Fights Break Sphere: I am not Xiao Yan

Chapter 2 Mother
"No, Dad! Listen to my explanation...Ah!"

"Xiao Yanzi climbed up by himself. I'm serious. You have to believe me—"

"Is that what I'm asking, huh?"

The strange cries mixed with the creepy sound of a spinning top echoed in the night sky, which was so desolate, chilling, quiet and deep.

pat.

Xiao Yan silently closed the door, locking this human tragedy out.

He was just a weak, helpless and pitiful spectator. It was naturally not his turn to be held accountable or punished by family rules.

Maybe he even needs to add an undercover identity?
"Being beaten like a top now is better than being pulled back halfway in the future. I'll be beaten for running away from home, for leaving without saying goodbye, and for becoming a mercenary..."

Brother, I'm doing this for your own good!

"Third Young Master."

Hearing the noise at the door, the maid came out from the inner room and bowed to him and greeted him.

"How is mother?"

"Madam slept for a while before and just woke up now..." The maid patted the towel on her arm, "She said she didn't want to sleep anymore, so I wiped her face."

Were you woken up by the screams?
Xiao Yan considered the feasibility of asking Xiao Zhan to cover his mouth before starting to beat him.

"Got it. Go ahead and do your thing first."

"Eh."

There is a thick curtain between the inner and outer rooms, and even the windows of the inner room are covered with a thick layer of cotton. They are only opened for ventilation during sunny noon hours, and are closed at other times.

"Yan'er?"

In the dim firelight, the woman lying on the bed was breathing slightly and even speaking was quite difficult. It sounded more like sighing than talking.

"Yeah." Xiao Yan walked to the table, touched the lid of the kettle with his fingers, and then poured a bowl of water.

"Did your second brother and his friends offend your father again?"

"Yeah, but it's Big Brother's fault."

Xiao Yan poured water between the two bowls repeatedly, with white steam rising from his head: "Does mother like eldest brother very much? She always scolds second brother."

"Ugh……"

The mother on the bed spoke in a tired and trembling voice, as if she had just remembered something: "Your eldest brother is a miserable man... You can't just side with your monkey-like second brother all day and ignore him."

The half-grown boy ran away with his brother in his arms, and caught up with the enemy's main force in the dense forest...

It was pouring rain, and the boy was playing with his brother in the water and mud. His brother was hungry, so he climbed a tree to catch birds and went to the ground to catch rabbits. He ate, drank, defecated, and urinated with a tube...

He accompanied her during the winter and holidays, and she slowly learned how to cook and sew clothes until her circumstances improved and she could afford to hire servants...

And that frail body, that long-abandoned practice...

The eldest son of the Xiao family, who is talked about by everyone, has taken on too much.

"Poor person? Then aren't you one, mother?" Xiao Yan blew the hot air from the water and took a sip.

"A miserable life? Mother is already contented enough. Closing my eyes early is one less burden..." Mother seemed to be nagging, talking about irrelevant things again, "At the beginning, mother never thought about what she would gain from this journey."

"All this way?"

"..."

The woman was silent for a while, not knowing which memory she was immersed in. Or maybe there were too many memories and she didn't know where to start.

Was it the injured boy who stood in front of her to save her life? Or was it the words "Yes, it must be her" when he hugged her tightly in front of his father.

Maybe there is also the "I am here, I am here..." in that chaotic bloody night

"Yeah, along the way."

"It's still early. Mother still has a long way to go. She still has a long way to go." Xiao Yan wiped his face and came to the bed with a bowl. "Would you like some water?"

"No, no need..."

"Give."

Before her mother could finish her words, the bowl of water was placed against her lips. After pausing for a while, she finally drank most of the bowl.

Xiao Yan glanced at her dry mouth and didn't say much.

The same conversation must have happened n times in this room, and the maid answered every question with "no thanks".

It’s like the reappearance of people and events from previous lives.

Let's pour some water later...

"You are injured." Even though she had been bedridden for a long time, the woman's perception was still so sharp. She only stretched out her hand to hold the bowl for a short while and she smelled something strange.

