Chapter 156: Scheming (5)

As she spoke, she looked towards the front door of the Ruan family, expecting someone to come out.

But - still no one.

Liu Mei pursed her lips and stood in the yard, feeling like she had punched cotton and felt a little uncomfortable.

Finally, she glared at the Ruan family and went back into the house with the bamboo rat. At

the Ruan family next door, Ruan Lin was picking vegetables. Ruan Jiaojiao sat on a small stool to help. While picking, she looked at her grandmother's expression. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that when Liu Mei next door shouted these two times, her grandmother's pressure dropped a lot. She estimated that she had never felt so aggrieved in her life.

"Why are you looking at me?"

"Grandma, are you angry?" Ruan Jiaojiao asked knowingly.

"What's there to be angry about? Liu Mei's level is not worth your grandmother's help?" Ruan Lin looked disdainful, but she said to Ruan Jiaojiao: "Call your brother Xu to eat later."

"Yes!" Ruan Jiaojiao nodded heavily.

Ruan Lin touched her head lovingly, and then went to the kitchen with a colander.

Ruan Jiaojiao washed her hands by the well, wiped them with a dry towel, picked up two White Rabbit milk candies on the stool, and was about to find Xu Xu. When she turned around, she saw Xu Xu standing at the entrance of the yard.

"Brother Xu, here's some candy for you." She handed him the White Rabbit milk candy in her hand. This was the most delicious candy she had ever eaten, much better than fruit candy and mint candy, and the milky flavor was particularly strong.

Even if Xu Xu was not interested in the things Ruan Jiaojiao gave him, he would still eat them.

He took the candy from her hand, peeled it and stuffed it into her mouth first. When he saw her enjoying it and squinting her eyes, he peeled another one and put it into his own mouth.

The two of them ate White Rabbit milk candy and sat on the steps of the yard.

Ruan Jiaojiao swung her little feet and asked him, "Brother Xu, when will you come to my house for dinner? Grandma misses you."

"Soon." Xu Xu replied, looking at her intently, "From now on, we will never be apart again."

Ruan Jiaojiao blinked. Even though she didn't know what he was doing, she didn't know why she trusted him very much. She nodded seriously and said, "There is your room in the building that Dad mentioned. You can live with us when the time comes, and we will go to school together."

Growing up together, she will definitely take good care of him and not let him go down the path of villainy.

Hearing this, Xu Xu also nodded solemnly.

This afternoon and evening, Xu Xu still didn't eat at Ruan's house.

At the Xu family, even though Liu Mei said nice things, she didn't prepare Xu Xu's share. She didn't call him at dinner time, and the family of three ate happily.

Xu Xu didn't move forward either, and stayed quietly in his grocery store like an invisible man.

After dinner, Liu Mei washed Xu Cheng's face and feet, and when she returned to the house with a kerosene lamp, she passed by Xu Xu's grocery store and couldn't help but take a look inside. Seeing that he was indeed sleeping inside, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows in surprise.

Because since Ruan Lin said that Xu Xu was under her care, Xu Xu almost never came home at night, and was not at home during the day. Liu Mei originally felt annoyed when she saw him, and thought it was just right that he was not at home. She

even thought that Ruan Lin was old and confused. She was a fool to support such a person from another family for no reason.

But in the past few days, she found that Xu Xu suddenly started to stay at home every day and sleep at home at night, but he didn't eat at the table. She was a little curious. Did he eat out like before? Or did he go to Ruan's house to eat when she was not paying attention?