Bai Ruozhen hesitated, "Can we hear the door next door?"
"Of course." Gu Xiaoli said calmly, "Last time, someone knocked on the door next door and I went out to check, but there was no one there. Besides, I didn't see anyone when I first came in."
Bai Ruozhen believed it and sat down again. Fortunately, there was no more knocking on the door. Bai Ruozhen really thought that it was the people next door knocking. Gu Xiaoli also breathed a sigh of relief and just hoped that Li Xiuming would give up and leave as soon as possible.
"Who else is coming tomorrow?" Gu Xiaoli didn't want to think about Li Xiuming so she changed the subject.
Bai Ruozhen said, "It's just my parents, my three sisters-in-law, and my fourth sister. My eldest brother and his sister-in-law said early in the morning that they don't have time to come."
Gu Xiaoli curled her lips. "I guess it's because my sister-in-law is afraid of seeing the three boys suffer that she doesn't want to come. In fact, no one else cares whether she gave birth to a daughter or a son except herself. She wishes others bad things all day long, but she won't let herself go."
Bai Ruozhen was unwilling to comment on this, but she really looked down on Song Mei in her heart. She even thought it was better if Song Mei didn't come, as she always felt that her coming would make things uneasy.
After a while, Doubao and Jiaozi woke up and cried out in the house. Bai Ruozhen smiled and hurried in.
"Mom~" Doubao saw his mother anxiously stretching out her arms to hug him.
Jiaozi next to him was not to be outdone, "Mom, hug me."
Bai Ruozhen looked at this and that, went over to give each of them a kiss, and then picked them up in each hand. When Gu Xiaoli entered the room, she was stunned to see her master so fierce, "Sister-in-law, you are so powerful."
Doubao hugged her neck tightly. Bai Ruozhen handed the dumplings to Gu Xiaoli and said, "Take them away quickly."
Jiaozi turned his head and tried to hug Bai Ruozhen's neck, but his neck had already been occupied by Doubao, so he couldn't snatch it away from his younger brother Doubao.
Gu Xiaoli went over to take the dumplings, "Dumplings, come here, auntie."
Jiaozi looked around with his big black eyes and then stretched out his arms towards Gu Xiaoli. His mother was his now. Doubao was very happy and hugged Bai Ruozhen's neck and ran up and down. Bai Ruozhen almost couldn't hold him and quickly put him on the kang. Doubao looked at his mother and felt a little aggrieved, so he stretched out his arms again to be hugged.
Bai Ruozhen looked at him and said, "Call me mom."
"Mom." Doubao called out clearly, and he felt good after calling out, so he called out to his mother over and over again.
When Jiaozi saw that his younger brother was calling out, he also started calling out. The two brothers kept calling out "Mom, Mom."
Just as they were making a fuss, the door opened again. Gu Changqing walked in and said with a smile, "Is the little brat awake?"
"Just now..." Gu Xiaoli's unspoken words were stuck in her throat when she saw Li Mingxiu. She thought Li Mingxiu had gone back, but she didn't expect him to have been waiting at the door for half a day.
Perhaps because he had been in the cold wind for too long, Li Xiuming's face was a little pale. When he saw Gu Xiaoli looking at him, he smiled.
Gu Xiaoli looked away, but still saw a trace of red on Li Xiuming's chapped lips.
"Why didn't you come back with Xiuming?" Gu Changqing took off his coat and went into the inner room to hug his son.
Gu Xiaoli held the dumplings and refused to give them to him, "I don't want to be with him."
Gu Changqing glanced at her and then looked at Li Xiuming. Li Xiuming smiled and said, "I didn't tell her in advance, so she didn't know I was coming."
Upon hearing this, Bai Ruozhen glanced at Gu Xiaoli, but in his heart he was thinking about the knock on the door when Gu Xiaoli just entered.
Maybe they came together, but were locked outside by Gu Xiaoli.
Gu Xiaoli remained silent, then said to Bai Ruozhen, "Sister-in-law, I'm hungry."
"Yes, I'll go cook for you." Bai Ruozhen stuffed the bean bun that was lying on her neck and chewed it to Gu Changqing and walked out. "There's bone soup in the morning. Make a bowl of noodles for it."
Gu Xiaoli nodded, "Okay."
Bai Ruozhen went out and smiled at Li Xiuming, "Cousin, sit down and warm yourself up first."
Li Xiuming smiled and nodded, then sat down next to the stove.
Bai Ruozhen went out and made two large bowls of bone broth noodles, topped them with some chopped green onions, brought them in and placed them on the kang table, then called out, "Come and eat quickly, both of you."
"Okay." Li Xiuming responded, washed his hands and sat on the kang.
Gu Xiaoli glanced at him, then picked up some noodles, blew them cool carefully, and fed them to Jiaozi, "Jiaozi, come and eat some noodles."
Jiaozi was not hungry, so he turned around and climbed off her, crawling around on the kang with Doubao, and then played by holding onto the windowsill.
Li Xiuming glanced at her from time to time while eating noodles, but Gu Xiaoli lowered her head and ate noodles, not even looking at him.
Li Xiuming's eyes darkened and he ate noodles silently, but he was thinking in his heart how to make Gu Xiaoli stop being angry.
He admitted that he was indeed too timid before. He really didn't dare to gamble at that time. He was afraid that his family would have to live in that shabby hut for the rest of their lives, and he was afraid that Gu Xiaoli would suffer if she married him.
Now he also understood why Gu Xiaoli refused, but he could not give up, because Gu Xiaoli was the light in his heart.
After eating the noodles, Gu Xiaoli took the bowl and went out to wash it, but was stopped by Li Xiuming, "It's cold outside, I'll go." He grabbed the bowl and went out.
Bai Ruozhen came in, "What's going on between you and him?"
Gu Xiaoli curled her lips, "He just thinks his family is about to become rich, and he wants to start dating again, but I don't care about him anymore."
"If you don't care about him, who do you care about?" Bai Ruozhen asked.
"I don't know." Gu Xiaoli lowered her head and twirled her fingers. "Anyway, he can't always have the final say. Why should I accept it when he rejected me? Now that he wants to date again, I have to accept it too. He's beautiful."
Bai Ruozhen pursed her lips and smiled, understanding what Gu Xiaoli was thinking. However, she didn't intend to stand on Li Xiuming's side. After all, she was closer to Gu Xiaoli. But Gu Xiaoli obviously had Li Xiuming in her heart, so she thought it would be better to help her.
"Besides, who knows if they will still look down on a small worker like me after I am rehabilitated?" Bai Ruozhen said weakly.
"I'm afraid you won't like me."
Gu Xiaoli looked up in surprise and saw Li Xiuming standing at the door looking at her with a smile.
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