Meanwhile, after Pingting settled down in the village with the Chang family, she anxiously asked Wenzi, "I wonder... how is Xi'er?"
The mosquito looked at her with some surprise. "Who are you?"
Pingting felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her head, bringing her back to her senses. For a moment, all she could taste was bitterness. Who was she?
What right does she have to ask about Li Zai and Li Xi?
“I…” She shook her head and did not answer again, only saying, “Thank you for your trouble, young man.”
She turned around somewhat awkwardly and walked towards the room.
But her waist was tightly embraced by a small body. "Mother."
Pingting stiffened. "Xi'er." She turned around and looked closely at the child holding her.
Her hands cupped his face, her fingers stroking his skin.
"My Xi'er, my Xi'er," she cried, "you've gained weight, that's wonderful."
She pulled him into her arms and held him tightly, saying, "I knew it, I knew you'd have a good life only after you left me."
"Your Majesty!" Li Xi kept calling out to Pingting.
He was raised by Pingting, so how could he have no feelings for her at all?
The fact that she's standing here today proves she's not a bad person; if she were, the girl wouldn't have brought her back.
Mosquito looked at the mother and child who were crying and hugging each other, and was completely dumbfounded. So Li Zai had a wife.
He sighed silently and left.
After the mosquito left, Pingting cried for a while before letting go of Li Xi and asking her gently, "How are you doing these days?"
Are you satisfied with your food and clothing?
Li Xi shook her head pitifully, "Mom, you don't know, Dad's cooking is terrible."
I could only scrape by and eat what the girl left behind.
Pingting stroked his round little face, looking at him with such pitifulness. "From now on, Mother will serve you by your side. If there is a chance, Mother will definitely find some food for you."
Li Xi shook his head. "Mother, I have no clothes to wear. Father doesn't even know how to sew." He pointed to the large tear in his clothes and said in a choked voice, "Since leaving you, Mother, I haven't worn a single decent piece of clothing."
The mosquito, who had witnessed Li Xi climbing the wall and having her clothes torn by tree branches, was speechless.
He glanced sympathetically at Li Zai beside him, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You've raised this son for nothing."
Li Zai wholeheartedly agreed with this, but now was not the time to teach this brat a lesson. He stared intently at the disheveled yet still radiant woman and said calmly, "Why are you here?"
Pingting suddenly raised her head, looked at Li Zai, and said calmly, "The young lady asked me to serve her."
"Oh." Li Zai responded casually, then looked at Li Xi, who had just finished reporting her father's dirty deeds, "Have you had enough fun? Shouldn't you go home?"
Li Xi immediately hid behind Pingting and said pitifully, "Dad, I want Mom."
He didn't want to continue living without a mother, and he didn't want to see his father sad anymore.
Last night when I was going to sleep, Dad called out Mom's name.
Li Zai glanced at Pingting subconsciously, and seeing that she was not angry, he said calmly, "If Miss Pingting doesn't mind, you can stay and keep her company tonight."
A beautiful young woman...
Pingting smiled bitterly to herself, but showed no sign of it on her face. "Xi'er is also my child, so I don't mind."
Li Zai looked at her with some surprise, "You..."
Li Xi... that's not true at all.
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