Chapter 5

Liu Tong stewed some soup with the pheasant. It was a big bowl of braised soup. As soon as the dishes were served on the table, Xu Cheng’s two kids extended their chopsticks.

Then Xu Cheng and Zhang Yue reached out their chopsticks, and then the couple of elderly Xu.

Xu Ran, Tangtang, Guoguo and Liu Tong had yet to sit at the table.

Seeing this scene, Xu Ran felt extremely unpleasant.

Xu Ran held his two kids and sat at the table. He also participated in the fight for chicken soup and kept putting chicken meat into the bowls of his kids in an more efficient manner.

“Xu Ran, you fool. You cannot have the chicken. There will be no meat left if you grab all of it.” Zhang Yue could no longer stand it and said to Xu Ran after Xu Ran only got a few picks.

Xu Ran turned his back on him and continued picking dishes.

Zhang Yue planned to say something more, but seeing Liu Tong’s glare, Zhang Yue shut his mouth unwillingly.

The couple of elderly Xu played favorites. Seeing Zhang Yue dare not to say anything about Xu Ran, Elder Daddy Xu knocked off Xu Ran’s chopsticks just when he reached out to pick the dishes and said, “What are you doing? It’s useless for you to eat. You cannot do anything but to eat. Why you didn’t die when you fell off the hill?”

Xu Ran felt sorry for the dead Xu Ran. Seeing the reaction of all the rest family members, Xu Ran realized that such talk must had been repeated a thousand times before. Having such a daddy was really miserable to Xu Ran.

“Pheasant… Tongtong… get…”

The others couldn’t understand Xu Ran, but Liu Tong could, so Liu Tong said, “Daddy-in-law, I took the pheasant back. If Ran wants to eat it, we should allow him to eat more!”

Elder Daddy Xu gave a glance at Liu Tong ferociously and said, “He is such a fool who only knows to eat. Why don’t he just die.”

Elder Daddy Xu once again reached out his chopsticks to pick up some meat from the chicken soup while sayiing so.

Xu Cheng and his two children Xu Hua and Xu Kai kept eating silently, eating more than anyone else.

Considering that he would leave the family sooner or later, Xu Ran boldly picked up more chicken meat. But Xu Ran was not getting the chicken for himself but for his two kids and Liu Tong. If anyone wanted to say anything, Xu Ran would always keep calling Tongtong.

Then, Liu Tong would glare at them, so no one dared to judge anymore.

Xu Ran was clear that if he went on like this, the whole family would have a greater hatred towards his family and would believe that his family was freeloading.

That was right what Xu Ran expected. If the whole family continued thinking that way, they would be asked to leave the whole family and to have their own individual family. That result was exactly what he needed! Xu Ran would not deliberately propose the offer, but he would wait for the others to point it out.

It was in July and the sunshine was fierce. Liu Tong also stayed at home in the afternoon, ready to do some embroidery works.

Liu Tong had excellent embroidery skills. His works could be sold at a good price in the town. But he had spent all his income on Xu Ran for medicine.

Xu Ran looked down at his clothes, which looked fine. However, the clothes of Liu Tong and two kids were full of patches.

He suddenly grabbed Liu Tong’s hands and dragged him to the outside.

The two children were sleeping. Xu Ran didn’t intend to go in and disturb them.

Liu Tong didn’t know what Xu Ran was going to do, but he still followed him patiently.

Xu Ran and Liu Tong went into the kitchen. Then Xu Ran poured all the medicine in the jar out, “No more, no more. Tongtong, I’m not having medicine any more…”

Liu Tong didn’t stop Xu Ran but clutched his hand more tightly. Liu Tong’s hands were full of callus because of hard work for years, which made Xu Ran’s tender hand ache.

Xu Ran felt uncomfortable with Liu Tong’s grip, but he didn’t take it out. Instead, he stretch out his hands and hugged Liu Tong, “Tongtong, I’m not having medicine… no more medicine…”

In Xu Ran’s memory, Liu Tong had been injured when hunting  in order to scrape some money together to buy medicine for Xu Ran. After the accident, Liu Tong had been lying in bed for quite a few days. At that time, Xu Ran threw a tantrum like this and proposed the same request to stop having medicine. Liu Tong had no choice but to listen to him. After one year, Xu Ran completely forgot the accident. Since then, Liu Tong resumed buying medicine for him.

But today, Liu Tong was at a loss. Since he was not injured this time, why would Xu Ran made a scene here?

Liu Tong assumed Xu Ran must feel wronged at home in the morning, so he acted like this.

However, seeing Xu Ran was anticipating his answer, Liu Tong nodded his head unwillingly. In fact, Liu Tong planned to appease Xu Ran at night and continued boiling medicine for Xu Ran in the next day. No matter how, he could allow Xu Ran to stop having medicine.

See Liu Tong’s agreement, Xu Ran was overjoyed. Then he withdrew his hand from Liu Tong’s hand and extended it in front of Liu Tong and said, “It’s red… painful.”

Liu Tong felt guilty look while looking at Xu Ran’s red hand because of his grip. Then he gently rubbed Xu Ran’s hand, blowing it while coaxing him.

On the other side, Xu Ran was indeed feeling ashamed for his actions.

In fact, Xu Ran was just resembling the same act of a fool he had ever known in the past.