Rosa Linda took the thick cloth clothes and hung them on the rack, and then took off her veil. She breathed out a wisp of white hot air.
"Auntie, how did you get here?" Lin Feng ran to the kitchen and poured a cup of hot tea.
When he came out, Rosa Linda was already squatting by the fireplace to warm herself.
She was shivering, and kept muttering, "Freezing to death... getting colder every year..."
Emily woke up with a start on the sofa, staring blankly at Rosa Linda.
"Didn't I tell you to come see you when I recovered? "
Lin Feng wiped away some cold sweat for her. It was lucky she was able to find her way here.
"Mom!" Emily called out, and quickly tidied up her clothes.
Rosa Linda glanced at her and looked her up and down in her outfit: "It's so cold this year, and you're only wearing this little?"
"I was just about to sleep with him." Emily bent down to pick up the fire tongs and threw in several more pieces of wood.
"You're doing this first thing in the morning? I should have come at night." Rosa Linda took the scalding tea water handed to her and drank it straight down without even blowing on it.
After drinking it, she breathed a comfortable sigh.
"We'll do it at night too." Emily didn't even blink as she said it.
Her gaze lingered briefly on Lin Feng, then looked back to Emily.
"Young people may be hot-blooded, but you still need to endure if you can. Otherwise you'll damage your kidneys at a young age, which would be troublesome."
Lin Feng sighed.
And it seemed that Emily's personality was probably inherited.
These mother and daughter didn't shy away from saying anything in front of him as a man.
Yuna also heard the commotion and was peeking out observing this unexpected guest.
The observant Rosa Linda immediately noticed her, and asked Lin Feng, "Who is this?"
Lin Feng didn't know how to respond for a moment, but his instinct told him that honesty was the right approach.
So he crooked a finger for Yuna to come over, and put his arm around her waist, "This is my wife Yuna, she is from the Silver Wolf Tribe."
Rosa Linda snorted lightly, "You sure know how to enjoy yourself, I underestimated you before."
She looked Yuna up and down, then glanced at Emily again.
Emily understood the meaning in her eyes, and sighed softly, "Don't worry Mom, Yuna is a kind and good girl, I like her a lot too."
"Alright, as long as you're happy." Rosa Linda patted her ample chest.
Lin Feng observed this mother and daughter closely, and sighed softly.
He didn't know if it was his imagination, but he felt his mother-in-law was much livelier than when they met before.
Originally there was such a huge difference between her before and after illness.
Not only was she more direct in her speech, she looked quite a bit more beautiful too...
"Auntie, how did you find your way here?"
"Didn't you give me the address?" Rosa Linda rested her hand on the backrest, twisting her body to face Lin Feng, "There were road signs, and I can read, so it wasn't hard to find this place."
Rosa Linda pointed upstairs, "And I saw the Holy Flower from far away, you have it on the second floor windowsill, though it's missing two petals, but it's still recognizable."
"Weren't there guards? How did you get into the city?"
"Simple, I saw a freight wagon and snuck inside to sneak in. " Rosa Linda looked very smug, "It's cold out, the guards didn't want to move at all, they just glanced inside the wagon and let it in."
This...
This mother-in-law really was bold and daring.
If she had gotten caught, it definitely wouldn't have ended well.
Emily wondered, "What about my brother? Did you leave him at home alone?"
In her eyes, her brother would always be a child who never grew up.
"Your brother? He's being chased by a bunch of women now, as you know, with so few men in the tribe, your brother has naturally been eyed." Rosa Linda shook her head, looking quite helpless, "He doesn't even go home now."
"That brat... I'll teach him a lesson when I go back someday."
"Teach him what? He's over ten already, settling down early wouldn't be bad." Rosa Linda crossed her legs nonchalantly, she was very open-minded, "I was bored at home alone anyway, so I came to join you all, and see how you're doing at the same time."
Lin Feng thought, the first part was her main reason, the second was just incidental.
So the reason the mother-in-law chose this time to come was because she was bored.
"I'll just live with you all from now on."
"Huh? You're not going back?"
"Go back and do what? All alone, with no one to talk to." Rosa Linda raised an eyebrow, looking at Emily, "Or do you all not welcome me?"
Emily was instantly rendered speechless.
To be honest, she didn't mind living under the same roof as her mom.
But... having several beastmen living in a human city felt a bit odd somehow.
"Mom, you're still young, why not..."
"Nonsense, I'm already thirty-four, in another fifty or sixty years I'll be buried in the ground too. I've gotten used to being alone all these years." Rosa Linda chuckled lightly, then added, "And are there even men left in the tribe?"
Lin Feng listened in from the side, feeling this mother-in-law spoke in an amusing way.
But beastmen have relatively short juvenile and elderly periods, with most of their time being mature adults.
Her describing herself this way was a bit exaggerated.
"If I'm disturbing you all, I'll go back to the tribe after winter passes." Rosa Linda's tone carried a hint of dejection.
???
Seeing Emily not responding, Lin Feng hurriedly smoothed things over: "Of course not, I very much welcome Auntie to come stay with us."
"Since you say so, then I'll live here from now on." Rosa Linda glanced at the two women of the household, then communicated with a look.
Of course Emily didn't need to be said, she was the mother after all, how could she be driven away.
And Yuna even more so, she was always compliant, even if unhappy she would bear it, and certainly wouldn't refuse.
"What do you think? Do you agree?" Lin Feng pulled Yuna aside and asked very softly.
Yuna tilted her head staring at Lin Feng, then answered softly, "Whatever master decides is fine, I won't mind."
"Don't worry, I won't freeload. I'll take care of laundry, cooking, housework, I'll handle it all, I definitely won't just live here for free." Rosa Linda patted her ample chest.
"Auntie, after winter can you come with us into the labyrinth?"
Rosa Linda agreed without a second thought: "Sure, I know some archery, I can handle self-defense, don't worry about me dragging you down."
Lin Feng looked at her stats, she wasn't exaggerating.
Level 25, Agility, Endurance, and Perception all A-rank.
【Sudden Quest: Establish good relations with Rosa Linda.】
Establish good relations?
To be honest, Lin Feng wasn't very good at dealing with these social terrorists.
But if it was just establishing good relations, being friends, that was simple enough.
"Auntie, can I see your archery skills?"
Rosa Linda took down the longbow on her back, but instead of demonstrating, she just hung it back on the rack, "Some other day, there's not much worth looking at."
Having said that, she suddenly crooked a finger at Lin Feng, "Come here for a bit, I have something to ask you."
Lin Feng's forehead instantly broke out in cold sweat.
Now what was this? An interrogation?