Si Mo glanced at the little fox whose fox ears were drooping. He got up to greet Xie Xinxin. "Miss Xie, if you're not in a hurry, would you like to come inside and take a seat? My boss is currently seeing an earlier customer. It won't take long."
"Sure, I'm not in a hurry. My mom came with me, but she felt shy to come in. I'll go out and pick her up first." With that, Xie Xinxin turned around.
Before she took a few steps outside, she heard an obnoxious "Sister Xie".
She clenched her fists, trying to control the urge to walk over and punch that little bastard. She pretended to be confused and glanced back at Chu Chuan. "Sorry, sir, I don't know you."
After saying that, without waiting for Chu Chuan to say anything else, she went out to pick up her mom.
Si Mo wanted to follow her out, but he was worried that Chu Chuan might go crazy and do something to the little fox. So he had to stand at the door, showing his warm welcome to the proper customers as much as possible.
"Since the master has other customers, I won't bother the master anymore." Chu Chuan stood up, with the corners of his mouth slightly curving up.
The person who had been full of loneliness and unwillingness just now seemed to have seen some interesting little toy. There was an uncontrollable excited smile in his eyes. "The master may not know that Sister Xie Xinxin has a very good relationship with my elder brother."
"Oh." Rong Lan responded indifferently, not believing Chu Chuan's nonsense.
Judging from the 200,000 yuan that Xie Xinxin transferred to her last time, Xie Xinxin's family was quite well - off. It was very likely that she was in the same circle as the Chu and Bai families. It was normal for kids in the same social circle to know each other, but knowing each other might just mean saying hello when they met.
With Chu Chuan's personality... it wouldn't be like Chu Chuan if he didn't turn the acquaintance into an ambiguous relationship.
"You don't believe me again." Chu Chuan sighed regretfully. "But it doesn't matter. He can't hide it from you forever. You'll know later."
Rong Lan impatiently slapped the table. "It's time for you to go! You're affecting my business. Do you believe I'll teach you a lesson!" Chu Chuan annoyed her so much that she didn't even want to wait for her cultivation to recover. She wished she could buy a sack tonight and beat Chu Chuan up like she did to Xie Feng.
Just before Rong Lan got up to beat him, Chu Chuan turned around and left, with a strange smile on his face.
Watching Chu Chuan leave their fortune - telling shop and seeing that Xie Xinxin hadn't come back yet, Si Mo walked to the wooden table, propped his hands on the table, and said seriously, "Little fox, I know you don't believe what Chu Chuan said, but there's one thing I think I need to tell you truthfully, lest Chu Chuan brainwashes you too much and you really believe his words."
Rong Lan tilted her head. "Huh?"
From Si Mo's perspective, he could see the little fox's ears twitching. It was extremely cute. "The sob story that Chu Chuan told you just now was artistically crafted by him. In fact, from childhood to adulthood, Chu Chuan has always used his identity as a weakling to gain the trust of his classmates, making them alienate your elder brother and look down on him. Instead of saying that he lived in the shadow of your elder brother, it's more accurate to say that he used people's sympathy for the weak to force the whole world to be against your elder brother."
Of course, Chu Chuan's little tricks only worked in primary and junior high schools, because only kids with immature minds would believe his full - of - loopholes lies. But the fact that it only worked in primary and junior high schools was already quite scary, because it meant that in the wonderful school days, Chu Hengyuan was always targeted and surrounded by all kinds of rumors like "bullying his younger brother".
Chu Hengyuan was the kind of person who was too lazy to argue with Chu Chuan. In Chu Hengyuan's eyes, Chu Chuan was just a clown, but Chu Chuan took pleasure in targeting Chu Hengyuan.
"Weakling?" The little fox's ears twitched again.
Si Mo nodded. "Yes, a weakling. You can't imagine how shameless Chu Chuan is. What he tells people who don't know the situation is always like this - his mother was with the head of the Chu family after the head's first wife passed away. She's not a mistress. But because of her status, the Chu family is unwilling to recognize his mother or him. Isn't that a weakling?"
Rong Lan frowned in disgust. "Such a young age and already telling such lies. He's really..."
Before Rong Lan could find a suitable adjective to describe Chu Chuan's character, Xie Xinxin and her mother walked in arm in arm.
Si Mo immediately stood up straight and made an elegant "please" gesture with his body. "Please take your seats, ladies."
Rong Lan blinked her eyes, sat up straight, assumed her master's demeanor, and put on a polite smile.
The way they treated proper customers was completely different from the way they treated uninvited guests.
Xie Xinxin helped the elegantly and expensively dressed woman sit on the wooden chair and waved to Rong Lan. "I'm here to bring my mom today. The place is hard to find, and I was afraid she'd get lost. I'll go out and window - shop first. Master, please talk to my mom. I won't get in the way."
Si Mo, who had already taken out two water cups, silently put one cup back.
After Xie Xinxin said that, she waved goodbye to Rong Lan and left the fortune - telling shop.
Si Mo poured a cup of hot tea for the seemingly fidgety woman and placed it beside her hand.
Rong Lan always felt that the causal line on this well - dressed woman looked very familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen this causal line for a moment. So she had to put the feeling of familiarity aside for the time being.
She cleared her throat and was about to speak when the woman grabbed her hand.
Rong Lan: "???" The little fox was so scared that the fur on her tail fluffed up.
Si Mo secretly let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this human didn't grab him. Otherwise, he would have lost his temper and walked off the job on the spot.
"Hello, master. I'm Xinxin's mother. My name is Chen Hong." She politely introduced herself first, but didn't let go of Rong Lan's little paw. "How did the master figure out that Xinxin and Xiaofeng are not siblings?"
Rong Lan shivered all over. She could accept being held or hugged by people she was close to, but being held so tightly by a stranger made her goosebumps rise uncontrollably. "... If I can't even figure this out, I wouldn't have the nerve to be a fortune - teller. Moreover, I can also figure out that Ms. Chen Hong, you're not Xiaofeng's biological mother..."
The first thing she analyzed when she saw Chen Hong, besides the feeling of familiarity, was the causal line on Chen Hong. The causal line on Chen Hong told her that, just as she had guessed, Xie Feng was not from the Xie family.
"Master!" Chen Hong's eyes were full of tears as she stubbornly held Rong Lan's hand. "I'd like to ask the master to do a fortune - telling for me!"
Rong Lan was stunned. It was the first time she had seen someone cry in just one second. Should she say that Chen Hong really deserved to be a good actress who had won the three major awards? Her tears really came at will.