Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

"Aunt Ma said that your mother will become my mother eventually, and we will become brothers in the future."

"You and your Seventh Mother are not related by blood. If my father married her, she would still be my mother!"

"By then I'll have a father and a mother, what do you have!"

Reason told him that Qiniang was not that kind of person, but his emotions couldn't help but follow Guanzhou's thoughts.

He was indeed not Qiniang's biological son, and he had only known Qiniang for a few days before and after Guanzhou.

His heart was growing colder and colder.

Speaking of which, Qinnan's body has completely recovered.

"Qiniang, are you still feeling unwell?"

Wei Qiqi touched Li Yuan's hair and shook her head at him, "It's okay, Xiaobao."

In the past six months, Xiaobao asked about her situation every now and then. After asking, he would say nothing, just like now, walking past her to the wall and putting down the bamboo basket.

It's just that she didn't pay attention to it before, but these few days when she met Ahua, Ahua next door always reminded her to pay more attention to Li Yuan.

She had been observing it for a few days and there was nothing wrong.

Li Yuan was washing his hands. She looked into the bamboo basket, which contained a small amount of firewood and wild fruits.

Then he went to look at Guanzhou's basket. There was more in it than Li Yuan's, and it was almost full.

"Xiaobao, you are not hiding anything from me, right?"

Li Yuan looked at her and said expressionlessly, "No, Qi Niang."

Wei Qiqi looked at his expression carefully and felt relieved when she saw that there was nothing wrong.

I just always feel uncomfortable.

This child was so smart when we first met.

She cooked two dishes and one soup, one main dish and one green vegetable, plus soup made from bones.

After arriving here, Li Yuan began to lose weight visibly. She thought it was because he was in a bad mood and that the living supplies in the new place were no longer the same as before.

After all, Li Yuan used to be a young master.

She thought that the child was growing, and eating something good and nutritious would help him grow taller and have stronger resistance.

Whenever he has nothing to do, I always let him go out for a walk and exercise, and whenever I have nothing to do, I always make bone soup for the two children.

After Guan Lu came, they all ate together around the table. There was no need to separate the tables into two. She herself did not mind. The two children, one on the left and one on the right, did not seem to get along with Guan Lu.

Guan Lu was the one talking at the table the whole time, telling stories about the interesting things he encountered while hunting.

He was just about to set up a hunting trap when he turned around and a rabbit bumped into him. He was so happy.

He quickly caught the rabbit and put it in a basket. Because its fur was intact, he sold it for a good price.

At the table, Guan Zhou was singing the same tune as his father, and Wei Qiqi also echoed him to avoid embarrassment.

Only Li Yuan ate his meal in silence, listening to his Qi Niang and the two men talking and laughing like a family.

"This kid is becoming less and less talkative." Guan Lu said for a while, but did not get a response from Li Yuan.

He asked.

He had inexplicably felt hostility from this kid before, and it had lasted for such a long time, and it had continued.

"By the way, I'm going to check the slingshots I gave you two earlier. If you don't practice well, I'll punish you."

Guan Lu said in a huffy voice.

He was eating with a slurping sound in his mouth.

The two children reacted very differently.

Li Yuan nodded without changing his expression, while Guan Zhou put on a mask of pain and realized that he had not practiced the slingshot technique at all.

Wei Qiqi looked at Li Yuan. The one time when this kid was willing to listen to Guan Lu was when he was practicing his slingshot.

Li Yuan liked Guan Lu's abilities very much.

Every time Guan Lu talked about hunting techniques, capture methods and other things, Li Yuan listened very carefully and practiced diligently.

Because the practice area needs to be large, they usually go out. So far, she has never seen Li Yuan use a slingshot.

After everyone finished eating, Li Yuan started to clear the tables, and Guanzhou also intervened.

Wei Qiqi knew Guanzhou's occasional tricks, but she didn't dislike them.

Children who want to please adults have good intentions.

It's just that privately he prefers Li Yuan.

Li Yuan helped her clear the tables every day, while Guan Zhou cleared the tables only when his father was around.

Subconsciously, the father and son have exactly the same personality. They both think that men should not do women's work.

It was still early, and Guanzhou had to wash the dishes today, so Li Yuan went with him.

It’s not that Li Yuan really wants to perform a brotherly scene with Guanzhou.

But this kid never washes the dishes clean, and if he doesn’t wash them clean, Wei Qiqi will wash them a second time.

Privately, Li Yuan didn't want Wei Qiqi to do anything.

Many times when he wanted to lend a hand, Wei Qiqi pushed him away, and after this happened many times, Wei Qiqi would become even more aggressive.

Two children were washing dishes outside the yard, and Wei Qiqi was standing not far away watching.

But before she could notice any difference in the way the two children got along, Guan Lu stood next to her.

"Sister, look at how well the two children get along, the delicious meals you cook, and the tidy house inside and outside. You do all the work of a hostess, but you don't act as a housekeeper."

Guan Lu said sincerely that before he came in, Aunt Ma from next door pulled him aside and gave him a long, earnest talk.

Sometimes he really didn't understand what Wei Qiqi was thinking.

He has everything he wants, the family has no worries about food and clothing, and she doesn't have to go out to work in the fields. She only needs to stay at home and serve the three of them, just like her current life, so why wouldn't she be willing?

"There are many girls in the village who are willing to do it, but you just don't know how to hurry up."

Guan Lu joked.

His words made Wei Qiqi's smile fade.

"Brother Guan, do you think there are many girls in the village willing to marry you?"

"Yes!" Guan Lu thought she had come to her senses and responded immediately.

"Then they...why didn't you respond to them?"

Wei Qiqi looked at Guan Lu. She seldom looked at Guan Lu directly, so this direct gaze made Guan Lu feel uncomfortable and he touched his head.

"It's not you."

Guan Lu thought that what this sentence meant was that he already had her in his heart and there was no room for anyone else.

From Wei Qiqi's perspective, she was hindering Guan Lu from getting married. After all, it was inappropriate for her, a woman, to stay in Guan Lu's family without any status.

The reason why she didn't suspect anything else was that she had rejected Guan Lu many times, whether it was openly or covertly, she refused it all.

At any rate, this should make Guan Lu give up.

Wei Qiqi calmed her mind.

While the two were talking, Li Yuan and the others had already washed their hands and stood in front of them.

Especially Li Yuan, who kept staring at Wei Qiqi with his dark eyes, making Wei Qiqi always feel that this guy was watching her on behalf of his father to make her observe mourning and become a widow.

Guan Lu saw the two children coming over. Under the influence of Wei Qiqi, he had learned not to talk about adult matters in front of the children.

The next thing he did was to take his two kids out to practice slingshots.

Wei Qiqi watched the three of them walk away, then turned around and prepared to go back to her room.

When I saw the water stains on the ground, something that had always felt wrong suddenly clicked into my mind and I figured it out.

There were fewer things in Li Yuan's bamboo basket than in Guanzhou's.

Why was it that when he came back, only Li Yuan's hands needed to be washed, and there was dirt between his fingernails?