"So I'm actually quite safe when I'm out and about. Unless I encounter an armed criminal, most people can't get close to me. They'll just kick me away... Gun control is so strict in China, and I don't cause trouble, so there's almost no chance of running into one. You really don't need to worry about me."

Tang Xiaoxiao comforted her.

The elderly couple remained silent for a while, and Tang's mother sighed, "She's a girl after all... who would want her if she acted like this?"

Tang Xiaoxiao...

This turn was so sudden and unexpected.

However, Tang's father coughed lightly and then began to reason with him: "Although you are quite capable, you can't be careless. You should know that usually it is the people who can swim who drown. When you are out and about, you must always put your own safety first. Don't meddle in other people's business. Your parents don't want a hero daughter, they just want you to be safe and sound."

Tang Xiaoxiao, of course, dared not refute and readily agreed.

The next morning, when Li Shengli and his wife brought Li Hao to their door, Tang's parents had already changed into presentable clothes to greet them. The three members of the Li family carried a lot of things, including more than a dozen boxes of precious medicinal herbs such as cordyceps, as well as many other gift boxes of various sizes.

Mr. and Mrs. Tang politely welcomed the family inside.

Although Li Shengli was a well-known local tycoon, he didn't put on airs at all at the Tang family's house. Instead, as a father, he expressed his sincere gratitude to the family who had saved his son's life. Tang's father naturally responded with a long string of humble words and pleasantries. The two had met a few times before and, although they didn't have any personal relationship, they weren't complete strangers. As a well-known entrepreneur, Li Shengli had businesses in various mining industries, compound fertilizers, and refractory materials, and had cooperated with Tang's father's company on several occasions.

Li Shengli had obviously investigated the Tang family's situation as well, and was familiar with the name Tang Yuanzhou. The two towns were not far apart, and both were native residents of the town. The Tang family's background was clean and not difficult to investigate.

Being in his position, he had no choice but to view every unusual event around him as a conspiracy, which was not what he wanted. But without this vigilance, he would have been devoured long ago, leaving not even bones behind.

It's true that Tang Xiaoxiao saved his son, but out of prudence, he still sent someone to investigate and confirmed that Tang Xiaoxiao had just happened to be passing by, rather than having made any prior arrangements.

There was nothing suspicious about the Tang family, so he brought his wife and children to express his gratitude.

However, he had never paid attention to Tang Yuanzhou's little girl before. Considering that she lived at school and rarely came home, and even studied in another city for four years, and that even the Tang family's neighbors didn't have much of an impression of Tang Xiaoxiao, it was normal that he hadn't heard of her.

For the past two weeks, he has been focused on the matter of his son's attack. When the two thugs were interrogated at the police station, they initially insisted that they had set out on a whim to rob him and that they had ambushed him on that remote mountain road. Li Hao was just unlucky enough to happen to be passing by and became their target.

Li Shengli, of course, did not believe these words. According to his son, the two men put a noose around his neck and dragged him toward the roadside bushes. One of them had already raised the knife in his hand, intending to stab him in the neck, but stopped when he saw Tang Xiaoxiao get out of the car and run over.

Even if Tang Xiaoxiao had arrived a few dozen seconds later, he would have been in grave danger. It was obvious they intended to kill him outright; two robbers who acted on impulse wouldn't have been so ruthless from the start.