"cousin?!"
Hearing the voice, Xia Shige turned around subconsciously and saw his third uncle Xia Guokang and cousin Xia Ziqi whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
Compared to the last time they met, Xia Guokang and Xia Ziqi had changed a lot. Xia Shige looked at them for a long time before he could barely recognize them.
During the snowstorm last year, although these two people were in a very miserable state, they looked pretty good, and their faces and bodies were clean.
Now...
Xia Guokang was so thin that he looked unrecognizable, while Xia Ziqi was even thinner, with his body just a skeleton. The clothes they wore were tattered and wet from the rain, sticking to their bodies. Their faces and exposed arms were dirty, as if they had rolled in the mud.
Xia Shige: “…”
Seeing the father and son again, Xia Shige felt unlucky. She pretended not to see them and turned around to leave.
But how could Xia Guozhang and Xia Ziqi let her go so easily? They hurriedly stepped forward to block Xia Shige's way, shouting anxiously:
"Hey! Niece! Wait a minute!!"
"Cousin! Stop it!!"
Looking at the father and son who were surrounding him from the front and the back, Xia Shige resisted the urge to roll his eyes and frowned, saying, "Who are you calling niece? Also, who is your cousin? We are no longer related! Get out of the way! Don't block the road here!"
As soon as Xia Shige saw the father and son, she wanted to return the rice and coal that they had cheated her of. She cared about the family affection they had in their childhood and wanted to give them a chance to mend their ways. However, she overestimated the gambler's bottom line. This was the biggest mistake she had made since she was reborn.
Thinking of that thick stack of IOUs, the rage in her heart began to bubble up, and she couldn't suppress it at all - if there weren't so many people coming and going outside the building and everyone was watching, she really wanted to pin these two people down on the spot and give them a good beating!
Seeing Xia Shige's angry eyes, Xia Ziqi not only did not back off, but instead acted as if he hadn't seen anything. He showed a flattering smile and said, "Cousin, it's been so long, why are you still angry?... Hey, everything that happened before was my fault. I was young and ignorant, so please forgive me!"
Xia Ziqi said that he was young, but his face no longer had the timid and submissive look he had the last time they met. It was as if in just less than a year, he had grown from a shy boy to a mercenary old man.
Xia Guozhang also rubbed his hands and chimed in, "Yes, niece, it was all our fault in the past. We know we were wrong, so please don't be angry."
Listening to the father and son apologizing to each other, Xia Shige just felt that they were quarreling. She didn't even want to look at the two people in front of her. She just said in a cold voice: "Why are you talking nonsense to me here? Didn't I say that we are breaking off the relationship? It doesn't matter anymore! Get out of the way!"
Xia Ziqi gritted his teeth secretly when he heard this, but he knew that now was not the time to get angry, so he rolled his eyes, a look of hurt appeared on his face, and said: "Cousin, how can you say that? We are a family. It is too hurtful to say that we are breaking off the relationship..."
Xia Shige sneered upon hearing this and said sarcastically, "Family? I don't have a family of gamblers!"
"You cheated me out of so much food and coal, and I lost it all in gambling. In the end, you just ran back home and brought the debt back to my house. I haven't even settled the score with you yet! You still dare to mention your family to me now?!"
The more Xia Shige thought about it, the angrier he got. How dare this father and son come to his house? !
After Xia Ziqi heard Xia Shige mention these things, he knew that he could not defend himself, so he could only smile and say: "Cousin, I know that what happened before was my fault. I made you sad. I... I am a bastard! I am not a human! I am possessed by a ghost! I shouldn't have gone to gamble!"
"But cousin, I have really changed now! I swear I will never gamble again in my life. Please, forgive me just this once!"
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