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Seeing that Chung Chor-hung refused to return the record, Chung's mother no longer cared that Li Huai-ren was right next to her. She glared at Chung Chor-hung, then looked around for something easy to use to spank her, and started yelling:

"Oh dear, you damn woman, if you don't return it, we don't have a record player at home. Are you going to buy a record player just for this record?"

"Is your butt itchy again?"

When Chung Chor-hung saw her mother looking for something to grab, she instinctively touched her buttocks with her right hand, having already endured countless beatings, then turned and ran upstairs.

Just as Mrs. Zhong got her hands on a ruler, she saw that her daughter had already slipped away. So she tapped the edge of the tailor table with the ruler and said sullenly:

"You damn woman, if you're even a second too late, you'll be sorry!"

After saying that, she turned and glanced at Li Huai-ren, who was already used to it, and said:

"Ah Ren, Ah Hong is back. I'll go to Tseung Kwan O now and register the clothing sizes of the people you mentioned."

"By the way, it's so hot, you need to cool down. Remember to go upstairs and have a bowl of mung bean soup before you leave."

Seeing that the sun was blazing outside, Li Huai-ren quickly said:

"Auntie, it's too sunny outside. Let me drive you there."

Upon hearing this, Mother Zhong smiled and gently patted his arm.

"You're worth thousands or tens of thousands every minute, how can you waste your time accompanying me to register my clothing size?"

Don't worry, I got your big order today, so I'll be extravagant for once. I'll take a taxi there and back.

"I'm leaving now. You go upstairs and have some mung bean soup, and tell Ah Hong to come down and watch the shop."

After saying that, she picked up a handbag hanging behind the door, slung it over her shoulder, and went out.

Seeing her board the minibus heading to Clearwater Bay at the street corner, Li Huai-ren shook his head helplessly, but felt a warmth in his heart.

Just then, Chung Chor-hung's voice rang out behind him:

"I don't know what kind of spell you've cast on my mom. She's been making mung bean soup every morning for the past few days. She said it's been so hot lately, and you can have a couple of bowls to cool her down."

Li Huai-ren turned around and saw that Chung Chu-hung had already brought the mung bean soup down from the pot. Behind her, Chung's younger brother was holding a small spoon, and her two younger sisters were holding a bowl and a large soup ladle, respectively.

This scene, this feeling, this taste, this lifestyle of living and growing up with multiple siblings is exactly what Li Huai-ren, one of the millions of only children in his previous life, envied and longed for the most!

He looked at them gently, smiled, and without saying a word, took the bowl and spoon they offered, ladled out a bowl of mung bean soup, and began to eat.

He suddenly realized that today's mung bean soup was sweeter than the one his mother had made before, and much sweeter.

After eating two bowls of mung bean soup, he put down his bowl and turned to the three Chung sisters, saying:

"Oh, right, Auntie left so quickly that I forgot to tell her that I've already arranged for you three sisters to transfer schools. Starting next semester, you three will go directly to Maryknoll Convent School."

Maryknoll Convent School was founded in 1925 by the Sisters Maryknoll of the Catholic Church. It is a girls' secondary school with primary and secondary sections.

Both the secondary and primary sections are subsidized schools, not private schools. Students do not need to pay tuition fees, and the main language of instruction is English.

Primary school graduates can directly enter the secondary school, and the secondary school reserves up to 85% of the places for primary school graduates.

Kwan Ka-wai and Chan Yuk-lin attend this girls' school. Next semester, Teresa Teng will also enroll at the school and become a Form Five student.

This was accomplished through the request of Chung's parents to Li Huai-ren to use their connections to get Chung Chu-hung and her two sisters into Maryknoll Convent School, a prestigious school.

Chung Chu-hung glanced at Li Huai-ren but said nothing.

When her two younger sisters learned that they could attend the prestigious school they had always dreamed of, they jumped for joy, shouting with excitement.

Li Huai-ren smiled, and taking advantage of their good mood, he told them what was going on, then pulled Zhong Xiao-di into the car.

Half an hour later, Li Huai-ren got out of the car carrying a newly bought record player. Zhong Xiaodi pushed open the left rear door, got out of the car carrying large and small bags of plastic bags printed with "Yung Kee Roast Meat Shop," and laboriously pushed the car door back open with his buttocks, shouting loudly:

"Big sister, Brother Ren chopped up several of your favorite roast goose legs, plus a whole roast goose, a salted chicken, and two pounds of roast pork. I can't carry them all!"

When Chung Chu-hung saw Li Huai-ren holding a record player and heard her brother's words, she was stunned for a moment, then the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, and a smile flashed in her beautiful eyes.

Immediately, faster than a Sichuan opera face-changing act, she reverted to her usual stern expression towards Li Huai-ren, went out of the shop to greet him, bypassed Li Huai-ren, and took the large and small bags from her younger brother's hands.

Li Huai-ren had long known that Chung Chu-hung was a fiery woman, tough on the outside but soft on the inside, a typical example of someone with a sharp tongue but a kind heart.

He glanced at Cherie Chung, who for the first time since they met hadn't given him the silent treatment, then picked up his record player and headed straight upstairs.

Neither of Chung's parents returned at noon. Li Huai-ren had lunch with Chung Chu-hung and her siblings before driving away.

Chung Chu-hung was staring blankly at Li Huai-ren's departing car when Chung's younger brother, who was gnawing on a roast goose leg, suddenly nudged her arm with his left index finger and said:

"Big sister, that's so strange, how did Ah Ren know what you like to eat?"

After we bought the record player, Ah Ren went to Yung Kee Roast Meat Shop, your favorite place to buy meat, and bought a ton of your favorite roast goose legs, as well as salted chicken and roast pork.

After saying that, he looked at Chung Chu-hung, stuffed the roast goose leg he was holding in his right hand into his mouth, tapped his two thumbs together, then took the roast goose leg out of his mouth and grinned foolishly:

"Hey, big sister, are you and Ah Ren dating like in the movies?"

Chung Chor-hung was stunned for a moment, then felt extremely embarrassed, and then became furious, shouting:

"Slap you on the head, you're asking for it again, aren't you?"

Little Zhong pouted and muttered in a low voice, looking aggrieved:

"Big sister, Ah Ren is a good guy, I didn't say anything wrong..."

"You still dare to say that? I'm telling you, the ten dollars I borrowed from you this morning is not going to be paid back, hmph."

Seeing his older sister raise her hand to slap him on the buttocks, and hearing her threaten him not to pay back the money, Zhong Xiaodi calmly took out several ten-dollar Hong Kong dollars from his pocket with his left hand, waved them around, and said with an extremely infuriating expression:

"Tch, Ah Ren has already returned the money you stole from me, my second sister, and my third sister. I'm so scared."

After saying that, he took off running.

Chung Chu-hung was taken aback, then, with a smile in her eyes, she feigned anger and said:

"Hey, Zhong XX, are you looking for death?!"

After her younger brother and two younger sisters ran upstairs to "divide the spoils," Cherie Chung pondered for a long time, then suddenly sighed, having made up her mind, and said:

"Sigh, since I'm tone-deaf and can't sing, how about I learn to act and work for your Phoenix Film Company in the future?"