Li Hehua tossed and turned that night. After thinking all night, she finally figured out what was going on: Zhang Tieshan really discovered that she was not the real Li Hehua.
Although for so long, apart from fulfilling her duties as a mother to Shu Lin, in other aspects, she really did things completely according to her own character, without any intention of deliberately imitating the original owner.
She and the original owner are two completely different people. They speak and act completely differently. It is normal for people to be suspicious of her. But Li Hehua thought that most people would never think of her as a resurrection. Even if they found it strange, they couldn't explain it. So she never worried about being discovered.
But now it has been discovered by Zhang Tieshan.
She was quite panicked yesterday, but now she has calmed down. Since Zhang Tieshan already knew, she can't change it. Let him know. She believes that Zhang Tieshan will not gossip and tell other people casually. Even if he does, others will not believe it. She is not worried about being treated as a monster or something.
She is still quite depressed about Zhang Tieshan's confession.
Although Zhang Tieshan can distinguish between her and the original owner, and will not bring his disgust for the original owner to her, nor will he hate her as much as he did when he first traveled through time, and he has been very good to her and helped her a lot during this period, but this does not mean that she has to marry him. Putting aside whether they have feelings for each other or not, she cannot accept Zhang Tieshan's mother and brother alone.
She knew clearly that Zhang Lin and Zhang Qingshan hated her. If she married such a man, how could she have a good life? She didn't need a man to take care of her. She could make money and live well. Why should she find a man to make herself suffer? What's more, she had an unfriendly mother-in-law and brother-in-law. She would have to be a fool to agree to him.
Anyway, she didn't want to be bullied by her mother-in-law and brother-in-law.
So, after a good sleep, Li Hehua was fully revived. He made up his mind that he would never accept Zhang Tieshan no matter what and would keep his distance from him in the future.
After figuring it out, Li Hehua felt much more relaxed. He no longer worried about Zhang Tieshan coming and went about his business as usual.
However, Zhang Tieshan did not come, which saved her a lot of trouble.
However, when Zhang Tieshan was not around, she and Dahe were too busy to handle the meal. They were so busy that they didn't even have time to drink a sip of water, but they still couldn't keep up with the speed of serving customers.
Only then did Li Hehua realize how much Zhang Tieshan had helped her silently.
She was really grateful to him in her heart, but she couldn't accept it emotionally.
Li Hehua plans to hire a new waiter to help. It is really too much for her and Dahe to handle the work alone, and she cannot ask Zhang Tieshan to help anymore. After hiring a new person, she plans to expand the scale of the stall. Now the stall is too busy. Many customers come but have no seats to sit. They can only wait for others to finish eating. This is not good, so Li Hehua plans to add two more tables to give customers more seats and add more types of food.
However, recruiting people is a troublesome matter, and it is not easy to find the right person. She has a good candidate in mind, that is Xie Yuan, the son of Mrs. Xie, who is a twelve-year-old boy. He is not short, but very thin.
She had seen the child several times. Every time he was either chopping wood in the yard or helping his sister wash clothes in the yard. Sister Xie said that he cooked most of the meals at home. Sister Xie was busy making money, so he and his sister cleaned the house together. He was a very sensible and capable child.
Li Hehua had spoken to this child several times. Although he was less talkative and not as lively as Dahe, he was quite polite and not a taciturn person. So Li Hehua felt that he was more suitable for the job of waiter and could also bring some income to the family.
But it's too early to say it now. She needs to ask Sister Xie and Xiao Yuan's opinions first. Although she intends to help Sister Xie's family in difficulty, she also needs the other party to be willing.
When closing the stall in the afternoon, Zhang Tieshan, who had been missing for a long time, appeared again, holding a little man in his hand. It was Shulin, who had returned to the village three days ago.
When the little guy saw Li Hehua, he felt so aggrieved that he ran towards her with his short legs. He opened his arms and asked for a hug before he even got to her. He looked so adorable that Li Hehua dropped everything and rushed over to pick him up, holding him tightly in her arms.
"Shulin, you're back, do you miss your mother?"
The little guy fluttered his head and nodded, and hugged his arms tighter.
He misses his mom so much.
Li Hehua kissed him hard on the cheek and asked him, "Did your little Shulin go home to see if grandma ate well, slept well, and took good care of herself?"
The little guy blinked and buried his head in Li Hehua's neck without moving.
Li Hehua understood that he must not have eaten or slept well, otherwise he would have nodded.
At this time, Zhang Tieshan came over with Shulin's things and said to Li Hehua, "Shulin doesn't eat the food my mother cooks. He relies on the food you bring him every day to fill his stomach. No matter how my mother coaxes him, it's useless." His mother was almost crying at home because of this. What he didn't say was that in the past few days, Shulin always wanted to run away. Every time he was found by his mother and brought back, but the next time he ran away, he knew to bring his small bag of food with him, and he didn't forget to bring Heizi. It was obvious that this little guy wanted to run back to find Li Hehua, but he didn't succeed.
