“What the h.e.l.l did you do to her daughter?”
Dad didn’t even mention my test scores. After taking a sip of the coffee I handed him, he immediately started to interrogate me.
“Nothing!”
I was filled with grievances, I knew Auntie Ren must have told bad things about me to my old man.
“Nothing? If it’s nothing, why did her mother see me as an enemy? Originally, I was quite happy I met an old neighbor. In the end, she didn’t have any good words with me from start to end!”
“Umm… what did Auntie Ren tell you?”
Dad rubbed the stubble on his chin that he didn’t shave clean. “Now that I mentioned it, Xiao Lin, you’re very bad! You clearly knew I would be scolded, but you kept the whole thing a secret and didn’t tell me anything… You could have at least let me make some mental preparations! She scolded me so loud, she was even louder than your cla.s.s teacher… All the other parents were watching us! I’m so embarra.s.sed!”
Auntie Ren can’t control her emotions when it comes to her daughter. I can imagine my father’s embarra.s.sment at the time.
But is this retribution? At the same two desks, I bullied Xiao Qin a lot and this time it was Xiao Qin’s mother’s turn to bully my father?
No, that’s not right! If it’s retribution, the Little Tyrant was the one who bullied me first. I was returning the favor by bullying Xiao Qin in cla.s.s. It should not be my dad’s turn to take it instead of me! Is there no end to cause and effect cycle?
Dad sobered up a bit after he drank half a cup of coffee.
“Xiao Lin, I heard that she specifically transferred schools for you, is this true?”
“I, how do I know why she transferred schools!”
Although I really wanted to tell my dad that Xiao Qin only changed the method she used to bully me, that’s why she pursued me, but I couldn’t say it!
“Stop scratching your ears, I know that you always scratch your ears when you lie…”
I quickly removed the left hand that was on my earlobe.
“Dad, don’t only listen to Auntie Ren’s side of the story! Which parent doesn’t speak for their children! She must have said spoke a lot of good words about Xiao Qin!”
“Hah, if that’s what you think, then you’re gravely mistaken.” Dad’s gaze rose over the hot steam from the coffee and he looked at me very seriously. “Auntie Ren didn’t say much good things about Xiao Qin, it was all about how her daughter was stupid and has no taste… Although I haven’t seen Xiao Qin’s current appearance, it sounds like she didn’t have it easy in the past few years!”
How was it not easy for her? She kidnapped brother Optimus Prime, stayed at home every day without going to school. In addition to reading shojo manga, she played video games all day, this is the life that many people yearn for!
“I heard that after our old living compound was demolished, her mother sent her to an all-girls junior high school. But for some reason she ran home crying after only two months, then she never went to school again… Did it have anything to do with you?”
Why would it have anything to do with me! I have never seen her until recently ever since we separated in the fifth grade! Also… aren’t there some flaws in those words? Xiao Qin said she stayed at home for three years, but her mother said that she was in junior high for a couple of months. I am the same age as Xiao Qin, but I am only in my second year… The time doesn’t add up? Sure enough, between Auntie Ren and Xiao Qin, one of them is lying.
“Hey, you didn’t you know? Xiao Qin’s elementary school was a five-year system. When she was in junior high, she was not a first-year student, she was in a preparatory cla.s.s. So when she said she had been in the house for three years, it’s not a lie, at least it would be 3 years minus two months.”
“Fine, even if she didn’t lie! But she didn’t have any relation with me at an all girls school! Maybe… she was bullied at school, that’s why she cried and didn’t want to go to school!”
To be honest, I didn’t even believe what I said. If someone in the all girl school had the ability to bully Ren XiaoQin, she would at least have to be a Terminator 3000 model.
“It’s fine if you don’t want to admit it, it’s in the past anyway…” Dad spread out his left hand and placed it on the table. “Xiao Lin, can we speak frankly and openly as father and son?”
Frankly and openly, we already share a huge ‘milk sister’ mouse pad, is that not frank enough?
“Xiao Lin, it’s said that when men chase women, they are separated by a mountain, when women chase men, they are separated by paper. Looking at the situation, Auntie Ren’s kid, Xiao Qin, is chasing after you!”
Well, thanks for the a.n.a.lysis, but it was no help at all.
“Although she ran around when she was a child, like a tomboy, but a young woman is different than when she was a child, she will not be as brutish as before.”
Although in the eyes of ignorant people, Xiao Qin may look like an ordinary girl, but looking at her with my heart’s eye, she is still a terrible tyrant!
Speaking up to here, Dad’s expression suddenly lost its seriousness. “During the parent-teacher meeting, when your cla.s.s teacher was speaking, I thought: If the mother is this beautiful, there’s no way daughter would be ugly? Hehe…”
Hehe my a.s.s! Are you dreaming about Auntie Ren while being scolded? You probably imagined a ton of AV scenes! After seeing your idiotic expression, Auntie Ren definitely became more angry!
