Chapter 374 Ji Xiaomeng
Some children are born to repay kindness, like Lu Chenrui.
Some children are born to seek revenge, like Ji Xiaomeng.
Some children are born to do nothing but love watching plays, like Xie Zhiyan.
Ji Xiaomeng and Xie Zhiyan are Huo Huaisui and Xie Qinglan's two children, an older sister and a younger brother.
Ji Xiaomeng was given to her by Huo Huaisui. The older sister absorbed more nutrients than the younger brother in the womb, and was born chubby and fair-skinned. She ate more than the younger brother and was a little chubby girl. Huo Huaisui gave his daughter such a cute nickname.
Unfortunately, Ji Xiaomeng herself is not a very cute person.
She had just learned to crawl when she became a "roadblock," and Huo Huai Sui almost tripped over her several times.
As soon as she learned to walk, she smashed the limited-edition perfume that Huo Huaisui had worked so hard to buy to pieces, making Huo Huaisui so angry that he wanted to throw this daughter into the trash can.
The incident of smashing perfume was just the beginning, not the end. Later, things like drawing on the wall with his mother's lipstick, wiping his younger brother's face with his mother's powder, stealing his mother's face mask, wearing his mother's high heels, and stealing his father's condoms to blow up balloons with his younger brother happened frequently.
When Huo Huaisui returned from another phone call, he was furious to see that Ji Xiaomeng had poured his makeup remover into the flowerpot. "Ji Xiaomeng, I'll take you down with me!"
When Ji Xiaomeng realized something was wrong, she turned around and ran to the study to find her father.
Little Xie Zhiyan sat on the sofa with a children's picture book in her hand, watching her mother angrily chase after her older sister with a blank expression, showing no intention of intervening.
"Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!" Ji Xiaomeng rushed over and hugged Xie Qinglan's leg.
Xie Qinglan pinched her little nose. "How many times have I told you? Don't make my wife angry."
Ji Xiaomeng pouted, "It's all your wife's fault for being so petty and getting angry every day."
Xie Qinglan: "If you behave well, she won't be angry."
Ji Xiaomeng: "If Mom is willing to spend more time with me, I won't make her angry."
Before the two children turned three, Huo Huaisui was almost always by their side. It wasn't until the children turned three that Huo Huaisui resumed his small business and opened several more branches. At the beginning of the year, with the help of Huo Huai'an, he even established a catering company. He has been very busy lately and has hardly spent any time with his two children.
"Ji Xiaomeng!" Huo Huaisui stood at the door with a broom, glaring fiercely at Ji Xiaomeng.
Ji Xiaomeng immediately hid behind her father.
Xie Qinglan patted her daughter's back reassuringly, then looked up at Huo Huaisui: "Didn't you make an appointment with my sister to go to the beauty salon?"
Huo Huaisui threw the broom on the ground and stared at Ji Xiaomeng, saying, "Clean the house before I get back."
Ji Xiaomeng: "No."
Their house is so big, she'll be exhausted.
Huo Huai Sui: "You have no choice but to agree. I'll come back and check. If it's not swept properly, I'll throw away the little crown your great-uncle gave you."
Ji Xiaomeng: "..."
She knew that her mother was thinking about her little crown every day.
Ji Xiaomeng immediately turned to her father for help, her little voice sweet and innocent: "Daddy."
Xie Qinglan's heart stirred, "Sui Sui..."
Huo Huai Sui: "You're not allowed to help her. Otherwise, you'll be sleeping on the sofa tonight."
Xie Qinglan: "..."
He has a son and a daughter. His son is almost a carbon copy of him, while his daughter bears the resemblance of both him and Huo Huai Sui. He doesn't want to be biased, but when he sees his daughter's face, which is so similar to his wife's, he can't help but show a slight favoritism...
Huo Huai Sui: "Oh, right. And those few potted plants on the balcony that you watered, if they die, you have to move them out and throw them away yourself, and I'll deduct your allowance to buy new ones."
