The early summer days are long, and until the end of kindergarten, the sky is still as bright as noon. At this time, at the door of the parent-child kindergarten, Zhao Bailian gently said goodbye to Qin Huaixin in a wheelchair.

"Huaixin's children performed very well today, and they are the students who get the most little red flowers in the class. There are still three days to rest, and we must keep it up. If you can still be the first place at that time, you can exchange it for a gift. Keep up the good work! ”

Mrs. Qin, who came to pick up the child, smiled and exchanged a few words with the newcomer Mr. Zhao. Then he took out the seal and stamped it on the student's pick-up and drop-off list.

"Goodbye, Mr. Xiaolian!"

"Goodbye!"

Seeing Mrs. Qin pushing her daughter away, Zhao Bailian turned around and prepared to go back to the kindergarten. The children have not finished delivering, and they will continue to be on duty at the gate. Just as he turned around, a familiar figure came into view.

"Hello."

“…… That, I'll pick up Li Molian. ”

"Wait a minute."

Li Xiuyuan looked at the distant back, and couldn't help but think of the girl who was always looking for opportunities to revolve around him many years ago. At that time, the brilliance in her eyes was so bright. Actually, I guess I was tempted at that time. Otherwise, it would not have been because her family had just expressed her intention to get married, so Li Xiuyuan immediately persuaded her father to go and propose. It's a pity that later, it was his own lard that blinded his heart, and while being blinded by other women, he was forced to marry someone else. Because of his unfirmness, he indirectly harmed the two women, and also, hurt her.

"Li Molian's child, your father is here to pick it up." Zhao Bailian gently helped the little girl carry the small schoolbag and took her hand to the garden gate.

"Li Molian's parents. Hello, do you have a stamp? Zhao Bailian carefully followed the training and said as calmly and gently as possible.

Li Xiuyuan's heart was gloomy for a while, and he tried his best to maintain a warm and jade-like smile and handed over the seal.

Zhao Bailian stamped the seal and showed a smile with eight teeth, and warmly reminded: "Pay attention to safety on the road." Walking. ”

"Goodbye, Mr. Xiaolian."

"Goodbye."

Li Xiuyuan bent down and picked up Xiao Molian and walked home.

At this time, the father and daughter had moved from Yulin Street to Kangpingfang, and depended on each other in a small courtyard with two entrances.

Since the death of Wang Lianyi and Lianxue, the Li family has been looking for a new noble daughter for the sake of reputation and arranging family affairs for Li Xiuyuan. Li Xiuyuan repeatedly refused, on the grounds that he was worried that his stepmother would treat Mo Lian badly. Although everyone knows that a concubine who has no future will only bring a stain to the Li family, and will not have any negative impact on the stepfamily. Even, such a lowly concubine is especially suitable for being used by the housewife to brush up her reputation. In addition, Li Xiuyuan is both civil and military, and he has a good appearance. There are really not a few people in the capital who intend to kiss the Li family.

However, no matter what, Li Xiuyuan refused to marry with an iron heart. even said that he had sacrificed a marriage for the Li family, and in this life, it was almost over. In this way, day after day, the family became less and less willing to see their father and daughter. Especially Li Molian, the Li family has always regarded it as a shame. Life is full of harshness, so that the little girl becomes more and more silent. is more than three years old, but the Li family didn't even give her a family tree.

Later, when Li Xiuyuan was halfway through his shift in Hanlin Academy, he came home temporarily and happened to see Li Molian lying on the ground, being punched and kicked by his eldest brother's child. And his eldest brother and sister-in-law, the maid and sister-in-law who served Xiao Molian, were just watching and laughing and insulting. At that moment, Li Xiuyuan felt a huge resentment in his heart. At that time, he started to beat the surrounding people to cry and call his mother, and it was not until Mrs. Li came that he stopped it. Although the old lady reprimanded her eldest son, Li Xiuyuan no longer dared to let Li Molian live alone in this family.

broke out of the house, rented a two-entry courtyard in Kangpingfang, and hired a servant woman to take care of the living conditions of their father and daughter.

Li Xiuyuan was already the highest official in the Li family's generation at this time, how could the Li family be willing to let him go like this?! Whether it is the family or the clan, they have more than once come to his small courtyard to make peace. Even his eldest brother's family came to apologize to him under the suppression of the clan elders. However, Li Xiuyuan had already made up his mind at this time, and he refused to turn back. Therefore, Li's father, who was also sent out to receive an idle job, personally wrote to Emperor Nanzhao and reprimanded Li Xiuyuan for being unfilial and unworthy of being an official.

