Chapter 41. If you love me, kiss me
Xie Fei chuckled, looked at Xu Xiaosi with a pair of cold eyes, and said lightly: "Dean Xu, I remember you said Xu Xiaosi is about to turn fifteen."
Xu Xiaosi felt flustered. Xie Fei's eyes seemed to be able to see through his thoughts, causing him to unconsciously avoid his gaze.
"That's right." Dean Xu nodded in response.
"I think you all know what it means to be in an orphanage at the age of fifteen. I don't need to explain it in detail." Xie Fei glanced at everyone and raised his eyebrows.
Everyone's faces turned colorful in an instant. Dean Xu's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, his mouth was tightly shut, and his narrow eyes looked fixedly at Xu Xiaosi. No one knew the meaning of being fifteen years old better than her, and she also knew how eager Xu Xiaosi was to be adopted. He would try to please her when he was working, and privately asked her more than once to say a few good things about him in front of the adoptive parents, and he even often accidentally revealed some bad things other children said about him...
Before, I trusted him and liked him wholeheartedly, and I had never doubted his intentions. But now that I think about it carefully, I feel more and more suspicious, and even feel a little creepy and cold all over.
Is this still the Xiao Si she knew? Did he really frame someone else in order to be adopted?
At this moment, Dean Xu had a lot of thoughts in her mind. She felt a little depressed. Looking at her favorite Xu Xiaosi, she felt mixed emotions. At this moment, she hoped more than ever that it was really Xu Shiqi who stole the jade Buddha, but her sober mind reminded her again and again that it was Xu Xiaosi who framed her.
Everyone looked at him with complicated eyes. Xu Xiaosi was stunned at first, then he became nervous. His eyes flashed guilty and revealed a bit of panic.
He silently said "calm down" in his heart, and suppressed his uneasy emotions. He clenched his hands tightly and retorted with a red face: "What's wrong with being fifteen years old? Although my grades are not good, I can support myself with the skills I have practiced since I was a child."
After saying that, he looked at everyone with a face full of shame and grievance, and finally stared straight at Dean Xu, frowned and smiled bitterly: "Dean mother, even you don't believe me, I really want to be adopted, but Seventeen is my sister who I raised since she was a child. This kind of relationship is deeper than blood ties. How could I use any means to frame her, just for an adoption quota?"
Dean Xu was stunned for a moment, looking at Xu Xiaosi in surprise. His tightly furrowed brows relaxed a little, and he didn't notice the slightly sarcastic expressions on the faces of the cross-generation children in the room.
Yes, these younger kids who came in later were indeed raised by older kids like Xu Xiaosi, but that was why they would bully them so unscrupulously. All feelings were lies, and they were not as reliable as a steamed bun. So they believed that it was very likely that Xu Xiaosi framed Seventeen, but they themselves could not protect themselves. Besides, Seventeen had a bad relationship with them. If they helped her, not only would they not get any benefits, but they might even get into trouble. So everyone chose to keep silent.
Xie Fei looked at this group of children with some amusement. Such a great opportunity was presented to them, but they didn't dare to try it. They were so cowardly and avoided it. They didn't dare to resist, which only made the abusers more unscrupulous. No wonder they were bullied without any ability to fight back even though they were outnumbered.
Because of fear, they didn't dare to stand up when Xu Shiqi was framed today. If the next one is framed, no one will stand up either. One after another, they will only suffer the consequences of their own actions and experience the torment of longing for help but despairing of no one.
What a pitiful and pathetic group of children. Xie Fei knew that their cowardice was caused by the environment they grew up in, but he still couldn't help but sigh in disappointment.
"You don't have to quibble anymore." Xie Fei looked up at Xu Xiaosi again and sneered, "I think you don't know much about this world. The fingerprints on each of our fingers are different. Whoever touches this jade Buddha will leave his fingerprints on it. I just need to take this jade Buddha to the police station to take the fingerprints, and then compare them with everyone here, and I can clearly know who took this jade Buddha."
Xu Xiaosi's face turned pale instantly. He stared in disbelief, his chest heaving violently. He gritted his teeth and said angrily, "No, it's impossible. Don't try to deceive me. I won't fall for your trick..."
"Believe it or not, I have asked Secretary Li to call the police a long time ago. It's been so long, the police should be here soon." Xie Fei said indifferently.
Xu Xiaosi's body trembled, his face turned pale, his fists at his sides tightly clenched the flesh on his thighs, and he shook his head unwillingly, "No, it's impossible..." But his voice no longer had the confidence, his eyes drooped and wandered around, and his legs began to tremble weakly.
At this moment, everyone understood that it was really Xu Xiaosi who framed Xu Shiqi.
At this moment, the sound of police car bells came into the house from afar. Xu Xiaosi was so scared that he suddenly raised his head, gasped with his mouth open, and fell to the feet of the director in panic, tightly grasping her pants and crying loudly: "Director's mother, I, I was bewildered for a moment, I didn't mean it, please help me, please, I don't want to go to jail, I don't want to... I know I was wrong, I won't dare to do it again, Director's mother, please help me."
Dean Xu looked at Xu Xiaosi with some disappointment, but seeing the usually arrogant Xu Xiaosi kneeling down and begging him without caring about his dignity, the scenes of him entering the orphanage appeared in front of his eyes, and he couldn't help but soften his heart.
