Guide to raise my cutie husbands

"Hahaha, this is just something," Song Yixu scratched her cheeks. She didn't mean it to come out like that but it did sound like she was actually showing off. She smiled at Madam Cui and said, "I just wanted to ask if you are doing good, you look sick, Madam Cui."

"Who does not look sick in these conditions?" Madam Cui offered with a tired voice. "The last time the grain warehouse was opened was three weeks ago and everyone was allowed to take only two catties of rough grains and rice. Do you think that this small amount of grains can last for a long time? My family has so many people, those grains were eaten up in a few days."

As she finished speaking Madam Cui clenched her fingers around the carving tool and spat, "If that woman was this incapable then she should not have taken the throne. She had only caused trouble for the entire country and nothing more."

Though Madam Cui did not believe the rumours that this was heaven punishment, as the previous empress was killed by her daughter who proved unfilial—— Madam Cui did agree with the incompetence of Xia Xieren who couldn't even provide grains to her countrymen when they were suffering.

Now they could only wait for the heavens to take pity on them.

Song Yixu's eyes widened as she looked at Madam Cui and asked hurriedly, "Are you saying that you ate weeks ago and ever since then you did not eat anything?"

"It's fine, as long as the kids can eat," Madam Cui sighed. Though she said that, her stomach was churning badly, she could feel the hunger pains rise but with such conditions how dare she act up? If she told her family that she was feeling sick then her children and grandchildren would only feel guilty for eating the grains that she handed them.

Madam Cui still remembered how her daughters kept wheedling her to eat a bowl of porridge but she saved it for her youngest granddaughter.

"It is not fine, Madam Cui," Song Yixu shook her head. She thought about how Madam Cui who was once the national treasure of the country when she was in her twenties. Even the Empress admitted that her skills were best when it came to gold carving and jewellery making.

But now she was living in such conditions because Xia Xieren, that tyrant wanted to clean everything that was related to the previous Imperial Generations.

Thus, she deliberately threw away every connection that was related to the previous Empresses and even suppressed them.

"What can we do?" Madam Cui placed down the ring that she had carved and then placed it neatly on the counter. "This is all I know, and my family also relies on this very thing. We don't know how to hunt or do anything and even if we do, there is no way we could survive when there are no animals to hunt."

"Why don't you move?" Song Yixu asked with a squeeze of her fingers.

Madam Cui laughed at her question. She patted her thighs and then questioned, "Where will I go? You already know that I have been pushed out by the Imperial City. It is with great efforts that I was able to open a shop here even if it doesn't earn as much as it did in the Imperial City, the conditions are not bad."

"Except for the fact that you have nothing at the moment."

"Bad times shall pass," Madam Cui stated with a calm voice. However, it only worried Song Yixu. When she looked at the thin hands and legs of Madam Cui, along with the many white hair strands that were sticking out from her forehead, she did not believe that Madam Cui had the time to wait around.

Song Yixu changed her initial thoughts and asked, "Madam Cui will you come with me?"

"What?" Madam Cui was surprised by Song Yixu's sudden question and looked up in shock. "What do you want this old woman for?"

"I came here to tell you that I have found a gold mine along with one of my friends," she took out the pouch and then pushed it in front of Madam Cui, who picked it up and then poured out the gold that was inside the pouch.

No sooner did she take out the gold, than Madam Cui's eyes widened and she exclaimed, "This is wonderful quality gold, though it is not a hundred per cent clean as its not been refined but such big ore is really hard to find that too without digging further in the land."

Song Yixu heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this, she then said to Madam Cui, "That's right. My friend and I are thinking of buying that land to develop the mine. But we did not have any channels to sell it, this is why I thought of you, Madam Cui. However, given your conditions… I think you should come with me."

Song Yixu did not know what she was going to do with Madam Cui and her family once she took them to the Big River Town but she knew one thing, she could not leave Madam Cui behind. She was her mentor and someone who taught her everything, it would be simply heartless of her to ignore the woman who took care of her when she was young and reckless.

Madam Cui was touched by what Song Yixu said to her but she did not want to become a burden on Song Yixu. She was already so old, what was the point of even trying to hang on to life?

She should leave the resources to the young.

"There is no need, even if I go with you. I will only become a burden on you… not to mention my family… it is too big for even me to take care of, how can I ask you to take care of them?" She was not that shameless.

*********************

Please take a look at my new book: Escaped My Ex, Got Snatched by his Rival. It will mean a lot. And if you like this book please don't forget to give it a power stone! Or a golden ticket.

********************