Chapter 9: A Family by the Spring, Chapter 9: The Female Cousin Is Sometimes Too Honest

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Protagonist:

Lin Xiyu

"What documentary?"

Her female cousin blinked her eyes, looking a bit dazed.

After returning home, Lin Xiyu changed into a clean set of clothes, so her female cousin didn't know about her saving someone.

Guben looked slightly surprised: "You haven't told your family yet?"

"Forgot."

Lin Xiyu gave an awkward smile.

"You can forget this?!"

Guben laughed in exasperation, but because his female cousin was present, he didn't give her another violent rap on the head.

Lin Xiyu's ears felt a bit hot.

After coming back, she had been preoccupied with being angry at Zhang Da Fen, so she truly forgot this matter.

"Forget it, since you haven't said it, I won't say much either."

Guben, in front of his female cousin, couldn't reveal too many inside details: "I came just to tell you, don't forget to watch the Jinan News at six-thirty this evening."

Lin Xiyu looked completely blank: "Why watch the news?"

"Just watch if I tell you to!"

Gu Binjun's face darkened, brooking no objection.

"Fine."

Lin Xiyu nodded, indicating she had heard.

"Must watch........"

Guben thought of her outward compliance but inward defiance toward the female reporter, narrowed his eyes, and added uneasily: "Remember, this time you absolutely must not forget again, have your family watch with you."

"I know."

Lin Xiyu agreed obediently, her attitude very sincere.

"I'm leaving, we'll talk about other things tomorrow."

Guben was satisfied, turned the handlebars of his bike around, and rode toward the direction Zhang Da Fen's partner had left.

"This classmate of yours has a good family background, his parents are quite willing to spend money on him......."

Her female cousin watched the person leave, smacked her lips and clicked her tongue a few times, only withdrawing her gaze reluctantly after she could no longer see him.

"How do you know?"

Lin Xiyu showed some surprise.

"He rides a foreign original imported mountain bike."

Her female cousin had sharp eyesight, precisely analyzing: "Over a thousand yuan a bike, exactly the same as one I saw in a specialty store, except that one was dark green, his is black, looking like the wheels are thicker, it should be more expensive......."

"That expensive?!"

Lin Xiyu did not disappoint her female cousin's expectations, indeed her small heart jumped wildly with shock.

Her mother was a primary school teacher, earning six hundred yuan a month.

Her maternal grandmother's pension was only four hundred.

A mountain bike costing over a thousand yuan, the two people's monthly wages added together still weren't enough.

"Indeed......."

Her female cousin was a bit smug: "These eyes of mine can be called Fire Eyes Golden Eyes, whether it's a person or a thing, after seeing it once I won't forget, next time I see it, I'll definitely be able to recognize it."

Lin Xiyu sincerely sighed: "It would be great if you could remember everything at a glance when reading books."

Her female cousin: "......"

Felt like a knife had been stabbed into her heart.

Her female cousin was sometimes too honest, not very cute.

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The clock pointed to 18:30, the sky gradually darkened.

Aunt Da came out of the yard, calling the two sisters home for dinner.

Lin Xiyu and her female cousin worked together to pull down the rolling shutter door, locked the door lock, and happily ran home.

When guests came to the house, to entertain the son-in-law, her maternal grandmother's custom was to eat dumplings.

Today was no exception, eating carrot dumplings, the filling was divided into two halves.

In the large basin was vegetarian filling, in the small bowl was meat filling, the meat wasn't much, about thirty or so, with eight people in the family, each person could get three or four.

After the dumplings were cooked, her maternal grandmother turned on the 14-inch Panda Brand black-and-white television, and the family gathered around the table to start eating.

Lin Xiyu put ten vegetarian dumplings into her own bowl, her female cousin silently took a few meat-filled ones from the plate and shared half with her.

The two sisters smiled at each other, picked up their plates, and sat down by the bed.