Under Xu Xiaoxiao's intentional or unintentional actions, she became more and more comfortable in school, and no matter what grade students mentioned her, there was a large list of praise adjectives. Occasionally, I can meet a few people who are looking for trouble, but I won't really do anything to her in the name of Qi Yuan.

Just after the days gradually calmed down, after school one afternoon, the head teacher of the third year of high school called Xu Xiaoxiao for the first time.

"Xu Xiaoxiao, Jiang Li, who is in her third year of high school in terms of information, seems to live the same as you. Is it? ”

Xu Xiaoxiao looked at the head teacher and nodded. She didn't have to hide anything on this point, Jiang Li did live with her until she moved into the dormitory in high school, Jiang Li was her stepsister, even though the other party didn't like her exposing the relationship at school.

Teacher Liu breathed a sigh of relief, and then a worried expression appeared. "That's right, Jiang Li hasn't come to school for more than half a month. She wasn't very good at studying, but she was my student...... I was worried about her and made countless calls to her home, but no one answered. ”

"When I checked the student's information, I found out that she lives in the urban village in the south of the city, and if you also live there, I think you are more familiar with it, maybe you can help me go to her house to have a look?"

After speaking, she waited for Xu Xiaoxiao's answer expectantly.

Xu Xiaoxiao was noncommittal, she was not a teenage enthusiastic girl after all, even if she guessed, she could probably guess a little bit of Teacher Liu's purpose. Their school is a bit special, the class teacher's rating is determined by the student's promotion rate, Jiang Li is indeed not a girl with particularly good grades as she said, but this does not mean that she is poor in learning. If she is there, she can be admitted to a second-rate university casually, and the admission rate will naturally increase.

Besides, if she was really worried, why did she go to her home to find her according to the address Jiang Li wrote? You must know that before Xu Xiaoxiao entered school, she was pressed on the bed by Jiang Li in the middle of the night, threatening her not to fill in the real specific location, lest she be the same as her, and everyone in the school knew that they were related.

I didn't see Xu Xiaoxiao respond for a long time, and Teacher Liu didn't pay attention to her expression, and said to herself. "That area is so messy, if it weren't for me typing that area into the computer to show you and Jiang Li. I can't believe you live in that kind of chaotic place. I heard that it is the lair of gangsters, and murder and robbery often happen. No wonder you live on campus all the time and refuse to go home even on your days off. Is there something at home that makes you reluctant to go back? ”

In the end, the people in front of him just heard the news about the vicious incident, so they didn't dare to set foot in the urban village. In addition, I have occasionally heard people talk about the retirement of the Mediterranean teaching director recently, and Xu Xiaoxiao can't help but speculate about her with malice. Lose sleep over something? Don't be funny.

If you really have to worry, what did you do earlier? Jiang Li hadn't been to school for more than half a month, so she only came to ask at this time, and she didn't look for it herself, knowing that the place was not a good place, she had to ask another unrelated student to take risks......

Xu Xiaoxiao raised a standard good student-like well-behaved smile and agreed. Teacher Liu smiled and bent her eyes, and bluntly said that it would be good if Xu Xiaoxiao was promoted to the third class next year, she could be assigned to the class she taught.

She lowered her thick blue eyelashes, hiding the indifference in them. It's impossible, even if she fails the exam, she won't let her score be low enough to be in the same class as Jiang Li and Xiao Xueyin.

It's just, it's weird.

Didn't Jiang Li in her previous life always go to school hard, even if Xu Xiaoxiao dropped out of school under her influence, she was still indifferent until she was admitted to university?

Xu Xiaoxiao thought about it seriously, although Jiang Li was very bad and evil, and it was not good for her and Ms. Xu, but Xu Xiaoxiao would not deny the entire Jiang Li just because of this. Think she's downright bad, or don't want to help her.

Jiang Li is a strong girl, she boldly said more than once on her birthday during the New Year that she wanted to be admitted to university and leave that home.

For so many years, even Jiang Chen often skips class and is late, but Jiang Li has not been once.

Xu Xiaoxiao walked on the path in the woods, the cool cold wind blowing her long hair, and she didn't notice that someone was cautiously approaching her back.

"What do you think?"

Qi Yuan suddenly jumped up and put one hand on her shoulder.

Seeing that the other party looked calm, Qi Yuan stretched out her other hand to tickle her like evil.

Xu Xiaoxiao didn't turn her head to look at her, she couldn't bear the feeling of wanting to beat her, and gritted her teeth. "Qi is three years old, are you naïve, and you still come to this trick?"

Qi Yuan didn't know where to hear about tickling the other party a few days ago, if the other party laughed unscrupulously, it meant that the other party was trusting and relaxed. In the past few days, she has been looking for Xu Xiaoxiao's itchy flesh, and she dared to run and directly pressed and scratched, which made Xu Xiaoxiao miserable.

"Then you tell me what I was thinking just now, and I promise not to do such a childish thing as tickling you in the future."

