Seeing the old lady crying sadly, Qiao Yongqiang thought she was bullied by her son, so he picked up a stick and rushed over!
"You bastard, are you..."
"Qiangzi, damn Qiangzi..."
When he got closer and heard the old lady mumbling his nickname, he finally understood!
I treat my son as myself!
Looking at his son's face which is almost exactly the same as his own when he was young, he understood!
Young Master Qiao stared at the wooden stick in his father's hand, pouting in grievance.
He had nearly lost his life just now! His father had come back and not offered any words of comfort, but he had almost given him a couple more beatings! Who could he turn to for justice?!
"These two are Brother Qiao and Grandma Qiao, right?"
Seeing the father and son staring at each other, neither of them willing to show weakness, Lan Guoer spoke up to break the deadlock between them.
"That's right! I'm sorry to have embarrassed you! Wanzi's mother passed away when he was born, and I've spoiled him all these years!"
As he spoke, he raised his leg and kicked Qiao Wanzi, who was still glaring at him and challenging him, "Can't you see there are guests at home? Why don't you call for help!"
Qiao Wanzi jumped up and rubbed his buttocks that hurt from being kicked, still unwilling to accept it.
"My name is Qiao Qinglin! What meatballs? Meatballs! How old am I? Don't you have any dignity?"
"Hmph!" Qiao Yongqiang glanced at him sideways, not taking it seriously at all!
"How old are you? You haven't even fully grown your hair yet, and you dare to jump around in front of me?! Don't even mention that you're thirteen, even if you're eighty-three, I can still call you by your nickname!"
"Hmph! Hmph!" Qiao Wanzi was so angry that he gasped like a toad, "You...you bully the weak with your power. You are unreasonable!"
"I'm being unreasonable. What can you do about it? Can you beat me or run away?"
Qiao Yongqiang glared at him and pulled him forward.
"Come, let me introduce you! This is your Uncle Lan, whom I mentioned to you before. It was thanks to Uncle Lan that your father was able to..."
"I understand! Hello, Uncle Lan!"
Before Qiao Yongqiang finished his introduction, Qiao Wanzi bowed to the Third Master and continued with Qiao Yongqiang's words,
"Thank you Uncle Lan for saving my father's life. If it weren't for Uncle Lan's timely rescue, my old man would have become a fence-sitter and Qinglin would have no chance of survival! Qinglin would like to thank Uncle Lan for giving me a new life!"
Then he bowed deeply again.
"Hahaha, hahaha! Good!" The Third Master was amused by him and laughed out loud. He nodded and said to Qiao Yongqiang,
"Your son is really good! His little mouth is much more skillful than yours!"
"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you!" Qiao Yongqiang glanced at his son, but his eyes were full of doting.
"I'm usually busy, so I've neglected to discipline this child. But to be honest, I'm very satisfied as long as he can grow up safely! As for his temper, I just let him be! After all, his father can still cover for him."
"Who asked you to cover for me?" Qiao Wanzi rolled his eyes at him, looking unconvinced. "I'm not as useless as you say. I know what I'm doing. If I dare to do it, I can take the responsibility."
When Lan Guoer heard that he lost his mother at birth, she was worried that not having a mother by his side since childhood would have any impact on his personality. After listening to the conversation between the father and son, she pursed her lips!
She thought to herself, it seems she was worrying too much!
With this child's liveliness, if he were thrown into the Flower-Fruit Mountain, he would probably live a happier life than Monkey King!
"I wonder where this beautiful sister comes from? Why has Qinglin never seen her before?"
Before Qiao Yongqiang could continue his introduction, the naughty kid entered the independent exploration mode again.
"This is the young master of the Lan family, your Uncle Lan's niece. I invited her..."
"They were asking about this lady, not you! Old man, Uncle Lan and the pretty lady have been standing there for so long, and you're not letting anyone pour water for the guests? Aren't you being sensible? You're still trying to teach me a lesson!"
Before Qiao Yongqiang finished his introduction, he was refuted by the naughty kid again! He even got a lecture!
"You," Qiao Yongqiang tapped his forehead, "Just wait and see how I'll deal with you when I get back!"
However, he felt that what the naughty boy said made sense, so he quickly asked the servant to serve tea.
The naughty boy succeeded, and raised his eyebrows at Lan Guoer with a smug look on his face, and his black eyes began to ponder her face again.
"Tsk tsk! Sister, don't you think you look a bit like Qinglin? For example... our eyes."
As he spoke, he took two steps closer and rolled his eyes, as if he was afraid that the pretty sister didn't know where his eyes were.
"Look carefully, are they exactly the same?"
Lan Guoer looked at his delicate almond-shaped eyes and thought, is there any need to say this?
Qiao Wanzi perfectly inherited Qiao Yongqiang's appearance, and Qiao Yongqiang looks exactly like her uncle in her previous life!
Given the transitivity of equations, it's not surprising that they have similarities.
"They do look a bit alike!" Lan Guo'er didn't deny it and continued, "It seems like Qinglin and I are really destined to be together!"
"Not just, not just that!" Qiao Wanzi clapped his hands, his bright black eyes gleaming. "We're not the only two who are destined to be together! I just made a new discovery!"
"Oh?" Lan Guo'er couldn't help but laugh at his weird look. "You don't mean Uncle Qiang, do you?"
Qiao Wanzi shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, no! His eyes are full of business and gangs! I'm not like him!"
As he spoke, he extended his thumb and pointed behind him. "I'm talking about my grandmother! I just saw it, and our eyes look like they were cast from the same mold."
He tried his best to lower his voice, and his eyes secretly glanced back, as if he was afraid of waking up some ferocious beast.
Lan Guoer looked in the direction he pointed.
The old lady had just turned her back to her, but now she was lying back in the rocking chair, covering her face with a handkerchief and rocking the chair with her feet. She seemed to be living in her own world and everything around her had nothing to do with her.
"Guo'er, this is my mother."
Zhao Yongqiang handed her a cup of tea and turned to look at Qiao's mother who was sitting in the rocking chair. Perhaps thinking of the past, his tone was a little sad.
"My mother... she hasn't had an easy time these past few years! I heard from the servants who used to take care of her that she's been like this for twenty years! I don't know how she managed to survive all these years! Look at her like this... is there any cure?"
"I need to take her pulse first." As she said that, she put down the cup in her hand and walked towards Qiao's mother.
"Don't get too close to her!"
Unexpectedly, Qiao Wanzi was faster than her. She spun around and reached out to stop her. "Grandma can't see, but if she senses a stranger approaching, she'll hurt you!"
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