Ch2 - Sorry, I Ate It All

“Umm…” With a soft exclamation, the person lying on the bed finally moved.

Mu Yan’s mind was in a mess, the feeling of soreness all over his body making him cried out in pain. 

What happened? It hurts so much…

He still remembered being scolded by his Dad, then went up the mountain to pick up firewood and walked home, but on the way back he accidentally slipped and fell.

That’s right, he slipped. There were sharp branches and weeds everywhere on the small slope. The scratches on his body hurt very much, and all his firewood was scattered when he fell.

Firewood?  

His firewood! He must get up quickly to pick them up!

Mu Yan suddenly panicked, his body moved slightly, as if he was struggling to sit up.

“Big Brother moved. Big Brother must have had a nightmare.” 

A little boy about four years old sitting on the bedside. He was staring at Mu Yan who keep moving but couldn’t open his eyes. 

Next to him was a little girl who looked very much like him.

“How do you know Big Brother has a nightmare?” Another young voice sounded clear and crisp.

“Because you used to be like this when you had nightmares.” The little boy nodded solemnly.

“Oh, then I’ll go and call Mom over.”  

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The little girl got out of bed and ran out.

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“Lfs, jgf sbe jkjxf? Gbc’a wbnf abb wemt, sbe jgf ralii lcpegfv.” 

The woman walked over and said this softly, as she helped Mu Yan tuck the quilt on his body.

Nice voice, so gentle…

Probably because the woman’s gentle and soothing voice had an effect, Mu Yan didn’t struggle more, and slowly opened his eyes.

“Mom, Big Brother is awake.” The little girl clutched the corner of the woman’s clothes tightly with her small hand, and looked at the person lying on the bed with curiosity. 

Woke up in the unfamiliar room with unfamiliar people, Mu Yan was a little confused.

“Glad you’ve wake up, the doctor said that the injuries on your body are all skin injuries. As long as you take good care of yourself it will heal in a few days.” 

The woman, Lin Jiayu said, “It was A Yao who found you near the forest. The forest is very dangerous. How did you get there?”

Mu Yan was still unclear about this situation and he couldn’t figure out what was going on.  

When he opened his eyes, everything around him had changed. It was very unfamiliar.

The person in front of him looked very similar to him, but also not similar. This person with a nice voice had two lumps of meat on the chest, was it because of illness?

He had never seen such a person before, but he could not deny that the person in front of him was very good-looking and had a pleasant voice.

Could it be that he was rescued by someone from the village below the cliff?  

At first, he thought he was sliding down a small hill that he could climb back later, but he didn’t expect that there was a cliff under the hillside. As a result, he fell directly down the slope to the cliff.

The cliff was very high, and at that time he thought he would die, and his heart was full of regrets.

He hadn’t married yet, he hadn’t given birth to a cute baby, he hadn’t owned his own land yet, and he just died like this. He hoped in his next life, he could work hard to realize these wishes.

Unexpectedly, God had favor him. He fell from such a high cliff and didn’t die.  

That’s great!

Lin Jiayu saw the boy just stared at her blankly and didn’t speak, thinking that the boy was scared, so she spoke more gently.

“Are you hungry? Eat something first and sleep, so that the injury on your body will heal faster.” Lin Jiayu took a bowl from the side and handed it to Mu Yan.

The bowl was filled with thick congee, making Mu Yan’s eyes lit up, and quickly took a big gulp. He was really hungry. 

He hadn’t eaten anything at all before going up the mountain. Up to now, he had been hungry for a long time that his stomach stuck on his back. However, because this kind of situation was common in the past, he didn’t cry out of hunger.

After all, every time he said he was hungry, not only did he not get food, but he would also be beaten.

Since then, Mu Yan had learned to endure hunger until his Father and Dad remembered to leave him some food.

If Father and Dad couldn’t remember, he would go to the mountain to find some wild fruits and wild vegetables to satisfy his hunger. 

Although the taste of this bowl of thick congee was not very good, compared to the rice soup where he could only eat with almost no rice grains at home, such a thick congee was simply delicious.

However, after eating it, Mu Yan felt embarrassed, and his face turned red.

“I-I’m sorry, I ate it all.” Mu Yan said nervously, looking at the empty bowl, he suddenly became nervous.

At home, the rice in the rice soup was for his younger brothers, while he could only ate the soup. The pancakes made of white flour could only be eaten by his father and younger brothers, he could only eat the hard steamed bread made of bran flour.  

Like this kind of thick congee, he could hardly taste it at home. If Dad knew that he ate so much good food behind him, would he be angry?

He was so hungry just now that he unknowingly ate it all. These people kindly rescued him and gave him something to eat, but he finished it all regardless of whether they had eaten or not. How could he be so ignorant?

Lin Jiayu felt distressed when she saw the thin boy’s nervous expression.

The planet they live in was the most backward and impoverished planet in the Federation. There was no high technology, no interstellar network, and life continued the way their ancestors lived.  

What they could eat to fill their stomachs was only such tasteless nutrient solution or soup made of nutritional powder, barely able to satisfy the taste bud.

However, this kind of thing that other planets didn’t care about made the boy still feel embarrassed because he finished the soup. What kind of hard life he lived in the past?

Since Lin Jiayu gave birth to two children and became a mother, she loved children very much, especially the children who were so thin and weak that at first glance looked like a child who was having a hard life.

“It’s okay, we still have a lot of this. If you’re not full, I’ll make you another bowl.” Lin Jiayu made her expression look more gentle and kind. 

Mu Yan hurriedly shook his head and said, “Thank you, n-no need.”

He was very grateful when he could eat a bowl, and he wouldn’t be greedy for the second.

“Okay, then you should sleep for a while. The doctor said that you need more rest to recover sooner.” Lin Jiayu tucked Mu Yan into the quilt again.

The shock of falling from the cliff and the injuries on his body made Mu Yan weak and thus fell asleep in a short time.