Ch48.1 - Outstanding Me (Part One)

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It was the first time Cui QiChao knew that this cat could change its tone so capriciously. XiaoBai’s cry was becoming sadder and sadder, and it sounded like it was howling. After listening to it, Cui QiChao truly felt like it was cursing.

Although there was no one else here, Cui QiChao, who was scolded by XiaoBai, felt embarrassed. This time, he had let XiaoBai have a hold over him.

XiaoBai meowed and cried for a long time. This made Cui QiChao feel that no matter how much he tried to explain himself, it still had something to argue with him about.

The sound was so sharp that the other cats were stunned. They looked at XiaoBai and Cui QiChao like a crowd of onlookers. In fact, this scene did become a famous scene of Cui QiChao’s program and everyone screenshotted it to use it as a meme. 

Now, Cui QiChao was scolded by the cat and all the cat spectators were watching him. The Lord was becoming more and more embarrassed. He reached out to catch XiaoBai.

XiaoBai jumped away from him. It leapt up to a high point and angrily continued to bow its head and scold him. Cui QiChao, this son of a bitch, is truly inhuman. Even a cat would admit its own mistake. XiaoBai knew it wasn’t right to continue scolding him. This guy almost mistakenly recognized DaBai as XiaoBai  in the beginning. At that time, it was fine if Cui QiChao just came here and wasn’t aware of what its body looked like. Even after they spent so much time together, Cui QiChao still mistook it for the wrong cat! It was not as if it had mistaken Cui QiChao with the agricultural official!

“XiaoBai, I apologize to you. Stop yelling.” Cui QiChao reached out to pick XiaoBai up.

This time, XiaoBai still screamed, but it didn’t struggle hard. When Cui QiChao brought it down, the cat’s claw slapped Cui QiChao on the face. It imitated the action of the Exotic Shorthair on the last virtual plane, but it didn’t dare to unsheathe its claws. After XiaoBai smacked him, XiaoBai looked at him. On the surface, Cui QiChao was obviously stunned. And in XiaoBai’s heart, it also felt a little nervous.

However, because Cui QiChao was wrong first, he was too embarrassed to punish XiaoBai. Unexpectedly, Cui QiChao endured it.

Hahahaha!! XiaoBai laughed wildly in its heart, beating gongs and drums in its mind, and was very happy. It kept this matter in its heart for such a long time. Anyway, it was better than that Exotic Shorthair cat, because it knew to remain calm and continue to be angry. But not everything was a pretence. The more it looked at the two black cats, the angrier it got. After scolding Cui QiChao for two sentences, XiaoBai went to scold the innocent black cats.

Cui QiChao saw it grow up. Wasn’t it much more vigorous than the two black cats, and wasn’t its coat smoother than the two cats?

XiaoBai brooded over it, disturbed. When it was bedtime at night, Cui QiChao wanted to separate the cats. XiaoBai first circled around Cui QiChao’s bed, yelling at the cats. No cat dared to jump onto Cui QiChao’s soft quilt to sleep. 

Cui QiChao smiled and put XiaoBai’s cushion down.

XiaoBai looked up with the cushion in its mouth.

Cui QiChao: “……”

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XiaoBai raised his chin, and the cushion inched and inched. It was crazily hinting him. 

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Cui QiChao’s head throbbed when he heard XiaoBai calling out. He moved the cushion to the middle. Seeing that XiaoBai not only shouted, but also began to grind his claws, he sighed and put the cushion at the head of the bed. “Just for tonight. Enough is enough. You’re as irritating as a bitch.”

XiaoBai: “……” 

XiaoBai jumped up and endured the second half of Cui QiChao’s words.

When he went to bed at night, Cui QiChao could feel XiaoBai breathing near his ears. He was very uncomfortable because XiaoBai hadn’t taken a bath for several days. He tried to turn his head to avoid touching XiaoBai’s body.

