The two people were talking in whispers as if no one was around.

Jiang Xiao always felt that Wen Shanshan glanced at him from time to time, and she definitely didn't mean anything nice, so he glared at her deliberately.

Wen Shanshan glared back without showing any weakness, with an attitude of "come on, glare at me, my eyes are bigger than yours".

No one gives in to anyone else.

Soon Jiang Xiao sneered in his heart, wondering how he could become as childish as a three-year-old. He was almost thirty, why was he bothering with a little girl? He simply looked away, no longer looking at her, and instructed his lawyer on some details.

Xu Qingzhi touched Wen Shanshan's head and reminded her: "Call your brother and ask him to come for dinner."

"Oh, yes, I almost forgot again." Wen Shanshan responded and took out her cell phone to call her brother.

A silent, childish staring war ended.

In the courtyard, Wen Siran searched for Wen Shanshan for a long time but couldn't find her. He asked Uncle Wang and Aunt Liu, but they both said they didn't know where she had gone.

He had an idea of ​​where the person had gone, and the next second he received a call.

On the other end of the phone, his sister said in an extremely excited voice: "Brother, come quickly, Auntie asked me to ask you to come for dinner."

Wen Siran was a little helpless. It was really rude to always go for free meals. But when he thought of the delicious food at the Xu family, he swallowed his saliva and responded, "Okay, I'll be right there."

Wen Shanshan hung up the phone, and soon after, Jiang Xiao received a WeChat message from Wen Siran.

"Auntie, uncle, I'll go pick up Si Ran." Jiang Xiao politely informed them and prepared to leave.

The lawyer who was following Jiang Xiao, carrying his briefcase, said, "Boss Jiang, now that I'm done with this, I'm going back to Kyoto."

When Xu Fuqiang heard this, he quickly stopped him and said, "Young man, you have come all the way from Kyoto overnight, and you must be exhausted if you have to leave right away. Why don't you stay for lunch before leaving?"

Lawyer Zhou didn't think too much about it. It was just a meal, and he could just go to the county town and find a restaurant to eat. But a worker has the consciousness of a worker, and he subconsciously glanced at Mr. Jiang.

Jiang Xiao nodded.

Lawyer Zhou then looked at Xu Fuqiang, smiled politely and said, "Thank you, uncle."

He put the briefcase down and sat back down.

He graduated last year and joined Jiang's Group. He has the ability but also works very hard.

Business trips are common. For example, he rushed here from Kyoto overnight without taking a break on the way. He is indeed a little tired now, so it would be good to have a break.

Jiang Xiao went to pick up Wensran.

Xu Qingzhi and Wen Shanshan went to the vegetable garden and picked some fresh vegetables.

Xu Qingzhi received a text message notification from the courier, but he didn't care about it for the time being, thinking that another batch of fruit saplings had arrived, so he would pick them up in the afternoon.

Xu Fuqiang looked at the fresh vegetables such as beans, eggplants, and amaranth in his daughter's hands.

He sighed and said, "Qingzhi, our vegetables are not only delicious, but they grow really fast."

"Our few acres of land are in a good location, and the vegetables are planted by your daughter herself, so of course they grow well and fast." Xu Qingzhi said with pride, just like when he was a child showing off that he got a perfect score on the exam.

Of course she couldn't tell the truth, so she just said it casually. Her parents couldn't find any evidence anyway.

Xu Fuqiang didn't take it personally and said, "The vegetables in your aunt's field look like they were hit by frost. They are wilted and half of them are dead."

"My aunt's family has a special greenhouse for growing vegetables on those acres of land, so how come the vegetables died?" Xu Qingzhi was a little surprised.

"Your aunt is not in good health, and your brother-in-law can't get these. The vegetables were infested with worms, and he just followed what others said. He had no experience, and it seemed that he sprayed too much medicine, and the vegetables died." Xu Fuqiang looked at the fresh and vigorous vegetables on his own field in front of the courtyard, and then said: "I will pick some vegetables in the afternoon, go to your aunt's house, and then go to your uncles' houses. You have been here for so long, and everyone knows that you are farming at home. It would be unreasonable not to send some vegetables to your relatives."

Wang Yanmei's voice came from the room: "Why give it away? We can keep the vegetables and sell them for money."

Xu Fuqiang gave Xu Qingzhi a foolish smile and said nothing.

Xu Qingzhi also smiled. She was not a child and she had already figured out the essence of her parents playing the good cop and the bad cop roles.

Her father just wanted to ask her to go with him, and whenever he visited relatives, he would call them.

A few days ago, Wang Yanmei asked Xu Qingzhi to go to her uncle's house to deliver some vegetables and asked her not to let her father know. Xu Qingzhi fooled her with a few words.

At this moment, my parents must have colluded and made this agreement.

