Chapter 10. Nine If I Had Fairy Wands(1/2)
This answer is unexpected by Xue Zhu.
She didn't laugh, her little hands grabbed her skirt with uneasy, and her cheeks were hot.
Meng Yuning walked out with the dull snow bamboo.
Song Yanping: "How is it? Do you think it looks good?"
Xuezhu used her nose to squeeze "Yeah".
"Then why do you still look unhappy?" Pei Lianyi laughed, "You are not happy to praise you?"
Xue Zhu raised her head and grinned her teeth fiercely: "Happy! Who said I was unhappy!"
"If you are happy, be happy, what are you shouting?"
Pei Lianyi didn't know which nerve was wrong with his daughter, so he walked ahead with Lao Meng first and threw her directly to Meng Yuning to take care of her.
He Zhengyue's school entrance banquet was very big. She booked a large private room in a big hotel. The familiar neighbors in the community, the old He and his wife's colleagues and friends, and these people brought their respective families over to hold a wedding banquet.
There was also a banner hanging at the gate at dinner time, which read in a high-profile manner, "Congratulations to Mr. Zhengyue for performing in an extraordinary college entrance examination and getting into a first-tier university."
Except for He Zhengyue herself, she felt very and extremely embarrassed, the entire He family was smiling red.
The neighbors who lived in the same building as Xuezhu sat at the same table. Xuezhu wanted to watch TV, so Song Yanping picked up some food in her bowl and asked her to carry a stool to sit in front of the TV and watch it while eating.
The children's channel she watched was playing Doraemon in the anime world. For a moment, all the adults and children's attention was attracted by TV, and even He Zhengyue watched it together.
The adults disdained to watch it, but they had nothing else to do except pick up food and drink, so they could only chat.
Pei Lianyi suddenly asked Lao Meng and Lao Zhong: "When will your child's school entrance banquet be held? Let us Xuezhu take advantage of it and get a good junior high school entrance exam at that time."
"Your child has three years to graduate from elementary school, why are you anxious about?" Lao Meng didn't care much.
Lao Zhong: "That can't be said. Now that the education conditions are getting better, the competition among children is getting more and more intense. If you don't start from childhood, it will be difficult to improve your studies in the future."
Old Mengdun found it funny: "Meng Yuning, I have never cared about Meng Yuning since I was a child, did I still get the first place in the exam?"
"That's because Ning Ning is born smart," Lao Zhong sighed, "If Zihan hadn't been in charge with me and his mother, it would have been strange to be able to pass the first-year high school entrance examination."
"Zihan is really hardworking. In addition to tutoring classes, he also has to go to interest classes. He also makes up lessons at the teacher after school every day. It's so hard for junior high school. Will he be breathless when he goes to high school in the future?"
Lao Zhong spread his hands: "What's the solution? The stupid bird flies first. If you are not smart, you can only work harder to learn."
Pei Lianyi and Lao Meng looked at each other, and neither of them spoke.
He said that when he returned to the school banquet, Lao Zhong planned to hold it in two days. Lao Meng was not interested, so he raised his glass and said vaguely: "When the time comes, just ask a few people to go to the restaurant for a meal and be done."
"What you said is that Ningning is the first in the middle school entrance examination in the district. What's the matter if you want to do it?"
"If Zihan is the first in the exam area, I'm happy to even book a hotel, let alone a wine shop."
Lao Meng felt that these two were too exaggerated and said, "He wants to treat him every time he takes the first place in the exam, so I can't afford to raise this son."
For a moment, I couldn't tell whether I was complaining or showing off.
Old Zhong Youyou looked at his son who was sitting in front of the TV with other children watching cartoons, and looked up in disappointment and took a sip of wine.
Pei Lianyi pretended not to understand Lao Meng's words and joked: "If you can't afford to support yourself, please find someone to live."
Lao Meng's expression flashed with guilt for a moment. He picked up the wine glass to cover his lips and murmured: "I have no money and no ability, but I still have a bottle of oil. Which woman is willing to follow me?"
"That's not necessarily. Last time I heard Lao Yang say that a woman came to the community to find you, but you and Ningning left without being at home," Song Yanping said with interest, "Lao Yang said that the woman is quite beautiful. Lao Meng, don't you know about this?"
Lao Meng was stunned for a moment, lowered his eyelids and thought for a moment, probably thinking of someone to look for him, and said perfunctorily: "A factory works, I guess there is something wrong with the factory to come and find me."
"If you have something in the factory, you will find your home specifically? Nokia really uses it as a brick?" Song Yanping obviously didn't believe it.
"Old Meng is OK. My son is so big and his charm is not diminished, and he can find a stepmother for him," Lao Zhong seized the opportunity and raised his eyebrows and said to others, "Have you told Ningning about this?"
"What a shit stepmother," Lao Meng sneered, "Lao Zhong, you're so confused after drinking too much? If I really have such a good life, Meng Yuning will divorce me? I'm crazy."
