Chapter 57: Thank You
Qin Huiyin really thinks that this is not necessary.
However, her mother wanted her to consolidate her position in the family and play the good guy role. So she couldn't let her down and continue to play the bad guy role.
Tang Yi laughed and knelt down, kowtowed to Li Taohua.
Li Taohua was startled by him: "What are you doing?"
Tang Yi smiled and lowered his head, choking with sobs, "Thank you for saving me."
Li Taohua: "...Then you don't have to kneel, just stand up!"
Before Tang Yi smiled, Tang Luwu knelt down with him and kowtowed to Li Taohua: "Thank you for saving my life, mother."
Li Taohua's fingers trembled.
Her expression was a little stiff: "You called me...what?"
"Mother." Tang Luwu shouted loudly, "You saved me, so from now on you are our mother."
Li Taohua looked at Qin Huiyin as if asking for help.
Qin Huiyin was amused by her expression.
Li Taohua can act pitiful, can act like a shrew, can pull people's hair, but when facing the two kneeling children, her expression is more flustered than ever before.
"Mom, congratulations on having a pair of children." Qin Huiyin said.
As for Tang Yichen, he was unwilling to change his words, and they never forced him. Just like her, she didn't plan to change her words either.
Li Taohua couldn't stand this atmosphere and waved her arms impatiently: "Are you still not hungry? If you are not hungry, I am starving to death. You can shout whatever you want, but if others ask, don't say I forced you to shout."
Tang Luwu pulled Tang Yi up and said to him with a smile: "Little brother, we will also have a mother from now on."
Tang Yichen looked at the brother and sister with a complicated expression.
Unlike them who have vague memories of their biological mother, as the eldest son, he has the most contact with his biological mother. In addition, because he is a son and has shown to be very smart since childhood, his biological mother dotes on him very much, so he cannot call others mother like his younger siblings.
Of course, he would not stop his younger brother and sister from recognizing their stepmother as their mother. For them, it was always good to have a mother who loved them.
Tang Dafu felt more at ease when he saw Li Taohua recognized his children.
"Hurry up and sit down and eat, or it will get cold again."
The moonlight was nice today, and everyone had a reunion dinner under the moonlight. This seemed to be the first time that their family had a meal together.
Tang Yi's face hurt from laughing, and it hurt to chew food, so he could only eat some rice with soup.
"My daughter, how was this matter finally handled?" Li Taohua asked.
"He will apologize to you in front of the whole village tomorrow." Qin Huiyin said, "We'll talk about compensation then."
"Compensation? You can still ask them for compensation?" Li Taohua asked expectantly, "I beat Li Erniu even worse. It won't be easy to get compensation, right?"
"They are the ones who started the trouble, so of course they should compensate us. Mom, you were acting in self-defense. You had to do it to protect your younger brother. It's not your fault."
"My daughter is right. I said it before. I am not wrong. There is nothing to feel guilty about." Li Taohua said, "Then how much compensation should we ask them to pay?"
"We spent a lot of money on medicine today. We can't go too far. If we touch Tang Jizu's bottom line, it will be difficult to reach an agreement." Qin Huiyin said, "One or two taels of silver!"
"It's only one tael!" Li Taohua was a little disappointed. "I thought I could get ten or eight taels."
"Mother, didn't you just say that you beat Baoyu's mother pretty badly? We're here to see the doctor anyway, so let's be less demanding and be more generous."
After discussing the countermeasures, everyone had their meal and went to bed early.
The Tang family was harmonious and warm, but the situation was completely different on the other side.
Li Erniu was tied to the trunk of a big tree in the yard. Mosquitoes flew around her, biting her face and leaving big lumps. Her face was already swollen, and now it was even more swollen.
She felt pain and itchiness, and said to Tang Jizu: "Dad, I know I was wrong, please forgive me!"
"Baoyu was beaten like this today. How did you, as a mother, take care of him? When the incident happened, you just acted recklessly, causing us not only to lose face but also to lose a lot of money. You have no brains. You should wake up tonight and think clearly about how to deal with such a thing next time."
"Baoyu, quickly tell your father to put mother down! Mother is injured and really can't bear it anymore."
Tang Baoyu curled his lips: "My father is right, it's because you are too stupid that I was bullied. I spent so much money just now, and that money was originally saved to buy meat for me. Because you are useless, I have no meat to eat recently."
Li Erniu said with a sad face: "Daddy, I will take good care of Baoyu next time and won't let him get hurt. Next time I encounter something like this, I will... I will..."
"You are so stupid. You still don't understand where you went wrong. You should apologize to Baoyu first, so that this matter can be resolved. When everyone has forgotten about this matter, you can find an opportunity to deal with them, and make it so that others can't see that you are taking revenge. I usually tell you not to offend people and to make more friends, but you really haven't learned anything. You are stupid, and you want Baoyu to be as stupid as you."
"Dad, I'm not stupid." Tang Baoyu was not convinced.
"Okay, I'll let you go today. Baoyu, put her down. It's so late, she must be starving. Let her get some food."
Li Erniu was finally free. She hurried to the kitchen to cook. It was dark now, and her family couldn't afford to buy an oil lamp, so they could only cook in the dark.
However, the noodles made in the dark had too much salt in them and were extremely salty. Tang Jizu took only one bite and then poured it on her, scalding her and making her cry loudly.
Tang Baoyu did the same thing and also splashed the noodles on Li Erniu.
Li Erniu had just endured the pain, but now she was hurt again and was scalded to death.
Tang Jizu was extremely annoyed, and thinking that the widow Wang next door might still have food, he knocked on the door of the next door room at night.
This night was destined to be restless. The villagers also talked about the two families for a long time. Some people said that Li Taohua was pretending. She usually bullied Tang Yixiao the most, but now she stood up for him. To put it bluntly, she deliberately quarreled with Li Erniu and took this opportunity to cause trouble for Li Erniu. Others said that Tang Baoyu was domineering. He relied on his father's ability to make money and often brought him candy. He used candy to bribe the children in the village to be his followers. Now someone finally took care of him, which was a good thing for them.
They also speculated what happened after the two families went to see the doctor and how they planned to deal with the matter. Because of this incident, everyone in the village stayed up all night and couldn't sleep.
Of course, some people were worried that the fire would burn themselves. After all, Tang Baoyu had three or four little followers. In addition to the two who followed Tang Baoyu yesterday, there were two who had followed Tang Baoyu to bully Tang Yixiao before. Their parents were worried that if they provoked Tang Yichen's family, they would also be implicated.
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