Chapter 4

"Junran, this time you have to help your brother out."

Li Yifeng spoke with a pained expression, and his look made Xu Junran feel as if he would start crying if he didn’t help him immediately.

Xu Junran was slightly taken aback and looked at Li Yifeng in surprise, "Big Brother Hu, what’s wrong?"

As they talked, they had already arrived at the courtyard of the Wude County Committee. Xu Junran was to report to the committee the next day. According to Li Yifeng, if Xu Junran didn’t stay at his place tonight, he would be kicked out of his home by his father and grandmother and end up on the streets.

Li Yifeng explained with a bitter smile, "I was just buying a cake, but I got so caught up in helping you fight that I gave the money back to the others. I..."

Before he could finish, a clear and crisp voice rang out, "Big Tiger, where’s my white rabbit candy?"

Li Yifeng’s face fell, and he started making faces at Xu Junran.

Xu Junran turned around and saw a beautifully delicate little girl standing in front of them. She was about ten or eleven years old, with large, bright eyes like the morning star in the dark night. She wore a white dress, not particularly expensive but very clean. The little girl was incredibly cute, with a small cherry mouth, pink lips, and a slight, charming smile. Her tiny nose was slightly upturned, giving her a playful look that matched her serene demeanor, making her look like a beautiful little doll.

"Big Tiger, where’s my white rabbit candy?" The little doll looked at Xu Junran in surprise but didn’t speak. Instead, she approached Li Yifeng, who was frowning, and asked with a clear voice.

Xu Junran was taken aback. He saw Li Yifeng squat down and speak in a gentle, almost eerie tone, "Duo Duo, Big Brother Tiger has something to do. Can I buy you the white rabbit candy tomorrow?"

"Duo Duo?" Xu Junran looked at the little doll with a very surprised expression.

The little girl named Duo Duo, upon hearing that her white rabbit candy was gone, immediately pouted, her big eyes brimming with tears, as if they were about to spill over at any moment.

Li Yifeng was shocked and immediately started to comfort and flatter the little doll, willing to do anything to make her happy.

While soothing the little girl, he subtly signaled Xu Junran to help him out.

"Yan Duo Duo?" An image flashed through Xu Junran’s mind: several decades later, Li Yifeng was being dragged by the ear by Yan Duo Duo, who was shouting, "Let go, wife! Let go, wife!"

So, this couple had been like this since they were young.

Xu Junran shook his head with a smile and composed his expression, showing his most pleasant smile. He walked up to Yan Duo Duo, who was still twisting Li Yifeng’s chest, and said, "Little Duo Duo, who is Secretary Yan Wangsong to you?"

Yan Duo Duo stopped her "punishment" and looked up at Xu Junran. After a moment, she blinked her beautiful big eyes and said with a smile, "Hmm, you look familiar. Does Duo Duo know you?"

Xu Junran felt helpless. It seemed that Aunt Duo Duo’s cunning nature had been there since she was young. In his previous life, he had been no stranger to being teased by this aunt. At that time, Li Yifeng was already the deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of Wude County, and Xu Junran had practically grown up at Aunt Duo Duo’s house, often being teased by the beautiful aunt. Since they were only two years apart, she was more like a friend than an elder.

"I visited your house a few years ago," Xu Junran said sincerely to Yan Duo Duo. He wasn’t lying; before college, Xu Junran had indeed visited the Yan family several times with his teacher, when Yan Duo Duo was only five or six years old, always pestering Xu Junran to teach her Tang poems and nursery rhymes.

Yan Duo Duo tugged at Li Yifeng’s sleeve with her small, white hand, "Big Tiger, is what he said true?"

Li Yifeng nodded quickly, "It’s true, it’s true. He’s Junran, the big brother who taught you Tang poems."

"Ah! It’s Brother Junran!" The little doll exclaimed and pounced into Xu Junran’s arms.

Feeling a bit awkward, Xu Junran held his future aunt, now his little sister, and said helplessly after a moment, "Duo Duo, is your grandfather at home?"

Yan Duo Duo shook her head and wriggled out of Xu Junran’s arms with a smile, "Grandpa is at home, playing chess with Grandpa Long. Brother Junran, I’ll take you there."

Li Yifeng’s face changed, but Xu Junran smiled.

For the Xu Junran of his previous life, there were two people he respected the most: his adoptive father and his adoptive father’s teacher, Mr. Yin Yue.

Mr. Yin Yue’s surname was Long, and his pen name was Yin Yue. He never told anyone his real name, and when asked, he would say he had forgotten. Over time, the locals assumed his name was Long Yin Yue. The old man was once a famous Sinology master in the capital, teaching at Jinghua Normal University. During the turmoil, he was sent to Wude County. When his adoptive father’s parents died, the people of Lijia Town adopted him but couldn’t teach him. It was Mr. Long Yin Yue who took on the responsibility of educating his adoptive father. Without this teacher, his adoptive father might not have been able to get into Jinghua University. In his previous life, Xu Junran had also learned a lot from this learned old man.

Yan Wangsong, Yan Duo Duo’s grandfather, was the most respected person in Wude County.

Yan Wangsong was already sixty-one years old. According to the newly issued regulations for the use of cadres, he should have retired, but due to the special circumstances in Wude County, the city had to ask him to stay on to stabilize the situation.

This old secretary led his vanguard company into Wude County during the liberation, and from then on, he was deeply connected to this land. Over the forty years, through various movements and changes, he had been like a stabilizing force for Wude County. Xu Junran knew that when the rebels wanted to criticize and struggle against the intellectuals sent to Wude County, Old Secretary Yan had blocked the entrance to the county committee with a gun and shouted, "Whoever dares to touch these intellectuals today, ask my gun first!"

The killing aura from his years of military service was not something those despicable people could resist.

Thus, none of the so-called "capitalist roaders" sent to Wude County died at the hands of the rebels.

If the old man hadn’t passed away so early, Li Yifeng’s career might have gone further. As the grandson-in-law of Old Secretary Yan, those who had been helped by the old man held high positions in Xu Junran’s previous life, but because the old man died too early, these connections gradually faded.

In this life, the first thing Xu Junran had to do was to completely change Yan Wangsong’s fate!

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