Chapter 427: People Are Always Selfish

Gao Lang turned around, looking at him with equal provocation.

This Xue Ming, who usually looked like a wooden post, unexpectedly turned out to be so competitive and aggressive when it mattered.

The person Company Commander Sun introduced definitely had a strong background; her temperament and appearance were top-tier in every way.

She was much better than the two girlfriends he had dated before.

"Xue Ming, Company Commander Sun just said Comrade Ming Zi wants to invite you to a movie; aren't you unwilling?"

Xue Ming did not look at him, his deep eyes fixed only on Ming Zi, "I have something to tell you."

"Speak," Ming Zi said concisely.

"I want to tell you... alone," Xue Ming's face turned red again.

Ming Zi did not know why, but a sudden feeling of reluctance arose in her heart, a strange and unusual sensation.

She walked a few steps to the left of the cinema, and Xue Ming followed her.

"I, you kissed me that day," Xue Ming said.

"So what?" Ming Zi feigned composure, though she had already guessed it was the good work she had done while drunk that day.

"I am so beautiful and clever; you got a great bargain!"

Xue Ming:...

"No, that's not what I meant to say," the emotions in his chest seemed to be twisted into a knot by something, "You, you, you have to take responsibility for me!"

Ming Zi:...

It was her first time seeing a man like this; he was so shy and conservative he was practically like a woman.

She wondered what such a man would look like when doing that kind of thing.

"How should I take responsibility?" she asked.

At the same time, she thought to herself, this match made by the old immortal really has something to it.

Sincere, too sincere.

She suddenly felt like a hooligan forcibly seizing a maiden, and couldn't help but want to tease him, "If I don't take responsibility, what do you plan to do?"

"I, then I will just keep following you," Xue Ming looked into her eyes, exceptionally sincere.

"You forgot, you still have training every day," Ming Zi blinked.

Xue Ming sensed she seemed to be teasing him, but still said earnestly, "Then I will wait until training is over to follow you."

"Do you want to watch a movie? With me?" Ming Zi asked.

Xue Ming did not hesitate this time, "Yes."

But he had not expected it to be *Romance on Lushan Mountain*, and even less had he expected to watch it with Gao Lang.

Of course, Si Rong was there too; the four of them sat in a row, the atmosphere somewhat strange.

The movie was of a boldness they had never seen before, and the female lead's style of dress broke through worldly perspectives.

When leaving, Ming Zi deliberately walked side-by-side with Xue Ming, "Do you think the female lead is pretty?"

Xue Ming nodded, "Pretty."

Ming Zi:...

"Then what about me?"

"Pretty."

"Who is prettier, me or her?"

Xue Ming paused; even if he were duller, he understood by now how he should answer.

"You, you are prettier."

Ming Zi was finally satisfied.

Regarding the interaction between these two, Gao Lang hated it to the core; if this wooden block hadn't come today, he would have definitely won Ming Zi over at the cinema.

Because he understood women very well; for a woman, the most important thing was chastity.

Many girls who appear pure and clean, as long as you take her first kiss and take her first night, she will be devoted to you.

With his understanding of women, what right did this wooden block Xue Ming have to compete with him?

After returning to the troop, he made it clear to Xue Ming.

"I have my eye on Ming Zi; do you want to fight me for her?"

The next second, Xue Ming's fist struck his face.

Gao Lang fought back, and then the two of them started brawling.

The outcome, of course, was that both were confined for ten hours.

"How are things between you and Xue Ming now?" Si Rong asked while eating a flower cake.

In a few more days they would have to return to Huaiyang; the two children at home must be missing her, and Wang Jie must be tired from managing everything in the factory alone.

"He said I should take responsibility," Ming Zi gnawed on a sugarcane, "I haven't decided yet."

Si Rong thought, this is truly the exact same plot as the previous life.

Next would be her running, and him chasing frantically.

With things having reached this point, this trip to Yunchuan could come to an end.

She had not seen Xiao Shen Yuan again, and regardless of the considerations, she hoped there would be no more intersections between them in this lifetime.

On the day they returned to Huaiyang, it started to drizzle.

Jiang Cheng drove a tall jeep to the station to pick them up, drawing the envy of passersby.

After all, in this era, those who could ride in a military jeep were all capable people.

"How is everything at home?" Si Rong asked.

Jiang Cheng answered while turning the steering wheel, "They're all doing well. Juzi got a hundred on her drawing, and Sinian was naughty and pulled a girl's braid, so Mom went to the school to apologize to people."

"That child!" Si Rong knew her son was mischievous, "Did you spank him?"

"I did." Jiang Cheng's philosophy on education had always been to spank when necessary, "I expect he'll be well-behaved for a while."

"That's good." Si Rong asked again, "And what about our sister?"

Mentioning Jiang Qi made Jiang Cheng's head start to ache, "She's currently making a fuss about wanting to take Jiang Zhi abroad, and no one in the family agrees."

Si Rong:...

Who could feel at ease with that? She was an adult with the temperament of a child, acting on every whim.

Moreover, Si Rong still remembered that in her past life, when she and Jiang Cheng went to Jing Shi for their honeymoon, she had handed her phone to Jiang Zhi, and Jiang Zhi had once received a Future Phone call warning her not to go abroad.

"Right, we can't let her take Jiang Zhi abroad."

After returning home, Si Rong told Jiang Cheng about this matter from her past life, "The premonition from the Future Phone couldn't be wrong."

"I know," Jiang Cheng naturally believed her, "Don't worry, I won't let her take Jiang Zhi abroad."

Because in the past life, the Future Phone only said not to let Jiang Zhi go abroad and didn't go into too much detail, all they could do was prevent Jiang Zhi from going abroad.

"If it really comes to it, just let her go abroad," Si Rong thought carefully, "We can take care of Jiang Zhi together with Mom and Dad."

Otherwise, if they continued to let Jiang Qi take care of her, there was no telling if other problems would arise.

"Let's put her at Mom and Dad's place," in this lifetime, Jiang Cheng did not want his wife to suffer even the slightest grievance, "We can go back to see her often."

"We'll discuss it when the time comes."

Si Rong considered things more deeply; if the Jiang Family parents lived alone, there would naturally be no problem, but the issue was that they lived with Jiang Yu and Xu Yan.

In the past life, Jiang Zhi had always lived with Jiang Cheng in the Northwest and had no conflicts with Jiang Yu and Xu Yan, but in this lifetime, Jiang Zhi and Jiang You had grown up together since childhood, and conflicts were not so easy to avoid.

Even those born to the same parents, like Jiang Sinian and Jiang Siyu, often fought with each other.

Not to mention that they were not biological sisters.

People all have selfish motives; no one can easily treat someone else's child as their own.

Si Rong was only an aunt-in-law, but she had a deeper bond with Jiang Zhi and a more distant one with Jiang You, so selfishly, she did not want Jiang Zhi to be wronged.

But if she were to compare Jiang Zhi with her own son and daughter, her state of mind would be different.