This is a fan translation done by Zoe_Emi0923

WDYM VOL 17 HAS STARTED ON A RANDOM FRIDAY (IM NOT COMPLAINING.)

ANYWAYS. I’ll be translating the Web Novel chapters for everyone, but I also want you to read Shikkarito's translations when she writes them. (She’s, our OG.)  shikarito.wordpress.com

★There are also spoilers from vol 16, involving the big mystery from last volume, like Kokuyou’s true identity, and the aftermath of Zhi-Zi’s situation.  (For more on that, visit my previous translations or you can always ask me.)

PART 1: Brother’s childcare.  (Original text source https://ncode.syosetu.com/n9636x/388)

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The rough sound of soil being dug could be heard. Maomao rested her cheek on her hand, watching a man work in the fields.

The location was just outside of the Capital’s city walls, a field that Maomao and her adoptive father Luomen created. Or rather, there used to be one.

In exchange for dealing with vines clinging to the walls, the guards had turned a blind eye to their field―but for the past years, it hadn’t been properly taken care of, it had completely overgrown. However, the vines were nicely trimmed.

“(When was the last time, we cleared those vines?)” Maomao recalled gathering them with Sazen and Kokuyou.

Back then she knew nothing of Kokuyou’s true nature. And because Maomao didn’t know, she had assumed he wasn’t a bad guy.

But now standing in this neglected field were neither Luomen nor Sazen…

“There’s a good place!” Lahan’s older brother said as he wiped sweat off his forehead with a lively face.

He had tilled the eccentric strategist's estate’s garden and seemed to have started doing the same on the outside, but he was told to stop.