Little AncestorChapter 6

TLC: Rin


Cao Feng’s money was stolen before. There were many thieves in the county. When he first left the village, he didn’t know that people outside would be like this. After all, the people who came to them to do poverty alleviation work were all promoting truth, goodness and beauty. yqMTuG

Later on, since his money had been stolen, he knew what to do and thought of a way by sewing a pocket at the junction of the sleeves of his clothes.

The two went to have a barbecue, Cao Feng insisted on paying the money, and after arguing for a while, Duan Yuche really couldn’t compete, so he was defeated.

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He had heard Duan Shumin say that although he was a student sponsored by Duan Shumin, Duan Shumin had done a wide range of poverty alleviation work with nearly 20 students. Cao Feng wasn’t the only one, so he didn’t send much money on a regular basis, only about 500 yuan per month.

The Guangshang Bank where Duan Shumin worked was a national commercial bank. It was established in the early 1990s. Since its establishment, Duan Shumin has been working in Guangshang. It wasn’t easy to make a living until now. He had worked very hard, and was very dedicated. His hair had turned white in the past few years. Adding the salary and performance bonus together, his annual salary had exceeded a million now. QWkPdo

It’s just that after so many years, he didn’t have a large amount of savings. The main reason was because he actively participated in poverty alleviation work. Not only did the branch under his jurisdiction provide support to poor districts, but he also independently sponsored a number of students.

Therefore, Cao Feng was truly impoverished, he’s poor, very poor. Duan Yuche guessed that this guy was most likely to even have holes in his underwear.

Three hundred yuan of barbecue wasn’t a small amount for him.

Next time it would be better to invite him to the cafeteria, he thought.

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The next day was the weekend. Duan Shumin was resting, the cook, however, became Cao Feng.

Duan Shumin also got up early on the weekend. As soon as he went downstairs, he smelled the aroma of vegetable porridge. He was very surprised and asked Cao Feng. Cao Feng said that he asked the guard of the gate. Knowing that there was a vegetable market nearby, he went to buy some vegetables and came back.

Duan Shumin knew about the market, it was a large one, although it was cheaper than the supermarket, it was two miles away. He had driven over there to buy fish before: “What time did you get up?”

Cao Feng said that at six o’clock, after getting up, he jogged to the market in the morning light, bought vegetables and ran back. It took more than an hour from beginning to end. JScEel

Duan Shumin was full of praise for Cao Feng’s cooking skills, and immediately went to call Duan Yuche to get up and eat corn cake.

At the table during lunch, there was chicken soup with wild mushrooms, steamed fish, and braised beef. They were all big dishes, and knowing Duan Yuche’s taste, he didn’t put much chili.

Duan Yuche didn’t expect that he could cook so well. It was ten times better than the food that Duan Shumin made, and it was no less better than the restaurants out there.

Duan Shumin said: “Next weekend, Xiao Che will also get up early and run to the market to buy vegetables with his older brother.” 4zV0q

Duan Yuche shook his head immediately: “I only take one day off a week. Won’t you let me get a good night’s sleep?”

Duan Shumin criticized him for his lack of exercise: “When you were at school, did you also not like to go running? Your Teacher Ma said that you skip morning exercises and morning runs.”

Duan Yuche’s eyes widened: “…I just skipped once!”

Just that one time, he happened to be caught. V4R0vU

“He also said that you have failed to complete your homework.” Duan Shumin only learned about it when he called Ma Xiaobo yesterday and asked about the situation of the two children.

Duan Yuche discontentedly argued: “That’s not the case… I have handed over all my English homework.”

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Duan Yuche listened absent-mindedly, and heard Duan Shumin ask about his seatmate. jdPwHm

“It’s not bad, the grades are about the same as mine.” He liked to pull his seatmate to play gomoku in class. Although his seatmate looked like a nerd, he had a different personality. He also played gomoku with him.

Duan Shumin thought about making a phone call to Ma Xiaobo and asked him to arrange for Duan Yuche and Cao Feng to sit together. He wondered if he would intervene too much in this way, so he decided to observe for a while and then see after their exams.

In the evening, Duan Yuche remembered that there would be a flag raising ceremony early in the morning, and then thought of his homework.

