Chapter 141 Are you moving away?

"Grandma! This is grandma!"

When Zhu Caixia saw the lifelike puppet, her eyes lit up and she spoke with a look of surprise.

"That's right!"

Li Guoqiang nodded, then laughed and said, "I carved this doll based on the image of your grandma. It's not completely finished yet. It still needs a polishing process. It will be even more beautiful when it's finished."

"Uncle Qiangzi, you are so awesome!"

Zhu Caixia stared at the puppet for a while, and then couldn't help but praise it with some admiration.

"Ah!"

Li Guoqiang was delighted when he heard the little girl say that, and then he asked with a laugh: "Do you like it? If you like it, how about I make a doll for you based on your appearance next time?"

"really?"

Zhu Caixia was slightly stunned, then asked with some surprise.

"of course it's true!"

Li Guoqiang nodded, then smiled softly and said, "It will take some time to make the puppet for you!"

"fine!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Caixia quickly waved her hands and said, "I can wait, you don't have to be so anxious!"

"Ok!"

Li Guoqiang looked at the girl who was obviously more lively than before, and couldn't help but ask in confusion: "By the way, why did you say that I would hit you with a stick when you were eating before?"

"because."

Zhu Caixia's expression darkened, and then she lowered her head and whispered, "Because if I do something wrong at home, my father and grandmother will scold me for losing money, beat me with sticks, and not give me food."

"Besides, after they beat me, they would beat my mother too. They beat her really hard!"

When she said this, a hint of fear appeared on her face and her body trembled slightly. It was obvious that she was recalling something that scared her very much.

"fine!"

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang quickly reached out and patted the girl's thin shoulders, and said in a gentle voice: "It's okay now, no one will beat you here again!"

"Ok!"

Zhu Caixia looked at Li Guoqiang's gentle and warm eyes, her heart trembled slightly, then she hurriedly lowered her head and agreed.

"Xiao Xia, Xiao Xia, Dani is done washing, hurry up and get your clothes and go take a shower!"

"Hey, here we come!"

At this moment, Xu Yuping's voice suddenly came from outside the house. Zhu Caixia hurriedly replied, then turned and walked to the south kang, opened a small package, took out a few pieces of underwear and hugged them in her arms, then ran out in a hurry with some shyness.

Seeing her like this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but burst out laughing, and at the same time, he became more determined to move out.

Otherwise, it would be too inappropriate for a grown man like him to live with Xu Yuping, a widow, and Zhu Caixia, a young girl, all day long. It would easily cause some unnecessary trouble.

Especially since the current social situation is quite complicated, and the life he leads is already somewhat enviable, he doesn't want anyone to take the opportunity to stab him in the back.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly put away the knife and the puppet, and prepared to discuss this matter with Qu Yinfeng first.

Soon, Qu Yinfeng came in holding Xu Dani, who had just finished taking a shower.

As soon as Xu Dani got on the kang, she threw herself into Li Guoqiang's arms as usual, wanting to listen to his stories.

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang hurriedly asked Xu Dani to listen to the radio first, then he got off the kang and walked to Qu Yinfeng, lowering his voice and saying, "Auntie, there is something I want to discuss with you."

"What is it?"

Qu Yinfeng was slightly stunned, then asked with some confusion.

"that."

Li Guoqiang hesitated for a moment, then said softly: "I plan to talk to Uncle Fu tomorrow and build a wooden house on the vacant land next to our house, and then move in!"

"what?"

Qu Yinfeng's eyes widened, and then she asked in surprise, "You want to move away?"

After she finished speaking, before Li Guoqiang could answer, she suddenly realized something in her heart and hurriedly asked, "Are you worried that Ping'er and Xiaoxia will live at home and people will gossip about them?"

"Ok!"

Li Guoqiang heard this and didn't mean to hide anything. He nodded and said, "You know how tense the situation is outside right now. People always make a big fuss about everything. If I, a grown man, live with Sister Yuping for a long time, it will definitely affect her reputation."

