Chapter 22 Bad Guys

When they were eight years old that year, the two of them would go from being enemies that they disliked each other to becoming brothers who would fight together.

The autumn leaves rolled up in the wind and fell in front of Xie Yuan's eyes. She reached out and caught the yellow maple leaves between her fingertips.

The movement of raising her hands hurt her buttocks, and she couldn't help but groan, and then moved to make herself more comfortable.

Opposite the pillar, Shen Liuzhen's head didn't move, as if he was asleep. He didn't even know the maple leaf fell on his head.

Xie Yuan cursed in his heart, Shen Liuzhen was like a tortoise most of the time, he could not move as much as he could, but when it came to plotting, he was very clever.

Xie Yuan played with the leaves and asked: "Liu Zhen, when I first saw you, why did you rather get beaten than run away? It's unimaginable to be so lazy..."

Shen Liuzhen still didn't move, but glanced over with a vague voice: "Didn't I tell you, as long as I can endure the beating, I won't have to practice martial arts and I won't be beaten. If I compromise once, I will practice martial arts every day. Being beaten every day... of course it's a good deal to endure it..."

"As for what? Is practicing martial arts so scary? It's better than getting beaten..." Xie Yuan put his chin on his hands, looked at his hair and muttered.

"I'm lazy and don't want to move. I just want to settle down once and for all..."

Xie Yuan asked again: "Then why are you so bad? Who did you learn to be so insidious from?"

Shen Liuzhen, who had been lying down, was obviously stiff. He was silent for a long time, then sat on the railing with his legs crossed and grinned, hugging the pillar that separated them, and said aggrievedly to Xie Yuan:

"A Yuan... I was miserable when I was a child."

Xie Yuan's phoenix eyes looked up hard, and the eye sockets were visible under her eyebrows. When she saw Shen Liuzhen holding his face with an exaggerated expression, she opened her mouth in surprise.

Shen Liuzhen saw that she looked more silly than her usual appearance of a powerful little adult, so he became even more excited:

"When I was three years old, my father was not at home, so the mother-in-law who took care of me brought her own child over and let her son sleep on my bed, use my things, and eat my food.

She gave her son all the good things, and then she lied to me and said that my bed was windy and I could catch a cold easily. She said that my clothes were too big for me to wear, so she changed me into a suitable one, and then asked me to wear coarse cloth. Her son was wearing a silk dress. She also gave her son the chicken legs in the rice, saying that the chicken drumsticks were not delicious and told me to eat more vegetables so that I could grow taller.

She thought I didn’t remember things and I wouldn’t complain when my father came back, so she bullied me hard..."

It was the first time Xie Yuan heard Shen Liuzhen say this, and he was even more shocked when he saw him scratching his face and the dimples on his cheeks were made of grievance.

Shen Liuzhen continued to say: "When my father came back, he still didn't believe me when I complained. He said that I was young and could not remember anything. It was nonsense. He believed that the woman was an adult, and he heard her speak sincerely and gently, so he didn't Believe me.

I naturally learned from her later on.

She stole my mother's mirror, but said I lost it. I no longer complained directly to my father that it was my mother-in-law who stole the mirror. Instead, I pretended not to understand and said: My mother-in-law likes that mirror very much and takes it every day. Use it to comb your hair.

This way my dad will wonder if she stole it instead of suspecting that what I told is a lie...

Ayuan, do you think I'm miserable?" Shen Liuzhen said pitifully, hugging the pillar.

Xie Yuan was too tired to look up, so he turned over and stood up, looked at him and said, "It's quite miserable..."

"Well... do you think I'm a bad person?" Shen Liuzhen asked Xie Yuan with his face raised, looking at her expectantly.

Xie Yuan looked at his round eyes and said, "What a miserable bad guy..."

Shen Liuzhen drooped the corners of his mouth speechlessly and said, "Then you are a good person? If you are a good person, why do the people in the Xie family say they have a headache when they see you?"

Xie Yuan raised his eyes and thought for a while, then said: "I really didn't do anything. At most, I pestered them from morning to night. They disliked my making trouble. Later, after I practiced martial arts with my master, I had no time to deal with them."

"Then you are no ordinary noisy..." the slave who was cleaning the yard suddenly said.

Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen turned around and saw her standing there holding a broom, curling her lips and saying:

"My slave has suffered a lot back then. As soon as I swept a piece of ground, you scattered all the leaves. After I swept the ground, you scattered them again. You are the master. We can't beat or scold you. Yes, I can only keep sweeping. You can scatter leaves and play without feeling tired. I was almost exhausted that day..."

Shen Liuzhen was happy to hear this and asked: "Why did she do this?"

"Then the young master of the Shen family must ask her, how do I know..." The servant sweeping the floor murmured, and then continued to sweep the floor.

"I just thought it was fun... I just played it once!" Xie Yuan defended himself and shouted at the slave's back.

Shen Liuzhen laughed happily and said: "I also heard that the person who was responsible for fetching water for your family once offended you for some reason. As a result, you threw stones into the water tank that was already full, causing harm to the family. I had to change the water, but you still have the nerve to say that I'm not a good person?"

Xie Yuan was unmoved and sneered and said, "Even if I'm not a good person, it doesn't affect you not being a good person."

"Then you have no right to call me bad in the future..."

"Bad guy." Xie Yuan added stubbornly. Danfeng's eyes were full of disdain, he turned around and limped away.

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In the spring of another year, a nest of swallows built a nest under the corridor of Xie's house. Xie Yuan would take a long detour every day and run there to take a look. If nothing happened, he would stay there, which was better than that. Mother swallows are dedicated.

Shen Liuzhen couldn't stand it anymore and asked her: "Do you want to dig out the bird's nest?"

Xie Yuan frowned, moved his eyes away from the swallow's nest, glared at Shen Liuzhen and said angrily: "What kind of bird's nest should I dig out? The swallows stay together with a few children, I'll get them down What are you doing? Do you want to pay?"

Shen Liuzhen frowned and said, "Don't you want to go here every day to see what you are doing? You will be late for your morning classes."

The sky was dim, and two children stood in the blue sky, looking up at the little swallows under the eaves, chirping with their big mouths open.

Shen Liuzhen couldn't help but yawn...

"What if a wild cat eats it? I have to help keep an eye on it." Xie Yuan said worriedly.

Shen Liuzhen yawned as loudly as a little swallow. Before he could close his mouth, he saw Xie Yuan next to him suddenly fly out.

He was startled, and when he looked closely, he saw that Xie Yuan was holding an ugly monster with no hair on it, and it fell to the ground.

"You still said you didn't want to pay, what is this?!" Shen Liuzhen said excitedly.

"I caught this after it fell from above!" Xie Yuan said unhappily, holding it carefully with both hands, for fear that he might accidentally crush it to death...
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