He only knew that Ma Xiaobo had assigned an essay and a few practice questions. He finished writing it on Saturday afternoon. As for other subjects, he thought it would be okay if he didn’t do it. After all, the other teachers didn’t have his father’s phone number——He didn’t expect the other subject teachers would tell Ma Xiaobo. jcyEdI

He was so depressed that he walked through the corridor with a few exercise books in his arms and knocked on Cao Feng’s door.

After knocking several times, only then did Cao Feng open the door. As soon as he opened it, a heat with moisture came to his face. Duan Yuche opened his eyes wide.

Cao Feng was wearing a pair of shorts, his upper body was naked – dripping with water, and there were little bubbles on his head, which was strange to a point that it was a bit cute.

“Sorry, I was taking a bath just now and didn’t hear it.” SO9eHJ

Duan Yuche said it was nothing. Glancing at him, even wearing clothes he could see that he had a good figure, but he didn’t expect it to be this good. Duan Yuche’s gaze swept across his well-proportioned muscular lines, thinking in his mind that he should be fierce and violent when he beat up people: “Oh, you continue to wash then, I just came here to ask if you’ve written your homework.”

Cao Feng said he had written. The water on his body was dripping down. Cao Feng was very afraid that the water droplets would dampen the floor, so he hurriedly said, “Xiao Che, I’ll go and rinse the bubble first. You wait for me to come out.”

Duan Yuche nodded and scanned the guest room.

The villa was bought by his mother when she was still alive, but his mother passed away before she moved in. FDdjhq

The guest room was seldom occupied, and only his aunt came to visit him occasionally for a while. Compared to his own room, Cao Feng’s room was too neat. The owner of the room seemed to have a mysophobia, and everything was placed very orderly, although it was also because he didn’t have many things.

The air conditioner wasn’t turned on in the room and it was too hot. Duan Yuche found the remote control of the air conditioner and set it to the lowest temperature.

Cao Feng quickly washed away the bubbles on his head and was about to go out when he found that he hadn’t taken his pajamas.

While shopping the other day, Duan Yuche let him buy two sets of pajamas, a set of thinner and a set of thicker. JUvAZe

After hesitating, Cao Feng opened the bathroom door and shouted, “Xiao Che, can you help me find my pajamas?”

“Oh, where is it?”

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“On the bed.”

Duan Yuche glanced over and said he saw it. W3M6td

The pajamas were neatly folded and placed at the end of the bed. It was so neat that it looked like it was organized by the hotel room service.

At first he thought Cao Feng was a very sloppy kind of country bumpkin, but now he found out that he wasn’t. In reality, he really liked cleanliness. He washed his clothes and socks very frequently, but he was too frugal. He was still wearing clothes and socks that were worn out, and his skin was dark, which made people think he was very dirty.

Cao Feng put on his pajamas and came out of the bathroom. The room temperature had dropped to a comfortable temperature. Duan Yuche sat on the chair in front of his desk: “Just adjust the air conditioner to sleep mode when you sleep. Don’t be shy with this electricity bill. The weather is too hot. You won’t be able to sleep. If you can’t sleep, you won’t be able to study well tomorrow.”

He now basically mastered the correct way to make suggestions to Cao Feng. 5mYi3c

Cao Feng actually wanted to tell him that he had already gotten used to it, whether it was hot or not, he could fall asleep, but he still agreed, found a chair, dragged it and sat beside Duan Yuche. He asked him in a low voice: “Is there any question that you don’t know how to do?”

“Mn,” Cao Feng had just finished taking a bath, the fresh smell wafted into his nostrils. Duan Yuche opened an exercise book first, “Which page of mathematics should be done? Let me copy it.”

The books that Duan Yuche’s junior high school used were books prepared by Wang Houxiong. In addition to the set of books ordered by the class, he also went to buy a set of his own. He threw the exercise book and only kept the answers. Every time he had to hand over his homework, he copied the answers. Even the test papers had answers. He already had experience copying as he continued this act. He deliberately made one mistake every two questions, and the questions and answers were marked with various corrections. It looked like he had seriously pondered over it. Now that he had opened the junior high school exercise book, he really thought he had worked so hard.

