Chapter 21
The street in front of the courtyard gate was very quiet. Apart from the occasional passers-by, there were only the chirping of cicadas and birds. Perhaps it was because the people living in Yongxiang were hunters who were not easy to deal with, and the wild children in the chaotic area did not dare to come here, so there were more birds here than in other places.
Xi Fang took Fang Xingqiao to the door, raised his hand and knocked on the door slowly.
Jiaojiao was squatting in the yard, planting flowers with her father using a small shovel. When she heard a knock on the door, she tilted her head slightly in confusion.
Didn’t Uncle Luo An say that he was busy and wouldn’t be coming over these few days?
"Dad, Uncle Luo An is here, open the door!" Jiaojiao looked up at her father and said softly.
"No." Yin Zheng said as he pulled up the screen on the terminal to show him.
The figures of two people standing outside the yard appeared on the virtual screen. Jiaojiao leaned forward to take a closer look before pointing her little finger at the smaller figure on the screen and saying with a frown, "Jiaojiao recognizes me."
Yin Zheng, who originally didn't plan to open the door, looked at Jiaojiao's frown, thought about it, and got up to open the door.
Seeing this, Jiaojiao also supported herself on the ground with her hands and stuck out her butt, trying to get up.
"Uncle."
At the gate of the yard, Fang Xingqiao called Jiaojiao "Uncle" the first time he saw her.
The smile on Xi Fang's face disappeared: "......?"
What the hell?
He looked at Jiaojiao, who was struggling to stand up in the yard because of the small shovel she was holding. He reached out and grabbed Fang Xingqiao by the back of his collar, his voice trembling slightly as he asked, "What did you just call him?"
Yin Zheng, who also paused in silence, turned his gaze to Fang Xingqiao, trying to deny that he had just heard wrong.
Fang Xingqiao did not respond to Xi Fang. His pair of deep green eyes stared blankly at Jiaojiao. Even though he was grabbed by the collar, he still stood still and took steps towards Jiaojiao.
Jiaojiao, who had finally gotten up in the yard, brushed the dust off her knees with her little hands, rubbed her slightly itchy face, then raised her fair, dusty face to look over. She waved with her little hand and softly invited, "Plant some flowers."
"Uncle." Fang Xingqiao, who was trying to move forward, met Jiaojiao's gaze and called out again.
Xi Fang, who clearly heard the word "uncle", closed his eyes and the smile that was always on his face disappeared. If Ji Zang knew that he had not noticed and asked Fang Xingqiao to find him a "relative" of the same generation, he wondered how he would react.
The most important thing is that this 'relative' of the same generation as him is still a child who looks only about two years old.
As far as he knew, the commander had a very good relationship with Fang Xingqiao's uncle, Fang Yuanxing. Since Fang Yuanxing's death, anyone who dared to slander Fang Yuanxing in front of him would not end well.
Now, Fang Xingqiao directly calls a two-year-old child "uncle". Ji Zang will not do anything to a two-year-old child, nor will he lose his temper with Fang Xingqiao, so the one who is most likely to be in trouble is him.
Xi Fangsheng looked at Fang Xingqiao in his hand with despair. He could already foresee the possibility of being trained to death after returning!
Yin Zheng glanced at Fang Xingqiao, then at Jiaojiao who showed no special reaction. His usually fierce face concealed the slight confusion in his heart.
Jiaojiao, who was called uncle, happily took out a candy from the pocket in front of her belly and handed it to Fang Xingqiao.
Fang Xingqiao took the candy but did not eat it. Instead, he carefully put it in his pocket.
When Yin Zheng came back to his senses, the aura on his body was very unfriendly. He didn't welcome the two people in the first place, and now he was even more unhappy. In order to get closer to them, these people actually let a person with a little problem in his brain call a child who looked only two years old "uncle".
He even wanted to throw the two out directly, but after looking at Jiaojiao's curved eyes, Yin Zheng suppressed the impulse, bent down to pick up Jiaojiao and walked back to continue the unfinished work.
Seeing this, Xi Fang let go of Fang Xingqiao. Now that things had come to this, the only thing he could do was let Fang Xingqiao have more time with the child to see if anything unexpected would happen, or if he could abduct the child.
