Chapter 13 Which relative from the country is this?
"You sit down first, I'll go see your mother." Li Hongbin didn't notice Xiaoxi's movements, and went upstairs while talking.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Qin Lan rummaging through the drawers in the room.
Qin Lan saw Li Hongbin coming in and said, "I'll find some of my old clothes for her to wear."
"Why are you looking for your clothes? You can just take Tingting's clothes. Tingting has a lot of clothes anyway." Li Hongbin frowned.
After hearing this, Qin Lan turned around and said, "Tingting is a sensitive child. She never likes others to touch her clothes."
"Qin Lan, Xiaoxi is our child. Originally, Tingting's life should have belonged to Xiaoxi. What's more, Tingting has been with us since he was a child and has never suffered any hardship. We have never treated him unfairly. Now it's just taking a piece of clothing." Li Hongbin was a little excited.
Qin Lan couldn't control herself and cried while sitting on the bed. "How could this happen to us? The child I raised with so much effort is not ours. Now I don't know how to tell Tingting."
"She will still be our child in the future. When the children come back, we will talk to her properly. We can't hurt Xiaoxi's heart now. Go find Tingting's clothes for Xiaoxi." Li Hongbin advised.
When Qin Lan found Li Wenting's clothes and went downstairs with Li Hongbin, they found Xia Xiaoxi standing in the living room.
"Xiaoxi, why don't you sit down?" Li Hongbin said.
"This sofa is soft, I'm not used to sitting on it." Xia Xiaoxi lowered her head and said.
Li Hongbin's heart twisted when he heard this. "Silly Xiaoxi, you will get used to it after sitting for a long time. This will be your home in the future, you don't have to be so restrained."
Qin Lan was originally thinking about how to explain to Li Wenting, and seeing Xiaoxi like this, her heart became even more complicated. Her biological daughter had never even sat on the sofa. After all, she was raised by those ignorant villagers, and she could not compare with Tingting, who she raised and nurtured carefully. At the same time, she felt a little pity for her biological daughter, "Xiaoxi, come, I will take you to wash up."
Qin Lan took Xiaoxi to the bathroom, and explained to her because she was worried that she would not know how to use the shower and faucet.
After Qin Lan left, Xiaoxi breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at the shower curiously. The water came out of the shower, which was much more convenient than taking a bath in a big wooden tub.
Xiaoxi used the shower carefully, using a small piece of soap that Qin Lan had specially cut from the soap. She knew that Qin Lan felt that her body was not clean.
She washed her hair carefully.
After washing, Xiaoxi put on the clothes Qin Lan gave her, which was a white top with lace sleeves, matched with a green skirt. It looked very beautiful.
Xiaoxi packed up and was about to open the door, only to hear Qin Lan outside say: "How do I tell Tingting this? Tingting, she won't run away by herself and not recognize me as her mother, right?" As she spoke, a sobbing sound came.
"Keep your voice down," Li Hongbin said in a low voice, "it's not good if Xiaoxi hears it."
Xiaoxi stood behind the door for a long time. She didn't notice that the water on her hair dripped onto her clothes. She opened the door only after the crying outside the door stopped.
Qin Lan heard the sound and looked over, and was stunned. Xiaoxi came out like a lotus flower emerging from the water. She was graceful and pleasing to the eye like a lotus after the rain, which was completely different from her dusty appearance just now.
Xiaoxi had been eating well with Li Hongbin these days, so she regained some weight, but she was still very thin, and there was a crusted wound on her forehead. Her little face was pale and bloodless. But her oval face, almond eyes, and rosy mouth were exactly the same as Qin Lan's.
Isn't this what I looked like when I was young?
Qin Lan's heart softened all of a sudden. It was a magical feeling to have a girl who looked like her standing in front of her. In the past, she felt regretful when she looked at Li Wenting, who looked nothing like her.
Li Hongbin smiled and looked at Xiaoxi gently.
"Mom, which relative from the country is this? Why are you wearing my clothes?" A girl's voice suddenly rang out.
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