Chapter 2: Xi Yu

Translated & Edited by Dan-Dan

Huaping Village is not small, but it is also not very big. There are forty households in the village, and around two hundred people. Everyone knew everyone, so once the chimney of a house started smoking when it didn’t before, it was not long before the people in the village knew that people were back.

Speaking of this family, there was quite a lot of details one could gather up.

In the early years, there were four people: Madame Xi and her son, her daughter-in-law and her grandson. Their family had a content life from old to young, and the couple often went into town, with a small business that sold some small things, and the Madame raised some chickens with her grandson and tended the vegetable field. The family was peaceful and happy. However, as the old saying goes, every family has difficult times.

When the Xi Family spent two years as a business serving breakfast, a person took a fancy to Xi Yu’s (Xi Yu is the name of the grandson) mother. It was a known bully in town, an infamous thug. Xi Yu’s father didn’t want conflict with the other party at first and tried to avoid this person by moving their business from place to place in the spirit of peace. However, the other party always followed them, and both sides began to fight, and the consequences on both sides were terrible. In the end, the thug died, and Xi Yu’s father also lost his life.

With her husband gone, Xi Yu’s mother cried every day and soon passed away through depression. Madame Xi’s only son was dead, and then she lost her daughter-in-law. She also gradually became a little crazy. With this, she was begotten with a serious illness, and all of the savings were spent.

That year, Xi Yu was no more than eleven and had to grow independent. From such a young age, he lived alone at home, grew taller and stronger and taller than any of the other children and tilled his own land to live.

At that time, everyone thought that this kid would have no difficulty in relying on himself, though it was difficult. No one thought that he would actually conscript into the military at the age of fourteen, and serve for a few years at that.

Luo Fei summed up his knowledge of this “fiancé” in his mind and expressed some deep sympathy in his heart, but the sympathy did not mean that he would accept marriage with this person. He just got out of a familiar living environment and transmigrated into a strange place. Now no matter what, he didn’t want to leave the Luo Family. Although Luo Family is not rich, the people are not bad. But if he goes to the Xi house, then that would be hard to say.

What if the person’s character was not good? What if he was put to work for the whole day? Xi Yu was to be twenty years old this year. In the past five or six years, the possibility of a kind person to turn into adult scum was too great.

The most important thing is that he doesn’t like the other. He hates the surname Xi the most!

Anyway, he didn’t want to cross the threshold of marriage!

Luo Fei sat down and refused Luo Yi’s suggestion to go to the Xi house: “If you want to go, go yourself, I’m not going.”

Luo Tian “pa!” slammed his hand on the table: “You rascal, why are you stubborn like this? Going doesn’t cause you any harm!”

“Dad, can you not yell?” Luo Fei had gotten used to such an imposing dad of his, but every time he opened his mouth, his head still hurts. “I have a reason for not going. The issue with Zhang Yangfan has only passed, and Zhang Yangfan’s getting married today. If I rush over to see him, what will people think about it? Won’t they think I’m rushing to find someone to marry because of that?”

“That makes sense, Dad.” Luo Yi said.

“What rushing to see him? You two have already been betrothed.” Luo Tian still felt that there was no problem just to go and see.

“I’m still not going. We haven’t seen each other in several years. Maybe he has already become married. Maybe he brought his wife and children back. If I go and meet a family of three to chat and laugh with wouldn’t that be terrible?”

“Yeah, let’s forget about it for now.” Li Yuehua said, “When the Xi couple passed away, our family helped out a lot.  He will definitely remember to come and greet us.” Let’s discuss Darling’s wedding later.”

“Then it’s decided, we’re not going today.” Luo Tian ground his teeth and looked at Luo Fei. “But about the marriage with Xi Yu, my son, you must have it in mind. Once you two meet, if Xi Yu still doesn’t have a wife, and is still the person from before, you’re getting married, you hear me?”

“Let’s wait until we’ve actually met to discuss that.” Luo Fei thought up a hundred reasons for refusal in his heart.

Luo Tian still wanted to say a few more words, but seeing that his son is silent, he thought that he might still be thinking of Zhang Yangfan, may still be sad, and no longer pressed on the issue.

At dinner, being unused to the food, Luo Fei did not eat much. When he returned to the house, he thought of the days that would follow, and he was somewhat sad. If nothing else, it was enough to say that he would never see his family again. He grew up in a single-parent family. His father had an affair and didn’t care about him. He lived with his mother and grandma, and their bonds were tight. Now that he is gone, and he didn’t know how sad they would be.

Thinking about it, Luo Fei’s eyes became red.

He was not worried about anything else, but he was worried that they would be bullied.

Although … it is unlikely that that would occur because of his mother’s personality.

Luo Fei unconsciously glared at the earthen wall and gave a long sigh.

Luo Ru, the younger sister came in bearing sunflower seeds: “Second brother, are you alright?”

The Luo Family’s children’s names were very easy to remember: the eldest is called Luo Ji, the second is called Luo Fei, the third is called Luo Ru, the fourth is called Luo Yi. If Luo Fei’s name was changed to “Luo Xiang”, the four children’s names would just happen to make the phrase for “good luck”, unfortunately, the second child’s name was changed.

“I’m fine, why haven’t you gone to sleep?” Luo Fei looked at his new sister up and down.

“To see you.” Luo Ru did not seem like a girl, her body was strong, and her temper also took after their mother and father, and she was very bold. She sat down on the heater. “I heard Mother say that Brother Xi is back?”

“En.”

“En what? Second Brother, what do you think? Brother Xi is back, and mother and father will definitely have you guys get married.”