"You know it's naïve?" Xu Xiaoxiao laughed angrily at her rogue bargaining.

Qi Yuan pursed her lips and didn't refute anything. She did know that this matter was very naïve, and it didn't fit her cold image to the outside world at all, but she just wanted to use something to prove her status in Xu Xiaoxiao's heart. It's even okay as long as the other party says it verbally, but she pretends to be confused.

As a friend, she didn't even know what Xu Xiaoxiao was thinking, she was too cold and hard, obviously with the softest and gentlest appearance as a disguise, but in fact she was cold-hearted and cold-hearted, with a heart like steel and iron.

The other party never replied to anything, as if she had been unilaterally entertaining herself.

Qi Yuan slowed down in frustration, and his hand was released from Xu Xiaoxiao's shoulder.

The two quickly went from walking side by side to one after the other.

"I was thinking about Jiang Li just now."

Qi Yuan smiled smugly, but quickly frowned at the name Jiang Li. "What's wrong with her?"

Xu Xiaoxiao was still thinking about his past life, and he didn't notice Qi Yuan's impatience and disgust behind him. "Her homeroom teacher came to me and said she hadn't been to school in a long time."

As soon as the words fell, Qi Yuan let out a sneer.

"What does it have to do with you that she can't go to school? Which teacher is a sophomore in high school? Got a hole in your brain? Qi Yuan was about to roll up his sleeves as he spoke, ready to find someone to theorize.

"I live in an urban village in the south of the city, Qi Yuan," Xu Xiaoxiao suddenly called out to her.

"The one we went to last time?"

She nodded and continued. "It's a bit complicated to say, Jiang Li is actually a child brought by my mother's remarriage and stepfather's side, and she also has a younger brother named Jiang Chen."

"She's your stepsister? But she ......, "Jiang Li, how is she?" is nothing more than designing with Xiao Xueyin to frame Xu Xiaoxiao, and has repeatedly threatened to make Xu Xiaoxiao unable to stay in the first middle school. Even when Qi Yuan would lead someone to target Xu Xiaoxiao alone, there was Jiang Li's shadow.

Of course, Qi Yuan had already decided that she would never mention to Xu Xiaoxiao for the rest of her life why she was targeted in the first place, Qin Yao's existence was no longer important to her, and even existence was a stain on the relationship between her and Xu Xiaoxiao.

Qi Yuan's lips opened and closed many times, and Xu Xiaoxiao couldn't look at it. "Well, I want to go home and see ...... today"

After the two separated, Xu Xiaoxiao walked towards the school gate with his schoolbag on his back.

"Xiaoxiao!"

Not far away, a kind and gentle voice came.

"Mom!"

It turned out that Ms. Xu was here.

Xu Xiaoxiao trotted over, and after seeing the other party's peeled and dry lips, he opened the schoolbag and handed the water bottle inside to Ms. Xu. "Mom, why are you here?"

The expression on Ms. Xu's face was a dazed and undetermined person that Xu Xiaoxiao had never seen, and there was even a little fear and fear in her eyes. This is a look that Ms. Xu, who has always been indomitable and fearless, has never shown.

"Mom, did something happen? Isn't the noodle restaurant closed today? ”

Ms. Xu suddenly returned to her usual spicy appearance, "What? The old lady came to see her daughter in a noodle restaurant for a day, do you dare to be unhappy? ”

Seeing the other party's rapid recovery, Xu Xiaoxiao was completely confused by the second monk, so he could only reply to her. "That's not what it means, Mom." It's so strange, Ms. Xu often says how much money a noodle restaurant loses for a day, so the noodle restaurant is open even if it is the Chinese New Year's Eve. And obviously she said that she would not come to school to see Xu Xiaoxiao, lest others pull her and Xu Xiaoxiao together, and then look down on and bully Xu Xiaoxiao.

"Huh? Isn't that Xu Xiaoxiao in the second year of high school? ”

"Who is the middle-aged aunt next to her? Dressed up so rustic! ”

"Yes! It's like a rustic hat from the countryside! It shouldn't be Xu Xiaoxiao's mother, right? ”

"How so? Xu Xiaoxiao is so beautiful, the two are not like each other at all, I think it's more like her family's maid, right? ”

Ms. Xu's face turned red when she heard this, and she couldn't wait to find a hole in the ground to get into. She came out in a hurry today, so she came to Xu Xiaoxiao as usual. Unexpectedly, the students who came in and out of the school and the parents who were waiting for the students outside the door to get out of school were all dressed more fashionably than her.

And she...... At best, it's clean.

She embarrassed Xu Xiaoxiao, obviously avoiding getting close to Xu Xiaoxiao, because she was afraid that Xu Xiaoxiao's classmates would look down on Xu Xiaoxiao because of her.

Unbeknownst to him, Xu Xiaoxiao suddenly let go of the hand holding Ms. Xu. Ms. Xu's eyes flashed with hurt and understanding, she was disgusted by her own daughter.

