Meeting the parents (revised)
Fu Jia also quieted down. This New Year must have been very difficult for them. When she was waiting downstairs, only her apartment had its lights off. In the midst of the revelry, the silent and lonely person always stood out.
"Do you want to see that little thing?" Fu Jia asked Xia Tong.
"What?"
"That's my naughty nephew. I'll take you to see how annoying he is."
"Don't you have a lot of people at your house? I'm not going," Xia Tong said sullenly, burying her face in his arms.
"It's alright, I'll just call those kids out. Everyone else is inside, they won't see you," Fu Jia coaxed her. Once they were in a noisy place, she naturally had no time to feel down.
Xia Tong was coaxed and tricked into getting into the car by Fu Jia. When they arrived at the compound, she realized it was a completely different world from her own home. It was brightly lit and decorated festively. A group of children were squatting on the snow, lighting fireworks and individual firecrackers. As soon as they lit them, they covered their ears and ran away.
"Li Hanze, come here." Fu Jia beckoned to the fastest little chubby boy.
The chubby little boy had a fair complexion with rosy cheeks and lots of flesh, making him very cute. He saw Fu Jia brush the snow off himself and slowly move over, bringing along many of the children he played with.
"Uncle, who is this older sister?" The chubby boy looked at Xia Tong suspiciously, then turned his little face to Fu Jia.
"What 'sister'? Call her 'aunt'!" Fu Jia ordered Xia Tong, still holding her close. Xia Tong pushed Fu Jia away. "What do you mean, 'aunt'? That sounds awful!"
Another elder! The chubby boy immediately beamed with joy: "Beautiful auntie, I'm Li Hanze, Happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year!" Xia Tong felt a bit awkward about the greeting, but the child was still very cute. She smiled and touched his cheek; it was indeed quite tender.
The chubby boy immediately took two steps back, covered his face, and said to Xia Tong, "Auntie, you have to pay to touch me!"
"What fee?" Xia Tong asked, puzzled.
"Wear and tear costs!" the chubby boy said firmly.
Fu Jia immediately shoved him aside: "Go away, who taught you all this nonsense? You're all obsessed with money!"
After being ostracized, the chubby boy immediately went around and hugged Xia Tong's leg, saying aggrievedly, "Auntie, look, Uncle is bullying me!"
Xia Tong felt a soft, warm flesh against her thigh, and her heart immediately melted. She smiled and said, "It's okay, don't be afraid, I'll support you!"
Behind them was an even smaller child, wearing a cute red knitted hat and dressed like a little penguin, who also hugged Xia Tong's leg: "Auntie, hug me."
Xia Tong squatted down to examine the child closely. She looked only four or five years old, with round, large eyes and a rosy, cherry-like mouth. Her face was completely covered by a hat and scarf, leaving only her round eyes, small nose, and pouting lips visible. Xia Tong was instantly charmed and picked her up, asking Fu Jia, "Who is this little girl?"
“Fu Huiyao’s younger sister is even following Li Hanze’s cries. You’d better not carry her, this girl is really heavy, like a little pig.” Fu Jia came over to take her, but the little girl was clearly afraid of Fu Jia, and hugged Xia Tong’s neck and shouted, “I want Auntie to carry me! I want Auntie to carry me!”
Xia Tong laughed, looking at Fu Jia teasingly: "Looks like none of your kids like you!"
Seeing that Xia Tong was in a good mood to joke, Fu Jia also felt much better. He shrugged, sat on a swing next to him, and patted the seat next to him to signal Xia Tong to sit down: "Kids are just creatures that come to take revenge on society. They're noisy and noisy, and you can't touch them. If you mess with them even a little bit, they'll run to their parents in tears to complain. They can't stand playing with them and still have to bother you. I'm so fed up with these little things."
"You hate children?" Xia Tong didn't go over, but just held the little penguin in her arms and kept rocking it. The little girl was actually so comfortable that she almost fell asleep.
"Hmm? Not necessarily. I promise I won't hate our child." Fu Jia sat on the swing and laughed heartily.
"Who's talking to you—ah—" Xia Tong was startled by a firecracker that exploded at her feet, and she almost tripped over her own foot. She tightly protected the sleeping baby in her arms, her heart pounding in her throat.
She turned around and saw the chubby boy leading a group of kids in the distance, grinning smugly at Xia Tong with a box of "Guan Lei" (a type of Chinese game), even sticking out his tongue and making a face at her before running away. Xia Tong glared at Fu Jia, who was supporting her from behind, and said fiercely, "This kid is just like you when you were little, equally annoying!"
