Chapter 64: Little New Year
There are also cello lessons in the afternoon.
She didn't have time to wait for others to have dinner together like last time, and she didn't even have time to think about random things.
Leaving the food behind would seem like charity, so Xu Jiqing would definitely not want it.
With the previous precedent of peach pie, Su Xia had a vague intuition that Xu Jiqing was not at all opposed to eating her leftovers.
She turned around and went to the counter to order the two most expensive sets. After picking up the food, she stood there without leaving. She quickly broke off a piece of each hamburger and stuffed it into her mouth. She also unwrapped the French fries and popcorn chicken, making them look battered, and trotted back to Xu Jiaojiao.
"This is... what I just left over from the table next to you. When your brother gets out of class, you can give it to him if he doesn't mind."
I opened the zipper of my schoolbag and found a box of freshly opened hot packs inside.
She opened it casually and took out several.
"If you stick this on your underwear, it will generate heat. I bought too much, so Jiaojiao helped me share some of the heat. Don't stick it directly on your body. Low-temperature burns will cause your skin to peel. Tell your brother."
She rambled on for a long time.
Xu Jiaojiao said "Oh" in a daze and smelled a hint of parting.
She was so reluctant, "Sister Xia Xia, when can we talk next time?"
"When is your brother's next class?"
Xu Jiaojiao thought for a moment and said, "The sixth day of the first lunar month."
Su Xia asked, "Do you have a cell phone?"
Xu Jiaojiao shook her head, "Brother has it."
"During the Chinese New Year," Su Xia extended her pinky finger and made a pinky promise with the little girl, "Don't be too focused on watching the Spring Festival Gala. I'll call your brother to wish him a happy new year, and you can come pick him up. Is it an appointment?"
"Yeah!" Xu Jiaojiao was happy, smiling with her teeth gapping, but then she raised her hand to cover her mouth embarrassedly.
Su Xia put on her bag, waved to her, and looked back every few steps.
Just a moment ago, she really wanted to wrap the big bills in her wallet into red envelopes and give them all to Xu Jiaojiao, but being someone's sister-in-law was a thing of the past life, so what position does she have now?
The jade Guanyin pendant on her chest was cold. It was the one Su Xiaojuan had just asked for her.
When getting off the escalator, Su Xia raised her hand and touched the jade pendant.
She closed her eyes and prayed silently, hoping that if there really were gods and Buddhas in the world, they would use her blessings to bless her and her brother.
What will Xu Jiqing's world be like when we meet next time?
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This year, women's clothing e-commerce has been developing in full swing. As soon as the New Year arrives, all kinds of big promotions and discounts are everywhere, and it is much busier than usual.
It was not until the day of the Little New Year that Su Xiaojuan had some free time and accompanied Su Xia to have the first breakfast of the winter vacation.
She was about to participate in a competition, so she deliberately wished for good luck at the dinner table. There were rice cakes and rice dumplings, and the dishes were beautifully presented, implying that she would pass the imperial examination every year.
Su Xia picked up several pieces and put them in the small bowl. She poked at them with a pair of chopsticks, but only swallowed a few grains of rice after a long time.
Su Xiaojuan looked at her several times, couldn't help but make a "tsk" sound, and tapped the table with her knuckles.
"...Mom," Su Xia came back to her senses and blinked slowly, "Do you know any aunties at the South City Night Market?"
"Why, if you want to go play, just go."
"No, I'm going to play."
Su Xia put down her chopsticks and fished out a slip of paper with Xu Jiqing's phone number from her trouser pocket. "I have a classmate whose mother used to sell fried noodles at the Jiangda Night Market. Now she's run into some difficulties and can't go there anymore. I want to ask if she can go to the South City area."
I have never heard of a child from such a family who could get into No. 1 Middle School.
Su Xiaojuan was a little surprised. "What's the problem? Did you run into someone collecting protection money?"
It would be better to collect protection fees, Su Xia sighed in his heart.
"His father is very bad."
"He was in jail for several years for domestic violence and is about to be released soon. He knows their current address and might come to their house for revenge." Su Xia became more and more worried as she spoke, her fingers turning white from fingertips. "He has excellent grades and will win a prize in a great competition next winter. He also has a younger sister who is only in the first grade and is very well behaved—"
"Wait a minute," Su Xiaojuan interrupted her, "Which classmate of yours is this? Why have I never heard you mention this?"
Su Xia paused for two seconds and told the truth, "It's my deskmate."
"The boy who always gets 150 on math tests?"
"Why do I remember you saying last time that his family runs a small business," Su Xiaojuan muttered, "What good things do you want me to say about you? You even said you don't like him? If you don't like him, you even put a face on his family background."
"It has nothing to do with this," Su Xia said, her face flushing red. "I was just afraid that you would look down on him."
Su Xiaojuan snorted, "Don't judge others by your own standards. What's your mother's background? She's not a royal relative, and there are still many people who look down on me."
She curled her lips, "But let me make it clear to you, this kind of domestic violence is very scary. You can't help them just because you ask them to. It's hard to explain their family affairs to outsiders."
"Stay away from his mother's stall from now on. A man who can beat his own wife and children can do anything to anyone. My silly daughter doesn't want to get involved in that."
"But Mom..."
Su Xia put down the bowl, her eyes turning red with anxiety.
"Okay," Su Xiaojuan said firmly without even looking at the small note, "I'll take care of this matter. You should stop mentioning it in the future and keep your distance from that boy as appropriate."
She has a very strong personality and once she makes a decision, she sticks to it.
Su Xia did not give up. She sat at the small desk and thought of a solution for the whole morning. She was so tired that grass was growing on her head.
Although in her memory of her previous life, Xu Jiqing could still go to school normally in the following year and the situation did not seem so urgent, but dripping water wears away stone, who can say that every day now has nothing to do with the final outcome?
After being reborn for half a year, she no longer pursues changing her fate.
But if he was destined to get caught in a heavy rain, she would also like to hold an umbrella for him.
We come to this world with great difficulty. If we have a choice, who would want to suffer?
Su Xia thought that she had no idea what to do at noon, so she simply copied the phone number carefully more than ten times on sticky notes, wrote Lin Yuezhen's name on them, and stuck them one by one in Su Xiaojuan's bag.
The back is the same as the Mother's Day card I drew when I was a child, with little hearts and kissing figures all over it, and finally the words "Please, Mom."
Su Xiaojuan didn't let her say anything, so she didn't say a word.
Like waging a guerrilla war, Post-it Notes sneaked into the cloakroom one day to check and stick everything on.
I worked hard until the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month.
When I got up in the morning, it was snowing lightly and Su Xiaojuan had already left the house.
There were two sticky notes of different colors stuck on the dining table. On top of the large heart, Su Xiaojuan's flamboyant handwriting was superimposed:
[I got it done last night. I'm really impressed by you.]
【That is, your mother.】
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