Creak!
The door opened.
The first thing Lin Fan saw was two graceful figures.
"Xiao Fan, why are you back so late?"
Xia Xue's eyes glistened with tears as she rushed to Lin Fan, "Where did you go?"
"Why didn't you come back?"
"Do you know how worried I was about you?"
Xia Xue was both angry and happy, her words tinged with grievance.
"Sister-in-law."
Lin Fan grinned and scratched his head, "Something unexpected happened, but I hurried back as soon as I could."
He then looked at Song Yue, asking with a hint of confusion, "Yueyue-jie, why haven't you gone home?"
Song Yue, standing behind Xia Xue, was also very concerned about Lin Fan's safety.
She looked at Lin Fan with a serious expression and said, "Sister Xue'er has been worried about you, and I couldn't rest easy either, so I didn't go home."
Lin Fan said "Oh" and patted Xia Xue's delicate shoulder, teasing, "Sister-in-law, now you know how important it is to have a phone, right?"
Xia Xue's face showed displeasure. "So it's my fault?"
Lin Fan repeatedly shook his head, "My fault, my fault, it's all my fault..."
At this moment, Song Yue tugged at Xia Xue's arm and persuaded, "Sister Xue'er, let Xiao Fan come inside. He's carrying things."
She stepped forward to help Lin Fan with the woven bag on his back and said, "I'll help you carry it, Xiao Fan."
"No need, I can manage myself."
After saying that, Lin Fan ran into the house.
Song Yue and Xia Xue followed close behind.
After Lin Fan put down the medicinal herbs, Xia Xue pointed to a few ears of boiled corn on the table and said, "Aunt Li sent this corn. If you haven't eaten, have some."
Lin Fan was about to say he wasn't hungry when he heard Xia Xue say to Song Yue, "Sister, it's too late. You shouldn't leave tonight. Come to our place and stay with me for the night."
Song Yue agreed without hesitation, "Sure, no problem."
"My place is bare, no one else's can compare."
And so, the three of them, plus a baby, returned home.
It was too late!
And they were tired!
Lin Fan took off his clothes and fell onto the bed, closing his eyes.
But just then, he pursed his lips, feeling a strange discomfort in his mouth, as if his tongue were entangled by something.
Plop!
Lin Fan pulled the light cord and used his tongue and teeth to push the object to the side of his mouth.
"What is this?"
Lin Fan pulled the object out with his hand and looked at it under the light. "A hair!"
Whose?
No one around me has curly hair!
"This..."
Lin Fan recalled the moment he fell on Wang Ying, and suddenly he had an idea.
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"
Lin Fan threw away the hair and spat a few times.
"Xiao Fan, what's wrong?"
Xia Xue's voice echoed in the courtyard.
Lin Fan replied immediately, "Nothing, just a loose thread in my mouth. I'm going to sleep now."
His face turned red, and after saying that, he turned off the light and fell asleep.
In his dream, a surge of heat wildly churned in his dantian!
The Shen Huang Jue automatically activated, replenishing his purple qi!
The next morning, as dawn broke, the rooster at Aunt Li's house crowed energetically.
"Sister Xue'er, your house is really falling apart."
Song Yue, in the courtyard, was brushing her teeth and complained to Xia Xue, "The roof keeps shedding dust, which made me half-asleep all night. I couldn't sleep soundly."
Xia Xue smiled, her face showing a mix of sadness and apology, and explained, "This house was passed down from Xiao Fan's grandfather. It's over a hundred years old, and old houses are like this."
When Lin Feng went south to work, besides supporting his wife and younger brother, he also had another purpose: to build a new house.
Unfortunately, with his disappearance, this plan was put on hold.
Song Yue realized she had spoken out of turn and quickly encouraged her, "Xiao Fan's clinic is doing quite well now. If you work hard next year, you can build the new house!"
Xia Xue sighed, "We'll see what happens then."
Her tone lacked confidence, and she didn't have much hope in her heart.
Lin Fan woke up then, having not heard their conversation.
He put on his clothes and walked out of the side room, just as breakfast was ready.
After breakfast, Xia Xue went out to do farm work.
Besides corn, she had also planted some Chinese cabbage.
Today, she planned to dig up the cabbage, tie it up, and then transport it all home with a small cart. xxs1
Song Yue, holding the baby, walked with Lin Fan on the way to the clinic.
As they walked, Song Yue suddenly turned her head, looked at Lin Fan, and asked with a hint of confusion, "Xiao Fan, why do I feel like you have something on your mind?"
Lin Fan shook his head, "No, what could I possibly have on my mind?"
Song Yue chuckled, "You're still trying to fool me, huh?"
"Your little secrets can't be hidden from me?"
Song Yue said triumphantly, a confident expression appearing on her face, as if she knew what Lin Fan was thinking.
Lin Fan scoffed, "What little secrets? As if you know me that well."
"Ha!" Song Yue let out a cold laugh. "Don't think I don't know. The last two days when we were alone, your eyes kept drifting over there."
"I, where did I drift? You're overthinking it, you really are..."
Lin Fan hadn't expected his little secret to be discovered so quickly.
"Still not admitting it?"
Song Yue had a playful expression, feigning ignorance as she asked, "I remember when we were deskmates, during a nap once, you propped your arms on the desk and buried your head in a book. What were you doing?"
"I..."
Lin Fan was truly surprised that after so many years, his past "indiscretion" had not only been discovered but was also being exposed by the person involved.
He vaguely remembered that it was a hot summer.
The classroom was stuffy. Although the ceiling fan was whirring, it was of little use; the breeze it produced couldn't dissipate the heat in the air.
At that time, Song Yue, who was thirteen or fourteen, had already repeated a grade twice. Because she was tall and developed early, her figure was much better than that of the girls in the same class.
She was wearing a V-neck short-sleeved shirt and was resting her head on the desk, dozing off, but not quite asleep.
Lin Fan, unable to sleep due to the heat, happened to turn his head and saw something he shouldn't have.
It was from that moment on that he began to become interested in women.
"Weren't you sleeping..."
Lin Fan caught himself before he finished speaking and quickly covered his mouth.
"Hmph!"
Song Yue let out a soft hum and was about to speak when she heard Lin Fan suddenly change the subject, "Yueyue-jie, I have money to build a house now."
Song Yue rolled her eyes at him and deliberately tried to dampen his spirits, "Building a house isn't a small sum, you know!"
Lin Fan took out a bank card from his pocket and waved it in front of her, "Is thirty thousand enough?"
"Thirty thousand!" Song Yue exclaimed in surprise.
Her eyes widened, and she asked with disbelief, "How long has it been since you woke up? Where did you get so much money?"
Lin Fan chuckled, "I took on a big job yesterday. I cured a critically ill patient, and they were so happy they gave me this much."