Chapter 20: Make yourself stronger by using existing resources
Xiaoxi covered her face and said nothing.
Li Hongbin walked in front of Xiaoxi, stopped and said to her seriously: "Tell me if you are wronged in the future, but you can't run away from home, okay?"
Xiaoxi finally couldn't hold back her tears at this time. It turned out that the person on the other side believed that she was wronged.
Li Hongbin pulled Xiaoxi to sit on the stone pier by the road. The bright moonlight sprinkled on the sea and on Xiaoxi's head.
After Xiaoxi calmed down, Li Hongbin asked Xiaoxi what happened today.
Xiaoxi told her everything, and she also said what she said to Qin Lan. At last, she widened her eyes and said to Li Hongbin word by word: "Dad, I didn't push Li Wenting. I didn't even touch her." Then she lowered her eyes, "As for me not washing her clothes, I was indeed angry at that time. Why didn't she wash her own clothes?"
"You are right. What you thought is right. You should wash your own clothes and it will be the same in the future. But you also did something wrong."
Xiaoxi looked up at Li Hongbin, feeling worried. Should she have spoken to Qin Lan like that?
"Your first mistake was not to skip meals. If you are hungry and hurt your body, you will be the one who suffers. Others make you angry, but you still don't eat. Aren't you punishing yourself for the mistakes of others? Remember to eat well under any circumstances.
Your second mistake was not to run away from home. You are still so young. What if you meet a bad person outside? Your most important task now is to study hard and grow up well. You must learn to use the existing resources to make yourself stronger. Only when you are strong will others dare not bully you. You must work hard to climb to the top of the mountain, so that people you don't like will eventually look up to you."
Li Hongbin's words had a very shocking effect on Xiaoxi.
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In the Li's living room, Qin Lan began to be distracted after Li Hongbin left. When Li Wenting and Li Wenhua came home from outside, Qin Lan's dinner was not ready yet. Li Wenting's foot injury was not serious, so she went out to play with her friends in the afternoon.
"Mom, why is the dinner not ready yet?" Li Wenhua had played all afternoon and was already hungry. Suddenly he thought of Xiaoxi upstairs again, "Did my second sister come downstairs to eat later?"
Qin Lan's face was a little stiff when she heard it, and she only replied: "You only know how to eat as soon as you come back." She automatically avoided the topic of Xiaoxi.
Li Wenting guessed that Xiaoxi probably didn't eat, and said to Li Wenhua: "Wenhua, go upstairs and help me get the medicine down."
Li Wenhua automatically skipped the topic of Xiaoxi. When he went
upstairs to get the medicine, when he passed by Xiaoxi's room, he thought about it and knocked on Xiaoxi's door, but there was no movement. He put his ear to the door and listened for a while, but there was no sound at all. He pushed the door open, and it was empty. He hurried downstairs: "Mom, my second sister is missing."
Qin Lan ignored Li Wenhua.
Li Wenhua thought his mother didn't hear him, and repeated it several times behind Qin Lan.
Qin Lan then replied impatiently: "I know, your father has gone to look for her. I don't know where he is hiding on the island." She subconsciously never thought that Xiaoxi could leave the island by herself.
"My second sister won't go back to her previous home, will she?" Li Wenhua began to worry.
"Why do you care so much? Dad has already gone to look for her. She doesn't know how to take a boat, and she can't go far by herself. Did you take my medicine?" Li Wenting felt disgusted when she saw Li Wenhua talking about Xiaoxi all the time. She
had just heard Li Wenhua ask if Xiaoxi had returned to her previous home, and she actually had some hope in her heart. Only when Xiaoxi left could she live like before.
Qin Lan waited for her to finish cooking and set the table. When the three of them were halfway through their meal at the table, Li Hongbin came back with Xiaoxi.
Li Wenhua's eyes lit up and he stood up quickly, "Dad, second sister, you are back."
But Li Wenting's eyes darkened.
Qin Lan heaved a sigh of relief, but at the same time, she was angry again. "In the future, stay at home and don't cause trouble for adults. You can't be justified if you do something wrong."
Xiaoxi didn't look at her and stood next to Li Hongbin.
"What did Xiaoxi do wrong?" Li Hongbin forced himself to ask calmly.
"She pushed Tingting down and didn't admit it." Qin Lan put down her chopsticks heavily.
Li Hongbin walked in front of Li Wenting and asked, "Did Xiaoxi push you down today?"
Li Wenting was so nervous that she dodged her eyes and nodded in a calm manner.
But who is Li Hongbin? He could tell at a glance whether Li Wenting was lying or not. "Xiaoxi pushed you down while standing in front of me?"
Li Wenting whispered again.
"Why are you interrogating a prisoner? Look how scared you made Tingting." Qin Lan hurriedly stopped him.
Li Hongbin ignored Qin Lan and continued, "I was standing in front of you and pushed you down. How come your knee was injured? Shouldn't you have leaned back?"
Li Wenting burst into tears.
Qin Lan was stunned by Li Hongbin's question, but when she saw Li Wenting crying, she ran over and hugged Li Wenting, then looked at Li Hongbin with a reproachful look, "Why did you do such a cruel thing to a child?"
Li Hongbin's forehead was bulging with anger. He was angry and disappointed at the moment. He was angry that the matter was so obvious, but Qin Lan still protected Li Wenting without principles. Li Wenting was disappointed. He seemed to understand why Xiaoxi reacted like this today. Xiaoxi, who
had been watching coldly throughout the whole process, was relieved now. She suddenly felt how ridiculous it was for her to run away from home because of them.
Like that girl said, making others unhappy is the real skill. She will practice this skill well in the future.
And as her father said, she will use all resources to make herself stronger.
Li Wenting can stay here without changing her expression even though she is not her father's biological daughter. She is her father's biological daughter. Why should she leave? She wants to eat well, drink well, study well, and go to college in the future.
At this moment, she just feels sorry for her father being so angry.
Xiaoxi stepped forward and grabbed Li Hongbin's arm, looking up at him: "Dad, I'm hungry, let's eat first, okay?"
Li Hongbin looked at her big round eyes, and his heart was comforted. He glanced at Li Wenting who was crying and Qin Lan who was comforting her, and replied: "Okay, let's eat first."
Xiaoxi hurriedly took the bowl and chopsticks to serve the rice, and ate calmly with Li Hongbin.
Xiaoxi, who didn't feel hungry at first, felt very hungry as soon as she started eating. She took a piece of braised eggplant with chopsticks and accompanied it with white rice. It was so fragrant. Although the eggplant didn't taste very good, it was full of oil. Wang Juhua would never have been willing to put so much oil in the past. Dad was right. You should always eat seriously.
Xiaoxi, who was eating seriously, only had food in her eyes at this moment, and automatically blocked out the crying from the other side.
Li Wenhua didn't dare to speak all the time. He felt that this moment was really weird. His left hand was crying, and his right hand was concentrating on eating. He didn't want to face this situation. When he was thinking about how to leave the living room, the crying on the left hand suddenly stopped.
It turned out that Li Wenting was also stunned by Xiaoxi and Li Hongbin. She found that her crying was useless to Li Hongbin, so she suddenly stopped.
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