Chapter 448
Originally, He Hongni, who had been relying on He Xingzhi’s guilt and indulgence, believing she could do whatever she wanted in this house, was now completely dumbfounded.
But even so, she did not reflect on her mistakes. Instead, she glared at He Xingzhi with a face full of resentment.
“I knew it! From the beginning, you never considered me as your real sister! Hypocritical and fake! All these years, you’ve probably fooled yourself too!”
He Xingzhi didn’t expect her to think of him this way. His clenched fists dug his nails into his palms.
Not only he, but even Su Xiaoxiao was nearly driven to the point of smoke coming out of her ears by this malicious little girl.
She was too tired to say anything more, pulling He Hongni out the door.
Seeing that she was about to be dragged out, He Hongni immediately shouted urgently, “Let go of me! You wicked woman, let me go! This is my house, you have no right to interfere with our family’s business!”
“Your brother has already agreed,” Su Xiaoxiao coldly reminded her.
He Hongni, left with no other choice, instinctively turned her desperate gaze to Jiang Yexun. But Jiang Yexun didn’t even spare her a glance.
His deep-set eyes remained fixed on Su Xiaoxiao, and the corners of his lips were curled in a smile full of indulgence.
It gave off the feeling that she was throwing a tantrum while he was just watching with a smile.
He Hongni, who had been trained since childhood to read the room, understood that if she sought help from Jiang Yexun now, not only would she not be saved, but he might even personally send her to the police station.
Her foster parents had told her before that children as cute as her and her sisters only had to cry pitifully and act wronged to win sympathy from anyone, and they would always be helped.
But after causing a scene a few times, everything she had learned had proved useless.
In the end, with no other way out, He Hongni had to lower her head to He Xingzhi.
“Brother, please save me! I don’t want to go to the police, I don’t want to die! Didn’t you promise Mom you would take good care of me?” she cried out loudly.
“I’m willing to face the consequence breaking a promise,” He Xingzhi forcefully suppressed his soft spot, speaking coldly.
Su Xiaoxiao, hearing this, didn’t wait for He Hongni’s reaction and directly dragged her out of the small courtyard.
He Xingzhi and Jiang Yexun didn’t follow them out.
At this point, He Hongni truly panicked.
“Brother! Brother! I know I was wrong! Are you really going to let them take me away?” she screamed in fear.
The noise had already caused a commotion, but the neighbors had only heard about money and houses, so no one dared to come too close.
Now that they heard that the child was being sent away, they couldn’t hold themselves back and ran out one by one.
“Oh my, what’s going on? Why are you sending the child away?” They didn’t come too close, but stood at a distance, asking.
He Hongni immediately looked at them pitifully, “Aunties, please save me, my brother doesn’t want me anymore. He’s going to throw me away.”
“This child is just throwing a tantrum. We adults should properly teach her…”
“Exactly.”
Su Xiaoxiao frowned, feeling troubled, and pushed He Hongni toward them, “We don’t know how to teach her. We don’t have the ability. How about you teach her instead?”
The aunts, who had only been talking big, were startled.
It was as if they were afraid of being entangled by He Hongni, as they took two steps back and said with a dark face, “How can you speak like that? This isn’t our child, why should we teach her?”
“You’ve been teaching her quite enthusiastically, haven’t you? We don’t know how, so we’ll have to trouble you to demonstrate personally.” Su Xiaoxiao said coldly.
These people really only had the ability to talk, pointing fingers at adults who could understand them.
She didn’t believe that they hadn’t heard what had been happening between He Xingzhi and his sister.
“We’re just giving you some advice. If you don’t want to listen, we have nothing more to say.” The aunts quickly finished the conversation and, as if afraid of something, turned around and left in a hurry.
He Hongni never expected these aunts to have such weak fighting power. Her cries got stuck in her throat.
With no other choice, she turned around and tearfully looked at Su Xiaoxiao.
“Sister, I really know I was wrong. I won’t be petulant anymore.”
Although she really wanted her foster parents and to enjoy the happiness of having so many sisters and brothers, the old days in a small room where they could only sleep sideways, and their clothes were acceptable but incomparable to now, made her long for more.
Food and toys, now she could get anything she wanted.
And she knew what “spy” meant, what it meant to be caught, imprisoned, and executed.
So for all this time, she had just been throwing a tantrum. She never truly wanted to be sent back.