NOVPUBLicheng Park, Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi were excitedly picking out hair clips at a stall.
"Brother Qingfan, does this one look good?" Lin Wanning wore a rabbit ear headband and tilted her head to ask Xu Qingfan.
"Ningning is really cute!" Xu Qingfan’s eyes lit up, and he gave her a thumbs up in approval.
"Me, me!" Zhang Yiyi also put on the cat ear clip she liked, made her hands into claws on the sides of her head, and tilted her head to look at Xu Qingfan.
Xu Qingfan felt like he was being melted by their cuteness, it was just too adorable!
[Awie died QAQ!!!]
As long as it wasn’t dressing up as a small moose, Xu Qingfan was completely defenseless against Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi when they wore cute hair clips.
"How much, boss? I’ll take them!" He gestured grandly and pulled out Lin Wanning’s small pink wallet from his pants pocket.
"The kids are really cute, originally selling for ten yuan each, but if you two like them, I’ll sell them both for ten yuan!"
"Ten yuan for three, I’ll take six!" He pulled out a brownish twenty-yuan note from the wallet and said.
"Tsk~ okay okay, great opening, I’ll sell them to you at a loss this time!"
"Yay!!!" The two little ones jumped up and down with joy.
"Wrap these three up for me." Xu Qingfan picked a devil horn clip for himself to wear and selected three others he found nice looking to hand to the stall owner.
"Alright~ take these!" Feeling over the moon about making a big deal at the opening, the stall owner verified the money under the sunlight several times before handing the three hairbands in a bag to Xu Qingfan.
"Hehe~ Brother Qingfan is a little green dragon, Brother Qingfan has horns on his head!" After leaving the stall, Zhang Yiyi and Lin Wanning one on each side touched the little horns on Xu Qingfan’s headband.
"I am the little green dragon, the little green dragon that eats little kittens and little bunnies!" Xu Qingfan made a clawing motion and pounced towards them.
"Yiyi, run fast, Brother Qingfan is going to eat people!"
"Run fast~"
The two little girls released laughter as clear as bellbirds, running hand in hand, occasionally looking back at Xu Qingfan who was chasing after them.
When they saw Xu Qingfan almost catching up, Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi screamed and sped up their steps to get further away from him again.
Xu Qingfan amusedly pulled out his cell phone from his pocket, the phone Zhang Chunxue gave them to use was the Sharp J-SH04, with a color screen + 110,000 pixel camera, currently one of the rare phones in the industry that supported both photo and video functions.
In his previous life, he often regretted not having any memorable photos or videos with Xia Xiaoxiao from childhood, so that as the picture quality got clearer later on, the memories faded more and more.
Re-living this life, he wanted to capture all these beautiful moments.
"Don’t run so fast, be careful you might trip!" He raised the phone with the video function on, reminding the two ahead while running.
"Brother Qingfan, you’re just trying to cheat, we won’t let you catch up!"
"Can’t catch us, big silly pig!"
The voices of the two little girls elongated with the wind, floating in the air and reaching Xu Qingfan’s ears.
"You two little short legs, just wait for me!"
"Aow~ run fast, the little green dragon is coming to eat the bunnies!"
Adults walking by, couples dating, all couldn’t help but smile at the sight of the three little ones chasing and frolicking, and a similar thought emerged in their minds reflexively: since when had they stopped playing wildly like that?
"Be careful not to bump into anyone!" Seeing an old grandmother with a cane in the middle of the road, Xu Qingfan spoke up to remind them.
"Ningning has eyes, I won’t bump into anyone!" Lin Wanning shouted back without turning her head.
"Still, don’t run so fast, there are stairs ahead!" He helplessly shook his head and slowed down his pace to ensure the two didn’t run too fast.
"Brother Qingfan, you run faster!" Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi, out of breath, stood on the steps, forming a megaphone with their hands to shout at Xu Qingfan.
"Careful!!"
The old grandmother walking in the middle of the road seemed unstable with her cane, and her body staggered, about to fall down the stairs.
"Ah!!!"
Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi had no time to react before seeing the other stumble and roll down several steps.
Fortunately, there was a platform between the two flights of stairs, and the old grandmother rolled three times before finally coming to a stop due to lack of momentum.
"Grandma, are you okay?" Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi came to their senses and immediately went up to help the injured old woman. 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘱𝘶𝑏.𝑐𝘰𝑚
Xu Qingfan also quickly jogged over, "Is everyone okay?"
However, the scene that followed took a dramatic turn, as soon as the old lady they had helped sit up on the staircase instantly changed her attitude, gripping Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi’s wrists tightly, and started wailing as if in great pain:
"Oh~ it’s killing me, this old woman, it’s unjust, what evil children, pushing me down the stairs, someone come judge this!"
Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi were completely baffled, their throats seemed to be blocked, and immense injustice surged within them.
"Ningning didn’t, it was your own fall, you’re framing us!"
Lin Wanning tried to break free from the gripped wrists, only to find the grip tightening even more, mixing the pain with injustice, and the little girl tearfully complained, "Brother Qingfan, it hurts!"
