Chapter 42 Slap and tear the fig leaf
He noticed that before he said this, Zhu Yingning had been staring at him intently, her expression extremely nervous, with a hint of fear in her eyes. But after he finished speaking, her nervousness inexplicably subsided, and she even smiled and said to him, "Because you're a boy, if I were to move in, it would be very inconvenient for a girl like me to live in your bedroom. My brother is a boy, so there are no such concerns. My brother's move was the result of a joint discussion between my parents and the production team. You really misunderstood Xu Sirui."
"Fuck." Her stubborn attitude only infuriated Xu Sirui. "Then I'm a fucking man, so I can switch places and sleep with you, a woman. Wouldn't that be more convenient? Wouldn't it be more convenient for your brother to stay here and sleep with him?"
Zhu Yingning had never thought about this and was stunned by what he said: "But..."
"Don't say but. If you don't think this explains the problem, then why is it that only your brother has that artistic photo in your house?"
"I already told you it's because my brother is the youngest." She spoke faster than usual, as if desperate to prove something. "If I were the youngest, it would definitely be my turn. Why are you trying to prove that my parents favor boys over girls?"
"I'm truly impressed, Zhu Yingning. You two are twins, a boy and a girl!" Xu Sirui couldn't help but yell at her. "Even if your brother is younger than you, he's only a few minutes younger. How much younger can he be? Besides, who's older among the twins is entirely up to your parents. They can say who's older whenever they want. Can you please stop being so conscious of being the older sister?"
"I just want to be a sister. Don't always think that the relationship between people is so bad. I do it voluntarily." She clenched her palms and suddenly blurted out softly.
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Xu Sirui had a profound understanding of what it meant to have one's kindness taken for granted. If the real world had special effects, he would have been furious. "You're truly amazing. Let me tell you, your mother stole my down jacket because she wanted to give it to your brother. I heard her say that outside Sister Ping's house. She never mentioned you at all!"
"That's because... because you are a man! Of course your down jacket can only be worn by my brother." Her voice unconsciously rose, her eyes were evasive, her eyeballs trembled slightly, and sweat broke out on her forehead. Xu Sirui felt like he was forcing a confession from a criminal, but he was a man who could not stop when he was angry. The more he saw her trying to cover up, the more he wanted to tear off this fig leaf.
"What about the cell phone? Why does your brother have a cell phone?"
"He's going to the city, so he definitely needs a cell phone to stay in touch!"
Xu Sirui was about to add some more evidence when he heard Zhu Yingning swallow and say anxiously, "My parents are really worried about me. They always told me I had to be home before dark, otherwise they'd get worried if they couldn't see me. They actually care about me very much."
Mentioning this, Xu Sirui was even more confused. He was already angry, and seeing her like this, he immediately started to talk without thinking: "What bullshit are you talking about? You went to see that little brat named Chengcheng the other day and came home so late, but your mother didn't even show any concern. I saw her sleeping like a pig. She didn't even know you died outside. I think you are just being sentimental..."
"Xu Sirui!!"
She suddenly screamed in an unprecedented sharp tone, using all her strength to interrupt his next words. Her voice was heartbreaking, as if she was vomiting from her throat, and two lines of tears rolled out of her eyes without warning.
The scream almost pierced Xu Sirui's eardrums, and her sudden tears were like a nuclear bomb explosion. He was startled by her unusual reaction, and his anger suddenly subsided. Just as he was about to ask her what was wrong and why she was so excited, he saw her raise her right hand, and then -
There was a crisp sound.
There was a sharp pain on his left cheek, and his head was suddenly tilted to the side by her slap.
"Have you said enough?"
She choked and her voice trembled violently. She raised her right hand with a red palm, stared at him with wide eyes, and gasped for breath. After a full five seconds, she suddenly pushed him away and ran out of the cave.
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Xu Sirui was petrified.
