On a July day, the sun was as hot as fire and the room was steaming with heat, but Ling Yun's heart was as cold as a cellar.
"Ling Yun, everything will be fine." The fat man was still comforting Ling Yun.
Ling Yun just smiled and said nothing.
Then he thought of something and said in a low voice, "Fat man, I will prepare a table for me in my village tomorrow. If you have time, you can bring Jinwen with you. I know the place."
"Oh, is it a scholar's banquet?" Fatty stared at his little eyes and asked curiously.
Ling Yun smiled and nodded.
"Okay, okay! We'll go tomorrow, are you going home?" When he heard that he was going to hold a banquet for scholars, the fat man cheered, but then he felt a little depressed when he thought that he was going back.
"Well, I have a letter here. Please give it to my teacher." Ling Yun originally wanted to go to Jingshan Academy to tell Xu Linfu about being admitted as a scholar.
When I turned around and thought about it, I might as well forget about it in my current state!
I simply asked the fat man to send me a letter explaining the situation and some recent trivial matters at home, hoping that he would understand.
After explaining to the fat man, Ling Yun took the carriage and went home.
But he also bought some rice on the way. After all, he went out yesterday and found that the rice vat at home was running out of rice.
Neither Ling Yun nor Xiao Bing spoke a word along the way, and the atmosphere was very dull.
After Ling Yun arrived home, the five children were in front of the Ling Family Courtyard, wondering what they were waiting for.
Seeing Ling Yun get off the carriage, he immediately ran down, glanced at him, turned around and opened the curtain of the carriage, giving a full view.
But inside the carriage, except for a few bags of rice, there was no one.
Wu Wa turned around, raised her stubborn face, and sobbed, "Brother, where is the eldest sister?"
After she finished speaking, she burst into tears, and tears fell uncontrollably from her eyes.
Silently, Ling Yun opened his mouth, and finally closed it helplessly.
After being silent for a while, he walked up to her, touched her head and comforted her, "Sister, be good, don't cry."
"Brother, sister, sister can't be found." She threw herself on his chest and cried loudly.
Everyone in the Ling family may have heard the miserable cries of the five children and came out of the yard one after another.
When he saw Ling Yun, he was overjoyed at first, then he stretched his head behind him and found that the carriage was empty. He suddenly looked gloomy and fell silent.
"Third sister, please carry the things in!" He had five children on him and couldn't leave for a while, so he could only call the third child to carry the things in.
When Sanwa heard this, he immediately took action.
After a while, five bags of millet were brought in.
After Xiao Bing left, Ling Yun picked up the fifth baby, but she didn't know when the little one clinging to her chest fell asleep.
The fifth baby is not overweight, perhaps because he has eaten too little recently, and the flesh on his face is a little shriveled and looks bloodless.
Ling Yun took her back to the room, placed her on the small bed, covered her belly button with a thin coat, and then opened the window.
He pushed open the door of Ling Dashan's room, wanting to see how he was recuperating recently and whether his condition had improved.
Unexpectedly, the room was filled with a strong smell of Chinese medicine. The moment he entered, he was choked by the strong smell of Chinese medicine and coughed.
He immediately ran out of the door, stood at the door and bowed, exhaling loudly.
Seeing this, Mrs. Liang hurriedly stepped forward, patted his back gently, and said with lingering fear, "You kid, why are you so careless?"
Sanwa saw him coughing and took a bowl of water.
Ling Yun drank it all in one gulp and instantly felt his nose felt much better.
After a while, Ling Yun said slowly, "Grandma, I'm fine, I just don't get used to it for a while, I just need to breathe more and it will be fine."
Seeing that Ling Yun was fine, Mrs. Liang said with relief, "Grandson, if you're not used to it, we won't go in. We'll see that there won't be any problems."
"It's okay, grandma, I'll try again. If you don't get used to it, I'll come out right away."
As he spoke, Ling Yun covered his nose and wanted to try walking in again.
Mrs. Liang wanted to speak to stop him, but when she thought about her wife missing her grandson so much, she was in a dilemma for a while, and finally moved her lips, but still did not speak.
When he came in again, Ling Yun was smarter this time and covered his nose with a rag first.
He waited for the smell of Chinese medicine to pass through the rag and breathe through his nose little by little. After he gradually got used to it, he put the rag down.
When he saw Ling Dashan again at this time, his energy and blood were better than before.
Seeing him coming in, he struggled to raise his hand. Upon seeing this, he immediately reached out and took Ling Dashan's hand, as if to say: Grandpa, my grandson is here.
Ling Dashan was naturally excited when he saw him, but at this time he was squeaking and speaking slurred, and Ling Yun was stunned not to hear a single word.
Fortunately, Mr. Liang was there to translate for him, saying that Ling Dashan missed him very much, that he was the pride of the Ling family, and finally asked him to take care of himself and not to be too tired or troubled.
Ling Yun naturally nodded repeatedly.
After coming out, he took a deep breath toward the sky and felt refreshed. The smell of Chinese herbal medicine was really something he was not used to.
After thinking for a while, he looked at Ling Daren again.
Speaking of which, his father was really a miserable man. His health had finally improved before, but he accidentally slipped again on the small slope in front of the door.
It was also because of Ling Daren's second fall that the Ling family became what it is now.
Ling Daren is inseparable from Da Wa's disappearance, but does Ling Yun blame him?
He thought about it, and it wasn't strange at all. It was just that his family didn't write a letter to tell him about it!
But looking back and thinking about it from their perspective, there is no doubt that what they did.
In order to let him take the exam without any shirk, he suppressed this matter.
In the final analysis, what happened to Da Wa is still because of him. If he was at home, if he lowered his head and borrowed some money from the fat man, if...
It's just that there are no ifs. If he starts over again, his choice may still be the same and he won't be sure.
As for the second baby, he still couldn't figure out how Mr. Yang could be so cruel as to draw a signature.
Maybe deep down in her heart, her daughter's life and death are far less important than Ling Daren's safety!
If it were him, facing the same dilemma, he wouldn't know what he would do.
Best of both worlds?
But there is no such thing as the best of both worlds in the world. It is just the blessing of all living beings for their good wishes.
The moment Ling Daren saw him, his heart felt like honey, his eyes were full of energy, and the deep wrinkles on his forehead and corners of his mouth were full of smiles.
"Shiro, you're here." He said softly, which contained so many complicated feelings.
Ling Yun squeezed out a smile on his stern face and said with a forced smile, "Dad, are you feeling better?"
"Okay, okay, daddy is fine, but..."
Ling Daren, who was originally smiling, suddenly remembered something, his expression became dim, and his eyes lost their original brilliance and became dull.
"It's okay, dad, everything is fine again." Ling Yun said with a grin.
But when Ling Daren looked at him pretending to be strong, tears welled up in his eyes.
He couldn't help but raise his head and suppress his tears, not wanting Ling Yun to see his weakness.
After coming out of Ling Daren's room, Ling Yun raised his head and took a deep breath, as if he had firmed up some belief.
Early the next morning, maybe because he was too tired in the past two days, Ling Yun didn't wake up suddenly until he heard the noisy sound outside the yard at three o'clock in the morning.
When he walked out the door, he saw that it was his uncle Yang Hua.