"Shit!"
Xu Qingfan was instantly furious. He saved the video and put the phone back in his pocket, dashing over and gave the old woman a hard slap on the face, "Old thing, let go right now!"
The old lady was suddenly rendered senseless by Xu Qingfan’s slap and subconsciously let go of the two little ones, Zhang Yiyi and Lin Wanning, who broke free from her grasp and hid behind Xu Qingfan like frightened rabbits.
"Damn it, what kind of world is this where a little beast pushes me down the stairs and then hits me, someone judge this!" As more bystanders gathered around, the old lady started her performance again, slapping her palm heavily on the cement floor.
"What’s wrong with kids these days, where are your parents, call them here now!"
"Tsk, post-90s really are a degenerate generation, all spoiled, what have they become, complete devils!"
"I saw the old lady fall by herself..."
"That can’t be, I saw with my own eyes that little boy slap the old grandma!"
"....."
As the number of onlookers increased, Xu Qingfan yelled, "Everyone shut up!!!"
"This old hag fell by herself, we kindly tried to help her up, and she accuses us, if anyone has a phone, call the police right now!" Seizing the few seconds of silence in the crowd, he shouted.
"Lies! It was you three little beasts who pushed me, I’m over seventy years old, I wouldn’t lie!!"
"Exactly, I saw you hit someone with my own eyes, causing trouble and then lying about it, such lack of breeding!"
"Quick, call your parents here, I see this old lady’s fall was serious, someone hurry and dial 120 for an ambulance!"
The crowd quickly sided with the old lady, and those who had initially said she fell by herself now remained silent.
"We, didn’t..."
"She clearly fell by herself!"
As the public condemnation grew, Zhang Yiyi and Lin Wanning appeared frightened and wronged, holding tightly to Xu Qingfan’s clothes for a semblance of security.
[Damn, I have to run into such rotten luck!]
Xu Qingfan muttered to himself, "Stop yelling, I’ll call my dad!"
When the crowd quieted down a bit, he took out his phone and called Xu Aiguo.
Seeing Xu Qingfan actually take out a phone, the crowd became quiet on the spot, joking aside, in these times, a family that could afford a cell phone was rare with each one costing six to seven thousand yuan.
"Dad, I’m near the fountain in Licheng Park, there’s an old lady who seems like she was hit by us, come quick!"
"What do you mean seems like, hey, hey! You punk!!" Xu Aiguo took a look at the phone by his ear only to find the call had already been disconnected.
Anxious about his son, Xu Aiguo didn’t bother waiting for the traffic light and turned the corner, speeding into an alley.
"Humph! It’s good you’re admitting it, grandma don’t worry, if their family can afford a phone for the kid, they must be rich, let them pay your medical bills!"
"Yes! Pay the medical bills!!"
The old lady’s eyes spun, "I swear, it was these three that pushed me down the stairs!!"
Xu Qingfan secretly turned on his phone to record, "You old fart, what do you want then, my family has piles of money, so I’m not bothered by your petty sum!"
He fully portrayed the image of a spoiled rich kid, asking disdainfully.
"Tsk tsk tsk~ another nouveau riche!"
"Luckily he’s not my son!"
"If my son behaved like that, I’d beat him to death with a stick!"
"You owe me money, give me ten...give me two hundred thousand!" As the old lady spoke up, the crowd quickly quietened down.
"Sss~" Upon hearing the old lady exorbitantly demand two hundred thousand, everyone there gasped in shock.
"Why should I pay you two hundred thousand!" Xu Qingfan continued to taunt loudly.
"You three little beasts pushed me down the stairs, get your parents here and pay up!"
"Are you sure it was the three of us who pushed you down?" he continued to press.
Passersby who couldn’t bear to watch wanted to step forward and beat up Xu Qingfan, but feared retaliation from his family, and retorted, "Just because you have some dirty money doesn’t mean you’re above us, you’re in big trouble now, if you don’t want to go to jail, just pay up!"
"Yes, you already admitted on the phone you pushed her, now trying to deny it! Expose which primary school he goes to!"
Seeing so much support for herself, the old lady became imperious, "I swear to the heavens, it was you three little beasts that pushed me down the stairs, if I’m lying let my whole family perish!"
"So because we pushed you down the stairs, you want us to compensate you 200,000, is that right?" he continued to loudly question.
"Exactly! I’m over seventy years old and I don’t lie!" The old lady’s initially dizzy head suddenly became excited again as soon as she heard the number two hundred thousand.
Xu Qingfan satisfied, saved the recording and put his phone back in his pocket.
He looked pityingly at the old lady, now lost in her delusions, [Still trying to swindle me?]
"Don’t worry, my dad will be here soon." He hugged Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi to his chest, whispering reassurances.
"Okay."
The pair held tightly to his arm, seeming to believe that even if the sky fell, Xu Qingfan would handle it.
[Brother Fan really is the most awesome!]
Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi thought to themselves simultaneously.
