After reorganizing her words, Xiao Yunying sincerely said:
"Having walked through the gates of hell, I've come to terms with many things. It was indeed wrong of me to take my anger out on you before. I apologize to you. I'm sorry."
He paused for a moment, observed the children's expressions, and then continued:
"I know you won't believe me if I say I've changed now. After all, verbal promises without proof are the least credible. You can try to believe me this once. Anyway, things won't get much worse for you now, right?"
Luo Xin looked up: "I believe in Mother."
Xiao Yunying curled the corners of her lips and ruffled the little girl's frizzy hair.
My little girl is the most thoughtful.
She's said everything she needed to say; whether they believe it or not is their business.
She was willing to stay and take care of them, partly because of the original owner of this body.
After all, she had taken over someone else's body, and the original owner's biggest worry was these children.
I'll take care of her for a while as a way of thanking her and making it up to her.
Secondly, because she is not yet familiar with this world, she has nowhere to go for the time being.
She needs to adjust to her new environment and plan her future life.
Three... well, she also felt a little sorry for the children, especially this little girl, who was cute and sweet.
Who wouldn't love a well-behaved, sensible, and beautiful little girl?
"Come on, let me take you to wash your face."
"good."
Ignoring the three adults' thoughts, he led Luo Xin to the courtyard.
Luo Li peeked out and said, "Big brother, that wicked woman is really washing my sister's face!"
Luo Chen pursed her lips and remained silent.
What is this woman trying to do? She actually apologized to them!
Luo Yang said calmly, "When will you be able to be more composed and stop being so easily startled?"
Luo Li said "Oh," and then asked, "Second Brother, why do you think she suddenly became better?"
"She gave you a sweet potato to eat a few days ago, but that same night she beat you up because you were laughing in the yard and disturbing her embroidery."
Luo Li...yes, she's always been so unpredictable.
In the courtyard, Xiao Yunying washed Luo Xin's face with clean water, dried it with a towel, and combed the little girl's hair.
It was a bit greasy and tangled, but at least it didn't have lice.
Fortunately, the original owner was a clean person. Although she didn't usually take care of the children, she always made it a strict rule that they had to take a bath and wash their hair every once in a while.
It wasn't too cold now, so Xiao Yunying casually tied up some cloth strips, planning to boil some water later so they could take a bath and change their clothes.
"Let's go play in the yard. Mom will go cook. After we eat, shall we take a bath?"
Luo Xin replied crisply, "Okay!"
"Good girl, go ahead."
I quickly washed my face to wake myself up, and will take a shower later to clean myself more thoroughly.
She didn't know how to style her hair for the times, so she tied her hair into a high ponytail, rolled up her sleeves, and prepared to cook.
Then they heard Luo Xin's childish, boastful voice coming from outside the door: "Big brother, second brother, third brother, Mom washed my face, combed my hair, said she'd give me a bath after dinner, and praised me for being a good girl!"
Xiao Yunying curled her lips, finding it both amusing and somewhat heartbreaking.
This little girl is so easy to please; even the smallest thing can make her so happy.
I opened the pot lid, took out the leftover porridge from yesterday, and estimated: "It's not enough for five people."
It's a little more than a bowl's worth, which is enough for her to eat by herself.
She remembered that the family was out of food. Yesterday, when she was looking for brown sugar, she saw two cloth bags in the cupboard. When she opened them, she found one bag of millet and one bag of white rice.
It must have been brought by Mu Lianrong.
Xiao Yunying's long-term life living alone has honed her culinary skills, making ordinary home-cooked meals quite easy for her.
Mix rice and millet in a 2:1 ratio, tear the dried dates apart by hand and remove the pits, then grab a small handful of goji berries, rinse them twice with clean water and pour them into the pot.
Add an appropriate amount of water, place a strainer on top, put the leftover porridge from last night on it, cover the pot with the lid, and Xiao Yunying squats down to prepare to light the fire.
The smooth movements suddenly stalled.
How does fire burn?
A tinderbox?
After searching several times in the cupboard and around the stove, I couldn't find anything that looked like a tinderbox. Finally, my eyes fell on two gray stones in the corner.
A flint and steel?
Xiao Yunying picked up two stones and tried tapping them together; a dazzling light flashed by.
That's it, that's it.
I stuffed a few pieces of firewood into the stove. Although I had never used an earthen stove before, I knew that I would never be able to light the wood directly with a flint. So I grabbed a handful of dry grass from the basket next to me and stuffed it in.
Xiao Yunying squatted on the ground and began her first magical experience.
The children in the yard heard the sound of stones being struck coming from the kitchen, growing louder and more urgent...
Luo Xin rubbed her ears and asked with a confused look, "Third brother, what is mother doing?"
Luo Li's teeth ached as she listened: "It seems like... she can't get the fire going..."
Luo Chen hesitated for a moment, then went into the kitchen and saw the woman squatting on the ground, her lips pursed, her brows furrowed, and her face full of bitterness and resentment as she kept striking flint against the dry grass.
Luo Chen couldn't stand it anymore and said, "You can't light a fire like that, there's no tinder."
Xiao Yunying stopped and turned around to ask, "Fire filament? What's that?"
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