Chapter 13: They’re Fighting
After everyone had left home, Lin Xin first withdrew her supernatural ability, steadily catching the spirit tablet in her arms, took Lin Nan back to the room, placed the spirit tablet back in its original place, then formally kowtowed three times, silently saying sorry three times in her heart.
Lin Nan also blankly followed suit, and after getting up, his big eyes full of expectation as he asked Lin Xin: “Sis, from now on, grandparents, uncle, and the others won’t rob our things anymore, right?”
“That’s right! From now on, they can’t rob our things anymore. If they dare to come again, sis will beat them until they can’t find their teeth.” Lin Xin shook her fist at him.
“Then they won’t beat Nan Nan anymore either, right?”
“Did they often beat you before?” Lin Xin’s expression changed as she asked.
“Mm, only when Nan Nan was alone would they beat Nan Nan, pinch Nan Nan, and make Nan Nan not tell others, otherwise they’d sell Nan Nan off.” Lin Nan blinked his big eyes as he answered.
“They? Who are they?”
“Mm,” Lin Nan counted on his little fingers while recalling and said: “Aunt, Third Aunt, Eldest Cousin, Fourth Cousin, Second Cousin Sister, and Third Cousin Sister.”
“Damn!” Lin Xin felt her fist harden again; if she’d known earlier, she would’ve given them more trouble just now.
“Nan Nan,” Lin Xin squatted down, seriously looking straight into Lin Nan’s eyes, “If this kind of thing happens again in the future, you must tell sister, got it? Sister now has the ability to protect Nan Nan.”
“Oh, okay.” Lin Nan obediently nodded.
Looking at the well-behaved child, Lin Xin decided to make a trip to the Lin Family Old House tonight to give each of those who had bullied Lin Nan a lesson.
“Sis, Father?” While Lin Xin was thinking about how exactly to deal with the Lin Family folks, she heard Lin Nan actually asking about Lin Lao Er.
Whether in the memories left by the original owner or after she had crossed over, this was the first time she heard Lin Nan mention Lin Lao Er.
“Yes, Father,” she thought for a moment, then pulled him to the spirit tablet, pointed at Lin Lao Er’s and said: “Our father has already taken mother to another very good place. This is the spirit tablet, which we set up for father and mother. Whenever we miss them, we can come kowtow and tell them what’s in our hearts; they’ll hear and bless us.”
“Oh!” Lin Nan didn’t quite understand sister’s meaning, but still obediently responded.
Lin Xin didn’t plan to make him understand either, so she quickly changed the topic.
“The things we bought today haven’t been sorted yet. Nan Nan, will you help sister?”
“Okay!” Lin Nan’s response this time sounded much more sincere and cheerful.
So, the siblings divided the work and cooperated, putting the bought things in suitable places. Although Lin Nan mostly caused more trouble than help, Lin Xin didn’t stop him; she felt it was very necessary for him to participate in housework, otherwise she’d end up raising a lazy giant baby, and she was afraid she couldn’t resist beating him to death.
“Nan Nan, it’s too late today, so let’s just heat up the buns and eat them, okay?” After bustling all day, Lin Xin really didn’t want to cook anymore, especially with the earthen stove here that needed lighting; it was really too much trouble.
“Okay!” Previously, when Lin Xin couldn’t get food, it wasn’t uncommon for the siblings to go hungry at night; being able to eat meat buns already made Lin Nan very satisfied.
The siblings happily ate the buns, along with the canned little hanging pear soup that Lin Xin took out from the space.
“Sis, what is this? It’s so delicious! Sweet water with this hard thing inside.” Lin Nan squinted his big eyes contentedly, bit into a pear, and said.
“Mm, if Nan Nan likes it, sister will make it for you next time.”
“Okay, Nan Nan likes sister the most.”
“Less flattery, rinse your mouth and go to sleep after eating; tomorrow sister will take you into the mountain.”
