Sister-in-law? Ding Kemeng?
"Isn't your sister-in-law named Tang Meng?" Tang Zhizhou was stunned. "Brother Lu, have you changed your mind?" So fast? Only a week? You've already fallen for someone else?
"Get lost!" Lu Ziyin was so angry with Tang Zhizhou that the veins on his forehead bulged. He couldn't stand it anymore and slapped Tang Zhizhou, making him wince in pain before he felt a little better. "You assured me from the beginning that you wouldn't mistake me for someone else, but the truth is you've been mistaken from the start! You made me spend a whole week fawning over that Tang Meng from Class 1, and even made Mengbao mistakenly think that I had fallen for Tang Meng from their class!" What's most infuriating is that those people from Class 1 actually dared to bully his Mengbao behind his back!
"I mistook someone for someone else? No way, the girl named Wang Xiaoxiao told me herself that there's only one girl in their class whose name has the character 'Meng' in it. How could I be wrong? Did she lie to me?" Tang Zhizhou still couldn't believe it.
Upon hearing the name Wang Xiaoxiao, Lu Ziyin suddenly sneered: "Coincidentally, the Wang Xiaoxiao you mentioned is one of the people who bullied my adorable child!"
"Brother Lu, you're saying they bullied...bullied your sister-in-law?" Tang Zhizhou was incredulous. He knew that conflicts would arise between students in different classes at school, and sometimes if things got out of hand, they would inevitably be called school bullying. But he never expected that Ding Kemeng, that delicate little girl who looked like a rag doll, would be bullied!
"Brother Lu, you didn't come to class this morning, did you go to deal with this matter?" Knowing Lu Ziyin as he did, if someone bullied someone he valued, he definitely wouldn't let it go so easily!
"Heh..." Lu Ziyin sneered, "They're just a few girls who only know how to scheme against each other. Spend some money and we can make sure they don't have an easy time in the future!"
It seems he really did disappear all morning to deal with this matter...
Ye Nai didn't return until the lunch break was over.
Ding Kemeng ate the lunch that Lu Ziyin asked her to deliver, but Ye Nai didn't say that it was Lu Ziyin who delivered it. Instead, she said that she bought it herself, and that's how Ding Kemeng ate it.
Lu Ziyin didn't say anything after he found out. At least he ate it. As for the process, he didn't care.
After four classes in the afternoon, as school was about to end, the already overcast sky seemed to finally give way. First, a few raindrops fell on the window, but then large raindrops began to fall continuously, blurring the view. The rain was getting heavier and heavier.
Lu Ziyin fell asleep on the table. When he woke up, he was the only one left in the classroom. There was a note under his arm, left by Tang Zhizhou. It said that he and Xie Sichen had gone home first and that he should go home early.
Lu Ziyin crumpled the note and accurately threw it into the trash can in the back row. She put on her already dried coat, pulled her schoolbag out of her desk, stood up, put her hands in her pockets, and walked out of the classroom with light steps.
"Woof woof woof! Woof...woof!!!" The puppy's barking, accompanied by the sound of rain, reached Lu Ziyin's ears.
Lu Ziyin gave a wry smile, quickly walked to the tree, wiped the rain off her face, squatted down next to the shoebox, and said helplessly, "Alright, stop yelling, I won't touch you, okay..."
The puppy, however, completely failed to understand Lu Ziyin's helplessness. When it saw Lu Ziyin squatting down in front of it, it barked even more fiercely!
When Ding Kemeng arrived at the tree with an umbrella, this was the scene she saw: a tall man, half-squatting, looking helpless as he tried to reason with a dog.
"Are you stupid?" Ding Kemeng watched for a long time, but when she saw that the boy still couldn't touch the puppy, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Hearing laughter behind him, the boy turned around in confusion.
But Ding Kemeng was stunned by the face the boy turned around to look at.
"Lu Ziyin?"
"Cute... baby!"
"Cute baby?" Ding Kemeng was stunned. Had she heard correctly? Lu Ziyin called her "cute baby"? How did Lu Ziyin know this nickname?
"You...you shouldn't call me by my name like that." Ding Kemeng didn't miss Lu Ziyin's wet clothes and continued, "The puppy is under the tree, did you put it there?" She wasn't stupid. It was raining today, and there were few people on this road. The person who moved the dog to the tree must have been someone who passed by today.
"Yes, it's me." Lu Ziyin half-squatted down and looked at Ding Kemeng, nodding blankly.
Ding Kemeng recalled the black umbrella that had been held over the dog's head this morning, with the inscribed wooden plaque on it. But now the black umbrella under the tree was gone. Had someone taken it?
"Did you hold that umbrella for the puppy too?"
Lu Ziyin nodded again, her tone incredibly obedient: "Yes, it's me too."
"You...you really like dogs?" Ding Kemeng was a little flustered by the school bully Lu Ziyin's "obedient" answer to her question. She struggled in her mind for a long time before finally finding a topic to talk about.
"Yes, I like it." Lu Ziyin's gaze remained fixed on Ding Kemeng. He answered immediately whenever Ding Kemeng asked a question, afraid of missing a single word!
Ding Kemeng felt a little embarrassed by Lu Ziyin's gaze, her cheeks flushing slightly. She coughed twice to cover it up, then took two steps forward, squatted down, and stroked the puppy's head. The puppy obediently licked Ding Kemeng's palm and quieted down considerably.
Although Ding Kemeng really wanted to adopt the puppy, she ultimately gave up the idea when she thought about her mother's severe allergy to dog hair. Glancing at Lu Ziyin, who was also squatting beside her, Ding Kemeng suddenly had an idea: "Lu Ziyin, do you...does anyone in your family have a dog hair allergy?"
Lu Ziyin thought of the golden retriever that had passed away a few years ago, shook her head, and said truthfully, "No."
"Then... could you adopt this puppy? Although it's a mixed breed, it's very well-behaved and cute, no less so than those pet dogs!" Ding Kemeng picked up the puppy, her eyes filled with pleading as she looked at Lu Ziyin: "My mother is severely allergic to dog hair, so I can't adopt it. If you don't mind that it's a mixed breed and are willing to keep it, I can provide you with all the expenses for raising the dog every month!"
Such a small dog, it definitely wouldn't survive if no one adopted it! If Ding Kemeng hadn't seen it, she wouldn't have cared, but now that she had, she couldn't just ignore it!
Seeing that Lu Ziyin remained silent, Ding Kemeng assumed that Lu Ziyin did not believe she would provide the payment. She put the puppy back in the shoebox, then quickly rummaged through her bag for paper and pen, wrote an IOU, and handed it to Lu Ziyin, saying, "Here, this is the IOU. I didn't bring enough money with me today. I'll give you the money tomorrow when I go to school! Don't worry, with this IOU, I won't renege on my debt!"
Lu Ziyin only thought about it for a moment, and when she came to her senses, she found an IOU in her hand.
Clutching the IOU, Lu Ziyin smiled helplessly: "Did you bring your phone?"
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