Chapter 64: Chapter 64: With My Big Brother Around, There’s Nothing to Fear Chapter 64: Chapter 64: With My Big Brother Around, There’s Nothing to Fear “So—” He grabbed Tang Li’s hand again and walked outside, “let’s go to my house first. With my big brother there, not to mention your dad, even Fatty Xia wouldn’t dare to come to our house to snatch someone.”
Under the streetlamp, the Corgi waddled ahead with its short legs.
Tang Li thought of Song Baiyan who was still at the Song family’s and suddenly felt hesitant to go there: “I’ll just go back to school, not home.”
“That won’t work either.” The child decisively rejected her suggestion: “What if your family comes to the school to look for you later? What if I’m not there then, who would help you?”
He turned his head and talked to Ji Ming walking behind: “Right, Old Ji?”
Tang Li couldn’t just shake off the child’s hand, so she had no choice but to be led to the Song family’s place.
The Song family’s villa was laid out similarly to the Xia family’s but compared to the luxurious Xia family, the Song family’s decor was more homey.
As soon as she entered, she saw a toy car lying on the shoe cabinet.
Song Jingtian had already crouched down, very much the host, and opened the cabinet to get her a pair of indoor slippers. Upon discovering the car, he picked it up and held it, helplessly telling her, “I was too rushed when I left, just placed it on the floor, must’ve been my big brother who picked it up and set it here.”
Seeing his eyes waiting for praise, Tang Li smiled slightly and said enviously, “Your big brother is really good to you.”
“Of course.” Song Jingtian said proudly while entering the house, “I’m the only brother my big brother has.”
Speaking of which, he disdainfully curled his lip: “This Songlin Garden isn’t that great, can’t compare at all with our old house, we have to live here temporarily because the old house needs renovation, but my brother said next year we can move back.”
Tang Li cooperated, “Your home must be especially beautiful.”
“Indeed a hundred times more beautiful than this place.”
Just as Song Jingtian finished speaking, a young nanny appeared at the stairway with a feather duster, saying: “Second Master, the Finance Minister wants you to come to the study, he has something to tell you.”
Song Jingtian immediately scratched his head.
Tang Li thought she should take the chance to leave when suddenly Ji Ming called up towards the second floor: “Sir.”
“…” Tang Li turned her head.
Song Baiyan stood at the second-floor railing, looking at her and the child with a deep gaze, and left them with a “You two, come up” before heading to the study first.
Tang Li hesitated, but eventually followed Song Jingtian upstairs.
The study door was ajar.
A narrow slit in the door emitted a warm yellow light.
She instinctively stopped at the door, but Song Jingtian was already holding the knob and obediently walked in.
Soon after, Song Baiyan’s magnetic voice came from inside, “Have you finished all the homework for the weekend?”
“I’ve done what I could,” the child’s compliant voice followed, albeit a bit slick.
Song Baiyan asked him, “What about the ones you couldn’t do?”
Tang Li could imagine the child picking at his fingers, feeling guilty, but before she could hear the child’s stammering response, Song Baiyan’s deep voice rose again, “Did you come up alone?”
“No.” The child’s voice grew closer, “There’s one more outside.”
As he spoke, the study door was opened from the inside.
Tang Li was right in the middle of the doorway.
Song Jingtian, holding onto the door frame, looked back and said, “I said she was outside, definitely not wrong.”
“…” Tang Li had to brace herself and enter.
Inside the study, most of the furniture was made of dark reddish-brown wood in its natural color, leaning towards a Chinese style, composed and reserved, yet not too business-like. The calligraphy of ‘Orchid Pavilion Preface’ hanging on the wall lent the study an air of casual elegance and refined taste.