“Off topic, off topic! Xiao Lin, just tell me, do you like her?”
“Who?”
“Ren XiaoQin!”
“I’m still a junior high school student. Shouldn’t I make studying my mission, and work hard every day?”
“Don’t be a smarta.s.s, be careful, I might whip you with my slippers!”
It was only a verbal threat. He has never really beaten me, but it meant he was serious.
“Umm… I haven’t thought about it yet, I don’t really know how I feel about her.”
“So that’s what it is… but Xiao Qin seems to like you a lot, and it’s desperate.”
What are you doing old man? Why are you making that lonely expression? Do you think Xiao Qin is pitiful? Do you feel sympathy with the sorrow of not being able to receive a response to your feelings?
b.a.s.t.a.r.d! Why don’t you think about your own son! Why should I respond to her feelings! I don’t need affection to live in this grim world! The ones who need affection to warm themselves are weak!
“Hey, Xiao Lin, it looks like you don’t want to listen to Dad’s words… then forget it, let’s stop here today, you will eventually understand.”
“However, before you figure out your feelings, don’t step out of line with Xiao Qin! Even if the police don’t catch you, Auntie will come to punish us…”
Based on how he’s scared witless, Auntie Ren must have threatened him at the meeting! Did she repeat the words that she told me before? Dad, you really are useless! If you were also a world champion, then we wouldn’t be threatened!
“Also, Xiao Lin, can you bring Xiao Qin to our house and let me see her?”
Eh? What do you mean? Is this feeling of a father meeting his daughter-in-law just my illusion? If Xiao Qin knew, she will be overjoyed. After coming to our house, she will definitely act cute and lovable in front of you. A person with a heart as soft as you will soon fall into her hands, and then you will become a traitor that will side with Xiao Qin!
“Well, when school is not busy, I’ll ask her if she wants to come.”
I promised verbally, but I didn’t have any plans to invite Xiao Qin over.
The summer that some people have long awaited for was finally here.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter, it was time to wear the summer uniform.
The boys’ summer uniform is a shirt and shorts and the girls’ version is a shirt and a skirt that goes past the knees.
Maybe it was because they cut corners during production. Not everyone’s skirt covered past the knee. Some people has knee-length skirts, but for someone like the cla.s.s leader who had longer legs, the whole knee was exposed.
Even for someone with a short stature like Xiao Qin, her knees were still faintly discernible under the skirt.
Under the intense rays of the afternoon suns, the girls’ white shirts were as thin as a cicada’s wing. If they accidentally wore dark colored underwear, they will be seen by unscrupulous people (such as Eunuch Cao).
I don’t know if it was because the shirts were thin. Laughing girls have gradually become an important scenery in cla.s.srooms and hallways.
Boys would sometimes group together and talk about the girls’ attire in the cla.s.s. For example, Gong CaiCai burst the second b.u.t.ton of her shirt again, or when the cla.s.s leader went down the stairs, a pair dazzling legs appear under the skirt. They even discuss Xiao Qin, but they try not to let me hear.
“Ye Lin cla.s.smate, I’m wearing a skirt!”
Xiao Qin’s short-sleeved shirt was a dazzling white, and her school skirt was like a blue wave fluttering about, which looked quite suiting.
However, when used her fingers to make a “v” shape and placed it on the side of her eyes to make a movement similar to that of the Sailor Moon, it was so childish. I’m ashamed for her as her childhood friend.
“What’s so great about wearing a skirt? Didn’t you wear a skirt when you transferred here?”
“Well, although that’s right… but that was a thick skirt! I often wore leggings under the skirt, so it felt like wearing pants… now it’s not the same!”
The happy Xiao Qin twirled in a circle in front of me. The skirt spun up, revealing her white thighs.
I tried to look away, but it didn’t work.
In the distance, a few boys looked this way and began to whisper.
I now have an approximate understanding of why boys are interested in Xiao Qin. Her appearance is not bad, she pretends to be frail, so it is easy to evoke the sympathy of the opposite s.e.x. Moreover, during summer, Xiao Qin does not pay much attention to her skirt, she doesn’t mind being exposed compared to other girls —— they are taking advantage of Xiao Qin!
“Xiao Qin, are you not used to wearing a summer dress?”
“Why, why did you say that! I’ve been practicing at home for a long time! I’ve always wanted to wear it for Ye Lin cla.s.smate!”
No need. I have seen you wear a miniskirt in your home a long time ago. The way you wear it, you expose yourself three times every minute. If you go on like this, you would become the benefit of the 2-3 cla.s.s!