Chapter Seven I Will Protect You

  After dinner, after everything was put away neatly, Su Xiaofan took Xiao Yimeng back to the house. There were only two rooms in this house. Originally, Grandma and I shared one room, and Mother and Father shared another room. After Father's death, Grandma said that Mother would be lonely, so she moved over and slept with her.

  "Alright, little treasure, let's go to sleep." Su Xiao Fan picked up Xiao Mo and squatted down to take off his shoes.

  "Hey, woman, don't move or you'll be hugging me." Xiao Yimeng's face turned slightly red as he awkwardly turned his head away and patted the bed beneath him, furrowing his brow to ask: "This bed won't suddenly collapse in the middle of the night, will it?"

  Su Xiaofan put away his small shoes and looked at the super simple bed made of only two stools and a wooden board. Thinking with her own mind, she was also worried that the bed would collapse, but in her memory, Su Xiaofan had slept with her grandmother for more than ten years, so it shouldn't be so easy to collapse.

  "It's okay, don't worry, and even if it does collapse, I'll protect you, so don't worry." Su Xiao Fan spoke up to comfort him, wanting him to be able to sleep peacefully.

  "I'm not worried at all, even if I fall from this height, it won't hurt a bit."

  "Alright, son, I'm going to turn off the lights now."

  The voice of Ye's family came from outside the door.

  "Alright, grandma!" Su Xiaofan shouted back towards the outside of the door.

  After the chaos, the house fell into a brief darkness, and then his eyes gradually adapted. The moonlight shone through the broken window frames, Su Xiaofan lay on the bed with a troubled mind. There was only one kerosene lamp in this house, and the remaining oil was not much either. The only reason it was left behind was that Grandma had bought it back early in the morning and had already filled it into the lamp before those people came, so it wasn't taken away.

  It's really inconvenient in all sorts of ways when you don't have money.

  "Are you out of your mind?" Xiao Yimeng opened a pair of black eyes, leaning against the wall and lying sideways, observing every expression on Su Xiaofan's face.

  "Why did you say that?" Su Xiaofan turned her head, gazing into his eyes, those sparkling eyes, like stars in the dark night, shining brightly.

  "I heard that after you woke up, your personality seems to be different from before."

  "Sleep, it's not good for kids to sleep too late." Su Xiao Fan smiled and looked at the round moon hanging in mid-air, saying softly: "People will always change, won't they? When Little Treasure grows up, she'll understand."

  Although it's just a perfunctory remark, even if I told these people the truth, how many of them would understand? Probably they'd really think I've gone crazy.

  After she fell asleep, Xiao Yimiao quietly got out of bed, stepped on her little legs and opened the door to go out...

  Every other day, Su Xiaofan woke up early in the morning and sat up to look at Xiao Yimeng who was sleeping on the wall corner. She couldn't help but wonder how this child understood the difference between men and women at such a young age?

  After getting up and going out, I saw that grandma and mother had gotten up early.

  Behind her, a scene that had originally closed its eyes suddenly opened them, and a pair of calm black pupils gazed at the back of her departing figure.

  "Girl, why don't you sleep a bit more."

  Jia turned around, saw her coming, and smiled: "The village head's family sent the silver early in the morning. Your grandmother went to town, saying she wanted to add some household daily necessities. And these things are from the village head's family, saying they are young master's clothes, you move them in."

  "Good." Su Xiao Fan walked forward and brought the two small boxes into the room, placing them on the empty space beside the bed. He opened them up just as he was about to take a look, turned his head to see that Xiao Yi Mo had already woken up and was preparing to get out of bed. He hastily walked over, helped him put on his shoes, then picked up his small body and placed it on the ground.

  "Women all say don't casually hug young masters anymore." Xiao Yimeng glanced at the clothes that were sent over, his eyes flashing with annoyance.

  "What? Don't you like those clothes?" Su Xiaofan looked over and saw that the fabric of those clothes was many times better than what she was currently wearing, and almost all of them were brand new.

  She took a glance at Xiao Yi Mo's white robe and walked over to pick out a blue one for him to change into.

  "What are you doing?" Xiao Yimeng looked at Su Xiaofan with a guarded expression, taking a step back as he tried to take off his clothes.

  "Change your clothes, we're going up the mountain later, that white one is too easy to get dirty." Su Xiaofan shifted towards him.

  "Alright, you go out. I'll change myself." Xiao Yi Mu snatched the clothes from her hand and put them behind her, as if to say that she wouldn't change unless she left.

  Su Xiaofan was surprised: "Really?"

  Children at this age generally can't dress themselves, right?

  He didn't respond when she saw him, so Su Xiaofan had no choice but to walk out and close the door.

  "Come on, kids, have some breakfast. There's still some wild vegetable congee left from last night. You and young master can share it." Mrs. Jia said with a smile as she carried out two bowls of rice from the kitchen.

  "Alright, did Grandma and Mother eat?" Su Xiao Fan came forward to receive a bowl, and after a few mouthfuls, she finished it off. It was thinner than last night's, apparently water had been added and it was cooked again.

  "Hmm, where's the young master?" Mrs. Jia glanced at the tightly closed door several times.

  "She's changing clothes." Su Xiaofan carried the bowl into the kitchen, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and was about to leave when she caught sight of the water bucket in the corner out of the corner of her eye. She looked slightly surprised and asked loudly, "Mother, did you mend the water bucket?"

  Jia put the rice on the table and said to Xiao Youmo, who was just walking out of the door: "Young master, have some breakfast." After that, she went into the kitchen: "No, I don't know who helped with it either, Grandma and I didn't do it. It was like this when we got up in the morning."

  Su Xiaofan listened, full of doubts, but didn't plan to investigate further. She picked up the basket from yesterday and put away the vegetable knife, walked into the courtyard, and shouted loudly towards the main house: "Little treasure, if you want to come with me, hurry up!"

  Xiao Yimeng wolfed down a bowl of rice and rushed out.

  Halfway up the mountain, Xiao Yi Mo stood with his hands on his hips, turned around and looked at Su Xiao Fan who was lagging behind him by a big margin. He frowned impatiently: "Woman, hurry up."

  Su Xiaofan looked up and sighed: "Being young is great, full of energy."

  "Don't pretend to be old, hurry up." Xiao Yimò squatted on a rock, watching her move slowly like an ant, and wondered why someone who grew up in the mountains would climb so slowly.

  "Alas." Su Xiaofan sighed helplessly, thinking that in the past, she actually liked mountain climbing a lot, but now her body was too weak.

  "Picking vegetables doesn't require a knife, what did you bring a knife up the mountain for?" After waiting for half a day, Su Xiaofan finally walked over, and Xiao Yimeng spoke out in puzzlement upon seeing the knife in her basket.

  "Just in case, if there's a venomous snake or beast, I'll protect you." Su Xiaofan smiled at him with bated breath.

  Xiao Yimeng couldn't help but roll her eyes. With her physical strength, if she really encountered a venomous snake or a ferocious beast, could she even protect herself? She probably can't even take care of herself.