He had done a lot of bad things in his life, and Xu Zhengkang had beaten him many times, but even Xu Zhengkang had never slapped him in the face. At most, he would slap the fleshy parts like his thighs or buttocks.
And now, he had actually received such a magnificent slap from Zhu Yingning. She had shown absolutely no mercy to him. She was already very strong, and this slap, delivered with a vengeance, not only did it knock his face sideways, but he even felt a buzzing in his ears and the flesh inside his mouth felt like it had been scraped by his teeth, with a faint smell of rust quickly spreading.
Well done...
That's fucking great.
After recovering from the initial daze after being slapped, Xu Sirui was so angry that his teeth were chattering.
He was actually comforting her by saying "just be yourself" one second, and the next second he was slapped by the person involved. No matter whether it was taken alone, it would be very unusual, let alone these two things combined. He wanted to kill Zhu Yingning and die with her.
The candle still flickered, casting the shadow of the iron box she'd forgotten to put away in her hasty departure onto the wall. It swayed like a small boat in a stormy sea. Xu Sirui felt he should just burn the box of broken letters. He had candles and matches, so why not? Zhu Juan, Zhou Li, they'd all better die! He was just too bored to bother with Zhu Yingning's affairs!
However, after picking up the stack of letters roughly with anger, he saw the addresses carefully blacked out with a black pen, the QQ number that Zhu Juan left for her, which had not received any response since she added it, the stamps that she had asked him about in detail a few minutes ago, the Lushan Mountain, the Great Wall, and the Erhai Lake... He suddenly felt as if a stone was pressing on his wrist, heavy, so heavy that he had no strength to lift the stack of letters to the burning candle.
After putting the letter back into the tin box and carefully closing the lid, Xu Sirui felt like he was a born bastard.
A chosen masochist.
Depend on!
With no place to vent his anger, he could only kick the cave wall hard. This kick almost broke his toe. He screamed in pain, bent over and jumped up holding his foot, with a grim face, and it took him a long time to recover.
Well, even angrier.
He was so angry that he almost wanted to cry. He blew out the candle with a pout, held back his tears, turned around, and saw a man standing at the entrance of the cave.
Not Zhu Yingning.
To describe that moment as heart-wrenching would not be an exaggeration. Xu Sirui's imagination of darkness and ghosts reached its peak. He screamed and rushed into the depths of the cave like a frightened bird, sticking to the inner wall of the cave. His first reaction was to scream and cry out Zhou Tianlan's name - it seems that calling for mother under extreme fear is a common instinct of human beings - but he was so frightened that his throat seemed to be blocked by cotton, so he couldn't shout out smoothly.
Seeing how scared he was, the man first chuckled twice, then lifted the mountain turtle and put his wrinkled old face in.
After seeing who the person was, Xu Sirui cursed loudly.
It was the old hunter who dug a pit and fell into it himself, and later lent Zhu Yingning the Qing bow.
"Are you crazy? Do you know that scaring someone suddenly can kill them?" Xu Sirui was ashamed, embarrassed and angry. He wiped the tears from his eyes and roared with rage.
The old hunter pointed at the cave, then pointed in the direction Zhu Yingning left, and finally pointed at him, mumbling something in dialect. Xu Sirui had no interest in knowing what he was saying. He wanted to push his old body away, but he was afraid that he would accidentally push him to the ground and hurt himself, so he had to impatiently urge him to get out of the way.
It was not until the old hunter walked away, shaking his head and muttering in dialect, that he strode out of the cave, feeling extremely disgusted with everything here.
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The author has something to say: I don't know if this chapter will be controversial, but let me start with the heroine's reasons for doing this, which will be explained later, so please don't scold her...
Although the male protagonist is very mean, he is actually just incompetent and furious. You can scold him but please be gentle...
In fact, when it comes down to it, they are just two junior high school kids. They have their strengths and weaknesses. There is warmth in their interactions, but there are definitely quarrels, some of which are even so intense that they want to strangle each other.
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