Seeing her mother crying very sadly, Xiao Niannian took the initiative to get down from Mrs. Liu's arms, walked to her mother, and touched her mother's big hand with her soft little hands.
"Mom, be good, mother, don't cry. If mother misses her father, we will go see him later. If someone bullies mother, Nian Nian will definitely teach her a lesson!"
Listening to her daughter's comforting voice, the sadness in Li Rulan's heart faded a little.
She knelt down and picked up her daughter, smelling the milky scent of her daughter. She suddenly remembered that when she was a child, her father held her like this and protected her carefully.
Although there was some disagreement between her and her father when she grew up, her father has always been silently loving and protecting her in his own way.
Thinking of everything she had with her father, Li Rulan's nose felt a little sour again.
She even choked up and expressed her doubts to Mrs. Qin: "But, since my father cares about me so much, why did he write such a decisive letter of divorce for me in the first place?"
"What is the divorce letter?" Mrs. Liu also came over, with a confused expression on her face, "Why have I never heard of it?"
"Ouch!" At this moment, Mrs. Zhang held her nose and cried out in pain, "Ouch! It really hurts me to death!"
"Ru Lan, my nose suddenly hurts so much. Your child hit me too hard and hit me so badly. We can't drag it like this anymore. Let's go back quickly."
"Oh! Who do I think this is? Isn't this the mistress of the Li family? How can she be so injured and still show her face outside, and aren't she afraid of making others laugh?"
At this moment, several women came from a distance.
Li Rulan's back was to those women, but she remembered the woman's voice very clearly. She was Mrs. Su's wife next door to her house.
Mrs. Su's wife wanted to take her in at home back then, but she failed to live up to her kindness and never came to thank her for so many years.
She turned around and looked at the women walking towards her.
The leading woman is none other than Guan, the head of the Su family.
Guan is in his fifties and already has wrinkles on his face.
She was dressed plainly but elegantly, and she was accompanied by two young women, who were her two daughters-in-law.
The three of them, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, went to the street to look at the shops. Mrs. Guan thought that the journey was not far, so she proposed to walk back home, and then she met Mrs. Zhang and the others.
The moment she saw Li Rulan, Guan's eyes widened and she stood there in disbelief.
Li Rulan bowed to Guan Yingying, her eyes filled with tears again.
"Ru Lan has met Aunt Guan. Aunt Guan is fine."
This greeting awakened Mrs. Guan, who hurriedly walked over, forgetting her usual matronly demeanor.
Walking up to Li Rulan, she touched Li Rulan's moist face in disbelief, and her eyes couldn't help but turn red.
"Ru Lan, it's really you. You're not dead. You're still alive. It's great!"
Guan said, using a handkerchief to gently wipe away the tears that were about to fall, and couldn't help but scolded: "But after so many years, why don't you write a letter to say you are safe, which makes us all think you are safe?"
The fragrance has faded away, and I have been feeling sad for a long time, especially Ah Yan..."
"Aunt Guan." Li Rulan knew what Guan was going to say next, so she quickly interrupted her next words, "I am very good now, I have a husband who loves me and I have children who respect me.
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As she spoke, she pushed little Niannian forward, "This is my daughter Niannian. Come on, Niannian, please say hello to Grandma Guan."
"Hello, Grandma Guan." Xiao Niannian bowed in a decent manner, charming Mrs. Liu's heart again.
"Ah? Oh, okay, okay, this child is so good." Guan looked at Xiao Niannian thoughtfully and said, "Yes, it's been so many years."
Little Niannian didn't know why, but she saw regret and reluctance in Aunt Guan's eyes.
There were many people gathered here, and there was a lot of movement.
In addition, the eight-carrying sedan chair was really eye-catching, and many people gathered around curiously to see what happened.
When they saw that the person coming was Li Rulan, they were all surprised.
Seeing that there were more and more people here, and seeing that Li Rulan had no intention of going back, Zhang proposed to go back first.
"Ru Lan, maybe the doctor is already waiting for me at the house. I'm still injured. I don't think it's good if you let me, an injured person like me, wait for you to reminisce with others, right?
No, I'd better go back first and let the doctor treat my wound. How about I come out to greet you when you come back?"
Li Rulan looked at Zhang, with a hint of grievance in her expression, but her eyes were cold.
"Isn't it bad for my sister-in-law to leave in a hurry now? Why don't you explain what happened back then in front of so many people? After all, I will go back to my house often in the future. If I don't clarify it, I'm afraid it won't be good for us.
Very good.”
"Yes, Mrs. Li." Mrs. Liu also looked at Mrs. Zhang coldly, "Back then, you said that Rulan's affair with her foreign husband was a disgrace to the family, so you kicked her out of the house. Why are you picking her up now?
Go back? Why don’t you explain what’s going on here?”
The weather was cold, but beads of sweat broke out on Zhang's forehead.
She didn't expect to meet Yang's sister-in-law when she passed by today, nor did she expect that so many people would come to watch the fun.
Now Li Shoude wants to please Li Rulan and asks her to invite Li Rulan back today. She must not slander Li Rulan again in front of everyone. If Li Rulan gets angry and leaves, she will not be able to invite him back.
It's difficult.
But she would never be able to admit that she and her family deliberately harmed Li Rulan.
Li Rulan looked at Zhang's anxious look and sneered secretly in her heart.
This is why she asked the Li family to prepare an eight-carry sedan, just to attract the attention of the neighbors.
She wants to make things bigger, as big as possible.
She just wanted Mrs. Zhang to personally clarify what happened back then for her in front of everyone.
Zhang wiped the sweat from her forehead and smiled awkwardly.
"In that case, let me explain it to everyone. In fact, I have long found out that Ru Lan's affair with someone back then was just a misunderstanding, and I have always wanted to make up for my mistakes back then. But I couldn't find Ru Lan, so I couldn't find Ru Lan.
I can't ask her for forgiveness. Fortunately, two days ago, my husband met Ru Lan on the street, and he specially ordered me to use an eight-carriage sedan to invite Ru Lan back, hoping that Ru Lan would forgive me for my recklessness. Please also
Neighbors, please don't mention what happened back then in the future, it will make Ru Lan sad."
Zhang's words were extremely clever. She described herself as a good sister-in-law who corrected her mistakes and was very guilty. She did not mention how much she went too far back then.
She emphatically said that she wanted to make up for Li Rulan, and she also said that she had invited the Eight-carriage sedan chair on her own initiative, which made some people who didn't know the truth really think that she had just misunderstood Li Rulan back then and was here to ask for forgiveness.
Only Li Rulan knew that Zhang was just acting.
But she didn't want to worry too much about it at this time.
Li Shoude and Zhang are now in charge of the Li family, so she can't break up with each other so quickly.
Her main purpose today is to clarify her own charges first, and she will settle other accounts slowly after gaining the trust of Li Shoude and others.
From now on, she will definitely collect those debts one by one. This chapter has been completed!