Old Master Ying was not worried about Ying Nan running out, after all, Ying Nan was just a mer where could he go? By the time the sky turned dark, he would be back. Once he was back, he would deal with him thoroughly! Who was he trying to scare by running away?
He was not the only one, even the villagers thought that Ying Nan would be back. After all, he did the same thing in the past and by evening he would return home, that poor mer did not have a firm stand to fight back against Old Master Ying anyway.
Though they all knew that Ying Nan would be back, they could not help but remark,
" Old Master Ying, you are too much. Ying Nan is already eighteen, mers his age already has two or three kids yet you refuse to get him married."
" Thats right if you are refusing to let him get married to that Song woman why are you shamelessly asking for money from her? Don't you think you have leeched enough under Ying Nan's name?"
However, Old Master Ying did not feel that he was doing anything. He placed his hands on his hips and then glared at the crowd that was glaring at him, he narrowed his eyes and then said, " Who are you to tell what I can do and what I cannot do? This is our family matter! Did I force that woman to give me money? She did it because she wanted to suck up to us humph!
You all are jealous that we have such a big connection and nothing more."
When the villagers heard Old Master Ying's words, they rolled their eyes. Who was jealous of whom?
As soon as Old Master Ying heard his daughter's words, he frowned and then got up from his bed. The stove was not lit up. What was that useless mer doing?
He stepped down from the bed and walked out of the room while muttering, " What is that wretched mer doing? My daughter is back home and he hasn't cooked rice yet? He had to be kidding me!"
" Ying Nan! You bastard where are you hiding? Go and cook food for your sister! Ying Nan!" Old Master Ying shouted again and again but no matter how many times he shouted no one answered him back.
A frown etched on his forehead as Old Master Ying walked over to Ying Nan's room and then kicked open his door. No sooner did he open the door, than Old Master Ying found out that Ying Nan was not at home!
" Good! Very good! He dared to run out huh!" Old Master Ying was stunned at first but after a while, he was furious once the shock wore off, that mer was really looking down on him!
" Fine let's see how long he can hide!" Old Master Ying snapped as he turned on his heels and headed back into the kitchen, he did not think that he needed Ying Nan to maintain his house.
However the truth was that Old Master Ying was good for nothing, he did not know how to cook and even if he did know a few things after getting married to Old Madam Ying, he had never stepped in the kitchen.
Thus even when he thought that he could cook a decent meal without any fuss, his reality was not as good as his imagination. With his lack of skills, the rice that he cooked was not cooked completely, the stir-fried vegetables were burnt and the soup that he cooked had a fishy taste.
As soon as the Ying Family took a sip all of them had a hard time swallowing it. The youngest daughter of the Ying family, Ying Bo threw the bowl on the table and cried, " What is this? It's salty and fishy, I don't want to drink it!"