Chapter 125 p2
Back in the girls’ room, even with Su Li lowering the wind speed, it didn’t take long to dry a child’s hair. For the remaining time, Su Li slowly combed Cheng Rongrong’s hair a few times, then spent a long time braiding small pigtails, finally, Wen Jiangyue returned.
Su Li quickly finished braiding the last pigtail, leaving Cheng Rongrong staring at her head full of pigtails, speechless, she quickly left.
Cheng Tingyan went to the bathroom, Wen Jiangyue had just picked up the hairdryer but hadn’t turned it on yet when a small hand reached in through the open door, waving back and forth.
“Is Maomao here? Is Yan Yan here? Is Yueyue here?”
It was Wang Zhizhi’s voice.
Cheng Rongrong waited, but there was no fourth name.
Annoying! Cheng Rongrong thought angrily.
“Yueyue and I are here. Yan Yan is taking a shower.” Wei Maomao said, walking towards the door.
A few seconds later, a chubby little gray bunny appeared in front of Wang Zhizhi.
Wang Zhizhi, still sweaty and unwashed, was stunned, he instinctively took a step back, distancing his dirty self from the little gray bunny.
“What’s wrong?” Wei Maomao asked, seeing that Wang Zhizhi was silent.
“Oh, oh, you and Yueyue, come over here for a bit.” Wang Zhizhi said.
Wang Zhizhi’s voice wasn’t low, Wei Maomao thought Wen Jiangyue inside must have heard him, she peeked back into the room.
She saw Wen Jiangyue quickly glance at Cheng Rongrong, then shake her head at her. “I haven’t finished drying my hair yet, Maomao, you go.”
Wei Maomao nodded in agreement and followed Wang Zhizhi to the other end of the corridor.
She only found out after arriving that Shen Jianghe had won first place in the dads’ competition this morning, earning Shen Zilin a bag of candies as a reward, Wang Zhizhi came to invite them to share.
A bag of twenty candies, Shen Zilin decided to give one to each dad and two to each child.
Initially, Wei Maomao thought there was no need to be so polite, they hadn’t even finished the fruit candies Shen Zilin gave them before. But… when she saw the bag of candies on the table, her eyes lit up.
Wow, Shen Jianghe had won a bag of sea salt toffee, the soft and crispy kind!
The kind Yan Yan liked! The kind they hadn’t seen at the Baby Convenience Store or the market!
“Thank you, Shen Zilin, thank you, Uncle Shen.” Wei Maomao said, sincerely grateful, as she took the candies.
But…
Wei Maomao looked at the candies in her hand, eight pieces.
There should have been a share for Cheng Rongrong, mathematically, Cheng Feiying shouldn’t have been excluded either, why didn’t Wang Zhizhi call them at the door… Oh, it was because of dislike.
Wei Maomao didn’t ask.
It was her own business if she wanted to retort Cheng Rongrong, she wasn’t part of this circle anyway, she didn’t care about her reputation. As for other people’s likes and dislikes, she wouldn’t point them out. Like with Wang Zhizhi, asking would indeed show that Cheng Rongrong was unpopular, further tarnishing her image, but it wouldn’t be very kind to Wang Zhizhi.
But Wei Maomao didn’t know that while she was here, choosing not to mention it despite knowing…
At the other end of the corridor, someone was creating drama out of nothing.
“Sister Wen, Maomao and my sister are truly close.” Cheng Rongrong said softly, approaching Wen Jiangyue as soon as Wei Maomao left. “They don’t play with us.”
Wen Jiangyue, who was about to turn on the hairdryer, loosened her grip: “… “ They didn’t not play with her, they just didn’t really play with Cheng Rongrong.
“They do everything together, we’re all living together, but the two of us are like outsiders.” Wen Jiangyue’s silence encouraged Cheng Rongrong, she sat down next to her and continued, trying to sound forlorn, “After Older sister finished showering, Maomao probably even dried her hair for her, while we can only dry our own hair.”
