Chapter 644: Chapter 644: Coming to School to Find Someone Chapter 644: Chapter 644: Coming to School to Find Someone Uncle Li, who sold sweet potatoes, handed a few sweet potatoes to three students.

“I always believed you were wronged, so here, today’s sweet potatoes are on me.”

The vendor smiled, and Lu Zhu waved her hand, “No, today I said I’d treat my friends.”

Qu Ruorui gently nudged Yue Qingqing with her elbow, her big eyes filled with wonder.

Lu Zhu actually called them friends.

Yue Qingqing smiled and peeled off the caramelized skin of the sweet potato, revealing the soft, sweet yellow flesh inside.

She took a bite and her tongue was scalded a bit, but she couldn’t help swallowing it before it had cooled.

Uncle Li and Lu Zhu chatted, “What about that wicked old lady? Can’t she be sent to jail?”

Lu Zhu tossed the sweet potato between her hands, “The police said it’s difficult, she insisted she had made a mistake, and there’s no evidence she intentionally committed fraud.”

Although she confessed everything in front of the officers, her confession alone was not enough to convict her.

Plus, given her age, the officers said that elderly people of her age generally get suspended sentences instead of jail time.

However, as Lu Zhu was leaving, seeing the sister named Chu Bai sneer, she instinctively felt that the mother and son duo wouldn’t have it easy.

The sweet potato vendor didn’t know these details and continued to express his regret.

“People like her corrupt societal morals and should be arrested.”

The three of them were almost done eating their sweet potatoes and were preparing to go back for evening self-study when they suddenly heard a voice behind them.

“Excuse me, which way are the second-year classes?”

“We are parents of a student, looking for a girl named Lu Zhu.”

Hearing the voice, the three students turned around in unison.

They saw a middle-aged man with an old lady standing at the school gate.

Yue Qingqing saw the smile on Lu Zhu’s face disappear immediately.

“Let’s go quickly,” Lu Zhu didn’t want to interact with these two.

Although she didn’t know why they were looking for her after so long, Lu Zhu felt it couldn’t be for anything good.

However, before Lu Zhu could turn around, they were spotted.

“Oh, this is really a coincidence, no wonder they say ‘family will always find each other’–we found you without even looking.”

Lu Shao had a big smile, overflowing with enthusiasm.

The old lady had a gloomy face, and only after receiving multiple glances from her son did she reluctantly soften her expression and walked towards Lu Zhu.

“What are you doing here?” Lu Zhu looked at them as if they were strangers.

Unperturbed, Lu Shao chuckled, “What else could we be doing here but to see you? My, you’ve been cross with us for so many years? Why so stubborn.”

He tried to quickly gloss over past issues and reached out to pat Lu Zhu on the head.

Lu Zhu frowned and ducked away, bluntly saying, “Whatever reason you have for looking for me, stay away from me. Don’t try to get cozy. Just say what you want directly.”

The old lady erupted in anger, “You beastly thing, is this how you speak to your grandmother?”

She stretched out her hand to slap Lu Zhu.

But Lu Shao blocked it, “Mom, don’t be like this. You need to be patient when talking to the child.”

He comforted Lu Zhu, “Your grandma has just missed you too much, having not seen you for so long. Love deeply, chide deeply. Don’t think she means harm; at home, she often misses you, worrying whether our Xiaozhu is eating well and dressing warmly outside, it’s just that being an elder, she couldn’t lower her pride to come looking for you sooner.”

“When she saw on the news you were falsely accused, she cried for several days. She couldn’t take it anymore.”

The old lady huffed, “Who missed her? She doesn’t even think about home during New Year’s, does she even regard me as her grandmother?”

The two played good cop, bad cop, sketching a picture of a temperamental, disobedient girl. Passersby who heard them gave Lu Zhu extra glances, thinking she was really out of line.