As Zhaodi's tears fell, Su Qingluan clearly saw beads of sweat appearing on Chen Zhi's forehead.
Su Qingluan finally got to see what "tempered steel becomes as soft as silk" really looked like.
This scene was a bit heartwarming and a bit funny, but Su Qingluan had not completely gotten over the anger that Chen Zhi and Zheng's wife had just slammed the table and yelled at, so she still had a cold face.
Unexpectedly, Zhaodi spoke first while crying: "I'm sorry, Shopkeeper Su, for causing you trouble." She then looked at Chen Zhi and said, "Why did you push Shopkeeper Su just now? You should apologize too!"
It was still that soft and somewhat aggrieved voice, but Su Qingluan saw that after hearing Zhaodi's words, Chen Zhi was not impatient at all. Instead, he felt as if he was "afraid that she would cry again."
Su Qingluan really didn't expect that Zhaodi actually minded this issue. She couldn't help but feel "relieved", similar to the mentality of "the love for my own daughter is not in vain" - although the two are only one year apart in age, it has to be said that Su Qingluan's mental age is there after all, and she unconsciously treats Zhaodi as a little girl.
Hearing Zhaodi's words, Chen Zhi was stunned at first, and then he seemed to have suffered a great injustice: "I didn't push Shopkeeper Su. How dare I push Shopkeeper Su? I just pushed him away." He looked at Su Qingluan again, "Shopkeeper Su, I really didn't push you!"
"Oh, if you said there was no pushing, then there is no pushing." Su Qingluan asked expressionlessly, "But are you two done arguing?"
After being scolded by Su Qingluan, both Zheng Saozi and Chen Zhi realized that they had completely treated this place as a market. Zheng Saozi also realized that she had always put herself in the position of a victim. If she made such a fuss, regardless of whether she was right or not, it would inevitably reduce her impression of being a "weak person".
So she was the first to bend down and kept apologizing to Su Qingluan: "Oh, Shopkeeper Su, I'm really sorry. I'm just an honest person who says what I think. When someone wronged me like this, I got angry and couldn't hold it back for a moment." As she spoke, she squeezed out two tears of grievance.
If Su Qingluan had not known about this beforehand, she would probably have been confused by this performance and thought that she had really suffered a great injustice.
In contrast, Chen Zhi didn't put on such a sympathetic show. Instead, he said with a sour face, "Shopkeeper Su, I shouldn't have treated this place like a vegetable market and yelled. I admit this. You can fine me or make me work overtime, I'll accept it. But..."
Chen Zhi turned his head and looked at Zhaodi, who was looking aggrieved. "Can you please not punish her? She has done nothing wrong in this matter. And it all started because that woman surnamed Zheng and another person bullied her. I couldn't stand it, so this happened."
Su Qingluan followed Chen Zhi's words and turned her gaze to Zhaodi: "Chen Zhi said that you were bullied by Zheng Saozi and another person. What's going on?"
In fact, when Su Qingluan asked this, she was secretly worried about Zhaodi and Chen Zhi.
Zhaodi is soft-hearted and timid, but she doesn't seem to be afraid of the burly Chen Zhi. It is estimated that Chen Zhi has made a lot of efforts in private to make Zhaodi "not afraid".
But people like Zhaodi are prone to being too sanctimonious. For example, in the current situation, she is really worried that Zhaodi will say something like "They didn't bully me, I volunteered to help them."
Because once Zhaodi said this, not only would Su Qingluan have no way to continue pursuing the matter of Zheng Saozi, but on the contrary, it would put Chen Zhi, who had originally "helped save" Zhaodi, in trouble - they all volunteered, and you are still interfering here, isn't that meddling?
In this way, not to mention Chen Zhi, the person involved, even Su Qingluan, a bystander, would easily feel disheartened. Moreover, Zhaodi's character of not knowing how to refuse and resist really looks like someone who could say such a thing!
Fortunately, although Zhaodi was soft-hearted and prone to crying, she was not stupid after all. She knew who was treating her well, so she said carefully, "Shopkeeper Su, at the beginning I did volunteer to help them share some of the work..."
"Look at what I said!" Sister Zheng immediately became complacent, but before this complacency could fully show on her face, she heard Zhaodi continue, "Not now!"
Su Qingluan's heart, which had been sinking, rose again. She looked at Zhaodi, glanced forward at Mrs. Zheng, and then quickly lowered her eyes. "I agreed to help because when we work together, there are always difficulties. If I can finish it first, it's okay to share some of the burden with everyone."
Having said this, she clutched her hanging belt tightly, as if to cheer herself up: "But I am helping you, I am willing to do so. I am also very happy that Chen Zhi stood up for me. If my help causes Chen Zhi, who wanted to help me, to suffer injustice, I don't want that!"
"Hmph, to put it bluntly, you just miss your man!" Mrs. Zheng rolled her eyes in disdain.
"That's not the case!" Zhaodi shook her head seriously. "If it was Chen Zhi who asked me for help, and Madam Su felt that I was wronged and wanted to stand up for me, I would be very happy too! I wouldn't think that Shopkeeper Su was meddling in other people's business just because of this incident! It's not like that at all..."
Perhaps the three words "missing a man" were too beyond her comprehension for the innocent and gentle Zhaodi, so she was too embarrassed to say it out loud. Her fair little face gradually turned red, and even her ears turned red.
"I'm not going to push my own work onto you..." Chen Zhi muttered unconvincedly, causing Su Qingluan to roll her eyes inwardly: "Brother, is that the point?!"
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