Chapter 2, Children

Li Jing Sheng hugged his younger brother for him to stop crying. As smart as he was, he saw that not only was his father different today, he also wasn't in a good condition. "JuanXin, father is not feeling well. He only came out to help us from the bad guy. You don't want him to be angry, do you?"

Li JuanXin repeatedly shook his head. It can be so scary when daddy gets angry.

In the small dimly lit thatched cottage, Li Jain was covered with a layer of dusty rags on his head. He lies weakly on the wooden bed. The two shabby square windows seem like they could fall at any time. The family looked so poor.

"Ge (older brother), do you think it was the new daddy that woke up yesterday?" Li JuanXin asked

Li Jing Sheng was surprised: "What do you mean by new daddy?"

Li JuanXin look innocently at his older brother; "Brother Xuan said that our prayer was answered and the old daddy remained asleep while the new daddy woke up."

"Don't listen to Jing Xuan nonsense."

Li Jing Xuan shook his head and argued: "It's not nonsense. New daddy woke up. The physician said that she was helpless against daddy's situation before. But after daddy passed out yesterday, she said he'll wake up after the fever subsided. Why is the situation suddenly not life threatening?"

Li Jing Sheng knew that his younger brother stupid argument has a point but he don't want them to gain too much hope before it shatter in their faces. They all want a father who will treat them well, it doesn't matter whether they're poor. There are other poor people in the village who live a happy life. "I'll go in and check Dad's situation."

"Ge, I want to go with you."

The wooden door left unlocked was pushed open from the outside. The three children came in one after the other. Jing Sheng stretched out his hand and touched Li Jain's forehead and whispered: "It's not hot anymore. You stay here and watch over daddy. I'll heat the flour paste that Rain Wen's mother gave us. Daddy might be hungry when he wakes up."

"I'll go help you, so it'll be quick." Jing Xuan said as his small hands were fondling his stomach.

"Foodie." Jing Sheng smiles and tease

Jing Xuan wasn't embarrassed that he was found out. "Food is not a bad thing."

The two boys went out. Juan Xin looked back at his dad lying on the bed and obediently sat on the small bench without a leg.

Hearing that food was coming, Li Jain's ear began to twist. He couldn't help but look forward to it. Li Jain had woken up a while ago, when he heard the children coming in, he pretended to be asleep. He secretly stole a glance at Juan Xin. He was a little beauty with bright blue eyes. If it wasn't for the dirt on his face and the dirty clothes, you'll be able to see his delicate features.

After taking a deep look at him, Li Jain notices the small blue energy flowing through him, it has a pattern that is similar to flowers.

This type of energy is the healing power that Li Jain was very familiar with, but his son's energy was more pure, and dense with some strange pattern mix within. Looks like he has some special bloodline. Li Jain didn't need a magic ball or special artifacts to see how much energy or strength a body has, he could tell by just looking at the inside of the body.

Maybe he was too focused on the boy. Juan Xin noticed his daddy looking at him and quickly went forward. "Daddy, you're awake."

"Yes, daddy's awake. Are you happy?" Li Jian smile

"I'm very happy." He smile

Li Jain hesitated for a bit and said: "Juan Xin, place your hands on daddy and close your eyes. Think, if you were a doctor, would you have saved daddy?"

People with healing power have to have the desire to save others before their power could work to its full potential. Especially those that are new and don't understand how the world works.

Having light spiritual root as a main root has its advantages and disadvantages. Once the power is immune, it can immediately heal any wound that appears on the owner's body and even internal wounds. But people with this ability found it difficult to learn attack skills, because it will affect the healing ability negatively.

Li Juan Xin didn't understand what his dad meant, but he still put his hands on his feet and thought, 'If I was a doctor would I save daddy? Of course I would. When daddy sees that I have healing power, maybe he'll would like me and treat my brothers well and won't think of us as useless anymore.'

Thinking this way, little Juan Xin felt like he was right. When daddy wasn't sick, he used to say they were of no use and were the one making his life harder. He also said he'll get rid of them.

The blue energy from Juan Xin's hands spread across Li Jain's body. Making his weak body more relaxed and comfortable. He gained some strength, when he noticed his little boy's body was getting weak, he told him to stop and pick him up.

"Are you okay?" Li Jain asked worriedly. He only wanted to see if the healing ability would work and didn't mean to make Juan Xin exhausted. Seems like this would be a lot of work, the boy physique is very weak.

There are ways to upgrade physiques but it requires some rare herbs. Li Jain wasn't sure if he'll be able to find them here. If it was in his world, things like this wouldn't be worth mentioning. Weak physique limits the amount of spiritual power one would be able to take in and effect the physical strength. In this situation, body tempering technique was the easiest solution. At this time, Li Jain didn't know that even the low level body tempering technique was expensive.

"I'm okay." Juan Xin didn't know what happened to him, but he didn't want his daddy to worry about him.

"Daddy, are you awake?"

The two brothers came and prone on the bed and put the bowl on the wooden box at the bed end. Li Jain's attention was once again focused on the bowl; he even forgot about the important matter that he was worried about.

Jing Xuan asked excitedly: "Daddy, now that you're awake, would you make lots of money so we can eat delicious food like the village people?"

Before Li Jain would answer, Jing Sheng interrupted: "Why do you always talk about food? Daddy, I can help you make money. I can dig wild vegetables so we can sell them in the town and make money. Once we have money, those villagers won't mock us anymore."

"What about me? What can I do?" Juan Xin didn't want to be left out and raise his hands

"You? You can stay at home and eat delicious food with me." Jing Xuan answered

"Hunh!" Juan Xin angrily turned his head away.

"Daddy, get up, let's eat. Tian Wen's mom brought this for us." Jing sheng gave his brother a dead-stare to stop talking and let their father eat.

The three children, one was an adorable chatterbox, the other was a loveable cutie, while the other one was mentally mature beyond his age. But they were all skinny and small with patchy clothes hung on them.

These three were triplets, and the other two set of twins were out working.

Li Jain listened attentively to their conversation and caught some key points. For example, they are being bullied by the villagers because they're poor and don't have enough to eat. This makes him more determined to make their lives better. When he put one spoon of the flour paste in his mouth he frowned and said in disgust: "This tastes very bad."

Jing Xuan quickly added: "I know right? It needs a little more sugar, but Tian When's family is also poor and can't afford it."

"Daddy, even if it doesn't taste good, you still have to eat. When you get better, we'll find ways to make money so you can eat better food." Jing Sheng comforted his father and helped him to eat more.