At eleven o'clock at noon, Vivian left L City by train and arrived back home in Zhutang Town by four o'clock in the afternoon.
She wanted to surprise her mom and dad, so she didn't tell them in advance.
Back in town, looking at the familiar place, Vivian was in a happy mood, even sniffing the air of her hometown felt permeated with sweet fragrance.
Carrying her bag, she walked from the town to the remote village, and from a distance, she saw her foster mother, Anika, carrying a basket of vegetables, standing in front of the pigpen enclosure, feeding the pigs.
Seeing this familiar scene, Vivian couldn't help but jog over and tiptoe behind Anika, shouting, "Mom!"
She called out, and Anika was so startled that the basket of vegetables she had placed on the piggy bank table fell into the pigpen.
Looking back, she realized that the person standing behind her was Vivian.
Anika was instantly happy, "Aiya, daughter, it's really you? How come you're back? Why didn’t you tell me, so that I can ride my bike to pick you up?"
"Hahahaha, Mom, you don't need to pick me up, it is close."
Vivian hugged Anika, "Mom, I miss you so much, do you and Dad miss me?"
Anika smiled amiably and nodded, "Yes, yes. Your father is always talking about you."
Anika let go of Vivian and took her hand, looking her up and down, "It's only been two or three months since we've seen each other, how come you've lost so much weight?"
She reached out and poked Vivian's forehead, "Why didn’t you even let me know you would come back? I could cook you meat. Now that you're back, I have not had the food ready."
Saying that, Anika called out to the yard, "Lincoln? Lincoln? Come out and take a look, our daughter is back."
"What? Our daughter is back?"
When Lincoln heard Anika's voice, he immediately walked out from the courtyard, and then saw that Vivian had really returned.
In a moment, his face covered with vicissitudes suddenly overflowed with smiles, "My daughter is back, I miss you so much."
"Dad? How are you?"
Vivian walked up to Lincoln and gave him a hug.
Instead, Anika remembered the basket of vegetables that had fallen into the pigpen and turned back to look into the pen, where the pigs were nibbling on the basket.
"Get the hell out of the way."
She opened the door to the pigpen, growled at the pigs, picked up her basket of vegetables, and turned to walk out of the pigpen.
Walking up to Vivian, she shook the bamboo-woven vegetable basket that had been chewed off, and snapped, "Look at this, this is a new vegetable basket."
Anika reached out and slapped Vivian on her ass, "You caused this."
"Hey, hey, hey, Mom, that hurts."
Vivian covered her buttocks and feigned pain.
This made Anika anxious, "It hurts? I didn't slap you hard."
"Haha, just kidding."
Vivian grinned and was in a super good mood as she wrapped her arms around the two men and walked into the courtyard.
Sitting in the small courtyard, Vivian and Lincoln sat together and chatted, while Anika went to the fridge and rummaged out a chicken and was ready to cook it for Vivian.
After chatting for a while, Vivian glanced at the vegetable basket that had been chewed through one of its edges, so she asked Lincoln, "Dad, this is the vegetable basket my master gave you, right?"
"Yeah, your master just sent it over the day before yesterday."
"I haven't seen my master in a while, so I'll take the basket over and have him fix it, and have him come over to our house for dinner."
She looked at the bottle and couldn't help but smack her lips, "Tsk tsk ...... what a nice bottle of wine, no one to drink it with me, so I have to have it alone."
Houghton glanced at it and saw the bottle of wine that Vivian was holding, and he immediately felt that the fishing rod in his hand could be given up.
Immediately, he dropped his rod and reached for the wine.
Vivian was quick and moved her hand back, avoiding Houghton's hand.
Houghton raised his eyebrows and gave Vivian a look, his face was filled with a smile, and then with a front flip, he leaped directly behind Vivian to grab the wine.
Vivian was quick and she turned around to avoid him.
"You damned girl, do you know that I am an old man? Didn't your teacher teach you to respect the old and love the young?"
"Master, you're so right. I'm still a child, how can you bully me?"
"Then you give me the wine!"
"No!"
Vivian put the bottle of wine behind her back, made a face towards Houghton and smiled playfully.
Houghton wrinkled his eyebrows, instantly struck a punching, Vivian immediately collected her smile, turned slightly side, her right elbow towards Houghton's chest.
He raised his hands to block, kicked his legs, and attacked her legs.
Vivian did a backflip to avoid his move, and another overhead side kick, kicking straight towards Houghton's head, yet Houghton watched her but didn't move.
Seeing that the kick was about to hit, but he held her ankle with his bare hand, easily deflecting the force of that kick.
He held Vivian's ankle and yanked it backwards, Vivian was caught off guard and her body plunged forward in a split.
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