But the exercise books of Experimental Foreign Language School were all questions made by their own school. They were a very good set of exercises. One volume was very thin, and several volumes were used in a semester to make it easier for students to carry their exercises at home. The schools outside wanted to use their questions, but this wasn’t a textbook that could be bought in a bookstore outside, and one couldn’t even buy the answer if one wanted to copy them. L2lPTF

Cao Feng hesitated a little, and flipped over his exercise book: “Page 30, Xiao Che… What questions do you have that you can’t answer? Ge can explain it to you, but copying the homework…”

“It’s wrong to copy homework.” Duan Yuche continued his words and said, “I know, how could I not understand such a simple logic? You can’t even speak Mandarin well and you’re still going to explain the questions to me?”

Cao Feng was stunned and then lowered his head.

Duan Yuche immediately realized that he seemed to have gone a little too far, and hurriedly added: “I mean, it’s useless to give me lectures. I won’t understand. I will mostly have to go abroad to study at university, so it doesn’t matter if I don’t study mathematics well. Foreigners don’t care about this, you get it, right? So it’s okay for me to copy your homework. You can rest assured, I will deliberately make two mistakes, it won’t be exactly the same, the teacher won’t notice…” FmcZJn

Actually, the GPA should also be referred to, but he’s mostly studying for his undergraduate degree in art and the general requirements weren’t high.

Duan Yuche never had high demands on himself. He just wanted to spend the three years of senior high school in peace without causing trouble to Duan Shumin, and then go far away.

Cao Feng had just come to Duan’s family, yet letting the child copy his homework, how could he?

He guarded the bottom line in his heart and refused to give it. Duan Yuche’s face suddenly turned black, and he stood up holding the exercise book. When he was angry, his amber eyes looked lighter and gleaming with tears, as if water would flow out of it with a pinch. uYCIbd

“Forget about it if you don’t let me copy! I’ll find someone else to copy it tomorrow! You think you’re the only one with good grades!” He just didn’t want to make things difficult for Duan Shumin, so he reluctantly decided to simply deal with the teacher, but he didn’t expect Cao Feng to be so serious.

Dididi, you wait.” Cao Feng stretched out his hand and grabbed his wrist, “These questions are not difficult at all, you sit down, you tell me where you don’t understand, you…” Before finishing speaking, Duan Yuche muttered a strange swear word and left directly.

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His heart was blocked, it was the first time he had met such a stingy person, and even refused to let him copy his homework! Seeing Cao Feng chasing after him with his bare feet, his posture was somewhat fierce, as if he wanted to catch him! Duan Yuche took a bigger step, twisted the door handle, went in, and slammed the door vigorously.

But a muffled grunt abruptly sounded in the back, and the door that should have been closed seemed to have hit some hindrance and slowly bounced open. BLb3NG

Duan Yuche turned his head and saw Cao Feng holding the gap of the door with one hand, his expression was painful as he gritted his teeth and his brows wrinkled.

Duan Yuche was startled: “What are you doing!” He strode towards Cao Feng and grabbed his hand, “Why did you put your hand on the door when I closed it! Are you an idiot?”

By the slightest glimmer of light from the corridor, he vaguely saw that Cao Feng’s four fingers were swollen. When he touched them, Cao Feng pulled back and let out a “hiss” in his lips.

“Does it hurt a lot?” Duan Yuche wrinkled his brows, turned on the light, grabbed the palm of his hand and looked at it under the bright light. dhCJm5

Ten fingers were connected to the heart, it was originally very painful, but the strange thing was that when Cao Feng looked at his younger brother, he felt that the pain was drifting away from him. Instead, the touch of Duan Yuche’s soft palm was more intensely stirring.

“It doesn’t hurt,” He stared at Duan Yuche, and said in a hoarse voice, “In the past, ge used to dig wild vegetables, and the hoe hit my foot one time, my hand was also cut when I went up the mountain to cut bamboo. This is just a trivial matter.”

Duan Yuche really saw the wounds on his hand. The scars had already healed, and old white scars crisscrossed the palms of his hand, the back of his hand, and as well as on his arm.

