Chapter 7: The Vain Drama Queen 07: Pretty, but won’t argue…
Not long after breakfast, a group of children came running to Yan Mi's house laughing.
"I really want to know what happened next. Have you heard about it?"
"I know, I know, but what my dad said wasn't nice at all. Aunt Yan's was better."
"What happened next? Tell me." The children surrounded the person who knew the answer, their eyes full of anticipation.
The child couldn't repeat it himself, so he shook his head and said, "Let's go find Aunt Yan, she must know!"
"Let's go, let's go together."
When they arrived, the door was closed. A group of children knocked on the door hard and clamored for Yan Mi to open it.
It turned out that it was Chen Xiaobao who opened the door.
"Where's your mother?"
Chen Xiaobao jumped off the chair, moved the stool away, and replied, "Mom hasn't gotten up yet."
The boy frowned, "Why don't we go wake your mother up."
He was anxious to know what happened next.
Chen Xiaobao had already heard some of what Yan Mi said last night. He was secretly delighted and stopped the boy who wanted to wake Yan Mi up. "Mom still wants to sleep. You are not allowed to wake her up."
"Chen Xiaobao, if Aunt Yan doesn't get up to dress, we won't have any stories to listen to today! Aren't you really looking forward to what happens next?"
Of course Chen Xiaobao also wanted to know, but letting Yan Mi sleep was more important than listening to stories.
He snapped his little fingers and said, "I know what happened next."
The boy looked at him in surprise, "How do you know what happened next?"
"My mother told me that when she was putting me to sleep last night." Chen Xiaobao's little face was full of pride, and he also heard the envious cries of the other children.
"Tell us quickly, if you tell us we won't go and call your mother." The boy took Chen Xiaobao aside. A group of children surrounded Chen Xiaobao, talking in a flurry, asking him to tell what happened next.
Chen Xiaobao has a good memory, and he imitated Yan Mi's storytelling style, and a group of children listened attentively.
When Yan Mi got up, he saw this scene.
A group of half-grown children surrounded the tiny Chen Xiaobao and listened to his stories attentively.
When Chen Xiaobao gets excited, he will jump up, and the other children will also be amazed.
"This is amazing. I want to be like him."
"I want to, too!"
Seeing that they were getting along well, Yan Mi simply washed up and leisurely ate breakfast before going to the yard.
After waiting for a long time, they finally waited for Yan Mi to come out. They were so excited that they gathered around Yan Mi, but they didn't dare to get too close.
"What are you doing?" Yan Mi asked knowingly.
"We are listening to Chen Xiaobao telling stories, but he doesn't tell them as well as you do." The boy commented.
Yan Mi glanced at Chen Xiaobao, who lowered his head a little embarrassedly. Yan Mi hugged Chen Xiaobao and said, "After all, Chen Xiaobao is your younger brother. He is only a little over three years old. It's amazing that he can tell stories."
Chen Xiaobao felt even more embarrassed after being praised. His little hands were tightly clasped together and his ears were so red that they seemed to bleed.
"Aunt Yan, now you're awake, we can listen to the rest of the story, right?" the boy asked.
Yan Mi didn't call them here to listen to stories. She pointed and said, "I just finished breakfast and the dishes haven't been washed yet. Can anyone help me wash the dishes?"
The boy immediately raised his hand and said, "I'll do it, I'm the oldest one here, I'll wash it."
Yan Mi nodded in agreement, and the boy went to wash the dishes.
As for the other children, Yan Mi asked them to help him with some smaller tasks.
The children in the village are used to doing housework. These little things are nothing to them. They do them at home, so coming to her house to help can also give them some exercise.
Besides, it’s not that she doesn’t pay, it’s just that the form of payment has changed slightly.
After the children were done, Yan Mi was finally ready to start the lecture.
Just as I got started, an uninvited guest came at the door.
As soon as the person arrived at her door, he started cursing: "Come out here, you bitch! You bullied my child and you must give me an explanation today, or I will tell Chen Lixu."
Yan Mi raised an eyebrow, but his expression was a little impatient.
She disdained to quarrel with such a person, and the other party was in the wrong first. Even if she told Chen Lixu, she believed that Chen Lixu would not favor outsiders.
But the voice at the door became even more rude because Yan Mi ignored it.
Yan Mi put Chen Xiaobao down and asked Chen Xiaobao to take the other children to play in the house.
Chen Xiaobao was very worried about Yan Mi and held her hand tightly.
He had already recognized the voice. It was Chen Tianyou's mother who had called him a bastard yesterday.
He looked at Yan Mi. His mother was very beautiful, so beautiful that she didn't look like someone who would quarrel.
Yan Mi patted Chen Xiaobao's hand and said, "Don't worry, I'm your mother and I'm very capable. Go take them out to play."
When the people at the door saw Yan Mi coming out, they immediately started spitting, "Finally you dare to come out? I thought you were a coward who didn't dare to go out at all."
After the person opposite finished scolding, Yan Mi smiled, looking like he was living in peace and tranquility. But Yan Mi immediately spoke, "What about your mother? It's none of your business whether I cower or not. It was your little brat who was picked up from somewhere who bullied my son first, so I told him the truth, wasn't it? Weren't you pregnant when you married Chen Tianyou's father? Who knows if that little thing in your family is his father's biological child?"
