Chapter 107 Serious Husband
Chapter 107 Serious Husband
Even if a small number of people are unwilling to do so, they can only follow suit in front of the majority.
Anyway, no matter what, in the end everyone unanimously decided to work first and get the porridge later. Those who had the strength would do the heaviest work, and those who didn't have the strength would go and help first.
There are so many of them, even if each person only does a little, the work can be done in less than half a day.
Seeing that the victims had already assigned themselves tasks without any arrangements from them, Chu Yang breathed a sigh of relief.
He found a dozen elderly, weak, women and children who were unable to do heavy work and asked them to make fire and cook porridge.
At the same time, he left two brothers to guard Xiao Li, Yu Qingshan and others, and took the rest of his brothers to join the busy team of burying the bodies.
For a moment, the scene seemed to be thriving.
Xiao Li watched for a moment from the carriage, then handed the prey he had brought back to the person in charge of cooking the porridge, "Kill it and cook it with the porridge."
The pheasants and hares had their feet tied with vines. Xiao Li put them aside and turned around to walk back.
The people in charge of cooking the porridge all had tears in their eyes. "Thank you very much, sir. Thank you very much, sir. We will remember your kindness for the rest of our lives. When we find a way to survive, we will build a shrine for you."
The others also agreed.
The man with his back to them raised his lips slightly, and suddenly understood why his young husband liked to do good deeds so much.
But it's okay to do this kind of thing occasionally, but he is not that passionate about doing it regularly.
Back in the carriage, Xiao Li checked what her husband and children were doing in the space, and found that they were eating, so she brought them out.
After not seeing Xiao Li for a while, the two little guys were obviously surprised when they suddenly saw him.
"Daddy."
"Daddy~"
Xiao Ruixue has always been in high spirits, but Xiao Li doesn't think it's a big deal. However, when he looks at Xiao Ruijing, Xiao Li feels very soft in his heart.
But he still brought little Ruixue over first, and then brought little Ruijing over, kissing each of them, "You miss daddy, don't you?"
"Hmm! Hmm!" Little Ruixue nodded her head like a chick pecking at rice. She didn't even eat the biscuits in her hand. She hugged his arm and rubbed her soft little face against him. "Baby misses daddy~"
"Daddy misses the baby too." Xiao Li kissed him again, then looked at his eldest son who had regained his aloof demeanor. "Where's Jing'er? Does he miss daddy?"
Little Ruijing nodded his head restrainedly and said "hmm", "I miss daddy."
Even if the words are similar, they give people completely different feelings when they come out of their mouths.
The older brother stated the facts in a restrained manner, while the younger brother happily acted coquettishly to be comforted.
Xiao Li didn't show favoritism and kissed little Rui Jing as well, then said with a smile, "Daddy misses Jing'er too."
As he spoke, he looked at Lu Yuan beside him, his lips curled up, and he looked at him ambiguously, "I'm not just thinking about Jing'er and the baby, I'm also thinking about Yuan'er."
Lu Yuan was originally looking at the two children. After hearing what he said, she raised her eyes to look at him. When she met his gaze which was obviously full of deep meaning, her cheeks couldn't help but feel hot.
After glaring at him unhappily, the young man said half-angrily, half-reproachfully, "The child is still here! Be serious!"
"What's wrong with me?" Xiao Li raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a smile. "Besides, we are a serious couple. So what if we say and do something inappropriate?"
Lu Yuan: “???”
No, do you still have any sense of being a father?
Xiao Li raised his eyebrows and deliberately asked him, "Does Yuan'er think that I'm wrong?"
Lu Yuan rolled her eyes at him speechlessly, "Do you think you're right?"
It is said that people who are together for a long time will become more and more alike. They have been together for four years, and Lu Yuan is indeed very similar to him at times.
When we first met, my husband was still a handsome boy with an idol image. But now...
Only beauty remains.
Seeing this, Xiao Li nodded with a smile on his face, not embarrassed at all, "I think it's right."
Lu Yuan: “…”
Lu Yuan didn't bother to pay attention to him and warned his two sons, "Don't be like your father. He's always so frivolous. How old are you?"
"In my twenties." Xiao Li said truthfully. After receiving a sharp look from the pretty young husband, he made a gesture to shut up, "I shut up."