In that case, the commander might not be cruel to him because he has worked hard even if he has no merit!
Fang Xingqiao, who was released, followed Jiaojiao closely, staring at Jiaojiao with his deep green eyes. Even so, he would call her "Uncle" from time to time to confirm his presence.
Jiaojiao would respond to almost every call, but occasionally she would ignore Fang Xingqiao's voice because she was too focused on planting flowers with her father.
After calling out several times without any response, Fang Xingqiao would squat aside, rest his chin on his knees, tilt his head and stare at Jiaojiao quietly.
Yin Zheng glanced at him and then looked away, cooperating with Jiaojiao in planting flowers.
He was not a person who liked to plant flowers. The fundamental reason why he was accompanying Jiaojiao to plant flowers was because before Luo Andeli left, he complained that his yard was just a few bare short trees, which looked short, ugly, gray and ugly.
Jiaojiao heard and remembered these words. After getting up early in the morning and washing up, she rolled up her sleeves to reveal her white and tender arms, and was full of ambition to plant beautiful flowers in her father's yard.
Yin Zheng always went along with Jiaojiao in everything, so when he saw that Jiaojiao wanted to plant, he took him to buy tools first, and then walked towards the Endless Sea alone.
In a place like the border town where the people are tough, no one sells flowers except for some particular families. If Yin Zheng wants flowers, he can only go to the Endless Sea to dig them himself. However, he doesn't have any opinion on the beauty or ugliness of flowers, so he digs up some harmless ones he sees and brings them back.
After Jiaojiao successfully planted a flower, he raised his head and smiled at his father. Yin Zheng glanced at his little cat-like face and couldn't help but take a picture of it with the operating terminal.
"Is this Jiaojiao?" Jiaojiao came closer and saw the photo on her father's computer. She opened her mouth in surprise and pointed with her little finger, saying, "The face is so dirty."
"It's not dirty." Yin Zheng wiped the mud from the corner of his mouth: "After we're done, just go take a shower."
Jiaojiao raised her hand to wipe her face embarrassedly, pursed her lips and squatted down, continuing to shovel the soil with a small shovel.
As he was shoveling, he saw Fang Xingqiao squatting beside him and watching him quietly.
Jiaojiao tilted her head and thought for a moment, then handed the small shovel in her hand to Fang Xingqiao and found another one for herself. His dirty little face curved his eyebrows and his voice was soft and without any offensive power: "Let's plant flowers together."
Fang Xingqiao hesitated for a moment before slowly reaching out to take the shovel, and a little clumsily imitated his movements to shovel the soil.
It's just that he was a little too strong and didn't know how to control his strength, so he raised a shovel of dirt high up and unexpectedly landed on the face of Xi Fang, who was smiling and trying to merge between them.
Xi Fang, caught off guard and smothered in dirt, felt a vein throbbing on his forehead. He gritted his teeth and kept repeating to himself, "This is the commander's child. This is the commander's child. Don't hit him, don't scold him..."
The summer in Sala City is harsh. The scorching sun often makes people dizzy. As soon as the sun comes up a little, Yin Zheng carries Jiaojiao back to the room, takes a shower and changes clothes. Before entering the house, he deliberately closes the door of the living room, leaving the dirty Fang Xingqiao and Xi Fang standing in the exposed yard to bask in the sun.
When Jiaojiao, who had washed clean and fair, came out again, he saw Fang Xingqiao standing in the yard, sweating and dirty. He hurriedly went up to Fang Xingqiao, pulled his trouser legs and walked into the house, saying in a baby voice, "The sun is too hot, don't bask in it."
After saying that, he patted Fang Xingqiao again: "Dirty, you need to take a shower."
Fang Xingqiao squatted down, staring at Jiaojiao with his deep green eyes, beads of sweat hanging on his eyelashes. He spoke slowly and with difficulty: "Uncle, Xingqiao is thirsty."
Upon hearing this, Jiaojiao turned around and walked to the coffee table. She stood on a small stool, tiptoed to take the cup, and then filled a glass of water from the water dispenser and handed it to him.
Fang Xingqiao took the cup and didn't move, just looking at Jiaojiao.
