SM Chapter 56

“Which persuasion are you talking about?”…

Sitting with a good friend, basking in the sun, Xu Ting felt this was truly delightful, much more interesting than going to a beauty salon. Especially seeing the Zhu Shihao sisters joking around, plus Jia Jia reading and replying randomly, it was simply a joy.

Thinking this, she couldn’t help but cast an approving glance at Tan Zhi Xu.

Unfortunately, Tan Zhi Xu was busy peeling an orange for Zhu Shihao and didn’t receive the praise. Xu Ting didn’t mind, but nodded her chin in satisfaction.

Putting aside other things, her son was quite good at taking care of people.

They had dinner together, a simple hotpot.

While the adults ate hotpot, Jia Jia naturally had the hotpot restaurant’s version: egg fried rice.

However, she was already too crazy from playing today, her entire spirit was excited and unable to extricate itself. Not to mention eating by herself, she wouldn’t even cooperate with Zhu Suiyi feeding her, making Zhu Suiyi glare.

She didn’t endure it for too long, raising her palm and gesturing in front of her eyes, Zhu Suiyi threatened in a fierce voice, “See this? What is it?”

Looking around at the people present, Jia Jia was very confident, raising her head and rolling her eyes: “If you’re not going to hit me, don’t wave it around, you’ll make me dizzy.”

Zhu Suiyi choked: “…”

Zhu Shihao sat on her other side, unable to help but laugh at her sister’s frustrated breathing.

A little too much, Zhu Suiyi glared at her.

Seeing that she had glared at her but didn’t say a word and turned back, Zhu Shihao had a hunch that something was up. Sure enough, the next second she saw her sister, like a wolf in grandma’s clothing, feigning a kind smile as she persuaded.

“Are you going to eat? If you don’t, I’ll feed it to the dog.”

After saying that, Zhu Suiyi stretched the spoon in front of Zhu Shihao’s mouth.

Zhu Shihao: “…”

She knew it, Zhu Suiyi was really incredibly childish!

Liu Ruoyin, who witnessed this scene, was extremely speechless, but Xu Ting next to her was laughing non-stop: “Suiyi is still so interesting.”

Liu Ruoyin glared at her eldest daughter: “How come eating for thirty years hasn’t matured you.”

More than that, Zhu Suiyi was just as childish as she was twenty years ago. Hearing this, she “tsk”ed, loosened her spoon and put it in her eye, pressed her index finger under her eye and shook her head to Liu Ruoyin’s side while sticking her tongue out.

That made Liu Ruoyin only feel that her palm was itching and she wanted to hit her child.

Zhu Shihao looked at her with disdain: “Jia Jia learned to roll her eyes from you, you’re always making weird gestures.”

Zhu Suiyi pouted, turned her head and asked Jia Jia: “Speak.”

Jia Jia held her little face, her expression serious: “Mommy can do it, Jia Jia can’t, if I do it, I won’t have any snacks.”

I’m impressed, she really mastered the secret, she gave Zhu Suiyi a thumbs up.

Zhu Suiyi glanced at her, picked up a spoon and scooped a mouthful of rice, extending it to Jia Jia’s mouth, the words in her mouth correcting her.

“Rolling her eyes isn’t all from me, her essence is clearly from the same path as you, don’t believe me, ask Zhi Xu.”

Utter nonsense, she didn’t roll her eyes that much.

Disbelieving in her heart, her actions were honest as she looked at Tan Zhi Xu on her left-hand side, not uttering a word, but the meaning expressed in her eyes was extremely clear.

Tan Zhi Xu curled his lips and nodded slightly, the sound of his fingertips tapping on the table seemed to have an equal interval, his brow exuded a sense of casualness.

“Yes, a little.”

Zhu Shihao couldn’t believe it: “Everyone rolls their eyes like that, how did she learn it from me?”

Zhu Suiyi also couldn’t quite explain it, she simply confirmed again: “Anyway, it’s like you.”

This, Tan Zhi Xu actually knew the reason, and there was factual basis.

Remembering when she was little, she followed the TV and asked him if she looked like her, the curve of his lips deepened a little more.

The tapping of his finger stopped, Tan Zhi Xu looked at her, waiting for her reaction: “Did you forget, you had a teacher, Lin Daiyu.”

The memories of childhood began to assail her, Zhu Shihao similarly remembered those scenes, unconsciously widening her eyes.

At that time, Tan Zhi Xu didn’t have such a strong sense of indifference. Although he was quiet, he was very gentle and patient with Zhu Shihao, and would correct her little by little, explaining the details to her.