When Li Hehua heard Zhang Tieshan's words, he did not turn around to look at him, nor did he answer him. He just looked at the little person in his arms and asked, "Is that so, Shulin? You don't want to eat?"
The little guy didn't look up, but rubbed against Li Hehua like a kitten, trying to please him.
Li Hehua originally wanted to pretend to criticize him, but seeing his little appearance, he couldn't bear to blame him. Forget it, he was different from ordinary children after all. Although he became a little more lively under the leadership of Gu Jinzhao after going to school, he was only lively with a few people around him. To other people, he was still closed and it was impossible for him to change all of a sudden.
You can't rush this kind of thing, you have to take it slow. She just hopes Shulin can make gradual progress.
At this time, Zhang Tieshan spoke again: "Make something for him to eat. He didn't eat lunch, so he must be hungry now."
It's almost an hour past noon and you haven't eaten yet? You must be starving. Li Hehua quickly carried the little guy in her arms to the table and sat him down, tapping his little nose, "You little rascal, you don't want to eat again! Can mom make you some pork chop noodles?"
The little guy's eyes lit up and he nodded.
Li Hehua smiled and scratched his little nose, turned around to turn on the fire, poured the cooked pork ribs soup into the pot, after it boiled, put in the noodles, then seasoned it. When it was almost time to serve, put in the stewed pork ribs and a little Chinese cabbage, and a bowl of pork ribs noodles was ready.
Li Hehua only made one bowl for Shulin, but not for Zhang Tieshan, because he must have already had lunch. If it was before, she would have made one for him even if she knew that Zhang Tieshan had already eaten, but now, it was not appropriate. What if he was unwilling to give up?
Li Hehua sighed silently in his heart, brought a bowl of pork rib noodles to Shulin, picked up the chopsticks and picked up a chopstick of noodles to feed him.
Shulin obediently opened his mouth very wide, and went down the meal in one bite, chewing it very happily. Although he didn't say anything, his expression clearly showed that he was very satisfied with the meal.
Li Hehua saw the satisfied look of the little guy, smiling on her face, but she was worried in her heart. She was worried whether the little guy could still live with her in the future. Before, Zhang Tieshan was willing to let the little guy live with her, and she thought Zhang Tieshan was a really good person. Now she felt that she was too naive. He probably didn't just give the little guy to her to take care of. Was he using the little guy to get close to her?
But what about now? She won't accept him. In this case, can he still let her take care of Shulin? Even if he is merciful and allows it, can Zhang Lin let her grandson stay outside like this? It's impossible without thinking. Not to mention in this feudal ancient times, even in modern society, no grandmother is willing to do this.
Did she reject Zhang Tieshan, and the price was to be completely separated from Shu Lin? But she couldn't bear to do that, it would hurt more than cutting her flesh.
Li Hehua didn't know what to do. She could only take one step at a time. If things really didn't work out, she would go to the school to see the little guy every day.
After feeding the little guy noodles with a heavy heart, Li Hehua began to pack up the stall.
Zhang Tieshan offered his help as usual and directly moved the things that Li Hehua and Dahe could not move onto the cart. No matter how Li Hehua refused, it was useless.
Li Hehua felt helpless and could only ignore him. In order to prevent him from pushing the cart to send her back as usual, Li Hehua directly put Shu Lin on the cart, grabbed the handle of the cart and started pushing it. Although it was quite heavy, she could still push it slowly, after all, she weighed about 130 pounds now.
Seeing that it was Li Hehua who was pushing the cart herself today, Dahe cleverly followed Li Hehua and pushed the cart together to save her the trouble.
Zhang Tieshan stood there, looking at Li Hehua's back pushing the cart, his brows furrowed, but he still followed him all the way to the yard.
Dahe said goodbye directly, but Zhang Tieshan stood in the yard and did not leave.
Li Hehua ignored him and carried the kid into the house, asking him, "Shulin, do you want to play with Heizi or go paint now?"
When Shulin was at home, he was either in a daze or playing with Heizi. He spent more time painting and writing in the calligraphy and painting room she set up for him.
Hearing Li Hehua's question, Shulin blinked and ran into the calligraphy and painting room with his short legs.
He wants to paint.
Seeing that Shulin had gone to paint, Li Hehua planned to take the dishes he brought back into the kitchen to wash them, but saw Zhang Tieshan still standing alone in the yard.
Li Hehua pursed her lips and said, "Zhang Tieshan, aren't you leaving yet? I'm going to close the gate."
Zhang Tieshan looked at Li Hehua deeply and said, "You haven't answered my question yesterday. Can you give me a chance?"
"Zhang Tieshan, I..."
Before Li Hehua could say anything to refuse, she was interrupted by Zhang Tieshan, "Don't be so hasty to refuse, okay? I know what you are thinking. Let me apologize to you first. During the time you lived in my house, I treated you very badly, and my family treated you badly too. I'm sorry, I really didn't know at that time that you were no longer the same Li Hehua, we just hated her too much. But, I, Zhang Tieshan, swear that I will treat you well in the future, and I will give you everything I can, and I will never let you suffer any grievances, nor will I let my family get angry with you. I will handle everything, do you believe me?"
