After escaping from famine, the evil stepmother was pampered by the villain Zaizai Tuan

Li Yuanzhi was in a happy mood just after being rescued.

He didn't think much about the reason for Jiang Xiaohua's change in expression, and repeated with a smile:

"I said, I thought I was going to spend the night here tonight, but I didn't expect someone would come looking for me."

"Didn't expect that?" Jiang Xiaohua looked at Li Yuanzhi with dangerous eyes.

She asked coldly, "You are a living person who has not come home for a long time. If I don't come here, I will either be a cold-blooded and ruthless person, or an ignorant fool."

"I just don't know which of the above people I am in Mr. Li's mind?"

Li Yuanzhi was stunned, and the smile disappeared from his face.

He avoided Jiang Xiaohua's gaze for the first time and said, "You are neither cold-blooded nor a fool."

Jiang Xiaohua did not expose it, but stared at Li Yuanzhi and said, "I have been looking for you all the way, and I have been around here many times."

"But I never heard your cry for help. If I hadn't been looking for you and you heard me, you wouldn't have called my name for help, right?"

Li Yuanzhi smiled bitterly, still trying to hide it, "I thought I could climb up."

Jiang Xiaohua exposed him directly, "Because you didn't think I would come to you. To be precise, you didn't place your hope on anyone at all."

Li Yuanzhi was silent.

After a while, he raised his head and smiled calmly, "Jiang Xiaohua, even if we are close relatives of flesh and blood, everyone has his own life. Even if you don't come to save me today, I can't blame you. This is my own life." thing."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was only a bang.

Li Yuanzhi was hit in the chest by Jiang Xiaohua's knee and fell backward to the ground.

His eyes turned black in pain, and it took him a long time to catch his breath.

"Jiang Xiaohua, what are you doing!"

Jiang Xiaohua knelt down on Li Yuanzhi to suppress him, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Since you joined my family, Jiang Xiaohua, you have gone through so much with me and the four children! Can I ignore you? Can the children not care about your life or death?"

"They asked me to come out to look for you. Even Aunt Zhou and Uncle Heiwa are worried about you!"

The calm shell on Li Yuanzhi's face disappeared.

His eyes were shocked and complicated at first, and then he looked at Jiang Xiaohua blankly.

Jiang Xiaohua continued, "Li Yuanzhi, I don't care what you have experienced in the past or what you are used to."

"If you stay here with me, you have to follow my rules."

"What rules?" Li Yuanzhi lay there, his pupils filled with the reflection of Jiang Xiaohua.

Jiang Xiaohua said fiercely, "When it hurts, you should cry out. When you are dissatisfied, you should speak out. When you need help, you should know how to rely on the people around you."

There was a faint smile in Li Yuanzhi's eyes, "Hey, are you asking for too much?"

Jiang Xiaohua stood up and let him go, patting the non-existent dust on her hands, "Guys like you who have already joined a gang and still want to be a lone ranger are so annoying, right?"

Li Yuanzhi stood up and sighed.

"I picked up too little firewood. I'm afraid it won't be enough to burn the whole night."

Jiang Xiaohua raised her eyebrows dangerously, "Li Yuanzhi, are you changing the subject?"

In order not to be beaten a second time, Li Yuanzhi waved his hands quickly, "No, no."

"I just suddenly saw this pile of firewood and thought about our livelihood."

Jiang Xiaohua was too lazy to argue with him any more, so she turned around and left, "Take the firewood and go back. We will have free porridge tonight. You don't have to cook yourself. The firewood is enough."

Li Yuanzhi picked up the bundle of firewood and strode after him, "Free porridge?"

"I thought that for such a strong person like you, you must be afraid of losing face and would not want to line up to eat from the porridge shack."

Jiang Xiaohua's face was expressionless, "Haha, then you are wrong."

"People are giving out porridge as a charity. I'm just standing in line to receive it. There's nothing to be ashamed of."

"If I deprive my four children of rice porridge just for the sake of so-called face, then I would be really stupid."

Li Yuanzhi looked at Jiang Xiaohua's side face, and he suddenly understood the "rules" she just proposed.

It is said that a real man does not stick to trivial matters.

In fact, Jiang Xiaohua is the real man.

So she could see through his disguise and his unwillingness to rely on anyone at a glance.

Jiang Xiaohua glanced at Li Yuanzhi from the corner of her eyes.

"When I first met you, weren't you quite shameless and said you wanted to eat soft rice?"

"Why do you feel ashamed to drink free porridge now?"

Li Yuanzhi's expression dropped at first, and then he joked, "Obviously you don't agree with me giving my life to you for a soft meal."

Jiang Xiaohua turned to stare at him and frowned, "Li Yuanzhi, you must have lost your brain in the pit. Haven't you already eaten many meals of the food I cooked?"

Li Yuanzhi would never lose in a battle of words.

He gave Jiang Xiaohua a charming smile and said, "You know the soft rice I'm talking about is not this kind of rice."

"Now I'm just working for you to earn a living. In your eyes, I'm actually no different from Wulong."

"Hey..." Jiang Xiaohua also gave him a fake smile, "Want to stop working and have free food?"

Li Yuanzhi nodded eagerly.

Jiang Xiaohua suddenly stopped smiling, "I should have let you freeze to death in the pit just now!"

Li Yuanzhi was scolded by Jiang Xiaohua again, but he felt inexplicably comfortable.

He laughed and chased after her, saying, "My wife is so reliable. If she ever figures it out, she is willing to accept the young man as a soft rice for the rest of her life..."

boom!

Jiang Xiaohua: "Shut up."

Li Yuanzhi did not pop out of the cracks in the rocks.

Of course, he has not been accustomed to relying on himself for everything since he was born.

It’s just that I have accumulated too many disappointments again and again, and the only thing left is myself...

Xiao Miaomiao hugged Oolong and looked eagerly at the direction her stepmother was leaving.

Her eyes suddenly lit up, she jumped up and shouted, "Mother is back! Mr. Li is back too!"

The three brothers of the Liu family heard this and ran here in a hurry.

Aunt Zhou chased after her and said, "Hey, don't run, don't be in a hurry."

Sure enough, Jiang Xiaohua and Li Yuanzhi turned around and appeared in everyone's field of vision.

Aunt Zhou beamed with joy, patted her thigh and said, "I knew it was going to be fine. Didn't I come back safely?"

Jiang Xiaohua walked closer and greeted Aunt Zhou first, "The children didn't cause you any trouble, did they?"

Aunt Zhou smiled and said, "No, no, they are all very well-behaved."

She turned to Li Yuanzhi again, "Is Mr. Li okay? We are all very worried."

Li Yuanzhi said sincerely, "Thank you for your concern, ma'am. I'm fine now."

Jiang Xiaohua couldn't help but look sideways. This guy used to be polite to people, and he is still polite now, but he seems to have become more real.

Aunt Zhou was all smiles, "It's okay."

"Then I'll go back first. You guys should eat quickly and don't let the rice porridge get cold."

Aunt Zhou seemed to be very anxious and left quickly after speaking.

Only then did Jiang Xiaohua notice that there were six bowls of rice porridge neatly placed on the ground.

The porridge was given on a per-person basis. She and Li Yuanzhi didn't queue up, so why did they get a share?