Chapter 23 Chapter 23

At the end of the weekend, people in the school clearly felt that Zong Fei and Xie Qiao were no longer at loggerheads. What was even more outrageous was that someone saw Zong Fei and Xie Qiao playing basketball on the school playground after school, and took a picture and posted it on the campus forum.

"Exciting! I'm so excited to see the two school idols, Shao Ye and Qiao Shen, make peace in my lifetime. I want to go and watch."

"The Bridge God is worthy of being the Bridge God. He has the ability to charm everyone. He even conquered the arrogant Master Zong."

The people who were discussing the issue enthusiastically in the forum had already finished playing basketball and walked out of the school together.

When passing by an alley, Xie Qiao saw two little girls in their school uniforms being pushed into the alley by a few yellow-haired thugs. Zong Fei followed Xie Qiao's gaze and noticed something was wrong.

Zong Fei and Xie Qiao looked at each other and followed.

"What are you going to do?" The girl with a ponytail questioned the yellow-haired thug who was leading the group while protecting the other thugs behind her.

The yellow-haired man snorted and laughed, "Which one of you is Chen Bing's sister? He owed us money and asked us to ask his sister for it. But now I have changed my mind. As long as you agree to be my girlfriend, the debt will be written off."

The rest of the hooligans followed suit.

The girl with the ponytail looked unhappy, "You have the wrong person. We don't know any Chen Bing, and I won't be your girlfriend. Get out of the way!"

"It doesn't matter if we don't know each other," the yellow-haired thug said in a frivolous tone, "I like you, sister, don't refuse a toast and then drink a penalty."

As he said this, he reached out and pulled the hand of the girl with the ponytail, and the girl twisted and struggled.

"Pah"

A stone hit the yellow-haired thug's feet. The yellow-haired thug looked in the direction of his sight and saw two extremely outstanding-looking young men standing at the entrance of the alley. Their neat black Zhongshan suits made their outstanding looks even more dazzling.

It was obvious at first glance that they were from two different worlds from Huangmao and the others. Huangmao hated the proud son of heaven the most, so he let go of the hand of the girl with a ponytail and led his men to surround Zong Fei and Xie Qiao.

"Boy, if you know the rules, take out all the money you have."

Zong Fei had a cold face and said nothing, but Xie Qiao took his hand out of his pocket, as if he was going to take out money. The thugs thought Xie Qiao was afraid, and their eyes changed from vigilance to contempt.

Everyone was staring at Xie Qiao's hand. The thugs were waiting to get their money. Zong Fei was surprised. The two girls hugging each other at the back were swallowing nervously.

However, I waited in vain.

Xie Qiao simply took his hands out of his pockets. They were long, beautiful hands, but they were empty.

Thugs: “…”

Zong Fei: “…”

Huang Mao: "How dare you play tricks on me!?"

Xie Qiao looked at Zong Fei in confusion, meaning, do you think I will pay?

Zong Fei coughed lightly and said to the gangster lazily, "Then call the police. Oh, I have called the police for you. The police should be here in ten minutes."

The hooligans panicked and wanted to run away, but the yellow-haired guy refused to give in. "What are you afraid of? We have surrounded these two guys. Let's beat them up first."

"Come on!"

Zong Fei shook his wrist and sneered, "Wrong..."

Xie Qiao slowly unbuttoned the top button of his collar and continued with Zong Fei's words, "You are surrounded by the two of us."

Thugs: “…” Damn it, they tricked me.

Zong Fei and Xie Qiao had both practiced martial arts before, so they were more than capable of dealing with these thugs. At this moment, someone saw a flash of a knife and someone shouted, "Be careful!"

Xie Qiao kicked the knife out of the yellow-haired man's hand, and Zong Fei took advantage of the situation to press him against the wall with his hands behind his back.

The police also arrived at this time and took everyone back to the police station.

…

After coming out of the police station, Zong Fei and Xie Qiao were stopped by the girl with a ponytail, while the other girl with short hair hid behind them and didn't dare to come over.

"Thank you, Zong, thank you, it's a relief to have you here today..."

Zong Fei was always arrogant and indifferent in front of outsiders. She stood aside and ignored her. Xie Qiao nodded to the girl with a ponytail and said, "You're welcome. It's getting late. Let's go home."

Qi Jinchao hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Actually... my name is Qi Jinchao, and I'm in the same class as Zong Fei."

Zong Fei looked at her in surprise.

Seeing Zong Fei's surprise, Qi Jinzhao had an expression that said "as expected", but he didn't care much. Instead, he said to Xie Qiao softly, "I don't mean anything else. I just want to say thank you so much. I'm also very happy to meet you... Xie Qiao."

The girl's pretty, pale face flushed with a little excitement, and her determined, clear eyes revealed a sense of intelligence. Xie Qiao knew her, Qi Jinzhao, the third in the grade.

In fact, Qi Jinzhao is very famous in the school, not only because she is a good student and is one of the key poverty-stricken students in the school. She is ranked first on the poverty subsidy list posted every year, but also because she has a scumbag father who once went to the school to make trouble.

Qi Jinzhao treated her troubled father very calmly from beginning to end, not like a teenage girl at all. She even took the initiative to call the police and report her father for domestic violence.

Every time Xie Qiao sees Qi Jinzhao, he always thinks of his mother unconsciously. He feels that Qi Jinzhao is very similar to his mother, who is both bold and stubborn and hardworking, and will never compromise with his bad family of origin.

"Student Qi, nice to meet you." Xie Qiao cornered Zong Fei.

Zong Fei said perfunctorily: "You're welcome."

The eldest master looked at his watch and said impatiently, "Let's go, the car is here, let's take you three home first."

Xie Qiao agreed, turned to Qi Jinzhao and said, "Call your friends to get in the car with you. It's not safe to walk at night."

