Translated by: Cherry
t took nearly three and a half hours to reach the small mountain village in an ox cart. It was already five in the evening when they reached. In summer, the sky got dark faster, so at that moment, the glow of sunset had already begun and it dyed the area between the sky and the ground orange.
Yisheng got off the ox cart, her hands and feet sore. The six women had been seated on the ox cart with their limbs curled together. Along with the bumps along the way, they were all numb and sore.
A nurse could not help but complain, “We’ll have to suffer for these ten days.”
When the village head heard that, he felt a little awkward and said apologetically, “Our village is surrounded by mountains so transport has always been a little inconvenient. I’m sorry.”
Seeing that the village head’s expression was already not very good, that nurse was too embarrassed to complain again so she muttered, changing the topic, “Where will we stay?”
“We’ve helped to find places for you to stay in already. Follow me,” The village head was a simple and honest man. He blushed and scratched his head, a little embarrassed, “But the conditions aren’t very good compared to what you’re used to. However, it’s already considered good among the people in the village.”
The nurses did not speak. Obviously, they were unsurprised. Perhaps they already knew how the village was like. When the village head brought them to the place that they would live for more than ten days, their expressions turned a little bad.
Mud floor, furniture made out of rotten wood, dark house. As soon as one went in, you could smell a rotting smell. Although the sheets were relatively clean, the living conditions were quite bad.
Yisheng was assigned to a family of four. There was nothing much to say about the furnishings. It was a poor place, and she did not expect much. Thankfully, the woman who welcomed Yisheng was very warm and nice. Coincidentally, the male owner of this family was the villager who led the way to the village. He was probably leading the doctors back to the village at that moment.
There were two children in the house as well, a twelve-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy. It was quite strange, they were already poor, but they still had two children? Perhaps it was because they preferred male children here. The female owner of the house had the surname Jiang, so Yisheng called her Sister Jiang.
Yisheng had arrived just in time for dinner. When she sat with the two children and saw that they were looking at her with two pairs of bright and pure eyes, she could not help but ask, “Why are the two of you looking at me like this?”
“Older sister’s skin is so white,” The girl spoke first and the little boy nodded in agreement.
Yisheng’s skin was actually not very white, but her skin was smooth and soft. However, compared to Song Anchen, her skin was a lot worse. As to why the two children noticed her skin, it was because they were comparing her skin to others. Sister Jiang was a typical farmer’s wife who worked on the farm. She was exposed to the sun for extended periods and her skin was very dark. The two children probably also worked on the farm, and would usually not stay at home to play, so their skin was quite tanned.
Yisheng laughed awkwardly. At that moment, Sister Jiang served dinner, it was a plate of green onion mixed with tofu and a large sesame seed pancake. Seeing the two children staring at the pancake with shiny eyes, it seemed like they had a great desire for the pancake.
Sister Jiang filled a large bowl of white rice for Yisheng. The rice was heaped much higher than the bowl and Yisheng had never eaten so much rice before. Sister Jiang said generously, “Nurse Ye, is this enough? If it isn’t enough, there’s more in the pot.”
“Enough…” She had already broken out in cold sweat. There was a lot of rice and she was going to be stuffed. Sister Jiang scooped out two big bowls of rice for uber two children and Yisheng saw that as soon as the two children took the bowls, they buried their heads and started to eat, not eating much from the dishes and mainly eating rice.
Yisheng found it strange that although the two kids seemed to really want to eat the sesame seed pancake just now, they were not touching it at all now.
“Nurse Ye, try this egg and minced meat pancake.”
Yisheng smiled and ate two mouthfuls, finding that it tasted very good. She placed the plate in front of the two children, “Take some too.”
However, the two children shook their heads. Sister Jiang said, “They don’t like to eat such things.”
How was it possible? Yisheng had clearly seen their gazes when they were looking at the pancake. The eyes of children could not lie. However, after thinking for a while, Yisheng understood. This was for the guest to eat and had been specially added to the meal.
She smiled, finally understanding. Then, she told the children, “I can’t eat that much by myself, help me eat a little, otherwise, it’ll be wasted.”
The children looked at each other. Then, they looked at Sister Jiang with questioning eyes. Sister Jiang nodded with a slight bitterness in her eyes before the children carefully tore a small piece and ate it slowly.
Yisheng had always thought that she was very pitiful, even having to earn her own money to study. In the six years that she had been out on her own, she would often get so tired that she would hide in her bed and cry, complaining about how miserable her life was. But faced with this sort of scene, Yisheng suddenly felt that she was still quite lucky. At least, in her childhood, she had enough clothes and food and was treated like a princess. Now, although she did owe people for all their help and she did have some debts, at least she was not living a very hard life. Compared to these people, she was very lucky. When she thought that way, she suddenly felt like something had dawned on her. Perhaps she should try to climb up from the dust herself and see the world above ground that she has not seen for a long time?
