Chapter 678 - 678 678 Events of the Past (3)_1

Chapter 678: Chapter 678: Events of the Past (3)_1 Chapter 678: Chapter 678: Events of the Past (3)_1 “Xiu Xi, let’s go play basketball; the teacher is going to teach us how to play. Let’s go together. Jiaojiao, just let her go with those female classmates on her own.” Actually, Little Fatty felt that Xiu Xi was always more responsible in looking after Ruan Jiaojiao than any of them brothers, but sometimes he thought he interfered too much. It even resulted in his sister not having a circle of friends at all, which wasn’t good.

Especially now, Jiaojiao was still young; it was fine not having friends since she had them, her brothers, but it couldn’t always be like this, right? Little girls should play with other little girls, not spend every day with them, a bunch of smelly boys.

“Play basketball? Then you go, Brother Xi. I’ll go buy some snacks with Yang Tao and the others, and come to watch you play later,” Ruan Jiaojiao said immediately, stretching out her little hand to fish out money from his pocket. She grabbed a fifty-cent note and ran off to where Yang Tao was waiting for her. Her small silhouette bounced with joy, which turned Xiu Xi’s face even more sour.

Little Fatty didn’t notice and patted his shoulder with an air of someone who has been through it all, “Let go, brother. You’ve got to let her learn to grow up on her own.” He knew the setbacks they’d suffered under his watch were far greater than this.

Back then, they practically doubted their own existence every day, unsure why their sister got along so well with a smelly kid who was not related to her at all, always inseparable, and not playing with them.

Now, for some reason, he felt a bit of schadenfreude, thinking that the wheel of fortune had finally turned his way.

And hearing this, Xiu Xi’s expression became even uglier.

Little Fatty had already gone off to the field with a few classmates, oblivious to the fact that because of his momentary loose lips, Xiu Xi had taken note of it.

Xiu Xi indeed knew that in this world, she was no longer just his cat. He also knew he should accept it, but each time it actually happened, he couldn’t help but feel a violent urge to rage!

And the result of this was, during the basketball game with Ruan Lei and the others on the field, he was almost unilaterally crushing them.

Even though they had only just started learning, he still dominated the other boys, to the point where Little Fatty couldn’t bring himself to stand up from the ground where he’d slammed down.

Meanwhile, Ruan Jiaojiao was elsewhere, using the fifty cents to buy ice pops with Yang Tao and Zheng Pei. Ruan Jiaojiao wasn’t tall enough to reach into the freezer for the ice pops, so the smiling auntie at the kiosk helped her out. Jiaojiao spent all her money—one for Little Fatty, one for Xiu Xi, and one each for Ruan Feng and Lu Zishu.

The auntie packed them in a small plastic bag for her. Ruan Jiaojiao covered her mouth with a sweet smile, “Thank you, Auntie.” Her big eyes squinted, and she looked particularly endearing.

“Oh my, little girl, so sensible. Are you here at school with your mom to play? Did your mom go find your brother or sister? Does she know you came here?” The auntie looked at her fondly, thinking she looked so young and tender, without realizing she was a first-year middle school student, mistaking her for a child accompanying a parent to find an older sibling.

“Hahaha, Little Frog, look how tiny you are! People might think you’ve just come here to play,” Yang Tao pointed at Ruan Jiaojiao and laughed heartily: “At your age, you should be in kindergarten.”