The cut wasn't big, and Xu Chacha didn't even feel any pain. However, children's skin is delicate, and even a small scratch looks like the skin has been torn open.
"Does it hurt?" Xu Yanshu asked guiltily. "I'm sorry I didn't protect you."
I had just sworn to people yesterday that I would not let her suffer any more grievances.
"No, that's not true." Xu Chacha touched Xu Yanshu's face with her hand, almost in the same way as petting a cat. "Sister was so cool just now! Just like that, swish swish swish—and then the big bad guy ran away in fright!"
Xu Yanshu took out iodine to disinfect her, which would be less painful than alcohol, but she still touched her very gently, afraid of accidentally breaking Xu Chacha, this porcelain doll.
"If anyone bullies you at school in the future, and you're too scared to tell your parents, tell your sister instead. Don't rush in like you did just now, okay?"
She was terrified when she saw Xu Chacha jump up and kick Wen Shiyu, afraid that the little one would fall over instead of kicking her.
"Aww..." Xu Chacha lowered her eyes, looking unwilling to give in, "But I also want to protect my sister."
A child's innocent words may just be casual remarks, but Xu Yanshu's heart was warmed by them.
"You were well protected just now." Xu Yanshu put a band-aid on her wound. "Thank you, little warrior."
...
As the banquet began, Xu Chacha was carried off the stage by her mother and showed off to her friends.
Everyone was considerate of the little girl's feelings and tacitly chose not to mention the four years she was abducted, instead focusing on praising Xu Chacha's well-behaved and adorable nature.
Xu Chacha felt like a lucky cat; a lucky cat waves its paw, and she smiles at everyone she meets.
"Hello, sister! You're so beautiful!"
"Hello, Uncle! Your hair looks so handsome!"
"Hello, Auntie, your dress is so beautiful!"
Everyone is completely powerless against Xu Chacha, who is beautiful and has a sweet tongue. They rub her head and pinch her cheeks, wishing they could take her home and raise her themselves.
After meeting everyone, Xu Chacha felt her face was stiff from smiling and her head was about to be rubbed bald, but the day's business with the baby was far from over.
"Mr. Xu, you're so lucky to have such a precious daughter." Mr. Wen walked up to him with a glass of champagne and couldn't help but reach out and poke Xu Chacha's cheek. "My two daughters are either quiet or don't like to act cute. I'm so envious of you."
This wasn't just polite talk; he genuinely dreamed of having a sweet, soft-spoken daughter like her. She was the kind of sweet, caring daughter every parent wanted.
Wen Mubai, who was standing to the side, pretended not to hear his father's teasing.
She wore a silver dress today, her hair was not tied up but draped over her shoulders, her slender neck and straight posture stood out in the crowd, and a small emerald necklace adorned her delicate collarbone.
Xu Chacha's eyes were glued to her.
"How about I take her home and let her rest for a couple of days?" Mr. Wen leaned closer to Xu Chacha, looked into her eyes and said, "My sweetheart, come home with your uncle and he'll treat you to something delicious."
"No, you can't." Xu Chacha turned her head and hugged her father's neck. "Chacha already has a father."
Mr. Xu was so excited he could jump three feet high, but he forced himself to remain calm and composed. He raised his chin and snorted at Mr. Wen, "Mr. Wen, you can't be envious of this."
Father Wen: It's extremely insulting and highly damaging!
“However,” Xu Chacha turned her head to Wen Mubai, looking at her expectantly, “if Auntie were here too, it wouldn’t be impossible…”
Wen Mubai smiled, her beautiful phoenix eyes crinkling into crescents. She extended her index finger and lightly touched Xu Chacha's nose. "Okay, Auntie welcomes you anytime."
The little bit of pride that Xu's father had just felt immediately vanished.
My daughter only loved me briefly.
Chapter 15
Mr. and Mrs. Xu: Jealous! The parents of the person involved expressed extreme jealousy!
But Wen Mubai was the great hero who found Xu Chacha, and they were so jealous that they couldn't show it.
"Speaking of which, Mr. Wen, your eldest daughter is truly enviable. She's talented, virtuous, and beautiful." Mr. Xu took a step back while holding Xu Chacha. "I heard she recently won an award?"
“A short story won an award, and a director happened to want to adapt it into a movie.” Mr. Wen’s pride was not hidden.
"Not bad, young and promising." Mr. Xu raised his glass. "Which director? To be honest, I happen to have some spare money, so I might as well invest in a project by one of my own family members."
Xu Chacha blinked as she listened to their conversation, extracting information related to Wen Mubai.
For example, she inherited the talent of the Wen family patriarch, wrote excellent poetry, and despite being a science student, she won countless writing competition trophies. She was the only irreplaceable heir in her father's eyes.
Hearing from the person involved and reading from a book are two completely different experiences.
There isn't much description of Wen Mubai in the book; she's only mentioned a few lines throughout the entire book. She started her career at a young age and wrote scripts of extremely high quality, but they were hard to come by. Later in the book, when she parted ways with her family and started her own business, there was little more mention of her.
Wen's father spoke of her with great pride, but Wen Mubai showed little interest; she had no interest in these topics.
"Dad, I want to go play with Auntie." Xu Chacha whispered in her father's ear, "You adults can play together, and we kids can play together, that's perfect."
Guessing that the child might not like these topics, Mr. Xu put her down and straightened her wrinkled dress. "Don't run around. Stay with your Aunt Mu Bai, okay?"
"knew."
Xu's mother patted Xu Yanshu on the back, "You should go too."
"good."
Xu Chacha walked up to Wen Mubai and stretched out her two short, snow-white arms to her, saying, "Auntie, hug me."
