Chapter 334 - 334 334 Recognizing a Godmother (5)_1

Chapter 334: Chapter 334 Recognizing a Godmother (5)_1 Chapter 334: Chapter 334 Recognizing a Godmother (5)_1 Zhao Li thought it made sense too; their family was well-off, and giving small gifts didn’t seem like much, but the Ruan Family wasn’t the type to take advantage of others. This constant giving would surely make them feel uncomfortable and might even lead them to suspect some ulterior motives.

So Zhao Li had to give up the idea and only bought four sets of clothes and shoes, along with a bicycle.

Amusingly, to express his joy at becoming a big brother, Lu Xian also bought a little toy for Ruan Jiaojiao—a live-eyed jumping frog. The green-skinned metal toy’s eyes could move, and once it was wound up, it would hop around comically.

Lu Xian insisted on paying for it with his own pocket money.

Zhao Li found it funny and teased him, “You like Jiaojiao so much, why don’t we forget about making her your sworn sister and just make her your little wife instead?”

As Lu Xian was seriously counting his money, he immediately blushed at her words, called out to her with some embarrassment, and ran out with his head down.

Zhao Li laughed loudly from behind, shouting, “Are you going to leave your sworn sister’s toy behind too? You really do want her as your little wife, don’t you?”

Lu Xian stopped in his tracks at the door, his face blushing a young handsome red. He turned around with his head still down, shoved the frog into his pocket, and paid quickly.

His reaction made Zhao Li burst into laughter again.

She found his reaction particularly endearing. At that moment, she had no idea that more than a decade later, as she watched her son suffer from heartache, she would regret countless times why she hadn’t arranged a childhood engagement for him…

The ceremony to recognize the kinship was set to take place on August 8th. Zhao Li wanted to do it sooner, but Qian Xiabai said August 8th was an auspicious day, so she had to wait patiently until then.

August 8th turned out to be a day with clear skies—a fine day indeed. At dawn, Zhao Li led her family to the Ruan family’s home.

Because the whole family, except for Lu Zishu, took this ceremony very seriously and had put on new clothes, and even Lu Zishu, who was reluctant, was forcibly dressed by Lu Zhen.

When they arrived at the Ruan family’s place, Ruan Jiaojiao was still asleep, while the Ruanlin Family’s matriarch was in the back tending to the goats and wild buffaloes.

In the past, living next to Liu Mei near the old house, she worried that frequently entering the building with grass might attract attention and lead to trouble. So she came up with a solution. Since the back mountain was seldom visited, she simply turned it into a grazing ground for their livestock. She would release them early in the morning and have Xiu Xi herd them back at nightfall. After a few times, the animals got used to it and went out on their own in the morning and returned in the evening.

Now that they had moved into the building at the village entrance which was off the main road and temporarily surrounded by no other homes, with the nearest Li Family living about a hundred and fifty or eighty meters away, it was even more convenient to let the animals graze freely. All that was needed was to open and close the gate at the right time each day.

Upon hearing that Zhao Li and her family had arrived, she quickly closed the gate and went to greet them.

“Why have you come so early, have you had breakfast yet?” The Ruan matriarch sighed again at the sight of the things they were carrying: “Bringing so many things, we’re so familiar already, you really didn’t have to be so polite. Just a cup of tea would have been enough.”

“How could that be? She’s my precious daughter I specially asked for, I can’t let her be wronged.” Zhao Li seriously retorted, “Aunt Ruan, Jiaojiao is now my precious daughter, you mustn’t say I’m being needlessly polite!”

“Alright, alright, I won’t,” Aunt Ruan also laughed, actually feeling happy inside that they valued Ruan Jiaojiao. Thinking that they might not have had breakfast, she said, “Zhiwei, you haven’t had breakfast either, have you? Sit here for a while, I’ll go make some noodles. It just so happens we haven’t eaten at home either.”