Chapter 17: The Vicious Aunt Is Beautiful When She’s Not Fierce
Zhan Zhan and Momo glanced at Jiang Yuan, and asked cautiously, “Is it really okay?”
The child’s clear, ignorant eyes were filled with timidity, with a hint of hope hidden within.
Jiang Yuan nodded seriously, “Of course it’s okay.”
Hearing the vicious aunt’s answer, Zhan Zhan and Momo’s eyes instantly brightened, and they happily huddled together to discuss.
“Mom, Auntie, can my sister and I eat coconut chicken?” Zhan Zhan, acting as the representative, looked up with his small head, his childish face full of expectation, “Because the soup in coconut chicken is so delicious!”
“Yes, let’s go eat coconut chicken then.” Jiang Yuan’s lips curved upward, and looking at the child’s rosy cheeks, she suddenly wanted to pinch them.
She reached out her hand towards Zhan Zhan, but the child thought she was going to hit him, and he quickly retreated in fear, hiding behind Jiang Die.
Jiang Yuan’s hand froze in mid-air.
“Zhan Zhan, why are you hiding?” Jiang Die looked at her son’s reaction, her brow furrowed slightly.
Zhan Zhan looked up, timidly looking at his mother and aunt, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to…”
Jiang Yuan’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and she felt a bit sad.
She pressed her lips together and said with a light laugh, “It’s okay, I’ll check which coconut chicken hot pot is better now.”
After finishing the coconut chicken hot pot, Jiang Yuan suggested going to play the claw machine.
Jiang Die was worried about wasting money and initially disagreed, but seeing Zhan Zhan and Momo’s excited expressions, she didn’t say anything.
While playing the claw machine, Momo’s attention was attracted by a puppy in a pet cage nearby.
Seeing this, Jiang Die exhorted her not to run around.
Momo obediently agreed.
Zhan Zhan was playing the claw machine for the first time and was full of enthusiasm for the game. His eyes, like black grapes, stared intently.
“Zhan Zhan, you try it.” Jiang Yuan handed him two game tokens.
Looking at the game tokens in his aunt’s hand, although Zhan Zhan really wanted to play, he dared not reach out to take them, “I, I probably can’t catch a doll.”
He was afraid that if he couldn’t catch a doll, his aunt would scold him.
“It’s okay.” Jiang Yuan placed the game tokens in his hand, “I can’t catch them either.”
Zhan Zhan hesitated for a moment and then asked in a low voice, “Then will you hit me and scold me?”
Jiang Yuan: “…”
She squatted in front of the little one, her expression solemn, “Zhan Zhan, I guarantee that I will never hit you or your sister again.”
The child’s eyes widened, his mouth slightly agape in surprise, his eyes full of shock.
“R-really?”
Jiang Yuan nodded, her face serious, “Really.”
Although she was very sure, Zhan Zhan didn’t dare to fully believe her.
Adults were very good at deceiving people.
Zhan Zhan gripped the two game tokens tightly and turned to call his sister to play together, only to find that his sister was playing with a puppy with another child.
“You go first.” Jiang Yuan saw the little one’s thoughts, “I have a lot of game tokens here, and there will be more if Momo wants to play later.”
Zhan Zhan then felt relieved. His small hands held the game tokens and inserted them, controlling the joystick of the claw machine and pressing the button.
The claw loosely hooked the Ultraman doll’s arm.
Zhan Zhan’s gaze suddenly lit up, and his fair, tender face was filled with excited joy.
But in the next second, the claw suddenly loosened, and the Ultraman doll fell back.
Zhan Zhan’s raised eyebrows and eyes drooped in disappointment, and he pursed his small lips sadly.
“It’s okay, try again.” Jiang Yuan inserted another coin.
Zhan Zhan turned to look at her and called out softly, “Auntie…”
A gentle smile appeared in Jiang Yuan’s eyes, “Cheer up.”