Xu Xiaoxiao didn't notice Ms. Xu's thoughts, and she walked up to the girls who had just broken their mouths. "Hello senior sister, this is my mother. We heard you very clearly. ”

Several people were stunned, they all knew that although Xu Xiaoxiao said it tactfully, the meaning between the lines was to ask them to apologize to Ms. Xu.

But after all, they are young, and they feel too embarrassed to ask them to apologize to an aunt who is not as good as their parents.

Thinking about it, they glanced at each other and replied to Xu Xiaoxiao with confidence. "What about hearing clearly? With your mouth open on us, can you still control our freedom of speech? ”

"I really don't care what you say." Xu Xiaoxiao smiled dumbly, and turned his face cold for a moment. "Then the hands and feet grow on me, I want to ......"

"Xiaoxiao! Let's go! Ms. Xu ran over and grabbed her, she was worried that Xu Xiaoxiao would fight with her classmates for her.

Xu Xiaoxiao was dragged by Ms. Xu for a few steps, but she still stood still, and turned around to stare at a few people with a pair of deep eyes.

The gaze of a dead man was like a giant mountain pressing on the fragile nerves of several girls.

The leader was a little scared, remembering that Qi Yuan seemed to be very close to Xu Xiaoxiao recently, so he took the lead and began to apologize.

"Auntie, I'm sorry, we didn't mean it just now, don't take it to heart."

Ms. Xu was also very curious about why Xu Xiaoxiao just glared at her a few times, and the other party quickly apologized. But that's not the main thing, watching them bow and apologize, she still feels a little uncomfortable.

"It's okay, it's not angry." Ms. Xu shook her hand, indicating that she did not take it to heart.

One of the girls standing behind her couldn't help but say stiffly, "We didn't say anything wrong in the first place!" ”

Xu Xiaoxiao sneered, "Do you really think you're not wrong?" What have you done to respect others and not judge them? This is my mother, Ms. Xu, who raised me alone, and although she worked hard, she never complained about anything. My family is a noodle shop, and I am not ashamed of this, and I am not afraid to admit that my family is not good, because a person's family and birth do not determine the quality and fundamentals of this person. It's like some people who have no worries about food and clothing but are mentally barren......"

Xu Xiaoxiao's gaze was too cold, and the girl couldn't bear it anymore, so she said sorry to Ms. Xu sullenly.

"Beauty, how much does this phone cost?"

"Mom, why did you bring me to the mobile phone store?"

Ms. Xu didn't look back, her eyes glowing as she stared at the phone in the transparent display case. Eventually, her eyes stopped at a beautifully colored indigo phone with sleek lines.

"What about this one? How much? ”

"This is a foreign brand ghost king joker, 8,800 yuan a piece." The clerk with heavy makeup looked contemptuous and impatient when he saw the two men dressed up. One is an aunt from the countryside, and the other is a young girl in a school uniform. Neither of these two people looks like they should be able to afford a mobile phone.

"Eight-thousand-eight?" Ms. Xu repeated, her eyes slightly shocked. Are mobile phones so expensive now? The clerk showed a look of 'sure enough, it looks like a poor bun', ran to the other side of the counter to play with his mobile phone, and no longer paid attention to Ms. Xu. Xu Xiaoxiao was so angry that his liver hurt, and he was thinking about what to say. Ms. Xu's intermittent voice came from the side, her eyes were obviously still reluctant and painful, but the words in her mouth were very firm, "Bao... Wrap it up. ”

"Mom! Who are you going to buy it for? Is Jiang Li and Jiang Chen going to change their mobile phones again? So expensive, don't buy them anymore! ”

No matter what Xu Xiaoxiao said, Ms. Xu still paid the money happily and generously.

As soon as she left the mobile phone store, Ms. Xu handed over the packaged mobile phone in her hand to Xu Xiaoxiao.

In Xu Xiaoxiao's surprised eyes, she felt a little guilty. "Mom is sorry for you, she has been telling you to be patient and patient for so many years, even if she knows that the Jiang family treats you badly, she has never said that she has come out for you once. Now everyone has a mobile phone, but you have never had a mobile phone, and even if you make a call, you have to go to a phone booth or a small shop far away to find a phone and call home. You're young, I'm not such a good mother, this is my ......"

"I don't need to! Push it off! Xu Xiaoxiao pushed back coldly.

Ms. Xu even stuffed the bag and the mobile phone inside into Xu Xiaoxiao's arms. "This is what your mother bought for you, and it is considered that she has not given you a birthday in so many years. Jiang Chen and Jiang Li don't deserve it, and in the future, my money will only be spent on my baby daughter! ”

After Ms. Xu finished speaking, she hugged Xu Xiaoxiao, "This can also be regarded as your reward for arguing with my incompetent mother and classmate today." Take it, call me more in the future, you don't know how much your mother misses you at home......"