Emperor Nanzhao just threw the fold aside and didn't look at it. He had already heard of the Li family's bad things. A family bullying a young girl is disgusting. What's more, after going through the incident, Li Xiuyuan has finally calmed down to do things, and he has done better than anyone in the Li family. Isn't it clear which side you're going to be on?! If it weren't for the scruples that Li Xiuyuan was a junior after all, Emperor Nanzhao would have helped him directly to break off the bloodline. saved the nest of the Li family in the future, and also dragged down the courtiers that his family valued.

But after Li Xiuyuan moved to Pingkangfang, he was still not at ease with Xiao Molian. It happened to be the day of kindergarten enrollment again, so Li Xiuyuan asked for Mingzhu here. Although Mingzhu was a little dissatisfied with him because of the scumbag past he had done before. But in the end, it can be regarded as an acquaintance, and this child is really pitiful, so Mingzhu accepted Li Molian, a student who did not meet the enrollment requirements.

Pingkangfang is on the street behind the kindergarten, not very far, and Li Xiuyuan will not be long before he takes Xiao Molian home.

"Why don't you see Mama?!" Xiao Molian said softly.

"If there is something going on at Mama in the past few days, your father will pick you up, is Mo Lian happy?!" Li Xiuyuan squatted down and said gently.

"Happy, but Daddy, what are we going to eat for the night?!" Xiao Molian felt a little worried.

Li Xiuyuan looked at his daughter, who had become more and more expressive over the past few days, and said, "Daddy is here to do it for you!" Good no good? ——”

Li Molian looked incredulous: "Do you know how to cook?!" ”

Li Xiuyuan thought about what he usually saw, and said confidently: "No problem!" Your daddy will! ”

So, the father and daughter went into the kitchen like this.

When the sun shone obliquely on the stove in the kitchen on the east side, a puff of smoke smoked the father and daughter out. At this time, a team of messengers broke in with buckets: "Where is the fire?!" ”

The dignified waiter of the Hanlin Academy, after being reprimanded by the errand officer who patrols the streets. It's getting a little dark.

"Gollum-" Little Molian's big watery eyes looked over: "Daddy-are we still cooking?!" ”

Li Xiuyuan waved his hand: "Don't do it!" Let's go to the restaurant today! ”

Mo Lian breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and obediently followed her father to the street.

At night, Mo Lian lay on her small bed, and Li Xiuyuan sat on the side gently shaking the fan.

"Daddy, when will Grandma come back?!"

"Mo Lian is good - Mama's child is sick, and when her child is better, she will come back."

"Oh...... Daddy, that noodle today is not delicious. The gentleman also said that children are not allowed to eat roadside stalls. ”

“…… Go to bed early, we won't eat that tomorrow. ”

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Early the next morning, after Li Xiuyuan sent Mo Lian to the kindergarten, he waited on the side. When the children are all here and the kindergarten is about to close. Li Xiuyuan stopped Zhao Bailian, who was about to go back to the office.

"Little Lotus! …… Please wait a moment, sir. ”

Hearing this call, Zhao Bailian's heart was sour and she stopped. After settling down, he turned around and asked with a smile, "Is there anything wrong?!" ”

"Well, I'd like to ask. Can I pick up my child after dinner in the kindergarten?! Saying that, Li Xiuyuan hurriedly added: "I can give money!" ”

Zhao Bailian had some doubts in her heart, but she didn't ask more: "Yes, you don't need to give money." Our kindergarten is not a fee-paying kindergarten in the first place. "It's true, from the beginning, Mingzhu didn't plan to charge for it. Just put an anonymous sponsorship box at the entrance of the kindergarten. In this way, parents who are willing to support can give a little as they like. If the family conditions are relatively poor, there is no need to have any burden.

But what no one knows is that in this way, the sponsorship box alone has made the kindergarten really profitable!

Therefore, the conditions in the kindergarten are getting better and better, and now there are even some families who are inconvenient to pick up their children back, and they will put their children in kindergarten full care. For many parents, it is much more reassuring to put their children in kindergarten than at a relative's house.

