Mo Qing stared at Li Ke's face for a while, feeling that the girl in front of him looked very familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere before.
He couldn't help but ask, "Where are you from, young lady? Are your parents still alive? You look very familiar to me; perhaps you have some connection with your elders."
Li Ke shook her head: "I have no father, and my mother doesn't like me. She left me with my maternal grandparents to raise. Mr. Mo must have made a mistake."
Mo Qing didn't ask any more questions after hearing this. It's quite common for people to look alike, and the person opposite clearly didn't want to talk about their family matters.
Li Ke didn't stay long before getting up to say goodbye. Mo Bao'er and Mo Cheng naturally knew her gender, and the two of them saw her off to the door.
Mo Bao'er walked beside Li Ke and asked, "I see that you plan to keep Xiao Guang here, but you don't want to stay. Why? If you stay, we can keep each other company. You're so capable, our base's security team would love for you to join."
When Li Ke heard Mo Bao'er ask this, she said directly, "I want to go out and see the world, but Xiao Guang is still young and needs a stable environment to study and live. Before I leave, I will leave behind a batch of supplies, enough for her to live comfortably until she is twenty. As for the rest, I will trouble Miss Mo to take care of her."
Hearing Li Ke say this, Mo Cheng, who was walking beside him, couldn't help but say, "If you want to go out and have a look around, you can come with me. After the rain recedes and the roads are open, I will leave here to run some errands. You can come with me, and I'll pay you."
Li Ke put his helmet back on: "We'll talk about it later. Just call me Brother Li when we're out. I don't want to have to deal with too many people and explain myself."
Mo Bao'er and Mo Cheng naturally respected Li Ke's wishes. When they parted, Mo Bao'er invited Li Ke to visit the guard's training ground the next day. Li Ke had nothing else to do, so he agreed.
Standing on the small building, Chen Jiaojiao saw Li Ke returning alone at night. She really wanted to splash him with his foot bath water, but considering how formidable he was, she held back.
Back in her room, she couldn't help but complain to her mother, "Is that man surnamed Li going to live here forever? I feel upset and angry just thinking about him. Mom, do you have any way to get rid of him?"
Li Zhenzhen was sitting under the lamp reading a book. When she heard her daughter's words, she replied coldly, "I don't know. There's nothing I can do. If you don't want to be kicked out of here, you'd better behave yourself from now on! If you keep acting stupidly, I might not be able to save you many times."
Chen Jiaojiao's eyes widened: "Mom, what do you mean? Are you looking down on me?"
Li Zhenzhen did not answer her, her eyes fixed on what she was looking at.
Chen Jiaojiao angrily snatched her book and threw it aside: "I'm talking to you! Do you think you're so great just because you've become a benefactor of the Mo family? Now that I have no one to rely on, I've become a burden?"
Li Zhenzhen rubbed her temples: "I didn't mean that. We are each other's only family. How could I possibly look down on you? I just hope you can be more tolerant. If we want to maintain our current life, we can't let the Mo family get annoyed."
Chen Jiaojiao still didn't believe it: "You are their benefactor, that's what they promised!"
Li Zhenzhen looked at Chen Jiaojiao: "But you are not. Not only are you not, you also have a history of colluding with the enemy, which is why I want you to behave yourself!"
Chen Jiaojiao's temper remained unchanged: "So I have to be subservient? I have to tuck my tail between my legs and be your obedient daughter. Now that you've become a great hero, I should listen to everything you say!"
Li Zhenzhen looked at Chen Jiaojiao without saying a word, but the meaning in her eyes was a question: Shouldn't it be like this?
Chen Jiaojiao looked at Li Zhenzhen and sneered twice: "Mom, I'm all grown up now. I'm not so easy to fool or coax anymore. I can endure some grievances, but there are some I don't want to endure, and you can't expect me to endure them either! Do you think I can't see through you? You just think you've salvaged everything by killing Gao Ren to get the life you have now. I'm living off you, so I have to be obedient. If I'm not obedient, you can abandon me just like you abandoned Gao Ren, right?"
As Chen Jiaojiao's words became increasingly outrageous, Li Zhenzhen quickly rebuked her, "What nonsense are you spouting? How can Gao Ren compare to you? Besides, don't you know what happened back then? If I hadn't killed Gao Ren and we had both been captured by the Mo family, what would have become of us? Can't you imagine?"
Chen Jiaojiao, driven by her stubbornness, insisted, "What will be the outcome? Given the Mo family's style, she'll just be sent to the bottom as a laborer. Even if she's sentenced to death, that would be a quick death. Besides, if you hadn't killed Gao Ren, who knows who would have won or lost? If you hadn't saved Mo Bao'er, what kind of young lady would she be now? She was so humble when she begged me to save her, but now she's all high and mighty."
Li Zhenzhen looked disappointed: "How did you become like this? Are these your true feelings? Is your mind filled with nothing but these thoughts? Have you lost even the most basic ability to make sound judgments?"
Chen Jiaojiao sat down on the sofa next to her and said rebelliously, "Don't look at me like that, my mind is perfectly clear! I know you did the right thing, but what I said wasn't wrong either, Mom. I've seen through you a long time ago, you really are ruthless! But don't think you can control me like before. We have so many secrets in common. I may not be able to make our lives better, but I can make you lose everything!"
Li Zhenzhen's eyes turned cold. She stood up and said coldly, "Do as you please. Just like you said, the worst that can happen is that I lose everything I have now. I've suffered before, and I can endure it. Can you? If you're so capable and think I'm restricting you, you can go out and develop your career elsewhere. Everything I have now is what I fought for. You're just relying on me now. If you're not satisfied, go ahead and make a scene."
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