Sweet Rustic Love: Four Brothers’ Wife

A skinny Liu Ran laid asleep on top of a wooden bed with his eyes closed. A blood-soaked cloth was tied on his forehead and his face looked very pale.

“Duo Er, what happened to him?” Ye Ling asked, seeing the condition Liu Ran was in and feeling pain in his heart.

Liu Duo stood beside the bed, looked at him, and frowned. She could not figure out what was going on with him. He had clearly still been very healthy the last time she saw him.

Liu Liushi looked at Liu Ran with tears in her eyes and pain in her heart. “It was because mother accidentally knocked Duo Er down, and he hit his head. The doctor said it wasn’t a big problem. He just lost a lot of blood.”

Liu Duo heard her and looked at Liu Ran. Accidentally? Was it possible that old hag would do it accidentally?

Her frown grew even larger!

Ye Ling heard what she said and knew in his heart that it definitely wasn’t an accident, as she had said. This made him feel even more heartache for Liu Ran.

It were as if Liu Ran had a sixth sense and knew his sister was there to see him. He slowly opened his eyes and what came into view was Ye Ling’s heartache-filled, handsome face and Liu Duo’s frowning, pretty face. “Sister, Brother Ling? You guys really came to see me?”

His face was full of disbelief but also with smiles, because he saw people he wanted to see.

“Yes, your sister and I wanted to see Duo Er, so we came to see you.” Ye Ling saw he had woken up and patted his head.

Liu Ran smiled very happily when he heard what Ye Ling said.

Liu Duo saw what happened and sat closer to the bed to look at him. “Duo Er, tell sister, how did you get injured?”

She pointed at his forehead as she spoke.

Liu Ran used his hands to touch the cloth on his forehead. The smile on his face disappeared, and in its place was a look of hatred and disappointed. He, however, remained silent.

Upon seeing this, Liu Duo didn’t ask him anymore, since she could already get the gist of it.

Liu Duo only stood up after staying with Liu Ran for a long time. She held Ye Ling’s hand as she stood up. “Duo Er, Brother Ling and I need to go back. If you miss us in the future, you can come to our house to play. Maybe even stay for a few days.”

Seeing that they were about to leave, Liu Ran nodded very reluctantly, but he didn’t know what to do.

When she reached the yard door, Liu Duo turned back around to look at Liu Liushi, who was seeing them out. “Have you guys decided to move out?”

Liu Liushi looked at the frowning but otherwise expressionless Liu Duo and shook her head timidly.

She really wanted to move out, and Liu Quanfu also said he wanted to move out, but Grandma Liu did not approve. She said something like, if they wanted to move out they would have to break off all family relations! They need to give her five hundred taels of silver to break off their relations, and they wouldn’t have any dealings with each other anymore!

But how could they have the money? All of their income was given to Grandma Liu and managed by her. Liu Liushi had already spent all the money she had received the last time she went out. She couldn’t even come up with a few copper coins, let alone five hundred taels of silver.

Liu Ran had seen his grandmother behaving shamelessly and talked back to her. This had resulted in him getting a beating, during which he was even knocked down and hurt his forehead as a result.

Liu Duo saw her shaking her head and she shook her head as well. She really didn’t know what she should say to them!

She had nothing else to say. She held Ye Ling’s hand and was about to leave.

Right at that moment, Grandma Liu arrived home and was even carrying herbal medicine in her hands.

“Damn brat, why did you come? And empty-handed again?” Grandma Liu started to shout and made a ruckus as soon as she saw Liu Duo.

Liu Duo didn’t even want to pay attention to her. Ye Ling looked at her, his eyes full of hatred.

Grandma Liu saw what Liu Duo was doing and she hurriedly went over to hand the herbal medicine to Liu Liushi. “I spent about a dozen copper coins to buy these for that wretched child of yours so he can replenish his blood.”

She then immediately went over to block Liu Duo and Ye Ling, not letting them leave.

However, Liu Duo had already stopped walking when she heard Grandma Liu call Liu Ran a wretched child.