Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts-Chapter 396 - 288. Xiao Xiao Loves Eating Alone_2

But who said a younger sister can’t occasionally prank her brother? A sly smile crossed Zhang Yiyi’s face, as she gently stretched out her index finger and thumb and pinched Xu Qingfan’s nose.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Completely unprepared, Xu Qingfan instantly woke up coughing. Since he wasn’t fully awake yet, he subconsciously thought it was Wanning pinching his nose again; he blurted out, "Stinky Wanning... Huh~ why is it you, Yiyi?"

"It’s not Wanning, it’s Yiyi!" She tilted her head and smiled sweetly.

"How come you’ve also started to pick up bad habits from Wanning? Where did the Yiyi who would only care about her brother go?" Xu Qingfan tapped the girl’s head mercilessly, producing a very loud knock, probably a good one.

"Wuu~ It’s already past two, and you’re still not up, you big lazy pig!" Zhang Yiyi clutched her head and acted coquettishly.

Really, pranking your brother like Lin Wanning and then acting cute and charming—it’s indeed refreshing!

Right now, Zhang Yiyi felt her heart was incredibly pleased; she thought if only her brother would pinch her cheeks like he did with Wanning, that would be even better.

"Didn’t realize you were also a little schemer." Xu Qingfan reached out and pinched the girl’s face, pulling her towards him.

Zhang Yiyi then took the opportunity to plunge into his arms, propping herself on the couch with her elbows, and stared at her brother.

"How come you still have eye boogers, didn’t you wash your face after getting up?" Xu Qingfan reached out and picked the dirt from the corner of her eyes.

Zhang Yiyi blinked reflexively, guessing it must have been because she had cried in her dreams, she thought; it’s all because of you, this bad brother, not needing Wanning and Yiyi.

Xu Qingfan stood up, placed the girl on the couch, and yawned, "Call mom to get up, I’m going to use the restroom."

"Okay!" Zhang Yiyi nodded eagerly, clearly in a very good mood.

In the bathroom’s dirty laundry area, there were clothes left by Zhang Chunxue. Xu Qingfan shook his head, muttering, "This auntie just doesn’t take care of herself."

If he had known earlier that there were still clothes to be washed, he wouldn’t have slept at noon; instead, he would have helped the auntie lighten her burden. But since they were now ready to leave, he naturally could only let it be.

This morning, when Xu Qingfan asked Zhang Yiyi if she wanted to buy a house near Dongshan to attend high school, he also thought of Zhang Chunxue—that if she studied here, he could help the auntie by washing clothes and cooking for her.

Zhang Chunxue might have maxed out her business talents, but in terms of life skills, she was clearly less competent than Zhang Yiyi.

For instance, Zhang Chunxue couldn’t cook. Every time the mother and daughter were home, they either ordered takeout or Zhang Yiyi cooked.

By the time he finished in the restroom, Zhang Chunxue had also changed her clothes and was sitting on the living room couch.

"Did you sleep well, Auntie?" Xu Qingfan casually made conversation.

"Quite well, and you, Xiao Fan, was the couch comfortable?" Zhang Chunxue nodded and then smiled, asking him.

"What do you think?" Xu Qingfan looked at her sidelong.

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"Hehe~ Who told you not to go sleep with Yiyi... Alright, alright, mom won’t say anymore." Seeing her daughter looking at her unhappily, Zhang Chunxue quickly changed her words.

"Let’s go!" Zhang Yiyi stepped forward, took Xu Qingfan and Zhang Chunxue’s hands, and pulled them out the door.

"Alright~"

...

In the afternoon, Xu Qingfan and Zhang Yiyi stayed at the company. Xu Qingfan tried to help Zhang Chunxue with the paperwork, while Zhang Yiyi quietly stayed in the corner drawing comics.

"Auntie~ I don’t want to work hard anymore. Is being the boss this exhausting?" Xu Qingfan managed for half the day, the desktop still piled like a mountain with documents, complained as he sprawled on the desk asking.

Zhang Chunxue pursed her lips and chuckled softly, "Of course not, I just handed you all the company’s files to deal with, many of which I usually don’t even look at."

Seeing Xu Qingfan’s you’re-playing-with-me-arent-you expression, she explained further, "Xiao Fan, you’re just starting, naturally you need to understand everything. Once you can create a mental outline of all the big and small affairs of the company, that would be getting started."

