from a cat to the God of death

'Have you seen him before?'

Just when Si Lanyi was wondering where he had seen him before.

The old woman also noticed the bald Si Lanyi in Shen Mengli's arms.

The flesh on her face twitched, her triangular eyes glared, and a sharp and mean voice sounded: "You loser! Where did you go to pick up such a filthy thing? Do you think your home is not dirty enough?!"

The old woman spitted everywhere, and her fat fingers almost poked Shen Mengli's nose.

"It's ok to pick up some rags at ordinary times, but now you even bring this filthy thing home! It's unlucky to look at it!"

Listening to the old woman's unbearable scolding, Si Lanyi frowned tightly.

Is this really Shen Mengli's grandmother?

Daughter?

He looked up at Shen Mengli, who looked a little too calm. She seemed to have been accustomed to all this and didn't even frown.

Si Lanyi felt a trace of pity in his heart for no reason.

Being bullied at school, and having to face such a mean and sarcastic woman when returning home...

How depressing it must be to live like this.

"I will take care of him myself."

Shen Mengli said in a low voice, and after leaving this sentence, she hugged Si Lanyi and walked straight to her room.

"Bang!"

The door closed.

It blocked out the unbearable curses of the old woman outside the door.

The room was not big, and the furnishings were extremely simple.

A single bed, an old table and chair, that's all.

Shen Mengli walked to the bed, bent down and pulled out a half-worn cardboard box from under the bed.

This is the box where she put her clothes.

Si Lanyi stretched his neck and took a look. There were very few clothes in the box.

There were only two or three sets of neatly stacked summer school uniforms and casual clothes. The remaining few were obviously much smaller, and the fabrics were washed white and thin, like old clothes that had been worn for many years.

Shen Mengli took out the clothes that could still be worn and put them on the bed.

After thinking for a while, she picked out a few relatively clean and soft clothes from the old clothes that obviously didn't fit her anymore, and carefully laid them at the bottom of the cardboard box.

She patted the organized cardboard box.

With a faint but gentle smile on her face, she whispered to Si Lanyi: "You will live here from now on."

Si Lanyi looked at her, feeling mixed emotions.

Just then.

"Damn it!"

There was a sudden and rough knocking sound outside, followed by a furious roar from a man.

"Shen Mengli! Get out of here, you loser!"

"Fuck you! I asked you to do something so small and you couldn't do it! I was fined 500 time crystals! If you can't explain it clearly, I'll beat you to death today!"

Hearing the roar outside the door.

Shen Mengli frowned, and a trace of imperceptible fatigue and annoyance flashed in her eyes.

Si Lanyi listened to the familiar voice and frowned.

This voice...

Shit!

Is it such a coincidence? ? ?

Si Lanyi suddenly remembered the vendor who sold breakfast in the morning.

No wonder he felt that the old woman looked familiar, especially the triangular eyes and the mean face, as if they were carved from the same mold..

But didn't the two law enforcers say a fine of 100 Shijing?

Seeing Shen Mengli stand up, it seems that she is going to open the door.

Si Lanyi secretly said that it was not good, and hid under the bed almost as a conditioned reflex.

It's not that he is cowardly.

In his current state.

Even if he is discovered, it is not difficult to escape with the advantage of his size.

But if the man who knocked the door was really the vendor boss in the morning, once he recognized himself and knew that it was Shen Mengli who brought him back...

Then Shen Mengli would probably be implicated by him and have a lot of trouble for nothing.

The moment the door was opened.

A sturdy man rushed in directly, with a face full of flesh, pointing at Shen Mengli's nose and cursing.

"You little slut! I asked you to clean up the stall, where the hell have you been?!"

Si Lanyi, who was hiding under the bed.

Quietly poked half of his head out of the gap and took a closer look.

Sure enough!

Isn't this man the breakfast vendor boss that he punished this morning!

He scolded him so badly!

It seems that the punishment in the morning was not light enough.

When I recover from my injury, I must visit his breakfast stall frequently!

But...

Why is he here?

Could it be...he is Shen Mengli's father?

No!

Si Lanyi quickly recalled some details from the morning.

When the vendor boss scolded him angrily, he seemed to have said that if he didn't kill him, he would not be surnamed Nie.

And Shen Mengli's surname is Shen.

The two of them don't have the same surname at all.

It can't be that Shen Mengli took her mother's surname, right?

Besides, how could this dead fat pig surnamed Nie, who was full of banditry, give birth to such a well-behaved daughter like Shen Mengli?

Si Lanyi shook his head repeatedly in his heart. He would never believe that these two people were related.

At this time, the old woman also followed in from the living room, frowning, raised her hand and pulled the man, with a tone of impatience: "What are you yelling about! What happened, tell me first!"

"Sister! I didn't deliberately pick a fight today!"

Then.

He roughly recounted what happened in the morning.

Of course, he didn't mention that he was so miserable by a cat.

He only emphasized that he was accidentally injured, and then asked Shen Mengli to clean up the overturned stall. As a result, Shen Mengli didn't go, resulting in a fine of 500 time crystals by the law enforcement bureau for affecting the city appearance.

Nie Feizhu became more and more angry, spitting everywhere.

"Such a small matter can't be handled well!"

"Sister, this matter was caused by her, and she must pay the fine of 500 time crystals!"

Listening to the process described by Nie Feizhu.

Si Lanyi under the bed first cursed the dead fat pig for being shameless.

It was obviously a fine of 100 time crystals, and it turned out to be five times more!

Then.

Si Lanyi fell silent and went over the whole thing in his mind.

If he hadn't had a conflict with the vendor in the morning, Shen Mengli wouldn't have been called to clean up the mess.

If she hadn't gone, she wouldn't have been bullied by those tough classmates in the alley.

If she hadn't been bullied, she wouldn't have happened to appear at the entrance of the alley and saved the girl at that time.

I am already dying.

Fate is really...

Damn it!

Si Lanyi didn't have much time to lament the coincidence and impermanence of fate.

He frowned, thinking secretly about how to solve the troubles in front of him. He couldn't let Shen Mengli take all the responsibility for him.

Just then.

The old woman who had been listening silently all the time unexpectedly waved her hand with a hint of impatience in her tone.

"Okay, okay, I thought it was a big deal, isn't it just 500 time crystals? I'll give it to you!"

As she said that, the old woman dragged Nie Feizhu and turned to walk towards the living room.

Si Lanyi looked a little confused.

What's going on?

This old woman was sarcastic and insulting to Shen Mengli, why is she so happy now?

Could it be...

She has a sharp tongue but a soft heart? Just not good at expressing herself?

As soon as Si Lanyi had this thought in his mind, he saw the old woman come back and walk into the room again.

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