Li Xiuyuan didn't expect this to be the case, pursed his lips and said, "Then it's troublesome for you, the grandmother at home is not here these days, and everyone cooks, so it's not good to eat out all the time...... That, you're busy. I'm on duty. ”

"Don't worry." Zhao Bailian smiled back and turned back to the kindergarten.

When the two walked out of each other's sight, they stood there for a while, laughed at themselves, and continued to walk towards the place they were going as if nothing had happened.

After a day passed, Mo Lian watched her little friends being picked up, leaving only herself and the strange child named Lin Zhi, and lowered her head a little gloomily. At this time, Zhao Bailian walked in and led the two of them to the original restaurant.

At this time, the dining room has been converted into a full-time nursery living room, with more than ten children in four classes, divided into four tables to play separately. At each table, there is a gentleman on duty from his own class.

At the table of the small class, only Zhao Bailian took Lin Zhi and Li Molian to play with toys. It stands to reason that Zhao Bailian was on duty last night and this morning, so it is the other gentlemen who are on duty tonight. But Zhao Bailian didn't know what her psychology was, and the ghost said that she had nothing to do in the past few days anyway, so she would be on duty. The gentleman who was originally going to be on duty was naturally happy to be idle.

"Mo Lian, your grandmother is not here these days, so your father let you have dinner in the kindergarten first, and he will take you back."

Hearing this, Li Molian, who was originally a little depressed, suddenly became happy: "Great, yesterday my father was cooking and almost burned the kitchen." I finally don't have to do it today. Zhao Bailian listened, and the corners of her lips curled slightly. Did he have such an interesting time?

"Poof! Lin Zhi on the side laughed: "Your father is so useless?!" Can't even cook! A child without a mother is pitiful! ”

Xiao Molian was already used to these cold words when she was in the Li family. Not only did he not get angry when he heard this, but he also scolded back: "My father will cook for me if he hurts, what about your father?!" Only drink and hit people. You didn't get beaten enough, and you're embarrassed to laugh at me?! ”

"You!!" [Bang!] Lin Zhi was suddenly furious, smashed the toy in his hand on the table, and was about to step forward to hit someone.

Zhao Bailian hurriedly pulled him back: "Mo Lian didn't mean to say that, and besides, it was obviously you who slandered her first." So, why are you angry?! Don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself, and talking about your parents to your face is a very impolite thing. ”

Although Lin Zhi couldn't fully understand what Mr. said, he probably understood the meaning. He sat back with a cold face.

After the children have finished dinner, the children in the full nursery go for a walk in the small playground led by the gentlemen. Zhao Bailian sent Mo Lian to the door of the kindergarten.

There, Li Xiuyuan, who didn't know how long he had been waiting, suddenly felt a trance when he saw the two of them holding hands and coming out. Until the time he took Mo Lian away, Li Xiuyuan's thinking was chaotic. For a while, I was ashamed of my previous bastards, and I felt that I had no face to have anything to do with Zhao Bailian anymore. After a while, her gentle smile when she led Mo Lian to him flashed in her mind. If...... How wonderful.

"Daddy, the schoolbag is a bit heavy, you can help me carry it for a while."

When Li Xiuyuan took Mo Lian's schoolbag down, he felt that something was wrong. So much heavier than usual?! When I opened it, there was a warm and delicate food box quietly inside.

Li Xiuyuan didn't open it on the way, but closed his schoolbag and returned home with Mo Lian.

After putting Mo Lian to sleep, Li Xiuyuan sat at the dining table with a food box. In the dim light, Li Xiuyuan carefully opened the food box. The small food box has only two layers, one is filled with rice and the other is a simple meal. Although the food was already cold, the faint aftertaste still made Li Xiuyuan, who had not eaten dinner, feel that it was very delicious.

I just don't know why, but as I ate it, tears the size of beans fell.

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After another two days, Mingzhu found that Zhao Bailian was always in a daze there, so she thought about it and asked the rose on the side: "I remember that Zhao Hongqu seems to be about to leave the cabinet, which day is it?!" ”

Rose recalled in her heart: "I remember that it seems to be June 17, and it has not been two days. ”

Mingzhu sighed: "Hey—remember to remind me on that day, let's go and support her." ”

"No."

However, what Mingzhu didn't know was that what made Zhao Bailian unhappy was not her sister's exit ceremony, but the calamity of her life - Li Xiuyuan. She knew how stupid she had been, but she did it anyway. For a moment, she looked down on herself and felt like she couldn't get up anymore.