Fu Jia scratched the back of his head and said innocently, "I'm much better than him." Then he took the little girl from Xia Tong's arms. The little girl, who was still asleep, realized that the person holding her had changed and pouted as if about to cry. Fu Jia glared at her and threatened, "Behave yourself. I'm being nice by holding you!" The threatened child could only hold back the tears welling up in her eyes and obediently lay on Fu Jia's shoulder, not daring to move anymore.
Fu Jia comforted Xia Tong: "It's okay, this kid is obviously tired of living. I'll deal with him when I get home!"
Having just finished his prank, Li Hanze clearly knew he would face even stronger retaliation, so he decisively went to complain first. He ran to Li Funing with tears in his eyes and said, "Grandma, Uncle hit me!" Then he showed Li Funing his ears, which had turned red from the cold outside.
Li Funing actually believed that Fu Jia had hit Li Hanze. Fu Jia had never been very patient with children and liked to yell at them when he was unhappy, so the children were all afraid of him. But Fu Jia wouldn't hit a child for no reason. While wiping away Li Hanze's tears, Li Funing asked, "Why did your uncle hit you?"
"I asked my aunt for New Year's money, and my uncle twisted my ear." Li Hanze rubbed his eyes, looking extremely aggrieved.
"Aunt? Where did this aunt come from?" Fu Shaohua heard this as soon as he arrived and found it strange. Li Funing was also confused.
"My uncle said so. He was outside with my aunt and Huiduo."
Upon hearing this, Fu Shaohua and Li Funing rushed out to see what was happening. They found Fu Jia holding the sleeping Fu Huiduo, sitting on the swing outside their house with a girl, talking intimately. Li Funing was displeased to see it was Xia Tong again. "Our son is talented and handsome; plenty of girls like him. But this girl had tormented him terribly before, and he even got beaten up by his father for her sake. We thought they'd broken up long ago, so why is she clinging to him again?" she thought. Seeing Fu Jia's obsequious manner when talking to her made her angry. "Can't he have some backbone?" she thought.
However, integrity cannot buy love.
"Who is this?" Fu Shaohua asked casually.
“It’s Xia Tong,” Li Funing replied irritably. “It’s the girl you said would turn your son into an animal.”
"You talk like he's not your son." After saying this, Fu Shaohua strode towards the swing.
When Xia Tong saw Fu Shaohua, she felt a little embarrassed and quickly stood up to greet him, "Hello, Uncle and Aunt."
Li Funing walked straight past Huiduo in Fu Jia's arms without answering. Fu Shaohua, however, was uncharacteristically relaxed, his stern face gone, and he laughed heartily: "You must be Xiaotong? It's been so long since you've come to visit! Fu Jia, what are you doing? It's so cold outside, how can you just let someone sit here like this?"
"No need, no need, I'll be back right away." Xia Tong declined while secretly pinching Fu Jia's waist to get him to bail her out.
"Dad, don't scare Xia Xiaotong, she's shy!" Fu Jia said with a roguish grin, hugging Xia Tong. But inwardly, he was wailing: Xia Xiaotong is so cruel! She didn't think pinching outside my trench coat was enough, so she actually reached inside to pinch me! My back!
"Hey, what's there to be afraid of? Uncle's right here. Come on, let me take you inside to meet him." With that, he led Xia Tong into the house. Fu Shaohua was a domineering person who didn't tolerate any dissent. Now that he was determined to bring Xia Tong into the house, no one could refuse him.
One incident caused a complete change in Fu Jia's parents' attitudes towards Xia Tong. Li Funing, who used to like Xia Tong's obedient and cute nature, now completely disliked her because she felt sorry for her son. Xia Tong's previous resistance to Fu Jia also made Li Funing question whether she could treat Fu Jia as well as Fu Jia treated her. Fu Shaohua, on the other hand, was always a cold but extremely responsible man. He had never paid much attention to Xia Tong before, but after learning about Fu Jia's outrageous behavior, he decided that the Fu family should take responsibility for her.
Regardless of others' opinions, one person's attitude never changed. She could make him bear the greatest guilt, and she could also give him the most unique happiness. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Fu Jia has one advantage: she has always known what she wants most.
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So tired, I've been completely stuck on this writing for the past two days = = Please leave a comment! I'm going to cry if no one comments soon^ By the way, my roommate came back from her part-time job and said her boss is in his early thirties, married, but still brings his girlfriend around in front of them every day... Why are there so many people like that these days?
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