Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Swimming Pool and Sausage
From the time she learned the truth to when Yu Sixie came to find her, Xi Tong thought a lot. At first, she was angry. Faced with a choice between the two, she had to abandon her vulnerable parents in order to save the more powerful Yu family.
It's a typical example of "those who lag behind will be beaten".
After her emotional anger subsided, Xitong had to admit that her parents had no choice given the current situation that was difficult to reverse.
However, she didn't expect that her parents would leave her some money in the end.
From her perspective, she rarely feels the love of her parents.
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When she was in elementary school, Xiao Xitong grew up with her grandparents. Like most Chinese families, she had a pair of doting grandparents and a pair of absent parents.
Mom and Dad were out gambling and having fun all year round. Because Dad owed money to my grandparents and even mortgaged their house to pay off the debt, he rarely came to see my grandma.
Xiao Xitong envied the parents who crowded around the school gate every day after school. The sight of her classmates running towards their parents with their schoolbags on their backs always made her feel empty inside.
Why didn't her parents come to pick her up?
Holding the pocket money in her hand, she walked around the streets and alleys in front of the school. She would spend a long time in every stationery store. There were a wide variety of candies, sausages with tempting smells, pencil cases hanging on the moldy walls, scratch tickets in transparent plastic boxes... What accompanied her instead of her parents were the odds and ends in the stationery store and the flowers and plants in the old community.
She grew up carelessly, and although her classmates and parents always praised her beauty, she always felt inferior.
In her subconscious, girls who are brought home by their parents and properly disciplined are girls, while kids like her who hang out outside every day are "bad boys".
Maybe because she is used to playing with herself, she is not used to expressing her inner emotions. Although she is dissatisfied in her heart, she always suppresses it.
The swimming class in the gymnasium ended with heavy rain pouring down.
Xitong stood at the entrance of the swimming pool wearing plastic slippers, looking at the raindrops that formed into lines, her mind empty, with a hot sausage in her mouth.
"Wang Zihao, hurry up, get in the car."
A middle-aged aunt in a purple raincoat rode on a black motorcycle and waved to Xitong and a group of helpless children who were crowded at the entrance of the swimming pool. One of the chubby little boys jumped up with joy. He immediately rushed to his mother and when he left, he glanced proudly at the remaining children who had no parents to pick them up.
The little boy hid behind his mother, the purple raincoat wrapped them both, and the motorcycle quickly disappeared in the heavy rain.
A low pressure enveloped the children present.
Lost.
Xitong, holding a sausage in her mouth, took out a red banknote from her trouser pocket and said to the remaining six or seven children, "I'll treat you to sausages."
The originally quiet hall entrance immediately became lively. What could a child who had just started elementary school think about? When he heard that he could eat grilled sausages, all his worries disappeared.
Amidst the bustle, parents arrived one after another. Like Wang Zihao's mother, they were either anxiously worried that their children would get sick, or apologized with self-blame.
The only people left in the hall were Xitong and another boy sitting in the corner.
"Auntie, can you give me another sausage?"
Xitong handed over the last ten dollars in his pocket.
The auntie who made the sausage didn't charge Xitong for the money. She just handed the sausage to her and said, "You treated the children to so much. Auntie will treat you to one too. You are the kindest child."
Xitong smiled at her aunt, took the sausage, and walked towards the boy sitting in the corner.
Yu Sixie was a little surprised when he saw a pair of fair little hands holding a steaming sausage. He looked at the strange girl in front of him in confusion. Instead of taking it directly like other children, he frowned.
In Xitong's eyes, this boy who looked so noble and even wore a small suit when swimming was particularly eye-catching. He frowned as if he was disgusted with her sausage.
"Tsk, if you don't want to eat it, then don't eat it."
Xitong immediately withdrew her hand, but at this moment, a cold hand grabbed her wrist.
"You want to eat again?"
Xi Tong, who was about to leave, rolled her eyes and was about to hand the sausage back to Yu Sixie, but the little boy still didn't take the sausage from her and just said "thank you".
Finally, the swimming pool was about to close, and Yu Sixie and Xi Tong, who had been waiting in the lobby, were kicked out.
Holding an umbrella, the two of them stood in the heavy rain, the violent raindrops turning the world white. She held a red and black checked umbrella, her dress fluttering in the wind.
Five meters away, he was holding a large black umbrella, his suit wrapped around his body.
No one would come to pick up Xitong, and she knew it, but she still wanted to wait with this young master. Even though he was really not likable, she just liked to see him waiting here alone and pitifully.
What's the difference between being rich and being alone?