“Don’t roll your eyeballs up that much.”

“This process has to be a little slower.”

One seriously learned, one seriously instructed.

Zhu Suiyi’s focus was always different, she whirled around, widening her eyes in the same way, with an expression that said, “How could you do this?”: “There was a tutorial and you didn’t tell me? You actually secretly learned behind my back!”

Squeezing her brows, eyes, and nose, Zhu Yingqing earnestly said: “Tell you to do what, Suiyi, be a little aware of yourself, can Lin Daiyu’s expression even appear on your face?”

Where do you have even the slightest bit of Lin Daiyu’s demeanor, completely inappropriate, your grandmother will give you a bump on the head with the Dream of the Red Chamber if she sees it.

Eating hotpot was indeed lively, after dinner, the group of people came out of the restaurant and walked slowly toward the intersection.

Jia Jia looked at her left and right hands: “Mommy, where’s my toy?”

Zhu Shihao opened her mouth, coaxing her: “The dog took it away, if you drink your milk super fast tonight, we’ll ask the dog to send it back.”

Five-year-old Jia Jia wasn’t easy to fool anymore.

Her features were scrunched up in a ball, not quite believing it: “I didn’t see the dog.”

Zhu Shihao wanted to continue teasing her, but was interrupted by Zhu Suiyi next to her.

Glancing at her husband behind them, who was talking to Tan Zhi Xu, Zhu Suiyi said sincerely: “You seem to be swearing at someone.”

The two sisters looked at each other, and simultaneously turned their heads to look at the toy in Yu Jianmin’s hand.

Zhu Shihao swallowed back the words, her face unchanged: “Yeah, you’re right, Auntie saw wrong.”

In her ear was Zhu Suiyi’s “tsk tsk” sound, she simply pretended not to hear it.

Zhu Shihao took a taxi to the Wetland Park, which meant that there were only two people here who could drive, one was Yu Jianmin, and the other was Tan Zhi Xu.

Turning her head to look at the team, Zhu Suiyi didn’t hesitate to chase Zhu Shihao away: “There’s no room for you, you’re abandoned, either take a taxi or hitch a ride in Zhi Xu’s car.”

Xu Ting also readily agreed: “Let Zhi Xu take you, why take a taxi!”

To this result, Tan Zhi Xu just nodded faintly without speaking, but in his heart he was extremely agreeable and mostly delighted.

The two sat in the back row, Xu Ting looked at the road, feeling that something was wrong: “Why not send Shihao first? Ruili should be closer.”

Zhu Shihao didn’t say anything, but her heart beat faster, she didn’t need to think to know what Tan Zhi Xu was planning.

However, driver Tan was not at all guilty, and didn’t even offer a proper reason: “Because old people need to sleep earlier.”

Xu Ting gritted her teeth: “…”

Very good, she didn’t want to talk to him anymore, she simply clenched her fists tightly.

Zhu Shihao glanced at him, speechless and also very admiring.

Tan Zhi Xu really knew how to deal with Xu Ting, just a sentence that didn’t even count as an explanation, an extremely perfunctory word could block Xu Ting’s mouth and unfocused thoughts.

When getting out of the car, Xu Ting said goodbye to Zhu Shihao in a soft voice, then slammed the door forcefully, glaring at Tan Zhi Xu from outside the car window, and turned to leave.

The person who was glared at had no psychological burden at all.

The car got back on the road, but after a short distance, it stopped again by the roadside.

Meeting his gaze as he turned his head, Zhu Shihao was puzzled: “Huh? What’s wrong?”

“Come to the front.”

He raised his chin toward the right, the meaning was obvious.

Zhu Shihao smiled, and obediently switched to the passenger seat. After she refastened her seatbelt, he turned on the light and joined the traffic.

“So, where are you planning to take me now?”

“Back to Huating.”

Only the two of them were in the huge villa, the empty house still seemed deserted. Zhu Shihao pulled up the collar of her clothes and buried her head to sniff, a wave of hotpot smell entered her nose.

“No, I have to take a shower immediately.”

Saying that, she first went to wash her hands, went inside to turn on the water, and then took the pajamas placed by the bedside.

Tan Zhi Xu glanced at her, watching her re-enter the inner room, he didn’t say anything as the sound of water and rustling came from inside.

Then he went directly inside.

