Uncle Xu heard the underlying meaning in Third Uncle Xu's words and quickly spoke up for Xu An'an. "Third Brother, you can't talk like that. An'an and Yiyi are such well - behaved kids. For them to be throwing tantrums like this, it must be that your Xu Luo said something unpleasant."
"Come here, An'an. Uncle will carry you. Tell Uncle what happened."
Uncle Xu quickly picked up Xu An'an and comforted her. Strangely enough, once in Uncle's arms, Xu An'an immediately calmed down a lot.
She pointed her fair little finger at Xu Luo and accused, "Second Aunt wanted to take the things from our home to school and said she'd let others see them.
"But these are our family's things. Why should we take them to school? Mommy said the things at home are very expensive. Usually, Brother and I are very careful, afraid of breaking them.
"What if there are some irresponsible kids at school and they break our things if Second Aunt takes them there?
"Wuwuwu, An'an doesn't want our family's things to be taken away."
Uncle Xu finally understood.
It turned out that Xu Luo had asked Xu Qingqing to borrow things to show at school.
Uncle Xu looked at Third Uncle Xu. "Don't you even have a decent antique collection at home? Does your daughter have to come to the Second Brother's house to borrow things?"
Third Uncle Xu also felt embarrassed. He grabbed Xu Luo. "What's wrong with you, you naughty girl? I brought you to your Second Uncle's house to strengthen our family bond. But what do you do? You just ask others for things."
Xu Luo felt very wronged.
But after being scolded by Third Uncle Xu, she had to lower her head and apologize. "Sorry, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have made such an unreasonable request."
At this time, Xu's mother and the two aunts came over to smooth things over.
"Okay, okay. It's just a little squabble between the kids. Let's all come and have dinner."
As dish after dish was served on the table, Xu An'an and Xu Yiyi were immediately distracted and forgot about their previous unhappiness.
Third Uncle Xu winked at Xu Luo.
Reluctantly, Xu Luo picked up a piece of meat and put it into Xu Qingqing's bowl. "Cousin, have some meat. Consider this my apology for what happened before."
Xu Qingqing smiled. "It's okay. It's just a small thing."
The meal was quite harmonious, and Xu Luo didn't mention asking Xu Qingqing to contact a tutor again.
When the two families were leaving, Xu Qingqing's family saw them off at the villa gate.
In the car of Xu Luo's family.
As soon as she got in the car, Xu Luo's expression changed.
"Dad, what do you mean? Didn't you say that the Second Uncle's family is easy to talk to? As long as we came today, it would be easy for me to get Xu Qingqing to contact a tutor for me.
"But now, that Xu Qingqing managed to absolve herself with just a few words. When I said I wanted to borrow something from their family to display at school, their kids started crying and making a fuss.
"Is this the so - called genius praised by the experts?
"When did the threshold for genius become so low!"
Third Uncle Xu was also unhappy. He didn't achieve his goal and even got into trouble.
"Alright. Since Xu Qingqing is of no use, we'll think of other ways. Besides, with my daughter's grades, even without pulling strings, she can easily get into graduate school."
Xu Luo sighed helplessly. "Dad, our major is different from others. Among those who can make it to the end, which one doesn't have some connections?
"Which truly poor students would choose archaeology as their major? They would all choose more practical majors that can earn them money after graduation.
"It seems there's no hope for me to rely on this cousin. I'll just rely on myself."
Xu Luo's words made sense. Third Uncle Xu pondered for a moment. "I'll ask around for you."
While idly scrolling through her phone in the car, Xu Luo found that some people in their major's group had posted photos of the copying competition venue.
In those photos, she saw the figure of Wang Pan from the same school.
Then Xu Luo searched for information about Wang Pan online and also found out about the incident where Wang Pan had questioned Xu Qingqing.
Immediately, an idea came to Xu Luo's mind. She asked for Wang Pan's phone number and called her.
"Hello, who is this?"
Wang Pan was already in a bad mood. Seeing an unknown number, she had no patience and spoke in a bad tone.
Xu Luo smiled slightly, showing a gentle and polite manner. "Well, I'm Xu Qingqing's cousin. I saw that you also participated in that copying competition. It seems you lost to my cousin, right?"
Hearing Xu Luo's words, Wang Pan almost hung up the phone. She asked unhappily, "What do you mean by calling me? Are you trying to humiliate me and say that your cousin is so great and I, an outsider, don't deserve to compete with your Xu family?"
From Wang Pan's words, Xu Luo verified her initial guess. This Wang Pan indeed harbored resentment towards Xu Qingqing.
She sneered inwardly. Xu Qingqing, since you don't choose to help me, don't blame me for doing something that will affect your reputation.
"Oh, it's like this. I happen to know something about my cousin. Do you want me to tell you? Because I think you're quite talented. You're just lacking some practical experience compared to my cousin."
Hearing this, Wang Pan sensed something was wrong and thought about Xu Luo's words.
After realizing what was going on, she said sarcastically, "What do you mean? Aren't you Xu Qingqing's cousin? Are you going to expose your cousin's secrets in front of me, an outsider?
"Hehe, your Xu family sure knows how to play. It really lives up to being a big family, engaging in internal strife."
Xu Luo didn't expect that just by opening her mouth, Wang Pan had guessed her intention.
"Wang Pan, actually you're my junior. The reason you were able to participate in this copying competition was that I voluntarily gave the opportunity to you.
"After all, we're from the same school. I still hope to see you bring glory to our school. It's understandable that you lost to my cousin.
"If you have time, let's talk in person."
So Xu Luo didn't go straight home but went to discuss other things with Wang Pan.
After Xu Qingqing helped the two kids take a bath, she took a bath herself, then lay in bed and started watching TV dramas.
At this time, her phone rang. The caller ID was Lu Chuanbai.
Remembering her conversation with Lu Fenglin, Xu Qingqing gritted her teeth and threw her phone aside, then switched to the tablet to watch TV.