Ch4 - What is Rice Soup?

After a day’s rest, Mu Yan’s spirit improved, and his wounds weren’t as painful as he just wake up yesterday. He was still lying on the bed, resting, but couldn’t get used of doing nothing at all.

He didn’t like being lazy! 

Mu Yan sat up and looked at the room he was in. It was the first time he carefully looked at the unfamiliar environment.

Although he woke up yesterday, he didn’t stay awake for a long time. His attention was focused on the thick congee and the people who saved him, not the surrounding.

Everything here was unfamiliar, from the room, the bed, the furniture. But honestly, this room was so much better than where he used to live. 

The bed was soft and comfortable, the room was bigger and cleaner than his own room, and it was very warm to live in. The family who saved him should be a wealthy family. 

A rich family like this should have more housework to do. He couldn’t lie down like this anymore. He must do more work to repay their life-saving grace.

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As for going home…

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“Oh, you’re awake.” When Lin Jiayu came in with a soup made of nutritional powder, Mu Yan was sitting on the bed in a daze.

Being drawn back from his wandering thoughts, Mu Yan said cautiously, “Aunt Lin, I can do a lot of work and I can help you with anything.”

Aunt Lin’s family saved him, so he couldn’t just leave. At least, during the time he found his way home, he must help Aunt Lin with some housework, which was a way of expressing his gratitude.

“No, you are still very weak and need a good rest.” Lin Jiayu said, not taking his words to heart.

This boy appeared like a ten-year-old child. Such a minor would not be employed anywhere in the Federation, even on a poor planet. 

Lin Jiayu handed the soup in her hand to Mu Yan, Mu Yan looked at the familiar thick congee and hesitated.

Although the family looked rich, Aunt Lin and Yingying were both ill, and they must have spent a lot of money for medicines. 

He couldn’t eat so many good things from others for free, especially when they had saved him. But now he couldn’t even do anything in return, making him very uneasy.

“Aunt Lin, I can’t eat this anymore, just give me some rice soup.” Mu Yan said weakly. 

“Rice soup?” Lin Jiayu was a little puzzled when she heard that. “What is rice soup?”

Mu Yan’s eyes flashed with confusion when he heard the words, but still explained it, “It’s just rice that boiled into soup, and no need to put a lot of rice.”

“Is rice a food? We don’t have it here, only nutritional powder.” Lin Jiayu had never heard of rice before. 

Aren’t the things we eat only nutritional powder, nutrient solution, and Bigu Pill? 

The planet they lived on was relatively poor and backward, and not many people could buy Bigu Pill, so they could only eat the soup made of this tasteless nutritional powder. But, she had really never heard of rice…

“Oh, I’m sorry.” Mu Yan thought that the other party ran out of rice, and hurriedly apologized for his willful request.

“It’s okay, eat this first, it’s good for your health.”

Mu Yan held the nutrient soup and thought to himself that he must do anything he could do to repay the kind Aunt Lin and her family.   

Although the time to go home would be delayed a bit, he also knew that even if he rushed home, he would face the same thing as when he returned late, and even if he really returned late, his family probably wouldn’t worry about him.

Sigh, alas.

First, he needed to recuperate well here, then repay these kind people with helping in any way possible. About what would happen when he went home, so be it. Mu Yan comforted himself silently.

At this time, Mu Yan probably didn’t know that he would never be able to return to that cold home.