Chapter 123: Chapter 123: Saying goodbye
When Xiaoyun arrived in the backyard, Leyan was gardening in the hot sun.
Xiaoyun sneaked behind Leyan and hugged her from the back.
"Ah! Honey, why are you scaring me!" Leyan looked angry at Xiaoyun who didn't made any noise before approaching her.
"I just wanted to see your reaction... anyway what you planting? Is this a tree?" Xiaoyun curiously looked at the ground.
"Yeah, I was thinking of changing this backyard to be a playground instead. With a tree over here." Leyan pointed at the sapling
"Babe, you don't have to sacrifice the garden." Xiaoyun gently caressed Leyan's face as he realized what Leyan was trying to do.
"It's fine, I just make a small garden over there. It will be less work and I still get the fun from gardening." Leyan moved over to the other field and start tilting the soil.
"Let me help you." Xiaoyun rolled up his sleeve and grabbed the gardening tool.
Four hours later...
Xiaoyun finally finished helping set up the garden again as the old one had been lost from neglect.
"A shame all these had to go to waste." Leyan looked at all the old vegetable that had rotten.
"It's not your fault, you were too busy to take care of it." Xiaoyun patted Leyan on the back.
"I know, I'm just annoyed that we couldn't try it." Leyan cleaned up the rest of the garden and put them back into the backyard shelf.
"I'm gonna go cook dinner now." Leyan washed her hand in the outdoor sink.
"Let me join you." Xiaoyun washed his hand as well and followed her to the kitchen.
"Hm... why do you feel different today? Do you have some request?" Leyan felt suspicious how nice Xiaoyun was today.
"What? I'm not requesting anything. Is it wrong to do things together with my lovely wife?" Xiaoyun looked innocent toward Leyan.
"Whatever..." Leyan gave up trying to get an answer from Xiaoyun.
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When dinner was finish cooking, the three finally came back from shopping.
Wuli was holding multiple bag at once while Shuli and Yuqi were only holding two.
"Geez, how much stuff did you guys buy?" Xiaoyun helped Wuli carry the bag into the living room.
"Don't tell mom about this, but her birthday is next month in July. I want to prepare a birthday present for her since we didn't celebrate it last year." Yuqi explained.
"Oh right yeah of course." Xiaoyun had completely forgotten about Leyan's birthday.
"Is dinner ready? I'm so hungry." Wuli and Shuli complained as they dropped down their bags in the living room.
"Yea we were just about to start eating." Xiaoyun replied as the three followed him back to the kitchen.
"What took you guys so long?" Leyan curiously asked.
"Just some cloths." Yuqi brushed over it as the four sat back down.
"Whatever, let's start eating." Leyan didn't ask again and started eating.
As the eight of them started eating on the dining table, Xiaoyun decided its time to bring it up.
"I'm going to be missing for around three days, or at most a week."
As soon as Xiaoyun finished talking, all of them looked surprised by the news.
"Why?" Nami asked the question that was in everyone's mind.
"The 1st brigade that is guarding water supply is in trouble... they are facing a massive zombies hordes just like us few days ago." Xiaoyun explained.
"But couldn't they request reinforcement?" Wuli asked.
"All of them military base is under attack right now. We're the only one that is completely free from zombies attack since we just wiped the majority of them going towards our direction." Xiaoyun replied.
"B-But why do you have to go?" Yuqi clearly didn't want Xiaoyun to risk it.
"Yeah, couldn't Yezi or Yiming go instead?" Yueyue added.
"I'm the leader, there is no better option other than me to lead it. Yezi have to stay behind to help with the cleanup from few days ago and Yiming is getting old. He would be better off staying with Yezi in case of an attack."
The six noticed Xiaoyun looked determined and wasn't going to change his mind at all.
"It's fine, don't worry about us." Leyan realized why Xiaoyun was so helpful to her earlier.
The five looked at Leyan in surprise as Leyan flipped side to Xiaoyun.
"We have to be supportive of our husband's decisions, we shouldn't discourage him from performing his job as the mayor and commander in chief." Leyan explained.
The five of them looked among each other in silent, and accepted that Xiaoyun was going on the mission no matter what.
"Wuli, can you make sure he return back home safely? And Xiaoyun you better not use your power to make Wuli stay in base." Yueyue remember Wuli is still a captain in the military.
