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Chapter 22 Bad Guys
They were eight years old that year, and the two of them would turn from rivals who didn't like each other into brothers who fought against the board together.

The autumn leaves rolled with the wind and fell in front of Xie Yuan's eyes. She reached out and grabbed the yellow maple leaves between her fingertips.

The movement of raising her hand made her butt hurt, she couldn't help but groaned, and then moved to make herself more comfortable.

Opposite the pillar, Shen Liuzhen didn't move his head, as if he was asleep, he didn't even know that the maple leaf fell on his head.

Xie Yuan cursed in his heart that Shen Liuzhen was like a tortoise most of the time, he would not move as long as he could, but he was very clever when he used conspiracy and tricks.

Xie Yuan played with the leaves and asked, "Liu Zhen, when I saw you for the first time, why would you rather be beaten than run away? It's unimaginable to be so lazy..."

Shen Liuzhen still didn't move, but glanced over vaguely: "Didn't I tell you that as long as I endure the beating, I don't need to practice martial arts and I won't be beaten. If I compromise once, I will practice martial arts every day and get beaten every day." ...Of course it's worthwhile to bear it..."

"As for what? Is martial arts so terrible? It's better than being beaten..." Xie Yuan rested his chin with his hands and muttered while looking at his hair.

"I'm lazy, I don't want to move, I just want to do it once and for all..."

Xie Yuan asked again: "Then why are you so bad? Who did you learn to be so insidious?"

Shen Liuzhen, who had been lying on his stomach, was obviously stiff. He was silent for a long time, then sat on the railing with his legs crossed, grinning his teeth, hugging the pillar that separated them, and said to Xie Yuan aggrievedly:

"A Yuan... I was miserable when I was a child."

Xie Yuan tried his best to look up with a pair of red phoenix eyes, and his eye sockets were visible under his eyebrows.Seeing Shen Liuzhen pulling his face exaggeratedly, she opened her mouth in surprise.

Shen Liuzhen saw that her appearance was more naive and silly than her usual appearance of a rather powerful little adult, so she became more energetic:
"When I was three years old, my father was not at home, so the mother-in-law who took care of me brought her own child here, let her son sleep on my bed, use my things, and eat my food.

She gave her son all the good things, and then lied to me that my bed was windy and I was easy to catch cold.She said my clothes were too big and I couldn't wear them, so she changed them into suitable ones, and then let me wear coarse cloth and her son wore satin.The chicken legs in the meal were also given to her son, who said that the chicken legs were not tasty, and asked me to eat more vegetables to grow taller.

She thought I didn't remember things, and I wouldn't sue when my father came back, so she bullied me hard..."

It was the first time Xie Yuan heard Shen Liuzhen say that, and he was even more shocked when he saw that the dimples on his cheeks had been wronged by pulling his face.

Then I heard Shen Liuzhen continue to say: "When my father comes back, I will sue my father for not believing me, saying that I can remember nothing at a young age, nonsense. He believes that the woman is an adult, and he heard her speak sincerely and gently, so he doesn't believe me .

I naturally learned from her later.

She stole my mother's mirror and said I lost it.I no longer directly complained to my father that it was my mother-in-law who stole the mirror, but pretended not to understand: my mother-in-law liked that mirror very much and used it to comb her hair every day.

In this way, my father will wonder if she stole it, instead of suspecting that what I said is a lie...

A Yuan, do you think I am miserable? "Shen Liuzhen said pitifully holding the pillar.

Xie Yuan was too tired to look up, so he turned over and stood up, looked at him and said, "It's quite miserable..."

"Hmm... Do you think I'm a bad person?" Shen Liuzhen asked Xie Yuan with his face raised, looking at her expectantly.

Xie Yuan looked into his round eyes and said, "A miserable villain..."

Shen Liuzhen drooped the corners of his mouth speechlessly, and said, "Then you are a good person? If you are a good person, why do people in the Xie family say they get headaches when they see you?"

Xie Yuan raised his eyes and thought for a while, then said: "I really didn't do anything, at most I was pestering them from morning to night, they disliked me and made trouble. Later, after I practiced martial arts with Master, I didn't have time to talk to them."

"Then you are not just making a fuss..." the servant who was cleaning the yard suddenly said.

Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen turned their faces away, and saw her standing there holding a broom, pursing her lips and saying:

"At the beginning, the servant suffered a lot. As soon as I swept the land, you scattered all the leaves. After I swept the land, you scattered them again. You are the master, we can't beat you, and you can't scold you. Yes, I can only keep sweeping. You don’t feel tired playing with the leaves, but I was almost exhausted that day..."

Shen Liuzhen was happy to hear that, and asked, "Why did she do that?"

"Then the young gentleman of the Shen family has to ask her, how do I know..." the servant who swept the floor murmured, and then went on to sweep the floor.

"I just thought it was fun... I just played it once!" Xie Yuan defended himself, and shouted at the servant's back.

Shen Liuzhen laughed happily, and said: "I also heard that the person who was in charge of fetching water for your family offended you for some reason, and you threw stones into the water tank that was already full, causing people to I had to change all the water, just like you, do you still have the nerve to say that I am not a good person?"

Unmoved, Xie Yuan sneered and said, "Even if I'm not a good person, it doesn't affect that you are not a good person."

"Then you have no right to call me bad in the future..."

"Bad guy." Xie Yuan added stubbornly, Danfeng's eyes were full of disdain, she turned around and limped away.

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In the spring of another year, a nest of swallows built a nest under the corridor of Xie's house.Xie Yuan would take a long detour every day, running over to look for a while, if nothing happened, he would stay where he was, and he was more dedicated than that mother swallow.

Shen Liuzhen couldn't stand it anymore, and asked her, "Do you want to dig out the bird's nest?"

Xie Yuan frowned, moved his eyes away from the swallow's nest, stared at Shen Liuzhen and said angrily: "What kind of bird's nest should I dig out? The swallow and a few children are staying together, what do I do with it?" Do you want to pay?"

Shen Liuzhen frowned and said, "You don't want to run here every day to see what, morning classes are going to be late."

The sky was dim, and the two children stood in the blue sky, looking up at the little swallows under the eaves, chirping with their mouths open.

Shen Liuzhen couldn't help but yawned...

"What if it is eaten by a wild cat, I have to help watch more." Xie Yuan said worriedly.

Shen Liuzhen yawned as big as a little swallow, and before he could close his mouth, Xie Yuan next to him suddenly flew out.

He was startled, and when he took a closer look, he saw that Xie Yuan was holding an ugly monster with no hair on it, and it fell to the ground.

"You still said you didn't want to pick it up, what is this?!" Shen Liuzhen said excitedly.

"It fell from the top and I picked it up!" Xie Yuan said unhappily, holding it carefully with both hands, for fear that he would accidentally be pinched to death...

(End of this chapter)