In a daze, Xu Ran heard someone was talking, but he was unable to hear it clearly. He didn't know why, but he was eager to learn what that person was talking about, so Xu Ran struggled to wake up.
"Tangtang, Guoguo, there is not much farm work now. Then Daddy is to go up the mountain. You need to take good care of your Dad. Don't allow the others to pick on him, understood? I'm coming back soon."
Xu Ran heard a gentle voice of a man.
"Yes, Daddy, take care."
"Yes, Daddy. Don't worry! We won't allow anyone to bully our Dad."
And then, the voices of two immature children could be heard. They were having the same tone and their voices were very pleasant to hear.
"Good boys!"
And then, the rustling sound could be heard.
Since he didn't hear the man with a gentle voice speaking again, Xu Ran guessed that he had left.
"Guoguo, let's go practice writing! In this way, we won't disturb Dad."
"Alright, we've gotta keep quiet."
Xu Ran heard the voices of the two children and were extremely moved with no reason. The only in his mind right now was to wake up. He believed that as soon as he woke up, everything would be clear.
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After a long time, Xu Ran finally opened his eyes. The dazzling sunlight came into sight. Then he found he was in a poor room. Xu Ran struggled to stand up. But he was having a strong headache, and was so weak and vulnerable that he could hardly move.
Before he could figure out what was going on, a large number of images suddenly surged into his mind.
Feeling helpless, Xu Ran closed his eyes and tried to merge all the scenes in his mind.
The owner of this body was also named Xu Ran, sharing the same name as he did. He was twenty four years old now. This was a world of men only. Xu Ran was mentally handicapped. He had a husband and two children. His husband was a muscular man, while the children were twins.
The owner of this body had a father and a daddy, a younger brother and his wife. They were all born in the same family.
The original owner of this body had been a regular person without any mental problems. But his younger brother Xu Cheng had a fancy to Xu Ran's engaged husband, so Xu Cheng had asked Xu Ran to go up to the mountain before he attended the scholar examination. Xu Cheng had forced Xu Ran to eat some knockout drops before he pushed Xu Ran down the mountain.
In fact, Xu Cheng planned to kill Xu Ran, but Xu Ran was lucky enough to have been saved by someone. That was why Xu Ran became a fool since then.
Xu Ran didn't have much of his father's love. Everyone else in the family didn't like him. After Xu Ran became a fool, the situation became even worse.
Ever since Zhang Family heard Xu Ran become a fool, they came to ask to cancel the engagement. Xu Cheng, at the time, suddenly proposed to marry Zhang Yue on behalf of his older brother.
Xu Cheng's talk was very nice and honest. He said, since Xu Family had established an engagement with Zhang Family, Zhang Yue had already become a family member of Xu Family. Even though his older brother had become a fool, he was having normal mentality, so he could take good care of Zhang Yue on behalf of his older brother. Therefore, Xu Cheng won a good reputation in Zhang Family, and Zhang Family had finally decided to approve the marriage between Zhang Yue and Xu Cheng. They two held the wedding ceremony one year later.
Right after the approval of both families, Xu Cheng often visited Zhang Family. However, Zhang Yue was having a poor self-discipline, so both of them had made love. Therefore, Zhang Yue became pregnant before the marriage.
When Zhang Family found the fact, they requested Xu Cheng and Zhang Yue to get married as soon as possible so as to maintain a good reputation of the two families. But Xu Cheng had an older brother. How could a younger brother get married before the older brother, even though the older brother was a fool?
Xu Ran's and Xu Cheng's daddy was busy finding matchmakers for the sake of the family's reputation.
However, Xu Ran was a fool. Which family would like to marry their son to a fool? If Xu Family was wealthy enough, things might be easier, but Xu Family was barely meeting their basic needs. Therefore, no family would like to engage with such a poor family.
Zhang Yue's daddy had spent all his time in seeking for an appropriate engagement for Xu Family. Finally, they found a suitable person.
In the Liu Village next to Xu Village, a man named Liu Tong was somewhat stronger than ordinary people. Liu Tong's father and daddy had been dead, so Liu Tong was now living with his uncle.
Liu Tong's uncle and his uncle's husband didn't really like Liu Tong so Liu Tong was still single at the age of marriage. As soon as they found a matchmaker coming up, they were very happy to accept the two liang of silver ingots and to have decided to marry Liu Tong to the proposed family. Not only did they accept the marriage, but also they declared to cut off the relationship with Liu Tong.
Though Liu Tong was unwilling to marry a fool, he was still taking good care of Xu Ran after his marriage.
After Liu Tong's marriage with Xu Ran, Xu Cheng married Zhang Yue half a month later.
Zhang Yue was in his pregnancy when getting married. Moreover, Xu Cheng had always been the spoiled child of Xu Family. Right after Zhang Yue's marriage, Liu Tong became the hard working one to take good care of the entire family.
Liu Tong finally came to understand why Xu Family was willing to accept him. But before Liu Tong had any complaint, his father-in-law and daddy-in-law had given him a severe warning.
Liu Tong had to do all the housework. Moreover, Liu needed to help the farm work.
Liu Tong didn't like to talk, so the parents-in-laws in Xu Family didn't like him. Xu Cheng's family didn't really regard Liu Tong as one of them. Thus, the whole family started to bully Liu Tong and to look down on the foolish Xu Ran.
No matter how much grievance he had suffered from the outside, Liu Tong kept silent. Only at night, he slowly told his story to Xu Ran, the fool. Although Xu Ran was having some mental problems, he could properly remember those who were good to him. Liu Tong spent five years to be always remembered by Xu Ran, who didn't forget Liu Tong even until his death.
The second winter since Liu Tong married into Xu Family, he got pregnant and gave birth to a couple of twins. The happy thing turned out to be the start of a more miserable life. More people meant more food required. The parents-in-law in the Xu Family were old and could no longer do much work while Xu Cheng was a lazy guy, not to mention Zhang Yue. Xu Ran was a fool, so all the heavy burden felt on Liu Tong. Liu Tong was asked to do the farm work right after the lovely twins were born.
Fortunately, Liu Tong was having a strong physical condition. The childhood hard work had given Liu Tong a good practice so that the heavy burden didn't bring him down. But Liu Tong had never given birth to any child in the following four years.
Over the years, Liu Tong had done his best to take care of Xu Ran and his two children. Even so, he was sometimes too busy to take good care of them. His two children and Xu Ran were often bullied by Zhang Yue and Zhang Yue's kids.
But the two children were sensible and considerate. For fear of making Liu Tong upset, both children never dared tell Liu Tong anything even after they were picked on by others.
Therefore, Liu Tong knew nothing until his kids were badly injured. Liu Tong had a big fight and declared to revenge ten times more to Zhang Yue, if he found his two kids and Xu Ran were injured once again. That was why Zhang Yue restrained himself.
Days passed like this. After five years, when Xu Ran's kids turned five years old, another alien soul from another world woke up in Xu Ran's body.
Only when having received all the memories of this body, did Xu Ran realize that he had transmigrated to this world. Then he was completely stunned.