Father Mavie

Chapter 15 This Is What Xiao Hei Should Do

Ma Wei didn't stop working until midnight.

According to the information brought back by Mao Mao, the major churches in the city have opened up the share of holy water, from a small supply at the beginning to an unlimited supply.

That means his plan worked.

With so much holy water, he no longer needs to worry about the safety of his believers. After the rats in the city are cleared, people's lives can get back on track.

The crisis is temporarily lifted.

Junia, who had eaten nothing but breakfast, was already hungry, but she insisted on staying with her father. After Ma Wei finished her work, she ran to the kitchen: "Dad, come quickly, let's It's finally time for dinner!"

Mrs. Cecil said that she prepared some simple dinners, but in order to welcome Junia's arrival, she made a rich dinner.

Pea ham broth, baked potatoes, fried bacon, scrambled eggs in butter.
Carefully cooked dishes are served on porcelain plates, waiting for the diners.

Junia couldn't wait to grab a baked potato with the skin on, opened her mouth and took a big bite, and then...
Silently put it down.

"what happened?"

Ma Wei asked as he put the buttered bread into his mouth, "Is it not to your taste?"

Junia nodded, then quickly shook her head, twisted her little hands together, and said in confusion, "I want to eat the beef from last night."

The cooled potatoes taste like chewy wax, let alone tasteless, and the taste is not good. After thinking about it, Ma Wei raised his hand to take the potatoes on Junia's plate, and put his bacon and scrambled eggs in front of her.

"Dad, don't you want to eat?"

"I don't like bacon and eggs."

Hearing these words, Junia happily picked up the spoon, scooped up a spoonful of yellow scrambled eggs and put it into her mouth, her calves were dangling under the table, one spoonful after another.

"You must drink pea soup. It is rich in vitamins and is good for your health." Ma Wei urged.

"What are vitamins, Dad."

"Well"

Faced with Junia's question, Ma Wei didn't know how to explain it for a while. He wanted to explain it with the concept of modern medicine, but he was afraid that Junia would not understand.

"Peas prevent scurvy," he said.

"scurvy?"

"That's right, it's a terrible disease that can lead to tooth loss, depression, and red and black spots on the skin." Mavie gritted her teeth, "If you don't eat more vegetables, the beautiful Junia will be so sick." It's going to be ugly."

"what!"

Junia was taken aback, quickly discarded the bacon, and launched an attack on the pea soup, sticking out her tongue while drinking it, obviously the taste was not very good.

"Hic dad, Junia's done drinking!"

Perhaps it was because of the air entering the stomach due to drinking too fast, Junia hiccupped, put down the soup plate with no drop left, and asked nervously: "Now Junia won't lose her teeth, right? "

"No." Mavi said with a smile, "but it's not enough just to drink it once. Vegetables must be eaten often, otherwise the teeth will still fall out. Well, if that happens, poor Junia will not even eat meat." I can't eat any more."

"Be sure to eat! Junia will definitely eat vegetables often!"

Ma Wei nodded with satisfaction: "I will take you to buy some clothes tomorrow. Although Mrs. Cecil brought a lot of old clothes, they are all out of date."

"Okay, okay!"

at this time
Fat orange and little black jumped in from the window, and said with a tired face: "It's done, the dead mice are thrown to the side of Central Avenue, and when the patrol finds out, they will be cremated centrally."

"Thank you, do you want some bread?" Ma Wei handed over the half-eaten buttered bread.

Fat Ju didn't even look at the bread, just sat next to Junia, and after a short thought, he hesitated to speak.

"I have good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

"bad news."

"Let's tell the good news first, lest you faint from anger." Fat Orange licked his mouth: "The good news is that the church already has a large number of cat believers, and you can command them to do anything."

This is indeed good news, and it is great news.

Cats move quickly, react quickly, come and go without a trace, they are definitely the most flexible eyes in the streets and alleys.

With the cat and cat army, Ma Wei can do many things that could not be done before,
"What about the bad news?"

"The bad news is... heck, you have to provide them with warm shelter and good food."

pat.

The bread fell on the table.

Ma Wei stared at Fat Ju with dumbfounded eyes, and almost couldn't catch his breath.

"Why, don't you want to take advantage of it without doing anything?"

Fat Ju glared at him displeasedly: "Just like humans, cats also need food and shelter from the wind and rain. Now that winter is approaching, if we ignore them, the number of homeless cats will definitely drop sharply! "

"No, no, I'm not a scumbag who pulls up his pants and refuses to recognize cats"

Ma Wei shook his head again and again: "But have you ever thought about it, these are not just one or two, but more than 1000! Cattery can't afford to keep them!!!"

"1535 cats." Fat Ju gave an accurate figure: "On the way back, I did a simple calculation. Based on the average daily consumption of 200 grams of meat per cat, you have to prepare 677 pounds of food a day."

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"In normal times, I can still organize them to eat rats, but you know, the number of surviving rats in the city will not exceed 50, um, maybe less."

The warm words shattered the last trace of luck in Ma Wei's heart.

"Fuck!"

Ma Wei looked despairingly at the ceiling, his lips were trembling.

As he often goes to the market, he is well aware of the prices in the Kingdom of Windsor. A pound of beef is 5 copper pennies, and a pound of fish is 3 copper pennies. The prices are not cheap.

If someone asks him why he doesn't eat pork since beef costs 5p, then Mavi will definitely spit at him and tell him solemnly that in this day and age, a pound of pork costs 7p, which is more expensive than beef!

Even the cheapest fish available every day is 677p for 2031lbs!

every day!

In other words, Mavi would have to pay 8.5 gold pounds just to provide food for the cats every day!

255 gold pounds a month, a year.
Ma Wei didn't dare to think about it anymore, his head was already big.

The buttery bread, which was originally relished, also lost its fragrance at this moment.

despair.

Apart from these two words, Ma Wei couldn't find any other words to describe his current mood.

"Meow"

Xiao Hei came to Ma Wei, raised his paw and pressed it on the back of his hand, and comforted him: "Master, you have to look at the bright side! Being served by more than 1000 cats, who in the world can have this kind of treatment? Yes Isn't it meow?"

"Thank you so much." Ma Wei said without tears.

"It doesn't matter master, this is what Xiao Hei should do meow!"

(End of this chapter)