Translated by: Cherry
After dinner, the sky began to slowly get dark. The two children sat outside the door, holding a small bench and sitting down, quietly looking into the distance. Yisheng could not help but ask curiously, “What are they doing?”
Sister Jiang, who was still cleaning up the dishes and the chopsticks smiled and said, “They’re waiting for their dad. He should be coming back soon.”
Yisheng smiled mildly. Song Anchen was probably going to come back soon. She yawned, a little sleepy. She had originally wanted to go to bed and take a short nap but there was a sudden flash of light, causing the originally dark night to suddenly light up before returning to its original darkness. Yisheng could not help but stop in her tracks. This lightning was very worrying.
“Boom,” Suddenly, there was an explosive sound of thunder. It was very loud, like the shock caused by the sudden ignition of firecrackers in a quiet place like the library. Following that, there was the sound of lightning and thunder that occurred two or three times, but it did not rain, causing people to worry about what kind of rain was coming.
The two children sat at the door like statues, motionless. Yisheng admired these children. If it were her from the past, she would definitely have screamed in fear. After Sister Jiang finished cleaning up and came back, she looked at the sky that kept switching between dark and light and could not help worrying, “This looks like it’ll be quite bad, is it going to be a very bad storm?”
Yisheng’s heart could not help but sink. Looking at the sky, it was likely to rain very heavily. But isn’t there a saying called ‘The sound of thunder is loud but the rain is small’. Was this a false alarm?
However, such weather did manage to get rid of all of Yisheng’s sleepiness. She ran back to her house and called Song Anchen, hoping that he would tell her if he was alright. However, no matter how many times she tried to call him, she kept getting the notification that she was not in the service area. The signal was too bad in this area! Yisheng was angry and annoyed, only able to sit and wait. While the sky was still not completely dark and one could still see the road, while the thunder and lightning were just for show, it would be good to come back as soon as possible.
Perhaps the heavens had been bluffing for too long because it suddenly started to rain cats and dogs. The raindrops could no longer be described as ‘drops’. They could only be described as a rope that was hanging from the sky and falling to the ground due to gravity.
The boy finally could not help it and started to cry loudly, running into Sister Jiang’s arms, “Dad hasn’t come home yet.”
Sister Jiang’s expression also started to turn bad and her twelve-year-old older daughter still sat at the doorway, refusing to move. The heavy rain fell on her along with the wind, and her body was wet but she refused to move.
“What should we do? Could something have happened?” Sister Jiang’s voice became more and more unstable as if she were about to cry.
Yisheng’s heart rate increased and she clenched her teeth, forcing herself to comfort them, “It should be alright. Perhaps they are a little late because of the heavy rain.”
“The problem is that the path that they are using often has avalanches. Last month, there was also heavy rain like this and it directly buried the second son of the Liu Family.”
Once Yisheng heard those words, her face instantly turned pale. She could not express her panic in words. In her eyes, she had never thought about what would happen if Song Anchen died. She had never dared to think about it and had never thought deeply about the importance of this man to her. She knew how to avoid him and did not dare to face him. But today, when she heard the news that Song Anchen might die, she panicked and was extremely anxious, almost running off to look for him.
Just when they were panicking, the girl exclaimed in surprise, “Someone’s here.”
In the pouring rain with their surroundings being shrouded by rain. There was a dark shadow coming towards the house in the vast expanse of white. Sister Jiang hurried to the door and looked carefully but she only saw one person in a raincoat slowly showing up.
It was the village head.
The village head shook his body to get the water off and gasped, “Has your man come back yet?”
Sister Jiang’s eyes turned red and she choked and said, “He’s not back yet.”
“It’s over, why aren’t they back yet after such a long time? I just heard that the road had an avalanche because of the rain again. Why aren’t they back yet?” The village head had also begun to feel restless, raindrops were hanging on his eyelashes and he squinted at the vast expanse of white due to the rain, “The rain won’t be stopping for the moment. It’s troubling.”
Yisheng felt anxious, “Then let’s not wait and look for them now.”
“How can we look for them in such heavy rain? If there’s another avalanche, the people that we send out to look for them might come back lying down,” The village head was very unhappy and harshly glanced at Yisheng. Suddenly, he remembered that she had said goodbye to one of the doctors when he had gone to pick them up. He suddenly realized, “Ah, right, that very handsome doctor is your husband?”
