Chapter 60 Encountering Father Ji and Zhou Yingying
Why.
Father Ji felt bitter, but he didn't say it. He only dared to secretly swallow his saliva at the roadside stalls.
His position is special and it is a confidential government position. Apart from his close relatives, even Ji Tangchun and Ji Hebai don't know about it, let alone Zhou Yingying?
When Zhou Yingying asked him why he came, Ji's father didn't dare to tell the truth. He couldn't say that he was inspecting, nor could he say that he was here to see Ji Hebai. He could only say that he was here to help Ji's mother.
He hasn't eaten yet, and he's almost fainted from just chatting with this little girl.
"Yingying, are you hungry?"
Father Ji was so hungry that he felt dizzy and could not hold on any longer.
He originally wanted to chat with Zhou Yingying for a while and then go home, but he didn't expect that as soon as Zhou Yingying mentioned the disappointing child in his family, he started talking uncontrollably and started crying every time he tried to persuade her.
Zhou Yingying's eyes were still red, with thousands of words hidden in her heart. She was just about to pour out her grievances to Ji's father, but when she heard what he said, she let out a stunned "Ah".
Father Ji coughed lightly a few times, his eyes suddenly stopped moving, his Adam's apple rolled, and he stared at the fried meat patty stall.
"If you're hungry, uncle will buy you some meat patties."
Zhou Yingying's emotions, which were brewing in the middle of the process, came to an abrupt halt. She followed his gaze towards the fried meat patty stall and immediately frowned.
"Uncle, I don't want to eat here anymore. This kind of stall is unhygienic."
"It's okay, buy a few for Xiao Shen."
Above her head, Ji's father swallowed silently and interrupted what she was about to say.
"Xiao Shen has been following me for most of the day, he must be hungry."
"Ah, I'm not hungry." Xiao Shen, who was carefully recording people's livelihood, paused with his pen, slowly raised his head, and adjusted the frame of his glasses.
He had dinner late in the morning, so he's not hungry yet.
Father Ji glared at Xiao Shen, pressed his shoulder, and said something with hidden meaning.
"Xiao Shen, don't be so stubborn. You're just hungry."
There was a layer of white mist on the frame of Xiao Shen's glasses, making it a little blurry. He and Ji's father were very close, yet it seemed as if they were separated by the farthest distance in the world.
Xiao Shen took off his glasses and wiped them with his sleeve. Just as he was about to refuse, he saw Ji's father striding towards the stall owner of fried meat patties.
Throw money lavishly.
"Give me four patties."
After a while, Zhou Yingying, who realized it later, blurted out: "Uncle Ji, four pieces are too much to finish."
Father Ji had already taken the meat pie wrapped in oil paper and came back to her. He blew on it and frowned, pretending to be regretful.
"Oh, I bought too much and can't finish it. Blame me, blame me. What should I do? I can't let it go to waste."
After he finished speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and took out the top piece of meat pie.
"Never mind, I'll just give it a try."
Zhou Yingying: ...
After wiping his lenses, Xiao Shen also had a book stuffed into his arms. It was so hot that he thought he was attacked and almost dropped the book.
Take a closer look.
It turned out to be a hot meat pie.
Xiao Shen was worried.
His family was poor when he was young, which resulted in poor stomach. He could not digest the greasy meat patties and would have diarrhea after eating them. But he could not refuse Ji's father's kindness.
He sighed, holding the hot meat pie, glanced casually at the crowd, and his eyes lit up.
"Hey, isn't that the lesbian who delivered the braised pork last time?"
"What's braised pork?" Father Ji said, blowing air on it while preparing to stuff the meat pie into his mouth without even raising his head.
"It's the one with beautiful eyes." Xiao Shen scratched his head and tried to search for faces in his mind, but he couldn't remember it.
"Zhong Qiao."
Until Zhou Yingying suddenly spoke.
"Yeah, right, right." Xiao Shen nodded vigorously, "That's it, Zhong Qiao."
Zhou Yingying's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
Zhong Qiao, this fickle slut, used the excuse of sending braised pork to flirt with Brother He Bai and made flirtatious glances at him.
Why are you here?
Thinking of how Ji Hebai had repeatedly turned the door away from her, and Zhong Qiao had experienced the same thing before.
Zhou Yingying's face darkened.
It must be Zhong Qiao's doing! She wants to bring her daughter to register as a resident of the Ji family!
"Why does it feel like there's a fight?" Xiao Shen squinted his eyes as he ate a meat pie and looked at the swaying figures in the crowd.
