Li Zheng glared at her: "Xiao Ran, your master's patience is limited!"

In just one month, he felt like he was going crazy.

However, Gu Xiaoran blinked her innocent big eyes.

"Master, why are you angry? Xiao Ran didn't do anything wrong. Xiao Ran begs you, please go back by yourself. Xiao Ran wants to stay here and wait for her mother to come back."

He is no longer as afraid of Li Zheng as he used to be.

The kid was quite clever; he knew that Li Zheng wouldn't hurt him.

Li Zheng insisted, "If Xiaoyan comes back, she'll come to see you right away. Let's go home."

He tried to pick up Gu Xiaoran, but she ran far away.

"No, that's Master's house, not Xiao Ran's house."

"Master's home is also your home." Li Zheng had said this many times, but the brat just couldn't remember it.

"No, Master's house belongs to my two uncles." Suddenly, Gu Xiaoran thought of the mean uncle from that day.

"Xiao Ran wants to find her mother. What if her mother gets kidnapped by bad people?" Tears welled up in Gu Xiao Ran's eyes, and she began to sob.

"I want to go find my father, and I want to go with him to find my mother and bring her back."

Li Zheng rubbed his throbbing temples. "Xiao Yan is fine. She just went out on business. How many times has your master told you this? Why won't you listen?"

"Master is lying, Mother doesn't do business." As Gu Xiaoran spoke, she thought of the teasing she received from the village children.

"Mother is gone. She must have gone to find Father. Once they have a little brother or sister, they won't need Xiaoran anymore."

As Gu Xiaoran spoke, she suddenly burst into tears.

After saying that, he ran to Qiu Yan's room, lay down on her bed, and smelled her lingering scent, which made him feel a little better.

The child's lack of security filled Li Zheng with a mixture of heartache and helplessness.

He was not about to let Gu Xiaoran have her way.

He still has a wife and children at home who need to be taken care of.

Although Li Zheng didn't have much contact with children, his own daughter was much easier to raise than Gu Xiaoran when she was young.

He got up and went into Qiu Yan's room, then forcibly picked up Gu Xiaoran:

"Xiao Ran, when you left, Uncle was still sleeping. Shall we go see if Uncle has woken up yet?" Li Zheng, who was introverted and taciturn, was almost driven into a chatterbox by Gu Xiao Ran.

"No..." Gu Xiaoran refused, forcefully breaking free from Li Zheng's body and continuing to lie on Qiu Yan's bed.

His cries startled Old Man Mu and Qiu Ling'er in the next courtyard.

Old Master Mu sighed, "This Gu Xiaoran is truly unruly."

Qiu Ling'er: "Sir, Xiao Ran just misses her sister." How could she not miss her sister?

Even though her sister had asked Cao Shi, Zhu Juan's biological mother, to take special care of her daily life and keep her company before she left, she still missed her sister.

It wasn't that Qiu Yan hadn't considered hiring servants.

However, she was away for several days and was worried about the new people who had come.

Therefore, she hired a new person at the wonton shop, and from then on, she had Cao Shi serve Qiu Ling'er exclusively.

But Cao was a woman who couldn't stay idle. While Qiu Ling'er was studying with Master Mu, she went to help out at the wonton shop.

This is also why Qiu Yan chose her.

The Cao family of three were all honest and straightforward.

Qiu Ling'er pleaded with Elder Mu, "Sir, I'll go and try to persuade Xiao Ran."

Old Master Mu waved to Qiu Ling'er, "Go."

"Thank you, sir," Qiu Ling'er said, and quickly returned to her courtyard.

Inside the small courtyard,

Li Zheng sat on the steps in front of the door, his eyes closed, trying to calm himself down.

Upon hearing footsteps coming from the courtyard gate, his eyes lit up.

"Ling'er, please try to persuade Xiao Ran; he refuses to go home."