Yisheng did not answer.
The village head quickly comforted, “Don’t worry, when the rain stops, we’ll immediately head out to look for them.”
The rain was very heavy, but it stopped very quickly. The village head was indeed very quick and immediately assembled a group of people to look for them. Sister Jiang was worried and wanted to follow. Yisheng thought that if something had happened, she was a medical worker and would be able to help to take some emergency measures, so she followed Sister Jiang.
What made Yisheng very disappointed was that out of the six nurses, only she accompanied the team. She could not help but smile bitterly. It turns out that her colleagues had such a shallow relationship. When the group of them walked a meter out of the village, holding shovels and sticks, they saw a team being led by Song Anchen.
He was a little dirty and had a lot of mud on his arm. His gray-black T-shirt along with a large area on his trousers was also stained with yellow mud. He looked like he had fallen. On his back was Sister Jiang’s husband, whose hair had turned yellow because of the yellow mud. The other male doctors were also quite miserable and were covered in yellow.
When Song Anchen saw Yisheng standing amongst the group of people that looked like bandits, complex emotions flashed in his eyes.
When Yisheng saw them safe, her heart that had been anxious all this while finally relaxed. The village head hurriedly went forward to ask the man that Song Anchen was carrying on his back, “Ah, what happened?”
“The road was too slippery and I sprained my ankle. It caused us to be delayed and it was raining heavily. Because they were carrying me and I was being a burden, it caused these doctors to be drenched.”
“So useless,” The village head frowned and scolded him. After that, he bent down, “Come on, what are you doing continuing to lie on the doctor? I’ll carry you home.”
(T/N: ! Don’t misinterpret~ He’s not actually scolding him lol it’s more of a tsundere-ish thing oops)
“There’s no need, I’ll send him back. I happen to be staying at his house,” Song Anchen said calmly.
“Aiya, doctor, you scared your wife this time. Look at how she looked like she’s going to cry. Look,” The village head pursed his lips and said in the direction of Yisheng, “She insisted on accompanying us.”
Song Anchen looked at Yisheng and saw that she was standing opposite him rather awkwardly, not daring to meet his gaze. Song Anchen’s eyes twinkled and it was like seeing flowers and willow trees after trekking through thousands of mountains and rivers. He smiled slightly and said jokingly to her, “Wife, I’m back.”
Translated by: Cherry
t took nearly three and a half hours to reach the small mountain village in an ox cart. It was already five in the evening when they reached. In summer, the sky got dark faster, so at that moment, the glow of sunset had already begun and it dyed the area between the sky and the ground orange.
Yisheng got off the ox cart, her hands and feet sore. The six women had been seated on the ox cart with their limbs curled together. Along with the bumps along the way, they were all numb and sore.
A nurse could not help but complain, “We’ll have to suffer for these ten days.”
When the village head heard that, he felt a little awkward and said apologetically, “Our village is surrounded by mountains so transport has always been a little inconvenient. I’m sorry.”
Seeing that the village head’s expression was already not very good, that nurse was too embarrassed to complain again so she muttered, changing the topic, “Where will we stay?”
“We’ve helped to find places for you to stay in already. Follow me,” The village head was a simple and honest man. He blushed and scratched his head, a little embarrassed, “But the conditions aren’t very good compared to what you’re used to. However, it’s already considered good among the people in the village.”
The nurses did not speak. Obviously, they were unsurprised. Perhaps they already knew how the village was like. When the village head brought them to the place that they would live for more than ten days, their expressions turned a little bad.
Mud floor, furniture made out of rotten wood, dark house. As soon as one went in, you could smell a rotting smell. Although the sheets were relatively clean, the living conditions were quite bad.
Yisheng was assigned to a family of four. There was nothing much to say about the furnishings. It was a poor place, and she did not expect much. Thankfully, the woman who welcomed Yisheng was very warm and nice. Coincidentally, the male owner of this family was the villager who led the way to the village. He was probably leading the doctors back to the village at that moment.
There were two children in the house as well, a twelve-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy. It was quite strange, they were already poor, but they still had two children? Perhaps it was because they preferred male children here. The female owner of the house had the surname Jiang, so Yisheng called her Sister Jiang.
Yisheng had arrived just in time for dinner. When she sat with the two children and saw that they were looking at her with two pairs of bright and pure eyes, she could not help but ask, “Why are the two of you looking at me like this?”
“Older sister’s skin is so white,” The girl spoke first and the little boy nodded in agreement.
