A Western Doctor's Happy Farming Life

180. Shitou’s Assist

Translator: LiamHW

Song Qinghan glared at him and got up from the bed, “So, you can make me worry but I can’t make you? Do you think that makes sense?

Wu Dahu delivered a smile in resignation as he found that Song Qinghan had completely got him wrong, he shook his head and answered, “Sorry, dear, but you can’t make up your mind so capriciously showing your willingness to go to the front line! To see it in an unpleasant picture, if I really get injured myself in the future, those lamb doctors are enough to get me treated and cured. If I really get injured that is extremely serious beyond their capacity to cure me, nothing is going to help even if you are there with me. In addition, if you really go there with me, no one is able to make a decision to assign you to take care of me.”

Wu Dahu explained so as if his mouth was equipped with a motor, and those words rendered Song Qinghan silent and. speechless, he failed to say something in retort. When he heard there was a clicking sound of chopsticks and bowls, he reached out to push Wu Dahu away gently, while uttered with a light anger, “Go eat first, I will talk with you after dinner.”

At this time, he finally came to understand how pitiful those women in ancient times were. On one hand, they bore the honor of the beloved family and country, yet they got their personal affection and love on the other side. It would be so hard for them to separate with their beloved ones, but they eventually had to do it since it was the call of the country. Those who were well-educated wouldn’t make a decisive choice, let alone those women who still bore the conventional conception of “No Talent is Virtue”.

People gathering within the family to have dinner was getting bigger. Fortunately, Hualian was quite wise and agile to prepare more dishes in advance. So the current meal wasn’t served indecent.

Probably those triplets had never had their dinner in such a crude environment, they were acting rather reserved right now. And then it was again the one who seemed to be the oldest one among them took the initiative to speak, “Didn’t you say that you will take us out to treat us a good meal?”

Song Qinghan was not in a good mood now, but he still answered calmly, “Isn’t the most delicious dish in the world the home-made one?”

That person was silent after Song QInghan said so. After thinking about it for a while, he realized that it was indeed the case. However, the home-cooked dishes in their minds were obviously not the ones Song Qinghan described. After all, this place wasn’t the territory of the Northern minority. Requiring Song Qinghan to prepare the food catering to their taste buds would be indeed an embarrassing task.

Thinking of this, he glanced at the mixed-raced man who was remaining his ‘eternity-lasting’ silence, and uttered mockingly, “Doctor Song, you seem to be a nice righteous man, you bring anyone home no matter he is a chick or dog. Well, it is a pity that even though someone is being guarded now and enjoying his short-term peace, he is not going to live longer. He is just living on in degradation, well, whatever.”

Song Qinghan raised his eyes and looked at the leader among the triplets, he did catch the sense of disdain in the triplet’s eyes. He now finally came to realize how awful the situation the mixed-race people got. Not only the residents within Qingmu Region looked down upon them, but the people from Northern minority spitted on them either. In that situation, were they that pitiful being homeless?

Noticing that the mixed-race man paused while seemingly going to put down the chopsticks, Song Qinghan uttered in peaceful tone, “Living on in degradation is still living. Only people alive love to study the ranking dividing people in grades and categories. Everyone is in a equal status when they die!”

Beyond his expectation, the seemingly wrath-incurring retort indeed subtly resonated with those triplets.

The three of them sighed at the same time and raised their head to look at the bright moon hanging in the sky, the older one uttered, “Well, sorry, I’m being a bit petty. Since we have been caught, we were living on in degradation either.”

Even though they didn’t have any special expressions on face when the older one said so, yet the temperament given out by them was rather gloomy and bleak. The sorrow covered up the whole room, affecting everyone within the area. Even Wu Dahu did pause his movement on using the chopsticks, with melancholy filled in his eyes.

After a short while, probably it was the queerly silent ambience waking the triplets up. They finally regained their senses back from the sorrow, and the older one smiled, “Let’s eat, sorry to cast a chill over.”

