That was the suggestion from Cheng Bi Yuan, and Cheng Xiao Xiao
ran away under her father’s piercing gaze.
After that, everybody in the family was tending to their own
duties, and Cheng Xiao Xiao’s was to boil the herbs.
Dinner was plentiful and everybody was delighted, especially the
two brothers. They’ve each had two big bowls of rice.1 Happily they’ve slapped
their protruding stomachs and laughed.
At night, only the parent’s house was dimly lit by a candle, the
four kids had all retired into their own houses.
Cheng Xiao Xiao entered the dimension. She harvested everything
she could. She planted more white radishes and Chinese cabbage. She didn’t
return from the dimension right away like she always has, but she sat in her
cottage and was in a state of mental torpor.
She was struggling whether to tell her parents the truth. It would
make it much easily to produce stuff from the dimension if she comes clean.
It’s not like she could keep telling them more animals were
appearing in the cave.
It was only going to get harder and harder to explain away going
forward and the longer this goes on, the more difficult it would be to tell
them the truth. She was probably better off looping them in now, and they could
help with the situations as well.
But how could she explain it in a way that they would find
acceptable? Cheng Xiao Xiao smacked herself on the forehead, and helplessly got
up.
The next day, Cheng Xiao Xiao used cooking medicine for their
father as an excuse to not go up to the mountains. She sent her brothers and
sister off to pick vegetables by the river.
When she saw her mother finishing cooking the herbs and brought
the into the father’s house, she followed her inside. Silently she watched her
fed him the medicine.
A moment later!
He finished an entire bowl of medicine. Cheng Xiao Xiao walked
over by the bed and lightly she asked, “Dad, how are you feeling? Any better
after the herbs?”
“Much!” Said the much better looking Cheng Bi Yuan, even the way
he looked at Cheng Xiao Xiao had softened.
Mrs. Cheng put down the bowl and sat on the side of the bed.
Smiling, she said, “Xiao Xiao, last night your dad said he has been feeling
much better and the pain has lessened. Looks like the herbs you picked had
really helped.”
Cheng Xiao Xiao tried to force a smile but failed. She merely
nodded instead.
Her expression did not escape Cheng Bi Yuan He looked intently at
her, then nonchalantly asked, “Xiao Xiao, something on your mind?”
“I….” Under her parents’ inquisitive looks, she didn’t know where
to begin.
Mrs. Cheng was a little bit surprised, she pulled her daughter
next to her and smiled tenderly, “Silly kid, what can’t you share with your own
parents? No matter what, you are still our great daughter.”
But I am not your real daughter!
Feeling a lot of mixed emotions, Cheng Xiao Xiao lowered her head.
Back then, she was an orphan. Ever since her grandmother had
passed away, even though some kind soldier had been providing her with
allowances and tuition, but she had never met this person. She was kind of
raised by everybody in the village.
Now, she has parents. In the two weeks that she has been here,
this family had grew on her. And she had fallen in love with this home that was
filled with warmth and happiness.
“Xiao Xiao, your mom was right. We are a family, you can tell us
anything.” Cheng Bi Yuan had an inkling what she wanted to talk about.
Naturally, he has been curious. If it looked like she was going to
share her secret, he was certainly going to give her that small push that she
needed.
She looked into her parents’ eyes and tried to calm herself. After
a slight paused, she started, “Dad, mom, there were no chickens or rabbits in
the cave.”
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Random Translator Note:
1. Where did the extra rice come from? They
were having SUPER watery porridge before…. They’ve added MEAT, but where did
the RICE come from? :/
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Did they sell chicken or rabbit meat to buy rice ???
ReplyDeleteAs you said, where did the rice come from ?
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solo en las novelas pasa eso, gracias por el capitulo
ReplyDeleteThank you
ReplyDeletemaybe they did plant the rice instead of other stuff... who knows...
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