Zhu Shihao was already lying in the bathtub. Hearing the slight sliding sound of the frosted glass sliding door, she reflexively raised her head and unconsciously covered her chest and closed her legs defensively.

“What are you doing?”

Tan Zhi Xu closed the door unhurriedly and walked toward her, his hands moving non-stop.

“Can’t you tell?”

Zhu Shihao paused, trying to refuse: “Go downstairs, or wait for me to finish showering.”

“I refuse.” His clothes fell to the ground as he let go, his movements not stopping, “I’m determined to take a Mandarin Duck pot bath with you, it goes well with today.”

Mandarin Duck pot…

Hearing this term, Zhu Shihao choked.

“Complaining it’s hot, but still wanting to suffer.”

Zhu Shihao expressed that she didn’t understand his masochistic behavior, and besides, don’t say it like he wouldn’t take a bath if he didn’t eat hotpot.

Tan Zhi Xu smiled, and the last piece of clothing also fell: “The water temperature is a little high, but it’s not too much of a torment, after all, the gains are still very rich and fragrant.”

No one answered.

At this moment, Zhu Shihao’s attention was completely immersed in the beautiful and strong male body, she was still a little shy in her heart, but since he dared to show it, she naturally dared to look at it openly, and besides, she had already seen it so many times.

Her eyes swept over the clothes all the way, from the outside to the inside, deeply feeling that he was doing it on purpose, deliberately stripping off in a suggestive way.

He stepped into the water, the calm surface was stirred, creating ripples around him, the ripples spread, hitting her chest and then slowly returning to calm, then dissipating.

“Beautiful?”

Zhu Shihao tilted her head, feeling that her calm heart was also rippling, tickling her.

She objectively and subjectively assessed: “Nice body?”

Tan Zhi Xu half-lay down beside her, tugging at his lips: “Just nice? If it’s just nice, then I can’t persuade you.”

Zhu Shihao consciously snuggled into his arms: “Which persuasion are you talking about?”

Seeing his skin turning red before her eyes, she was still curious: “Is it really that hot?”

He lowered his eyes and glanced at the discoloring skin, actually, it was okay, it wasn’t that exaggerated.

“It’s bearable.”

Zhu Shihao nodded as if understanding something, the word “bearable” was already very clear.

“Then you’re sacrificing a lot for the benefits.”

Tan Zhi Xu pulled up the corners of his lips, kissing her on the top of her head: “It’s as it should be, adding a little heat while cooking dishes is also as it should be.”

Ever since the two of them first seriously and simply wanted to take a bath together, Tan Zhi Xu renamed this Mandarin Duck bath entertainment activity as Mandarin Duck Pot.

But even so, someone still insisted on not giving up, and didn’t even suggest lowering the temperature a little.

Tan Zhi Xu’s answer to this was, it was painful and joyful.

As time entered November, the sky clearly felt colder day by day.

Zhu Suiyi had asked her to go shopping on Sunday, saying she wanted to relax. The two agreed to meet in Jinxi, but this time it wasn’t zero yuan shopping, it was real shopping.

Seeing that she was alone, Zhu Shihao was very surprised: “Where’s Jia Jia?”

“Are you serious, sis?” Zhu Suiyi made an extremely exaggerated expression, “Taking a child is called relaxing? That’s called overtime, okay! I left her with her dad, if I’m going to be so useless, I might as well be divorced and a single mom.”

Saying that, her expression became solemn: “No, single is single, who needs a kid.”

Being hooked and pulled into the place, Zhu Shihao said helplessly: “Saying it is enough, there’s no more chance, don’t say these words in front of Jia Jia.”

Curling her lips, Zhu Suiyi “tsk”ed: “Nonsense, do I need you to tell me?”

The two sisters had similar interests in shopping, but Zhu Suiyi usually worked and took care of the child, and even on weekends, it was rare for her to want to exert this much energy. Plus, online shopping was very convenient, she hadn’t gone to a physical store in so long.

Sure enough, staying cooped up for too long will make you crazy, after this shopping trip, Zhu Shihao completely conceded defeat to her interest.

After shopping in Jinxi, they prepared to go eat.

Zhu Suiyi thought for a moment, preparing to change the map.

Zhu Shihao was silent for a moment: “Are you planning to continue shopping after dinner tonight?”

Hearing this, turning her head to look at her in surprise and confusion, Zhu Suiyi asked her with an exaggerated expression: “No way, no way, little weakling, you can’t shop anymore, can you?”

Zhu Shihao: “…”

Since you already called me a little weakling, why are you still asking me?

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