The Leisure Life Of The Village Doctor - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Bad Dream
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Xu Ling was so startled that she could only stare at him with her eyes wide open.

When they got back in the living room, Yang Guang was afraid of scaring her so he quickly let her go. “Don’t misunderstand, I was afraid Xiaolian would hear us.”

“Huh? Why?” Xu Ling’s eyes looked puzzled as she asked curiously.

“I thought I had offended her just now, so I wanted to apologize to her. But before I could go in, you came out,” Yang Guang explained.

“Oh? Then just go apologize; why are you so nervous?” Xu Ling looked at him suspiciously.

“Uh, but then I found that she didn’t seem to be angry, so I thought I would just leave it.” Yang Guang smiled sheepishly.

“What did you do?” Xu Ling was very curious, and she wouldn’t drop the matter.

“Uh, nothing, nothing at all!” Yang Guang smiled nervously and waved his hand quickly. “Why don’t you go to bed now. I will go back to my room.”

After that, he left in a hurry, leaving behind a confused Xu Ling. She looked at his departing figure and muttered, “This dude…”

When he returned to his room, Yang Guang had lost any desire to cultivate, so he plopped himself on the bed instead.

Gradually, he drifted off to sleep without being aware of it, and thought he saw He Hua in his dream.

When he saw her, Yang Guang got very emotional.

After all, she was the first woman he had been intimate with. She was firmly chiseled in Yang Guang’s heart, and there was no way to erase her from it.

But He Hua, as in his dreams, was always smiling without saying a word. She just looked at him with such tenderness in her eyes.

Yang Guang wanted to go to her and grab hold of her hands, but he couldn’t get close to her no matter how hard he tried, and he didn’t know why.

After a very long time, he suddenly woke up and sat up in bed.

The sky was starting to brighten. It was just past 4:00 o’clock in the morning.

When he looked at the time, Yang Guang muttered to himself, “What’s going on? Could it be that something has happened to He Hua?”

When he thought of this possibility, he couldn’t sit still anymore.

But he had no number for He Hua, so he couldn’t get in touch with her.

And if he wanted to ask someone else for it, he had to wait until they woke up, at least.

So Yang Guang could only sit on his bed in a daze and wait until the sun came up.

When the smokes began to rise from the chimneys inside the village, Yang Guang went to Mrs. Niu’s door.

“Oh, it’s Yang Guang. What brings you here?”

Mrs. Niu, who was cooking in the kitchen, smiled when she saw Yang Guang.

“Mrs. Niu, do you have He Hua’s phone number?” Yang Guang asked.

“Yes, I do. You want to call her? Why?” Mrs. Niu gave him a serious look and asked curiously.

“Uh, it’s nothing major. I was just thinking about the last time she came to see me at the clinic and I don’t know if she’s feeling better now, so I thought I should follow up with her,” Yang Guang said.

Looking into his eyes carefully, Mrs. Niu was a little incredulous, She asked suspiciously, “She’s not in the village anymore. Why do you still care so much? You are not seriously having something to do with her, are you?”

Yang Guang smiled in resignation. “Mrs. Niu, don’t joke with me. Do you really think He Hua would fancy someone like me?”

After he said that, Mrs. Niu said something that almost knocked Yang Guang flat on his back. “That’s true enough!”

“…..”

Yang Guang was speechless, but Mrs. Niu chuckled. “I’m just teasing you! Wait here, I’ll find her number for you.”

“Well, okay, thank you.”

Yang Guang nodded and felt as if he could already hear the voice of He Hua in his ears. Suddenly, he was a little excited.

But he didn’t expect that when he dialed the number he’d gotten from Mrs. Niu, he found out that the phone had been shut off.

Now Yang Guang didn’t know what to do.

Standing where he was, he was unsure of what to do next.

Just as he was standing there in a daze, Sun Guoying happened to pass by and snorted. “What are you doing here?”

“Oh, it’s you?”

When he saw it was the village chief, Yang Guang wasn’t in the best of moods and greeted him with an eye roll. “What’s it to you?”

“You!”

Sun Guoying was now glaring angrily at him, but he didn’t dare to do anything else. So he resorted to pointing at him. “Yang Guang, no matter what, I am the village chief of Qingshan Village. Don’t you know how to respect your elders?”

“Respect?” Yang Guang snickered. “If it weren’t for you, He Hua wouldn’t have left the village, nor would she suddenly have lost contact. I’m telling you, if something happens to her, you and your idiot son will be hearing from me.”

These last few words were almost spat out through gritted teeth.

When Sun Guoying saw the fierce expression in his eyes, he took a couple of steps back in fright. “You, what are you saying? That you dare to kill me or something?”

“Do you want to find out?”

Yang Guang narrowed his eyes and took a step forward.

Sun Guoying was so startled, he took a sudden step backward. But then he tripped over a rock and sat down hard on the ground.

Yang Guang didn’t bother with him again and turned to go back home.

And Sun Guoying, looking at him leaving, exhaled long and deeply and wondered to himself, Since when did this kid become so mean?

Back home, Xu Ling was holding Yaya, who had just woken up, and Wu Xiaolian was already making breakfast.

But neither of them asked Yang Guang where he had been.

But Yang Guang stepped forward and said, “Xiaolian, I’m going to town today. I don’t have time for breakfast.”

“Ah? What’s the hurry? Surely, you can go after eating?” Wu Xiaolian asked.

Xu Ling added, “That is true. I have to go to town for a meeting today as well. Why don’t we go together?”

Upon hearing this, Yang Guang could only nod his head. “I guess so.”

No matter how anxious he was, he couldn’t very well tell them that he was going into town to find He Hua, so he had to wait for the time being.

After the breakfast was ready and after taking a few quick bites, he waited for Xu Ling to get ready before the two left the house.

Because there was no public transportation, Yang Guang proposed while they were walking, “Hey, when we get to town, let’s get two electric bikes.”

“Two? Wouldn’t one be enough?” Xu Ling asked.

“I will use one, and, since you are often going to town, you’ll need one as well.” Yang Guang smiled.

“Well, that is true.”

Xu Ling thought about it for a while and agreed that it was indeed too far to Hongqi Town. It took too much time to walk there every time, and there was really a need for transportation.

So she immediately said, “You can buy them, but I can’t take your money. Let’s pay separately!”

“That’s not necessary, do you think?” Yang Guang smiled. “You know I won’t miss it.”

Xu Ling looked at him. “I know you won’t, but a few thousand is not a small sum either. And if I accepted it, it would be as if I accepted a bribe.”

“Are you serious?”

Yang Guang was stunned for a moment, then added with a smile, “Aren’t we all one big happy family now?”

Xu Ling’s face was red-hot as she gave him a dirty look. “I am the secretary, and you are a villager. Who’s family with you?”

Yang Guang smiled. “As long as you live in my house, then I feel like we are one family.”

“That doesn’t count. At most, it’s just the relationship between landlord and tenant,” Xu Ling said.

Seeing her face flushed a rosy pink, Yang Guang thought that she looked more and more beautiful!

But just as he was about to continue teasing her, a loud rumbling noise came from the hillside. When the two looked up, they were shocked.

“Oh, no!”

Seeing rocks continuing to fall from the hillside, Yang Guang picked up Xu Ling without saying another word.