Old Lady Joe's heart ached because of the piece of meat. She stayed up all night to complain to Father Qiao when he came back.
"I bought it especially for Yuan 'er, but it was eaten up in the blink of an eye. I said I would leave some for Yuan, but there was nothing left …"
Father Qiao frowned. Mother Qiao quickly said, "It's just a piece of meat. What's the point of eating it? If Yuan 'er wants to eat it, he can just buy it tomorrow. It's not that much money. If others hear this, they will think that we can't even afford a piece of meat."
Old Lady Joe's lungs hurt. Wasn't this implying that she was stingy?!
"I bought this for Yuan 'er!"
Old Lady Joe repeated angrily.
"Yuan 'er's father made delicious food for him at the shop today. He doesn't care about beef," Mother Qiao retorted. Father Qiao wanted to say something, but when he heard Mother Qiao's words and remembered that his son said today's meal was delicious, his mood instantly improved.
Once he was in a good mood, he immediately felt that Old Lady Joe's shock was not a big deal.
Moreover, Father Qiao's stinginess with money was not even one-tenth of Old Lady Joe's.
Old Lady Joe was so angry that her head hurt when her son spoke up.
In the past, Mother Qiao gave birth to three daughters in a row. Old Lady Joe scolded Mother Qiao every day for not being able to give birth to a son. Father Qiao also scolded Mother Qiao. Because of this, Mother Qiao always felt that she owed the Qiao family. It was because she was useless and cowardly. Later, Mother Qiao finally gave birth to a son. She finally turned the tables and her status in the family skyrocketed. Father Qiao's dislike of Mother Qiao also disappeared because he had a son.
Later on, because he got a lot of money from his two daughters, he treated Mother Qiao even better these few years.
Her daughter-in-law was a shrewd person. Once she saw that her son's attitude had changed, she changed her way of going against her. A few years ago, her son was very obedient to her, but these few years, he became more and more obedient.
Old Lady Joe gritted her teeth in hatred.
Madam Qiao was in a good mood when she saw Old Lady Joe's aggrieved expression. In the past few years, she had become more and more proficient in the battle between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. After saying that, she added, "Our family is rich now. Mom is really too stingy. It's just a few dozen yuan. I'll make it up to you later."
Old Lady Joe retorted without hesitation, "Make up for what? It's my son's money!"
Old Lady Joe's father was unhappy with the Qiao Lan when he heard what she said. However, he was immediately frightened by Old Lady Joe's words. When he saw his wife's hurt face, he felt that his mother had spoken without thinking. He glanced at Old Lady Joe unhappily and told her to stop talking nonsense before turning to comfort his wife.
Old Lady Joe watched her son and daughter-in-law enter the house. Her mouth was agape for a long time before she went back to her room, clutching her heart.
She was so angry that she couldn't sleep. She couldn't sleep for the whole night.
Qiao Lan didn't know that Old Lady Joe had been angered again. After a good night's sleep, she woke up early. Madam Qiao had just woken up and was going to the bathroom. When she turned to see Qiao Lan, she remembered how she had embarrassed Old Lady Joe yesterday. She was in a good mood and took out two hundred yuan from her wallet to give Qiao Lan.
"Is your meal card almost out of money? You don't even know how to breathe when you don't have money. You're so skinny that it's as if I've abused you. Take the money and don't let your grandmother see it. If she sees it, she'll nag again." After she finished speaking, she didn't care about what Qiao Lan said. She yawned and went back to her room to sleep.
Qiao Lan looked at the money in her hand and then looked at Madam Qiao. She turned and left.
Not bad. Her meals were guaranteed again.
Qiao Lan came to the classroom before 6: 20 in the morning.
During the morning self-study, she could only memorize Chinese and English. However, the time before the morning self-study was free to arrange. Recently, Qiao Lan had been memorizing politics, history, and geography.
Although she had only been studying for a month, there were only ten days left until the mid-term exam. If she wanted to get a good ranking, Qiao Lan had to work harder.
She arrived at school at 6: 40 in the morning. It was not yet 6: 20 in the morning. There were only a few boarding students in the class. When they saw Qiao Lan come so early, they were already used to it.
It had been more than a week. Qiao Lan came early every day.
She didn't try to talk to the boys who were close to Chen Yaoyang like before. Recently, she was reading books and seemed to be quite serious.
Students lived in groups. Generally speaking, boarding students were worse off than day students. Except for a few who were good at their studies, the rest of the boarding students had almost never interacted with Chen Yaoyang and Qin Yang. Therefore, they didn't know much about Qin Yang's behavior of alienating Qiao Lan.
After a while, when they saw Qiao Lan, they could even make eye contact and say hello.
Qiao Lan wanted to memorize political knowledge today. However, the class was very quiet. She was worried that she would disturb the other students. Therefore, she took her textbook out of the classroom and found a quiet place to memorize.
A few minutes later, someone called her name from behind.
Ever since she transmigrated, no one except the teacher had called her name. Qiao Lan turned around in surprise. A girl with a high ponytail was standing behind her. Qiao Lan used her good memory to determine that this girl wasn't from her class.
The girl glanced at the political book in Qiao Lan's hand and sneered. "Are you memorizing?"