Wen Jiangyue: “… “ What else? Were they insiders? Should she not dry her hair? Or did she want her to dry her hair?
“Sister Wen, they don’t include me, I… I can’t do anything about it. Sister Wen, you’re so kind, why don’t they play with you either? Older sister went to take a shower, and Maomao ran off, leaving only us…” Cheng Rongrong said, scooting closer to Wen Jiangyue. “I’ll play with Sister Wen, let’s be friends, okay?”
Ran off? She was clearly called away by Zhizhi… And she was also invited.
Wen Jiangyue silently moved away, creating some distance between them, she sighed. “Rongrong…”
“Mmm?” Cheng Rongrong looked up, her expression innocent.
“There’s a saying…” Wen Jiangyue said, looking away, not looking at Cheng Rongrong, and not waiting for her to answer, she continued, “‘Enjoy the breeze on the river, and the bright moon in the mountains. The ear hears them and they become sound, the eye sees them and they become color. There is no prohibition against taking them, and they are inexhaustible. This is the inexhaustible treasury of the Creator, which you and I can enjoy together.’ It means that everything in the world has its own place, if it’s not something you should have, you shouldn’t even ask for a tiny bit. Only the gentle breeze on the river and the bright moon in the mountains, the sounds we hear, the colors we see, there’s no restriction on taking them, and they’re inexhaustible, it’s a gift from the Creator, you can also see it as a gift from heaven, something you and I can enjoy together.”
Cheng Rongrong: “… “ She knew from the beginning that it would be something she couldn’t understand!
Annoying!
Why weren’t any of these babies normal!
But she didn’t have a choice, they were living together now, she couldn’t keep looking like an outsider!
“Sister Wen, I don’t understand.” Cheng Rongrong said, shaking her head, playing the role of a three-and-a-half-year-old.
“Maomao and Yan Yan’s affection, it’s their own thing, it’s not yours, it’s useless even if you want it.” Wen Jiangyue said, her eyes filled with gentle sympathy. “Rongrong, if it’s not yours, don’t try to take it.”
Cheng Rongrong was speechless.
What was wrong with this person! She was talking about them, about her and her! Not about being ignored alone! Those two were so close, they didn’t even care about them, was Wen Jiangyue a bodhisattva?
“Sister Wen, are you saying we shouldn’t ask for things that don’t belong to us? But we just want to be friends with them.” Cheng Rongrong said, trying to correct her.
“… “ Wen Jiangyue shook her head. “No, I’m saying you shouldn’t force it. I’m not forcing it.”
“Sister Wen, are you sad, that’s why you’re saying you don’t want it anymore?” Cheng Rongrong asked, unwilling to give up, she didn’t believe a five or six-year-old child could have such firm logic.
But Wen Jiangyue was… truly very firm.
“I’m not sad. ‘Let things take their natural course, don’t force intimacy or distance.’ I think Maomao and Yan Yan are good. I don’t think Yan Yan should treat me the same way she treats Maomao. And I don’t think Maomao should treat me the same way she treats Yan Yan.”
Could she! Stop quoting things she couldn’t understand!
This girl, she didn’t talk like this to others, why did she always quote things when talking to her!
Cheng Rongrong was very frustrated, she naturally couldn’t understand that it was because Wen Jiangyue only needed to try to reason with her.
“Okay, Sister Wen, you’re truly generous. Maybe it’s because you’re not related to them. But I’m Older sister’s younger sister…” Cheng Rongrong said, temporarily giving up on correcting her, she decided to find an ally.
However, she received another shake of the head.
Shaking, shaking, shaking! Was she a rattle?
Wen Jiangyue shook her head, interrupting Cheng Rongrong’s hesitant words. “‘They boil beans in a cauldron, straining the juice from the pulp. Beneath the cauldron the beanstalks burn, within it the beans weep. Born of the same root, why should they be so eager to destroy each other?’ Even brothers in ancient times would fight to the death, who said sisters nowadays have to love each other? Rongrong, if it’s not yours, don’t even ask for a tiny bit.”
