"?"
"What did you just say?"
"..."
The girl kept swinging her legs, letting Peach climb all over her back. She turned and gave Zhang Suannai a puzzled look.
There really was something wrong with her, wasn't there?
She should go to the hospital.
Still, she obediently repeated herself:
"Brother-in-law."
"..."
Zhang Suannai froze.
Ning Qing had said it before too, but Zhang Suannai had assumed Ning Qing was brushing her off, making something up because she didn't want to talk.
It was impossible, anyway...
But if Xiaoxiao said it too, and had called him Brother-in-law out of nowhere, clearly not just to shut her up, then this was absurd.
"Are you okay, Zhang Suannai?" The girl stole a glance at her and, being kind, asked.
"..." Zhang Suannai slowly came back to herself and turned to stare hard at the girl. "Your sister got married??"
"No."
"She has a boyfriend?"
"No."
"Then who's this brother-in-law?"
"He's my brother-in-law."
"Why do you call him Brother-in-law?"
"Because he's my brother-in-law."
"..."
Zhang Suannai was close to breaking down.
Who would have thought that she, who had loved talking to people since childhood and could chat with a wooden post for half a day, would ever reach a point where she didn't want to keep talking?
But she held herself together and asked, "If he isn't your sister's husband or her boyfriend, why do you call him Brother-in-law?"
The girl answered as honestly, earnestly, and seriously as ever: "Because he's my brother-in-law."
"Ah!!!"
Zhang Suannai pounded the table.
She was about to lose it.
And just then, the girl turned her head and looked at her with concern while swinging her legs. "What's wrong, Zhang Suannai?"
"!!!"
Zhang Suannai ground her teeth.
She desperately wanted the truth, and she was asking the