"Okay then~ work is so exhausting, Auntie, let me mooch off you, I don’t want to make an effort anymore!" Xu Qingfan flipped open the next document and continued to browse in despair.

The secretary watched the interaction between the two with a covered mouth, giggling discreetly, and did not dare to tease along.

"Of course... "

"Of course I can, right?" Before Zhang Chunxue could finish, Xu Qingfan excitedly interrupted her.

"Of course not," Zhang Chunxue frowned slightly and glared at him, "I’m still waiting for the day Xiao Fan grows up and takes over the reins. It’d be more like Auntie mooching off you!"

After finishing her sentence, Zhang Chunxue couldn’t help but laugh first, not expecting such words to come from her mouth.

"Hehe, Auntie is craving some rice too, Xiao Fan, you need to work hard," she said.

Zhang Yiyi looked up and watched the interaction between her mom and brother. She had been drawing and hadn’t been listening closely, but seeing the smiles on the faces of the people she cared about most made her very happy.

"Auntie, my cooking really does smell delicious. You see, what if..." Xu Qingfan said with an awkward smile.

Suddenly, Zhang Chunxue changed her tone and frowned as she scolded, "Focus on reviewing those documents and stop slacking off!"

"Auntie, you don’t love me anymore." Xu Qingfan had no choice but to bury his head back in work.

Once the young man was engrossed in his work again, Zhang Chunxue watched him and couldn’t help but laugh again.

[Pretty good.] She shifted her gaze back to the computer to handle her emails.

Around six in the evening, after dining at a high-end restaurant nearby, the three drove back to Li City.

Zhang Yiyi was looking down at her phone, a faint smile occasionally appearing on her face. Xu Qingfan tapped the girl’s shoulder and reminded, "Be careful of motion sickness."

"Got it, I’ll play when the traffic lights are red," said Zhang Yiyi as she reflexively turned off her phone screen, clearly not wanting Xu Qingfan to see what was on it.

"By the way, Auntie, if everyone placed bets based on my predictions, do you think those people could still make money?" he asked, redirecting his gaze and pondering.

"Those people? You mean the bookmakers or something?" Zhang Chunxue asked as her fingers tapped rhythmically to the car’s music.

"Yeah, the bookmakers, wouldn’t they lose money and then resort to assassination or something?"

"Pfft—you’ve been watching too many movies. What are you even talking about?" Zhang Chunxue couldn’t help but giggle uncontrollably.

Xu Qingfan and Zhang Yiyi were both baffled, waiting for her to continue.

"We’re buying welfare lottery here at home; the money won is basically taken from those who lose. There’s no assassination involved. The more you buy, the more they take for charity, right?"

Seeing Xu Qingfan about to speak, she added, "I know what you’re going to say, about abroad, right? Xiao Fan, aren’t you overestimating your influence? By the time your post goes viral abroad, the World Cup would probably have been over for ages."

Xu Qingfan thought about it and realized it made sense. After all, if he saw a post domestically claiming a foreign netizen predicted the game results with a 100% win rate, his first thought would also be that the person was a scammer.

Then, once the prediction came true, he’d regretfully say, "If only I had followed the bet back then."

"Alright, it seems I was overthinking it."

"Silly Xiao Fan."

"Right, right, right, Auntie is the smartest, Auntie is brilliant!"

"Are you insulting me again?" Zhang Chunxue couldn’t understand what "brilliant" meant but felt it wasn’t anything good.

"Not at all, ’brilliant’ means big and smart!"

"Which ’big’ are you talking about?" Zhang Chunxue asked with a sinister tone.

"That’s definitely... definitely... the sea is full of water; a spider... eight legs," Xu Qingfan stammered, starting to talk nonsense.

"Mom is a big hero, the ’big’ in big hero!" Zhang Yiyi scolded her brother and said.

"Then Yiyi is the little cotton-padded jacket, Mom’s little cotton-padded jacket."

"Brother is a big villain, the ’big’ in big villain!"

"Hehe, right, Xiao Fan is a big villain!"

"Ah right, right, I am the big villain, and you guys are big beauties, the ’big’ in big beauties!"

"Hahaha..."

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