Only then did Lu Yuan withdrew her gaze with satisfaction and continued talking to her two sons, asking them to learn from this.
But children's ideas are always different from adults'. Little Ruijing is a little better, but as for Little Ruixue...
"Didn't Daddy do something wrong?" Little Ruixue tilted her head and looked at Xiao Li with a troubled expression, looking extremely worried. "Didn't Daddy say that if you make a mistake, you must correct it? Then Daddy shouldn't correct it if he made a mistake?"
"..." Xiao Li was almost amused by his son's deceitful behavior. He pinched the little guy's chubby face in annoyance, "Baby, you've already learned to cheat me at such a young age?"
"What do you mean by 'deceiving dad'?" Little Ruixue pouted, looking at him with grievance and innocence, "Baby doesn't understand."
Xiao Ruijing also looked confused and stared at Xiao Li curiously, waiting for his answer.
"Trick your father? Trick your father means..." Xiao Li considered the wording carefully, and finally chose a simple and easy-to-understand sentence, "Trick your father, let your father fall into the trap of your little father."
Of course, this pit is not a real pit, but a description.
But in the eyes of a three-year-old child, a pit is a pit, so how can he tell whether it is real or fake?
Xiao Ruixue looked at him with some distress for a while, then when she looked away, she secretly glanced at Lu Yuan beside her and gently pulled his sleeve, "Little Daddy, we won't cheat you."
Seeing his youngest son rebelling after just a few words, Lu Yuan felt both amused and helpless. "Why don't you ask me if your father was wrong?"
Little Ruixue said "Oh~" with a cute look on her face and asked him, "Then Daddy is wrong?"
Lu Yuan: “…”
What could he say? He couldn't say he did it on purpose, could he? Or that he was lying to the child against his will?
Whether it's the former or the latter, it doesn't sound good.
Just as he was thinking about how to turn the page on this matter, Xiao Li's voice with a smile suddenly rang out in the carriage, "Daddy is just playing with your little daddy. When the baby grows up, he will know if it's right or wrong."
Xiao Ruixue tilted her head to look at him, "Is that so?"
"What else?" Xiao Li rubbed his head, then looked at his eldest son who seemed to be thinking beside him, "Jing'er, do you have any questions?"
Hearing this, Lu Yuan looked down at little Ruijing, just in time to see him put on a serious face and conclude: "So sometimes adults are not necessarily wrong when they are wrong, and are not necessarily right when they are right. Is that right?"
He was asking Xiao Li, so he was looking at Xiao Li when he spoke.
I have to say, sometimes it’s not a good thing for a son to be too smart, because you never know when you’ll be stumped by his questions.
It wasn't that Xiao Li was stumped by the question, he just had an indescribable feeling, similar to the regret of not being able to play with his children.
He looked at his eldest son's serious expression and sighed in his heart, "You can say that."
At this point, young Ruijing understood another thing - adults always speak ambiguously and rarely give absolute answers.
No, to be exact, it was only his father who was like this, but in the eyes of the young boy, his father alone could represent the vast majority of people.
Of course, the little guy is only three years old now. Although he has a preliminary understanding of these things, he is unable to summarize and describe them by himself.
It's just that it's indescribable and incomprehensible, but it doesn't affect the fact that some things leave a mark in his heart, waiting to see the light of day one day and begin to evolve into his own appearance.
After Xiao Li answered him, he saw that he was lost in thought again. He couldn't help but ruffle his hair in amusement, "What are you thinking about?"
"What are you thinking about, brother?" Little Ruixue was a curious baby. After hearing her father ask her brother this, she also asked the same question out of curiosity.
"Jing'er doesn't know what to say." Little Ruijing looked at Xiao Li and shook his head. His pretty eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and he looked very conflicted.
But when he looked at his younger brother, his expression relaxed almost instantly, returning to his usual cold and serious self. "Brother, I'm not thinking about anything."
"Oh~" After getting the response, Xiao Ruixue nodded, but did not insist on getting to the bottom of the matter.
Seeing this, Xiao Li couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, thinking that the two little darlings at home might not be worry-free in the future.
