Chapter 118: Minnie's Entanglement
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was so fussed by Liu Feifei that the food was a little cold, and Xiao Hui returned a few hot dishes to the pot and stir-fried them again.
"Nier, why don't you eat it? Feeling unwell? ”
Xiao Hui noticed that Minnie was just absentmindedly holding chopsticks and plucking the dishes in the bowl, but she didn't mean to send them to her mouth, and she couldn't help but be a little worried.
"I didn't ...... It's just hot, and I don't have much appetite. Minnie Mouse smiled reluctantly, put down the dishes and chopsticks and got up and said, "Mom, you guys eat, I'm going back to the house." ”
Xiao Hui knew that her eldest daughter loved beauty, and she usually paid attention to controlling her diet and staying in shape, so she didn't care, but just advised: "That's right, you clean up your things by the way, let Xiao Nan sleep in your room at night, and you sleep with Bao'er for one night first." ”
Minnie subconsciously planned to refuse, she didn't want a strange man to sleep in her boudoir, even if it was only for one night, but she couldn't help but say it after thinking about it, she could see that because of Li Mengnan's arrival, her mother was very happy today, and she didn't want to be the one who spoiled the fun.
Xiao Baoer seemed to see Minnie's reluctance, and took the initiative to open her mouth to relieve the siege: "Mom, let's let my brother sleep in my house, I'll go sleep with my sister, I have few things, and it's easy to clean up." ”
"Don't clean up, school will start tomorrow, I'll go back to school tonight to sleep."
Although Li Mengnan likes the warm atmosphere of really coming home here, for the three mothers and daughters of the Xiao family, he is still just a stranger with a blood relationship, even if Xiao Hui and the others don't mind, he always has to consider whether the neighborhood will gossip.
There are many rights and wrongs in front of the door, although Xiao Hui is not a **** in the real sense, but after all, a family of three is a woman, and wherever she stays, she is the easiest to provoke a long-tongued woman to tell the truth.
No matter where you are, there is always a group of sluts who like to rely on slander and smear others to obtain superior satisfaction, regardless of their academic qualifications, which is a kind of inferiority of human beings.
Don't look at Xiao Hui's external personality, but she is surprisingly tough in this matter, and insisted: "No, since you are all home, how can you go back to school to live?" Don't argue about this, Mom has the final say, you sleep in Bao'er's room today, and go to school with Nier tomorrow, so you can be a companion...... When you leave tomorrow, Mom will pick up the storage room next to the kitchen, and you will come to live here on holidays in the future. ”
"Mom, you mean...... He's going to live in our house in the future? ”
Xiao Hui's decision surprised Minnie, the shadow of the KTV incident is still lingering in her heart, it's too late for her to hide from Li Mengnan now, and now she still has to live under the same roof, looking down and not looking up, isn't this repeatedly revealing her scars?
"Nier, you seem to mind Xiao Nan very much? Did you two have any unpleasant experiences at school? ”
Knowing the daughter Mo Ruomu, Minnie's resistance to Li Mengnan finally made Xiao Hui a little suspicious.
However, she didn't think too complicated, she just thought that the two of them might have a little trouble without knowing their respective identities, they were both in the same class, and their tongues always touched their teeth, which was not surprising.
Minnie Mouse also realized that her appearance was a little abnormal, and hurriedly added: "Mom, this is too sudden, there are only three of us in the house, and he lives in...... Won't it be a little inconvenient? And the neighbors may gossip......"
This concern makes sense.
There are three people in the family, Xiao Hui is her own mother, and Li Mengnan is the meat that fell from her pregnancy in October, even if she was separated for nearly twenty years in the middle, but the same blood is there, and the discounted bones are connected to the tendons, so she naturally doesn't have to mind anything.
Xiao Baoer is only twelve years old, a child, and she is not so sensitive to the difference between men and women, plus she was saved by Li Mengnan's life, it is the time when her good feelings are bursting, and it is too late to welcome Li Mengnan's stay, and of course she will not object.
But Minnie is different, she is just Xiao Hui's stepdaughter who remarried, and she has no blood relationship with Xiao Hui, no matter how much Xiao Hui and Xiao Bao'er approve of it, but from her point of view, Li Mengnan has always been a stranger who is not related to blood and is unfamiliar.
If it's a girl, forget it, but Li Mengnan is an adult man after all, living under the same roof, no matter how cautious he is, he will inevitably encounter some embarrassment, Xiao Hui and Xiao Baoer can not care, but for Minnie, I'm afraid it will be difficult to accept.
Xiao Hui understands Minnie's concerns, but does not intend to change her mind because of one person's objections.
She asked Xiao Bao'er to accompany Li Mengnan first, and then called Minnie Mouse to the back room alone, and said with a little apology: "Ni'er, Xiao Nan's mother has never told you before, this is mother's fault, mainly because you were still young at that time, and you can't understand this matter to you, and I'm afraid you will think too much......"