“I don’t want to talk about it.” Luo Fei was somewhat helpless. Luo Ru seemed likable, but he doesn’t want to talk to her about Xi Yu.

“Don’t want to talk about it? Then you want to talk about Zhang Yangfan?”

“… forget it let’s just talk about Xi Yu.” When he thought about Zhang Yangfan, he just wanted to explode everything! Luo Fei patted his chest, “Do you have any impressions about Xi Yu?”

“Of course. Whenever big brother fished, he would always send you two. When he was picking fruits up in the mountain, he would always give you some, and we as a family benefited from it all. When everyone played, he would always protect you, saying that when you grow up, you would be his wife, so he couldn’t you be bullied.”

“Really?”

“Yes.” Luo Ru reminiscing about childhood smiled heartily. ” He has always been very good to you before, so I mother and I think that he will be good to you in the future too.”

“That’s not for sure. The most difficult thing to measure is the human heart.” Luo Fei said here, not knowing what he suddenly began thinking of, had a thread of suspicion in his eyes.

In fact, there was always something he couldn’t quite figure out.

Just before he transmigrated here, he was taking a vacation, it was only a few days, so he didn’t run far away, and he was looking for a place nearby to relax. The result was that the day when he was riding a bus down the mountain road, a person rushed out in front. The driver was so scared that he turned the steering wheel too much and the bus rushed off the cliff.

However, that was not the point. The point was that at that time, it seemed that someone had protected his head. The man had sat behind him. When he got on the bus, the other person had pressed his cap down, so he didn’t know who it was, thinking that he was a just person he didn’t know. To think that that person was actually someone he knew and that he was the person he hated the most!

It was clearly a perilous moment. Why would he have protected him at such a critical time? No, he must have remembered wrongly!

Luo Fei shook his hair and ushered his sunflower seed eating sister out to her own room.

The Luo family has two houses, the three brothers got one, the parents and the young sister got the other. Now that the daughter was older, the family got a large piece of cloth to separate the big house, and a “lady’s chamber” was created for her.

Luo Fei shared a heatable brick bed with his two brothers. The younger brother was organizing the farm tools outside and hadn’t come inside yet. In the spring, they had to prepare for planting in the garden, and everyone in the family was busy.

Seriously speaking, before, the living conditions of Luojia were quite good. In Huaping Village, even in several nearby villages, it could be considered one of the more well-off. What is regrettable is that the daughter-in-law of the eldest Luo Ji went to the mountain in the second year of their marriage to collect medicine. After falling down, she was always sick in bed and became a medicine jar. (Someone who basically needs so much medicine their body “holds” medicine, so, therefore, a medicine jar lol) The Luo family was kind. Although Luo Ji had already split from home, they still took money to help their daughter-in-law to cure the disease.

It is a pity that Luo Fei’s nephew was also sickly. In the end, Luo Ji sold the house and was still unable to cure his wife.

Later, Luo Ji did not marry again, because of his devotion.

Perhaps if this matter occurred in someone else’s home, they may not have tried to help, but the Luo family was not such a family.

Luo Fei felt that transmigrating to such a family was a great fortune in misfortune. If the one called Xi Yu just “retired”, everything would be perfect.

“Dangdangdang!” Suddenly came a knock at the door. “Master Luo, Madame Luo, are you at home?”

This sound sounded a bit familiar. Luo Fei brooded a bit, crap, it couldn’t be Xi Yu? However, someone outside had already opened the door.

After a moment, Luo Yi shouted: “Father! Mother! Brother Xi came!”

Luo Fei took off his outer clothes and got into the bed.

He couldn’t help but put his ears up to listen to the outside, but someone opened the door of his house. Luo Yi, the best supporter of his second brother, actually heartlessly pulled him out of bed: “Second brother, hurry and get up, Brother Xi is coming to see you!”

“Aiaiai don’t pull!” Luo Fei was being dragged off the bed while he tried to pull himself back. “He came to find father and mother and didn’t come to find to me. Why are you pulling so hard! Let me loose!”

“Aiyo, during this big night, he is definitely anxious to see you, couldn’t he have waited until tomorrow to visit Father and Mother?” Luo Yi wouldn’t let go, and his strength was quite big.

“Okay! I am going!” Man, this house is small, he didn’t even have a chance to retaliate before he was dragged away! Luo Fei rubbed his chest and felt so angry that he thought he might have a heart attack.

However, when he saw who came, he suddenly stopped.

The person who smiled at him, his body was lean and tall and his face was chiseled. When he smiled, he always gave people a feeling they couldn’t quite discern. Why did he seem to be familiar?

Xi Yu turned his head, smiled and said: “Luo Fei, you came.”

Luo Fei saw the other party’s appearance, and a flame of hatred burned in his chest, desperately chaotic. Luo Yi thought that he had become so angry his heart would pound right out of him! He pointed his twitching finger at the other, the “fiancé” who was unusually familiar: “You are Xi…Xi…”

The man pressed down his hand, smiling and said, “I am Xi Yu. But I changed my name now, I am now called Xi Yanqing.”

When Luo Fei heard this, he couldn’t even breathe, and passed out!

Damn, who said that this was a perfect transmigration? ! Seeing this person, it can’t be perfect!

I‘m fine with having transmigrated, but how could they also give him his love rival from his past life?! If his love rival was a love rival, then just be a love rival! But why did he also have to be betrothed to him in this world!

Notes:

Woot woot! The MC and ML have finally met~ And that’s a wrap for the second chapter! The next chapter is going to be hilarious ;3

If anyone is confused, the original Xi family’s son is Xi Yu while the one who transmigrates (if you remember from the summary) from the modern world is Xi Yanqing. Hope this fake post thing worked lol

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