XiaoBai hadn’t been in Cui QiChao’s bed for a long time. This time, it wasn’t known whether it was a blessing in disguise because it didn’t notice Cui QiChao inching away. It fell on its back as it slept. XiaoBai would also suddenly wake up and meow to the other black cats in the corner.

Was it dreaming? Cui QiChao didn’t wake up. He noticed the movement and touched XiaoBai’s head with the back of his hand. Once again, XiaoBai soon fell asleep. It woke up several times during the night and was swearing. 

Cui QiChao was at his wits’ end.

Because of XiaoBai’s exceptional crying meows, George had no doubt the next day. His room was quite close to Cui QiChao’s room, so he heard the sad cat cry from Cui QiChao’s room. There was no doubt that Cui QiChao was enjoying his gift so much that it was as if he didn’t rest at night.

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When Cui QiChao moved XiaoBai’s cushion down, it was very reluctant to have its pillow moved down. They had only slept together for one night. It didn’t have more time to display its annoyance, such as pretending to dream while kicking Cui QiChao in the face and secretly biting his hair. XiaoBai had only slightly irritated Cui QiChao, and hadn’t had enough fun. 

Cui QiChao said goodbye to George. Before leaving, George had to ask for credit. “I’m relieved to hear the noise from your room. It seems that you really liked this gift.”

“…Yes, thank you, Your Excellency, for Your Excellency’s generous gift. I won’t be able to forget it.” It was rare that Cui QiChao had roasted someone.

It was a pity George didn’t understand, and even made another appointment with Cui QiChao. It was then that he left Northumberland.

As soon as George left, Cui QiChao couldn’t wait to set the cats free, otherwise XiaoBai would give him hell. 

If he kept these cats, these cats would be used as evidence of how he wronged XiaoBai. XiaoBai would walk around every day and meow a few times at him, alluding that he had to get the other cats out of here. He even found that XiaoBai was also testing his cat recognition ability, but after Cui QiChao’s shortcomings had been exposed, he went to observe the body shapes of the three cats very carefully. Finally, he found subtle differences. As long as he could compare the cats with each other, he could recognize them. As for the facial features, he can’t distinguish them yet.

Cui QiChao only took Lily and packed the box of cats to the woodland. As an excuse, he told everybody that he would abuse the cats in the open air. When he got outside, he told XiaoBai to take the cats away and set them free.

Lily swallowed her saliva. “Xiao, Xiao Bai, can you understand?”

Although she was sure that the black cat was not the incarnation of the devil, she was surprised to see that the normally cold and strange black cat could understand such complex instructions. 

“After living with people for a long time, dogs can understand people’s words, and so can cats. Besides, XiaoBai is also trained.” Cui QiChao rubbed XiaoBai’s back a few times. XiaoBai immediately gave Lily a disdainful glare.

Lily was despised by a cat again and said weakly, “XiaoBai is really powerful, so these cats are entrusted to you.”

XiaoBai was worthy of having received the training of shepherd cats. It both herded and led these cats to the depths of the forest.

Cui QiChao and Lily wandered around the woods again. Cui QiChao had Lily barbecue a piece of meat they secretly brought out in the open air. Only then did she slowly eat the kebab before they returned back. 

The Lord and Lily went out with the cats, which everyone saw.

Now, the cats were gone. The Lord was gnawing on a meat kebab when he came back. Who would be so careless to ask, Lord, what about your other cats?

The people could only admire him from the bottom of their hearts. The Lord was truly amazing. Even when eating cat meat, his expression remained normal.

There were people cutting wood and hunting in the forest occasionally. When XiaoBai led the cats away, it only returned after a few days. It climbed the wall and jumped through the window by itself and got into Cui QiChao’s room. 

“Is it done?” Cui QiChao asked.

XiaoBai didn’t speak. It leaned on the table.

