Chapter 1: Mixi's Troubles 3
"Thank you for your patronage. The total is 378 yuan. 400 yuan for you, and 22 yuan in change." The middle-aged female owner of the small clothing store smiled very warmly and handed the change to Wei Xi attentively.
At this time, Wei Xi had already cleaned up all the white powder on her school uniform and changed into a new set of clothes.
Wei Xi did not take the change and said, "Thank you for letting me use the bathroom. This money will be used as the cost of taking a shower."
The boss' mouth was almost stretched to his ears, and he said "I'm so sorry" while taking the money back neatly.
Weixi was carrying her schoolbag and the bag containing her school uniform, licking the ice cream she had just bought, and sitting on a bench by the roadside, watching the vehicles and pedestrians passing by.
She had never skipped school before, so she was a little nervous and confused, not knowing what to do. At this moment, a heart-wrenching cry suddenly came from the front, and Wei Xi was so scared that she almost threw away the ice cream.
"You little brat, you always cause trouble in the kindergarten. I receive complaints from teachers and aunts every day. I don't have time to teach you a lesson, but you are getting worse. Today you even lifted up the skirt of a little girl, so I had to take a special leave and go to the kindergarten to apologize." A young mother put one hand on her waist and poked the dirty little boy beside her with her index finger, looking furious. "Tell me, where did you learn all these bad ideas? Will you dare to do it again in the future? It really pissed me off. You were very well behaved before going to kindergarten, but now you are getting more and more naughty!"
The little boy pouted, tears in his eyes: "Wow, because I miss my mom. It's all my fault. She's busy with work every day and never plays with me. Wow, so I was thinking...if I get into trouble, will my mom come to accompany me, wow..."
His mother was stunned: "Baby, are you being so naughty on purpose just to see me?"
"Yeah." The little boy nodded , crystal tears flowing down his cheeks. "I'm sorry, Mom. I know you're very busy, but I really want to see you, wuwuwu..."
His mother hugged him and said, "Baby, I'm sorry. I neglected you because of my work. I promise that I will spend more time with you in the future. But you also have to promise me that you will never act naughty again, okay?"
"Hmm!" The little boy gave his mother a big kiss on the face.
His mother gave him a kiss in return, then took his hand and walked away happily.
Wei Xi's eyes lit up when he saw this scene: "Yeah, why didn't I think of that?"
Looking at the dazzling array of goods in front of her, Wei Xi swallowed nervously, clenched her fists to cheer herself up, then reached out and took a few lipsticks from the shelf and stuffed them into her bag, then turned and walked out. When she walked out of the store, the alarm sounded.
The clerk rushed out of the store and said to Wei Xi who was standing at the door: "Miss, please let me see your bag."
Wei Xi asked calmly: "Why?"
Seeing that she was unwilling to cooperate, the clerk's expression became serious: "We don't want to cause any misunderstanding. Can you please hand over your bag?"
Wei Xi rolled her eyes and tried to act rude and said, "You are not the police, you have no right to look at my bag. Get out of the way, I'm in a hurry."
The clerk grabbed her shoulders and said bluntly, "Then I'll just ask you to come sit in my office."
Wei Xi kicked the clerk and said, "Let go! If you don't, I'll call the police."
The other shop assistants said angrily, “Okay, we’ll call the police right now!”
The police arrived soon, and at their request, Wei Xi took out the lipstick she had just stolen.
The clerk she kicked said angrily: "Now the evidence is irrefutable. Let's see how you can still be so arrogant."
A policeman recognized the school uniform in Weixi's bag and said, "Huh? Are you a student at Mingxing Academy? I didn't expect such a good school would have a student like you. Give me your parents' phone number."
Hearing the police's words, Wei Xi's ears became hot, but things had already developed to this point, and Wei Xi was determined to go all out. She quickly reported two numbers that she knew by heart, and the police became furious after writing them down.
"Don't joke around, and don't think you can fool people by just reporting a random number. Domestic numbers are not composed like this at all."
Wei Xi raised his head and chest and said confidently: "I am not kidding, and I don't want to lie. My parents are both abroad, and the number is correct ."
"You..." The policeman was stunned for a moment, then immediately came up with a new idea, "Then give me your teacher's number."
When Wei Xi heard the police asking for the teacher's number, she was a little panicked.
When she came up with this plan, she thought the police would call her parents directly. Unexpectedly, the police decided to give up looking for her family and go to the teacher because the phone number was from abroad.
The school cannot know about this!
Wei Xi said anxiously, "Can I ask other relatives to come? It's my..." She hesitated for a while before continuing, "Guardian."
Without hesitation, the policeman said, “Of course.”
Wei Xi reluctantly gave out a number, the police wrote it down and called the number on the spot.
"Hello, are you Weixi's family? I'm a police officer. It's like this, Weixi attempted theft, and since she is a minor, we need to notify her guardian. Yes, yes, the address is..."
