Chapter 64

Slept early the night before, Tangtang and Guoguo woke up early in the morning. They got up, put on clothes and washed their faces themselves. They walked around in the yard and played with the puppies for a while, but didn’t see their dad and daddy until their stomachs were rumbling.

Though occasionally dad and daddy got up late before, they didn’t get up this late. Tangtang and Guoguo couldn’t help worrying. ‘Is there something wrong with them?’

Thinking of this, the two only five-year-old kids panicked. They didn’t feel right when their dad asked them to sleep early last night. This morning, their dad and daddy hadn’t gotten up yet till this time, making Tangtang and Guoguo feel something wrong.

Without thinking, the brothers ran to Xu Ran and Liu Tong’s room, knocking on the door, “Day and daddy, get up! We are hungry!”

“Dad and daddy, we are hungry. Get up!”

Two persons’ voice could be heard easier than one and could last without pause. In the room Xu Ran and Liu Tong was waken, but still not fully awake.

After the amazing night, Liu Tong was covered all over with love bites by Xu Ran. Xu Ran had stared straight at Liu Tong since he woke up. He overjoyed for what happened last night.

Liu Tong flushed being stared by Xu Ran, giving him a gentle push, “Come on. Get up. Tangtang and Guoguo are hungry.”

“Haha, Tongtong, you look so beautiful! Wear this dress for me next time, will you?”

Liu Tong didn’t reply him, thinking, ‘This is a wedding dress! Shall we marry every day?!’

However, since Ran liked it, it didn’t hurt to wear it occasionally. He would like to have a third child, but never got pregnant after giving birth to Tangtang and Guoguo, not knowing whether because he was too tired at that time or not.

After getting up, Xu Ran gave Tangtang and Guoguo a good comfort, reassuring to them that they would never starve them. Liu Tong went to the kitchen to make breakfast.

It was already the 30th day of the tenth lunar month and tomorrow people would come to sow wheat. They must go to the town to buy some stuff, especially some meat. They didn’t raise pigs, so they should prepare some meat in advance. There would be Chinese New Year in two months and meat price must go up then.

After calculating the cost, Liu Tong thought that it would be a large amount of money for the New Year’s purchase. It also came to him that Xu Ran didn’t give money to him after he sold the chili paste in the town. Thinking of the red wedding dress and jade hairpin, he understood.

He would not allow Ran to continue doing this from now on. The life they were living was too good, which made Liu Tong feel not real.

Finishing breakfast, they were heading to the town. Considering Liu Tong’s health condition that he must get exhausted to take a carriage, Xu Ran decided to take only the kids with him. Liu Tong objected, afraid of kids being lost. He insisted that he should go with them, so Xu Ran had to compromise.

Then the family went to borrow an ox cart from Wu Mei. Wu Mei and Xu Ran were just considering to go to the town, so they joined too, two families, eight persons in total, filling the ox cart.

After parking the ox cart in the town, the two families broke into two groups, buying their own stuff separately and deciding to meet up at the ox cart after noon.

Xu Ran had been used to bring a back packet with him when went out, putting everything he bought in, very convenient.

Tangtang and Guoguo were as excited as they were in the town last time. Everything was still new to them even though they had seen last time already.

What they were buying today was almost the same as those they had bought last time for working the wasteland. There was still some brown rice left, so they didn’t have to buy this time. They needed to buy some vegetables, but the weather had become cold and there were not many vegetable vendors. Xu Ran walked around and decided to buy some when he was back.

People here liked fat meat, so it was more expensive than lean meat. Xu Ran bought a lot of fat meat and also bones as well as haslet, which were not expensive,  so it saved Xu Ran much money.

Afterwards, Liu Tong went to buy some stuff for the kitchen use, walking around for a long time, then it was almost noon.

Remembering there was a stall selling Wonton near their ox cart, Xu Ran was planning to take his family to have Wonton for lunch.

Out of his expectation, Xu Ran saw Xu Cheng and Zhang Yue when he just turned around.