Chapter 78: Sense of Superiority

  Gu Xiang didn't have as much feeling as her dad did, she just thought that men's clothing was also quite interesting.

  You say such a big store, but actually there are only a few styles going back and forth.

  Moreover, people who come here to buy clothes are also quite interesting, none of them try on clothes, they just buy and leave.

  Gu Xiang said to her dad: "You guys buying clothes is really simple, just grab and go."

  "Hey, look at this! You girls are so picky when buying things, trying them on one by one. See? My hands are almost full!"

  Gu Xiang couldn't help but laugh, "It's not that I want to buy it, you've been teasing me all along."

  The two of them chatted and laughed for a while, then Gu Xiang suddenly felt like someone was watching her. She turned around to look, and surprisingly saw Chai Zi Yu.

  Chai Zi Yu was out with his aunt and uncle when they strolled to this place, and from a distance, he saw someone who looked like Gu Xiang. He thought he must have seen wrongly.

  There are some gossips in the class, and Gu Xiang is also the first in grade for many years. Everything about her becomes a topic of conversation. Her parents' divorce, she herself didn't hide it, so many people know about it too.

  Gu Xiang saw Chai Zi Yu and calmly smiled at him. Her father asked her: "Do you know him?"

  Gu Xiang nodded, "My classmate."

  The kids all said hello, and the parents on both sides couldn't pretend they hadn't seen each other, so they took a couple of steps forward and exchanged greetings.

  Chai Zi Yu's aunt and uncle heard that he had met a classmate, who was also a girl. The other party was a pretty and delicate little girl, and they couldn't help but think more of it.

  But seeing how carefree and innocent the young girl is, I think I'm just being paranoid.

  Gu Xiang had called them "Uncle and Aunt", seeing that they looked quite young, she guessed that they should be the maternal aunt and uncle that Chai Zi Yu had mentioned last time.

  On the contrary, Chai Zi was quite nervous. In this situation where his parents were present, he really didn't know what to say to Gu Xiang. Should he tell her that her clothes looked good? That seemed strange too.

  The two parents got along well with each other.

  "I'm Chai Zi Yu's aunt. Oh what a coincidence, I can still meet you here tonight."

  Mr. Gu said: "It's quite a coincidence that our family's Gu Xiang rarely comes to my place, take her out to buy some things."

  "Alright, alright," said the old lady with a smile. "It's hard for kids to study all year round, so it's good that they can relax during winter and summer breaks. Your child did well on their exams, didn't they? They deserve a reward."

  Dad said: "The exam results are okay, but you still need to continue working hard."

  He just humbled himself a bit, and every time the semester-end exam results came out, Xia always called him immediately. He had long known that Gu Xiang was first in his grade.

  Chai Zi's aunt heard this and said, "The results are definitely something to be concerned about. Our family's Xiao Yu has also been slacking off recently, not just being in the top five, but used to always rank first or second."

  Although his aunt said something that was a step back, the meaning of her words was tinged with a sense of superiority. He thought his nephew was really smart, in the best class of the year, and ranked among the top five before the exam, wherever he looked, it was not bad. Moreover, looking at this little girl in front of him, she looked pretty and knew how to dress up, her family background should be good. So she classified Gu Xiang as a relation who entered Class 1 through the back door.

  As soon as Father Gu heard this, he refused to do it. He said: "Our family's Gu Xiang's grades are really not good, it's really worrying..."

  Just as Mr. Gu was about to start talking, Gu Xiang pulled him back. What's the matter with you? Are you going to quarrel with others? After all, she is a classmate's parent, and in the future, she will still have to meet Chai Zi Yu at school every day. If they really get into an unpleasant situation, won't they both be embarrassed to death?

  Father Gu looked at his daughter and didn't dare say anything more, so he reluctantly stopped talking.

  Gu Xiang came out to mediate and said: "Yes, our family is quite concerned about my studies. I'm not as smart as Chai Zi Yu Congming, what can I do?"

  Chai Zi's aunt watched her smile and talk, also very impressive, not like many girls of this age so coy, in fact quite liked her.

  The two families said a few more words and then went their separate ways.

  After separating, Gu Xiang said to her dad: "You scared me, I thought you were really going to quarrel with Chai Zi's aunt."

  Father Gu smiled and said, "Can I really quarrel with a girl? I just can't stand the way he is. What's wrong, my daughter still has an unwise face?"

  "What's wrong with that," Gu Xiang said, "it means I look good and don't resemble a bookworm."

  Gu's father laughed along with her.

  That head of Chai Zi is even more embarrassing.

  His aunt was originally a chatterbox, while his uncle was just the opposite, a man of few words.

  After the two groups parted ways, his aunt was still muttering to herself: "I said Xiao Yu, that classmate of yours has a pretty good personality. Quite impressive. It's just that he looks like he loves to dress up, I guess he doesn't study well?"

  "Chai Zi, stop making a scene already! I couldn't bear it anymore and said to her aunt: 'Alright, alright, Auntie, you just told our classmate who's ranked first that she didn't do well and needs to work harder. And then you even dragged her dad over to share some learning tips with him? I'm so embarrassed to death!'"

  Chai Zi's aunt also didn't expect it and blamed him: "Why didn't you tell me?"

  Chai Zi glared at him, "I've been giving you eye signals all along, my eyeballs are about to pop out, but I haven't seen you respond to me."

  His aunt also felt a bit embarrassed, "Then why didn't you just tell me directly?"