Cheng Rongrong: “… “ She could finally understand a few sentences, but she was even more speechless now.
She was wrong.
Why did she even try to turn Wen Jiangyue against those two… This girl wasn’t normal, how could she even try!
Wen Jiangyue, after dropping a few literary bombs, leaving Cheng Rongrong speechless, made the viewers in the live broadcast room’s eyes light up again. As expected of Wen Jiangyue, she was truly articulate, like a cultured mouthpiece!
Ahem… Of course, it wasn’t that the three-year-old CEO Mao wasn’t cultured, a straightforward mouthpiece was also great!
And not long after, Wei Maomao, holding the candies, returned, her mind focused on giving Yan Yan the candies, she didn’t even notice the even more awkward atmosphere in the room.
“It’s very delicious. Uncle Shen is amazing, what was the dads’ competition this morning?” Wen Jiangyue asked, after eating one candy, the soft and sweet taste instantly washed away the frustration she felt earlier from trying to reason with Cheng Rongrong.
“Go-karting. Shen Zilin said Uncle Shen used to play it when he was younger, so he got first place. When Uncle Shen brought the candies over, he said everyone would have cold skin noodles for lunch, but the toppings depended on the dads’ ranking.” Wei Maomao said, briefly sharing the information she had gathered.
It was because their bedroom was shared by the girls from several families that the dads couldn’t come over directly, so the boys found out earlier.
“My dad doesn’t seem to have played that before. Did Uncle Shen tell you the other dads’ ranking?” Wen Jiangyue asked curiously.
“Mmm. My dad was last, your dad was second to last…” Wei Maomao said, fiddling with the two candies in her hand, her gaze kept drifting towards the bathroom.
Wen Jiangyue: “… “
Cheng Rongrong, who had been quiet next to them, couldn’t help but ask, “What about my dad?”
“Your dad was second.” Wei Maomao said, she wasn’t hiding anything, she wouldn’t deliberately retort during normal conversations.
Cheng Rongrong smiled. “Then we’ll have meat to eat.”
Who cared…
Wei Maomao, her sharp eyes spotting the bathroom door opening, immediately jumped up.
“Yan Yan, look!”
The little gray bunny, amidst the lingering steam, hopped to Cheng Tingyan’s side.
In her chubby paws were two… candies?
“Candy?” Cheng Tingyan asked, looking at the unfamiliar rectangular packaging.
“Mmm! Dad Shen Zilin won them, he gave each baby two. This is yours.” Wei Maomao said, happily welcoming Cheng Tingyan back, one paw holding a candy. “You eat, I’ll dry your hair.”
Cheng Rongrong gave Wen Jiangyue a “See, I told you she would dry her hair” look, but Wen Jiangyue, who was busy unwrapping a candy, didn’t respond to her knowing look.
Ahhh! Annoying!
Was it that delicious!
Cheng Rongrong, annoyed, tore open a candy wrapper and threw it into her mouth.
Mmm… Okay… It truly…
“Is it delicious?”
A voice asked, very close to her.
“Delicious.”
Cheng Rongrong, immersed in the sweet taste of toffee and nuts, answered instinctively.
As soon as she said it, Cheng Rongrong realized something was wrong, that seemed to be Wei Maomao’s voice…
Cheng Rongrong looked up and met Wei Maomao’s stunned gaze, then she saw Cheng Tingyan next to her, her cheeks puffed out, still holding the candy wrapper in her hand…
Why did she have to answer just now!
They must think she was being super presumptuous!
Cheng Rongrong, her face sullen, pretended she hadn’t said anything, she left the room as if nothing had happened.
Wei Maomao and Cheng Tingyan exchanged a glance, they didn’t mention the awkward incident, they just sat down and started drying hair.
Wen Jiangyue, after holding it in for a while, glancing at one, then at the other, finally couldn’t help but say, “Did she just walk out with her feet tangled?”
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