To be honest, Li Hehua didn't expect Zhang Tieshan to say such a thing. It seemed that he didn't just think about liking her, but also considered her from her perspective, thinking about all her grievances and the grievances she would suffer. At this moment, Li Hehua believed that Zhang Tieshan was sincere to her.
However, sincerity does not mean happiness. Although he said it well and had good intentions, does he really not feel wronged? Sometimes men do not understand the war between women and cannot solve it. How many men said before marriage that they would never let you feel wronged in the future, but how many of them can do it?
Maybe those men meant what they said, but the reality was not what they expected and they were powerless to do anything.
Li Hehua was very grateful for Zhang Tieshan's kindness, and also very grateful that he did not treat her as an outlier just because she was an outlier, but liked her instead. However, she still couldn't accept it, so she said: "Zhang Tieshan, thank you for your kindness, but I can't accept you. My current identity is your ex-wife, the annoying Li Hehua. You know I'm not her, but others don't know, and can't know, at least your mother and brother don't know, they still hate me in their hearts, and they won't change in the future. In this situation, how can you be happy and happy?"
Li Hehua smiled and continued, "Zhang Tieshan, I live well on my own. I can make money, support myself, and I am free. This kind of life is much better than having a family to drag down and being controlled by my mother-in-law. So, I don't want to get married. This is good. I believe you can find a very good wife. I wish you happiness in the future."
Zhang Tieshan looked at her, his heart bitten bit by bit, a little painful, a little numb, his voice became low, "If you are afraid that my mother will embarrass you, I will live separately and not let you live with my mother; as for freedom, I will not restrict you, I will support you in whatever you want to do, and I will help you, I, Zhang Tieshan, will keep my word."
Li Hehua sighed, smiled and shook his head, "Zhang Tieshan, it's impossible for us to do this. Let's not talk about it. Go back and don't come here again."
Zhang Tieshan's eyes dimmed quickly, and he was silent for a while. When he spoke again, his voice was a little hoarse, "Then...what about Shulin? Don't you want to take care of him all the time?"
Li Hehua's heart trembled.
What she feared most was Shu Lin's question, but he still hit her.
She also wants to give Shulin a healthy and happy family, and wants to take care of him every day. However, if she forces herself for the sake of the child and ends up living an unhappy life, is that good for the child?
She couldn't marry Zhang Tieshan just for Shu Lin.
Li Hehua asked in a trembling voice: "Zhang Tieshan, are you going to take Shulin away?"
After saying this, I also felt that this question was not well asked. The child originally belongs to someone else, so there is no reason for her to take care of the child all the time. She has already rejected others, so can she still ask others to give the child to her?
Li Hehua turned away sadly and said, "I understand. Can you give me three more days? Can you come back to pick him up in three days?"
After Li Hehua finished speaking, she was afraid that she would cry in front of Zhang Tieshan and be embarrassed, so she ran into the room and closed the door, so she didn't hear Zhang Tieshan calling her.
Zhang Tieshan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Where did he say he wanted to take Shulin away? He, Zhang Tieshan, was not the kind of person who would give up just because of a few rejections from her.
She looked quite capable, but how come she was as confused as a child sometimes? She finished her story without even listening to the other person's words, and didn't even give him a chance to explain.
Zhang Tieshan shook his head, went into the painting room and found his son. Seeing that he was painting seriously, he did not disturb him. He watched him quietly for a while before saying, "Shulin, Dad is leaving. I will come to see you tomorrow."
Shu Lin was immersed in the painting, completely blocking out the world around him.
Zhang Tieshan didn't mind. He came out of the calligraphy and painting room, walked to the door of Li Hehua's room, and knocked on the door. He knew she could hear him from inside. "I'm leaving. And I'm not taking Shulin away."
After saying that, seeing that there was no movement in the room, he left helplessly.
Although it is painful to be rejected, he is not that fragile and will not give up. He will take it slow and will impress her sooner or later.
The reason why there was no movement in the room was because Li Hehua was a little overwhelmed to react for a moment.
Leaving without Shulin? Still staying with her? Is this a dream?
After a long while, Li Hehua finally opened the door, and there was no sign of Zhang Tieshan outside.
Li Hehua rubbed her face, making sure that she had not heard it wrongly and that Zhang Tieshan was unlikely to lie to her. Her heart was suddenly excited and she happily rushed into the calligraphy and painting room.
Seeing the little guy drawing seriously, Li Hehua was barely able to suppress her excitement. It was great that such a cute baby was still hers and they could live together without being separated.
Li Hehua was so excited that she took a while to calm down. But after she calmed down, she was confused again. Why didn't he take Shulin away? She had rejected him, so why was he willing to leave the child to her?
Li Hehua stroked his forehead, sighed, and didn't want to think about it anymore. He turned around and went to talk to Mrs. Xie and Xie Yuan about Xiao Er's matter.
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