Chapter 679 - His Mother must be Tanned (2/2)

Meanwhile, Du Jingtang was still looking on curiously, waiting for her reply.

“I came to earn my keep.” Xia Ruoxin smiled and held the hand on her knee tightly. “The salary here was pretty high. I didn’t want to be a cleaner so I had to work here.”

“Here? Oh, could it be…?” Du Jingtang reacted immediately. Could all of this be his brother’s doing? Like what he said before, he would not come up with a new department for absolutely no reason.

“Could it be what?” Xia Ruoxin was sensitive enough to feel that Du Jingtang was hiding something from her.

“Oh, nothing much.” Du Jingtang hurriedly laughed along. He was not stupid; if he spilled about this incident, he would probably be killed for it.

Nonetheless, he could not say it. Over his dead body.

He did not dare stay for long so he ran away. However, he did not forget that he could see his Little Cutie after work. It would be even better if he could bring Little Cutie home; his mother would love it and would not bother him anymore.

When Xia Ruoxin went to fetch her daughter, a friend was following behind. At school, all the children were secretly discussing Du Jingtang’s appearance.

“That Uncle is really black.”

“Yes, he is. He must have put on his mother’s mask.”

“No, he must have been burnt by fire.”

“His mother must be black, too.”

These little kids carried on one after another, which made Du Jingtang want to dig a hole and hide inside with his head.

Xia Ruoxin took Rainy over from Teacher Xiao Meng. Rainy held her mother’s hand and tilted her head curiously to look at the foreigner with glowing black skin.

“Little Cutie, do you not recognize Uncle anymore?” Du Jingtang was holding his heart in his hand and felt as though it was going to break. Did his Little Cutie not recognize him anymore? However, it had only been less than a year since they last met.

Rainy hid herself in her mother’s embrace; only her pair of eyes turned to stare at Du Jingtang from time to time.

“Uncle?” she said softly as she was not sure if she recognized the right person.

“That’s right. I am.” Du Jingtang pointed at himself. “I am your most handsome and closest Uncle!”

“Come over, give Uncle a hug.” He bent down and opened his arms for Rainy.

Rainy held onto her mother’s sleeves tightly, obvious that she was shocked by Du Jingtang’s skin color.

“Go on, that is Uncle.” Xia Ruoxin laughed as she explained to her daughter, “Uncle was under Mr. Sun for too long so his skin became tanned. Even though his skin is black, his heart is still white.”

Du Jingtang was literally close to tears. Sister Ruoxin, did you have to be so harsh?

However, Rainy was brave this time and shuffled her small feet over to stand in front of Du Jingtang. She placed her face right in front of Du Jingtang and looked at his black face intently.

Of course, it was still her Uncle.

“Uncle, hug.” She extended her hands to let Du Jingtang hug her. She still remembered Du Jingtang.

“How cute.” Du Jingtang hurriedly hugged the well-behaved girlie on the floor. He was happy to the point where he lost his direction.

However, with Du Jingtang as Rainy’s babysitter, Xia Ruoxin had the time to do her other stuff. She went to buy groceries and did not forget that she promised Du Jingtang a meal.

She cooked up a decent feast, and when she brought it out, Du Jingtang and Rainy were playing very happily. He was really a big boy so for the child Rainy, he was a good companion.