Not to mention that there was a group of people watching, and they seemed to be pulling and tugging at each other.
When Zhou Yingying heard this, her eyes rolled and she was secretly delighted, and a malicious thought came to her mind.
"Uncle Ji, let's go over there and take a look. If there's a fight going on, that's totally immoral!"
She pulled Ji's father, who had not had time to eat the meat pie, into the crowd, while intentionally or unintentionally saying bad things about Zhong Qiao.
"Uncle Ji, I'm not saying this, but this Zhong Qiao is the one I told my aunt about last time, the one who eloped with a man outside and got pregnant..."
Father Ji was so hungry that he felt dizzy and was pulled into the crowd by her. For a moment, he didn't know whether to put down the meat pie that was particularly awkward in his hand or to eat it.
He swallowed his saliva and could only put it in his arms, then asked someone else what had happened.
"Your dad kicked my fish to death, you have to pay for it! You have to pay for all these fish, or none of you can leave today!"
Zhou Tie put down the knife, his attitude arrogant, but his cloudy yet shrewd eyes were moving, making it clear that he wanted to blackmail Zhong Qiao and the others.
Zhong Qiao was so angry that he almost laughed at what he said.
He was wearing wellies, evidently having made the early morning journey to the city market.
Not to mention that the fish were already half dead during the round trip, and although Mr. Zhong's kick accelerated their death, they should not have to bear all the expenses no matter what.
Zhong Qiao was about to lose his temper.
The arrogant Zhou Tie fell silent for a moment, and even his ferocious expression froze, replaced by an indescribable shyness of a tough guy.
Zhong Qiao:?
She followed Zhou Tie's wandering gaze and locked onto Zhou Yingying and the Ji family in the crowd.
The location where Zhou Yingying stood was also a coincidence.
Among the group of people, apart from the aunts and uncles, she was the only young girl left, standing in the middle, like a fresh lotus.
In addition, since Zhou Tie’s behavior was abnormal, it was hard not to think of something.
Zhong Qiao's mind raced, remembering the last time she went to the Ji family to deliver braised pork, Zhou Yingying was clearly interested in Ji Hebai and even said bad things about her.
However, Zhou Tie firmly believed that she was fickle and seduced men.
From all the signs, Zhong Qiao had already guessed most of what was going on.
Emotions, to some extent, are also weaknesses. They can make a calm and composed person collapse, or even make a gangster lose his composure.
That's easy.
Zhong Qiao suddenly smiled: "Zhou Tie, have you finished looking at your sweetheart? Your face is red."
Zhou Tie was stunned, then became angry and said, "Don't change the subject! Zhong Qiao, just tell me whether you will compensate me or not?"
He tried to maintain that bad expression, but his eyes unconsciously glanced at the crowd. Perhaps he was a little absent-minded, or worried that his appearance at the moment would scare Zhou Yingying, and the knife he used to scrape the fish scales was shaking.
Zhong Qiao found him so funny when he saw how he looked like a completely different person.
She bent down and stared at Zhou Tie's face. Her amber eyes were like a deep lake, captivating.
"Have we met before? Or—"
Zhong Qiao's eyes went straight to Zhou Yingying in the crowd. When their eyes met, the other party was a young girl who had experienced nothing after all, and her frail body trembled violently.
But she smiled gently and harmlessly.
"Someone knows me."
These words were so firm that Zhou Tie's heart trembled, and then a guilty conscience surged into his chest.
It was Zhou Yingying who told him how Zhong Qiao seduced Ji Hebai.
The girl whom Zhou Tie had admired for a long time covered her face and cried, which broke his heart and made him lose his mind.
Therefore, the moment he recognized Zhong's father, Zhou Tiecun wanted to stand up for Zhou Yingying, teased Zhong's father, and slandered Zhong Qiao.
Now that things have come to this, he naturally cannot betray Zhou Yingying, whom he has had a long-standing crush on.
He has never been to school, but in his heart, Zhou Yingying is like his most precious fish, which needs to be raised delicately in water. Fish are the most ignorant and innocent, so how could she have those evil thoughts like Zhong Qiao!
He must not involve Zhou Yingying in this matter.
"Zhong Qiao, stop slandering me." Zhou Tie's voice was a little louder, his tone flustered. "It's a fact that you are fickle, everyone knows it. You have no shame in seducing the only son of the Ji family!"
This is what Zhong Qiao was waiting for.
"I remember I went to the Ji family only once, and the only people present were members of the Ji family. Why do you dare to conclude that I was seducing Ji Hebai?"
"Could it be that someone is deliberately spreading rumors?"
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