I Got Rich in Period Fiction
Chapter 531 - 528: The Woman Who Says One Thing and Means Another_2

Chapter 531: Chapter 528: The Woman Who Says One Thing and Means Another_2

This autumn, junior high had added evening self-study sessions, and Li Mingguang spent more time going to and from school with He Xuerong.

Although the base was safe and kids could walk on their own without any issues,

that wasn’t the point!

Just like now, Zhou Ruoruo with her backpack on, was ten or so steps behind the two, close yet not too far, giving off the impression that she was excluded and left out by He Xuerong and Li Mingguang.

Others might not think much of this feeling, but as her own mother, Aunt Liu couldn’t stand it. The more she followed along, the worse she felt inside, really wishing she could run up to the front and grab those two cheerful kids, who didn’t give a damn about their own daughter, and give them a good beating.

Since when did her daughter, Aunt Liu’s, have to be treated like a little tagalong?

Her daughter didn’t deserve to be treated this way.

Speaking of Zhou Ruoruo, the kid was especially stubborn. If you wanted to be friends with Li Mingguang and He Xuerong, you’d have to lower yourself, right?

Play nicely with them. Kids have their own sense of right and wrong and their principles for making friends. Even if adults repeatedly tell them who to hang out with, kids will not just listen obediently.

Besides, what status did she have to be proud of?

He Xuerong might want to act high and mighty, but she had the credentials: Li Mingguang’s dad was already the head of the Light Industry Workshop, a place well-known as the cash cow of the research base.

Li Mingguang’s mom was the third in command and a deputy general manager of the Agricultural Group, in charge of farms and breeding grounds.

None of that put them below Zhou Ruoruo.

If it came down to family backgrounds, then there was nothing to do about it; after all, the Li family came from a poorer background.

But these things didn’t really matter in the eyes of ten-year-old kids.

Teachers didn’t understand the intricacies of the situation either. Knowing the circumstances of these three kids, they arranged for them to be on duty as a group.

With junior high now having evening self-study, these three kids could form a study group, which would be really beneficial for their learning.

This kind of arrangement was indisputable and flawless.

Unable to find any fault when it came to blaming the teachers, Aunt Liu followed along for a while until she really couldn’t bear seeing her daughter tailing behind those two "brats" like a pitiful little thing.

She quickly walked up, grasped her daughter’s hand, then took the backpack off her daughter’s shoulders to carry it herself, softening her voice as much as possible, "Ruoruo, Mommy made you braised chicken with red sauce for dinner today."

Hearing Aunt Liu’s voice, Li Mingguang and He Xuerong stopped in their tracks.

Both kids turned around and saw Aunt Liu, barely containing her irritation.

Aunt Liu’s gaze was truly uncomfortable.

That evening, He Xuerong mentioned this incident to Qiao Qingyu.

"...Little aunt, it’s not that Xiao Hu and I are excluding Zhou Ruoruo; she just doesn’t mesh well with us. You have to cater to her in everything when you play with her. During recess, if the game involves throwing and hits her, she’d either curse or stomp and cry, insisting the object be tossed gently and precisely into her arms..."

Qiao Qingyu hadn’t expected this and patted He Xuerong’s head sympathetically, "You guys have really put up with a lot."

"Exactly! I mean, who would want to play with her like this? If she’s going to act that way, then we just won’t play at all. But you’ve got to have a game during recess, right? When we play jump rope, if she’s not turning, she insists on jumping. And then when she messes up and gets tangled in the rope, she calls the person turning the rope an idiot or a stupid pig.

But never mind all that; just take today after school, for instance. Aunt Liu’s grim look, as if Xiao Hu and I couldn’t tell what she was thinking. It’s just a backpack, right? I mean, I can carry it myself, and Xiao Hu doesn’t necessarily always have to carry it for me, but we can’t back down on this. If we do, Zhou Ruoruo will just push even further, we never know what she might demand next.

So, little aunt, no matter what Aunt Liu says to you, just ignore it. If you really can’t avoid addressing it, just say she’s my cousin and it’s not my place to intervene."

Qiao Qingyu burst out laughing, "Darling, that’s a pretty good excuse."

He Xuerong, previously fuming, visibly brightened and affectionately snuggled against Qiao Qingyu like she had no bones, cozying up beside her on the bed, while simultaneously reaching out to play with Little Chaoxuan.

He Xuerong concluded the matter, "Little aunt, let’s just leave it at the backpack issue. Otherwise, it’ll never end, and no one can put up with that."

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