Xu Qingzhi recalled that when she was a child, she would make a fuss for a two-cent yellow ice soda.

Her mother would yell at her: That stuff is made of saccharin and has no nutrition, you are not allowed to eat it.

Her mother said: Eating this stuff will damage your teeth. If your teeth are damaged, you will have to see a doctor, and seeing a doctor costs money. Where will the family get the money?

Her father: It's just a soda, it doesn't cost much. Qingzhi, Dad works hard to earn money to buy you lots of ice soda, okay?

Her mother said again: blah blah...

Her father said: Balabala...

The words that followed were like a tangled mess in Xu Qingzhi's memory at this moment.

Because, Xiao Qingzhi saw that it was her who was rolling on the ground and asking for ice soda.

As a result, her parents started arguing.

She stopped crying, wiped her tears and snot, and shouted heartbrokenly: "I don't want to eat, I don't want to eat, I don't want ice soda, mom and dad, please stop arguing."

She just watched as her parents went into the house while arguing, and she was alone in the small yard sniffing her nose.

Why, now that she's grown up, she knows it all.

At that time, I was afraid that my parents couldn't continue the performance and went into the house to laugh secretly. They deceived their daughter again, which was really fun.

Xu Qingzhi snorted in his heart, but said, "Dad, I won't go. It's fine if you want to give some of the vegetables I grow to my aunt, but I don't want to give them to my two aunts."

My aunt's house is just opposite the gate of the elementary school where she used to attend.

At that time, my aunt's family opened a small store, and when school started, she was asked to take several black pens and notebooks.

Although he didn't give it to her every time school started, and only gave her snacks occasionally, her aunt's family was not well off, and Xu Qingzhi had taken other people's things for nothing.

Later, she made money by acting and gave her sister-in-law red envelopes several times during the Chinese New Year as a way of repaying her kindness.

She doesn't have much contact with her aunt's family, but if her father wants to send some food to her aunt, Xu Qingzhi won't stop him.

Xu Fuqiang sighed, "Qingzhi, your uncle and second uncle also lent money to our family. Dad is grateful for this. Besides, we have a lot of vegetables at home, so we won't be stingy with this."

"Yes, I did borrow it. The interest rate is even more unscrupulous than loan sharks." Xu Qingzhi's tone gradually turned cold. She said bluntly, "How can this be considered stingy? Have the two aunts ever sent a single leaf of vegetables from the vegetables they grew over the years to our family? Not even a single leaf."

Xu Qingzhi didn't care about these things at all. She had lived for more than five hundred years.

However, she just wanted to express her attitude and make her father sober up.

Even if you send food to someone, they may not remember it as a kindness and may even say something unpleasant to you, making you suffer in vain.

The year she started making money by acting, she sent tea to her uncle, second uncle and aunt's families, worth about 900 yuan, in two iron gift boxes.

Xu Qingzhi had just turned around and hadn't walked far when her second aunt started talking about it. She said that she had the nerve to send such a piece of broken tea as a New Year gift. She made so much money from acting, but she was still so stingy. She was just like that fool Fuqiang.

Not to mention my aunt, she is naturally cold and indifferent, and every time I send her something, she gets a cold shoulder.

Having been taught to obey elders since childhood, Xu Qingzhi said nothing and went home holding his breath.

The tea was sent to my aunt's house, and my aunt smiled and said a few nice words, which at least made people feel comfortable.

Xu Fuqiang felt bad after hearing what Xu Qingzhi said. He didn't have the ability to make money before, and his two brothers' families looked down on him.

One time, the eldest sister-in-law's family had grown a lot of radishes and was giving them away. Yanmei happened to pass by and called her sister-in-law. The sister-in-law responded with a cold face, and even thought that Yanmei wanted to take advantage of her radishes, so she quickly went to the neighbor's house to share the radishes. Yanmei went home embarrassedly and told him about this matter.

"Qingzhi..." He finally spoke.

"Dad, I don't want to leave. Don't call me anymore." Xu Qingzhi walked into the house.

Wen Shanshan, who was standing by, saw that her uncle looked embarrassed and comforted him, "Uncle, no matter what happens, I think Qingzhi did the right thing!"

Then, Wen Shanshan followed Xu Qingzhi into the house.

Xu Fuqiang looked at the gloomy sky and thought that the old man was still alive and they were still a family after all, so he had to put in some superficial effort.

The second sister-in-law is also a sharp-tongued person. She talks nonsense outside every day, saying that Qingzhi's money comes from dishonest sources, that it is a joke for him to grow vegetables at home, and that he has no manners for not visiting his elders in such a long time since he came back...

He thought that he might as well let Qingzhi go and let his second sister-in-law see how well his daughter grew vegetables, and it was not as she said.

(End of this chapter)