Peaceful Farm Life-Chapter 1054 - 1055: I Didn’t Lie to You

Su Yi Jing also didn’t speak, she just clung tightly to her father Xiao Changyi, not wanting to let him go.

Xiao Changyi, fighting back the heartache, gently patted Su Yi Jing’s little head, and soothed her with a particularly soft voice, "Dad is just going out for a bit, I’ll be back soon."

Su Yi Jing said nothing, only hugged Xiao Changyi even tighter, still shaking her little head in his arms, clearly not buying his words, afraid that Xiao Changyi didn’t want her anymore, that he would leave again.

"Look, your mom is still here, dad’s not lying to you," Xiao Changyi said in a good-natured tone.

Following the direction of Xiao Changyi’s pointing finger, Su Yi Jing looked over to see her mother An Jing still lying on the bed, looking like she wasn’t going anywhere. At first, she blinked blankly a few times, then slowly let go of Xiao Changyi, no longer clinging to him.

But as she lay back on the bed, one small hand firmly clutched at An Jing’s clothes.

It was as if, by holding onto one person, she could grasp both parents at the same time, to keep them from abandoning her.

An Jing and Xiao Changyi didn’t coddle her, and it was as if Su Yi Jing’s heart settled, she drifted back to sleep in a daze.

The atmosphere instantly returned to as if everything that had just happened was only an illusion.

But sadly, An Jing and Xiao Changyi were very much aware, not thinking of it as an illusion at all.

This was reality.

A reality that deeply pained their hearts.

Even though their relationship with the four children had been restored, it had left a lingering issue: their four children’s lack of a sense of security.

Indeed, because the children didn’t feel secure, lately, they always let the kids sleep with them, clutching at their clothes.

And they hoped by doing this, to cure the four children of this lingering problem, to make them once again feel safe with their parents.

"I’ll be back soon," Xiao Changyi said softly to An Jing, looking at the four children holding onto her clothes, then put on his coat and walked outside.

Watching Xiao Changyi go out, An Jing turned her gaze back, first looking at the hands of the four children clutching her clothes, then at the little ones’ clean, white faces, her heart twisting painfully.

When would the children, like before, profoundly trust her and her husband to protect them?

Meng Zhuqing stood at the door waiting, and upon seeing Xiao Changyi come out, he didn’t speak immediately, but waited until Xiao Changyi had closed the door before he reported in a low voice, "Gong Jue Chen has come with his belongings, saying he wants to stay here."

Xiao Changyi walked a bit further away from his room and asked in puzzlement, "Why would he suddenly come to stay here, in the middle of the night?"

Meng Zhuqing related truthfully, "My older brother brought him over and said someone sneaked into the General’s residence and released sleeping smoke in his room. Luckily, being a doctor, he is particularly sensitive to these things, and he called out for help from my sister-in-law as soon as he smelled the sleeping smoke, and no harm was done. But my sister-in-law saw a tall, black-clad figure running from his yard."

After pausing, Meng Zhuqing continued, "He has offended too many people, it’s unclear who wanted to knock him out and what they wanted to do to him, and finding the General’s residence unsafe, he wanted to stay here instead."

Xiao Changyi then asked, "Where is he now?"

"Not daring to let him stay here rashly, I had him wait in the front hall for the time being."

Hearing Meng Zhuqing’s words, Xiao Changyi strode towards the front hall, with Meng Zhuqing hurrying after him.

As soon as Xiao Changyi entered the front hall, Gong Jue Chen rushed at him, hugging Xiao Changyi’s legs and also ending up sitting on the ground with a plop.