The mer who was responsible for serving the rice porridge did not reply at once, instead, he waited until he has scooped some porridge for the other mer who was waiting with a bowl in his hands, he ladled a generous amount of porridge into the bowl of the other mer and Old man Tang looked at the mer who finally turned to look at him with a smile that was not a smile and replied, ” Old man Tang, I did not want to be difficult with you but don’t think that we do know about you and your family sneaking in some porridge yesterday when the mers responsible were not looking.”

After the scene what happened that afternoon with Shen Li and Ye Liu, Yu Dong did not send them to serve them dinner, in fact, she asked them to leave the second the villagers created trouble for them and after Shen Li and Ye Liu left, the mers were given the responsibility for serving the porridge but those mers were young and they did not have much experience, which was why people like old man Tang and his family were able to fool them and take an extra amount of porridge from the earthen jar.

Seeing this happen, the women then brought the complaints to the village head who then asked the honest women of the village to bring their husbands who were living with Yu Dong’s family to serve the meal lest the ones who were crooked was to snatch extra portion from the mers.

Now the mers who were serving the meals were not the inexperienced mers who did not have any idea what was happening around them, these mers knew how and whom they needed to treat strictly. And old man Tang who was the greediest of all was on top of their list after all this mer was the one who snatched three bowls of porridge alone.

Old man Tang was furious when he heard that the mer was not giving him any extra porridge just because he ate a little more yesterday, he was with a child of course he was going to feel a bit more hungry. How can he, a pregnant mer make do with this much food?

But no one in the village knew that he was with a child and he couldn’t let them know either after all Old madam Yu haven’t slept with him for more than two years now, if the news of him having a child was to be spread out then everyone will find out that he has betrayed Old madam Yu.

” You, how can you be this cruel! I am so old and I need a little more energy to keep my old body active, if you give me this watery porridge to me then how will I keep my old bones warm in this cold weather,” Old man Tang however did not want to let go of this matter just like this, if he was going to starve then he might as well make this mer’s reputation suffer!

him cruel, he was just trying to be fair! How come he was calling him cruel? The mer was the husband of an honest woman but that did not mean that he was easy to bully, in the house he could control those small mers whom his wife has married, can he not deal with a single Old man Tang?