socalfunplaces Chapter 47 Zou Xiaoyun
Chapter 47 Zou Xiaoyun
Seeing Xiaoyun and the other girl staring in disbelief, Lin Chong laughed heartily.
"I was just joking, why did you all take it seriously?"
"I haven't even enrolled yet, and we don't even have a full team of Pokémon. How can the coach trust me to be a starter?"
"..."
"Haha... junior, you're quite humorous."
Xiaoyun's eyes twitched. She forced a smile, but a strong sense of crisis rose in her heart.
Lin Chong's words were clearly nonsensical and sounded fake, but why did she always feel that they were true?
This feeling was so strange that Xiaoyun barely spoke in the latter half; it was Youyou chatting with Lin Chong the whole time.
A short while later, the two of them said goodbye, and Lin Chong also focused his attention on the training of Er Mao.
It was already 6 p.m., and the stadium was about to close.
The three said goodbye at the entrance. Lin Chong stood outside the building watching the two figures disappear into the distance, and thoughtfully stroked his chin.
At that moment, the little black cat jumped onto his shoulder and asked curiously.
Are they friends?
Lin Chong thought for a moment: "Not quite, but they shouldn't be enemies. It's normal for people in the same academy to have some competitive spirit."
The cat, now a size larger, could no longer perch on Lin Chong's shoulder. It slowly swayed over, looked at Xiao Yun's back, and lazily said...
That person has been spying on my training.
Lin Chong hummed in agreement; he was actually also paying attention to the gluttonous mole.
He is rather thin, but his muscles are in good condition, showing signs of serious training. However, perhaps because he has only recently evolved, he appears slightly restless.
Lin Chong recalled Xiao Yun's words and actions just now and smiled.
"She's a lovely and hardworking girl. I hope we don't become enemies with her."
"Let's go, Xiaoxi is waiting for us to go back for dinner."
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Night falls in Shishan Street, Yangzhou.
Wearing a light black sweatshirt, Zou Xiaoyun walked down the street with her hands in her pockets, and soon turned into a dark alley.
It was dark all around, but she knew this way home all too well.
Arriving at an iron gate covered with little GG stickers, Xiaoyun took out her key, opened the door, and went inside.
The pungent smell of alcohol hit her face and made her frown instantly. She glanced at the shirtless, flushed drunkard on the table—her stepfather had been drinking again.
It wasn't like this when I first married my mother.
Xiaoyun lowered her head, avoiding looking at her stepfather, and quickened her pace toward the room.
But the man just gulped down his drink and yelled at her, "Zou Xiaoyun!"
"Now you don't even greet me when you come home! Don't you know any manners?!"
Zou Xiaoyun stopped, lowered her head and quickly called out "Uncle," but the man clearly had no intention of letting her go. He slammed his fist on the table, causing the wine bottles on the table to shake.
He glared at her and roared, "Did you ask your mother for 20,000 yuan?! That's my money, hand it over!"
Xiaoyun pursed her lips and whispered, "This is the money my mom saved up."
The man got even angrier, picked up an empty wine bottle and smashed it on the ground. Shards flew everywhere and landed on Xiaoyun's shoes.
"Your mom's savings are my money too!"
He was about to say something more when the kitchen partition was pulled open, and his mother, wearing a dirty apron and with unwashed hands, hurriedly shielded Xiaoyun.
She looked at the man, her usually meek face now showing a rare display of anger.
"Didn't we agree on this? Why are you yelling at the child!"
The man immediately stood up, pointed at Yun's mother's nose, and cursed her with a string of foul language, but Xiao Yun didn't hear a word he said. All she could see was her mother's swollen and bruised face and the fresh cut on her wrist.
Her mind went blank for a moment, and the next second, she pulled her mother away, glared at the man, and shouted angrily.
"Who told you to hit my mom? Didn't you say you wouldn't last time?!"
Xiaoyun's voice was very powerful, but unfortunately her delicate appearance couldn't support that fierceness.
