Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 421 - 405: White Jade Nine-Linked Rings

Chapter 421: Chapter 405: White Jade Nine-Linked Rings

"Mom and Dad, will we get to see Grandma and Grandpa soon?" Pei Yi asked excitedly while eating, unable to conceal his anticipation from Shitou and Lu Yun.

"Yes, right after we finish eating, we’ll take you to your aunt’s house. We’re going to stay there from tonight until we leave S City. Once we get there, you need to be well-behaved and speak sweetly to everyone you meet. If you’re not obedient and no one likes you, getting kicked out by the host would really be a huge embarrassment." Lu Yun teased him.

"Mom, nobody above the age of three would believe what you’re saying. Who would actually kick out a guest who’s come to visit? Unless they wanted to make an enemy and never associate with them again."

Pei Yi gave Lu Yun a sidelong glance as he shoveled food into his mouth.

"Can’t you stop being so sly, Pei Yi? Just indulge your mom, will you? With that unaccommodating attitude, what girl is going to fall for you or want to marry you?

No emotional intelligence. Little friend Pei Yi, do you know that for men, what’s more important is not how high their IQ is, but their EQ. Without EQ, or not enough of it, it’s hard to achieve great things in the future, you know?" Lu Yun lamented, feeling frustrated with a high IQ son who wouldn’t give her face.

"Before absolute power, everything else is irrelevant." Pei Yi said seriously, with a tone of disdain.

"Well, you can say that again when you have absolute power," Lu Yun huffed, smacking the back of Pei Yi’s head with her chopsticks sharply and glaring at him. This cheeky kid, what kind of look was that?

"But Mom, isn’t that what you said too? When you don’t like or even hate someone, you don’t need to correct them if they’re wrong. Instead, you should praise them, making them think they’re right, so they continue their mistakes and end up being laughed at by even more people."

Pei Yi blinked, the mood altering, and looked at Lu Yun with a face full of grievance, yet stubbornness shone in his eyes. He had a good memory. He still remembered the bedtime stories his mother used to tell him when he was little--

There was a kid named Wang Wu who loved to show off, often telling his pals historical idioms and stories to demonstrate his "erudition". But the problem was, he often got things wrong. Whenever someone corrected him, he would take it ill, getting into conflicts and even fights.

One day, he was telling his friends the story of "Cao Chong Weighing an Elephant," starting with the line — During the Tang Dynasty, there was a kid named Cao Chong...

That day, among those pals, a new kid who had also heard the story challenged him, saying Cao Chong was not from the Tang Dynasty but the Eastern Han.

Upon hearing this, Wang Wu was furious and rolled up his sleeves, ready to throw punches.

Everyone around tried to break up the fight, and instead blamed the newcomer for pretending to know. Thus, Wang Wu became even more smug. Afterward, the newcomer felt dejected, and someone consoled him with that piece of advice.

So if his mom was clearly wrong, wouldn’t not correcting her actually harm her? Pei Yi looked at his mom unconvinced, feeling justified: "So, Mom, I’m really doing this for your own good."

"Excuses. Is it the same? That’s about common sense errors, nothing like the situation today. How can you apply it so indiscriminately? Besides, even if it’s out of kindness to point out mistakes, it’s always about the way you do it."

Lu Yun rolled her eyes, quickly remembering the story she once told her son.

"But it was you who taught me to have the courage to question what’s wrong," Pei Yi said, still not quite convinced.

"Didn’t Mom ever teach you to be modest in front of elders, not to be wilfully competitive and overbearing? When facing different situations and different people, you should also learn to observe others’ emotions from the little things and understand when you can say something and when you cannot,"

Having such a demonically clever son isn’t fun at all. Lu Yun wiped away her tears of heartache in her heart. How she wished she could exchange this stinky little kid for a sweet, soft, obedient little princess who wouldn’t talk back to her. What should she do?

"Okay, okay, a good man doesn’t fight with women."

Pei Yi pressed his lips together and, seeing that Mom was on the verge of losing control, decided to back off wisely. Otherwise, it would soon be Dad’s turn to step in. Outnumbered, he certainly wouldn’t have the upper hand and would end up at a disadvantage; a wise man knows better than to fight a losing battle.

Lu Yun, with tears streaming down her face, clutched Shitou’s shirt: "Dad, are you really sure we didn’t take home the wrong child from the hospital?"

"It shouldn’t be the case, have you forgotten? He wasn’t born at home, was he? You didn’t even go to the hospital, so there was no chance of taking the wrong baby," Shitou tried to hold back his laughter and patted Lu Yun’s shoulder. Seeing her glaring, he quickly nodded in an uncertain tone, "If it wasn’t a mix-up at birth, then maybe there was some mistake while getting vaccinated as a kid. Hmm, I’ll look into it."

"Dad, I regret not checking myself into the hospital in advance. If he had been born there, maybe we could have taken home a daughter instead. Whoever wants this stinky kid can take him away."

Lu Yun’s face was filled with woe.

Shitou stood there, eyes wide and mouth agape, with difficulty swallowing his saliva, he said nothing.

Pei Yi rolled his eyes hugely, unable to hold back his muttering, "Mom, could you be a bit more realistic, please? Great-grandpa, great-grandma, as well as maternal grandfather and grandmother would definitely not allow you to do that. If you like daughters so much, you could’ve adopted that crybaby from yesterday."

Pei Yi turned to Shitou, "By the way, Dad, why didn’t you bring that crybaby home yesterday?"

"What crybaby, don’t go giving girls nicknames. She has a name, it’s Zhao Ziyin." Shitou wasn’t polite as he knocked Pei Yi on the head, "I found her parents’ information and sent her back to them yesterday. By now she’s probably already reunited with her family."

"That was quick?"

Pei Yi said with regret. It was such a pity, he had hoped she could’ve stayed to keep Mom company for a couple more days, to cheer her up, so she wouldn’t be so bored and focus all her attention on him all the time. For that, he even sacrificed his travel-sized White Jade Nine-Linked Rings, which was only as big as a child’s palm.

Remembering the White Jade Nine-Linked Rings he had played with since childhood and had always cherished, Pei Yi thought it a shame. After all, it was only lent to her to play with, and now there was a good chance he wouldn’t get it back.

"Why that look on your face?" Lu Yun happened to catch Pei Yi’s expression and became curious. Pei Yi hadn’t seemed to like Yinyin that much; in fact, he had seemed more annoyed by her. So why did he suddenly seem so reluctant to let her go?

Yes? Shitou also looked over, curious, waiting for Pei Yi to reply.

"Who misses her? I’m mourning over my Nine-Linked Rings. I used it to calm her down since she kept crying yesterday. I just wanted to lend it to her to play with for a bit and then take it back in a couple of days," Pei Yi said irritably.