BXBX NOVEL Chapter 54 A Mud Fight.
"Mummy come here." Justin called in his adorable voice.
She turned her back on the men and went to join the children. Their mood matched hers perfectly and when she got there, she rolled a ball of mud and aimed it at Justin's back. It hit him lightly and he squealed.
The children suddenly had a brilliant idea, mud fight!!!!
What followed next was the flinging of mud balls in every direction. Some of the workers that were standing on the sides of the trenches which were leading water to the paddies joined in on the game. Oak and Bell couldn't take the temptation anymore and they joined in.
Scarlet picked up Justin and she twirled him around while he screamed in joy. Just as she put him down, Severus jumped into the paddy with so much force that he splashed mud on her face.
The children giggled because she had mud in the face. She chased after Severus and the children turned this into another game of 'who will catch the dog first?' Luckily, Severus engaged the children by dodging their little hands, slowing down until they were close before setting off again and flinging mud at them his hind legs.
"Mummy sing the rice sowing song." Justin urged her.
"Yes governor Scarlet sing." the other children begged. They were now comfortable with her since she had played with them. To them, the adult who played with them was a good adult.
She laughed and asked the children, "Who wants to hear me sing?"
All of their hands went up. There was a total of only twenty two children on the Blue star and all twenty two were here. It was as if she was she was in a little classroom.
She took a guitar out of her storage. Word was already out there that governor Scarlet had a storage bracelet. To the citizens of the Blue star this was not shocking. Many of them assumed that Esong Wu gave it to her. Others said it was her teacher but either way, they were not extremely shocked to see her pulling a the guitar out of thin air.
"Do you know the words to the song?" she asked the children.
"I know two."
"I know some."
Different answers came from different children. Justin had been singing a few lines from the 'Kawai Kenji Naaji no Uta' song after watching just two episodes of Guardian of the spirit. All he cared about was that the children in the series sung 'Plant the rice seeds, let them sprout.'
She had been exhausted and she told him it was the rice sowing song. Ever since he sung 'old McDonald to the vegetable seedlings, he had recruited other children into singing for the plants.
Today she had heard two adults singing the rhyme. She made all the children follow her out of the paddy and they sat down on the hard ground. Severus lay down with his head in her laps.
"Okay, I will sing and if you know the next part sing along with me."
"Yes." the children shouted.
Luckily, her younger brother had been obsessed with that song for a while and she would sing it to him as she was putting him to bed. He even dressed as one of the main characters for Halloween once. Not many people knew who he was!!
She started singing, "Kao Kao Hoi hoi...…"
All the children knew that line at least. For the rest of the song, they were quiet until she got to the "Naaji Koi Koi." part.
The rest of the guests had stopped moving when the games started so they found themselves standing to the side and enjoyed watching Scarlet singing with the children.
"Your wife is really talented brother, I have to say that I am beginning to envy you a little bit." Markay whispered to Esong.
Esong snorted.
"I wonder why you hated her so much, I never met her back then and all I heard were terrible things but this is not a terrible woman. She is beautiful, hardworking and talented. Her biggest flaw is her lack of mental strength.
Again, Esong snorted. He did not tell his cousin that he had tried to scan her mind and he felt the fledglings of energy. She had pushed herself away from him before he could carefully understand what it was. If he head to guess, she truly was regaining her mental strength as she had vaguely said to him.
He was feeling slightly irritated because of Markay's words. What exactly was Markay thinking? Was he interested in this woman?
For some reason he felt a small sense of panic and discomfort in his chest. He had not felt this way before. Actually, he realized that he had felt panic before when she drugged him and he could not fight back. He recalled how much he hated himself for having let his guard down and landing himself in such a situation. A sliver of anger went through his heart suddenly and he clenched his fists.
"She is not who she appears to be." he replied.
Scarlet appeared to have finished her singing and her enthralled audience was applauding her vigorously.
"Mummy sing old McDonald now." Justin shouted.
"No more singing." Esong yelled. "Don't you all have school to attend?" he asked the children sternly.
Watching this woman sing softly with that smile on his face was angering him. Was she doing this to seek Markay's attention? He felt the senseless urge to take that musical instrument in her hands and smash it.
Scarlet saw the happy smile on Justin's face turn into a frown and she looked at Esong with fury burning in her eyes. "Why are you scaring the children?" she shouted at him just as he had done to them.
Esong's mind spun around as he thought about what answer would suit him best in this situation because this woman was spitting fire at him with her eyes. He found it and he touched his chest and put a solemn look on his face like a good actor. "Is it wrong of me to ask about their schooling? Some of them are as old as ten years. All of them should be in school, am I wrong? Is it so bad of me one of the empire's generals and a member of the royal family to hope that these young clever children who are the future of our empire attend school instead of running around carefreely?" Esong replied defensively.