The Regent's Tender Darling

Xuemei was speechless for a moment. Rather than feeling disgusted with Little Loach for being a liar, she now felt more sorry for what happened to him.

Maybe she meant what she said, so she said: "You have the skills and the legs, so why do you have to be a liar?"

Little Loach glanced at Xuemei. He didn't know how to explain to Xuemei that no one would want him, a homeless person with no background.

Even the porter at the water transport terminal must have a clean background. He has no household registration, no family background, and doesn't even have a decent name.

Seeing that Little Loach was silent, Xuemei bit her lip and fell silent. Then she seemed to think of something and asked, "You... did you become a beggar after you got separated from your family?"

She heard Little Loach say that he was picked up by an old beggar when he was six years old. What did Little Loach do? So young, could he be a lost child?

Little Loach shook his head and said: "I don't know. I have been in Wangjia Village since I can remember. There was an old woman who raised me. People in the village said that I was picked up from outside. The old woman died when I was six years old. I He was kicked out by the villagers.”

He remembered that people in the village had always rejected outsiders, saying that he was a wild child outside. After the old woman died, no one wanted him. He was finally kicked out and was picked up by an old beggar a few months later.

Xuemei was a little surprised and opened her lips slightly. Little Loach had no parents since she was a child, so it seemed that she didn't even have a household registration.

Even if these people without household registration can work, no one will want them.

She immediately regretted what she had just said. She pursed her lips and hesitated before saying the words "I'm sorry" over and over again.

Little Loach smiled at her, a little reluctantly, and continued: "I shouldn't lie to you, I... I'm just a wild child that no one wants."

"You..." Xuemei hesitated. She wanted to comfort him, but she couldn't say anything.

After thinking for a long time, he said: "So what if no one wants it? Why should others want it?"

This was not a comforting word, but it made the little loach feel a little warm in his heart.

Then Xuemei put her chin with her hand, looked at the thin flames of the oil lamp, and thought of many things through the flames.

She said: "No one wanted me when I was a child. When I got up at night, I heard my grandma and my dad talking about how they found me. That's when I realized that I was picked up."

"Later... my father was hit and killed by the noble master's horse outside, and my mother-in-law also died of illness." At this point, Xuemei's nose became sore and tears welled up in her eyes.

Wiping away his tears with his hands and tucking the hair behind his ears, the little loach lowered his head and secretly looked up at Xuemei. He wanted to comfort her, but didn't know what to say.

He thought Xuemei would live a wealthy life even as a maid, and they said that a maid from a wealthy family had a better life than the daughter of a magistrate from a small county.

But he suddenly felt that Xuemei was quite pitiful. Even if she had no worries about food and clothing, he knew the pain of losing a loved one.

He was very sad when the old beggar died.

Then Xuemei calmed down her sadness, looked at Little Loach, and said: "Even if I am not my grandma's biological child, I still know that grandma is really good to me. Aren't the old ladies and old beggars you mentioned also sincerely treating you? You are not a wild child that no one wants."

Xuemei sniffed, a little annoyed. She originally wanted to comfort the little loach, but why did she feel sad first.

A few days ago, she lost something that her mother-in-law gave her. She hid under the quilt and cried secretly for several nights, not daring to cry out. After all, Qingtao was still sleeping in the bed next to her.