"That's if Xiaoyun is going to let me go on this missions." Wuli felt Xiaoyun wasn't going to let her go on the mission
"Of course I'm letting you go along. I can't make an exception just for Wuli not to go, that's the most taboo thing someone can do in the military...
The entire army is going, only the militias are staying behind to defend the walls." Xiaoyun reassured them.
The rest of the time eating dinner was through an awkward silent as nobody wanted to talk.
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When the moon was rising up and the sky was all dark, the six entered Xiaoyun's room all naked.
"You're satisfying all of us before you leave okay?" All of them blushes as Leyan said it out loud.
"Of course..." Xiaoyun let out a small sigh.
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Fortunately, all six of them seem to have gone easy on Xiaoyun as he was able to sleep on time rather than staying up late.
"When was the last time I got such a good sleep?" Xiaoyun stretched his body as all of them had already woken up.
After using the bathroom and changing to his soldier uniform, Xiaoyun went downstairs to the living room.
"Be a good boy and good girls okay?" Xiaoyun lifted the three baby up to hug them at all once.
"D-Daddy!" All three of them didn't seem to notice Xiaoyun's tone change.
Xiaoyun put the three back down on the carpet and went to the kitchen.
All six of them and Lily were on the dining table eating breakfast already.
"You're finally awake, I was wonder if I had to go wake you up." Yuqi voice sounded annoyed as if she still didn't approve of Xiaoyun going on the mission.
"Of course I won't miss such an important day." Xiaoyun replied.
"Oh snap I need to go to the police interview!" Yueyue got up from her seat and grabbed her bag.
"Wait." Xiaoyun held Yueyue's hand to stop her for a second.
"What?" Yueyue turned back around, only for Xiaoyun to kiss her on the lip.
"A goodbye kiss okay?" Xiaoyun let go of Yueyue's hand.
Yueyue's face was completely red and stood still in silent, until Leyan laughed out loud.
"Come on Yueyue, you still have the interview to catch!" Leyan reminded her.
"O-Oh right." Yueyue turned around and left.
"Me and Shuli going to work now." Yuqi got up and stood still as if she was waiting for something.
Xiaoyun walked over and gave Yuqi a kiss on the lip.
"You better come back home." Xiaoyun could see a little tear mark as she finish speaking.
"Of course I will." Xiaoyun replied back.
Shuli got up and followed behind Yuqi. But just before she got out of the kitchen, Xiaoyun grabbed Shuli by the hand and kissed her on the lip as well.
"I'm going to marry you after I get back okay?" Xiaoyun didn't gave Shuli a choice.
Shuli face was completely red as she looked surprised at Xiaoyun, but didn't argued against it.
"Now someone is taking action instead of letting other decide." Leyan noticed how much more determined and active in decision making past few days.
"Yeah... I like this Xiaoyun much more. But I feel like he's going to blame himself even more if something goes wrong." Nami commented as she watches Shuli ran up to catch up with Yuqi.
"That's what we are for right? To relief and help him get pass it." Leyan mumbled quietly.
"Okay Lily, it's time to go to school... I still need to go to the office later." Nami got up from her seat.
"O-Okay, I-I'm almost finish eating." Lily finished the last bit of her food and got up from her seat.
"Xiaoyun... you better not get more women on the mission." Nami suddenly had a feeling.
"Of course not, how would that even be possible." Xiaoyun unconsciously patted Nami's head.
Nami stared at Xiaoyun as if she wanted something more.
"Oh right." Xiaoyun got down a little to kiss Nami on the lip.
Nami was finally satisfied and waited for Lily to move.
"Lily what are you waiting for?" Xiaoyun noticed Lily walked up to him instead of Nami.
"B-Brother Xiaoyun... c-can you kiss me?" Lily suddenly asked.
Nami didn't seem to be surprised while both Wuli and Leyan looked extremely surprised by Lily's suggestion.
"Fine." Xiaoyun got down to kissed Lily on the cheek, but Lily moved a little last second to make Xiaoyun kiss her on the lip instead.
"Xiaoyun you!" Nami looked extremely angry toward Xiaoyun while Wuli and Leyan looked at Xiaoyun in disgust.