Divorce with three kids? I'll build a house and eat meat, driving my in-laws crazy.

Chapter 189 What triggered you?

She had just seen Chu Xiu care a lot about Bai Lu, and he kept pulling her along through the mud.

They then tied ropes around Bailu's body, letting her go up first.

Bai Lu was baffled. "Huh? Huh?"

She quickly shook her head: "No, no, Ah Xiu is a gentleman, he just takes good care of me."

Chao Chao pouted and started calling him Ah Xiu. When did they become so close?

Bai Lu noticed her pale face and felt strange. She turned her head and asked softly, "Chao Chao, do you...do you like him?"

Chaochao was taken aback at first, then shook her head, covered her mouth and laughed, "How could that be?"

Master Chu is the bright moon high above, while she is just an ant in the mud.

She could only look up to him; she was not good enough for him.

Bai Lu said "Oh," and then added, "That's a pity, Ah Xiu is a good person."

Although they didn't spend much time together, Chu Xiu took good care of her from beginning to end, while maintaining the proper distance between a man and a woman.

He didn't take advantage of her vulnerability; instead, he helped her drive away that despicable Chen Jingang.

Bai Lu originally only remembered Chu Xiu's dark face that day when he pulled the coal, but now his image in her mind has become much more impressive.

After changing their clothes, the three of them sat obediently in front of the fire to warm themselves.

Yinyin suddenly cried out, "Oh no, where's Qiqi? Where did Qiqi go?"

Chaochao slapped her forehead, somewhat annoyed, and said, "Did we forget it down there again?"

The group hurriedly walked out of the cave, and just as they reached the entrance, a muddy creature rushed up.

"Qiqi!" Yinyin rushed up to hug her, but Li Ruru grabbed her collar and pulled her aside.

Yinyin said discontentedly, "Mom, what are you doing?"

Li Ruru said, "Don't go over there, don't get your clothes dirty."

Yinyin then took a step back, and Qiqi rushed up the platform, put down what he was holding in his mouth, and then sprinted down again.

After going back and forth several times, a lot of things were piled up on the ground.

Finally, it barked a few times at everyone and then ran off to play by the spring.

Li Ruru stepped forward, carefully picked up the thing on the ground, looked at it, and said, "Oh dear, this is our rabbit."

Unfortunately, they had already drowned.

She looked up in the direction of the house and said, "Sigh, I wonder if our chickens, ducks and geese are still there?"

Bai Lu said, "Aunt Li, you still know, right?"

"what do you know?"

"The house... the house was washed away by the rain," Bai Lu said regretfully.

"Ah? How come?"

“We thought you were all dead…” Bai Lu said, her eyes reddening again.

Li Ruru quickly comforted her, "A house is just an external thing, there's no need to worry about it."

A house is an external possession, but money is not.

Money is the key to a better tomorrow. Fearing that Bailu would be sad again, she simply took out her basket.

She poured out the silver inside and said, "You guys, your aunt has money. When the weather clears up, we'll build a big house. We'll save a room for you then."

Li Ruru was most afraid of girls crying, especially someone as beautiful as Bai Lu.

Peipei pouted, and Li Ruru whispered, "Mom will save the biggest one for you."

Peipei's lips immediately curved into a smile.

Li Ruru sighed, "These girls are so hard to please."

Bai Lu cried out twice, "Aunt Li, did you earn all this from selling konjac tofu?"

"Yes, I should thank you for supporting my family's business."

Bai Lu revealed her cute little tiger teeth and said, "Then I will continue to take care of it in the future. When the weather clears up, my restaurant will sell your konjac tofu."

Hongfu Restaurant is a chain with many branches in nearby counties.

Li Ruru smiled from ear to ear, "That's great!"

As she spoke, she took out a cloth bag from her waist and handed it to Bai Lu, saying, "Let's return this to its rightful owner now."

Bai Lu opened it and looked inside; her father's secondary seal lay quietly. Aunt Li's house was gone, yet she had carefully kept her seal. Bai Lu returned the item.

"Aunt Li, please keep this for me."

Madam Xue must be looking for this. It's not safe for her to keep it. She should leave it with Aunt Li.

