CH 32.2

Chapter 32: Foster Problems (2) Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.

Happy new year's extra chapter, guys! Have a happy new year!

Xiao Lang imagined it in his mind.

The lazy girl sat on the top of the heated-brick bed with two bare, tender, white feet, and her round toes were very cute. She was so ticklish. If he really licked them, she would definitely be unable to bear it. She would shrink back, and then fall on the heated-brick bed, her small face flushed, and her watery almond eyes looked at him begging for mercy...

“Okay, if I bully you again in the future, I’ll bark like a dog and lick your toes.” Xiao Lang promised without hesitation, and silently added another sentence in his heart: Don’t regret letting me lick!

Shu Lan nodded in satisfaction and hummed: “Then I will trust you again. If you don’t keep your word in the future, I will ignore you again!”

Maybe Xiao Lang’s attitude was too good, maybe he really didn’t bully her recently, maybe it was because Xiao Lang worked hard for her family, and of course, maybe it was because she was anxious to eat the big apricots that she had coveted for a long time. She forgot how much she used to be afraid of him, and even if she didn’t want to deal with Xiao Lang, would Xiao Lang obediently not provoke her?

Xiao Lang didn’t take her threat seriously at all. He bent down and squatted down again: “Come up quickly, it will be dark in a while.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a pair of lotus root-like arms wrapped around his neck from behind, followed by a warm on his back. The lazy girl’s small body obediently crouched on his back. He immediately circled her legs and stood up with a little effort.

Shu Lan put one hand on Xiao Lang’s shoulder and waved the other hand in the air: “Go there, go there... Ah, there’s a big one...”

Xiao Lang took the trouble to follow her orders. He went wherever she said she wanted to go.

After being rushed for a while, Shu Lan picked six ripe apricots. She put them in her skirt. As soon as her feet touched the ground, she couldn’t wait to run to the kitchen, eager to wash the apricots to eat.

Xiao Lang stood under the apricot tree, thinking she was leaning on his back just now, no longer resisting like she used to, and suddenly felt a strong sense of accomplishment. It turned out it was so easy for the lazy girl to let go of her defenses.

That night, even though he slept alone in an empty room, Xiao Lang slept very peacefully.

In the next few days, turning the field to sow seeds, spread wheat, and milling wheat, the whole Qingshan Village was busy and happy. The adults were sweating profusely as they worked, and the children were playing around the wheat field. They didn’t feel flustered by the hot sun.

On this day, Xiao Lang was smashing apricot kernels with Shu Lan, and Zhang-shi came over with Lianhua.

Lianhua was one of the few people that Shu Lan remembered. She knew Lianhua was Xiao Lang’s relative younger sister, so she guessed Zhang-shi’s identity, and took the initiative to tell Xiao Lang, who lowered his head: “Older brother Wolf, your aunt is here!”

Xiao Lang was very satisfied with the results of training in the past few days, so the dissatisfaction in his heart because of the appearance of the two of Zhang-shi also faded a little. Without raising his head, he said: “Come here, ignore them, give it to you!” The three apricot kernels that were just smashed were handed over.

Shu Lan took it and threw it into her mouth in one breath, chewing it crunchily.

At this time, Zhang-shi mother and daughter had already reached the door of Shu’s house.

Lianhua just saw that scene and shouted dissatisfiedly: “Older brother, my mother came for you, let’s go to your house to talk!”

Xiao Lang didn’t hear anything, but Qin-shi who heard the movement quickly walked out and said to Zhang-shi unhappily: “Why are you looking for Ah Lang?” She didn’t like Xiao Yongjiang’s family at all. In the past, she would pretend to be a face-saving job when they met. Now, after the funeral, she didn’t even bother to pretend and didn’t hide her dislike in her heart.

Zhang-shi snorted coldly, squinted at Qin-shi, and said: “Big sister, why did you talk to me like this? I’m Ah Lang’s aunt. What’s wrong? Why do I have to tell you when I talk to him? Why haven’t I heard of such a reason? Could it be the rules of your Qin family? That’s right, your father is rich and doesn’t even care about the village head. You, the eldest miss, naturally look down on our country women!”

Xiao Lang immediately stood up and looked at Zhang-shi coldly: “What do you want to talk about?” He hated this kind of annoying, troublemaker, and round-about woman the most!

Zhang-shi glanced at Qin-shi smugly. When she looked at Xiao Lang, her face quickly changed to a pleasant face. She pulled Lianhua and walked in, saying with a smile: “Ah Lang, we are busy these days. I can’t take care of you while harvesting wheat. Now, the work in the field is finished. Your grandfather wanted me to tell you that you can live with us in the future, and we will take care of your food and clothing. When you grow up and marry a daughter-in-law, you can move back and live by yourself!”

“I don’t need you to take care of me!” Xiao Lang said coldly, glaring fiercely at Lianhua who was beside him.

Qin-shi seemed to have thought of something and stared at Zhang-shi with a frown. They wouldn’t be so shameless, would they?

However, seeing Zhang-shi didn’t think it was wrong at all as if she had expected Xiao Lang to answer like this. She still smiled and said: “This is impossible. You are only 10 years old. You have no father or mother. We are only your relatives. We must take care of you. I can’t watch you live as an orphan. Our Xiao family won’t do that kind of thing that doesn’t care about our kinship. It doesn’t matter. Aunt knows you don’t want to leave your house. In that case, Aunt will move in to live with you. The left and right families are not too far apart. No matter what you say, Aunt will never leave you alone with no one to take care of!”

“Zhang Chunjiao, do you people have no shame and still have the idea to snatch Ah Lang’s family property?” Qin-shi couldn’t bear it any longer. She stepped in front of Xiao Lang and glared angrily at Zhang-shi.

This family, on the grounds that they were Ah Lang’s blood relatives, intended to force him to live with them in the name of taking care of their nephew. At that time, even if Zhang-shi snatched Ah Lang’s house and money, she could steal it on the pretext of keeping it for him, even if others didn’t like it, they have no position to interfere!