Chapter 4

Liu Tong returned home near noon, carrying a pheasant in his left hand and two packets of medicine for Xu Ran in his right.

When Liu Tong entered the house, Zhang Yue  happened to see him and was quite happy to see the pheasant in Liu Tong’s hand. They were busy in the fields recently, so Liu Tong couldn’t go hunting in the hills, causing them no meat to eat for a long time.

Zhang’s fell at once when he saw the medicine in Liu Tong’s other hand. “Why did you buy the medicine again? It’s useless. You may as well buy more meat instead.”

Liu Tong looked at him without any expression on his face, “Get out of my way or I’ll sell this pheasant in my hand as well.”

Zhang Yue was about to say something back when he heard Liu Tong’s words, but he finally backed away reluctantly considering the chicken in Liu Tong’s hand

Liu Tong took the pheasant to the kitchen and then to his room.

The life in Xu Family was very hard. Xu Cheng was idle and did nothing all day long while Zhang Yue was also a person who only waited for food to eat. It was the elderly in the family and Liu Tong who planted fields all the time. However, the couple of elderly Xu in Xu Family were getting old and could not do anything, so the burden finally fell on Liu Tong.

But even so, Xu Family still disliked Liu Tong, thinking it was all his duty to do it all.

Liu Tong had been knuckle under no matter how much anger and hardship he had been suffering for the sake of Xu Ran and his two children.

There were five rooms in Xu Family while Liu Tong and his family, altogether four people, only got one room. The couple of the elderly Xu got one room and Xu Cheng and his family got two. As for the remaining one, it was used to store things.

The kitchen was separate, with just a thatched shed.

When Liu Tong walked to the door of their room, Xu Ran was telling the story to their two children with an extremely tender look. He didn’t think there was something different about Xu Ran let alone that Xu Ran would suddenly be not stupid. After all, he had been taking care of Xu Ran for seven years and all he could remember was that he was a fool.

Liu Tong watched them at the doorway and found it a lovely image. No matter what he was doing outside , at least he would be happy with his family in this room.

“Hey?”

“Daddy, you are back.”

The two children instantly found Liu Tong was standing at the doorway. Then they immediately got up from their stools and ran to him.

Liu Tong held the two kids running towards him, “Yes, I’m back. Did you get bullied today?”

The two children shook their heads together, “No, we didn’t get bullied.”

At this time Xu Ran turned his head sadly. It was all because he was too weak and useless so the first thing when Liu Tong came back home was to ask the children whether they had been bullied or not. Xu Ran felt extremely distressed for that.

Xu Ran put on his former silly look and walked to the door, holding out his hand for Liu Tong’s hug, “Tongtong…”

In his memory, Xu Ran called Liu Tong “Tongtong” and was the only person who called Liu Tong that. Perhaps because of that calling, Liu Tong was willing to be nice to him for seven years. From now on, it was his turn to be nice to Liu Tong.

Liu Tong put the two children down and then placed the medicine in his hand on the empty table in the room before hugging Xu Ran.

“Ran, Tangtang and Guoguo, I hunted a pheasant today and we’ll have meat to eat today!”

The two children were also happy to hear that they would have meat to eat, while Xu Ran frowned upon seeing the medicine on that table.

Liu Tong took the two children into the room and closed the door, taking out a packet of dessert from the inner pocket of his clothes, which contained only four pieces. Liu Tong gave one piece to each of the two children, and the rest to Xu Ran.

The dessert looked exquisite and expensive, and the two children were excited, but they didn’t eat it immediately. Instead, they broke it into two pieces, one for themselves and the other one to Liu Tong.

Perhaps it had become a habit, Liu Tong didn’t refuse and took both small pieces from his twins. However, he didn’t eat them either. Instead, he pulled out a cloth from his inner pocket and wrapped them properly.

Xu Ran knew that it was kept for the two children to eat the next time.

Looking at the two pieces of dessert he had, Xu Ran handed one to Liu Tong as well. Then he split the other one into two pieces as well, stuffed a half into his own mouth and the otherinto Liu Tong’s mouth.

It was so sudden that Liu Tong had no choice but to eat the dessert.

The whole family shared two pieces of desert together happily. Then Liu Tong put the rest away and said that he was going to cook.

The two children were left to take care of Xu Ran.