Song Leilei was somewhat convinced, but she still felt uneasy.
For years, she had thought that Uncle Xu's family had produced a spendthrift son, and she had even worried about how Uncle Xu would support himself in his old age. Little did she know that she was a complete fool.
The prestigious Xu Group has no reason for her to worry. It's pointless for an ordinary person to worry about a wealthy family having a spendthrift heir.
Driven by grief and a powerful appetite, she tore at the meat, mumbling incoherently, "Yes, yes, no."
Xu Jingzhi automatically understood what she was saying: That's also your fault.
"Yes, it's my fault, it must be my fault."
That sarcastic tone was clearly directed at her. Song Leilei snorted coldly: "How could you be wrong? You are the dignified Crown Prince Xu, how could you be wrong?"
Xu Jingzhi: "......"
"It sounds really awkward to hear you call me Prince Xu all the time. If I had told you about my family when I was a kid, you would probably have kept calling me by this strange name. And all the friends who hang around me would probably have too."
Song Leilei put down the chicken wing bone. "So this is your reason for being insincere?"
"I'm not sincere? No, Grandma, let's be reasonable. Apart from not telling you this, is there anything else about me that you don't know? I'm completely transparent to you. Besides, right now you should be calling my dad. A father is to blame for a son's misbehavior, and he didn't tell you either, so he's half wrong too." Xu Jingzhi used the tactic of shifting blame perfectly.
Because he knew that Song Leilei would never blame his father.
Song Leilei let out a breath, gritted her teeth, and said, "Crown Prince Xu, you are truly a filial son."
Xu Jingzhi said, "Yes, then why don't you call me Xu Xiaozi (Filial Son Xu)?"
Song Leilei frowned, her gaze darkening. She really wanted to beat this filial son Xu to death.
She suddenly turned her head away from the food on the table. "Take it away, I'm not eating it. I'm just an ordinary person. Prince Xu, you should go and befriend a rich and beautiful woman of equal social standing."
That's what she said, but as she smelled the aromas of various foods, she couldn't help but swallow her saliva carefully.
"When did the requirements for being friends become so high that we have to be well-matched in terms of social status?" Xu Jingzhi sat down, poured himself a glass of wine, glanced at her sideways, and when he saw that she hadn't turned her head yet, he downed the whole glass of wine in one gulp.
He then drank several more glasses, only drinking alcohol and not eating anything else.
Drinking too fast makes you get drunk easily, but he has a good tolerance for alcohol, so he's only half-drunk right now.
Taking advantage of his slight intoxication, Xu Jingzhi broke the silent and stiff atmosphere once again.
"Do you look down on me because my family is rich?"
He paused, then suddenly burst out laughing. "You're wrong. A girl as good as you is my friend. I'm the one who's lucky. What's so great about rich and beautiful girls? They don't live as authentically as you. When I was little, I played with them, and they were all spoiled princesses. They thought I wasn't good enough to be their prince. But when we grew up, they wanted to be my friend again because they probably realized that the other heirs weren't much of a prince either."
"Then, don't you usually arrange marriages between families? Even Xiao Jin was arranged to marry into a family before."
Xu Jingzhi waved his hand, making a stop gesture. "What's the point of a marriage alliance with my family's half-dead business? Even if we did, would we be able to catch up with the Zheng Group? We call this being content with what we have. If you talked to my dad about a marriage alliance, he would say you're vulgar."
Song Leilei: "......"
"Then why me? There are many ordinary people. You don't like those rich and beautiful girls with princess syndrome, but you can still be friends with others."
“How would I know? I just like it.” Xu Jingzhi suddenly leaned closer to her, staring into her eyes, and said, “Maybe it’s because of that year, the day we first met when we were little.”
Song Leilei doesn't quite remember the scene of their first meeting. She was only four years old at the time, and her brain was not fully developed. The only memories she has are a few fragmented pieces.
She didn't remember anything about their meeting. It was only through her parents' recounting that she learned some things, such as how she chased a white cat when she was little and knocked out a front tooth.
Her parents always tease her about it, saying that she is too lively and active, and that she is carefree and doesn't care that she can break such a big tooth.
However, Xu Jingzhi still vividly remembers this memory. He was seven years old that year, and in his words, this childhood sweetheart was someone he picked up.
The two first met when they were children. Song Leilei was running around on the street, chasing a white cat. She wasn't looking where she was going and ran through a large iron gate into a retro house.
She was only four years old and didn't quite understand that this was someone else's home; she thought it was a place she could come and go as she pleased.
The white cat ran onto the grass, where a boy was swinging on a swing.
She called out in her childish voice, "Little cat, don't run away!" and ran over excitedly with her arms outstretched.
Xu Jingzhi, who was swinging on the swing, turned her head and saw a strange little girl running over. Her cute appearance with her arms outstretched looked just like a chubby little clumsy bird.
He found this scene very interesting.
The swing stopped swaying abruptly, and he stared at her with a look of surprise.
He saw her chasing the white cat, running around the grass, falling down, getting up and continuing the chase, only to fall down again, which was quite comical.
"Hahahaha." Xu Jingzhi, who was only seven years old, couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Four-year-old Song Leilei stopped and turned around to look at the source of the laughter when she heard it.
She gazed quietly at the little boy with her large, grape-like eyes.
After watching for a few seconds, she pouted her pink lips, walked over to the swing, and pushed it hard with her little hands.
"Bad brother."
As soon as she spoke, seven-year-old Xu Jingzhi noticed her missing front tooth and her lip was cut. "What happened to your tooth? Did you fall and knock it out?"
At this moment, Xu Jingzhi, a kind-hearted child, picked up the girl and struggled to move her towards his living room.
Xu Jingzhi called out as she walked, "Dad! Dad!"
Mr. Xu, who was reading the newspaper, looked towards the living room.
He saw his son holding a little girl, and he immediately put down his newspaper and got up to go over.
"Where did this child come from?" Mr. Xu squatted down to look at the chubby little girl and found her very cute. He turned to his son and asked, "Did you run off to play? And you even stole someone else's child? You're quite the thief, stealing such an adorable one."
Xu's father was joking, and seven-year-old Xu Jingzhi was used to his father's occasional, inappropriate humor.
“She ran into our yard by herself. Dad, it seems she knocked out a tooth, please take a look at her quickly.” Xu Jingzhi was very anxious, his eyes fixed anxiously on the little girl of unknown origin.
Mr. Xu mouthed "Ah" to the little girl.
Song Leilei then opened her mouth, revealing a set of white teeth, one of which was missing, and some blood was oozing from her gums.
Mr. Xu: "How come she didn't cry or make a fuss after falling like this? It's really strange. I'll contact the police and try to find her parents."
Later, the police brought Song Leilei's parents to the Xu family home.
It turns out that Song Leilei's parents run a food stall on the street. While they are making pancakes for customers, Song Leilei crawls out of the small bed under the stall and runs around chasing dogs and cats.
Her parents thought she was sleeping in her crib the whole time. When they realized she was missing, they were so worried that they circled around her several times.
Nobody expected her to run into someone else's house.
Both sets of parents were very polite, and Song Leilei's parents made twenty pancakes as a thank you to the Xu family.
"No need to be so polite."
"Yes, yes, our Leilei has really caused you trouble. This is just a small token of our appreciation, it's nothing, please don't mind."
Mr. Xu glanced at his son beside him and could tell that his son really liked the little girl named Leilei. After thinking for a moment, he said to Leilei's parents, "Let's exchange contact information. It's fate that we met. Our son loves to eat jianbing guozi (Chinese crepes)."
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