After speaking, even his nose felt sour, partly from shame, and partly… from grievance.
The little girl was easy to comfort. After hearing a few words, she was both surprised and happy, quickly becoming excited.
Zhang Li felt heartache mentioning it: “Fixing the car cost 872.5 yuan. Including today’s lost business, it’s probably around a thousand.”
Ruirui suddenly said from behind: “Mom and Dad, there’s money in my teddy bear.”
Zhang Li’s wife turned around and saw her daughter holding a stuffed animal almost as big as herself. The daughter laboriously dug in the bear’s pocket and really pulled out a small stack of bills.
She was startled and went to take the money to count: “Where did this bear come from?”
Ruirui said: “The police uncle gave it to me.”
Zhang Li’s wife said: “Are these money someone dropped? We need to return them…”
Midway through her sentence, her counting fingers suddenly stopped – there were a few loose bills mixed in the stack, which added up to exactly 1372.5.
This came so suddenly that Xu Zhe was startled, and when he looked up, he saw a tall young man in a police uniform standing in front of him, holding his phone and looking at the Weibo post he had just edited.
Xu Zhe had been questioned before and knew this was the young master of the Xia family. He instinctively feared the authoritative aura around Xia Xianning and, caught red-handed doing something wrong, was scared stiff like a quail, trembling as he looked at him, not daring to ask for his phone back.
However, he hadn’t sent this Weibo post yet, and typing on his own phone… no matter what, others couldn’t interfere, right?
Xia Xianning finished reading and didn’t seem particularly angry. He even slightly curved his mouth, saying casually, “Not bad writing.”
Xu Zhe didn’t dare to respond.
Xia Xianning casually took off his police cap and tossed it onto the nearby seat, making Xu Zhe tremble.
He stared fearfully at Xia Xianning, who seemed to have no intention of engaging with him. Instead, he loosened the top two buttons of his collar, revealing a glimpse of his sharp collarbone.
Xu Zhe looked at him, terrified, and finally stammered out: “X-Xia, Officer Xia, I-I should go…”