The man looked at her and sneered, "Little brat, you think you've grown wings? Haven't I beaten you enough?"
He threw a bottle at Xiaoyun. Unexpectedly, Xiaoyun closed her eyes in panic. The next second, the bottle hit Xiaoyun's mother's back with a thud.
As her body went limp, Yun's mother collapsed into Xiao Yun's arms. The latter looked at her mother's face contorted in pain, and the anger buried deep in her heart erupted like molten lava, her expression instantly changing from shock to rage.
She gripped the Gru Ball at her waist and flung it out. The Gluttonous Mole, with a ferocious expression, appeared and grabbed the man's throat, its left fist glowing white light as it awaited the trainer's command.
Seeing her stepfather kicking wildly in panic, Xiaoyun's expression twisted into a ferocious grimace: "Gluttonous mole, kill him—"
"No! Xiaoyun..."
Yun's mother dragged herself along, holding onto Xiao Yun, enduring the pain and trying her best to keep a gentle expression.
Her voice trembled slightly: "This is illegal, you must take the fairy back immediately."
"I'm fine, really. Go to your room, be good..."
With her mind buzzing, Xiao Yun was pushed back to the bedroom by her mother. The gluttonous mole that had been restraining the man eventually turned into white light and flew back into the ball.
Outside the door, the sound of a man angrily smashing things seeped into Xiaoyun's ears through the crack in the door.
She curled up on the ground, pressing her face against the door frame and burying it in her knees.
The noise outside grew louder and louder.
"Damn it, I told you not to make her a trainer! I spent so much money on her, and she can't even make the main team. She's got some nerve, daring to challenge me!"
"Believe it or not, I'll call my uncle right now and have the police arrest that little bitch!"
The sounds of things being smashed were accompanied by the mother's pleas. Fortunately, perhaps because of Xiaoyun's desperate resistance, the man stopped hitting her and just kept smashing things.
After the commotion subsided and the man slammed the door and went back to his room, Xiaoyun quietly opened the door a crack.
She saw her mother sitting in the ruins, struggling and exhausted to pick up the broken glass.
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Sunshine Community, Unit 2, Room 3605.
Lin Chong swallowed a mouthful of rice, looking at the stream with a helpless expression.
"I know you're having a lot of fun with your new phone, but you can't stay home all the time, you'll get bored!"
Across the table, Xiaoxi glared at Lin Chong, baring her teeth, and said, "Is this your reason for setting up tutoring classes for me?"
"My grades aren't bad, why waste this money? Besides, if all else fails, I can just go out and have fun!"
"No way." Lin Chong said sternly, "You're not an adult yet. What if you encounter danger alone?"
It was quite unusual for the brother and sister, who rarely argued, to be at an impasse at the dinner table.
Here's what happened: Since the two of them had just moved to Yangzhou, they were unfamiliar with the place and didn't have any friends. Lin Chong felt that Xiao Xi was spending all her time at home playing on her phone, which was affecting her physical and mental health, so he wanted her to go out for a walk.
However, Xiaoxi is two years younger than him and is only 16 this year. Lin Chong was really worried about letting her go out alone without any company, which is why he came up with the idea of enrolling her in tutoring classes.
Seeing the stream's resistance, Lin Chong took a step back.
"Alright, no tutoring classes. How about you come with me tomorrow to a breeding center to check on the Pokémon eggs? Just to get some fresh air."
Upon hearing this, Xiaoxi, who had just been grinning, instantly changed her expression and exclaimed happily, "My God, brother, you're the best brother in the world!"
She got off the table and ran over to give Lin Chong a hug; she was getting bored staying at home all day.
Helpless, Lin Chong took out his phone and sent a message to Li Weize, with whom he had arranged to train the next day.
At that moment, in another corner of Yangzhou, Li Weize, who had spent the entire afternoon preparing a detailed schedule for Lin Chong, including "what to do every fifteen minutes," looked at the "leave application" on his phone.
He fell into deep thought.