"This"

Qu Yinfeng frowned, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

Although she didn't want Li Guoqiang to move out from the bottom of her heart, she also understood that Li Guoqiang's worries were right.

It would be fine if they lived together for a short period of time. With her and Xu Dani around, others wouldn't gossip.

But if it goes on for a long time, it will be hard to say.

"Don't worry, ma'am!"

Seeing Qu Yinfeng's worried look, Li Guoqiang quickly spoke to comfort her: "Even if I move out, we are still a family. I will not abandon you and Dani."

"Besides, I'm not moving to some other place. I'm just moving next door. It's not much different from now."

"That's what I said, but..."

Hearing this, Qu Yinfeng couldn't help but said anxiously: "But it's winter now, how can you build a house?"

"How about you just stay at home first. I'll go to the village and ask someone if it's possible to let Ping'er and Xiaoxia stay at someone else's house temporarily!"

"How can this be done?"

Li Guoqiang raised his eyebrows, and then said with a smile: "How can you let your daughter and granddaughter live in someone else's house? If anyone should go, it should be me!"

"If this gets out, people will think I kicked them out because I wanted to take over this family!"

Qu Yinfeng: “.”

"okay!"

Seeing that Qu Yinfeng did not refute, Li Guoqiang hurriedly continued, "Auntie, just listen to me! It just so happens that I recently killed that big tiger and five wild wolves. I think I should be able to get a lot of money."

"When the time comes, I will use this money and ask the brigade for help. I should be able to build the wooden house soon."

"Ugh!"

Qu Yinfeng thought about it, but couldn't think of any reason to stop Li Guoqiang. In the end, she could only sigh, nodded and said, "Okay! If you want to move, then move!"

After saying that, she turned and walked out with a worried look on her face.

Although Li Guoqiang had just said that he would not abandon her and Xu Dani, she knew that once Li Guoqiang moved out, it would be hard to say what the future would be like.

If possible, she certainly didn't want Li Guoqiang to move away. But what else could she do if she didn't want Li Guoqiang to move away?

Could she really drive Xu Yuping and Zhu Caixia away?

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Xu Yuping saw that Qu Yinfeng's face looked a little ugly, so she hurriedly asked.

"I"

Qu Yinfeng looked at Xu Yuping's concerned expression, hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I'm fine!"

"Mom, did Qiangzi say something to you?

When Xu Yuping heard the answer, she turned her head to look in the direction of the house. An idea came to her mind, and she asked nervously.

What she is most worried about now is undoubtedly Li Guoqiang's attitude towards her. Whenever there is a little disturbance, she will think of Li Guoqiang, fearing that Li Guoqiang will have some opinions about her.

Faced with the questioning, Qu Yinfeng's lips moved slightly, and for a moment she didn't know whether she should say it or not.

If I said it, wouldn't that be a disguised way of driving Xu Yuping away?
"You tell me!"

When Xu Yuping saw that Qu Yinfeng didn't say anything, her heart skipped a beat and she hurriedly urged him.

"Ugh!"

Qu Yinfeng thought about it and realized that Xu Yuping would know about this sooner or later, so she couldn't help but shook her head and sighed, then said, "It's nothing, Qiangzi just said he wanted to build a wooden house next to our house and move out to live there by himself!"

"This"

Xu Yuping was stunned for a moment, then asked in confusion: "Why is this?"

"Why else could this be?!"

Upon hearing this, Qu Yinfeng couldn't help but said unhappily, "Consider it for your reputation!"

Hearing this, Xu Yuping immediately understood, and a very complicated emotion surged in her heart.

Among them, there are feelings of being moved, feeling guilty, feeling sad, feeling fearful, and even a hint of embarrassment.

Then she opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to say it.

She knew that the reason why her father Xu Guangshan was able to be buried in glory, the reason why her niece Xu Dani was able to get rid of the title of little disaster star, and the reason why the family could live such a good life, was all because of Li Guoqiang's help.

If Li Guoqiang really moved out, there would be no one to support this family.

Therefore, let alone Qu Yinfeng and Xu Dani, even she would not want Li Guoqiang to move out.

