This is terrible! My future prime minister keeps trying to kiss me forcibly.

Ye Xiaoxiao: ?

This He Wuyou kid even resorts to personal attacks?

She glanced at the person squatting on the ground, and heard him muttering to himself. She raised an eyebrow and said, "Wuyou picked these wild vegetables so well. They're neat, green, and tender. They look delicious."

He Wuyou didn't even look up: "Hmph! You don't need to pretend, and you don't need to act pitiful in front of my mother. That won't work on us."

Ye Xiaoxiao rubbed her rumbling stomach: "I'm not pretending to be pitiful, I really am. I'm starving to death!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the person picking vegetables heard their stomach rumble.

At this moment, He Wuyou wished he could disappear into a crack in the ground.

Ye Xiaoxiao couldn't help but chuckle.

The little girl tending the fire laughed heartily, her tone certain: "Second brother, you're hungry too!"

"Nonsense, I didn't."

Ye Xiaoxiao's beautiful eyes were full of smiles. Seeing He Wuyou's face fall instantly, she knew that this child cared about his reputation, so she changed the subject and said, "Wuyou, I'll take you to pick some delicious wild vegetables."

He Wuyou remained unmoved.

"If you don't go, I'll tell your mother..."

His tone was quite threatening.

He Wuyou's gaze was intense as he glared at Ye Xiaoxiao: What a hateful woman.

He didn't want his mother to worry about these things, so he got up, grabbed a basket, and followed Ye Xiaoxiao out the door.

......

Mother He's room.

Looking at the tall figure standing in front of her, Mother He felt that her eldest son seemed more preoccupied than before.

"Ah Jing, why do you look more preoccupied than usual today?"

Even she, as his mother, couldn't guess what her eldest son was thinking. Sigh.

He Jing said in a deep voice, "It's nothing, I'm just worried about your health."

Mother He had no suspicions and comforted her, saying, "Isn't Xiao Xiao here? What are you afraid of? She just said that my illness will be cured in a month or so."

He Jing's eyes flashed with confusion: "Why does Mother trust her so much?"

"I just feel that she doesn't seem like a completely wicked person. Besides, she seemed like a different person after she came back yesterday. Why not take a gamble?"

He Jing remained silent.

Do you still remember why she married you?

He hasn't forgotten.

Ye Xiaoxiao was an orphan girl taken in by the village chief and raised in his home since she was a child. At that time, the village chief's wife, Zhao Chunxiu, was unable to conceive for some reason, so she tacitly allowed Ye Xiaoxiao to be raised at home, hoping that she would bring a child into the family.

Sure enough, at the end of the year that Ye Xiaoxiao was adopted, Zhao Chunxiu became pregnant. The couple showered Ye Xiaoxiao with even more love and care.

Unexpectedly, the following year, Zhao Chunxiu gave birth to a daughter, Li Yuemei.

Later, when he could no longer conceive, he felt that Ye Xiaoxiao was blocking his path to having children, so he treated her even worse, constantly beating and scolding her, and physically abusing her.

Out of gratitude for being raised, Ye Xiaoxiao dared not resist and could only silently endure it.

Perhaps because of her unpleasant personality, no one acted as matchmaker for her. In the end, He Jing brought some wild game and married her.

He Jing thought that his family needed someone to take care of them, and he didn't have much savings, so he went to the village chief's house to propose marriage.

Mother He sighed, "To be honest, it was because we had some ulterior motives that we felt guilty towards her. After she married into our family, she couldn't fit in and felt like an outsider wherever she went, which is why she became dissatisfied."

“Look at the whole village. With our family situation, who would dare to marry their daughter to you? It’s only because Xiao Xiao doesn’t have any parents to love her that the village chief’s family would easily agree to give her to you.”

"Her younger sister, Li Yuemei, is also scheming and loves to stir up trouble. You should remind Xiao Xiao in the future; she's simple-minded and shouldn't be easily manipulated."

"So, what I mean is, treat the girl well. Since you've married her, you have to be responsible for her. A young couple has to work together to make it work."

Upon hearing this, He Jing realized that something he had been unable to understand in his previous life was beginning to take shape.

He didn't understand why Ye Xiaoxiao in his previous life would poison his family, but now he realized that he was also partly to blame.

"Over the years, I've come to terms with it. Although we are struggling financially now, as long as we are alive, there is still hope. Instead of complaining about being in the dark, we should light a lamp and move forward."

He Jing saw a glimmer of light flash in his mother's dull eyes, and knew that his mother had let go of that old story.

Relieved, he nodded thoughtfully and said, "I'll go prepare breakfast."