Before that, she had asked the village chief's wife to go back to her room to rest.
Gu Mingfeng frowned unhappily, "Ruoxi is here, and this is your attitude? She is your biological sister after all, you should at least..."
"What should we do? If you are here as guests, you can leave now. No one is available to entertain you tonight."
Jiang Mingxin pointed to the teapot and teacup beside him and said, "If you are thirsty, just pour it yourself. It's not like you don't have hands."
"you!"
Bai Ruoxi quickly pulled Gu Mingfeng and said in a good-tempered manner, "Brother Mingfeng, I don't know how my dad is doing. Go check on him."
"Yes, I have to go and see her." Gu Mingfeng spoke softly to her, but turned around and shouted at Jiang Mingxin: "Take good care of Ruoxi, okay? If she loses even a hair, I will never forgive you!"
After he walked away, Jiang Mingxin's face remained calm.
Bai Ruoxi's gaze lingered on her for a long time, and her eyes inexplicably became red. "I'm sorry, Mingxin, I should have come back sooner. When I left with my mother, you didn't come to the village entrance to see me off. I thought... you hated me to death, so I didn't dare come back all these years, for fear of angering you."
Jiang Mingxin raised his eyebrows slightly, "Then why did you come back this time?"
"We are sisters after all~" Bai Ruoxi's innocent eyes were filled with tears. She held her hand with trembling hands, but was frightened by the calluses on her hands.
After hesitating for a long moment, she reorganized her words. "I know he's not a good father, but raising you wasn't easy. This time, you're putting justice above your own family, which is certainly right from a moral point of view. But sending your own father to jail isn't a good thing. How will the villagers view you in the future? Your reputation is already... I'm afraid no family in the surrounding area would dare to marry you."
"So?" Jiang Mingxin looked straight into her eyes. "Even if that's the case, so what?"
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