"If you agree to him, we have to stay and help him look after the yard. I don't know how long it will take for them to come back from Yuan'an City. What should we do if we run out of food and can't leave here? Are we going to starve to death here?
What?"
"Mom, don't we have potatoes? We can grow potatoes and we won't starve to death. Don't worry."
Li Cui thought so. She knocked on her head and said, "Look at me, I'm stupid. After dinner, we'll go to the yard to loosen the soil and plant potatoes."
"Um."
Knowing that potatoes could be grown, Li Cui's appetite increased a little and she ate all the piece of meat Ruan Xiangxiang gave her.
After they finished eating the meat, Li Cui started to clean up the stove and dishes, while Ruan Xiangxiang was going to plant potatoes in the backyard.
Ruan Sanbao saw it and chased him out.
"Sister, I want to plant too."
"Okay, let's go together."
She pulled Ruan Sanbao out of the door, and the sound of Chu Munan coughing came from behind.
"Ahem!"
Ruan Xiangxiang looked back.
Chu Munan coughed twice more.
Ruan Xiangxiang blinked: "Is your throat uncomfortable?"
"no."
Chu Munan shook his head.
"Oh, yes."
Ruan Xiangxiang walked back to him quickly: "I forgot that your legs are not healed yet. Come, I will carry you to bed, and you can have a good rest in bed in the afternoon."
"I am not sleepy."
"You can rest even if you are not sleepy. If you don't take a good rest if your muscles and bones are strained, how many years and months will it take for you to get better?"
With that said, Ruan Xiangxiang ignored Chu Munan's objections, carried him to the bed, and then pulled off a quilt.
"Sleep here obediently, and we'll be back after we plant the potatoes."
Ruan Xiangxiang covered him with a quilt, straightened up and turned to leave.
But someone caught her by the hem of her clothes. Ruan Xiangxiang turned around and was about to say something reproachful, but she met Chu Munan's dark and innocent eyes.
"Sister, I'm afraid..." As he said that, he lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the bed board.
Afraid?
Why is he not afraid when he fights a big tiger?
Why wasn't he afraid when he chopped off Zhu Youliang's head with a knife?
Are you scared now that there are two people lying under the bed?
Ruan Sanbao came over and said softly: "Brother Munan, are you afraid of sleeping alone?"
Chu Munan glanced at him, then raised his eyes to look at Ruan Xiangxiang.
She looked like she would reveal the secret under the bed if she didn't take him with her.
"Okay, if you don't want to sleep, forget it. I'll carry you downstairs. You can watch us grow potatoes and bask in the sun."
Ruan Xiangxiang had to compromise.
After all, she just told them that the shopkeeper and his family had gone to Yuan'an City.
If Li Cui and Ruan Sanbao knew that the shopkeeper's family had been killed by her and the bodies were hidden under this bed, they would be so frightened that they would flee here immediately.
Chu Munan got what he wanted, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.
He looked at Ruan Sanbao, nodded and said, "Sanbao is so smart, I'm just afraid of sleeping alone."
Ruan Sanbao immediately seemed to have found a close friend: "Brother Munan, I am also afraid of sleeping alone, but in the past at home, my father and I were not allowed to sleep with my mother. Fortunately, I have a sister. I always keep my eyes open until midnight, and everyone is
When I went to bed, I went to the woodshed and called my sister into the house.
As long as my sister is with me, I won't be afraid."
Chu Munan immediately looked at Ruan Xiangxiang, with a trace of anger flashing in his eyes, as if to say, "You sleep in the woodshed at home?".
"That was the beginning. Later, when they realized that Sanbao couldn't sleep well at night, they asked me to take him with them."
Ruan Xiangxiang explained.
Chu Munan frowned slightly, glanced at Ruan Sanbao, and didn't say a word.