"Mom, I understand, I don't blame you."
Minnie also knew that Xiao Hui was not to blame for this, let alone a few years earlier, even if she sued her now that she still had such a bloodless brother, she would definitely find it difficult to accept.
From a certain point of view, when she knew that her mother's long-lost biological son was actually Li Mengnan, she was even a lot more relieved in her heart, although Li Mengnan was like a "snake spirit" patient all day long, and he often deviated from the behavior pattern of earthlings when he spoke and acted, but he was essentially a good person.
She doesn't doubt her judgment, if KTV blocks the covetousness of Boss Liu and Director Xu for her, there is still a little plot of heroes saving beauty, but the two things of rescuing Xiao Baoer and donating money to her mother cannot be faked.
This kind of pure good person who has no utilitarian heart at all is now rare.
If it weren't for that accident, Minnie Mouse probably wouldn't be so entangled, after all, instead of living under the same roof with a completely unfamiliar strange man for a long time, it was Li Mengnan who knew something more easily for her to accept.
Xiao Hui naturally didn't know what Minnie was really struggling with, and continued to persuade her: "Nier, Mom knows that you are in trouble...... But the old man Li who raised Xiaonan has passed away, and he doesn't even have a home now, because of my negligence back then, he has suffered for more than ten years, and now I can't watch him go back to that remote mountain village to face the empty house alone, right? ”
Minnie's heart trembled slightly, the Li Mengnan she saw always looked as if she had gone out to pick up money, which always made people subconsciously ignore the tragic life experience behind him.
Compared with Li Mengnan, she is really much luckier, although her biological parents can be described as scum, but she has a stepmother who is better than her biological mother to her, and a well-behaved and sensible little sister.
If only from the perspective of blood, Li Mengnan is the one who really deserves this happiness, his mother is his, his sister is also his, and she is the outsider who occupies this qiē.
Now it's not for her to give up, but for her to give back a part of this happiness to the real master, if she is not satisfied, even she feels that she is a little too selfish.
"Mom, I know, I'll try to get along with him...... Also, don't clean up the storage room, the roof has to be overhauled, the walls have to be repainted, our family doesn't have so much money, let's let him live in my house, I'll move to live with Bao'er, anyway, Bao'er's room is also big. ”
Minnie Mouse gritted her teeth, the two of them were in the same school and class, it was impossible to avoid them completely, and they had to face it.
And thinking about it carefully, it seems that she has always been obsessed with this matter, Li Mengnan really has nothing to hold onto, or use this as a threat, the wood is already in the boat, and what is lost can never be recovered, if she can't let go of this knot, it will not be beneficial to herself.
Minnie Mouse is long past that fantasy age, and the hard life and cruel society have long taught her to face reality at all times.
Xiao Hui touched Minnie's long hair with relief, the most contented thing in her life is to have such a pair of filial and sensible daughters.
Without Minnie, the only opponent, Li Mengnan naturally couldn't resist Xiao Hui, and finally had to agree to live here.
Not only this night, but he will come back to live every holiday in the future, this is Xiao Hui's death order to him, and he specially asked Minnie to supervise and remind him, and even forcibly escort him back if necessary.
Li Mengnan is a person who yearns for freedom, but he doesn't hate this kind of seemingly tough control, which is completely different from the polite indifference of the Ding family's mansion, which makes him really feel the taste of home.
Although they only spent a short afternoon together, Li Mengnan had already completely identified this place in his heart.
This is the home he wants, a nagging but kind mother, and a lovely sister to the elves...... Except for Minnie, who has a relationship that is difficult to locate, the rest of the Yiqiē is more perfect than he expected.
Li Mengnan could feel that Xiao Hui and Xiao Bao'er really regarded him as their own family, and he was not a hypocritical person, and soon substituted himself into the role he should play in this family.
For a whole afternoon, Li Mengnan tried his best to repair the broken faucets, loose furniture, and faulty electrical appliances of the Xiao family one by one, if it wasn't for the lack of time, he even wanted to rebuild the broken courtyard wall with several gaps.
"Brother, don't do it yet, take a break and drink saliva."
Xiao Bao'er diligently served a cup of cold water, and took advantage of Li Mengnan's drinking time to put a wet towel to wipe the sweat off his face.
"Brother, you're so good, these things at home have been broken for a long time, and those who come to repair them are not willing to repair them at all, so you know that let's replace them with new ones."
"Well, there's nothing wrong with what they say...... Many of these things are to the end of their service life, repair is not not not repairable, but more time-consuming, now the maintenance is charged by the time, for them of course how convenient how to come. ”
Different from Xiao Bao'er's opinion, Li Mengnan didn't think that those maintenance personnel were extremely evil, and if they were to change to other people, he would definitely do the same.