Jiaojiao tilted her head in confusion, stood on tiptoe and lifted the bottom of the cup with her hand: "Drink it!"
Fang Xingqiao then lowered his head and drank the water.
"Dad." After seeing him lower his head to drink water, Jiaojiao ran to the door and looked up at Yin Zheng, then raised her hand and pointed at Fang Xingqiao who was squatting inside: "He's dirty and needs a bath."
"I can't wash it." Yin Zheng squatted down and pinched his fair little face: "I don't have a change of clothes, so I can't wash it."
"Let him go back to his own house and wash."
"Oh." Jiaojiao nodded in understanding, and ran back to Fang Xingqiao, squatting down with her hands in her pockets, looking at her little face seriously: "You are dirty, you need to go back and take a shower."
Fang Xingqiao tilted his head while holding the water cup. After a while, he looked down at his dirty clothes as if he understood something.
Standing in the yard, Xi Fang, who was not allowed to enter, looked at Yin Zheng who was blocking the door, then looked at Fang Xingqiao who was drinking water inside, and couldn't help licking his dry lips.
I miscalculated. I wasn't prepared in advance, and I didn't expect that Yin Zheng, who looked serious, would actually use some little tricks to torture people.
There was no one to deliver food in this chaotic area, and he couldn't afford to lose face if he asked someone else to deliver water.
Before Xi Fang could come up with any idea, Fang Xingqiao walked out from inside and walked straight out, passing him.
Xi Fang turned and walked forward: "Where are you going?"
He had already prepared Fang Xingqiao for not responding to him. After all, he had never responded to them before. However, he did not expect Fang Xingqiao to respond this time. He turned his head and looked at him with a straight gaze, and said with difficulty: "Take a shower, my uncle asked me to take a shower."
Xi Fang couldn't help but stop in surprise, the surprise in his heart almost overwhelmed him. He turned around to look at the child in the room behind him who was nestled in Yin Zheng's arms and saying something with a smile on his face, and then looked at Fang Xingqiao who was walking in front of him.
Before this, he thought that the child would only make Fang Xingqiao react to him, just like some special environments or special objects that would provoke a reaction in people with psychological problems at some point.
That is only a temporary, unsustainable reaction, and once you leave the special environment, you will return to your normal state.
However, I didn't expect that the child's influence on Fang Xingqiao would be lasting and developable. This is incredible. The two are completely different in nature.
In the central city, at the banquet of the Hillian family, Luo Andeli looked bored. He held a glass of wine in his hand, lazily resting it on the back of the sofa, drinking it intermittently.
Few people know that there is a person named Luo Andeli in the Hillian family. His birth in the Hillian family can be said to be very tortuous and bizarre.
However, he himself was a willful person. After becoming impatient with the noisy affairs and atmosphere in the family, he went to the border town of Sala on his own, under the pretext of recruiting alien cores for the family.
This time he came back because it was his grandfather's 80th birthday and he had to come back.
Luo Andeli looked at a group of chattering children not far away and sized them up critically.
This one is not as fair and tender as Jiaojiao's, and her eyes are not as big as Jiaojiao's.
Her facial features were not even one-third as delicate as Jiaojiao's, and her trumpet-like voice made people dizzy. It wasn't at all as soft as Jiaojiao's baby voice.
Tsk, I don't know if that little guy misses me, why didn't he call me?
And that girl who cries all the time, her crying is not as pretty as Jiaojiao's, nor as heartbreaking as Jiaojiao's...
Luo Andeli, who was happily complaining, suddenly fixed his eyes on a lady.
He narrowed his eyes. That person seemed to be the current mistress of the Fang family, Fang Xingqiao's stepmother, Kirotasha.
Although he has been in Sala City for all these years, it does not mean that he is not aware of the various news in the central city.
So no matter how nice she usually is to Fang Xingqiao, Luo Andeli is sure that at least 80% of it is fake.
If there was one person in this central city who least wanted Fang Xingqiao to get better, it would be her.
Thinking of Xi Fang who was still entangled in Sala City, Luo Andeli stood up very gracefully and walked towards the woman: "Mrs. Tasha, I think I have something that you will be very interested in."
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