Yangyang looked at her with a faint gaze upon hearing her words, and after swallowing the bun, he crisply said, "Auntie, could you please stop bringing up daughters all the ti? You keep talking about daughters, why don’t you just have one?"
"..." Commandery Princess Dongyang suddenly felt that this kid wasn’t as cute as she had imagined. One sentence from him was enough to leave a person speechless.
"..." Mu Shaoling felt that the kid had spoken a harsh truth, should he perhaps put in more effort?
"..." Yang Chuxia thought awkwardly, son, picking a fight with your mother-in-law isn’t sothing a smart person would do.
After Yangyang finished speaking, he glanced around and saw that the adults had all fallen silent, so he calmly continued eating his bun and drinking porridge.
Alas, the bun is so fragrant! The porridge is so sweet! He really was too impressive; even the adults couldn’t argue with him.
After that breakfast, the kid had completely regained his spirits.
When it was ti to get on the carriage, Yang Chuxia still wanted him to ride with her, but before she could speak, he ran to Mu Shaoling’s carriage instead.
"Did Yangyang cause any trouble last night??" On the road, Commandery Princess Dongyang asked Yang Chuxia.
Yang Chuxia just nodded her head, "You guessed right. He had a nightmare in the middle of the night. I had to wake him up and hold him before he fell asleep again."
"Didn’t you ask him what he saw? Why was he crying so hysterically?"
"I asked, but he just shook his head when I brought it up, so I didn’t press further." Now that she thought about it, Yang Chuxia felt uneasy in her heart; Yangyang had never been scared like this before.
"I rember my mother telling when I was little that children can see things adults can’t. Do you think that could be the case? Maybe we should bring him to a temple in Capital City to have the old monks take a look," Dongyang suggested after a mont’s thought.
"We’ll talk about that when the ti cos!" Although Yang Chuxia was sowhat skeptical, she preferred to believe that her son had been mistaken. With all the bizarre things in this world, if one really had eyes that saw differently, who knows what they would have been frightened by before now.
Indeed, her guess later proved to be right.
When they arrived at another town in the evening, just as the day before, as soon as Mu Shaoling got out of the carriage, Yangyang bounded out after him, but as soon as his feet hit the ground, he instantly burst into tears.
Yang Chuxia, who had always been attentive to her son, heard him cry and imdiately looked around her son.
She thought she finally understood why her son was crying.
It wasn’t a ghost, nor soone pretending to be one, but a person, a thin person as gaunt as a skeleton, walking like a paper cutout.
She once saw a foreign news report about a woman who dieted until she was left weighing only around ninety or one hundred pounds, looking like a living mummy, her face completely devoid of flesh.
The person Yang Chuxia saw at this mont was just like that, or even worse. Not only was the face fleshless, but the skin also appeared translucent, revealing the blue veins and red blood vessels underneath.
Can you imagine seeing suddenly before you a person with sunken eye sockets, a vacant gaze, blue veins and blood vessels sprawling across the face like totems? Can you imagine how terrifying that would be?
"It’s okay, Yangyang, don’t be afraid, that’s just a person!" Yang Chuxia hastily embraced her son.
Mu Shaoling and Commandery Princess Dongyang also saw that person. However, the person didn’t realize they had frightened others and continued to walk aimlessly forward. Yang Chuxia noticed that anyone who encountered him would instinctively avoid him.
But Mu Shaoling found the appearance of this person sowhat familiar.
"What was the deal with that person just now?" Once inside the inn, Yang Chuxia asked.
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