The first step to a rich country is to get rich first and then get richer

At 10 o'clock in the afternoon, Uncle Lan and Aunt Zhang helped Lan Ning and others finish the work at hand.

When leaving, Lan Ning and Aunt Zhang had a long argument, but in the end Lan Ning took half a chicken and half a rabbit and successfully closed the door.

The girl was very hardworking and kept looking for work to do. As for her existence, she did not ask to leave or stay, and Lan Ning and the others did not ask her to leave or stay.

But perhaps she and Lanning knew that she wanted to stay.

In order to please her, I cooked a big pot of porridge for dinner, and everyone ate it with a plate of fried cabbage.

The girl ate while crying. She buried her head very low and made no sound, not even a gurgling sound when she drank the porridge.

Perhaps she thought her behavior today had been too bold, the girl ate one bowl and refused to have a second bowl. Finally, Lan Ning winked at Bai Tian, ​​who went to get her another bowl. She was afraid that they would dislike the bowl she had used and that food would be wasted, so she continued to eat.

After finishing the meal, the girl stood up immediately and wanted to wash the dishes, but Lan Ning held her hand to prevent her from moving.

She was very strong, and the girl struggled several times but was unable to pull her hand away and continue to clean up the dishes.

She knew that she had to face reality when it was time.

All of a sudden, the girl's strength seemed to be drained away, and she sat down on the stool dejectedly.

"I understand. I will leave soon. Thank you for saving me and giving me food. When I have money, I will do my best to pay you back."

"Alas, poor child, we don't mean to drive you away, but you have to tell us about your situation, so that we can also know what your situation is, why you fainted alone in the mountains, and whether you have any relatives. We can find a way to send you back to your relatives."

Grandma Lan leaned back in her chair, trying not to use any strength in her upper body.

Hearing this, a little hope ignited in the girl's heart.

"No, I don't want to go back, please, don't send me back.

I tell you, I tell you everything, I just ask you to let me stay, I can do anything, just let me stay and I will work like a slave to repay you. "

As the girl spoke, she wanted to kneel on the ground and kowtow to them.

Lan Ning was quick to move and rushed forward to pull her up.

"What are you doing? If you have anything to say, just say it. Why are you kneeling? A man's knees are made of gold, and so are our knees as women. Except for your family members, try not to kneel to others."

The girl glanced at Lan Ning, but fearing that she might be unhappy, she quickly looked away and told her situation in a low voice.

"I escaped from somewhere else. My mother died when I was three years old, and my father married a stepmother soon after.

This stepmother was nice to me at first, at least she let me eat and just asked me to do some work within my ability.

But everything changed when she became pregnant with her younger brother.

I have to do a lot of work every day, including cooking, washing clothes, fetching water, chopping wood, and doing farm work.

The number of meals per day increased from three to one at midnight, then to one every two days, and then to one every three days.

The food changed from rice to porridge, then to black-faced steamed buns, and later to wild vegetable soup and bran. I was so hungry that I would see rice soup at the bottom of their bowls while washing dishes, and I would secretly want to drink a sip. When my stepmother saw me, she would beat me up.

"Stop, stop, stop! Where's your father? Doesn't your father care?"

A trace of sadness flashed across the girl's face.

"My father doesn't like me. He didn't like me when I was born because I was a girl."

Lan Ning and Bai Tian nodded in understanding. Dabai also called out from inside the house to show that he understood.

Hearing the voice, the girl looked around.

"What was that yelling just now?"

"Nothing, just keep talking."

Lan Ning was eager to continue eating melons.

The girl nodded and continued what she had just left unfinished.

"I can bear taking care of the three of them every day, but I heard them talking in the house a few days ago. They wanted to sell me to a widower as his second wife. The widower was already over 60 years old. I didn't want to do that, so I escaped when they were asleep at night. I was afraid they would find me, so I didn't dare to stop after escaping. I kept running and running. When I was thirsty or tired, I would find a small stream to drink some water and then continue running.

I don’t know how long I ran, but in the end I was so tired and hungry that I passed out in the mountains. You rescued me.”

During the day he slammed the table angrily.

"This is simply too much. How can there be such vicious parents?"

Grandma Lan's tears were already streaming down her face, she felt so sorry for the poor girl.

"How much money did the old widower pay? They wanted to sell you when you were so young."

"Twenty taels. They said that this money can be saved for my younger brother to marry in the future. If I wait until I grow up and get married, I won't get that much money for the bride price."

"Okay, stop talking, kid, stay here, grandma will take care of you."

As soon as Grandma Lan finished saying this, she suddenly thought of her granddaughter, who had been the whole family's necessities lately. She turned to look at her granddaughter and asked for her opinion.

Lan Ning smiled sweetly at her grandmother.

"Grandma, you have the final say. If you let me keep my sister, we will keep her too. Anyway, our family is like this now. One more person is not too much, and one more person is not too little. It's just right for me to have one more person, and someone to help me with the housework."

The girl nodded quickly.

"Yes, yes, I can do housework. I can do all the housework."

The girl was very happy that she could stay, and they agreed to let her stay.

"You've said so much just now, but you haven't told me your name yet? How old are you this year?"

"I'm nine years old. Name, I, I have a name."

"Then what's your name?"

"Because I was a girl, my father refused to give me a name. Later, my mother secretly gave me a name, Meng Anran. She hoped that I would grow up safely.

But after my mother passed away, my father, stepmother, and brother all called me a money-loser, and no one called me by my name anymore."

"An Ran, An Ran, okay, okay, kid, there will be many people calling you by your name in the future."

Grandma Lan wanted to pull Meng Anran's hand, but as soon as she raised her arm, she pulled her ribs and put her hand down in pain.

Meng Anran hurriedly ran to Grandma Lan and squatted down, allowing Grandma Lan to successfully touch his hand.

"Thank you grandma, thank you sister, thank you brother."

"Okay, we're a family from now on, don't thank me..."

"Ouch."

[I was the one who carried her back, why don't you thank me? ]

Lan Ning was helpless and hurried to comfort Meng Anran who was frightened by the wolf's howl.

"I'm not the only one who rescued you this time. There's also a friend. You need to thank him as well. Come out, Baymax."

As soon as Lan Ning finished speaking, a white figure rushed out from a room impatiently.