Xie Qinglan met his daughter's pitiful gaze, coughed lightly, glanced at his watch, and said regretfully, "Daddy really wants to help you, but Daddy has to go out now. If Xiaomeng can wait, Daddy will help you clean when he gets back."
Ji Xiaomeng lowered her head in disappointment. "Then let's forget about it."
She doesn't know when her father will come back.
Xie Qinglan patted her little head, "You can go and ask your brother if he's willing to help."
Xie Zhiyan was naturally unwilling, as cleaning would interfere with his reading.
Ji Xiaomeng stared at her younger brother for a moment, then suddenly ran back to her room. When she came out again, she was holding a ten-yuan bill in her hand.
Xie Zhiyan took the money and said, "Deal."
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"I don't know who Ji Xiaomeng takes after. I wasn't this naughty when I was a child."
Upon seeing her best friend, Huo Huaisui couldn't help but complain to her about her wretched daughter.
Everyone says that daughters are their mothers' little cotton-padded jackets, but Huo Huai Sui felt that the "little cotton-padded jacket" she gave birth to was not even as good as a "leather jacket".
Her son's leather jacket, though a bit drafty, at least won't cause her any trouble.
“It’s good that Xiaomeng is more lively,” Lu Fengqing said. “Rui Rui was too quiet when he was little. Sometimes I wish he would be more mischievous.”
Thinking of Rui Rui, Huo Huai Sui couldn't help but sigh, "In the blink of an eye, Rui Rui is already in junior high school. Time really flies."
Lu Fengqing: "It will be soon. In a few years, I might even be a grandmother."
Their son Rui Rui inherited all the best traits from both her and Gu Suixing. Although he was clearly a boy, Lu Fengqing, his mother, worried as if she had given birth to a daughter, fearing every day that her son might be tricked away by some girl if she wasn't careful.
Huo Huai Sui nodded in agreement, "We do need to keep a closer eye on things."
Suddenly remembering something, Huo Huaisui added, "I received a message from Zhang Qin the day before yesterday. She said she got divorced."
Lu Fengqing was taken aback. "Why?"
Huo Huai Sui: "...The man's family disliked Zhang Qin because she couldn't have children."
After so many years of marriage, Zhang Qin still doesn't have children, so it's no wonder her husband's family is like this.
Lu Fengqing: "Being unable to have children is not necessarily a woman's problem."
Huo Huaisui: "Zhang Qin said she was tired of that kind of life. If she could be freed from it, she wouldn't want to have children."
Speaking of which, Zhang Qin is getting a divorce, while Xie Qingtang is still single, a typical single old man. After all these years, Gu Zhenying has probably given up and stopped pressuring Xie Qingtang. Recently, he's started pressuring his youngest son, Xie Qingxi.
After parting ways with Lu Fengqing, Huo Huaisui returned home and immediately checked the house.
Huo Huaisui's fair assessment: "Not bad."
Ji Xiaomeng was too tired to speak and slumped limply on the sofa.
She gave her brother ten yuan, and he really only did what was worth ten yuan—cleaned his own room without touching a single tile. In the end, she cleaned it herself.
"You've worked hard." Huo Huai Sui picked up his daughter and kissed her little face.
Ji Xiaomeng was stunned for a moment, her face flushed slightly, and she hugged her mother's neck, rubbing her cheek against her mother's face.
Huo Huaisui: "Be good, and I'll take you to the amusement park tomorrow."
Ji Xiaomeng: "I don't want to go to the amusement park. I want you to sleep with me tonight."
When his daughter wasn't being naughty, Huo Huaisui was quite easy to talk to. "Okay. I'll sleep with you tonight, and tomorrow I'll take you and Yanyan to the amusement park."
Ji Xiaomeng's eyes lit up, "It's a deal!"
When Xie Qinglan returned home that evening, she saw two extra light bulbs on the bed, and her temples throbbed with pain.
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