Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

chapter 50

The horizon unveiled the first hazy ray of dawn, and a sprightly figure was approaching from the distant mountain path.

He didn’t have much luck last night hunting, he was worried about missing the market today, so as soon as he caught this porcupine, Di Yelei hurried home.

The house was quiet, it seemed that Sisi hadn’t gotten up yet.

He pushed the main entrance a couple of times, but it remained closed.

“Sisi, Sisi, are you up? Please open the door.”

Di Yelei called out a few times, but the house remained silent.

Could it be that Sisi was sleeping too deeply? Di Yelei was about to shout again, but then he changed his mind.

He walked to the side, looked at the tall courtyard wall, took a few steps back, ran and leaped, directly jumping over the wall, and landed in the courtyard.

“Sisi, Sisi, are you awake?”

Di Yelei knocked gently on the bedroom door. Could she really be sleeping so soundly that she hadn’t heard anything?

“Dad? You’re back.”

Xu’an came out from the adjacent room, rubbing his eyes.

“Um, I’m back, Xu’an, go wash your face quickly.”

Since Sisi was still sleeping, he should go cook breakfast.

With that thought, Di Yelei turned towards the kitchen, randomly glanced at the chaotic scene of the wet spot and the wide-open door at the entrance of the bathing room, which suddenly alerted him.

The broken door lying on the ground, the overturned wooden barrel, the wooden stick that was snapped in half, and a pair of wet underpants arbitrarily hanging from the oil lamp holder, swaying continuously in the early morning cold wind…

Sisi was meticulous and couldn’t bear even the slightest mess at home, but the scene before his eyes clearly pointed out a horrifying fact.

Startled, Di Yelei felt chills spreading from his heart; his head was booming! He suddenly let out a shrill cry: “Sisi!”

Boom!

The bedroom door couldn’t withstand Di Yelei’s violent kick and collapsed instantly.

Before his eyes, Liu Sisi was huddled in the corner of the room, almost wholly wrapped in a quilt, not daring to move.

“Sisi, Sisi, what happened to you?”

Di Yelei quickly walked in and reached her bedside in the blink of an eye.

Last night, Liu Sisi spent the entire night in fear and loneliness. A thousand thoughts flashed through her mind. She even thought of hiding it all. But how could she hide the collapsed door? After much deliberation, she stared at the door so intently that she stayed up until dawn.

Just as she had just closed her eyes for a while, she heard the sound of Di Yelei returning home.

She wanted to get up, but her legs had already gone numb after sitting motionless all night, and she couldn’t stand up at all.

As soon as she saw Di Yelei enter, she seemed like a helpless little bunny who had been injured, her eyes reddened from hiding in the thin quilt, raising her eyes to look at him.

“Ye Lei——”

As soon as she called out his name, her tears streamed down.

“Ye Lei, last night…there was a thief in the yard, woohoo…”