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This wait lasted until the sun slanted westward.

There was finally a loud cry in the room, and the man hurriedly asked from the outer hall, “Doctor Wu, how is my wife?!”

“Thanks to Li Jin’s medicine, mother and child are safe.”

Hearing it, the man was so excited that he didn’t know what to say. He waited anxiously by rubbing his hands.

When he came back to his senses, he realized that Li Jin who was standing beside him had left unknowingly.

Li Jin carried the basket on his back and went back to the village. Looking at the dim sky, he sped up his pace.

Their village was near the mountains. Although the village was safe, it was still possible to encounter wolves or other animals when walking alone on the road at night.

Fortunately, it was summer, and there were still people carrying bags and poles on the road.

Li Jin walked fast and got together with them, to avoid any dangerous situation.

As soon as he walked to the river outside the village, he saw a person walking anxiously back and forth at the entrance of the village.

That figure looked…very much like Qin Mu Wen.

Although Li Jin’s legs were already tired, seeing the teenager he seemed to be full of motivation and his pace accelerated.

When the young man turned he happened to see him, his eyes lit up and he finally smiled.

Along the way, neither of them spoke. They silently walked back home.

After returning to the yard, Li Jin took the lead to explain, “It’s my fault, I didn’t notify you in advance.”

The teenager shook his head and said, “It’s okay. I just went to the entrance of the village to have a look after seeing the child had fallen asleep…I didn’t wait long.”

The teenager helped Li Jin put down the basket on the ground.

Li Jin squeezed the teenager’s hand and frowned, “It didn’t take long…then why are your hands so cold.”

So Li Jin couldn’t help but stuffed the youth into the blanket and asked him, “Did you eat something? How about I stew pig’s trotters soup tonight?”

When Li Jin returned to the kitchen, he found that there were scallion pancakes in the pan, not the simple pancakes that he made before.

The pancakes looked appetizing but were a bit cold. It seemed that the teenager had made it for him.

And there were twelve in a pot, not one missing…

It seemed, the boy didn’t eat anything at all!

Li Jin sighed and burned firewood to heat the pancakes. He made stewed pig’s trotter soup in another pot.

The scallion pancakes heated up quickly, he carefully filled them on a plate and brought them into the bedroom.

Li Jin wanted to ask the teenager if he was stupid.

But when he saw the boy and his smiling eyes, as if he was the boy’s world, he stopped.

Li Jin put the plate in the teenager’s arms and told him to sit on the bed to eat, while he took one pancake and sat on the side of the bed.

The scallion pancakes were crispy on the outside, and soft on the inside. With pepper and other seasonings, it had a special flavor.

Li Jin ate three pancakes in one breath, and the teenager was probably hungry too, he ate one and a half pancakes.

But it looked like he couldn’t finish the remaining half, so Li Jin directly took the half pancake and ate it himself.

He said, “Save some space in the stomach, there will be soup to drink later.”

The teenager watched half of the leftover pancake go directly into Li Jin’s belly and his mouth opened slightly, he was startled.

A’Jin actually ate what he left after eating…

The teenager didn’t know much but various emotions of happiness, joy, and affection intertwined in his heart. 

It made him feel that in the first seventeen years of his life, he had never been so happy before.

The teenager thought before at home, Li Jin would not even let him eat at the table, and everything he ate was Li Jin’s leftovers.

He felt uncomfortable eating leftovers at first, but after being beaten by Li Jin for a few meals, he could eat it without changing his face.

He should have felt embarrassed at the time, but now, he seemed to have forgotten how he felt.

Forget about the painful life he lived in those two years.

He was very happy to have Li Jin now.

Li Jin himself was a little surprised by his actions. 

Even Though he didn’t have much of a cleanliness addiction, eating half of the others’ scallion pancakes was his first.

Li Jin asked himself whether it was because of poverty that he didn’t want to waste food.

Then he heard the answer from the bottom of his heart, “Yes.”

Seeing the situation like this Li Jin was satisfied. 

He turned and said to the teenager,  “Throwing away is too wasteful. I will help you eat.”

Look, what a perfect reason.

The teenager didn’t notice the error in this sentence at all, and he shyly lowered his head.

The long, curly eyelashes cast a beautiful shadow under the eyes.

Li Jin looked away, he quickly stood up and said, “I am going to see if the soup is ready.”

(Translated by Beauty Brute.)

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