Wei Xi sat in the small room anxiously, her nails almost digging into her palms. Then the door opened and the police walked in with a man in slovenly sportswear.
"Wei Xi, your uncle is here to pick you up." The police took out a form and handed it to the man, "Sign here."
"Hi, Wei Xi, long time no see, haha." The man greeted her carelessly, took out a pen from his pocket and wrote a few words on the form, "Mr. Policeman, can I take her away after signing it?"
The policeman took back the form, looked at it, waved his hand outside, and the man pulled Wei Xi away.
After leaving the police station, the man said in distress: "Wei Xi, your parents entrusted you to me, but now you have done this, what should I do?"
Wei Xi looked at him in disbelief: "I have done such a bad thing, uncle, and you still ask me what to do? Normally, shouldn't you call my parents immediately and let them scold me?"
"Wei Xi, do you really think so?" The man rubbed his hands in embarrassment, "But I don't think this is a good idea. Let's not bother them with this kind of thing."
"What do you mean by this?" Wei Xi's suppressed excitement and anger burst out at this moment. "Does it mean that in your opinion, everything that happens to me is a small matter and not worth mentioning, and only my brother's affairs are a big deal and need to be worried about? Is it that unless I am about to die, I can only get a little care?"
" That's not what I meant. Wei Xi, don't be anxious, calm down." Wei Xi's uncle was sweating profusely and couldn't speak clearly, "It's because they are all busy, and I'm busy too..."
He muttered, "My experiment was at a critical moment, and I came here as soon as I received the call..."
Seeing his unconvinced look, Wei Xi was so angry that her lungs almost exploded.
"Experiments, experiments, experiments! All you know is experiments! Are those cold data more important than family?" Wei Xi yelled at his uncle.
My uncle said seriously, "No, of course family is important, but..." He paused and continued, "Family members won't change easily, but experimental data will."
"You..." Wei Xi was so angry at this nerdy uncle that she was speechless.
She turned and walked away, and her uncle hurriedly chased after her: "Wei Xi, where are you going?"
Wei Xi said bitterly: "Go home!"
"Hey, will you really go home obediently?"
Hearing his uncle's excited voice, Wei Xi suddenly felt that he was really stupid.
She said unhappily , "That's right, I will go home now and never get into trouble again, so you can go back to the lab with peace of mind!"
The slow-witted uncle didn't even notice the tone of Wei Xi's gnashing teeth, and said cheerfully, "Oh, I knew Wei Xi was a good kid. That theft case must be a misunderstanding. Wei Xi, remember to eat on time. I'm leaving first."
As soon as the dejected Wei Xi returned home, her cell phone rang. She took out her cell phone and found that it was her parents calling from abroad.
Strange, today is not the day for parents to call. Could it be that my uncle told them about going to the police station, so they called to inquire about the situation?
She was surprised and worried. She took a few deep breaths before answering the phone: "Hello, is this Mom?"
"Xixi, are you okay?" My mother's voice came from the phone.
Mi Xi was about to say "fine" out of habit, but then she remembered why her mother called and immediately replied, "Mom, I'm not fine."
"Xixi, what's wrong with you?" Mom's voice was filled with worry.
Wei Xi was a little dumbfounded when she heard what her mother said.
"Mom, didn't uncle already tell you?" Wei Xi asked somewhat uneasily.
The courage that impulsively executed that bad idea had already disappeared while waiting at the police station. Although she did feel that "I was not wrong" when she yelled at her uncle, Miki was always an obedient child after all, and now she was terrified to confess this mistake to her mother.
There was silence on the other end of the line.
Thump…
Wei Xi felt like he was the death row prisoner awaiting sentencing, and his heart was so nervous that it almost jumped out of his chest.
But she never expected that when her mother's voice sounded again, she would say: "I called you today because I made a mistake in my schedule and thought today was a fixed day for calling. Just now a colleague asked me to rush to the laboratory, so I have to hang up. Baby, I love you."
"Mom, wait, don't hang up!" Wei Xi shouted.
"Is there anything else? Honey, hurry up, I'm in a hurry." Mom urged.
Wei Xi's mind suddenly went blank, and she said in a hurry: "I haven't contacted my brother for a long time. Is he busy recently? Why didn't he call me?"
"Haha, Xixi is so cute." Mom laughed, "Xiaohan has been very busy recently. He might have been so busy that he forgot to call you. I'll tell him to contact you when he's not busy. Ah, I really have to go now. I'm going to hang up. Xixi, take good care of yourself. Bye!"
"Wait, Mom, my birthday is coming up, will you come back?"
"beep……"
Wei Xi dropped his arms weakly and stood there motionless.
After a long time, she suddenly raised her hand and wanted to throw the phone at the wall. However, her hand paused in the air for a long time, and finally slowly put it down.
"I'll always be the forgotten one, right?"
