"Xiaoxue is back?"
As soon as the car drove in, the Lin family's butler came to greet them.
This person had been working as the housekeeper in their family since the original owner was born.
He is now probably in his fifties. The Lin family has never treated him as an outsider; they have always treated him like one of their own.
The younger generation of the Lin family all call him Uncle Wang, and he has watched the original owner grow up since he was a child.
"Uncle Wang, where are my parents?"
Lin Xue drove her car to the bottom of her villa and looked around but did not see Lin Zhenyuan and Tang Wenwan.
The Lin and Han families together now number about 20 people.
On the Lin family side, besides Lin's father and mother, there was the original owner's eldest brother Lin Yang, the butler and the butler's son Wang Hai, and five bodyguards of the Lin family.
Because the five bodyguards had been with Lin Zhenhua for over a decade, and all five of them were orphans with nowhere to go after the apocalypse, they had been following the Lin family ever since.
On the Han family side, there are Han's father and mother, Han's eldest son and his family of three, as well as Han's daughter and son-in-law.
The two families together make a total of 24 people.
After waiting at the door for a while, almost all of the twenty or so family members, except for Lin Xue's son and the five bodyguards who had not yet returned, gathered in front of the RV.
"Big brother, please find some things we need for tonight. Don't touch anything else yet. I have something to discuss with everyone!"
Lin Xue asked Lin Yang to get some food from the car, and then led everyone back to the Lin family mansion.
Back in the house, Lin Xue first went to see her adopted son in this life, who was also the first host of 629 reincarnated.
At this moment, the little boy was sleeping soundly in bed, but he looked rather thin due to long-term malnutrition.
Although she is petite, her skin is still very fair.
He clearly inherited his parents' good genes perfectly!
Lin Xue closed her bedroom door, found a bathtub, filled it halfway with water, and after her son woke up, she put him in the wooden tub and carefully washed him clean.
Two-year-old Han Mingxuan still can't speak. He's usually quiet and doesn't make a fuss. Even if he's not given food in time, he won't cry like other children.
At first, the Lin and Han families wondered if the child had some kind of illness.
But gradually, everyone realized that this child wasn't incapable of crying or making a fuss; he was just rather lazy!
Looking at the information she had gathered from her memories, and then at the pathetic state of the little brat she had been manipulating, Lin Xue suddenly felt a pang of sympathy for 629.
This kid has been such a lazy bum since he was little; he'll be a lazy bum when he grows up.
With such a useless piece of trash, she probably wouldn't even think of running away if no one protected her and zombies came.
"Hey!"
"Smack!"
"Waaaaah..."
In a bad mood, Lin Xue slapped the child's bottom, which was followed by a loud cry.
She was careful with her strength; she made sure the child felt pain, but she didn't actually hurt him.
Lin Xue felt that a child who could be so lazy must have lacked the harsh realities of society.
The reason this person was so lazy before must have been because 629 couldn't bear to punish him, which led to his increasingly undisciplined personality.
Thinking about the life on the run ahead, Lin Xue felt that if this little brat continued to lie around all day like before...
It will definitely slow down their progress. Even if the child is small, he still has weight. It's not enough to just rely on the four elderly people to take turns carrying him.
This isn't something that can be done in a day or two; this journey will last at least several months and possibly several years, during which they will be wandering the roads.
How can you carry a child around every day?
Although a two-year-old child can't walk very far yet, they shouldn't lie down all day when they don't need to walk, otherwise their bones will become soft and never harden!
A two-year-old child is learning to walk, so how can you let him lie down all the time?
Moreover, this guy isn't a normal child; his physique might even be stronger than that of an average adult male.
The reason he's performing so poorly right now is simply because he's too lazy.
Too lazy to wake up, I just want to lie flat!
Thinking this, Lin Xue ignored the crying child, changed his clothes and put them by the bed, letting him sit there against the wall and cry.
Using the water in the basin, I washed several sets of clothes and hung them out to dry by the window.
Then I heard a loud banging on my door.
"Xiaoxue, are you inside? Why is the child crying like this and you don't even look at him?"
The speaker was Lin Xue's mother, Tang Wenwan. They had heard the child crying downstairs and assumed Lin Xue would comfort the child upstairs, so they didn't come up.
But a long time had passed and the child's crying had not stopped, so the people below could no longer sit still. Therefore, Lin's mother came up on behalf of everyone to take a look.
"Mom, the door's open, come in!"
"I just gave Mingxuan a bath. All he wants to do all day is lie in bed and sleep. He doesn't want to learn to walk at all. I thought it wasn't good for him to just sleep all the time, so I let him sit on the edge of the bed, but he didn't like it and started crying!"
Lin Xue explained to her mother, but she never intended to coax her son.
"This child is much lazier than other children; it's time to intervene!"
“When you and your older brother were his age, you didn’t want to stay in bed to sleep at all. You would pester someone to take you out to play every day!”
Although she felt sorry for her grandson, Lin's mother did not think her daughter had done anything wrong.
Han Mingxuan originally thought that with his grandmother's arrival, he could continue to relax, but to his surprise, his grandmother did not follow his lead at all and instead agreed with his mother's decision.
Forget about crying, he blinked his big eyes and looked at the two women in front of him.
"Mother, look how smart Mingxuan is. He understands everything. He just knew we wouldn't want him to cry, so he's been putting on a show!"
"Is the food downstairs ready? If it is, let's take Mingxuan down to eat some!"
Although he had eaten five boxes of eight-treasure porridge beforehand to barely fill his stomach, the original owner's body was indeed very hungry, and that little bit of food had been used up along the way.
Upon hearing that they were going to eat, Han Mingxuan instinctively reached out his arms, wanting Lin's mother to hug him.
But Lin Xue picked up the child and put him on the ground before his mother could, and then took his little hand and slowly walked downstairs.
Lin's mother was worried, so she quickly took Han Mingxuan's other hand, without any intention of hugging him.
Han Mingxuan, who didn't want to walk, was about to cry when he caught a glimpse of his mother's outstretched left hand out of the corner of his eye, and immediately shut his mouth.
He had no choice but to slowly and steadily move downstairs!
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