The black Maybach stopped at the gate, and the boy who had been standing silently walked straight towards the car. His black leather shoes were soaked by the rain, but it did not affect his steady steps.
Xitong watched the last child being taken away, and her desire to do good deeds gradually cooled.
At this moment, Yu Sixie, who had not looked at her again except when she handed him the sausage, stopped and walked towards Xi Tong.
He walked towards her step by step, firmly and decisively.
The black umbrella collides with the black and red checkered umbrella, and the pointed corners of the ribs fit perfectly.
"Take you home."
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Xitong never told her parents about her childhood feelings.
When she was in junior high school, her parents finally took her out of her grandmother's house and had time to spend with her.
Xitong started to get along with her parents with some panic. She didn't know what a normal family should be like, and could only understand it from the books and TV she saw.
When Xitong entered junior high school, she started to make friends and was often invited to their homes to play.
After returning home, Xitong shared her experience with her mother, "Mom, xxx's house is so beautiful. Her mother is so gentle, and her father is also at home."
Her mother, who was opening the door, suddenly grabbed her arm and twisted it hard, with a sneer in her voice and a ferocious expression on her face, like a tangled spider web in the corner outside the rental house door.
"Ignorant wolf, we've given so much for you..."
"Xitong, I see you study every day, why can't you pass the exam?"
"Do you want to grow up to be like us? If so, just keep doing this." With the cheerful music of Landlords in her ears, she will take her first college entrance examination in another month.
"Xitong, mom and dad can't help you with anything. You still have to work hard and live your life well."
The conversation with my parents always ends here.
Xi Tong curled up on the sofa and called her grandmother. It turned out that her grandmother knew everything about her parents, which was why she was so against her and Yu Sixie being together.
"Xiao Xi, the grudges between your parents' generation aren't that important. Grandma used to think you and him wouldn't be together, but now I can see that you both like each other. Your parents have done a lot to let you down, and they did what they should do in their last moments. Your life will be bright from now on, and there's no need to get stuck in the past for someone who's already passed away."
"Your parents didn't do a good job in this matter, and the child's family was also doing it to protect themselves."
"Don't let your parents' affairs affect your decision. Grandma supports any choice you make."
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"Don't leave me, okay?"
The person who was clearly oppressing her at this moment spoke in extremely humble words.
Xitong and Yu Sixie have both forgotten the little incident at the swimming pool in their childhood.
That day, she proudly rejected his request. Just as Yu Sixie was walking towards the car, her parents sent her a message.
[Xiao Xi, have you returned home? It's raining heavily outside. Daddy will call you a taxi.]
She also has her own parents and doesn't need him to take her home.
Xi Tong, who was pinned down, grabbed Yu Sixie's hand and said, "Where are you touching? You're chasing me now. How can you chase someone like this?"
"So, I still have a chance?"
Although his hand action was clearly rejected, he was extremely happy. His narrow and long phoenix eyes stared at Xitong closely, like a big dog pinning down its owner, wagging its tail desperately.
"Um."
Yu Sixie still found it hard to believe Xi Tong's words, so even if she knew about her parents, she didn't care?
"It's not that I don't care," she explained. "There's no right or wrong in this matter. I've looked at the project, and my parents aren't completely without responsibility. No one forced them to jump off the building."
She sighed, "Maybe everyone has their own destiny in life."
Did the fortune teller she met that day in front of Jing'an Temple also see all these past events? If she had the chance, she would go back and find him again, to thank him for his words and to give herself an answer to her current confusion.
She reached out and touched the corners of Yu Sixie's eyes and cheeks, sliding her hands across his straight nose, carefully engraving every inch of his face into her heart.
She put her arms around his neck and placed a kiss on the tip of his nose.
What she didn't say was that although there was a chance, perhaps they would never have an ending.
She loves him, but at the same time she also knows how to love herself.
Yu Xitong could not accept her father's suggestion that she come to Beijing to develop her career. Her grandmother's condition had improved significantly after coming to Beijing, and the doctor said it was curable.
After grandma recovered, they returned to W City.
Yu Sixie kissed Xi Tong back passionately, but failed to notice the sadness beneath her calm emotion. His tongue invaded her lips, pried open her closed teeth, and found the tongue hidden inside.
The tip of his tongue gently traced across her teeth, gently touching the small tongue that didn't seem to have much passion.
Having made up her mind silently, Xi Tong no longer resisted, but let fatigue consume her and let him manipulate her.
Yu Sixie gently licked away the tears from the corners of her eyes, carried her into the bathroom, and washed her body in the bathtub which was large enough for two people. He was very careful.
Xitong closed her eyes and hummed softly.
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