Although the old man who had raised Li Mengnan for twenty years was a little strict when teaching tricks, he sincerely raised him as his own grandson. Although he lived a poor life, he did not suffer much.
Only when you have gained something, you will feel unbearable pain when you lose it. Li Mengnan can't even remember anything about his biological parents. It would be too hypocritical to say that he hates them.
If he were a wealthy family like the Ding family, he might be a little psychologically unbalanced, but looking at the shabby yard in front of him with grass growing on the roof, Li Mengnan felt that he was abducted just to enjoy himself, and he couldn't say he hated it.
It has to be Minnie Xiao Baoer.
Li Mengnan picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp. This was to put an end to the unbearable past, not only for himself, but also to relieve the guilt in Xiao Hui's heart for nearly twenty years.
Knot.
Putting down the tea cup, the gloomy look on Xiao Hui's face disappeared, and she seemed to be ten years younger.
Xiao Baoer also joined in the fun and toasted Li Mengnan with a glass of wine, took his arm and said coquettishly: "Now you are my brother, you have to protect me if anything happens in the future!"
Minnie just ate her food and wanted to avoid this opening, but she was still called out by the excited Xiao Hui.
"Nier, it's a happy day for your brother to come back today... Come on, give your brother a toast too!"
Minnie knew she couldn't escape. She really wanted to overturn the table on the spot - couldn't there be an outsider? Are you two so happy? He is your son, Bao'er's brother, and he has half a dime to do with me.
!Let me toast him? What to say? Thank him for taking my virginity?
However, Minnie still took a deep breath and suppressed the angry impulse in her heart. Her biological mother abandoned her husband and son and ran away with others when she was three years old. It was Xiao Hui who beat her to the ground.
Even though she is just a stepmother, in her heart she is closer than her biological mother.
Minnie bravely poured a glass of beer for Li Mengnan and raised her own glass in the distance without saying anything. Anyway, it was considered a formal tribute.
Li Mengnan knew that Minnie was still worried about the incident at the KTV, so he didn't care about her rude perfunctory and drank a full glass of wine.
No matter what the purpose, those who care about chastity are good girls. If Minnie could call him brother and sister without any grudge, he would look down on Minnie.
"Brother, I heard that you used to live in a very remote rural area. You must have had a hard time these years, right? I saw it on TV. It was said that the children there didn't even have shoes and had to walk barefoot for more than ten years.
You have to go to Lishan Road to go to school, and you can only eat steamed buns and pickled vegetables for lunch. When you go home, you have to help your family take care of their children and farm..."
Unlike Minnie, Xiao Baoer sat almost close to Li Mengnan, constantly adding food to Li Mengnan's bowl, curiously asking about Li Mengnan's experiences over the years, and as he talked, he began to fall into his own subjective imagination, and tears began to roll in his eyes.
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"Don't, don't cry... You said it's a poor area bordering old and young people in the southwest. I'm in the northeast, and life is not that miserable."
This seems to be Yang Bailao's rhythm...Li Mengnan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly wiped the tears of this emotional little girl.
In fact, except for the dark past when he was forced by an old man to learn magic tricks, Li Mengnan's childhood was quite happy.
The village is next to a vast pasture, where you can eat cheese, beef and jerky until you vomit. When you have nothing to do, you can ride a horse for a lap. When you are playing in the wild, you steal the herdsman's shotgun and shoot a lone wolf on the grassland. Of course, you will inevitably be beaten afterwards.
The adults were scolded and the spoils of war were confiscated.
Thinking about it now, although the life there was not as colorful as in a big city, the simple and innocent trust between people still made him miss it.
Li Mengnan saw that his mother Xiao Hui seemed to be very curious about his upbringing, so he picked out a few interesting childhood stories that were quite impressive and brought them to the dinner table. Of course, he skipped those that were too thrilling and inappropriate for children, which made Xiao Hui laugh.
He and Xiao Baoer laughed again and again, and even Minnie, who was trying to keep a straight face, couldn't help but spray the rice several times, choking and making her face turn red.
What Xiao Hui was most afraid of hearing was that her children would suffer. After hearing Li Mengnan's description of her growing up experience, she felt relieved and said with a smile: "Look, Mr. Li treats you well. When you go back to celebrate the New Year, give him more
Let’s light some paper and let our whole family worship..."
"Well, I have brought the ashes, and now they are placed under the bed in the dormitory." Li Mengnan expressed his approval of Xiao Hui's proposal.
"You kid! Is the dormitory a place to put ashes? I'm not afraid of scaring your roommates." Xiao Hui glared and scolded, "Bring the old man's ashes over later, set up a mourning hall at home, and give it to the old man when you have money.
Buy a cemetery and bury them."
Li Mengnan's true expression of love has made her completely into the role of a mother, without any unnaturalness, just like a real mother and son who have been together day and night for more than ten years.
Li Mengnan smiled nonchalantly: "It's okay. The ashes are in cans of milk powder. Even if they are seen, they won't scare those three animals... As long as they don't drink it with milk powder."
If Wu Ansu had been present, he would probably have vomited after hearing this. Fortunately, Xiao Hui and others did not have such a strange experience as Wu Ansu, so they took it as a joke and said nothing more.
Just as the family was enjoying themselves, several dogs barked suddenly in the alley outside the courtyard.
The expressions of the mother and daughter of the Xiao family suddenly changed. Minnie and Xiao Baoer stood up almost at the same time and planned to lock the door, but in the end they were still a step too late. A German shepherd dog that was almost half a person's height squeezed open the door and ran in.
The German shepherd was almost face to face with Xiao Baoer, who was so frightened that Xiao Baoer's face turned pale, and she almost sat down on the ground with her legs weak. Minnie was still protecting her behind her with quick hands and eyes, but her pretty face was sometimes green and sometimes white, and she was obviously just holding on.
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"Dahei, come here!"
With a sharp sound that sounded like someone scratching the frosted glass, a middle-aged woman with a gourd-shaped figure walked into the courtyard from outside carrying a dog leash.
It’s not that this woman has a good figure. You must know that there are actually many types of gourd-shaped figures. The gourd with elixirs like Taishang Laojun is naturally the best, and the one like Minnie is a typical example of this.
The gourd figure.
And the woman in front of me...is one of those gourds that are cut in half to make gourds.
(Note: A ladle was an object used in rural areas to ladle water from water tanks in the past. Now it is basically replaced by a plastic spoon. I guess some people born in the 1980s have seen it, but not many people born in the 1990s have seen it.)
The calm "chassis" paired with the fat white chiffon skirt and a head of instant noodle rolls makes her look like a charterer in the movie "Kung Fu".
Li Mengnan found it strange that bringing dogs to visit could only be seen in rural areas...but that was mostly done at night to build up courage.
Looking at the unnatural expressions on the Xiao family's mother and daughter, one could tell that an evil visitor was coming to the door. However, Li Mengnan didn't know the identity of the visitor and his relationship with the Xiao family's mother and daughter, so he couldn't get involved. He just sat quietly at the table.