Chapter 16: The Local Tyrant

  "What's wrong with you? Did you pay me to work for you?" "Hey, speak politely to me, did I owe you in my previous life?"

  Jinwu customer service replied: "I don't know about this, but I do know that you are a messenger of the sun, and finding Jinwu is your responsibility."

  "Or what if I don't?" she shouted. After waiting for half a day without any response, Xī Zǐ smiled triumphantly into the phone, "Hmph, now you're scared, huh?" Just as her words fell, she suddenly felt the ground shaking, and before she could regain her balance, she tumbled to the ground. In an instant, dirt began falling from above, and the walls started crumbling. "Ah——is it an earthquake?!" Xī Zǐ tried to run, but saw a whole wall collapsing towards her. She thought she was done for, covering her face with both hands as she waited for the wall to crush her. After waiting for half a day, there was still no movement. Xī Zǐ wondered, "Am I dead? Why don't I feel anything?"

  "Xī zǐ." Xī zǐ's mom pushed open the door and came in, seeing her sitting on the floor with her face in her hands. She asked: "What's wrong? What are you doing?"

  Xizi heard her mother's voice and let go of her hand to look at the mother in front of her. It turned out that I didn't die, I'm still alive. "Hehe, hehe, I'm still alive."

  "What's wrong with you again?" Xi Zi's mother said impatiently.

  Xizi thought nothing was wrong, stood up and patted the dirt off her buttocks, smiling and saying "Nothing's wrong."

  "The kitchen is on fire, I told your dad to go out for dinner, you come along too, instant noodles are not good."

  Xizi suddenly felt her palms burning hot, but she smiled and said: "No, no need, I have a lot of homework."

  Xizi's mom took a glance at Xizi's phone and chuckled: "Busy texting your little boyfriend, huh? Mom understands."

  "Oh, hehe, mom, you guys go ahead, go ahead." Xizi's mother thought about it and gave up. Since Xizi could eat so much, not bringing her would save a lot of money anyway, so she didn't persuade her and left.

  Xizi immediately opened her phone and clicked on his reply: "If you don't, it's just like earlier. Do you understand now?"

  Xizi was furious and realized that someone had been fooling her. She shouted: "You are a scoundrel."

  "Did you think I was joking just now? If the Golden Crow's spiritual power is exhausted, it won't be just you, this will be everyone's fate."

  Xi Zi also heard Xī Hé say that, and knew this person wasn't trying to scare her, but the tone of this person really made people very annoyed. Suppressing her anger, she said: "I've been working hard already, and I haven't been idle."

  "Jinwu customer service asked: 'What about the person you suspected?'"

  Xizi said impatiently: "I've already started dating him, but we haven't reached that stage yet."

  "Okay, that's it for today."

  "Hello, hello." Xīzi shouted twice, but the person didn't respond. Xīzi angrily threw her phone onto the bed and cursed: "What kind of thing is this? Only you can make my screen shake and my hands feel hot, and I still can't find you? Tyrannical terms." Xīzi felt indignant in her heart, blaming her past life for being so unlucky as to get entangled with this broken affair.

  The next morning, Xizi woke up very early. After a good sleep, she lay in bed and checked her phone. "My god——" Xizi jumped out of bed barefoot, holding her phone as she came to the living room. Her mother was cleaning up last night's mess and said, "I won't be able to make breakfast today, take some money and go eat out."

  Xizi held up her phone for her mom to see and asked: "What's going on with you guys? You dragged someone out to take pictures last night, and then posted about it on WeChat? Are you kidding me?"

  "What's wrong, what's wrong?" Xizi's mother said with a straight face: "The girl from the colleague's family has been chased by boys for a long time, and you're only in high school now, I'm so ashamed of you, do you know that?"

  "Okay?" Xizi suddenly felt that she was being difficult just like her mom, because she must be the most difficult person in the world. After washing up and changing clothes, she came to the living room with a huff, stretched out her hand in front of her dad. "Give me money, I'm going out to eat." Her dad took out 20 yuan and handed it to Xizi, who looked at the 20-yuan bill and asked, "Is that all? It's not enough."

  Xizi's dad quickly picked up his wallet and said, "What's the big deal? At the fast food restaurant at the intersection, you can buy a value-for-money breakfast for just 9 yuan, and there's still some left over."

  Xizi knew her dad was stingy and didn't bother to explain. "I'm leaving." She said, swinging her ponytail and walked out the door. When she arrived at the fast food restaurant on the corner, Xizi thought about going in to buy a value breakfast set. But then she stopped herself, remembering a time when she went shopping with her mom and saw a beautiful skirt that cost 300 yuan. Although her mom also thought she would look great in it, she didn't end up buying it for her. She said the money they earned was hard-earned and should be saved for Xizi's wedding day to buy a big house so she could have a grand wedding. Thinking about how her parents were working hard for her sake, Xizi felt that she shouldn't ask for too much. But then again, others only wore their school uniforms on Mondays and Fridays, while she wore hers almost every day, or wore athletic wear. Looking at the 20 yuan in her hand, she thought about that beautiful skirt. She decided to skip breakfast and lose some weight instead, swinging her ponytail as she walked away.

  "Xizi——" Qi Shuo rode his bicycle and stopped beside her.

  Xizi took one look and asked: "Your home is so close, why are you still riding a bike?"

  Zi Shuo laughed and asked: "Is my home near? Do you know where I live?"

  This kid really doesn't know, but looking at him walking to school every day, I think he should live nearby. Irritated, I asked: "Where do you live?"

  "My home is outside the Fifth Ring Road." Qi Xiao looked at Xizi and waited for her surprised expression.

  Xi Zi didn't disappoint him and was surprised to ask: "You walk from Wuhuan every day?"

  "I'm relatively low-key. Every day, our family driver drops me off at a place with fewer people and I walk to school from there." Qi Xiao said with satisfaction.

  "Then where did your family's driver pick you up when you sent me back last night?"

  "Our car has been following us all along."

  Xizi glanced at Qi Chuo with a slanted eye, pouting her mouth and saying: "Indeed, you're a nouveau riche. What do you mean by this today?" Xizi seemed to think of something, covering her mouth and laughing, asking: "Could it be that you're jealous of Gu Xiaozai taking me into the school yesterday?"

  Zi Xiao's face turned slightly red, and he said, "Alright then, take this and see what a guarantee of quality looks like." As he spoke, he handed Xizi a neat stack of new books.

  Xizi took it over and looked at it, immediately giving a thumbs up. "This isn't just any ordinary quality?" She flipped through two pages and said, "What a pity, I still need to copy it out again."

  "How's this? Still not enough?" Qizhuo asked in dismay.

  "It's not that it can't be done, it's just too good. The teacher will know at a glance that I didn't write it." Xizi closed the book and continued: "Add me on WeChat, take a photo of your homework and send it to me."

  "It's okay like this, but don't let your deskmate know, got it?" Zhi Shuo reminded. He and Liang Zi Qian were friends, but their personalities were different. Liang Zi Qian was more serious, if he knew that he had copied his homework for Xi Zi, he would definitely fall out with him.

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