It was Xie Fei who called the police, and Seventeen was also adopted by him. If he wanted to save Xu Xiaosi, he could only ask Xie Fei not to care about it. Thinking of this, Dean Xu looked up at Xie Fei with some trepidation and whispered, "Sir, Xiaosi is still a child. Can you please forgive him this time? I will definitely teach him a lesson later--"
Xie Fei sneered and said calmly: "Who here is not a child? Don't talk nonsense to me. I don't want to listen, and I don't want to forgive."
Dean Xu smiled awkwardly, then looked down and saw Xu Xiaosi's pitiful appearance. He sighed and tried to persuade him.
Xie Fei didn't give her a chance. He narrowed his cold eyes and said slowly, "Xu Xiaosi's crimes are more than just this one."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Dean Xu also widened his eyes in disbelief. Xie Fei looked at Xu Xiaoliu and the others and said quietly, "I know exactly what you did. Let's go back to the police station and explain it slowly. I still have some face in the police station, and I think they will treat you well."
Xie Fei then turned around and walked out with Xu Jiaru in his arms. Before leaving, he kindly reminded her, "By the way, you should know what this sentence means, 'leniency for those who confess, severity for those who resist; leniency for accomplices, severity for the principal offender', right?"
Everyone in the room had different expressions. Xu Xiaoliu and the others were all shuddering in their hearts, and they immediately understood what Xie Fei meant. This was a dog-eat-dog fight. In just a few seconds, several people who originally had a good relationship with Xu Xiaosi began to secretly make plans in their hearts.
Xu Xiaosi felt their stealthy gazes at him, his face turned pale, cold sweat covered his forehead, and his throat rolled unconsciously twice. He knew clearly that he was finished.
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The little girl in Xie Fei's arms had fallen asleep long ago. Her short hands tightly hugged his neck. She was soft and tender, which made people feel pity. Xie Fei lowered his head slightly to look at her, but what he saw was a pool of shiny saliva on his shoulder. He was stunned for a moment, then he stroked his forehead with a bit of laughter and tears: "What a little bad boy."
Looking at Xu Jiaru, who was sleeping soundly without realizing she had done something bad, Xie Fei sighed helplessly and reluctantly reached out and gently pinched her nose.
Xu Jiaru's lips, which had just been slightly opened, grew wider unconsciously, and her soft breathing became louder. She hummed delicately and stretched out her little paw to open Xie Fei's hand.
Xie Fei laughed softly twice in a good mood, then held Xu Jiaru in his arms and strode towards the car parked at the gate.
Li Ting saw Xie Fei walking towards him from afar. When he saw that he was holding a child in his arms, he subconsciously widened his eyes. He hurriedly took two steps forward and said, "Mr. Xie, let me hold the child." As he said that, he stretched out his hand and wanted to take Xu Jiaru.
"No need." Xie Fei moved sideways to avoid his hand, hugged Xu Jiaru and went straight into the car. After sitting down, he gently supported Xu Jiaru's heavy head with one hand, and with the other hand took a piece of wet tissue and gently wiped the wet saliva from the corner of her mouth, and asked lightly: "How is the police station's matter going?"
Li Ting was looking at Xie Fei in the rearview mirror in surprise. Xie Fei was totally different from the cold and indifferent person he was rumored to be. Hearing this, he immediately came back to his senses and lowered his eyes and replied, "I've already informed them, but they are all minors and their mistakes are not serious. They probably won't be sentenced, so they will most likely be sent to a juvenile correctional facility. That's enough for them to bear."
"Yeah." Xie Fei responded indifferently, holding the sleeping little girl in one hand and wiping his clothes with the other hand, and told Li Ting, "Go to the department store to buy some things for Jiaru before you go home. Ask someone to pick up her things from the orphanage tomorrow."
Li Ting nodded in agreement, and they stayed silent all the way until it was dark when they arrived at the department store.
Xie Fei pinched Xu Jiaru's face, slightly curved the corners of his mouth, and coaxed her softly with a smile on his face, "Little lazy bug, it's time to wake up. If you sleep any longer, you will become a lazy pig."
Xu Jiaru puffed up her cheeks, smacked her lips, and rubbed her eyes with her two hands loosely clenched into fists. After a moment, she blinked her hazy eyes and stared at Xie Fei blankly, with tears in the corners of her eyes. She hesitantly shouted in a muffled voice: "Brother Fei...?"
Xie Fei rubbed her hair and asked with a smile: "Are you hungry? We are having dinner outside tonight. What do you want to eat?"
Xu Jiaru's mind unconsciously recalled a long time ago when a little girl came with her mother to visit the children in an orphanage. The little girl brought many beautiful big red boxes and gave one box to each child. As soon as she opened the box, the fragrance filled the whole room. Inside was a snack she had never seen before. The little girl said, it's called fried chicken.
Unfortunately, she had just taken a bite when it was snatched away by Xu Xiaosi and others. From then on, the taste was deeply imprinted in her heart.
Xu Jiaru couldn't help swallowing as she recalled. She looked at Xie Fei cautiously and expectantly, and whispered, "I want to eat fried chicken...can I?"
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