Yisheng’s skin was actually not very white, but her skin was smooth and soft. However, compared to Song Anchen, her skin was a lot worse. As to why the two children noticed her skin, it was because they were comparing her skin to others. Sister Jiang was a typical farmer’s wife who worked on the farm. She was exposed to the sun for extended periods and her skin was very dark. The two children probably also worked on the farm, and would usually not stay at home to play, so their skin was quite tanned.
Yisheng laughed awkwardly. At that moment, Sister Jiang served dinner, it was a plate of green onion mixed with tofu and a large sesame seed pancake. Seeing the two children staring at the pancake with shiny eyes, it seemed like they had a great desire for the pancake.
Sister Jiang filled a large bowl of white rice for Yisheng. The rice was heaped much higher than the bowl and Yisheng had never eaten so much rice before. Sister Jiang said generously, “Nurse Ye, is this enough? If it isn’t enough, there’s more in the pot.”
“Enough…” She had already broken out in cold sweat. There was a lot of rice and she was going to be stuffed. Sister Jiang scooped out two big bowls of rice for uber two children and Yisheng saw that as soon as the two children took the bowls, they buried their heads and started to eat, not eating much from the dishes and mainly eating rice.
Yisheng found it strange that although the two kids seemed to really want to eat the sesame seed pancake just now, they were not touching it at all now.
“Nurse Ye, try this egg and minced meat pancake.”
Yisheng smiled and ate two mouthfuls, finding that it tasted very good. She placed the plate in front of the two children, “Take some too.”
However, the two children shook their heads. Sister Jiang said, “They don’t like to eat such things.”
How was it possible? Yisheng had clearly seen their gazes when they were looking at the pancake. The eyes of children could not lie. However, after thinking for a while, Yisheng understood. This was for the guest to eat and had been specially added to the meal.
She smiled, finally understanding. Then, she told the children, “I can’t eat that much by myself, help me eat a little, otherwise, it’ll be wasted.”
The children looked at each other. Then, they looked at Sister Jiang with questioning eyes. Sister Jiang nodded with a slight bitterness in her eyes before the children carefully tore a small piece and ate it slowly.
Yisheng had always thought that she was very pitiful, even having to earn her own money to study. In the six years that she had been out on her own, she would often get so tired that she would hide in her bed and cry, complaining about how miserable her life was. But faced with this sort of scene, Yisheng suddenly felt that she was still quite lucky. At least, in her childhood, she had enough clothes and food and was treated like a princess. Now, although she did owe people for all their help and she did have some debts, at least she was not living a very hard life. Compared to these people, she was very lucky. When she thought that way, she suddenly felt like something had dawned on her. Perhaps she should try to climb up from the dust herself and see the world above ground that she has not seen for a long time?
Translated by: Cherry
After dinner, the sky began to slowly get dark. The two children sat outside the door, holding a small bench and sitting down, quietly looking into the distance. Yisheng could not help but ask curiously, “What are they doing?”
Sister Jiang, who was still cleaning up the dishes and the chopsticks smiled and said, “They’re waiting for their dad. He should be coming back soon.”
Yisheng smiled mildly. Song Anchen was probably going to come back soon. She yawned, a little sleepy. She had originally wanted to go to bed and take a short nap but there was a sudden flash of light, causing the originally dark night to suddenly light up before returning to its original darkness. Yisheng could not help but stop in her tracks. This lightning was very worrying.
“Boom,” Suddenly, there was an explosive sound of thunder. It was very loud, like the shock caused by the sudden ignition of firecrackers in a quiet place like the library. Following that, there was the sound of lightning and thunder that occurred two or three times, but it did not rain, causing people to worry about what kind of rain was coming.
The two children sat at the door like statues, motionless. Yisheng admired these children. If it were her from the past, she would definitely have screamed in fear. After Sister Jiang finished cleaning up and came back, she looked at the sky that kept switching between dark and light and could not help worrying, “This looks like it’ll be quite bad, is it going to be a very bad storm?”
Yisheng’s heart could not help but sink. Looking at the sky, it was likely to rain very heavily. But isn’t there a saying called ‘The sound of thunder is loud but the rain is small’. Was this a false alarm?
However, such weather did manage to get rid of all of Yisheng’s sleepiness. She ran back to her house and called Song Anchen, hoping that he would tell her if he was alright. However, no matter how many times she tried to call him, she kept getting the notification that she was not in the service area. The signal was too bad in this area! Yisheng was angry and annoyed, only able to sit and wait. While the sky was still not completely dark and one could still see the road, while the thunder and lightning were just for show, it would be good to come back as soon as possible.
Perhaps the heavens had been bluffing for too long because it suddenly started to rain cats and dogs. The raindrops could no longer be described as ‘drops’. They could only be described as a rope that was hanging from the sky and falling to the ground due to gravity.
