Chapter 180: Sending the Wallet
Chapter 180: Sending the Wallet
On the way home.
Xiao Wei occasionally stole glances at Bai Lu's belly.
The scorching little eyes, as hot as a suppressed volcano, were hard to miss, even for Bai Lu.
"Why are you looking at my belly?"
Caught peeking, Xiao Wei's little face tightened, immediately retracting his gaze, and his small hands fidgeted with the sides of his clothes.
Stammering, he said, "I'm looking at my little nephew."
"Why is it always about a little nephew!"
Bai Lu spoke without thinking, "your brother and I won't have a little nephew."
Xiao Wei stopped in his tracks.
Not moving, he asked, "Why? You lied. You told me last time that you would, you said as long as Big Brother built a big house, you would have a little nephew!"
Bai Lu recalled and realized she had indeed said that, at the time just to comfort the upset little guy.
Alright... wishing to go back in time and change history!
"Xiao Wei, having a little nephew is a complicated matter. Let me explain..."
"I won't listen, I won't listen." Xiao Wei covered his ears.
With just a small head visible, his innocent little face was full of sadness and deception.
Those clear and bright big eyes were on the verge of tears in an instant, but he held back.
Bai Lu suddenly felt shameless for deceiving a seven-year-old, it was against moral principles.
"I didn't mean that. Don't be sad, don't cry. Just listen to me."
Xiao Wei still ignored her, covering his ears with his hands that formed two scissors, leaving a gap.
Bai Lu bit her lip, resisting the urge to laugh. After a pause, she continued to explain, "Having a little nephew is a big deal. Look, after getting pregnant, you have to stay at home for delivery, take care of the baby at home, teach the baby to speak, walk, send the baby to school. But I still have to study..."
The last sentence was the key, and Xiao Wei caught on.
His little eyebrows furrowed, and after thinking for a while, his whole shoulder drooped.
Seemingly finally accepting this cruel fact, he said weakly, "I understand."
"Because you have to study, you can't have a little nephew for now. Auntie Wu's Xiao Ling said she's about to take the college entrance exam, and you study every day, surely preparing for the exam like Xiao Ling. Big Brother doesn't build a big house because he's worried it will disturb you studying. Not telling you about having a little nephew is also because you have to take the college entrance exam and study..."
With his head bowed, Xiao Wei walked, completely unaware that his words had left Bai Lu stunned in place.
After walking for a while without hearing footsteps catching up, Xiao Wei turned around, looking at Bai Lu with a puzzled and sad gaze.
"Why haven't you gone?"
Was he waiting for Big Brother?
Before Xiao Wei could ask the next question, Bai Lu preemptively asked, "How do you know all this? Who told you?"
Xiao Wei glanced behind her, unable to speak, hesitating under Bai Lu's stare.
After hesitating for who knows how long, he finally squeezed his fingers, reminded, "Big Brother..."
"Your Big Brother wouldn't say such things." Bai Lu was certain that Xiao Wei was going crazy with the idea of a little nephew. Even a drunk child wouldn't say such things, let alone a Xiao Cheng.
However, just as she finished speaking, a low, cold voice came from behind, "It was me."
Wait, wasn't that the voice of Xiao Cheng!
Bai Lu: "!!!"
Xiao Wei, how could you be so unkind!
Xiao Wei: "..."
I already warned you; it's your own fault for not listening!
Bai Lu took a deep breath, embracing the principle of 'I'm not embarrassed if you're not embarrassed,' and lifted the corners of her mouth, forming an awkward yet polite smile.
Turning around, she greeted, "Why are you back?"
Ugh! What she meant was, 'You're back.'
Xiao Cheng heard both sentences. His eyebrows raised slightly, and he reached out to take the basket of vegetables from the girl.
''Come home for lunch.''
Bai Lu sympathized with his sudden discomfort: ''Is the food in the city not good?''
Xiao Cheng said seriously, ''Not good.''
Bai Lu looked at him with an expression that said, 'Do you expect me to believe that?' ''Are you coming back for lunch?''
Xiao Cheng added, ''Lunch and dinner.''
''After lunch, are you going back to the city to continue your work?''
''Yes.''
The new town was indeed very close to Pingcheng, closer than other small towns, but it still took more than forty minutes by motorcycle.
Coming back from afar just for lunch, could the food in Pingcheng cause food poisoning?
Bai Lu noticed that Xiao Cheng had become somewhat picky lately.
As they walked, a soft voice suddenly sounded beside them: ''Something fell out of the vegetable basket.''
It was something in a beautiful small bag.
The leather bag fell out too.
Round, black, flat and somewhat long, it was unclear what was inside.
Xiao Wei looked at Xiao Cheng's hand in surprise, Xiao Cheng looked at Bai Lu in confusion, and Bai Lu paused for a moment.
''That's for...''
A wallet for a child.
But the child was there last night, not today. Today was for the big shot, and she didn't need to buy a wallet!
She had been careless!
Seeing Xiao Cheng's puzzled and incomprehensible look and hearing her interrupted words, Bai Lu's expression gradually turned grim.
His usually cold face became icy, and the wallet and small leather bag in his hand changed shape.
The huge demonic hand, like the claw of a violent dragon, could slash through a person's throat with a wave, not to mention...
The wallet!
''That's the wallet I got for you.'' Bai Lu quickly spoke up to plead: ''I bought the wallet for you on purpose.''
''Open it and see if you like it?''
Xiao Cheng was slightly stunned, apparently caught off guard by this unexpected... pleasant surprise. He furrowed his brow and, not knowing whether to believe it or not, used his slender fingers to open the bag and take out what was inside.
Sure enough, it was a black wallet.
When Xiao Cheng looked at Bai Lu again, there was a faint glimmer in his eyes, and the iceberg seemed to have shattered.
Afraid that he would ask too many questions, Bai Lu explained preemptively: ''You bought me clothes before, and I noticed you didn't have a wallet, so I bought one for you.''
This explanation was quite reasonable.
Xiao Cheng narrowed his eyes, holding the wallet and looking at Bai Lu, trying to see something from her eyes.
But... there was nothing.
She asked him, ''Do you like it?''
Xiao Cheng nodded slightly.
Later, on the way home, everyone was silent. After finishing lunch, they went about their business.
After dinner, showering, and washing and drying clothes, Bai Lu sat on the bed reading.
As she read, she suddenly saw Xiao Cheng entering with some belongings.
He moved the pillow, moved the blanket.
After moving the blanket, he went to the wardrobe to get clothes.
It wasn't until later that Bai Lu realized he was moving to the utility room to sleep. The book in her hand suddenly fell.
He had already gotten off the bed by the time she realized, ''I can go.''
Saying this, he reached into the wardrobe. Her clothes were neatly packed in a bag in the corner.
She had planned to tell Xiao Cheng about it today, but she had forgotten from noon to night, and she hadn't figured out how to say it.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Cheng took the initiative.
Before Bai Lu's hand could reach halfway, Xiao Cheng grabbed her wrist and pulled it out of the wardrobe.
''No need.''
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