"You little slut." Saying this, Wen Mubai still squatted down and picked her up.
Xu Chacha is small and light, and can be hugged with one hand without any burden. Wen Mubai weighed her in his hand and said, "You've gained weight."
Speaking of this, Xu Chacha wanted to cry, her voice sounding extremely aggrieved, "My stomach is stuffed until it feels like it's going to burst every day, how can I not gain weight?"
"It's good to gain weight, it's cute to gain weight." Wen Mubai carried her and walked away from the crowd, with Xu Yanshu silently following behind them.
"But I think I'm hungry again now." Xu Chacha chuckled a little embarrassedly.
I ate early this morning, and with all the exercise I did running around outside playing with the cat, my stomach is empty again.
"Are you hungry, sister?" Xu Chacha asked Xu Yanshu, who was following behind, as she leaned her head out from under Wen Mubai's neck and put her hand on Wen Mubai's shoulder. "You always eat so little, not even as much as Chacha."
The current situation at their family's dining table is that Xu's parents are feeding Xu Chacha like crazy, and Xu Chacha is feeding Xu Yanshu like crazy. As a result, Xu Chacha has gained weight, while Xu Yanshu has lost weight instead of gaining it.
Xu Chacha: Traitor! My sister is a traitor!
"If you're hungry, I'll go get you something to eat," Xu Yanshu said.
"Me too! Me too!" Xu Chacha jumped forward, "Auntie's going too!"
"Don't move around, or you'll fall." Wen Mubai helped her back to her feet and resignedly followed Xu Yanshu. "Let's go."
"Mu Bai, little one!" A familiar voice rang out, and Jiang Panpan, wearing an orange knee-length dress, led a few people toward them. She turned around and spoke to her peers behind her in a boastful tone, "I'm telling you, that little one is really super cute! The kind of cute that I want to steal and raise at home! Hurry, let's form a group and steal him."
It seemed that their conversation was about Xu Chacha, and they all gathered around her like they were watching a monkey.
"Little cutie, what's your name?"
"Her cheeks are so soft, come and pinch them."
"I'm so envious of those eyelashes. Even if I drank ten bottles of eyelash growth serum, I wouldn't have half as thick eyelashes."
"Can't you speak properly? Call me 'dear sister' and let me hear it."
"Auntie." Xu Chacha called softly, burying her head in Wen Mubai's arms like an ostrich.
Previously, when her father took her around to various businesses, she at least received one-on-one service. Now, a group of people were surrounding her and harassing her. How could she possibly handle that?
"Stop teasing the child, she'll get shy." Wen Mubai covered the back of her head with his hand to protect her, and glanced at the noisy boys and girls, who immediately fell silent.
"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry." Jiang Panpan moved closer to Xu Chacha and apologized to her. "Those older brothers and sisters went too far. Sister Panpan will beat them up for you."
Xu Chacha raised her eyes. "Chacha isn't angry. Sister Panpan, please don't hit me."
"Hahahaha, Jiang Panpan, hurry up and hit me!" A short-haired girl next to her chided, "Then I'll go find Little Dot and cry to her so she can kiss me."
Xu Chacha: What are you high school students thinking about?
"Have something to eat." Xu Yanshu had already returned with the food and handed the plate to Xu Chacha. "Have something to eat first, then I'll go get some dessert."
"Thank you, sister."
"Awoo!" Xu Chacha swallowed the whole piece of sushi without even looking at it, chewing with her mouth bulging.
Um?
Xu Chacha, who was enjoying her meal, frowned. This sushi contained raw fish slices.
She never liked fish to begin with. The cooked fish her family made at home had some seasoning to mask the flavor, but Xu Chacha really couldn't stand raw fish. (GZH: lesbian2088, all yuri resources are available)
Her aunt's family used to run a seafood business. Whenever they had dead fish that they couldn't sell, they would take them home and cook them for themselves.
My aunt's son doesn't like to eat dead fish. He can always pick out the stale ones from a bunch of small yellow croakers and push them to her. Maybe that's why, when Xu Chacha grew up, she felt a strong fishy smell in her mouth whenever she saw fish, no matter how expensive it was.
As the saying goes, a naughty child who doesn't make a sound is definitely up to no good.
While talking to Jiang Panpan, Wen Mubai turned his head and glanced at Xu Chacha, who had fallen silent. He happened to see her making a vomiting face while trying to swallow her food.
To be honest, his appearance could only be described as both pitiful and laughable.
Wen Mubai stepped aside to block half of Xu Chacha's body and took out a handkerchief to hand to her.
Xu Chacha stared at the white handkerchief in front of her and quickly understood what Wen Mubai meant. She shrank back and spat out the sushi in her mouth, then wrapped it up and threw it away.
When she came back with her short legs, Xu Yanshu was already waiting for her with dessert in hand.
Xu Yanshu is usually quite observant, and she only gave her things that Xu Chacha likes to eat, but now her mouth tastes like fish and she has no appetite at all.
"If you can't eat, then don't eat," Wen Mubai said.
Xu Yanshu felt a pang of jealousy when Xu Chacha clung to Wen Mubai the whole time. Now that she was being stopped from feeding her younger sister, she finally couldn't help but speak up.
"She's only eaten two bites, how can she be full?"
"It's not good for children to eat too many sweets."
“If she likes it, let her eat it,” Xu Yanshu quickly retorted, adding a very damaging remark, “I’m her older sister.”
Wen Mubai didn't reply to her. He lowered his eyes to look at Xu Chacha, his expression a half-smile, "Little one, say something?"
Xu Chacha: Is this the legendary battleground?
She covered her head with both hands, wishing she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
"I'll listen to what Auntie and my sister say, please don't fight."