The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 851 - 183: Compensation of 100 Worms_3

Chapter 851: Chapter 183: Compensation of 100 Worms_3

Xiao Yi was startled, feeling something soft hit his face before falling off. He quickly caught it and saw it was a big, squirming caterpillar, which made him yelp and jump.

"You stepped on my beetle! You killed one, now you owe me ten!" she exclaimed. These beetles were all exchanged for food; she had bartered for them by engaging in petty theft.

Xiao Yi, having never seen such a large bug, was frightened and saw Pei Qin and Mo Heng watching him. A boy nearby was laughing at him, which made him furiously blurt out, "How dare you! Show such disrespect to a Commandery Prince, I will chop off your head!"

"Oh! First think about where your own head is!" laughed Pei Qin.

Angry, Xiao Yi looked down at the beetle near his feet and stomped on it, killing it.

Jiujiu pouted her lips and began to cry, "You killed my beetle, now you owe me!"

Little Radish was quite good at causing a scene and by nearly three years old, she was starting to understand things better. Each tantrum was carefully enacted according to the adults’ reactions.

Xiao Yi looked towards Mo Heng and Pei Qin, who paid him no mind. Fuming and feeling slighted but remembering he was a hostage, he begrudgingly huffed, "Tomorrow I will catch you a hundred!"

He thought catching beetles was easy, not knowing the effort Jiujiu had put into getting just a few. Some, which were hard to come by, had been fetched by Zhao Xiaolang who had paid someone to catch them for Jiujiu.

With one beetle dead and an unwelcome older brother at home, Jiujiu was unhappy all evening.

The next day, as soon as she opened her eyes, she ran to knock on Xiao Yi’s door, "Give me a hundred beetles!"

Xiao Yi had switched to a different bed, which was very uncomfortable. Though his blankets, curtains, and ornaments had been rearranged, the small and simple room still didn’t feel right. Exhausted from traveling, he had managed to sleep soundly.

Awakened early by the knocking, Xiao Yi, grumpy from having been roused from sleep, sat up and ordered coldly, "Someone! Drag her out and give her thirty hard strikes!"

The servants and guards at the door didn’t dare comply with his order to drag Jiujiu out and beat her. They were hostages in her home—harming their daughter would cause a huge problem!

After hearing some persuasions, Xiao Yi coldly ordered, "Throw her out!" then went back to sleep.

Huang Qiu came to pull Jiujiu away, suggesting they could ask again at mealtime.

Jiujiu sat on a small stool, playing with her own beetles, waiting for Xiao Yi to get up.

Pei Qin had prepared breakfast and they started eating. She only had a servant tell Xiao Yi, "Eat, or don’t! If you want to eat, get up on time!"

The servant, knowing his young master’s temperament too well, didn’t dare call him and just stayed outside to report.

The guard, seeing that Pei Qin and the others had finished eating, had no choice but to run to the market and buy some breakfast to bring back.

"Is it really okay not to keep some food for him?" Pei Qian felt this noble little Provincial Official was nowhere as sensible and obedient as Xiao Yong, and really needed a lesson. But being a high-ranking official himself, if they went too far, the Prince Qing wouldn’t let them off easily.

"Let it be," Pei Qin had no desire to babysit, especially not a radish that had grown crooked and was difficult to handle. With Xiao Yi already here, they couldn’t send him back. Xining Guard was too far, and it was unsafe for Mo Heng to go there with the harsh demand that Xiao Guangbi had made, making it nearly impossible for him to manage in a year. Thus, the spoiled brat Xiao Yi had to stay with her. His pampered ways certainly needed correcting!

When Xiao Yi got up, there was no breakfast left, so he sat down with a frown, eating the subpar breakfast the guard had bought from the market. He only had a little, disliking the taste.

Jiujiu, tugging at him to compensate a hundred beetles, only made Xiao Yi even more angry and indignant.

Sun Xingwang and Zhao Xiaolang came to find Jiujiu to catch some bugs, unafraid of Xiao Yi. They shouted, "You killed Jiujiu’s beetle, you must compensate! Let’s catch beetles today! Whether it’s beetles, longhorn beetles, one-horned beetles, or dung beetles, you need to catch a hundred!"

Hearing those names and especially "dung beetle," Xiao Yi felt a sudden urge to die.

Pei Qin didn’t stop him; instead, Sun Xingwang and Zhao Xiaolang dragged him out.

Jiujiu wasn’t scared of him in the least. She prodded him from behind, "Hurry up, if you’re late, someone else will catch all the beetles!"

Xiao Yi scowled the entire time.

After a long half day of searching without any success, Xiao Yi realized that neither beetles nor longhorn beetles or one-horned beetles were easy to catch. Even finding a damn dung beetle was hard; all he could try catching were crickets, which were also hard to catch.

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