allonlinenovel Chapter 149 I protect you
Chapter 149 I protect you
Mu's father and Li Tingwei were talking together. Mu Xiaoqiao was missing her father and just wanted to stay with him longer and see him more. No one knew where the young boy Ruan Haoyu and the young girl Mu Xiaoqiao had gone.
Suddenly, there was a quarrel outside. The two men stood up and went out to see what was going on. Mu Xiaoqiao followed them out and saw a woman grabbing the young Ruan Haoyu by the ear and said viciously, "You son of a bitch, you dare to steal my things, right?"
Another thin woman was holding the woman's arm, trying to get her to let go of Ruan Haoyu. She said anxiously, "Ah Shu, let Haoyu go. I will give back what he took from you."
Mu Xiaoqiao looked carefully and found that the person pulling Ruan Haoyu's ear was actually Li Shu. However, she was still very young at this time, quite different from the one Mu Xiaoqiao had seen before.
The other woman should be Ruan Haoyu's mother, Ruan Qingwan.
Mu Xiaoqiao looked at Ruan Qingwan carefully and found that apart from being too thin, her features were very pretty. Although her clothes were a bit old-fashioned, it could not conceal her peerless grace.
At this moment, the young Ruan Haoyu stiffened his neck and yelled, "I didn't take it. I didn't take her things."
The girl Mu Xiaoqiao was also there. She pushed Li Shu, but she was not as strong as Li Shu and could not push her. She simply stood up and shouted, "You are lying. Li Haoyu did not take your things. I gave him the golden Buddha pendant for him to use for protection."
Li Shu didn't believe it. "How could a little girl like you have a golden Buddha and give it away as a gift? You are so young, why don't you learn anything else but lie?"
He exerted more and more force with his hands.
Ruan Haoyu couldn't break free, his eyes were filled with tears, but he forced himself to hold them back. He couldn't cry in front of a bad woman.
The girl Mu Xiaoqiao was very angry and her voice became louder. "You are talking nonsense. Why can't I have a golden Buddha? That was a birthday gift from my father."
Li Shu still didn't believe it and snorted, "He obviously took it secretly from my jewelry box. It was given to me by his father. Why don't you return it quickly, you bastard?"
After a light cough, Mu Xiaoqiao heard his father slowly say, "This golden Buddha is indeed the gift I gave to Xiaoqiao for her tenth birthday."
Li Tingwei was a little embarrassed. When had he ever given a golden Buddha to his concubine? Perhaps she saw that the golden Buddha was exquisite and valuable, so she wanted to snatch it away?
He has always spoiled Li Shu and been cold to Ruan Qingwan, not because Li Shu was so pretty. On the contrary, Li Shu was not as pretty as Ruan Qingwan, and her personality was a bit sarcastic and she loved to take advantage of others. But she served people very well and was devoted to him.
On the contrary, Ruan Qingwan is extremely beautiful, but she has a first love. The two are in love but cannot be together. Ruan Qingwan has to marry him for some reasons, but her heart has never been with him.
He has always been skeptical about whether Li Haoyu is his son!
Therefore, in the Li family, it is an open secret that Li Shu bullies Ruan Qingwan. Because Li Tingwei doesn't care, the servants will care even less. Moreover, they don't take the mistress seriously and think that Li Shu is the real mistress of this family.
But today is different. Mu Xiaoqiao’s father has spoken. If Li Shu continues to lie with her eyes open, won’t she lose all his face?
"Ah Shu, you put the golden Buddha I gave you in Ming Shao's room. Did you forget? Let go of it."
Li Tingwei had spoken, and no matter how reluctant Li Shu was, she didn't dare to continue making a fuss, so she had to let go. Ruan Qingwan hurriedly pulled Ruan Haoyu into her arms to protect him, and gently rubbed his ears.
"You are such an unreasonable woman. You have wronged someone and you won't apologize?"
The young girl Mu Xiaoqiao was still furious. She had never seen such a bad person.
"Xiao Qiao, don't be rude." Father Mu said in a deep voice, said goodbye to Li Tingwei, and left the Li family with the girl Mu Xiaoqiao.
The girl, Mu Xiaoqiao, turned back as she walked away and mouthed to Ruan Haoyu, "I'll come see you tomorrow."
Ruan Haoyu stared at her back for a long time without saying anything.
Mu Xiaoqiao also followed his father and his teenage self back to his long-lost home.
Seeing her mother coming out, Mu Xiaoqiao couldn't hold back her tears. She hadn't seen her mother for a long, long time, especially a mother so young. How nice it would be if time could really go back to that time.
However, she knew clearly that this was a dream and she would wake up soon.
All day long, Mu Xiaoqiao sat in the corner of the house, motionless, watching her parents busying around, making delicious food for her little self and playing with her. Suddenly, she envied her little self so much, with her parents' love and a warm home.
It was not until the girl Mu Xiaoqiao went to see Ruan Haoyu again that she followed him to the Li family again.
This time, she was greeted by little Ruan Haoyu, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying.
Xiaomu and Xiaoqiao were stunned and asked him crisply, "What's wrong with you?"
Little Ruan Haoyu wiped away his tears and said silently: "Dad beat Mom. Mom cried all night and didn't eat today."
"Why is your father so mean?" Xiaomu and Xiaoqiao were very angry. "Auntie Ruan is such a nice person. She feeds me delicious food and tells me stories. Why does your father beat her?"
"My father said that I am not his son, but a bastard born from my mother and another man." Little Ruan Haoyu didn't quite understand the meaning of bastard.
But Mu Xiaoqiao was ten years old, so she understood a little. She was silent for a moment, then asked cautiously, "What did your mother say?"
"Mom said, I am Dad's son."
Mu Xiaoqiao breathed a sigh of relief, "That must be the case. Your father will soon realize that he was wrong and will stop beating your mother."
"Yeah." Little Ruan Haoyu nodded. He didn't know when he started to believe Mu Xiaoqiao.
"Li Haoyu, did that woman bully you and your mother again yesterday?"
"No."
"Li Haoyu, your father is not nice to your mother. He is wrong. You should ignore him in the future."
"Li Haoyu, I will protect you and Aunt Ruan from now on, don't be afraid."
"Li Haoyu, these are the lychees my father gave me. Give them to your mother."
"Li Haoyu, if that bad woman comes again, tell me and I will help you beat her away."
Each time Ruan Haoyu was called "Li Haoyu", it established the friendship between the two children and made Ruan Haoyu like playing with Mu Xiaoqiao more and more. He seemed to have found a sense of security with Mu Xiaoqiao, the first sense of security other than his mother.
Mu Xiaoqiao finally realized how she and Ruan Haoyu knew each other. It turned out that the two of them had known each other that early.
With the company of Xiaomu and Xiaoqiao, little Ruan Haoyu's face gradually showed more childlike smiles, which is what a child should be like.
It was just that every time Xiaomu and Xiaoqiao would see Ruan Qingwan sitting in the yard in a daze, sometimes not saying a word for a long time, and never telling them stories again...