The child’s expression was blank, his fair cheeks instantly flushed red, and he stammered, “I, I will cheer up.”
Zhan Zhan suddenly discovered that the vicious aunt was actually very beautiful when she wasn’t fierce.
With Jiang Yuan’s repeated coin insertions and encouragement, Zhan Zhan finally caught his favorite Ultraman doll, his childish eyebrows and eyes full of excitement and surprise.
“Auntie, look, I caught it!” He raised the doll high, sharing his joy.
Jiang Yuan hooked her lips, and her heart suddenly softened to an unbearable degree, “You’re amazing.”
She reached out her hand to ruffle his small head, but then suddenly retracted it midway.
Unexpectedly, in the next moment, that fluffy little head leaned over.
Jiang Yuan froze in place.
Zhan Zhan looked up at her, his small face flushed, “Auntie, did you want to touch my head?”
“Yes, is that okay?”
He nodded obediently.
Jiang Yuan’s hand trembled slightly, and slowly landed on the child’s soft crown.
A child’s hair is truly fine and soft.
Jiang Yuan suddenly had a perverted thought of rubbing her cheek against it.
But this thought had just surfaced when it was interrupted by a childish cry.
“Momo, what’s wrong?” Jiang Die squatted beside Momo, looking at her slightly reddened left cheek, worried and distressed, “What happened?”
Momo’s little face was covered in tears, her eyes shimmering with tearful grievance, her small mouth pouting, she choked out, “Mom, she said I’m a bad child.”
“You are a bad child! You bullied my puppy!” A girl with two pigtails pointed fiercely at Momo, “You even made my puppy bleed!”
“I didn’t!” Momo shook her head vigorously, “I didn’t hit the puppy!”
At this moment, a chubby boy with curly hair spoke, “You’re lying! We all saw you make the puppy bleed! You’re so bad!”
Other children chimed in, accusing Momo of bullying the puppy.
Being wronged by so many people, Momo was extremely sad, and tears rolled down like pearls from a broken string.
“Mom, I really didn’t.” She looked at Jiang Die for help, “Mom, do you believe Momo, okay?”
“We definitely believe Momo.” Jiang Yuan walked over with Zhan Zhan.
Hearing this, Momo stared blankly at Jiang Yuan, even forgetting to cry.
Auntie actually believed her!
Jiang Yuan gently stroked her little head and comforted her softly, “Momo is a good child, not a bad child at all.”
Zhan Zhan nodded like a pecking chicken, “Auntie is right!”
The commotion alerted the parents dining in the restaurant not far away.
After listening to her child’s words, a middle-aged woman with wine-red long hair, wearing a fur coat and a bloated figure, said arrogantly, “Your child injured my pet dog, so an apology and compensation are essential.”
The middle-aged woman sized up Jiang Die and Jiang Yuan’s clothing and appearance, a hint of disdain flashing in her eyes, “My pet dog is not cheap, I’m really afraid you can’t afford to compensate.”
At this moment, another slightly younger short-haired woman said, “Sister-in-law, even if they can’t afford it, they have to pay!”
Jiang Die looked at the two women and frowned, “My daughter said she didn’t bully your dog.”
“Heh.” The middle-aged woman sneered, “Just because your daughter says she didn’t, doesn’t mean she didn’t? Then explain to me, how did my pet dog get injured and bleed?”
Jiang Die: “Then let’s check the surveillance footage to clarify.”
The mall manager rushed to the scene and, after checking the surveillance, discovered that unfortunately, the spot where the children were playing happened to be a blind spot for the cameras.
“Hurry up and pay, I don’t have time to waste with poor people like you.” The middle-aged woman’s attitude was arrogant, and she even rolled her eyes at Jiang Die.
“You’re unreasonable.” Jiang Die’s eye sockets turned red with anger.
“Sis, let me.” Jiang Yuan rolled up her sleeves and walked up to the middle-aged woman.