Moreover, Cao Feng’s hand was very rough, it’s all thick calluses. Bx4AVW

He felt guilty inwardly, so he grabbed Cao Feng’s other hand and led him inside: “I have to apply ice on it. I also had my hand slammed by the door. You see, your fingers are all red. How would you be comfortable?”

Cao Feng was pulled inside by him and was pushed to sit down on the stool at the end of the bed. He watched him open the refrigerator, and took out the ice cubes.

Cao Feng also noticed that there were a lot of things in his small refrigerator, which seemed to be some kind of snacks.

Duan Yuche wrapped a plate of shaken out ice cubes with a towel and twisted it into a large piece. He let Cao Feng hold it with his other hand and put it on the finger bone of his injured right hand. dHXdAM

“Your right hand is injured. How will you take notes in class tomorrow?”

The cold sensation invaded his bone marrow, Cao Feng said it wasn’t that serious: “It will be alright tomorrow.”

“That’s fine. It’s fine, if it won’t hurt tomorrow.” As he said, he thought of something. He opened the refrigerator again, searched for a moment in the four-layer grid, and found a pink-white box.

Opening the box, Duan Yuche broke a piece with his hand and handed it to Cao Feng: “Here.” AUZydO

Cao Feng didn’t have a hand to pick it up, so he raised his head and asked him what it was.

“Chocolate.”

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

He was fond of collecting all kinds of chocolate with different flavors and imported from different countries. The refrigerator in the room was used to store this. There were more than 50 kinds of chocolate with different textures and flavors, which filled the entire refrigerator.

However, it was rarely taken out to share with others. 2QYVIL

Cao Feng sniffed hard at the tip of his nose, and sure enough, he could smell that fascinating aroma: “This is chocolate!” He came even closer to smell. It was fragrant.

That novelty and surprised look made Duan Yuche amuse, he jokingly said, “Never had one before?”

Cao Feng shook his head and his eyes looked at him, “Is this for me?”

He hadn’t eaten many snacks before. He basically wouldn’t eat those things because it would cost unnecessary money and the last time he ate maltose was a long time ago. F35KPq

Duan Yuche looked at him, Cao Feng’s eyes looked as if they were ink-dyed, like a small animal. He felt uncomfortably bitter in his heart, lowering his head, he gave a “mn”, and said, “For you, I still have a lot in the refrigerator. If you like it, I will give you another flavor tomorrow.” He said and fed the chocolate directly to Cao Feng’s mouth.

He opened his mouth and took it in. The moment it entered, the mellow aroma melted in his mouth, a bit bitter and a bit sweet. Then there was another wonderful feeling, popping in his mouth, bursting from the tip of his tongue to his upper jaw. A burst of small explosions made his eyes wide open: “What is this?”

“Popping candy. It’s fun, right?” Duan Yuche sat next to him and said ostentatiously, “One of my collections, suitable to eat in summer. Doesn’t it taste very lovely? You can’t buy this kind of chocolate in supermarkets.” He was a bit of a collector and always bought a lot of these things. If he piled them together, he would have a sense of achievement even if he didn’t eat them.

Cao Feng was stunned a little, looked at him and nodded: “Very lovely, thank you didi.” 0 DpRG

Duan Yuche said it’s nothing, and asked him softly, “Does your hand still hurt?”

Cao Feng just felt very cold, as if it didn’t hurt at all, so he replied that it didn’t hurt anymore.

After sitting for a while longer, Duan Yuche told him to take the ice cube back to his room and continue applying it. The ice melted and the towel was soaked in ice water, so Cao Feng didn’t continue in applying ice anymore.

It was late at night, Cao Feng took a bath and lay on an incredibly soft, large bed. It felt like he was in a dream. He looked out the window, and the transparent curtains were floating in the night. There were no stars in the sky of the big city, only a bright and lonely curved moon, the same as in his hometown. VHv4qb

The sweet smell of chocolate lingered on the tip of his nose, and he could still feel that bouncy, active feeling in his mouth, as if his heart was beating wildly.

Translator's Note

a very famous teacher who prepares the entrance exam’s books like National College Entrance Examination (NCEE)

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4 comments

  1. How come foreigners don’t care about mathematics? xDDDD And don’t get so angry just bc he didn’t let you copy his homework x’D

    Thx for the ch ٩(。˃ ᵕ ˂ )و