Although the boy was only 18 years old, he was a boy after all, and his hands were quite powerful. Wang Xiao'e was pushed by him and staggered forward a few steps involuntarily.
"Shitou, what are you doing?"
Lu 녦놌ping, who had just walked in, yelled at Shitou, and Shitou loosened his hand. Although he did not burst into tears like his brothers and sisters, his tears were also falling in strings.
Wang Xiao'e stood there with her head down, her lips almost bitten to the point of bleeding.
She knew that she had wronged the three children, and the three children refused to acknowledge her.
This was all caused by her, no one can be blamed.
She suddenly raised her hand and slapped herself in the face a few times, "Shitou, Mom was wrong, Mom is sorry for you, I am not worthy of being your mother, I am not worthy..."
Upon seeing this, Li Dani quickly jumped up from the bed, rushed to Wang Xiaoe and grabbed her arm.
"Xiao'e, what are you doing? You shouldn't do this in front of the children. Don't scare them."
At this time, Lu Ping also came over and pulled up Shitou and walked towards him, "Shitou, let's go to sleep."
The stone struggled for a few times, but was finally pulled away by his grandfather.
"It's so cold, why are you wearing this?"
After holding Wang Xiao'e's arm, Li Dani realized that Wang Xiao'e was wearing very thin clothes. Not only was she not wearing a cotton coat, she didn't even have a sweater.
She hurriedly opened the closet, dug out an old cotton-padded jacket that belonged to Wang Xiao'e and put it on her.
Thinking about how long she had just stood there, her clothes must have been frozen.
"You stay here and talk to the kids for a while. I'll make you a bowl of ginger soup."
Wang Xiao'e didn't say anything, but tears flowed without hesitation.
If she thinks about it, she will realize that since she married into this family, her in-laws have never treated her as a human being. She has received much more warmth in this family than in her parents' home.
Maybe she had lived a good life for too long and she was tired of it. Only by going through those days when people didn't treat her like a human being again could she feel again how precious this good life was.
Li Dani went out, and the crying of Yaya and Dandan on the bed became quieter.
Wang Xiao'e walked to the bed again, trying to say a few words to the two children.
When Dandan saw her pulling up the quilt and hiding her head inside, Yaya followed her brother's example and covered her head with the quilt.
Wang Xiao'e just stood there awkwardly, looking at the two little lumps in the quilt. She really wanted to hug them and kiss their little faces, but she was afraid that they would cry and reject her.
She stretched her hand above the quilt, but finally stopped there.
When Li Dani came in with the ginger soup, she saw Wang Xiao'e standing motionless in front of the bed, looking at the two children under the quilt, with tears all over her face.
It was only then that Li Dani realized that Wang Xiao'e's face was so thin and deformed, and so pale and bloodless. Her heart couldn't help but ache.
She put the bowl of ginger soup on the table first, and then handed a handkerchief to Wang Xiao'e.
After Wang Xiao'e took it and wiped the tears from her face, Li Dani pulled a stool for her and then picked up the bowl of ginger soup and handed it to her.
"Drink it while it's hot, or you'll catch a cold."
Wang Xiao'e had been standing in the room for a long time, but she still had no warmth at all. She was indeed frozen.
When she touched the bowl of ginger soup, she found that brown sugar was added to it. She lowered her head and drank it sip by sip. The sweet and warm brown sugar ginger soup made her eyes wet again.
Li Dani saw that the two children on the bed were motionless, so she quietly lifted the quilt and looked, and found that both children were asleep with tears on their faces.
Perhaps they were covered too strictly, beads of sweat appeared on the foreheads of the two children.
Li Dani hurriedly picked up the towel on her shoulders, wiped the two children, and then tucked the quilt under them.
As she drank a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup, a warmth gradually permeated Wang Xiao'e's body, and she felt much more comfortable than before.
Li Dani reached out to take the bowl, and when she put it on the table, Wang Xiaoe knelt down in front of her with a thud.
"You...what are you doing? Get up and cool off."
Li Dani reached out her hand to pull her up, but Wang Xiao'e just knelt there and refused to get up no matter what she said.
Li Dani finally gave up. Thinking of Wang Xiaoe's resolute look when she left that night, she sat on the bed with a stern face, looked at Wang Xiaoe and asked coldly: "Tell me, what's the matter with you coming here so late at night?"
"I...I miss my children. Come...see them." Wang Xiao'e's voice was very low and she hesitated. It was obvious that she was not telling the truth.
Li Dani stared at her, knowing that she was not telling the truth, and deliberately said: "Well, since you are here to see the children and have seen them now, it is not good to ask you to leave at this time of night, so you can sleep here with the two children for one night.
However, you have to leave tomorrow morning before the child wakes up, otherwise the child will see you leaving and cry again, which would be heartbreaking for you.
Okay, it’s getting late, I won’t tell you about it tomorrow as I still have work to do, so you should go to bed quickly.”
After Li Dani finished speaking, she stood up and prepared to leave. Seeing this, Wang Xiaoe rushed over and hugged her legs.
"Mom, I was wrong. Can you give me another chance?"
"Xiao'e, what's wrong with you? Did something happen?" Li Dani frowned and looked at her.
In fact, when she saw Wang Xiao'e's thin clothes and unrecognizable face, she knew that she must be living a hard life. She didn't say anything and didn't want to ask too much about her former mother-in-law.
Now that she has spoken, she can no longer play dumb.
Wang Xiao'e suddenly burst into tears, but she was afraid of waking the child, so her crying sounded suppressed.
After a while, she finally calmed down, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and moved her knees closer to Li Dani.
"Mom, I was ignorant before and let you and dad down. Now I know I was wrong. I want to come back. Can you and dad still let me come back?"
Wang Xiao'e spoke in a low voice, and because she was embarrassed, she avoided looking at Li Dani's face.
Li Dani remained silent for a long time after hearing this, and the room became so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard.
Wang Xiao'e's heart was in suspense, and she kept secretly observing Li Dani out of the corner of her eyes.
"Oh!" Li Dani suddenly sighed.
Wang Xiao'e's heart suddenly rose to her throat, and she quickly raised her head to look at Li Dani's face.
"Xiao'e, I didn't want to keep you. Have you forgotten what you said when you left that night? You said you wouldn't regret it. After you left, I and the children's grandfather spent many days to help the three children adapt.
In the first few days after you left, Dandan looked for mom every night and cried for half the night every day. We finally managed to get through it. We never want to go through that kind of life again.
If I let you come back, and you say you can't stay for two days and then you want to leave, we will suffer, so I think since you left, you should not come back. "