Song Qinghan was so sensitive that he detected something emotional seemed to have changed gradually on these triplets. He pondered for a moment, and thought that it wasn’t a bad thing at all, so he shook his head, continued to think of the matter Wu Dahu mentioned about.

He did not agree with the first half of Wu Dahu’s words. He was rather confident that he could at least he treat most of the cases that those lamb doctors weren’t capable of. Yet for the latter half of the words of Wu Dahu, he temporarily failed to find an excuse to retort.

If he were to follow the doctors from the Imperial Hospital, he would definitely be arranged to obey the orders and assigned to treat whomever were sent. At that time when he was busy, it would be difficult for him to know more news of Wu Dahu which was totally beyond his original intentions.

It didn’t mean that he didn’t want to save the others. But every human did get a selfish mind, as a husband to Wu Dahu, he definitely should make sure that his man was safe and secured.

But, was it feasible to follow Wu Dahu in behind…?

Seeing that Song Qinghan was eating without chewing, Wu Dahu had already guessed what Song Qinghan was thinking about. He quickly finished his meal, and carried Little Shitou over in his arms, started to feed him with milk.

Ever since they knew where to acquire the goat, Little Shitou was never fed with other forms of food. Anyway, once the female goat’s suckling period terminated, they could get the goat killed and make it into food and purchased another one which was in suckling period.

Even though Little Shitou was able to babble more syllables now, he was rather stoic to suppress his emotion and to say a word unless he was provoked and teased. Only in such a situation would he babble and mumble with his baby sounds.

Seeing that Little Stone was absent-minded when he was drinking milk just like Song Qinghan did at the current present, Wu Dahu smiled indulgently, and suddenly sounded to tease Little Shitou, “Baby Shitou, daddy is going out to join a war and to combat for the peace of the country, will you stay at home alone like a well-behaving bunny?”

It was obvious that the little stone didn’t know the meaning of the word ‘war’, but he knew the meaning of ‘staying at home alone’. His small mouth shrank and he babbled in an affectedly sweet voice, “Shitou, don’t want to stay at home alone!”

Wu Dahu raised his eyebrows and smiled, “Oh? Then we will have your femina daddy accompanied with you at home, alright?”

Little Shitou now had already acquired the ability to recognize the people around him, and knew who was his ‘dad’ and who was the ‘femina dad’. So the next moment he turned his head to look at Song Qinghan subconsciously. With his eyebrows bent, he clapped his hands joyously, and then cheered, “Yeaaah! Shitou, want Femina daddy.”

Noticing that Song Qinghan’s attention was already attracted by the noise over here, Wu Dahu tried his best to fan the flames, “Baby Shitou, but I heard that your femina daddy doesn’t want to accompany with you at home, should you persuade him?”

Uttering so, he purposely tilted Little Shitou’s body towards Song Qinghan. And Little Shitou seemed to be quite a best cooperative partner to his father, with his lips pursed, he stretched forth his hands while babbling with a sobbing tone, “Femina daddy don’t want Shitou, Shitou sad,…”

Song Qinghan’s heart melted as soon as he glanced at his son’s chubby hands. The next moment he withdrew the seriousness on his face, and reached out to take Little Shitou over in his arms. He patted Little Shitou on the back, uttering, “How come I don’t want my baby? Shitou is my treasure, don’t you know that?”

The crying sound paused abruptly and ceased away suddenly when Song Qinghan said so. Little Shitou buried his head into Song Qinghan’s chest, and after wiping off his tears and snots, he raised his head again looking at Song Qinghan in the eyes with his bright and watery eyes, babbling with expectations, “Really? Femina daddy will stay with Shitou?”

Seeing that Little Shitou’s nose was full of redness, Song Qinghan sighed slightly, and caressed Little Shitou on the back of the head, saying gently, “For sure, I promise, femina daddy will always be by Shitou’s side.”

After that, he raised his head and noticed that Wu Dahu’s eyes were now filled with over-loaded happiness. He responded with a reluctant glare.