Chapter 601 - 631: Xiao Shi Hit Someone
Chapter 601: Chapter 631: Xiao Shi Hit Someone
Su Yun smiled and said, "No one else is home, so I just made a couple of dishes for myself. But since you’re here, I’ll make another one. You need more nourishment. Look how skinny you are."
Qin Jiao quickly replied, "I can’t get too fat. I’m already 110 pounds."
"At your height, 110 pounds is still skinny! And I don’t care when you want to lose weight, but not while you’re pregnant!"
Qin Jiao grinned. "Alright, I’ll listen to everything you say."
It was a rare, quiet day for the mother and daughter. Once the food was ready, they sat down, and Su Yun started chatting with Qin Jiao.
Su Yun lowered her voice. "Your grandma’s staying at your aunt’s house, right? Well, from what your aunt says, it sounds like your grandma is complaining about us. She’s upset that we didn’t ask her to live here, and that we’re living with Mr. Du instead."
Qin Jiao was speechless. "When is that old woman ever going to change? Putting aside everything else, I’m definitely closer to Grandpa Du than to her now. Relationships are built over time. Even if you’re related by blood, if you don’t treat people well, how can you expect them to treat you well in return? What, is blood relation a one-way street?"
"That’s exactly right. And besides, think of how much Mr. Du and Du Liya have helped our family. Not to mention, now that you and Xiao Yi are married, Mr. Du is one of our elders, too. Du Liya is sometimes out of the country, so it’s only right that we look after him."
Qin Jiao nodded. "Exactly. By the way, has Dad said anything?"
"Your dad feels sorry for his mother, so he’ll buy her things now and then. In any case, I don’t want that old woman moving in here. You have no idea. Every so often she’ll say to me, ’Such a pity, Xiao Yun. If only you’d had a son...’ I’m so sick of hearing it!"
"Just ignore her. Grandma’s never going to get over that hang-up. Besides, it’s not like she can cause any real trouble. Whatever she says, we’ll just let it go in one ear and out the other."
Su Yun nodded. That was what she thought, too.
She said, "Oh, that’s right. I got a call from Xiao Shi’s homeroom teacher. I have to go to her school this afternoon."
Qin Jiao was in the middle of gnawing on a chicken wing. "Xiao Shi got in trouble at school?" she asked, confused. "That doesn’t sound right. She’s so well-behaved. And right now, the only thing she cares about is studying."
"That’s what I thought at first, too. But you’ll never guess what happened. A little boy has a crush on Xiao Shi, and he confessed his feelings to her, but she turned him down." Su Yun sounded like she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as she explained. "Xiao Shi rejected him eight times! Finally, she got fed up and beat him up. The boy hadn’t even done anything, but when he got home with a black eye and a bruised face, his parents were furious and went straight to the school."
Qin Jiao didn’t know whether to laugh or cry either.
She thought about her younger sister, Xiao Shi. ’The kid said she wouldn’t even think about marriage until she was thirty. Men and marriage would only slow down her money-making speed...’
*Ahem.* She wasn’t sure why her sister had turned out this way, but Qin Jiao was fiercely protective of her family. She immediately decided to go to the school with her mom that afternoon.
Shen Yi had taken the car to run errands for their renovation, so Qin Jiao and her mother, Su Yun, took a bus to Xiao Shi’s school.
Xiao Shi’s middle school wasn’t far away. They got to the school gate in a little over ten minutes. After signing in with the security guard, they went straight to the ninth-grade classrooms in the junior high building.