Qi Jinzhao was stunned, then she realized that if these two people were really as indifferent as they appeared, how could they come to save them? She smiled and thanked them, then called her friends to get in the car.

After returning home, Zong Fei remembered that he hadn't visited his grandfather for a long time, so he went straight to his grandfather's place. As a result, he ran into Zong Wenyue from the second house when he entered the door.

There was a young woman behind Zong Wen Yue, but Zong Fei didn't pay attention to her. He just called her "cousin" and planned to walk past them inside.

Unexpectedly, Zong Wenyue suddenly called him, "A Fei, come and meet your aunt."

Zong Fei stopped, but did not follow Zong Wenyue's instructions to go over and say hello. Instead, he stood there and looked at the two of them.

Zong Wenyue was upset and secretly cursed Zong Fei for being as cold-hearted as his cold-blooded father.

At this time, the woman who claimed to be Zong Fei's aunt came out from behind Zong Wenyue to rescue her. She gave Zong Fei a kind and gentle smile, "I was only recently recognized as a family member. It's normal that Ah Fei doesn't recognize me."

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Wang Xinjue. I am your mother's sister and also your aunt."

Zong Fei looked his "aunt" up and down and felt that her dress looked familiar. He narrowed his eyes and his aura suddenly became sinister, and there was a vague shadow of Zong Xuecheng in his eyes.

Zong Wenyue didn't notice Zong Fei's expression, and tried her best to speak well of Wang Xinjue, "Ah Fei, Aunt Xinjue is a big star, and she's also a gentle person. Even your great-grandfather can't stop praising her."

"Oh, and your dad is also close to your aunt... In short, our family all likes her."

Everyone knows Sima Zhao's intention.

Zong Fei sneered, "I have no objection to you being my aunt, but if you want to be my mother..."

"Give up."

With the words "Give up", he indifferently pushed Zong Wenyue and Wang Xinjue away and went into the house, leaving the two people with pale faces standing there.

Inside the house, the old man was leisurely making tea. Seeing Zong Fei come in with a dark face, he was not surprised. He poured a cup of tea and placed it next to him, "Young man, you are too angry. Have a cup of tea to cool down."

Zong Fei picked up the tea and drank it silently, then was lost in thought for a while.

In recent days, his father's attitude towards Wang Xinjue has been very strange. Zong Fei can't understand it and doesn't know what his father is thinking.

Are you just going to let Wang Xinjue win people's hearts and curry favor with your great-grandfather in the clan family, so that you can marry Wang Xinjue in the future?

So where does that put Song Lingxi?

Should he break up with Song Lingxi, or is he playing two-timing, with a wife at home and a lover outside?

Although it is not uncommon for couples in business marriages to have separate affairs in this circle, Zong Fei still cannot accept this.

He had no confidence in his father, but Song Lingxi, Zong Fei intuitively felt that she had a nobleness hidden under her casualness. Once her father married another woman, she would probably not get involved with her father anymore.

My father and Song Lingxi have been together for so many years, he should understand her better than anyone else. Does this mean that my father is also considering breaking up with Song Lingxi?

I have to say that Zong Fei is a very smart person. He was able to deduce the general situation just by the wavering attitudes of the two people in power in the family.

Thinking of Song Lingxi, Zong Fei had an idea, and he said that he always felt that Wang Xinjue was very familiar and very awkward. But she was not very familiar. Whether in style or dress, this person was imitating Song Lingxi intentionally or unintentionally.

It's a pity that one is the genuine product and the other is a fake. No matter how similar the fake is, it is difficult to imitate the character of the person.

It was obvious what he was planning. Apart from anything else, this style of doing things alone would make it difficult for Zong Fei to like him.

The old man glanced at Zong Fei who was lost in thought and said, "Are you here to see me?"

Zong Fei came back to his senses: "Yes, but I see that you have plenty of company, so it doesn't matter whether I come or not."

"Who messed with you again, little brat?"

Since the old man said so, Zong Fei simply asked for clarification: "My aunt who appeared out of nowhere is clearly planning to be my stepmother, why are you and my dad so ambiguous?"

The old man glanced at Zong Fei and said, "Your last aunt also wanted to be your stepmother, but you didn't react so strongly."

"That's different." Wang Ruowei didn't see the old man at the time, nor did he have the support of people from other branches of the clan. Thinking carefully, even his father's attitude was different.

These subtle differences are difficult to explain, but Zong Fei is not stupid. He doesn't understand why things seem to have changed again just a few days after everything was moving in the right direction.

Zong Fei: "Grandpa Zeng, you seem to support Wang Xinjue to be my stepmother?"

The old man took a sip of tea slowly, "I never said that. I am old, and I am neither deaf nor dumb. I don't want to be a father-in-law. If someone comes to see me, I will see him. Besides, if it rains or my mother wants to get married, let him do whatever he wants."

Zong Fei felt that there was something else behind these words, and she pondered in her heart, what does it mean that the sky is going to rain and the mother is going to get married?

I couldn't figure it out and couldn't help but complain in my heart, if you were really so carefree, why didn't you say "let him be" when Wang Ruowei came? It shows that you looked down on him.

No, Zong Fei thought about it and felt that he should intervene.

First of all, he didn't believe there was any necessity for an alliance between his family and the Wang family, otherwise it wouldn't have taken more than ten years, and it was even more impossible for Wang Ruowei to go abroad.

Secondly, Zong Fei had personally witnessed how his father and Song Lingxi got along... He didn't find it strange that his cold and arrogant father would cook for Song Lingxi.

If we really come to the point of breaking up, it’s hard to say who will suffer more.

Zong Fei took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to Xie Qiao. Of course, the first choice for a teammate was Xie Qiao.