Cui QiChao knew it was done. He immediately asked Lily to bring the fish that had been prepared long ago. This was the fresh river fish caught in the territory these days. After a simple meal, he gave it to XiaoBai, “Lord XiaoBai, come, please.”

XiaoBai thought while eating, Fuck, I’m too outstanding. 

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During the new year, it was the beet planting season. As promised last year, Northumberland farmers, whether farmers or serfs, would go to the Lord’s warehouse to get beet seeds.

Before that, everyone was instructed together. They generally knew the sowing method of sugar beets, and during this period, the sowing would be uniformly scheduled. The growth period of sugar beets was short. It would only take about two months or so for them to grow. In these two months, the farmers were very attentive when sowing.

Last year, these people also sowed, but few people cared. At that time, beets were still planted in saline alkali land. Everyone treated the sowing of beets like how they sowed vegetables like cabbage. They pulled weeds and applied fertilizer in a regular way. 

Now it was different. These were all their wealth. They despised the fact that they couldn’t see if the beets in their field were growing properly or whether there were insects every day. If they could, they’d dig up the earth to examine how the roots grew and ask the moon what the beets lacked.

As everyone knew, the bigger the beets, the more sugar water one could squeeze out from it.

As long as one took good care of it in this short period of time, the returns of growing sugar beets were huge. The Lord would draw a part of the brown sugar that was produced, and the rest would be transported by the trade team to the church’s trading place for food.

Because the price of brown sugar fluctuates and might even be different every day, when the trade team came back with the food they exchanged for the first time, everyone went nuts. The roads were crowded, and the trade team couldn’t go back to the warehouse. 

They couldn’t wait to get their own food, stared at the trade team’s car and kept asking how much food the trade team had exchanged. Even though the people in the trade team were warriors, they couldn’t stop so many farmers.They could only stop on the road somewhere temporarily, and let someone inform the Lord.

Cui QiChao simply ordered that the things they exchanged should not be put into storage and distributed on-site.

Based on what was recorded previously, grain was distributed to farmers. It wasn’t oats or barley; it was the most valuable wheat. No one knew how much wheat they could swap for using brown sugar. Anyway, with wheat, it was simple to trade it for oats with someone, making it easier to bring back.

The amount of wheat was enough to make the serfs dumbfounded. 

“So much wheat, they actually exchanged so much wheat?” The serfs were almost crying, but their mouths were wide open. They had an expression as if they wanted to cry and laugh at the same time. So much wheat belonging to their families. It was a scene they had never dreamt of.

At first, everyone assumed that the church would be loaded with sugar. Would it be possible that the price of brown sugar might fall too low? No one had ever been to a large church, but they all understood that God loved the world, but God would never release their grip on the amount of tax that had to be paid.

At present, it was obvious that the current sugar production was still in short supply for the whole market. Even if the price dropped slightly, it was still a considerable quantity for them.

In the past, when everyone made their meals, they would first count the grains used. This time, they could eat black bread every three to five days this winter. 

Wheat was used to cook porridge or make black bread. It was something they rarely ate at ordinary times. How could it be something they ate routinely? This was a life that a Lord would lead!

Now, there was a startling problem. Should they exchange these wheats with barley and oats that they could eat for several years, or eat the wheat directly?

Those better-off farmers first made up their minds and shouted, “I want to borrow the mill. I’ll line up first! I’ll use the mill first!”

The farmer didn’t want to turn them all into oats. He felt compelled to take some out to make bread, no matter what. He’d think about it again once he’d grown weary of eating bread. Were they not frightened when they grew the wheat for the sake of their achievements today? 

There were still grains in the field, and the grain output had increased several times since they were planted according to the Lord’s method. As long as there was no sudden hail that would kill all the grain, it was absolutely impossible for them not to have enough to eat this year. Anyway, so what if he made all his wheat into bread for his family?

Other people also subsequently realized. Yes, their family had been looking forward to it for so long. They had to have a meal of bread first. Bread was something the serfs wouldn’t see in their homes all year round.