Chapter 23 Auntie Likes Well-behaved Children
"If you work harder tomorrow, I'll buy you a chicken leg too."
The chopsticks in Zhou Xie's hand fell onto the coffee table with a "clatter".
Xie Zhizhi brought back dinner from the army canteen, and the two of them ate it in Zhou Lin's dormitory.
The chopsticks fell, and Zhou Xie looked up in despair, "I'm not going!"
Why should I go?
"Xie Zhizhi, are you going to die?"
"Do you believe my dad will come and beat you to death?"
His eyes were red, like an angry little beast.
Xie Zhizhi calmly met his gaze, looking at his furious, almost murderous expression, and listening to his words. She realized she had been too kind to him.
Seeing that Xie Zhizhi didn't speak, he even tried to reach out and snatch the chicken leg that Xie Zhizhi hadn't finished eating.
"Smack!" Xie Zhizhi tapped his hand with her chopsticks.
Two red marks were left on the back of his fair hand from being knocked.
He let out an "Ah!" and burst into tears, feeling wronged.
Xie Zhizhi impatiently gestured for him to "shut up and pick up your chopsticks."
After Xie Zhizhi finished speaking, she held up three fingers and said, "I'll count to three: 1, 2..."
Zhou Xie had been stubborn and defiant, but seeing Xie Zhizhi's increasingly cold gaze, he finally gave in and picked up the chopsticks with tears in his eyes.
Xie Zhizhi raised the corners of her mouth and smiled politely, "That's right, that's a good boy. Auntie likes good children."
"Remember, I'm a person who's very particular about my mood when it comes to eating."
“When someone cries or throws a tantrum, it really affects my mood.”
"If you upset me, I'll hit you, so... understand?"
Zhou Xie didn't say whether he understood or not, he just lowered his head and started crying while eating.
Xie Zhizhi's eyes were terrifying; he was scared.
Xie Zhizhi is terrifying, like a madwoman! Waaah, how can he possibly escape?!
His parents told him it would be at most two days, and they would come to pick him up in two days, so he could only be patient a little longer.
His parents and grandma are coming tomorrow...
By the way, Xie Zhizhi said his grandmother fell into the latrine and drowned.
With a mouthful of greens, Zhou Xie asked in a choked voice, "Didn't you say you'd take me back to eat at my grandma's feast?"
"Wasn't she said to be dead?"
Why didn't we go back today?
Xie Zhizhi raised her eyebrows slightly. "You really want your grandma to die?"
Zhou Xie: I wish you were dead!
"Didn't you say you'd take me back to my hometown?"
Xie Zhizhi smiled and said, "Didn't your parents already tell you?"
Zhou Xie tightened his grip on the chopsticks and then fell silent.
Xie Zhizhi: Hmph, a little demon who just came out of the mountain dares to fight against a thousand-year-old fox?
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After a day of collecting junk and experiencing emotional ups and downs, Zhou Xie was completely drained after dinner.
Xie Zhizhi went back to the bedroom, and he spread out the blanket on the sofa, then lay down under the blanket and fell asleep.
Xie Zhizhi watched as the dirty child lay down directly under the covers and thought that she had been educated too well by socialism; otherwise, she should have let him sleep on the floor.
The next day, Xie Zhizhi bought breakfast from the cafeteria.
She didn't have any scenes she wanted to act in today, so she didn't bring Zhou Xie along.
She ran into Wen Jinzhou at the cafeteria.
When Wen Jinzhou saw that she had only bought two vegetable buns, he immediately asked, "Are you short of money?"
"I have money, I..."
Xie Zhizhi shook her head. "No," Xie Zhizhi said, then beckoned him closer.
Wen Jinzhou leaned closer.
Xie Zhizhi lowered her voice and said, "I had no choice but to resort to this tactic so that my nephew wouldn't have enough to eat."
The cafeteria was bustling with people, and the two of them talking close together quickly attracted the attention of those around them.
Those who knew Wen Jinzhou asked the people next to them, "Who is that girl talking to Battalion Commander Wen? I've never seen her before."
