Chapter 153
Chapter 153
A blizzard had begun the previous night, and morning brought even colder temperatures.
Chen Fu started the car early, turned on the heater, and sprinted back inside.
“Fucking weather! Is it trying to kill us?”
“Xiao Jiu, Zhao Fei, Uncle will drive you to school. Wear more layers.”
Chen Daji muttered resentfully, “Dad, why’d you only tell Big Brother and Fatty Zhao to dress warmly? What about me?”
Chen Fu spat.
“You deserve to freeze, you little bastard!”
Seeing Chen Daji’s wounded expression, Deaf Granny smiled and stroked his head.
“Come here, second grandson. Grandma will get you another sweater.”
Only then did Chen Daji cheer up.
“Grandma is the one who loves me!”
“When we have time, I need to take Dad for a paternity test. I’m starting to suspect we aren’t related…”
At those outrageous words, Chen Fu felt as though he had just been branded a cuckold.
He was about to explode when he met Deaf Granny’s warning gaze and swallowed the curses.
*Just you wait, little bastard!*
After breakfast, Deaf Granny, supported by Hu Fei’er, escorted Hua Jiunan and the others to the gate.
She returned only after the car vanished from sight.
Looking at the dejected Hu Clan Fairy, she asked gently, “Good child, is something troubling you?”
Hu Fei’er hesitated, but finally asked, “Grandma, who is Xu Fangcao, the girl Senior Chang mentioned yesterday?”
“Why… why did Brother Jiunan give her his reverse scale?”
Age made people shrewd and ghosts perceptive; Deaf Granny had understood life thoroughly.
She immediately grasped Hu Fei’er’s concern.
“Silly girl, remember this: without someone to compare against, your own virtues cannot stand out. Understand?”
The intelligent Hu Clan Fairy understood at once and nodded, blushing.
“Yes, Grandma.”
Deaf Granny rose cheerfully.
“Sit on the warm brick bed, good child. Grandma will roast sunflower seeds for you.”
Hu Fei’er hurried after her.
“I’ll help, Grandma.”
At the school entrance, Chen Fu took a leather jacket from the trunk and tossed it to Chen Daji.
“Your mother packed it.”
“Listen in class and learn from Brother Jiunan. Stop coming last in every fucking exam!”
Watching his father drive away, Chen Daji murmured, “He’s probably my real dad after all…”
As Hua Jiunan walked through campus with the two “tyrants,” Chen Daji and Zhao Fei, other students stared and hurried away.
Hua Jiunan felt needles in his back. Chen and Zhao remained oblivious, swaggering along like they owned the place.
Zhao Fei patted his bulging belly.
“From now on, whether this place stays peaceful is up to our Hua Boss!”
Chen Daji agreed around his cigarette. “Damn right!”
To repair the pair’s terrible reputation among their classmates…
Fine, Hua Jiunan was lying.
He really wanted to see Xu Fangcao sooner.
He brought them to clear snow by the school gate.
Even during volunteer labor, the two pointed at passing girls, judging their looks. Whenever they agreed, they exchanged vulgar chuckles.
Xu Fangcao arrived only shortly before class.
After a few days apart, she seemed even colder and more detached, as though she had seen through everything.
Hua Jiunan hurried forward and examined her.
“Are… are you all right? Does anything feel wrong?”
Xu Fangcao froze, seeming to search her memory before recognizing him. At last she smiled.
“I’m fine. Why do you look nervous, Jiunan?”
Hua Jiunan laughed awkwardly.
“As long as you’re fine.”
Still unwilling to give up, he asked, “What about the scale I gave you? Why aren’t you wearing it?”
Xu Fangcao looked bewildered.
“Scale? What scale?”
“Jiunan, when did you ever give me a scale? I don’t remember it at all!”