  "My uncle said, 'It's not your fault, Xiao Yu. When a girl sees her father about to get into a fight with you, she'll pull on his clothes and he'll understand. But when it comes to you... Alas, it's not that the enemy is too cunning, but rather our side is too foolish!'"

  In the end, Chai Zi and his uncle both enjoyed themselves together.

  Gu Xiang followed her dad out of the mall, and her dad asked if she was hungry and wanted to take her to a restaurant.

  When Gu Xiang was promoted to junior high school, her father just used KFC to entice her. Now it has escalated to going out for steak.

  Gu Xiang wasn't particularly fond of fast food, and since dinner that day was already oily, she didn't want to eat out anymore. She said it would be fine to just go home and whip up something simple.

  The two of them arrived home after nine o'clock, and their grandfather and grandmother were already asleep. Their stepmother was not at home.

  Gu Xiang took a bath, put on her nightgown and went to rummage through the refrigerator. There were dishes and raw meat inside, but since there was no leftover food, Gu Xiang heated up some dishes and gave up on the idea of having porridge with hot water.

  Her father also rushed out of the shower and saw her rummaging through the refrigerator, so he went over to take a look.

  "Why don't we go out and buy something to eat? Or what do you want to eat, I'll buy it for you." Mr. Gu said this because he couldn't cook at all. He could even burn noodles, let alone anything else.

  "Never mind, I can cook it all. Just tell me what you want to eat."

  Mr. Gu felt warm in his heart, although he could meet his daughter regularly over the years. However, every time Gu Xiang was with her grandmother, and the time she spent alone with him was very rare.

  "You go ahead and do what you want, I'm fine with anything."

  Gu Xiang went to find an apron and put it on, then took out a tomato from the refrigerator. Onions, sausage, eggs, and last night's leftover rice.

  The kitchen is well-equipped with ingredients and has better space and facilities than grandma's house, so she can show off her skills.

  She first diced the onion, tomato and sausage, beat the eggs, added a little water and a small amount of starch, then put oil in the pot, add all the chopped ingredients and stir-fry, then pour in rice, stir-fry until the rice grains are loose, add ketchup and salt, white pepper powder.

  After stir-frying, she scooped out the rice and poured in the egg liquid. She rotated the wok to make the egg liquid into an omelette. When it was almost set, she added the rice. Finally, folding the omelette in half, it was ready to be served.

  Gu Xiang quickly made two omelette rice and squeezed some ketchup on them, and it was done.

  Mr. Gu was also quite surprised to see how quick and agile Gu Xiang's hands and feet were.

  It seems like just a while ago at Guxiang Elementary School she didn't know how to do anything, but in the past two years she suddenly even learned how to cook, so I praised her nonstop.

  Gu Xiang was praised to the point of embarrassment, and could only say: "This is quite simple, easy to get started with. If it's too difficult, I won't be able to do it. Like grandpa and grandma, that's what it means to really know how to cook."

  Gu Xiang's egg fried rice was something she learned from watching Korean dramas in her past life, mainly to look impressive, but actually it didn't taste much different from tomato fried rice.

  Dad suddenly thought of something, "Isn't there still carrots in the fridge? Let's put them together next time."

  "I don't like eating carrots, and my mom never cooks them either."

  Father Gu was embarrassed, he really didn't know what his daughter liked or disliked to eat. These were all taken care of by Old Zhang before.

  Gu Xiang just said it casually and didn't take it to heart.

  There's a saying that goes like this: adults don't have picky eating habits. Why is that? Because when we grow up, no one will buy or make something they don't like to eat for us.

  The picky eating problem was solved so happily.

  When she was talking about this theory with her mom at that time, Mrs. Gu smiled and said to her: "You always think you're right. Where did you come up with so much nonsense."

  Thinking of her mom, Gu Xiang shouted "Oh no" and quickly put down the spoon to go into the room to call her mom.

  Gu's mother hadn't slept yet, waiting for Gu Xiang's phone call. She was also annoyed in her heart, this girl ran outside and played wildly, right? In the afternoon, she said she would wake up from her nap to make a phone call, but it's already past 10 o'clock, and there hasn't been a single ring!

  The phone had just rung for the second time when Mrs. Gu answered it.

  "Mom, you're still awake so late?" said Gu Xiang with a flushed face.

  "Mom Gu hummed, 'You're not sleeping either, what are you looking for me for.'"

  Gu Xiang continued and said with a smile: "I just came back from outside, slept dazedly in the afternoon, and forgot when I woke up."

  "Have you just come back? Where did you go again?" Madam Gu's attention was successfully diverted.

  "My dad took me out and bought two skirts. Mainly to go out and eat, didn't have enough dinner."

  "Your mom's attention was diverted again, 'How come you didn't eat enough for dinner? Why doesn't your dad let you finish eating?'"

  Gu Xiang pretended to be pitiful, "Right, it's not delicious. What you made is delicious."

  Mom Gu also heard it, but at this time she didn't get angry either. She just said: "Alright, I know. When you come back, I'll make delicious food for you. It's late, let's not talk about it anymore, go to sleep quickly. I heard Aunt Wang say that during your adolescence, staying up late can lead to hormonal imbalances and acne. You know what puberty is like? Even if it heals, it will leave a pit here and there, so ugly."

  Gu Xiang listened to her mother's nagging and smiled, saying: "I know, I'll go to bed soon. You should also sleep early, I heard that people of your age who stay up late will age faster and become ugly."

  Her mother laughed and scolded her a couple of times before hanging up the phone.