Since she was standing against the light, Su Xiaoxiao couldn't see the man's face clearly for a moment.
She politely flashed eight teeth: "Hello, are you here to buy something? Please wait a moment, she'll be back soon."
Just as she finished speaking, she heard the man's deep, magnetic voice again: "Hello, I'm here to see you, my name is Zhou Cheng."
No, why did he suddenly start introducing himself? Do you really need to give your name just to buy something these days?
Su Xiaoxiao looked up in astonishment, and in the next second, she was instantly petrified on the spot.
Why does this face look so familiar?
In a moment of bewilderment, she belatedly realized that this man had the same face as the male model in her dreams.
Compared to her shock, Zhou Cheng was surprisingly calm.
He pulled out a handful of White Rabbit candies from his pocket and stuffed them into her hand: "Here, take this."
"No... no need to be so courteous, I don't like sweets."
Just as she was refusing, her two younger brothers grabbed her arms from either side: "Sis, sis, I want candy."
Su Xiaoxiao's face immediately turned a little red with embarrassment, couldn't those little brats give her some face outside?
She scolded with a stern face, puffing up her cheeks: "Shut up."
However, the two younger brothers, facing the prospect of something delicious, had no sense of face. They each clung to Su Xiaoxiao's arm, eagerly looking on, refusing to let go.
Zhou Cheng's face remained expressionless as he reached into his pocket for two more candies, giving one to each.
The two younger brothers immediately beamed, grabbing the candies, unwrapping them and popping them into their mouths, munching happily.
Su Xiaoxiao couldn't bear to watch, feeling that she'd never been so embarrassed in her life.
For a moment, the sound of the two eating candy was the only sound in the air, creating quite an awkward atmosphere.
Just as Su Xiaoxiao was thinking of saying something to ease the tension, Zhou Cheng spoke first.
"Mr. Zhang, I'm quite satisfied with you. Do you have any opinions about me?"
Zhou Cheng said this, his gaze casually sweeping over Su Xiaoxiao before quickly retracting.
Mr. Zhang?
Su Xiaoxiao was just about to say that her surname wasn't Zhang when a young man in a military uniform suddenly rushed in from outside, urgently addressing Zhou Cheng: "Commander, hurry, something happened."
Zhou Cheng's face changed slightly. He glanced at the nearby Su Xiaoxiao with an apologetic expression: "Mr. Zhang, sorry, I have to go. I'll write you a letter when I get back, and we can start with writing to each other."
After speaking, he quickly followed the young man out.
The two moved so quickly that Su Xiaoxiao didn't have time to explain.
"Sis, sis, we want candy."
Jianwen and Jianwu eagerly eyed the candies in her hand, their drool almost dripping onto her hand.
Su Xiaoxiao stared at the candies in her hand, feeling the involuntary secretion of saliva.
It wasn't that she was greedy, it was just that she had only eaten a bite of sorghum pancake since morning and had been starving.
Zhou Cheng followed Xiao Wang to hop on a jeep and leave, but his gaze uncontrollably turned back for a glance, wondering what impression the girl had of him.
"Xiao Wang, what kind of gift do you think is suitable for giving to a girl you fancy?"
Xiao Wang was concentrating on driving when he suddenly heard this, his hand shook and he nearly drove the car into a ditch.
He quickly corrected the steering wheel: "Commander, what's this about?"
If he remembered correctly, their commander usually avoided female comrades, and this time he was forced to meet a girl by his family, almost having a knife put to his throat.
How in just a brief moment, was he already thinking of gifting something?
"Commander, did you hit it off with that girl?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Cheng recalled the pair of watery apricot eyes, his ears turning a faint shade of pink: "I haven't had the chance to ask her opinion yet."
"Do you even need to ask? Commander, you're the dream man of all the female comrades in the battalion, how could any girl not like you?"
On the other side, Su Xiaoxiao still had no idea that she had inexplicably become someone's matchmaker candidate.
Just as she was about to leave with her brothers, Zhang Dongmei returned.
She immediately scanned Su Xiaoxiao from head to toe with a look akin to that of watching a thief: "You didn't steal anything, did you?"
"I can't be bothered with you."
Su Xiaoxiao grabbed her two little brothers to leave, if it wasn't for that male comrade chatting with her earlier, she would've left already,
The mess Father Su made had nothing to do with them.
Zhang Dongmei, however, quickly noticed the bulging pockets of the two little brothers: "Wait a minute, what's that in your pockets?"
As she spoke, before the two could react, she stepped forward and opened Su Jianwen's pocket, revealing the candies inside, and immediately showed a look of disdain.
"I knew it, why were you being so kind to look after my store, turns out you got these little brats to steal something?"
Su Xiaoxiao frowned: "You begged me to watch the store, and these candies were given by someone, they have nothing to do with your store."
"Huh? Who would give you such good candies? Let me tell you, I have records of every item in my store. If I'm short even a pound or an ounce, I'll know."
After speaking, Zhang Dongmei impatiently extended her hand towards the two kids: "Hand over the candies, I'll weigh them, only after you pay can you leave."
Su Xiaoxiao was speechless: "Just saying these candies belong to your store, I could just say we brought them."
"With your family's condition, you think you deserve to eat such good candies?"
Zhang Dongmei spoke rudely, grabbing Su Jianwu's arm and cursing: "You're just like your shameless rogue father, absolutely shameless."
Su Jianwu fiercely guarded his pocket, his eyes reddening immediately: "You're lying, we didn't steal these candies."
Seeing his brother being bullied, Su Jianwen immediately rushed forward, pushing Zhang Dongmei, catching her off guard, and making her stagger.
Her expression turned ferocious instantly: "You little bastard, how dare you fight back? Today I'll properly teach your shameless family a lesson."
As she spoke, she directly slapped Su Jianwen on the face, causing him to fall to the ground, his face swelling up on one side.
Zhang Dongmei, still unsatisfied, grabbed Su Jianwu again, raising her arm, but before her hand could touch him, she received a slap on the face from someone.
She looked incredulously at the instigator, Su Xiaoxiao: "Su Xiaoxiao, you damn dare to hit me?"
"What if I did?"
"Your Su Family harmed my sister, every one of you is a sinner, you should all be serving our Zhang Family as cattle and horses to atone forever!"
Su Xiaoxiao wouldn't put up with her, for the past two years, the Zhang family caused trouble for them whenever they could, and Father Su had been dead for three years, it was time to move on.
Her expression turned stern: "Do you think this is still the Qing dynasty, practicing feudal collective punishment? Su Jianhua made his own mistakes, he paid with his life for them, it has nothing to do with us, if you keep causing trouble, I won't be polite."
Zhang Dongmei, startled by Su Xiaoxiao's fierce gaze, shrank back, but then thought of something and stubbornly grabbed Su Jianwen and Su Jianwu: "Fine, let's not talk about your rogue father, just today, pay for the stolen candies before you leave."
Su Xiaoxiao's forehead veins throbbed angrily, she extended her hand to Zhang Dongmei: "Fine, you say we stole it, how much, show the evidence, I'll pay right away."
Zhang Dongmei immediately gained confidence: "Just wait, I have everything in stock."