Chapter 256: Progress

They were all people too, so why was Su Yu's attitude toward Xu Mo Bai and Xu Mo Yan so vastly different from her attitude toward them? All afternoon, the nice words hadn't stopped coming from Su Yu's mouth—so she clearly wasn't incapable of praising people!

Then why didn't she praise them? Had Su Yi told her some dark history about them?

Guo Yingbai in particular was sick with jealousy!

Having been scolded yesterday, he'd assumed that Tang Can's good friend Su Yu was another little sharp tongue, but to his surprise she was a little sweet tongue—so why wouldn't she praise him?!

In this kind of cold weather, Su Yi had broken out in a full sweat!

He couldn't explain it clearly—he couldn't very well tell them that Su Yu's sweet talk was found by her system, could he?

In the end, Su Yi could only fend off Guo Yingbai and Jing Ming with the excuse that young children needed coaxing. They hadn't been praised—maybe they just hadn't coaxed her well enough!

Xu Mo Yan and Xu Mo Bai, the brother and sister, had been praising Su Yu with "darling" this and "darling" that!

Aside from his precarious friendships, there was also his stern eldest brother waiting for him at home!

When Su Yi and Su Yu got home, Su Xi immediately put on a stern face and told Su Yi to come upstairs with him.

Su Yi shot Su Yu a look—the deal was, she'd take the blame for him later, and she'd help him deal with their eldest brother!

Su Yu scooted over and clung to his leg. "Uncle, I want to tell you something!"

"Speak!"

"It's about Auntie Lin Junzhi's family and the gossip the two uncles told…"

Su Yu recounted everything that had happened with Lin Junzhi today, and repeated word for word all the gossip that Guo Yingbai and Jing Ming had shared.

Su Yi was greatly shocked!

Was Su Yu's system really that handy? While she was sleeping, the system had actually recorded all of this!

Why hadn't the system bound itself to his brother? Binding his brother would clearly have been far better value!

After Su Xi finished listening, he gave an "Mm" and said, "Good girl, go eat!"

"Uncle, will you eat with me?"

Su Yu took Su Xi's hand and walked toward the dining room.

【Hmm, Uncle won't forget about punishing Dad. How can I get Uncle to drop that idea?】

Su Xi glanced at Su Yi, then walked forward guided by Su Yu's pull.

Su Yu ate earnestly; Su Yi was forced to stand as punishment.

Once Su Yu took Su Xi out for a walk, Su Yi finally felt relieved. This matter was considered past with his eldest brother—he wouldn't get beaten!

Ji Yan watched Su Yi wolfing down his food and sighed. "You want to take her to the shooting club? Wait until she's a bit older before bringing her there."

"I just mentioned it in passing. I originally wanted to take her skiing."

But it was a good thing they hadn't gone. At the time, snow had blocked the roads, there were quite a few people up there, and not many rooms available. A bunch of people crammed into a small space—how could that possibly be comfortable!

……

Time quietly slipped by. When the Su Clan gave another day off due to sandstorm weather, no employee dared to comply in public but defy in private anymore. Quite a few companies on good terms with the Su Clan, having tasted the sweet reward of talent pouring into their companies during hiring after the previous day off, followed the Su Clan's example and gave a paid day off to affected areas.

Su family manor

"Uncle, look—have I made progress?"

Su Yu held up the picture she had just finished drawing and handed it to Su Xi. Today was a day off; Su Xi was reading documents, and Su Yu was teaching herself to draw in Su Xi's study.

Su Xi looked at the bizarre, oddly shaped lines on the paper for the nth time and very earnestly asked for Su Yu's opinion: "Your martial arts teacher says you have quite a talent. Would you like to learn dancing on the side?"

Su Yu stared blankly at Su Xi. 【Wasn't I asking Uncle to look at my drawing? How did we jump to dancing?】

"But I've only been learning martial arts for a very short time!"

Hers wasn't a case of "fishing for three days and drying the nets for two"—after the novelty of martial arts wore off, the number of classes she attended could be counted on one hand. Could he really spot talent from that?

This chapter is one thousand words, four thousand in total—today's updates are done!

Good night, darlings~