Village Belle is Trying to Cause Trouble Again Chapter 65
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 65: Milksop, We Are One Family
"I won't wait for you. Catch up with me. If you can't catch up, forget it."
"Alright."
Su Tao started running again, but her legs were short, and Xie Yuntang caught up with her in no time. His face was slightly flushed, and he looked a little happy. "Sister Taozi, I caught up with you."
Su Tao slowed down her pace, took a few deep breaths, and said to him, "It’s because I waited for you."
Xie Yuntang believed it and said sincerely, "Thank you, Sister Taozi. I’ll wait for you next time too."
……
They were talking about snow yesterday, and when Su Tao woke up that morning, she found snow on the ground. Snowflakes floated in the air, and everything was covered in white.
The cold wind blew in Su Tao’s face and made her shiver. She grabbed Xie Yuntang and ran to the school.
Before she sat down, she felt a sudden chill on her neck. She jumped twice and two balls of snow fell off her body. "Zheng Duoyin! You're dead!"
Instead of running away, Zheng Duoyin, that fool, raised his head and laughed. "Big Sister, is it cold? Hehe, Zhou Sheng was also fooled by me just now."
He looked so proud, which Su Tao thought was a sign of someone getting beaten. She turned around, grabbed Zheng Duoyin, and started beating him, while telling Xie Yuntang, "Milksop, go outside and get me some snow. Get more."
"Yuntang, no, don’t go..." Zheng Duoyin shouted while dodging.
However, Xie Yuntang only listened to Su Tao's words. He obediently left the classroom, and quickly came back after grabbing some snow. "Sister Taozi, here you go."
Su Tao took the snow. The biting cold made her grit her teeth. And then, she stuffed it behind Zheng Duoyin's neck.
Zheng Duoyin perked up and screamed, "Big Sister, I was wrong, I was wrong. Oh, it's so cold, so cold..."
"Oh... help! Big Sister, please."
"No way!" Zhou Sheng and the other children were laughing beside them. Xie Yuntang was also sitting there watching, with an expression that said "Sister Taozi was really awesome."
After Su Tao had dealt with Zheng Duoyin, she sat back and rubbed her hands. She was freezing.
Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of Milksop, who was smiling goofily beside her. She felt like bullying him.
She placed her hands on his face. "How warm."
Coldness struck Xie Yuntang, and he subconsciously shrank. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Zheng Duoyin who also wanted to place his cold hands on Sister Taozi's face. Xie Yuntang grabbed him without thinking and said anxiously, "No, Sister Taozi is cold."
"Yuntang, she isn’t cold, but thick-skinned." Zheng Duoyin giggled and wanted to pull back his hands to continue freezing Su Tao, but to no avail.
He exclaimed, "Yuntang, you're so strong!"
Thick-skinned...
Su Tao rolled her eyes at Zheng Duoyin in anger, then raised her hand and slapped him on the head. "Who's thick-skinned? Who's thick-skinned? You're dead today, Zheng Duoyin!"
"Ohhh... Big Sister, please be gentle. I was wrong, I was really wrong!" Zheng Duoyin hid behind Zhou Sheng, but Zhou Sheng quickly got up and moved away.
After a bit of commotion, the group quieted down. There was still some time before class started.
A boy in the first row turned around and said, "Zhou Sheng, let's make a bet to see who gets the greatest number of correct answers in today's dictation."
"What are you betting on?" Zhou Sheng shook the stool.
"Let's bet on food. I have eggs. What do you have?"
"Corn bread."
Children who went to school basically brought some food with them.
Betting on food?
Su Tao was interested, and she quickly interrupted, "I'll bet too. I have cakes."
"No, you’re good at studying, you’ll definitely win." Zhou Sheng wasn’t stupid. The teacher had been praising her.
Su Tao wanted to win some food for Lin Sanzhu and the others, so how could she not bet? She rolled her eyes and said, "No, I didn't even look at yesterday's work, so I'm sure I can’t write as well as you guys. If you don't want me to bet, forget it. Too bad you can’t have my cakes."
Zhou Sheng gulped at the mention of cakes. He looked at her again, hesitated for a moment and nodded. "Okay then."
It wasn’t fun with just a few people participating. They should increase the stakes. Su Tao shouted, "It’s no fun with just the few of us betting. Let's all join in..."
At this point, she looked at Xie Yuntang and quickly added, "Milksop, don’t join in the bet. You and I are from the same family, so one of us is enough."
Xie Yuntang was very good at studying. Even she felt inferior to him.
Xie Yuntang nodded obediently.
When others saw that there was fun, they all came over.
"I want to bet too. I want to bet too. I have rice balls."
"I have dough dumplings."
"I have pancakes."
……
When the teacher came in, he realized that the children were all studying. He was a little surprised and smiled. "This first snowfall is great. Memorize well. We’ll have a dictation later."
In response to him, there were sounds of reading that became louder and louder. Su Tao was preparing for the next lesson. She could write down what she had been taught before with her eyes closed.
When they were dictating, Su Tao was on guard against them copying, and sure enough, Zheng Duoyin and Zhou Sheng were craning their necks to look at Xie Yuntang.
She glanced at the teacher and saw him lowering his head to read. She touched Milksop and whispered, "Cover your work."
Xie Yuntang covered his work as he was told. Zhou Sheng became anxious and whispered, "Yuntang, let me see."
Xie Yuntang looked at Su Tao and saw her shaking her head, so he also shook his head. "No."
Zhou Sheng, "..."
……
After the teacher checked the dictations, he handed them out. "Many students have made progress this time, but only Su Tao and Xie Yuntang got all the answers correct."
Su Tao turned her head and smiled at Zhou Sheng and the others, warning them with a smile, "If you dare to renege on the bet, I’ll beat you to death."
Zhou Sheng, "..."
Zheng Duoyin, "..."
The two of them obediently handed her the food from under the table.
When school was over and the teacher left, Su Tao stood at the door and said, "Don't cheat. Don’t be sore losers."
"I'll beat up anyone who cheats." With that, she picked up the broom from the corner.
"Milksop, here, write down for me and see if anyone has reneged on the bet."
Xie Yuntang looked as if whatever she said was right and took out a pen and paper to write the names down.
There were quite a few people who wanted to cheat, but when they saw her attitude, they all gave the food to her obediently.
After collecting all the food, there was already a spread of food on Su Tao's clothes. She sighed in her heart. She was really shameless to have "snatched" food from the children.
She shouldn’t be blamed. Poverty made her lose her mind.
Just as she was about to deliver the food to Lin Sanzhu and the others, she saw Su Zhi standing outside the school when she went out.
His little face was frozen.
She tapped his head. "What are you doing here? Being an ice sculpture?"
"Sister, here you go."
Su Zhi took out a roasted potato from his sleeve. He sniffed and said, "It's delicious."
Su Tao didn’t expect him to have brought her food. She was stunned for a moment, and couldn’t really believe it. Then, she asked, "Are you really giving it to me?"
Seeing him nod, she tsked. She hadn’t given him food in vain.
Then she stuffed all the food she had just collected into his hands and said, "Take these home. Remember to share them with Dad and Mom."
"If you dare to eat all of them alone, you'll be dead!"
When Su Zhi saw so many delicious foods, his eyes widened. He sniffed, and said happily, "Sister, why did you snatch so many delicious foods?"
He was wrong in saying that she snatched them. She won them by winning in dictation. She couldn’t help but tap his head again. "I didn’t snatch these. I’ve never snatched other people’s food.”
"You did. You snatched Brother Yuntang’s food," Su Zhi said honestly.