However, now it is precisely because of her reputation that Li Guoqiang has to move out. Isn't this repaying kindness with enmity?

Thinking of this, she pursed her lips, and then said with some difficulty: "Mom, why don't I go!"

"Walk?"

Qu Yinfeng frowned, then asked angrily, "Where else can you go now?"

"Besides, if you leave now, how can you let the villagers go to see Qiangzi?"

Xu Yuping: “.”

"okay!"

Seeing that Xu Yuping was about to cry, Qu Yinfeng waved her hand and said, "Just stay here for now! I'll see if I can ask your Aunt Chunmei to find you a good family in the next few days."

Although she said so, she knew in her heart that any man with better conditions would not look down on Xu Yuping, a country widow with a child.

What's even more terrible is that Xu Yuping has only given birth to a daughter after more than ten years of marriage, which easily makes people wonder whether she is unable to give birth to a son.

In this way, even those men with poor conditions would not be able to look down on Xu Yuping. Even if they could, it would probably be a big pit.

Thinking of these problems, she couldn't help feeling worried.

Xu Yuping was very clear about this, so when she heard that Qu Yinfeng was going to find a new family for her, she couldn't help feeling sad, and the tears that had already seeped out instantly slid down from the corners of her eyes.

"Cry, cry, cry!"

Seeing this, Qu Yinfeng could not help but scolded angrily, "You just know how to cry! At the beginning, your father and I said that your dead man was unreliable, but you just didn't believe it. You let someone coax you into a trance with just a few words and insisted on marrying him."

"Now you can regret it even if you want to!"

"Mom, I was wrong!"

Facing Qu Yinfeng's scolding, Xu Yuping did not dare to refute at all. She could only bow her head and admit her mistake with tears in her eyes.

In fact, her life was not so bad at the beginning. It was just that after she gave birth to Zhu Caixia, she never conceived a second child, which gradually caused dissatisfaction among her husband and parents-in-law. In addition, her insistence on using money to help her parents' home eventually led to her suffering so many misfortunes.

If anyone wants to blame someone, it's her own bad belly.

"Ugh!"

Seeing Xu Yuping like this, Qu Yinfeng couldn't help but feel a little distressed, then sighed and said with emotion: "This is fate!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhu Caixia ran in from outside with water stains on her head and a look of excitement on her face. Then, when she saw Xu Yuping wiping her tears with her head down, she was stunned for a moment.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

"fine!"

Hearing this, Xu Yuping hurriedly wiped away her tears, then forced a smile and said, "Mom, it's okay. You just took a shower. Hurry up and get into the house and get on the kang. Don't get cold!"

"Oh!"

Zhu Caixia nodded and agreed, then turned around and walked towards the inner room with some worry.

Xu Yuping watched Zhu Caixia's figure disappear behind the door curtain, and a hint of heartache and relief flashed in her eyes.

If she hadn't had such a well-behaved and sensible daughter by her side all these years, she would probably have collapsed long ago.

Now, her biggest wish is to raise Zhu Caixia to adulthood, and then find a good family for Zhu Caixia so that Zhu Caixia can live a good life.

Therefore, if possible, she does not plan to marry again.

Thinking of this, she turned her head and looked at Qu Yinfeng, her heart full of worry.

She knew that whether it was to fulfill the promise of her father Xu Guangshan or to find a support for her niece Xu Dani, Qu Yinfeng would not easily give up on finding a new family for her.

Because only by letting her take Zhu Caixia away from this home could Qu Yinfeng naturally keep Li Guoqiang in this home.

Unless she can be with Li Guoqiang.
As she was thinking, an idea suddenly came to her mind, which scared her instantly. Then she hurriedly and panickily suppressed the idea in her heart.

At this time, Qu Yinfeng had no idea what Xu Yuping was thinking. She glanced at the sky outside and found that it was getting dark, so she hurriedly spoke up to urge her.

"Ping'er, it's getting late now. You've come such a long way today. Go take a bath and relax!"

"Ok!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Yuping hurriedly nodded in agreement, then went into the inner room to get some clean clothes.

(End of this chapter)