Reborn as a Weak Beauty Pampered by All

Chapter 1464: Chapter 1248_4

Seeing this, Old Master Gao naturally carried his precious granddaughter back to the living room.

"Little Moonlight, what’s wrong?"

Elder Xi asked the little girl.

"Grandpa Xi, Little Moonlight wants to play with Brother Chenyu!" Gao Xinyue said while hiccupping from crying. "But Brother Chenyu won’t play with Little Moonlight, he says he doesn’t like Little Moonlight, why?"

Hearing what the little girl said, Elder Xi really didn’t know what to say.

Adults have the right to like or dislike someone, and so do children. He couldn’t very well, just because of what the little girl said, demand that his own precious grandson wrong himself and accommodate the Gao Family’s little girl and play with her.

His brow creased ever so slightly. In the end, Elder Xi still discussed it with Xi Chenyu: "Little Yu, Little Moonlight likes playing with you. How about you take her and your younger brother to play for a bit?"

Xi Chenyu said nothing, only looked at Elder Xi with a blank expression.

"It’s not such a big deal, don’t make things hard on Little Yu." Old Master Gao had already seen Elder Xi frown, and now seeing Xi Chenyu’s expressionless face locked with Elder Xi’s, yet not saying a word, he knew that if this went on, it would inevitably make it look like their Little Moonlight was too spoiled at home and had caused a rift between Elder Xi and Xi Chenyu, this grandfather and grandson.

"Wuu wuu... Brother Chenyu is bad, bad. He even plays with that silly kid, so how come he doesn’t like me and won’t play with me?"

As soon as Gao Xinyue’s tear-choked words came out, the entire living room instantly fell so silent you could hear a pin drop.

"Little Moonlight, you..."

Old Master Gao felt his face burning, especially with Hu Dongting right there. For a moment he was unbearably embarrassed, yet he had no choice but to apologize to Hu Dongting: "Old Hu, I’m sorry, it’s our Little Moonlight who doesn’t understand things. Here, I’ll..."

Before Old Master Gao could go on, the coldness on Hu Dongting’s face had already eased back to normal. He waved his hand. "It’s nothing. Everyone in the compound knows about my Xiaochuan’s situation. Your Little Moonlight wasn’t wrong."

Though he said that, there was no question Hu Dongting felt far from pleased inside.

His son Hu Chuan hadn’t been born that way; everyone in the compound knew his son’s situation. But on the surface, no one had yet, right in front of him, called his son a fool, or said that his grandson was the child of a fool.

And for the Gao Family’s little girl to talk like that, eight or nine times out of ten she must have heard it from her elders at home.

Knowing that Hu Dongting was most likely feeling upset, Old Master Gao couldn’t help scolding his precious granddaughter a couple of times. The next moment, the little girl opened her throat and wailed, "Grandpa is bad, grandpa is mean to Little Moonlight, I want to go home, I want to tell grandma and have grandma hit grandpa, wuu wuu... I want to go home..."

Slapping at Old Master Gao’s shoulder, Gao Xinyue struggled in her grandpa’s arms, crying and shouting that she wanted to go home.

"Sorry about this, you two keep chatting. This child is making my head ache. I’ll take her home right away."

Saying this to Elder Xi and Hu Dongting, Old Master Gao turned and left the living room with his little granddaughter in his arms.

"Children don’t understand these things, don’t take it too much to heart."

Elder Xi set up the chessboard and casually said this to Hu Dongting.

"Would I? It’s just something a child said. Besides, it’s not like you don’t know about my Xiaochuan’s condition; he... his brain really isn’t good."

Hearing this, Hu Dongting immediately laughed. "That won’t do. I’m definitely going to live to hold my great-grandson in my arms!" As the words left his mouth, he felt the resentment that had welled up because of the Gao girl vanish in an instant.

Elder Xi said, "That’s a fine idea, but you’ll have to put in some real effort. You need to exercise more in your daily life."

Hu Dongting said, "That’s true, but all these years I haven’t slacked off on exercise." He ran in the mornings, and even when it rained or snowed, he would jog in place at home for a while and then go through a set of forms.

In short, the body is the capital of the revolution, and with his son’s situation sitting right there, he had to live longer, so naturally he had to pay extra attention to his own health.