The older brother is only three years old but he is so serious and sometimes even more old-fashioned than an old man; the younger brother is not much better, he has already started to show double standards at a young age.
All my brother needs to do is respond, but I have to get to the bottom of everything with daddy and little daddy.
But it’s better this way. When the children grow up, even if they are not around, they don’t have to worry about their children suffering too much.
The matter was over, and Lu Yuan did not continue to hold Xiao Li against her.
After all, this is what a family is like. If you try to calculate everything too carefully, the relationship will easily fall apart.
Lu Yuan was quite satisfied with the husband she chose herself.
The family of four were talking in low voices in the carriage. When the porridge started to be distributed outside, Xiao Li got out of the carriage with her husband and children.
Seeing the couple, whether they were queuing for porridge or Chu Yang and others who were responsible for distributing the porridge, they all greeted them, "Mr. Xiao."
While talking, they couldn't help but look at the two delicate little babies in Xiao Li's arms, with obvious amazement in their eyes.
Chu Yang and the others would see Little Ruijing and Little Ruixue almost every day. Now it wasn't too obvious, but they still couldn't suppress their eager thoughts.
Who wouldn't like such a pretty little baby? Especially since the journey was tiring and there was nothing they could do to pass the time, when they saw Master Xiao teasing the child, they really wanted to tease him too.
However, they were also very clear about their identities and did not make such unreasonable demands.
Xiao Li was no stranger to all kinds of situations, but Lu Yuan was experiencing this for the first time. So when someone greeted him, he almost instinctively smiled and nodded slightly in response, and then...
When he returned to the carriage, the smile that was almost frozen on his face instantly collapsed.
He patted his face lightly and said painfully, "It turns out that doing good deeds is not hard, but responding to others' gratitude is hard."
"Drink some water," Xiao Li handed him a green bamboo tube filled with the spiritual spring water they had stored in the space. "If you don't like it, just ignore it next time."
"No," Lu Yuan shook her head, opened the lid of the bamboo tube and took a few sips of water, "If I don't show my face, will others know that I'm the one doing the good deed?
"If no one knows about my good deeds, how can I accumulate them? What if God doesn't credit me with my good deeds in the end?"
and……
"Although it's tiring to face so many people, they also want to thank us. It's okay for you to have a cold face, but would it be inappropriate for me to do the same as you?"
Lu Yuan couldn't help but laugh as she spoke, "I don't know if they think we did it out of helplessness, or if they think we are just seeking fame and reputation, and are doing good deeds for some ulterior motive.
Even if we do good deeds for ourselves, our children, and our families so that they can live a smooth life, we also really want to do good deeds, and this is not the only purpose, right?
So when someone expresses gratitude to me, shouldn't I at least respond in kind? "
At the age of sixteen or seventeen, Lu Yuan was still focused on her family. Even if she was a kind person, she would not specifically do good deeds.
Later, he learned about the death calamity, and under Xiao Li's guidance, he slowly began to do good deeds and accumulate virtue.
It is undeniable that his kindness is not pure, but no one can deny his sincerity and kindness.
Such qualities are rare among people in the last days, and are even more precious in Xiao Li's eyes.
Besides, he always supported his young husband's wishes, no matter whether they were good or bad, and this time was no exception. "Whatever Yuan'er wants is fine."
Lu Yuan opened the curtain and looked at the emaciated victims outside and sighed softly, "I don't know... when the drought will end."
In fact, what he wanted to say was that no one knew how many more people would have to die before these natural disasters and man-made disasters could be completely ended.
"It will pass." Xiao Li gently hugged him and let him lean on his chest, his eyes also looking at the ragged victims outside, "We have done what we can, don't worry."
It would be a lie to say that she wasn't worried, but Lu Yuan also knew that even if she was worried and afraid, it would be useless. In the end, she could only helplessly say "hmm", "I know."
Unlike adults who have many worries, children's world is carefree.
At least on the surface, there seems to be nothing wrong with either Xiao Ruijing or Xiao Ruixue.
But when the couple didn't notice, little Ruijing frowned, and little Ruixue looked at the curtain on the other side with an eager look on her face.
Late at night, after most of the victims had gone to bed, the two carriages and ten horses began to move away. By the time they realized that the people had left, it was already dawn the next day.
at the same time……
PDLP