Reborn as a Weak Beauty Pampered by All

Chapter 149: Chapter 149: The Needle Against the Awl

The music stopped, and Kang Li shifted her gaze towards Mrs. Qi, her eyes bright and pure, her face delicately beautiful and radiant with a smile, ”Let’s go, godmother.”

Mrs. Qi couldn’t hide her pride as she nodded and said with a smile, ”Li Bao, what you said just now was very good!”

Kang Li just smiled without responding and called to Xiao Ming Rui, ”Ruirui, let’s go, time to go home.”

”Okay.”

Xiao Ming Rui nodded his head and took his younger brother Ming Han’s other hand. Together with Kang Li and Mrs. Qi, they left the Wang family’s courtyard under the stunned gazes of Xiao Feng and his son, indifferent to the surrounding spectators’ baptism of surprised and complex looks.

Alright, whether it was the astonishment in Xiao Feng and his son’s eyes or the surprise and complexity revealed by the onlookers, all were undoubtedly triggered by Kang Li’s words a moment ago. Naturally, all these varied gazes were focused on Kang Li.

But Kang Li had seen it all before; she walked with an elegance and lightness, calm and confident, completely unaffected by those stares.

”Xiao Xiao, you really need to change that unreasonable temper of yours, or else, I’m afraid you’re going to offend everyone in this big courtyard.”

”Sister Su, just take care of your own family’s issues, I don’t need you to worry about me!”

A dog poking its nose into a mouse’s business!

Ugh!

Xiao Feng glared, searching for her presence in front of her, the middle-aged woman with whom she had always been at odds.

”How can you be so ungrateful?!”

The middle-aged woman named Su Juan lived next door to Xiao Feng; you’d think there shouldn’t be any unpleasantness over trivial matters since they were neighbors and there was a ten-year age difference. However, the truth was both of them were spiteful and competitive, liking to compare with one another.

For instance: if today your family is eating meat and the fragrance wafts over the wall making my children cry out with longing, and won’t stop fussing, tomorrow my family will also eat meat to make yours drool with envy!

Or for another example: if today yelling and curses come from your courtyard, tomorrow, my courtyard will not be outdone.

This way, a series of trivial matters added up, making Xiao Feng and the middle-aged woman named Su Juan like a needle against a thistle, neither willing to give in, causing such a commotion that the children of both families didn’t dare play together.

Su Juan, in her early forties, had three sons and one daughter. The two older sons had gone to the countryside to work as part of an educated youth program after high school. She still had one son and one daughter at home, eleven and nine years old, still in school, attending the same one as Wang Xiaochao. Yet, even so, the three youngsters, because of the conflict between their mothers, would ignore each other upon meeting; they didn’t even exchange greetings.

”I just don’t know what’s good for me, what can you do about it?”

Xiao Feng was already holding back her anger, and now she had found a target to vent on. Paying no attention to the still lingering crowd around her home, she confronted her nemesis, ”Mrs. Su, don’t you gloat at my door. Even if I offend people, it’s my business. Stay as far away from me as you can and don’t block my door!”

Someone tried to calm them down, ”Xiao Xiao, Comrade Su Juan means well. Just as Comrade Kang Li just said, if you can take it in, listen; if not, act as if Comrade Su Juan never said anything. It really isn’t worth all this ceaseless quarreling.”

One person tried to mediate, followed by successive waves of persuasion.

”Yeah, Xiao Feng, with your foul temper, honestly, I’ve been wanting to say something too. After all, we all live in the same courtyard. You don’t see anyone looking down on you, but if you keep being so provocative, looking down on everyone, I think sooner or later, you’re going to end up all alone!”