The person next to him shook his head, "I don't know!"
"But the two seem quite close, could they be a couple?"
Xie Zhizhi is young and beautiful. She has been eating well these past two days, and her complexion is much better. Except for her still worn-out clothes, it doesn't affect her good looks.
Therefore, everyone mistakenly believed that she was Wen Jinzhou's girlfriend.
Wen Jinzhou and Xie Zhizhi were unaware that others had misunderstood their relationship.
After hearing Xie Zhizhi's words, Wen Jinzhou quietly took out the meat buns he had bought and said, "You can secretly have a bite."
Although Xie Zhizhi's actions were somewhat against his conscience.
But his conscience wouldn't allow Xie Zhizhi to go hungry or eat poorly.
Xie Zhizhi looked at the fragrant steamed meat buns, swallowed hard, and reached out to take one, saying, "I'll treat you to something delicious later."
Then I started biting into the steamed bun.
"Mmm, delicious! Meat buns are the best!"
Wen Jinzhou quickly took out another one, saying, "Eat slowly, there's more!"
After finishing one, Xie Zhizhi waved her hand contentedly, "I'm not eating anymore, I have to go back. I still have to take that kid to collect scraps later!"
Wen Jinzhou "..."
Wen Jinzhou wondered: Isn't it too much to treat a child like this?
But he was soon proven wrong.
When Xie Zhizhi led Zhou Xie out, Xie Hongchao and his wife also picked up Tian Fang and her daughter Xie Lanlan at the train station.
As soon as Tian Fang arrived, Xie Hongchao and Wei Guihua seemed to have found a pillar of support, and their entire demeanor changed.
On their way back, they discussed how to make Xie Zhizhi kneel down and apologize, and also to compensate them with 300 yuan.
Tian Fang sneered, "You ungrateful wretch, three hundred yuan?"
"If she doesn't get five hundred yuan this time, I'll wear her down to death."
Xie Hongchao asked doubtfully, "Mom, where would she get five hundred yuan?"
Tian Fang glared at her, "If you can't come up with the money, why don't you go out and borrow some?"
"Won't she give us less money every month after that?" Wei Guihua thought to herself, feeling unhappy.
Five hundred yuan is good, but if they give them less money every month after that, isn't that just replacing a deaf person with a mute person?
Tian Fang glared at her daughter-in-law again. "Are you stupid?"
"If she borrowed it, let her find another way to pay it back. Do you expect her to use her husband's allowance to pay it back?"
Xie Hongchao was even more puzzled: "Where is she going to get the money?"
"She doesn't know how to farm, raise chickens, ducks, or sheep to sell?"
"Ask her mother-in-law?"
"During the off-season, have her husband find her work, let her do odd jobs, isn't that all money?"
Wei Guihua was delighted to hear this, "Mom always has the best ideas."
The thought of squeezing another 500 yuan out of Xie Zhizhi because of this incident brought an undisguised smile to Xie Hongchao and his wife's faces.
Even Tian Fang looked satisfied.
When Xie Hongchao arrived at the compound and knocked on the door, he was stunned when a tall, burly man came out.
After only a brief moment of stunned silence, before the other person could even speak, Xie Hongchao launched into a tirade, "That Xie Zhizhi, she's getting more and more shameless."
"I just brought that random guy over the day before yesterday, and today, well, that guy went straight to bed with me."
"I wonder if the Zhou family would beat her to death if they found out about this."
The tenant, who was half asleep after working the night shift, was stunned when he heard this and asked, "Who are you?"
"Who should I look for?"
Xie Hongchao raised his neck and shouted, "Let Xie Zhizhi come out!"
As he spoke, he tried to push the other person aside and enter the room.
The other person elbowed him and pushed him against the railing.
Startled, Wei Guihua screamed and rushed forward to support him.
The tenant then said impatiently, "You want to find the landlord, right?"
"The landlord isn't here, so the house has been rented to us."
"Stop knocking. We work the night shift and are sleeping right now."
"If you knock again, don't blame me for being impolite."
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