“Got it!” After drinking the last sip of pear soup, Lin Nan put down the can, trotted off happily to rinse his mouth, while Yan Yue quietly put the can back into the space and destroyed the evidence.
At night, the siblings lay in the newly bought soft bedding and slept soundly; Lin Xin even forgot about going to the Old Lin Family in the middle of the night to make trouble.
The next morning, Lin Xin took Lin Nan up the mountain.
This time, she deliberately avoided the paths villagers often took and went around to the deep mountain.
“Sis, this place is so hard to walk!” For the Nth time tripped by a tree root, Lin Nan pouted and protested.
“It’s precisely because it’s hard to walk here that villagers won’t come here, so we can find good things to sell for money!” Lin Xin hugged him up, patted the leaves off his clothes, and skillfully deceived him.
“If we sell for money, we can buy lots of things, right?” After being deceived almost all morning, Lin Nan could practically recite Lin Xin’s routine, and smoothly followed up.
“Nan Nan is so smart.” Lin Xin praised insincerely.
“Sister is smart too.” Lin Nan was also insincere.
Just like that, Lin Xin carried Lin Nan, bickering all the way into the deep mountain.
“Shh! Don’t make a sound.” Lin Xin suddenly covered Lin Nan’s mouth and whispered in his ear.
Lin Nan blinked his big eyes twice, nodded to show he understood, and even after Lin Xin removed her hand, he covered his own mouth with his little hand.
Lin Xin smiled, shifted Lin Nan to her back, then agilely climbed a nearby big tree that took two people to hug, and began focusing intently on the man-high grass ahead; just now, she heard sounds of large animal activity there, and it seemed to be heading their way.
Sure enough, without waiting long, the grass was parted, and a furry claw bigger than her fist stretched out, followed by a huge head with a king character—it was actually an adult tiger.
But this tiger seemed injured, breathing heavily, and when walking, one hind leg barely touched the ground, but on closer look, there was no obvious wound on its hind leg.
“Roar~” Seemingly smelling the scent left by Lin Xin and her brother, the tiger stopped under the tree, opened its bloody mouth, and let out a tiger roar toward the tree.
Lin Nan clearly had never seen a tiger and didn’t know how dangerous it was; seeing such a big furry thing, he seemed very excited, and Lin Xin even heard him let out a small “wow.”
“Roar~” The tiger roared again, the sound this time carrying more deterrence, and the direction was no longer toward them.
Lin Xin raised an eyebrow; could there be other fierce beasts here besides this tiger?
As she was thinking, distant “howl~ howl~” wolf howls rose one after another.
Whoa, they had run into a wolf pack!
Lin Xin was a bit excited; with wolves and tiger fighting, she might be the one to benefit in the end. Winter was coming soon, and whether wolf pelts or tiger skin, they were all good things for keeping warm.
A pack of wolves and a tiger confronted each other across the grass, both excellent hunters with plenty of patience.
In the end, the one who couldn’t hold out first was still the tiger; its huge body suddenly leaped into the air without warning, pouncing straight at the position of the wolf pack leader opposite.
The head wolf wasn’t panicked at all; after dodging the tiger’s pounce, it quickly ran far, then directed the wolf pack to surround the tiger in the middle.
Soon, the tiger and wolf pack fought together; the tiger used its advantage of great size and strength to send a wolf flying with one palm slap, while the wolf pack relied on their numerical advantage to make it hard for the tiger to cover all directions with left pounces and right bites.
“Sis, they’re fighting.” Lin Nan had been shifted back to Lin Xin’s arms, watching the tangled tiger and wolves, and shared softly with his sister.
“Mm, they’re fighting,” Lin Xin looked at Lin Nan worriedly, “Is Nan Nan scared?”
Lin Nan shook his head, “There are too many big dogs, Big Cat got bitten lots.”
Lin Xin: “······”
Fine, kids who haven’t seen wolves and tigers really can’t be dealt with.
