That was the suggestion from Cheng Bi Yuan, and Cheng Xiao Xiaoran away under her father’s piercing gaze.
After that, everybody in the family was tending to their ownduties, and Cheng Xiao Xiao’s was to boil the herbs.
Dinner was plentiful and everybody was delighted, especially thetwo brothers. They’ve each had two big bowls of rice.1 Happily they’ve slappedtheir protruding stomachs and laughed.
At night, only the parent’s house was dimly lit by a candle, thefour kids had all retired into their own houses.
Cheng Xiao Xiao entered the dimension. She harvested everythingshe could. She planted more white radishes and Chinese cabbage. She didn’treturn from the dimension right away like she always has, but she sat in hercottage and was in a state of mental torpor.
She was struggling whether to tell her parents the truth. It wouldmake it much easily to produce stuff from the dimension if she comes clean.
It’s not like she could keep telling them more animals wereappearing in the cave.
It was only going to get harder and harder to explain away goingforward and the longer this goes on, the more difficult it would be to tellthem the truth. She was probably better off looping them in now, and they couldhelp with the situations as well.
But how could she explain it in a way that they would findacceptable? Cheng Xiao Xiao smacked herself on the forehead, and helplessly gotup.
The next day, Cheng Xiao Xiao used cooking medicine for theirfather as an excuse to not go up to the mountains. She sent her brothers andsister off to pick vegetables by the river.
When she saw her mother finishing cooking the herbs and broughtthe into the father’s house, she followed her inside. Silently she watched herfed him the medicine.\nA moment later!
He finished an entire bowl of medicine. Cheng Xiao Xiao walkedover by the bed and lightly she asked, “Dad, how are you feeling? Any betterafter the herbs?”
“Much!” Said the much better looking Cheng Bi Yuan, even the wayhe looked at Cheng Xiao Xiao had softened.
Mrs. Cheng put down the bowl and sat on the side of the bed.Smiling, she said, “Xiao Xiao, last night your dad said he has been feelingmuch better and the pain has lessened. Looks like the herbs you picked hadreally helped.”
Cheng Xiao Xiao tried to force a smile but failed. She merelynodded instead.
Her expression did not escape Cheng Bi Yuan He looked intently ather, then nonchalantly asked, “Xiao Xiao, something on your mind?”
“I….” Under her parents’ inquisitive looks, she didn’t know whereto begin.
Mrs. Cheng was a little bit surprised, she pulled her daughternext to her and smiled tenderly, “Silly kid, what can’t you share with your ownparents? No matter what, you are still our great daughter.”
But I am not your real daughter!
Feeling a lot of mixed emotions, Cheng Xiao Xiao lowered her head.
Back then, she was an orphan. Ever since her grandmother hadpassed away, even though some kind soldier had been providing her withallowances and tuition, but she had never met this person. She was kind ofraised by everybody in the village.
Now, she has parents. In the two weeks that she has been here,this family had grew on her. And she had fallen in love with this home that wasfilled with warmth and happiness.
“Xiao Xiao, your mom was right. We are a family, you can tell usanything.” Cheng Bi Yuan had an inkling what she wanted to talk about.
Naturally, he has been curious. If it looked like she was going toshare her secret, he was certainly going to give her that small push that sheneeded.\nShe looked into her parents’ eyes and tried to calm herself. Aftera slight paused, she started, “Dad, mom, there were no chickens or rabbits inthe cave.”
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Random Translator Note:
<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.    <!--[endif]-->Where did the extra rice come from? Theywere having SUPER watery porridge before…. They’ve added MEAT, but where didthe RICE come from? :/
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