Li Ruru put the things back into her pocket and said, "Let's have stewed rabbit for dinner tonight."

There are so many rabbits, it would be a shame not to eat them.

Fang Xingzhi and Xiao Yishan immediately took the rabbit to the spring to deal with it.

Chaochao and Peipei took out several more mattresses from their baskets, and laid two of them out in the boys' room.

An extra bed was added to the cave where the girl was staying.

Bai Lu and Chu Xiu helped start the fire. One was the eldest daughter of the Bai family, and the other was the young master of the Chu family. After a long time, the two finally got the fire going.

Their faces were covered in mud and ash, and the two of them looked up and smiled foolishly at Li Ruru.

Li Ruru was kneading dough, and she deftly shaped it into a flatbread shape.

She looked up and saw two people grinning foolishly. She tapped their heads and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

Chu Xiu: "My godmother didn't die, so I can eat her cooking again."

Bai Lu: "Auntie's cooking smells so good~~"

Li Ruru said irritably, "Stop talking about death all the time, it's bad luck."

Then he said to Bailu, "The rice isn't cooked yet, you're already showering me with compliments too early."

They both chuckled, and Bai Lu said, "Then I'll flatter Aunt Li later."

Chu Xiu used a wooden stick to push a piece of charcoal under the pot and said, "Godmother, I've made up my mind. I still have to study. I'll do whatever it takes to pass the imperial examinations and get a degree."

Li Ruru asked curiously, "What happened to you? Aren't you tired this time?"

Chu Xiu nodded: "I don't mind."

Xiao Yishan and Fang Xingzhi finished processing the rabbit meat.

Although it was said that the two of them would handle the case, Xiao Yishan was actually the one who did the surgery, while Fang Xingzhi assisted from the side.

Fang Xingzhi hesitated for a moment after hearing Chu Xiu's words, and then said, "It's not easy to pass the imperial examinations. Some people are just not born to do it. They work hard for many years, but in the end, it's all in vain."

He had seen many people spend their entire lives pursuing so-called fame and fortune, still holding books and reciting classical Chinese phrases in their old age, which was both pitiful and laughable.

Chu Xiu was rebuked, but Chao Chao was the most agitated.

She glanced at Fang Xingzhi and said, "Master Fang, you don't understand Master Chu. You can't say that about him. He's very smart and will definitely make something of himself."

Xiao Wu also defended his young master: "That's right, that's right, don't talk nonsense. My young master only needs to make a move, and no one else is a match for him."

He grew up with the young master, so he naturally knew his strength.

Those long and obscure things gave him a headache, but the young master memorized them after reading them only once or twice.

Seeing that everyone was protecting Chu Xiu and even contradicting him, Fang Xingzhi could only sigh and say, "Fine, fine, whatever you say."

He couldn't argue with them, so he simply stopped talking.

He just waits for the rain to stop so he can leave this place.

Yinyin put her hands on her hips and said, "Old Fang, you're not allowed to talk about me, Master Chu. He can recite the Analects, the Three Character Classic, the Four Books and Five Classics. He knows everything."

Fang Xingzhi told himself not to argue with her, since he was going to leave anyway.

But he retorted, "What's the use of being able to read? There's no future in just studying."

Chu Xiu retorted, unconvinced, "Oh? How can Master Fang prove that he didn't just memorize books?"
When reading, you should first write things down, and then try to understand the meaning of the book. What's wrong with that?

Li Ruru listened to the two arguing while cooking.

They argued about everything from the Four Books and Five Classics to astronomy and geography, from dawn till dusk, until Li Ruru finished cooking.

The two stopped arguing, and Chu Xiu stood up and glared at Fang Xingzhi.

Seeing that the two were about to fight, Li Ruru quickly put down the spatula and went to break them up.

Unexpectedly, Chu Xiu suddenly lifted her skirt and knelt down on the ground with a thud.

Li Ruru: "Xiuer, what are you doing?" You don't have to be so submissive if you can't win an argument.

Fang Xing jumped up, then shrank back and said, "What are you doing?"

Does this kid want to kill him?

(End of this chapter)