Qiao Lan looked at the girl expressionlessly. 'Are you talking nonsense?'
Qiao Lu didn't believe her. Qiao Lan didn't like to study at all. There were so many places to memorize. Why did she have to come here? This was …
Qiao Lu subconsciously glanced at the cafeteria. She didn't want to argue with Qiao Lan anymore. "Go somewhere else."
Qiao Lan felt that there was something wrong with the girl in front of her.
"I'm not going."
"How can I memorize when you're so loud?"
There were so many students around, and a few of them were louder than her. Why didn't she ask the others to go somewhere else?
Qiao Lan exhaled and controlled her temper. "First come, first served. If you don't want to listen, you can go somewhere else."
Qiao Lu glared at Qiao Lan. Then, she sneered. "I knew you came here on purpose. If you have the time, you might as well read more. Chen Yaoyang won't like you. Ugly people are always mischievous!"
Then, she ran away in a huff.
Qiao Lan was speechless.
Qiao Lan was dumbfounded.
'Isn't she just reading?'
'What does her reading have to do with Chen Yaoyang?'
When it was almost 6: 40 am, Qiao Lan put away her books and was about to return to the classroom. Then, she turned around and saw Chen Yaoyang and the others coming out from behind the cafeteria.
Qiao Lan was speechless.
She finally understood what the girl was trying to say.
This was probably the place Chen Yaoyang would pass by every morning.
Qiao Lan frowned when she thought of the girl's words. Then, she looked up and saw the boys around Chen Yaoyang giving her meaningful looks. Then, she saw Chen Yaoyang's irritated face.
'Irritated my ass.'
She was even more irritated.
'I'll never come here to memorize again.'
That day, Qiao Lan was talking about how she met Chen Yaoyang while memorizing outside. Qiao Lan walked out of the classroom speechlessly and bumped into Tan Mo who had just arrived.
Although Tan Mo ignored her last time, Qiao Lan still greeted Tan Mo.
After greeting him, she didn't say anything else. She just smiled and went into the classroom.
Tan Mo stared at Qiao Lan's back for a long time.
This was the fifth time that the girl had greeted him.
She didn't look for him specifically. Instead, she would say good morning or good afternoon when she met him. However, Tan Mo never responded.
He had already rejected her so many times. Why did she still say good morning to him?
Couldn't she see that he wanted her to stay away from him? Couldn't she see that he wouldn't respond to her?
Since Tan Mo decided to hide himself and never believe in anyone's kindness, no one had talked to him again and again.
His mother said that he would reject many people who were kind to him. However, Tan Mo didn't regret it at all.
Because ever since he had rejected them, those who had tricked him had never succeeded again.
In this world, except for his mother, no one would be kind to him for no reason.
After 15 years, Tan Mo had seen through everything. He should have known the fickleness of human nature.
Just like this girl's initiative. Maybe next time, it would disappear completely.
Tan Mo lowered his eyelids, turned his wheelchair again, and silently returned to his seat.
But fate, this girl, seemed to be different.
One afternoon, two days later, on the campus, Tan Mo turned his wheelchair as usual. However, he heard a familiar voice again.
Qiao Lan stood two meters away from Tan Mo and greeted Tan Mo. "Good afternoon."
Tan Mo raised his head and looked at the girl in front of him. His eyes were cold, and he was still silent.
Qiao Lan was gradually getting used to Tan Mo's attitude. Or maybe it was because no one talked to her in class or at home recently, so Qiao Lan was a bit talkative.
Qiao Lan took a step closer to Tan Mo. "Let me push you."
Tan Mo's fingers tightened on the wheelchair for a moment. He looked like he was facing a great enemy. "Go away!"
He didn't care what this girl's name was, but he couldn't help but care about why she approached him again and again.
For Tan Mo, all the people who took the initiative to care about him were a kind of hidden persecution.
Qiao Lan looked at Tan Mo who suddenly became nervous. She remembered that day when she took the initiative to push Tan Mo. She felt a bit regretful.
It was obvious that Tan Mo was very resistant to people getting close to him.
Qiao Lan stepped back again.
She wasn't a person who didn't know how to talk, but she didn't know what to say to Tan Mo. She was always afraid that she would say something wrong, so she turned her head and looked at Tan Mo.
His long hair covered his eyes, his nose was high, and his lips were drawn into a cold arc. They were slightly dry.
Dry lips … Qiao Lan looked at the cup in her hand. She thought for a while and said, "Do you want to drink some water? I can get you a cup."
As soon as she finished speaking, Tan Mo's pupils suddenly shrank, as if he had heard the cruelest and most terrifying words. His fingers grabbed the wheelchair tightly, and the wheelchair moved away from Qiao Lan in an instant.
Tan Mo's voice was as cold as the winter of the twelfth lunar month.
"No need."
"Stay away from me."
Qiao Lan stared blankly at Tan Mo's back. Even though Tan Mo only said two words, Qiao Lan still understood that Tan Mo was angry.
Her words made Tan Mo angry.
However, Qiao Lan thought again and again, but she couldn't remember which one of her words had touched Tan Mo's sore spot.
She only said three words. Qiao Lan analyzed the three words in her mind again and again, but she still couldn't figure it out.
What did she say wrong?
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