Chapter 25: 24. A First in All Creation (Monthly votes, please keep following)
“You two secretly read the essay I wrote while I wasn’t here?”
Zhang Luo was shocked.
“No, no—we didn’t secretly read it!” Xu Da immediately shook his head in denial. “It fell out of your drawer, and then it opened by itself. We didn’t even finish reading it, just a little bit at the front.”
As he spoke, he kept shooting Zhou Hengyu meaningful looks.
Zhou Hengyu rolled his eyes.
“Xu Da was the one secretly reading it. I caught him, his hand shook, and it fell on the floor,” Zhou Hengyu instantly exposed him.
Zhang Luo: “…”
Xu Da: “Damn it, Fatty, where’s your sense of loyalty?”
Zhou Hengyu: “It’s not like I did anything guilty.”
Zhang Luo: “…So you two think that article I wrote was about myself?”
“Wasn’t it?” Xu Da asked back. After asking, he earnestly put an arm around Zhang Luo’s neck. “Seriously, Zhang Luo, don’t be embarrassed. Since your brothers already know, we’ll absolutely keep it secret for you.”
Zhang Luo was so angry he laughed.
“Give me a break.”
Speechless, Zhang Luo said, “That was a story I wrote, not my own story. My parents are both alive and well.”
“What the heck? A story?” Xu Da looked utterly incredulous.
Zhou Hengyu: “You write fiction?”
“Just trying it out,” Zhang Luo said. “I swear, you guys…”
Zhang Luo asked Zhou Hengyu in return, “Didn’t I tell you yesterday that I was going to my mom’s place to eat?”
Zhou Hengyu looked like he wanted to say something, but stopped.
Xu Da immediately exposed him: “He thought you were deliberately creating an image of a happy family.”
Zhou Hengyu, flustered and furious, lunged at Xu Da.
“I never said that!”
Zhang Luo: “…Forget it.”
He suddenly felt drained.
“So after all that, you guys thought my background was especially pitiful, huh?”
“…” Zhou Hengyu and Xu Da looked at each other.
“I’m done,” Zhang Luo said. “How about you two come with me? I’ll let you meet my mom. Lest you still think… I’m lying and creating an image of a happy family.”
Zhou Hengyu’s face instantly turned red.
“I really never said that!”
“I know, I know.” Zhang Luo waved a hand. “Let’s go.”
In the end, Zhou Hengyu and Xu Da really did follow him.
Zhang Luo: “Then do you want to just eat at my mom’s place too?”
“No need.” Xu Da shook his head. “If my mom found out she worked so hard to make dinner, only for me to eat outside, she’d definitely break my legs.”
Zhou Hengyu also said, “No need. My family’s waiting for me to go back and eat too.”
“Both your families are waiting for you to go home for dinner, but you don’t go home right after school?”
“If I go home right away, there’s no food to eat anyway,” Xu Da said. “They won’t get home until after six either.”
Zhang Luo: “Oh.”
“Right, you said you’re going to your mom’s place to eat… Are your parents divorced?” Xu Da asked again.
Zhang Luo: “…My parents have a great relationship. They’re not divorced. I said I was going to my mom’s place to eat because my mom contracted a cafeteria, and she doesn’t have time to come home at night to cook for me.”
“Ohhhhhhh.” Xu Da used a rooster-like crow to cover up his embarrassment.
Zhou Hengyu: “Unbelievable.”
Zhang Luo: “If I weren’t riding a bike right now, I’d definitely beat him up.”
Zhou Hengyu: “I support you.”
This time Xu Da didn’t talk back. He just grinned foolishly and behaved himself.
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When Liang Fengying saw Zhang Luo arrive at the cafeteria entrance with two classmates, and then specifically insist on calling her out for the two of them to see, for that instant, Liang Fengying was somewhat stunned and at a loss.
Bringing classmates over was already a first in all creation for Zhang Luo.
But in the end, Zhang Luo even insisted that she come out so his two classmates could look at her?
“How is it? I wasn’t wrong, was I? Isn’t my mom prettier than Teacher Xu?” Zhang Luo pointed at his mother and said with a face full of pride.