a rare opportunity for him to come back, so he did as much of the hard work as he could. In just a few minutes, he could finish everything the old man had done in the morning.

After building the firewood pile, the evil dragon who was standing by and watching the fun had bulging cheeks and made suspicious sticky noises from his mouth from time to time.

It was obvious that there was something in his mouth. "What's in your mouth?" Xia Li looked up suspiciously.

"Candy, do you want some?" Lucia opened her mouth for Xia Li to see.

Xia Li was busy adding firewood to the stove and shook his head subconsciously.

Then think about it, this is a rare opportunity, how can I refuse it?
"eat."

"..."

His answer made the dragon's expression pause slightly, and the sound of crunching candy in his mouth disappeared.

Suddenly I felt like I had stepped into a pit.

There is only one candy...

“Click, click.”

Lucia bit the eight-treasure candy in half with her dragon teeth with great effort, spat the candy into her hand with a "pfft" and was going to feed it to Xia Li.

Xia Li said disdainfully, "At least use your mouth, why are you using your hands..."

Fang Xia walked in from outside when he was talking. Lucia was anxious and slapped half a candy directly into Xia Li's mouth while he was talking.

"cough,"

The candy hit Xia Li's throat directly and he almost choked to death.

"Have a cold?"

Fang Xia scooped a spoonful of well water to wash the pot.

Xia Li shook his head: "No."

"Your grandmother's health is getting worse every year. Alas..."

Fang Xia took the pot brush and swept it around the iron pot twice.

At first glance, her words don't seem to have any special meaning, but if you think about it from another angle, it seems to be hinting at something.

The older generation is like this, especially the older generation. Their greatest wish in life is to see their children and grandchildren grow up...

Xia Li threw two pieces of firewood into the stove and looked back at Lucia.

Lucia ate the candy with a smacking sound, neither standing nor sitting. Perhaps she thought the candy was very sweet, for when she looked at Xia Li, the corners of her mouth pursed together.

What are you laughing laughing.

Xia Li snorted coldly.

My mother asked you to give birth to a little dragon, don’t you understand?
Life! Little! Dragon!
Xia Li grabbed a handful of hay, which was dried pea stalks.

The air in the south is humid, and it is difficult to ignite firewood directly, so a fire starter is needed, and these dry pea stalks are the fire starters commonly used in the rural areas here.

I took the lighter and clicked it twice, then shook it and found that there was no oil left.

"Mom, it can't be lit." Xia Li said.

If Fang Xia was not present, Xia Li would find a way to solve the problem himself, but when Fang Xia was present, he would behave like a mother who would solve the problem.

"There is a spare lighter in the small room at the side door. Go get it." Fang Xia said.

"Oh." Xia Li got up and went to run errands.

But when he took the lighter and returned to the earthen stove in the kitchen, he found that the fire was burning brightly.

"Look, Xiaolu is so excited, but you can't."

Fang Xia scooped out all the dirty water in the pot and poured it away, speaking casually.

"..."

Xia Li didn't believe it, so he walked over and took the lighter from Lucia's hand to have a look.

It's obviously out of oil!

Lucia sat on a small stool in front of the earthen stove, pursed her lips and said nothing.

"How did you light the fire?"

Xia Li leaned close to the evil dragon's ear and whispered.

The evil dragon shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.

Xia Li counted the dragon scales on her face, then rolled up her sleeves to take a look.

There are quite a few dragon scales.

But Lucia must have used fire magic just now!
Realizing that the hero had seen through her secret use of magic, Lucia's face could no longer hide her expression and her ears turned red.

Xia Li couldn't help but took a bite on those crystal pink earlobes.

The evil dragon covered his face and looked at him in disbelief.

They actually... actually launched a sneak attack in front of the great human beings!

"Have all the new firewood outside been brought in?"

Fang Xia poured some oil into the pot and spoke in a nonchalant tone, and it was unknown whether she saw this scene.

"Well, we've finished moving."

"Then go and have fun. Your aunt will be here soon and won't need you." Fang Xia said disdainfully.

Xia Li obeyed the order and ran away with Lucia.

The country paths after the rain cannot be said to be full of mud, they are made of mud.

The soft mud was sticky under their feet. The two men stepped on the ground, one deep and one shallow, leaving two sets of footprints.

"A breath of freedom!"

Lucia hadn't felt the breath of the wilderness for a long time.

On both sides of the ridges were planted green plants that Lucia did not recognize. The view here became very wide and she could see very far at a glance.

There is a fruit forest not far away, with large orange and red fruits hanging on it.

Lucia looked up at the sky, and the blue sky and white clouds that she once could reach became out of reach.

However, she found that she was not missing the blue sky at all.

Rather than chasing the wind in the sky, the warmth of the hero in her hand made her feel more at ease.

down to earth……

She likes this feeling.

"This is rapeseed. It will bloom with golden flowers next month. It can be eaten as a vegetable before it blooms, and after the flowering period, it will be used to press oil... The oil you pour into frying eggs is pressed from this rapeseed."

Xia Li acted as a tour guide and introduced the characteristics of his hometown to the evil dragon.

"Rapeseed oil is a specialty of our southwest region. Wheat and rice are seldom grown here... Do you see the orange trees over there? The village here is rich in oranges. The orange is called 'Ehime'. The orange is covered with a plastic bag to make it fresher and cleaner.

My grandmother used to be a fruit farmer. When I was a child, I often helped her put bags on oranges. Later, when she got old, she contracted out all the fruit trees. "

Xia Li talked about the past with great interest, and Lucia listened with great interest.

Put a plastic bag over the fruit...

This is a preservation magic unique to this world!

Lucia's eyes brightened as she realized that the humans in the two worlds were similar...

They all use their wisdom to solve survival problems, but the methods used by humans in the Aize continent are more radical.

"There are geese and roosters in the backyard. Come on, I'll take you to see them."

After Xia Li introduced the things here, he took the evil dragon to another place to have a look.

When the wooden fence was opened, the poultry in the backyard became restless.

Lucia rushed out like a fire monkey.

It was the first time that Xia Li saw someone returning to the countryside to chase geese.

Normally, people are chased by geese all the way.

Although the dragon's bloodline suppression had no effect on birds, Lucia's agility and fearless character made her the king of the mountain in the backyard in a matter of minutes.

"...Put it down for me, and put down the duck's water basin as well!"

Lucia grabbed the basin with one hand and the goose's neck with the other, and dragged the goose around the yard. Xia Li couldn't stop her.

It's only been a few minutes since it was released into the wild, and its wild nature has been revealed.

No wonder it is said that dragons can bring disasters to living beings.

This is the disaster.

(End of this chapter)