Song Yanping asked curiously: "I think Ningning doesn't look like you. He looks like his mother, right?"
No one in the community has seen Ningning's mother, but with Meng Yunjian's rough and resolute appearance, the neighbors don't believe that he can give birth to such a gentle and gentle son by himself.
So even if they haven't seen it before, they can almost imagine a gentle woman who should be similar to Meng Yuning, with white skin, soft eyebrows and quiet personality.
"It's quite similar."
Lao Meng nodded and admitted, and laughed softly: "I just don't know if it's as cold-blooded as his mother."
Judging from what this said, it seems that the couple has a bad relationship.
No wonder Meng Yunjian didn't want to mention his ex-wife.
Several adults subconsciously looked at Meng Yuning who was also watching TV.
Meng Yuning's attention was on TV, and he didn't know that the adults were talking about him.
The adults were talking too loudly, and they were talking and talking, and they were noisy and harsh. Xuezhu had just turned the sound of the TV up, but was quickly reminded by her father.
"Pei Xuezhu, the TV is a little bit more polite, do you know how to be polite?"
"What else can you see if you can't hear the sound?"
Xuezhu complained in a low voice.
In just thirty minutes, Sister Ju Ping said goodbye to the children in front of the TV, and her happiness was gone.
Later, the Children's Channel released other domestic animations. Xue Zhu didn't pick on it and could watch anything. She liked to watch any cartoon, but older children obviously lost interest.
He Zhengyue called again and took her cell phone to the private room to answer. After eating all the dishes in Zhong Zihan's bowl, she got up and went back to the dinner table to add food.
Fortunately, Meng Yuning continued to sit next to her and watched, but he was not very attentive. Xue Zhu could tell because she was wandering during class and that was the expression she had.
"Brother Ningning, don't you like watching it?" she asked.
Meng Yuning: "I don't look at this."
"What do you like to see?"
“Evangelion.”
Xuezhu had never heard of it: "What did you say?"
When asked about Meng Yuning's interests, the young man who always listened to her quietly actually started talking and began to spread the world view and background of the characters here to her.
Xuezhu heard the fog in the clouds, what apostles and what planes flying.
If Meng Yuning hadn't had a nice voice, she would have been out of patience.
She was listening to him carefully on the surface, but in fact she was staring at his buzzing lips, the light pink color was up and down, slightly revealing half of her teeth, and the small bulge on his neck that seemed to be trembling.
Meng Yuning saw her distractedness and frowned slightly: "Are you listening?"
Xuezhu said in a daze: "Ah?"
He seemed a little unhappy, but more of it was helpless.
"Forget it," Meng Yuning pursed her lips, "I won't tell you anymore."
Xuezhu was anxious now, afraid that he would be angry, so she hurriedly explained to herself: "I was listening just now, really."
It just so happened that Zhong Zihan came back with a stuffed bowl. As soon as he heard the keywords, he knew what Meng Yuning was talking about and immediately joined the group chat.
Zhong Zihan asked enthusiastically: "Who do you think Eva and Gundam win and lose?"
Meng Yuning: "Eva."
Zhong Zihan immediately frowned: "Why?"
Although this issue is meaningless, no matter how hot the discussion is, they will not really appear in the same picture to compete. Meng Yuning was still interested, and the two teenagers then started a professional discussion on this meaningless topic.
When boys discuss topics they are interested in, they can easily ignore everything around them, so Xuezhu is ignored if nothing unexpected happens.
Xuezhu was a little unhappy, but she couldn't get into their topic, so she could only stay aside and stare at her.
Finally, she took the bowl and left sadly.
He Zhengyue, who was wandering around, saw her sitting back on the table, and was a little surprised: "Don't you watch cartoons?"
"It's not good-looking," Xuezhu lowered her head and muttered, "Brother and the others don't watch with me, nor do they talk to me."
"They are both otaku, don't pay attention to them," He Zhengyue saw that she was unhappy and suggested, "Would you like to go to my house to play Adventure Island after dinner?"
Xue Zhu's eyes were slightly bright: "Do you play with a new computer?"
He Zhengyue nodded proudly: "Yes."
My daughter was admitted to university, and the family was in a new mood. Uncle He eliminated the big butt display screen and replaced it with a thin LCD screen. It was very modern on the table and no longer had the bulkiness of an old computer.
"I'll go!"
If you have a goal, you will have motivation. Xue Zhu finished the meal after a few bites, and couldn't wait to ask He Zhengyue to take her to play with the new computer.
Lao He didn't want his daughter to leave so quickly. Although this school banquet has become a drinking party for adults, how could the protagonist leave early?
He Zhengyue used Xuezhu as an excuse and said, "But Xiaozhu wants to go to our house to play computer now! I'm leaving, dad!"
Lao He had no choice: "Put the snacks under the TV cabinet, remember to take them out for Xiaozhu to eat."
"knew!"
Escaped from the lively banquet, He Zhengyue ran home excitedly with Xuezhu.
To be continued...