Chapter 172 Everyone applauds (5th update)
Everybody was criticizing them, but after just two sentences, Xue Guofei couldn't help but burst out talking. Although his face was red with embarrassment, he felt so relieved.
In total, he drank the most among the three of them, drinking half of each bowl. The steaming liquid was trapped in his cotton-padded jacket. When he moved, the strong and tangy smell came out from his wrists, ankles and neck.
"Ugh..." Everyone was stunned for a moment, and immediately moved away, smiling awkwardly: "Ha, you are really impatient..."
He was also so choked by the smell that his face turned green. He walked back step by step with his head dizzy and messy. A string of drops of water dripped from his feet. The smell was carried by the wind and penetrated into every household unscrupulously. It took a long time to dissipate, causing him to be cursed along the way.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law no longer cared about their faces. They ran back, holding their stomachs, almost twisting their bodies to enter the house. They didn't even have time to lock the door. They took out the chamber pot and drank a lot. Before they could get up, the second wave of colic hit them.
When Xue Guofei returned home, his legs were weak...
The Xue family's joke and its smell quickly spread throughout Hetao'er Hutong. The people who lived in the same courtyard had the most say, after all, a little kid was playing hide-and-seek in the corner and heard the whole thing. It turned out that the Xue family was vicious and put laxatives and dirt in the soft-boiled eggs for entertaining guests. As a result, the guests did not eat them and left. The three of them ate them by mistake. They did not vomit, but they had diarrhea continuously, which shows how strong the dosage was.
Besides, An Zhiqiu pulled the girl away with a gloomy face and said nothing, which also scared An Zhixia a little.
"Brother, you should take care of the wound. You still have to go to work tomorrow." She pulled him to a place sheltered from the wind, took out a kettle and washed him carefully, then tied a handkerchief, "Let's apply some iodine when we get home. When I came here, I specifically asked someone to get it from the provincial hospital. I heard it is very effective, much better than the red and blue solution. It will be completely healed in three to five days. Brother's hands are so beautiful. He wants to be a chef in the future, so you can't ruin them like this..."
As she was talking, An Zhiqiu hugged her tightly in his arms, and hot tears fell on her neck. An Zhixia was stunned for a moment, then she reached out and patted his back, and said with red eyes: "Brother, you are so old, why do you still like to cry so much? Did the midwife make the wrong order when we were born? I am actually the older sister, right?"
An Zhiqiu couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips and said sullenly: "Maybe my mother was afraid that you would be bullied, so she made me your brother."
Oh my, An Zhixia's tears fell down. Why is this child so pitiful?
"You have a fever and don't remember anything. Why didn't you tell your brother?"
"Anyway, I wasn't burned into a fool. I haven't forgotten anything in the book. I just blocked out some unhappy memories. I think it's good, so I didn't say it to upset you." An Zhixia whispered, "Brother, it's really okay. I have you now, and everything is enough for me."
"Fortunately, you didn't get burned into a fool," An Zhiqiu rubbed her head and sighed with great satisfaction.
The two of them adjusted their moods, and An Zhiqiu laughed dully: "The Xue family married the right daughter-in-law. Does she think she is smart and everyone else is stupid? Does boiled soft-boiled eggs have that taste and color? Well, adding brown sugar can cover up the original color of the soup in the bowl, and the taste can also be covered up. I just don't know who will eat it."
An Zhixia couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh, "Who knows?"
The An family is not far from the Xue family, just a few alleys away.
The closer they got to home, the more serious their faces became, and their steps became heavier. The familiar feeling of the past eighteen years came flooding back, and many painful memories gradually became clearer. If they could, they really didn't want to step in.
But there are too many things in life that are beyond our control, and people cannot really not care about what others say at all.
They have changed so much in this year, not only in appearance but also in temperament. Even though they wear ordinary clothes, they still attract the constant stares of neighbors.
An Zhiqiu's face was slightly cold, but An Zhixia smiled like a bright morning sun, waving her claws to compare her memory with the visitor one by one, and greeted him sweetly.
"You, are you really the twins from the An family?" Everyone gathered around in disbelief, looking them up and down several times with wide eyes. "You know what, your eyebrows and height are quite similar. But the two children from the An family are as thin as bamboo poles, with dark and wrinkled faces. How can they be as clean and pretty as you?"
"Auntie Liu, my voice hasn't changed, right?" An Zhixia said with great patience and a smile.
"It sounds very familiar. Zhixia's voice is as soft as the buzzing of a fly, but your voice is crisp and beautiful. It turns out that after going to a place to exercise, you two brothers and sisters are like different people."
The main reason was that the An siblings had low self-esteem before. They wore ragged and short clothes. They were tall but too thin to look upright. They smiled and nodded when they saw people, and occasionally said hello. Everyone tried hard to think and convinced themselves that they were the twins of the An family.
When they arrived at the An family's door, an enthusiastic neighbor shouted at the top of his voice: "Master An, your Zhiqiu and Zhixia are back!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole yard became lively.
"Who's back?" the young man with a rough voice shouted back.
"We're back," An Zhiqiu said with a cold face as he pushed the cart.
"Who are you?" The young man stared at An Zhixia who came out from behind his brother with his eyes wide open. His eyeballs were motionless. He wiped his mouth, rubbed his hands and laughed, "Lady, whose relatives are you?"
An Zhiqiu took the sack, threw the cart aside, and swung it at the man's nose, "Qi Guoqiang, open your dog eyes and look, this is your sister An Zhixia! Put away your lustful eyes."
Qi Guoqiang covered his nose and stomped his feet silently for a long time. The pain slowly turned into soreness, and blood flowed down. He glared at the people who came, and then he realized that it was really An Zhiqiu and An Zhixia. "Are you sick?" He said, waving his fist and rushing towards An Zhiqiu.
Qi Guoqiang was fourteen years old when he followed his mother to marry into the An family. It was the time when he was growing taller and eating more. He changed his parents' genes of being short and reached a height of 1.8 meters. During that year, he worked as a porter in a garment factory and developed muscles, making him look exceptionally tall and strong.
He has always been a bully, and has a mother who is good at pretending to be a bully behind him. He has gathered a group of younger brothers in the whole Hetaoer Hutong. He is extremely arrogant in bullying men and women, like a bully, and no one dares to provoke him.
An Zhiqiu dodged his attack by leaning sideways, stretched out his hand and easily grabbed the man's arm and twisted it, while the man was bending over in pain, he pushed his knee hard and pressed the strong man to the ground. It was so fast that people couldn't react, and then the young people who were hiding in the crowd and watching the fun clapped and cheered.
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