Chapter 124 The Poor Darling Who Has No One to Care For

“Aunt Guizhi, look at my Bao’er, he’s strong and well-behaved. Letting him join Ningbao’s wilderness team will definitely be a great help to Ningbao.”

“Yes, Guizhi, you should talk to your Ningbao about taking in a few more. After all, it’s the same whether you’re herding one sheep or a flock.”

"Uncle Dasheng..."

“Brother Chunping…”

“Yuzhen…”

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All the adults in the family who could speak to Ningbao were surrounded and chattered incessantly.

Li Guizhi stood up abruptly and raised her voice.

"Everyone, stop and listen to me!"

We've been fellow villagers for many years. As the saying goes, a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. Now that we've fled famine, we've lost contact with all our relatives and friends outside. We, the fellow villagers, are the closest people to each other.

Since you've brought up the matter of Ning Bao's small team, I should step in and resolve it.

However, in my family, the children always make their own decisions. Ningbao has already said that we will only recruit ten students, and now that the quota is full, there's nothing I can do.

However, I think Ning Bao's little team is just kids playing around, like playing house, and it's not important at all.

Just think about it, Ningbao is only a three-and-a-half-year-old toddler, what kind of team can she lead?

It's already a miracle that she doesn't cry and needs to be comforted by others...

Ning Bao: "…………"

I'm unhappy! I feel terrible!

She would never cry! Her master said she has never cried, she only smiles foolishly!

snort!

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Mu Laidi, who was standing next to Ning Bao, sensed that Ning Bao was in low spirits and quickly reached out to hold Ning Bao's chubby little hand.

Mu Laidi leaned down and whispered in Ning Bao's ear,

“Ningbao, don’t be sad. Second Grandma said that just to appease the people in the village.”

Ningbao stared longingly at Mulaidi.

"Sister Lai Di, we're not playing around!"

"Yes, I know!"

"We're not playing house."

"No, it's not."

"Ningbao never cries, never!"

"Yes, Ningbao won't! But in the future, Ningbao can cry when she feels wronged. Everyone in the family loves Ningbao."

I don't know why, but Mu Lai Di suddenly felt very sorry for Ning Bao.

Although the sisters were scolded by their grandmother from a young age, her grandmother would only scold them. Whenever her grandmother reached out to hit them, their parents and grandfather would stop her.

Moreover, their mother was very gentle, and everyone in the family except their grandmother treated them well.

They were loved by their parents from a young age, and could cry in their mother's arms when they felt wronged.

But Ningbao is different. Ningbao was taken in by her master when she was a child and has never met her parents.

No matter how well her master treated her, he was still just a man. Ningbao had never experienced the warmth and love of her mother's embrace before.

In Mu Laidi's eyes, the reason Ning Bao never cried was entirely because no one cared for her and she had to pretend to be strong.

So she felt very sorry for Ningbao and couldn't help but reach out and gently pull Ningbao into her thin arms.

After Li Guizhi's long speech, the villagers finally gave up the idea of ​​letting their children join the team.

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The camp in Shanglin Village was not far from the bandits' den, but because the mountain road was difficult to travel, it took them two hours to reach the bandits' den.

I thought we'd arrive by mid-morning, but now it's almost lunchtime.

After allocating the caves, the village chief urged each family to cook quickly, and after eating, the men and children in the family who needed to go up the mountain should hurry up and go up the mountain.

The women could stay and clean up; to be honest, the cave had been made quite dirty by those rough bandits.

Although they were only staying here for two or three days to avoid the rain, most of them didn't want to make do.

Yesterday, everyone thought they were leaving today, so almost every household prepared dry food, making lunch very easy to prepare today.

Diligent people will heat up the flatbread and make some noodle soup, while less diligent people will just leave the flatbread cold with water, and some families are even unwilling to boil water.

Ning Bao's family and the Shen family shared a larger cave. Everyone could barely fit together, since they were all refugees and didn't care much about such things.

The problem is that even if you want to be particular, you can't really be particular.

After sorting and casually placing their luggage in the cave, Li Guizhi, along with Shen Yuzhen and Liu Qingru, started a fire to boil water and prepare lunch.

Mu Chunping and Shen Junshan then led the children to clean the cave.

Both of them are doting husbands, and they are willing to do more of the dirty work themselves so that their wives and mothers can do less.

Of course, the boys in the house could also do more, so apart from Ningbao being sent to chat with Mu Dasheng, all the boys in the house were cleaning.