Chapter 21: You Don’t Understand Anything!
Just as she was thinking, she saw that person take out a small knife from their purse. It seemed they had also noticed that dealing with this middle-aged woman was much easier than dealing with the person behind them who was hitting him with an iron plate. Without a second thought, they charged towards Nie Aifang.
Nie Qiu saw the cold glint reflected from the street shops and streetlights onto the man and cried out in fear, “Mom, move! He has a knife!”
Nie Aifang was startled, but the man was already upon her. Nie Aifang froze, unable to move.
Suddenly, a leg shot out from Nie Aifang’s left side. The man with the knife was instantly kicked to the ground. The hand holding the iron box was cut by his other hand holding the knife, and he wailed on the ground.
Nie Qiu rushed forward, grabbed the man’s collar, and rained punches down on him. “I’ll let you rob! I’ll let you carry a knife! I’ll let you eat without paying! I’ll let you dare to hurt my mom! I’ll let you die!” The terrifying scene had made Nie Qiu lose control. Nie Aifang, this woman, might not have had much family affection in her heart, but they were connected by blood. She also particularly enjoyed the moments Nie Aifang treated her. The scene of this person charging at Nie Aifang with a knife had impacted her too greatly; she had to vent, she had to!
“You dare to rob my family’s money, you dare to charge at my mom with a knife! Do you want to die? Do you want to die?” Honestly, this was Nie Qiu’s first time in her thirty-eight years of life being so agitated, so extreme, so… violent.
In her previous life, she never encountered bullying. In her previous life, she never encountered robbery. In her previous life, no one would dare to harm the people she cared about, because the only person she cared about was no pushover either.
Zhang Haiyang was stunned. “This person… could this person be… Nie Qiu?” Was he drunk? Why did he see Nie Qiu beating someone? With every punch, hearing the man’s pig-like wails, it hurt him just to watch.
Nie Aifang stepped forward and grabbed Nie Qiu’s arm that was holding the man’s collar. The man under Nie Qiu’s grasp was already bruised and swollen. She couldn’t help but say, “Qiu Qiu, that’s enough, Qiu Qiu, stop hitting him! Stop hitting him! You’ll kill him if you keep going!”
Nie Qiu listened to Nie Aifang and let go of the man. The man immediately fell to the ground. Once he recovered, he quickly hobbled away without looking back. Seeing the man’s retreating back, Nie Qiu couldn’t help but shout, “Damn it, stop right there.”
The man didn’t even slow down. Only a fool would stop!
Nie Aifang picked up the iron box from the ground. Perhaps she had put it down to block Nie Qiu’s punches. She opened the iron box and couldn’t help but laugh. Fortunately, not a single cent was missing.
Nie Qiu didn’t chase after the man either. She just looked at Nie Aifang worriedly, grabbing her arms. “Mom, are you okay? How are you? Did he hurt you just now?”
Seeing Nie Qiu’s expression and thinking about Nie Qiu’s behavior just now, Nie Aifang knew that the scene of the man drawing his knife and charging at her had scared Nie Qiu. She couldn’t help but comfort her, “I’m fine, I’m fine, Qiu Qiu, don’t worry. What about you? Are you hurt?”
Nie Qiu shook her head, just looking Nie Aifang up and down. She would hide her head injury to avoid worrying Nie Aifang, but would Nie Aifang hide her injuries to avoid worrying her? “Are you really not hurt anywhere? Mom, don’t hide it from me!”
Li Kai and Luo Xu hid the surprise in their eyes and exchanged a glance. As for Zhang Haiyang and Wang Chao Lei, hearing Nie Aifang ask Nie Qiu if she was injured, both felt an urge to roll their eyes. Injured? That was a one-sided beating just now, wasn’t it? They had never heard of a perpetrator getting injured.
Nie Aifang shook her head seriously. “Don’t worry, I’m really not hurt. Someone saved me just now.” As she spoke, Nie Aifang looked in the direction where Li Kai and the others were standing. “I remember that person was wearing black sneakers.”
Nie Qiu suddenly remembered that the person who had tried to rob them had fallen to the ground screaming. So… that meant Nie Aifang was truly unharmed?
Black sneakers. Nie Qiu looked at the feet on the ground and found the owner of the black sneakers. Looking up, she saw, “You?” Her deskmate?
Li Kai shrugged. “Nie Qiu, I didn’t expect to see you here.”
Nie Aifang was a little surprised and looked at Nie Qiu, asking, “Qiu Qiu, do you know each other?”
Nie Qiu nodded and smiled. “Mom, we’re classmates at the same school. This person is my deskmate.”
Deskmate? Nie Aifang took a step back and forced a smile. “Student, thank you for saving me.”
Nie Qiu saw Nie Aifang’s actions and expression and was a little confused. However, she could imagine that the previous Nie Qiu and her deskmate had not gotten along well, otherwise, why would Nie Aifang smile so reluctantly? Logically, when facing someone who had saved her, even if Nie Aifang was unreasonable, she wouldn’t be so impolite.
Li Kai shook his head and glanced at Nie Qiu. “If you want to thank me, Nie Qiu, bring some of your family’s pan-fried dumplings tomorrow.” Seeing Nie Qiu nod, Li Kai frowned and said to the stunned crowd around him, “Hey, let’s go.”
The few boys snapped back to reality and followed Li Kai’s footsteps. Zhang Haiyang caught up to Li Kai and shouted, “A Kai, you really want to eat something made by that person? She’s so dirty, can you eat it? Hey, A Kai!” Seeing Li Kai’s footsteps quicken, Zhang Haiyang hurried to catch up.
Li Kai stopped. Zhang Haiyang, unable to brake in time, bumped into Li Kai. Li Kai said helplessly, “Didn’t you guys say you wanted to eat pan-fried dumplings just now? What’s wrong? Don’t you want to anymore?”
Zhang Haiyang, being shorter than Li Kai, his neck hit Li Kai’s shoulder and back. He gasped in pain, pinching his nose. Seeing Zhang Haiyang unable to speak, Wang Chao Lei smiled at Li Kai and said, “Yangzi is just curious! The food from this kind of place shouldn’t be good. A Kai, are you sure you want to eat it? You know how dirty Nie Qiu used to be.”
Zhang Haiyang recovered and nodded in agreement. “Yeah, yeah! Thinking about how Nie Qiu used to be, A Kai, can you eat it?”
Li Kai thought about it and found it a bit hard to accept. His Adam’s apple bobbed, and he suppressed the urge to vomit, glaring at Zhang Haiyang. “You also said it was ‘used to be.’ Now she’s much cleaner, isn’t she?”
Zhang Haiyang frowned. Although she was much cleaner and brighter than before, he still thought about the few shiny pimples on Nie Qiu’s forehead and wondered if the food she made could be good.
It seemed impossible, didn’t it? Were the people who said her cooking was good hired actors?
Author’s Note:
The promised extra chapter was 58 votes as of last night, and it’s now 81 votes.
There will be an extra chapter tomorrow as well!