Elder Xi smiled at this, then called to Hu Dongting to start a battle on the Chessboard Mountain.

They played three games in a row, and in every one, Hu Dongting lost to Elder Xi. He was not convinced, but his chess skills really weren’t as good as the other man’s. Helpless, seeing the clock hand about to reach nine, he got up to say goodbye to Elder Xi and the rest of the Xi Family, picked up his little grandson, and went back to his own home.

"Little Yu."

At this point, there were only Elder Xi and Xi Chenyu, one old and one young, left in the living room. Just as Elder Xi called out to Xi Chenyu, however, Xi Guobang walked in from outside—the man had just gotten off work and come home.

"What’s going on?"

Seeing Xi Chenyu standing stiff-faced in front of the old man, Xi Guobang took off his peaked cap and casually put it on the sofa. He glanced at his father, then at his younger son, and couldn’t help a flicker of doubt in his dark eyes.

"Your Uncle Gao brought Little Moonlight over to play after dinner. I don’t know what was going on with Little Yu, but he made the little girl cry. Then, when she saw Little Yu only playing with Hanghang, she shot off her mouth and offended your Uncle Hu. Anyway, after what happened tonight, there’s an eight out of ten chance there’ll be a rift between the Hu Family and the Gao Family."

He said this without any other intention. In his view, it was indeed the Gao Family’s little girl who was in the wrong tonight, and as for why the girl would say such a thing, anyone would think it couldn’t be separated from the adults at home.

If Hu Dongting had no thoughts about it at all, that would be a bit too big-hearted.

The reason being:

If it were him, even if his son’s brain had problems, even if everyone in the compound knew this fact, gossiping behind his back and directly, to his face, calling his son a fool were two different things. For a father, this would absolutely be infuriating.

"How exactly did Uncle Gao’s Little Moonlight offend Uncle Hu?"

Xi Guobang was a little curious.

"The little girl saw that our Little Yu wouldn’t play with her. She lost her temper and kept crying and carrying on, saying Little Yu even plays with the son of a fool, so why doesn’t he like her and won’t play with her. Your Uncle Hu heard every single word right there on the spot."

At this point, Elder Xi shifted his gaze to his grandson. "Now you can talk, can’t you? Why don’t you like Little Moonlight? Why don’t you like playing with Little Moonlight?"

Xi Chenyu said expressionlessly, "No reason." He just didn’t like her. If he had to come up with a reason, then it could only be that she didn’t please his eye.

"Heh, you kid’s got quite a personality!" Xi Guobang chuckled, his eyes teasing. "Then tell me, who do you like playing with?"

Hearing this, Xi Chenyu pressed his lips together and said nothing.

Seeing that, Xi Guobang deliberately put on a thoughtful expression. "Could it be you like playing with Aunt Kang’s Guoguo?" Holding back a laugh, he watched Xi Chenyu’s expression.

Elder Xi knew his son was teasing his grandson, but still glared at Xi Guobang. Xi Guobang pretended not to see and said to Xi Chenyu, "Looks like I was wrong. You don’t like Aunt Kang’s Guoguo, and you don’t like playing with Little Sister Guoguo either..."

Before he could finish, Xi Chenyu spoke up: "No." Ignoring the teasing in Xi Guobang’s eyes, Xi Chenyu’s face was solemn and serious. "I don’t dislike playing with Little Sister Guoguo."

Xi Guobang let out an "oh." Rubbing his chin, he said, "Answering that fast, looks like you really do like Aunt Kang’s Guoguo. But even so, you still can’t say hurtful things to Little Moonlight. Xi Chenyu, do you understand what I mean?"

"I didn’t. I just told her I don’t like playing with her. That’s my freedom. I don’t think I’m wrong." As his slightly childish voice, still edged with a bit of stubbornness, fell, a woman’s voice came from the stairs: "Little Yu is right. Liking or not liking to play with someone is your freedom."

The owner of this voice was Xi Chenyu’s mother, that is, Xi Guobang’s wife, Xu Dan.

The woman wore her hair in a neat short cut, and the heroic air between her brows and eyes was impossible to hide. At a glance, you could tell she was the straightforward, decisive type.

This, it had to be said, had to do with her profession: she was a soldier.