"What story?" Jiang Ning deliberately slowed his ice-chiseling. He could have blasted an ice hole open with a single strike, but he would not display the spells he had mastered in front of Tongtong now.
Xue Yuantong looked toward the girl who had just been riding an ice sled. The girl sat on it with ice picks in hand, exposing a pair of slender, long legs that made Tongtong intensely jealous. Why was every random girl taller than her?!
Jiang Ning had definitely looked at her legs. Though Xue Yuantong had not caught him doing it, she trusted her instincts.
Damn it, all her money was in Jiang Ning's hands, and he still treated her like this. It was time to teach him a lesson! Xue Yuantong said, "Don't you think she looks like she's rowing a boat?"
"Definitely."
"Let me tell you, before our town built the big bridge, we could only take a boat whenever we wanted to cross the river." Xue Yuantong spoke in her crisp little voice. "There was an old grandpa who made money fishing and also worked as a ferryman. One day, he was taking his grandson to school when the wind and waves suddenly picked up and snapped his oar. Guess what the old grandpa said to his grandson?"
Jiang Ning kept chiseling. "What?"
Xue Yuantong grinned broadly, delighted. "Grandson, Grandpa's oar is all gone."
After hearing that, Jiang Ning pinched Tongtong's little ear and gave it a gentle twist. It was icy cold.
Xue Yuantong immediately covered her ear, pretending she had suffered terribly. In a pitiful voice, she said, "Jiang Ning, you've changed. You've become bad!"
She closed her little mouth, pain appearing on her small face as misty ripples shimmered in her eyes. "If you think I went too far,