The boy finally could not help it and started to cry loudly, running into Sister Jiang’s arms, “Dad hasn’t come home yet.”
Sister Jiang’s expression also started to turn bad and her twelve-year-old older daughter still sat at the doorway, refusing to move. The heavy rain fell on her along with the wind, and her body was wet but she refused to move.
“What should we do? Could something have happened?” Sister Jiang’s voice became more and more unstable as if she were about to cry.
Yisheng’s heart rate increased and she clenched her teeth, forcing herself to comfort them, “It should be alright. Perhaps they are a little late because of the heavy rain.”
“The problem is that the path that they are using often has avalanches. Last month, there was also heavy rain like this and it directly buried the second son of the Liu Family.”
Once Yisheng heard those words, her face instantly turned pale. She could not express her panic in words. In her eyes, she had never thought about what would happen if Song Anchen died. She had never dared to think about it and had never thought deeply about the importance of this man to her. She knew how to avoid him and did not dare to face him. But today, when she heard the news that Song Anchen might die, she panicked and was extremely anxious, almost running off to look for him.
Just when they were panicking, the girl exclaimed in surprise, “Someone’s here.”
In the pouring rain with their surroundings being shrouded by rain. There was a dark shadow coming towards the house in the vast expanse of white. Sister Jiang hurried to the door and looked carefully but she only saw one person in a raincoat slowly showing up.
It was the village head.
The village head shook his body to get the water off and gasped, “Has your man come back yet?”
Sister Jiang’s eyes turned red and she choked and said, “He’s not back yet.”
“It’s over, why aren’t they back yet after such a long time? I just heard that the road had an avalanche because of the rain again. Why aren’t they back yet?” The village head had also begun to feel restless, raindrops were hanging on his eyelashes and he squinted at the vast expanse of white due to the rain, “The rain won’t be stopping for the moment. It’s troubling.”
Yisheng felt anxious, “Then let’s not wait and look for them now.”
“How can we look for them in such heavy rain? If there’s another avalanche, the people that we send out to look for them might come back lying down,” The village head was very unhappy and harshly glanced at Yisheng. Suddenly, he remembered that she had said goodbye to one of the doctors when he had gone to pick them up. He suddenly realized, “Ah, right, that very handsome doctor is your husband?”
Yisheng did not answer.
The village head quickly comforted, “Don’t worry, when the rain stops, we’ll immediately head out to look for them.”
The rain was very heavy, but it stopped very quickly. The village head was indeed very quick and immediately assembled a group of people to look for them. Sister Jiang was worried and wanted to follow. Yisheng thought that if something had happened, she was a medical worker and would be able to help to take some emergency measures, so she followed Sister Jiang.
What made Yisheng very disappointed was that out of the six nurses, only she accompanied the team. She could not help but smile bitterly. It turns out that her colleagues had such a shallow relationship. When the group of them walked a meter out of the village, holding shovels and sticks, they saw a team being led by Song Anchen.
He was a little dirty and had a lot of mud on his arm. His gray-black T-shirt along with a large area on his trousers was also stained with yellow mud. He looked like he had fallen. On his back was Sister Jiang’s husband, whose hair had turned yellow because of the yellow mud. The other male doctors were also quite miserable and were covered in yellow.
When Song Anchen saw Yisheng standing amongst the group of people that looked like bandits, complex emotions flashed in his eyes.
When Yisheng saw them safe, her heart that had been anxious all this while finally relaxed. The village head hurriedly went forward to ask the man that Song Anchen was carrying on his back, “Ah, what happened?”
“The road was too slippery and I sprained my ankle. It caused us to be delayed and it was raining heavily. Because they were carrying me and I was being a burden, it caused these doctors to be drenched.”
“So useless,” The village head frowned and scolded him. After that, he bent down, “Come on, what are you doing continuing to lie on the doctor? I’ll carry you home.”
(T/N: ! Don’t misinterpret~ He’s not actually scolding him lol it’s more of a tsundere-ish thing oops)
“There’s no need, I’ll send him back. I happen to be staying at his house,” Song Anchen said calmly.
“Aiya, doctor, you scared your wife this time. Look at how she looked like she’s going to cry. Look,” The village head pursed his lips and said in the direction of Yisheng, “She insisted on accompanying us.”
Song Anchen looked at Yisheng and saw that she was standing opposite him rather awkwardly, not daring to meet his gaze. Song Anchen’s eyes twinkled and it was like seeing flowers and willow trees after trekking through thousands of mountains and rivers. He smiled slightly and said jokingly to her, “Wife, I’m back.”
