Chapter 105 - 107: Digging Coal

Chapter 105: Chapter 107: Digging Coal

Every time Tang Zhinian saw the little dark-skinned girl before him, he couldn’t help but weep, tears streaming down his face as if rivers of noodles.

This was not his soft and delicate daughter, but some coal miner from who knows where.

“Why the hell are you crying?” Chen Zhong had had enough of Tang Zhinian’s foolish demeanor, he was weepy and sorrowful every day as if he had stolen his money.

“Uncle Zhong, can you stop my daughter from going to the mountain?”

For so many pitiful years, he had painstakingly raised his daughter, fearing her skin would darken. It was only now he realized how sensitive Little Yuxin was to sunlight. One day in the sun and she looked like a coal miner.

Before, she was like a white steamed bun, but now she had become a darkened bun.

“What would she do if she doesn’t go to the mountain?” Chen Zhong really wanted to slap Tang Zhinian. “Can you, a grown man, not be so damn pathetic?”

“But she’s really dark...” Tang Zhinian was on the verge of tears yet again.

” Who will want her if she’s so dark in the future?”

“Oh...” Tang Yuxin put her herbs in the bamboo basket, planning to take them out and dry them later.

He blames me for having you collect medicine and darkening your skin, but you’ve always been dark. How can this be my fault? What, are you never going to be in the sun this life?

“Oh...” Tang Yuxin’s reply was as simple as before. She had been dark last life, she was used to it, why should she feel anything different about it?

“Yuxin, come here.”

Chen Zhong extended his hand towards Tang Yu.

“Okay,” Tang Yuxin walked over, standing in front of Chen Zhong. At seven years old, she hadn’t grown much. Her eyes remained like a clear, cool spring. At times innocent and na?ve, at times deep and unreadable, reflecting the trials of countless times she’d weathered. The young her remained calm and still as a pond, barely any ripples of emotion showing.

Chen Zhong ruffled Tang Yuxin’s hair, “Sigh, you’ve gotten ugly.”

Tang Yuxin

“No problem, you’ll grow out of it.”

Chen Zhong chuckled. It was no wonder Tang Zhinian felt like crying. His originally beautiful daughter had become a coal miner. It was something no one would want.