After being scolded by Yan Mi, the woman's face turned extremely ugly.
Yes, she admitted that she married into Chen Tianyou’s father’s house while pregnant, but so what? She had only been with that one man, and it was impossible for Chen Tianyou to have children with other men.
"You said Tianyou bullied your son. Show me the evidence. It's obvious that you are bullying the weak and making excuses for yourself." The woman didn't care whether it was her son's fault or not, but this incident made her lose face, so she had to let Yan Mi give an explanation.
"Then you said I spread rumors about you, can you show me the evidence?" Yan Mi was not angry at all, and smiled calmly. Looking at the woman's angry look was like watching a monkey acrobatics.
"My son told me this when he came home. How could he, a little kid, lie?" The woman said confidently, adding that it was wrong for adults to interfere in matters between children.
"In that case, I have something to say. That little brat bullied my son yesterday, and many children were there and saw it. Do you want me to ask them to come out and confront you?" Yan Mi waved behind him, and Chen Xiaobao rushed out with a group of children.
The boy bore the brunt of the criticism, feeling his sense of justice overflow at this moment. "It was Chen Tianyou who bullied Chen Xiaobao and called him a bastard. We all heard it clearly."
"That's right, Chen Tianyou speaks dirty."
"Later, Chen Tianyou wanted to hit Chen Xiaobao. If Aunt Yan hadn't stopped him, Chen Tianyou would have hit him a long time ago."
A group of children chattered and testified, and the woman was so ugly that she turned black.
"Well, Yan Mi, you're wrong but you don't apologize, and you find a group of children to lie to you as a witness. I think I see through you. No wonder so many people say that you only know how to seduce men. I think they are right. Shameless bitches will only raise shameless little beasts." The woman cursed.
Yan Mi didn't care about being scolded by others, but he would never allow them to scold Chen Xiaobao.
She walked closer to the woman, who stepped back in fear.
Yan Mi was different from before, and the woman could feel it. Yan Mi walked towards her with a cold smile on his face. Her heart was beating violently, as if it would jump out of her chest at the next moment because of the fear of Yan Mi.
"I'm warning you, I won't hear you curse Chen Xiaobao again. It doesn't matter if you curse me, but you can't curse Chen Xiaobao." Yan Mi kept getting closer to the woman, and the woman also pulled Chen Tianyou back.
Chen Tianyou was so frightened that his legs went weak and he couldn't stand at all. He collapsed to the ground without paying attention.
"You dare to threaten me, Yan... Yan Mi, just wait for me. From now on, if your family makes any wooden furniture, we will not accept it at all. Just wait and see." The woman made a harsh remark, picked up Chen Tianyou who was lying on the ground, and ran away in a hurry.
Yan Mi looked at their receding backs and recalled something in his mind.
Chen Tianyou's father is a carpenter, and he is the only one in the whole village who can do these wood crafts.
But, this threat is nothing.
She didn't take it to heart at all.
All the children saw what happened just now and were deeply shocked that Yan Mi scared away Chen Tianyou and his mother.
It was as if Yan Mi had chased away some powerful monster.
"Aunt Yan, you are so awesome!"
"Wow, Aunt Yan is as powerful as Sun Wukong!"
Yan Mi looked at Chen Xiaobao. Chen Xiaobao opened his little mouth and looked at Yan Mi in shock. His eyes were no longer as gloomy as before.
Admiration sparkled in those little eyes.
Yan Mi felt satisfied and immediately returned to normal. She covered her chest and said to the children, "I was scared to death just now. I thought I couldn't scare her."
Seeing that the panic expression on Yan Mi's face did not seem fake, the children comforted Yan Mi and praised him.
Chen Xiaobao also walked to Yan Mi's side, "Don't be afraid, Mom, Xiaobao will protect you from now on."
Yan Mi was very moved and hugged Chen Xiaobao, "Thank you, Xiaobao. Mom will rely on you to protect her from now on. You must grow up well and make a lot of money to support Mom."
Chen Xiaobao nodded, "I will, Mom."
…
This matter quickly spread throughout the village, and when Chen Lixu came back in the evening, he told Yan Mi that he knew everything.
"You don't know how scared I was at that time. I wouldn't have quarreled. I wish you were at home." Yan Mi said softly.
Chen Lixu also knew that the other party was at fault first, and he was also worried that Chen Xiaobao would be hurt. "Next time you encounter something like this, go to the field and call me. Don't face it alone."
"You don't care about me." Yan Mi said.
Chen Lixu made the bed, "I'm not unconcerned about you."
Yan Mi glanced at him, turned around and asked Chen Xiaobao to come over, and acted coquettishly with Chen Xiaobao, "Your father doesn't care about me at all. In this family, Xiaobao is the only one who cares about me the most."
Upon hearing this, Chen Xiaobao looked at Chen Lixu with a wrinkled face. He strongly disagreed with his father's approach.
Chen Lixu: ...Chen Xiaobao's attitude changed so quickly. Didn't we agree to only be nice to him?
But Chen Lixu also understood that he was just a child. He would be nice to whoever was nice to him, and he would soon forget the previous pain.
Without saying anything more, Yan Mi glanced at Chen Lixu and felt that Chen Lixu was too difficult to deal with.
Fortunately, she has a sweet and soft little cub to hold.
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