Chapter 283: Chapter 283

The one kneeling on the ground was a woman, her hands supporting her on the ground, and not far beside her stood a man, glaring furiously towards the entrance, with a black sedan parked at the mouth of the alley.

Li Xianglu curiously walked forward to look at the kneeling woman, only to first see a hand she recognized, a burned hand; was this person Li Huan?

Just as Li Xianglu was about to approach, she heard a sharp rebuke and looked up to see the man who had been standing on the side coming towards her, reaching out to grab her, but Qin Xi was quicker, she dropped her backpack and kicked the man.

In an instant, the two started fighting, Li Xianglu’s eyes widened in surprise. She knew Qin Xi knew some martial arts, as she saw him practicing punches every morning in the courtyard. She didn’t expect him to be so skilled; no wonder he was so physically strong. Her thoughts wandered off again.

The two fought fiercely and evenly matched. Li Xianglu squatted down next to Li Huan and whispered, "Hey, your man and my man have started fighting!"

The person kneeling on the ground trembled slightly, looked up at Li Xianglu, then turned her head to watch the ongoing fight.

Initially, neither could overcome the other, but as the fight progressed, Qin Xi’s punches grew heavier, each one landing on the other man’s face. The other man, being short-tempered, after being punched several times in the face, cried out, "You don’t hit the face when you fight, how could you be !"

Qin Xi, however, stepped back, looked at Li Xianglu squatting on the ground, and asked, "Is this the man who drugged you last time?"

Li Xianglu looked up, shook her head, and said, "I don’t know who it was, I didn’t see clearly."

Qin Xi stepped forward, picked up the backpack from the ground, then pushed the cart and pulled Li Xianglu into the house.

It was October, and the weather was slightly cool. Yet, Mr. Li hadn’t gone inside, sitting outside the courtyard, sipping tea, while Sister Xing was busy in the kitchen. Instead of asking her grandfather, Li Xianglu ran to the kitchen.

Upon asking, she found out that these two had been coming for three days, sometimes kneeling from morning until afternoon, other times from noon until night, and today was the third day.

Li Xianglu looked at the dumpling filling, cabbage with more pork than vegetables; she swallowed her saliva, it had been a long time since she ate dumplings. However, her grandfather liked chives, eggs, and wood ears, so she called Sister Xing to soak some wood ears, and went to the backyard herself to cut some chives.

Lao Qi was about to come out when he saw Li Xianglu walking towards him with a basket, he quickly approached, his eyes bright with anticipation, asked, "What’s for dinner tonight?"

Li Xianglu replied annoyed, "Dumplings, go and keep grandpa company, Mr. Li is in a bad mood."

Hearing this, Lao Qi proudly took out two round mud balls from the basket he was carrying and said, "Look, I’m going to cheer up your grandfather later."

Just as Li Xianglu was about to ask what it was, Lao Qi had already run off. Watching Lao Qi’s brisk pace, Li Xianglu immediately felt that this old man must usually eat a lot of meat; otherwise, how could he be so agile?

After cutting some chives and adding some shrimp skins and wood ears to the pork fat, the mixture was enticingly fragrant. Li Xianglu managed to make over seventy dumplings. Sister Xing had already neatly arranged two hundred pork dumplings on the tray, and then she cleaned up and left.

Li Xianglu felt that just having dumplings was a bit monotonous, so she also made a mixed cold dish and fried some peanuts. The weather being cool, everyone dined in the dining room adjacent to the living room.

While Qin Xi was helping to serve the dumplings, they suddenly heard a loud bang, both were startled and quickly ran outside, only to see smoke swirling around their courtyard gate, followed by a strong smell of rotten eggs.

Li Xianglu disgustingly covered her nose and looked outside, only to see the person who was initially kneeling and the man both lying on their sides, while a couple of dirt clods lay scattered on the ground, burst open. Old Qi was happily clapping his hands and proudly asked, "What do you think? Does it look like it?"

Only then did Li Xianglu realize what those two dirt clods Old Qi had were. Ugh, it stinks to death, this old thing, could disgust someone to death!

Mr. Li was also startled and instinctively rushed over to check. Realizing it was Old Qi’s prank, he waved his hand wanting to leave, but unexpectedly, the person lying on the ground quickly sprang up, holding onto Mr. Li’s legs and wouldn’t let go.

Mr. Li yelled angrily, "Let go!"

But the person wouldn’t let go no matter what, and Mr. Li, unable to pull free even after a long try, was furiously exasperated. Qin Xi came over to support the men, but did not pay attention to the person on the ground.

At this moment, the one on the ground, Li Huan, finally stood up: "Daddy, please forgive me!"

Furious, Mr. Li kicked the person away: "Go back where you came from, I am not your daddy, I don’t have a daughter like you!"

The person who was kicked over crawled back again and hugged Li Huai Ren tightly, saying: "I was deceived by Wei Minghai, I thought you were the one who killed my parents, but then I discovered I was misled by him. I pretended to side with him by stealing your things, but I didn’t give him the real materials, otherwise, you wouldn’t have been able to pull out peacefully."

These unclear words calmed Mr. Li down, and he quietly listened.

Li Huan wiped his nose, "Wei Minghai deceived me , I will never let him go. I wanted to kill him, so I went with him to the Bay area. Five years ago, I killed him, but because the situation on the mainland was unstable, I couldn’t return."

Thinking this, Li Huai Ren recalled the bottles, yes, those were Wei Minghai’s bottles, no wonder they showed up, it turns out the other side was already dead, otherwise they wouldn’t have ended up in Li Huan’s hands.

Thinking this, Mr. Li sighed, turned around, and entered the house, while Li Xianglu stood at the original spot, waving her hands, "Come on in."

At this time, the dumplings had already been set on the table, four plates of pork, two plates of chives, eggs, and mushrooms, along with two plates of dishes to accompany drinks. Li Xianglu continued making dumplings, and everyone took their seats, Li Huan helped Li Xianglu bring another two plates of dumplings.

Once everyone was seated, Mr. Li finally said, "Let’s eat first, we’ll talk afterwards."

Thus, everyone started eating. Li Xianglu checked the pot where there were still dumplings occasionally and then came back to eat. Old Qi, however, had already eaten more than sixty, their family’s dumplings were much heartier than those sold outside, larger in size. Normally, even Qin Zhen, the one with the biggest appetite, could only eat around forty.

When the dumplings were about to run out, Li Xianglu reluctantly brought out another two plates of triple mushroom filling dumplings which were stored in the Storage Ring since winter.

Originally sitting in the living room digesting his food, Old Qi came back to the dining table, ate one, and his eyes widened in surprise, "This is a mixed seafood dumpling, why didn’t we have this earlier?"

Li Xianglu rolled her eyes, "This is from the frozen dumplings stored in the fridge, weren’t you full yet?"

Old Qi rubbed his stomach and reluctantly walked away.

After finishing the meal, Old Qi went to the backyard, and everyone else sat in the living room.