"It's nothing serious. I just scraped my skin when I was climbing the mountain. I didn't even bleed."

Xiao Yan adjusted the bandage on his hand. A few simple movements had loosened the edge a little.

You are lying.

The woman didn't say anything else, but she knew the truth.

That iconic smell... She had also used this medicine and had applied it on her husband countless times. Even when they met for the first time, Xiao Zhan had this smell on him.

Obviously, he was injured.

"Don't hold on too tightly to your training. You are still young. If you hurt yourself, it will be troublesome in the future."

"But my elder brother said that we should seize the time to practice and never waste it."

"This kid! What nonsense are you teaching every day? How can you practice like this at your age?!" The woman was obviously angry, but she seemed to be full of energy.

Anyway, I've already been blamed for a lot of things, so it doesn't matter if I put a few more on the blame list...

Xiao Yan continued to sell out his teammates and brothers without thinking: "But my eldest brother said that if I don't practice hard, I will have to go out and be a mercenary like him in the future... Well, I heard that I may not be able to come back for several years."

The room suddenly fell into deathly silence.

"Give Xiao Ding to mother and call him over."

Unprecedented clear words came out of the woman's mouth, each word emphasized: "Your father is the same."

Brother, you know me. I'm doing this for your own good.

Before Xiao Yan went out, he looked back at the bed.

He went to the desert to be a mercenary and never came back for several years. In the original novel, you probably didn't see your mother for the last time...

"Brother—Mom wants to talk to you!"

"what?"

A spinning top that had just stopped looked up and glanced over here.

"Ahem... I told mom." Xiao Yan suppressed his grief and sympathy, closed his eyes, and almost laughed out loud.

"You! Not, huh?!"

Xiao Ding's world collapsed.

The cute and sensible third brother finally became like his second brother.

The young man in white who had been jumping up and down and crying for his parents only called for his father now. He rushed forward and hugged Xiao Zhan's legs and began to beg for help: "Dad, my dear dad! Think of a way to save my life!"

“God helps those who help themselves.”

Xiao Zhan put his hands behind his back and looked up at the moon: "May the best come to you."

Don't involve your dad in this deadly business. You bastard pretends to be a decent human being all day long, but you're just thinking about cheating your dad!

"Dad, Mom said there's still you."

“No… ah!?”

Patriarch Xiao pointed at the moon and then at himself. He was dragged into the study of the moon? No way...

"Cough cough."

As if he was aware that the spinning top on his leg was watching him, Xiao Zhan lifted his belt and said proudly, "Okay! Just tell the head of the family that he knows."

"Eh!"

Xiao Yan turned his head towards the inner room: "Mom - Dad said he is the boss!"

"What are you talking about, you bastard?!"

The Xiao family compound was very lively that night, and even became the research object of the other two families.

What conspiracy is Xiao Zhan planning?
　I don't know the name of the old mother. She only appears in one chapter, so I won't mention her name (°ー°〃)
　　10.6 Update——

　　New readers may not know what this is, but it doesn’t matter, you will know it after reading the rest of the article (if you can read the rest of the article)——

　　The original novel never explicitly states why Xiao Yan gave up his time traveler mentality and completely integrated into the world of Doupo (just because his family was awesome, nothing more to say), so I’ll try to fill in the blanks here (one of the core ideas of this book is the extension of the original novel…)
　　Xiao Zhan, there is a lot of centrifugal force in the clan, there is fierce competition for the right to speak, and there are a lot of internal and external troubles, but he can still joke and play like a brother in front of his son and never puts any pressure on his small family.

　　The two older brothers, although they don’t say it, are very concerned about their father and family (they climb on the roof to listen, and have their own opinions and plans)
　　The mother is seriously ill and is usually accompanied by Xiao Yan. She is gentle, frugal, calm and sensitive. She comes from an ordinary family, pays attention to every detail of her family members, pays attention to their feelings, is never stingy in showing care, and never lets anyone be left out.

　　At the same time, the protagonist is given a background character - strong (even to his mother, just more subtle), stubborn, and really not a good guy (bushi), a person who traveled through time but integrated into this family.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)