Song Ruo knew that her sister liked to put up a front and appeared to be high and mighty but she was really a very reasonable person. "If every mother-in-law in the prominent families is as reasonable as you, all of the daughters-in-law will be very lucky."
Ning Zhi had no idea that Mother Lu was talking about her. She walked upstairs and into the study with the little box.
She had noticed in the past two days that Lu Jue would always do the same thing at the same time. For example, he would always be on his computer at this time.
"Tyrannosaur rex, we can't play with dimwits. It'd make us stupid." The door to the study was not shut completely and she could hear a little boy's milky voice coming from the inside.
"A dimwit who can't talk."
"A dimwit who nobody likes."
"A dimwit whose foolish, foolish, foolish."
"A dimwit who's stupid, stupid, stupid."
She walked inside and saw a slightly chubby boy standing in front of Lu Jue's desk. He had in his hand a green tyrannosaur rex. His chubby face was filled with his contempt toward Lu Jue.
"Who are you calling a dimwit just now?" This little boy was Song Yu's son, Lu Jue's cousin.
The little boy's name is Zhigao. And he was a smart one. He knew that what he was saying to Lu Jue was nowhere close to nice. Now that he was asked by an adult, he didn't want to tell the truth.
Ning Zhi put on a mean look, "Your name is coconut pudding?* You just said that a dimwit can't talk. If you don't answer me, I am going to assume that you are a dimwit."
Zhigao pouted and said in his milky voice, "I am not. He is." His pointed at Lu Jue with his little finger.
Lu Jue, sitting on front of the monitor in his red sweater, did not react at all. He clicked away on his keyboard. The light off of the monitor reflected on his cold and fair face, making him seem particularly handsome.
Ning Zhi smacked away Ye Zhigao's little hand that was pointing at Lu Jue and said, "A child should not be so rude or spew nonsense. He's your [older] cousin." If Lu Jue is a dimwit, then what was she as his wife?
Hugging the tyrannosaur rex, Ye Zhigao told Ning Zhi, "Everybody says that he's a dimwit. He is just like the dimwit in my class. He doesn't talk and nobody wants to be his friend."
Ning Zhi felt that this child was not cute at all.
Walking over to the bookshelf, she pulled down a Rubik's cube that was on there.
Ning Zhi purposefully messed it up and asked Ye Zhigao, "Do you know what this is?"
The little kiddo nodded. "Rubik's cube. Our teacher had shown it to us before."
The teacher at the kindergarten had taught them how to play with one.
Ning Zhi placed it in front of Lu Jue. She leaned into his ear and said tenderly to him, "Lu Jue, can you please return this to it's original state for me?"
The hands that were typing away stopped. Lu Jue, his thin lips shut slightly, took the Rubik's cube away from Ning Zhi.
The next second, before Ning Zhi and Ye Zhigao even figured out what was going on other than seeing the afterimage of Lu Jue's hands, the Rubik's cube had been restored to its original state in less than 20 seconds.
Lu Jue said in a low voice. "Here's your Rubik's cube back."
The Rubik's cube had been restored. Take it.
Ning Zhi was shocked. She saw the Rubik's cube on the shelf and knew for sure that Lu Jue knew how to work it. She didn't think he was a master in it.
After she had recollected herself, she saw Ye Zhigao's little mouth dropped open from surprise.
Ning Zhi, towering over him, asked him with complacency, "Is your teacher that good with the Rubik's cube?"
Ye Zhigao shook his head.
"You saw how your cousin is mightier than your teacher. So how is he a dimwit?" Ning Zhi said to the little kiddo. "Your cousin doesn't like to talk not because he is foolish but that he was too smart and doesn't like to talk to fools.
"He isn't talking to you because he finds you stupid."
Ye Zhigao pouted. "I am not stupid."
"See? You feel bad when someone calls you stupid, right?" Ning Zhi couldn't help herself but pinched his chubby little cheek. "Your cousin will feel bad too when you call him stupid."
Ye Zhigao lowered his head.
Ning Zhi went and locked the door to the study.
Then, she opened up the two boxes that she brought back from the dessert shop. There were delicate cakes in them.
Sweet aroma from the pastries filled the study and Ye Zhigao was immediately distracted by the desserts.
Ning Zhi placed one of them in front of Lu Jue and told him, "I went passed this dessert shop after school and saw a long line outside. I bought it just for you."
She had to go to school today and didn't have to time make him food herself. She wasn't sure if store-bought food could make him happy and allow her to collect little suns.
Lu Jue glanced over at her quickly.
"Hurry up and eat." Ning Zhi placed a tiny fork in his hand.
Lu Jue ate quietly.
The little guy standing across from them gulped. His pair of big and black eyes were glued to the cakes.
Ning Zhi smiled again. "This dessert shop is very well-known. Their cream is sweet and had a rich chocolate taste. And then there are these crispy fruits…"
The little kiddo gulped again. His chubby little hand held on tight to the tyrannosaur rex. He wanted the cake so badly; he was sure his tyrannosaur rex wanted some too.
Ning Zhi picked up a small piece with her fork and waved it in front of Ye Zhigao. "Does it smell good?"
The little kiddo nodded honestly. "Yes."
Ning Zhi, like a devil, said to him, "You still can't have any."
Ye Zhigao, with his tyrannosaur clutched in his hand, was stunned.
"Are you going to cry?" She asked him.
Ye Zhigao kept his lips tightly shut.
Ning Zhi was eviler than the society. She said to him, "You still can't have any even if you cry."
She was a very protective person. He should not have called Lu Jue a fool.