By the time Jiang Zhaoyu arrived home, dusk had already fallen.
Xu Yin was helping to serve the dishes. She had just put down the new dish Xu's father was thinking about - beef stuffed with bitter melon. When she heard a movement at the door, she looked up.
Wearing a black windbreaker and a black baseball cap, he put one hand in his pocket, unlocked the door's code lock and walked in, carrying a gust of late autumn evening wind.
"Have you arrived? Is the road blocked? Are you hungry? Yinyin, what are you doing standing there? Go and get your brother a pair of slippers."
Hearing this, Xu Yin trotted to the entrance, took out a pair of men's linen slippers newly bought by Xu's father from the shoe cabinet, placed them in front of his feet, and smiled with a crooked eyebrow: "Brother, your old slippers were thrown into the washing machine by my father. It’s washed out.”
Dad Xu laughed and cursed: "Did I ask you to file a complaint?"
Xu Yin turned around and made a face at her father.
Jiang Zhaoyu lowered his eyes and looked at the khaki handmade linen slippers on the ground, his eyes thoughtful.
At first glance, you can tell that these slippers were brought by Wu Ming, the waiter at Xu’s dad’s shop, from his hometown.
Wu Ming's family is not in good condition. There is a blind father and a disabled mother at home, but his mother is very good at craftsmanship and the linen slippers she makes are very comfortable to wear. After Xu's father found out, he would ask Wu Ming to order a few pairs every year. In addition to wearing them at home, he also made Let your son and daughter take two pairs to the dormitory.
He was not surprised by any of this. What was surprising was that his stepsister just smiled at him before Father Xu looked over.
That smile was bright and true, without any pretense. It was completely different from her before.
Xu Yin noticed that Jiang Zhaoyu had been looking at her.
One meal gave her a toothache and a headache.
Thinking carefully about the plot and characters, wasn't the original person very warm and friendly to Xu's father or other relatives and friends?
She asked herself if she had revealed her secret.
What is wrong?
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn't figure it out, so I simply gave it up and stopped thinking about it.
“Dad, as you promised me just now, the yard is empty and I can plant whatever I want. Then I’ll buy seeds tomorrow.”
Dad Xu is serving soup to the two children.
Ever since his son entered the entertainment industry and became a singer, he has never cooked a soup that is too complicated. Being a singer means you have many dietary taboos. You can’t eat this or that, so just keep it simple.
Yesterday, I asked the owner of the aquatic product store to get two wild crucian carp native to the large reservoir and stewed a pot of milky-white shredded radish fish soup without adding any seasoning except salt. It strengthens the spleen, removes dampness, nourishes yin and nourishes the lungs.
Hearing what my daughter said, the hand holding the soup trembled: "Do you really want to plant it? The lawn has not been taken care of. It is ugly, but it is a little green at least. If you want to turn them over to plant flowers, what will happen if you can't plant them by then? manage?"
Then isn’t there any green left in your yard?
Take a look at your neighbor's yard. The yard is as neat as a garden, with flowers blooming all year round. Look at your own yard. Except for the natural lawn planted before the developer handed it over, nothing has been planted. It hasn't been planted since we moved in. There is no time to take care of it, and in autumn, the dead leaves of the street trees in the backyard float in. At first glance, it does look a bit shabby.
No matter how shabby it is, it is still better than plowing the lawn and exposing the soil.
Jiang Zhaoyu took the first bowl of soup handed to him by Father Xu and put it in front of Xu Yin: "Yin Yin likes flowers? There's no need to grow them yourself. I have a friend who owns a flower shop and sells potted plants. What do you like? Flowers, I’ll pick out some pots for you.”
Dad Xu nodded repeatedly: "It's a good idea. It doesn't take a lot of care and it also embellishes the yard."
After serving soup to the two children, he sat down and poured himself a cup of tea.
Xu Yin took a sip of the soup and said, "I didn't say grow flowers, I plan to grow vegetables." "Pfft-"
Dad Xu choked on his tea.
Jiang Zhaoyu almost dropped the spoon in his hand.
"Yin Yin, do you have any misunderstandings about growing vegetables?" Father Xu talked about his experience of growing vegetables when he was a child. "Growing vegetables is tiring and dirty, and it smelled very bad during the days of fertilizing. What fun is that? How about that?" Listen to your brother and buy you some potted flowers to keep in the yard, which is both convenient and beautiful!"
Jiang Zhaoyu nodded and took out his cell phone: "I'll contact my friends now."
Xu Yin: “…”
Is this battle too big?
She just picked up a random topic and found something to do for herself.
【Ding—The courtyard is harmonious and the family is prosperous! Create the most beautiful garden and enjoy a beautiful life! If the courtyard landscape is praised by 10,000 people, it will be rewarded with 2,000 energy points; if it is praised by 100,000 people, it will be rewarded with 20,000 energy points; if it is praised by one million people, the progress bar will increase by 1-3%. 】
…”
Dog system, did you use the energy points from your sister’s commission to buy a villa and then need to decorate the courtyard?
Are you going to give her another hard problem?
Is the landscape courtyard simply about growing flowers or vegetables?
But the rewards thrown out this time are really tempting—the progress bar advances by 1%-3%!
She has only made this little progress in completing a small world mission.
I don’t know if he saw the confusion written on her face. When he went upstairs at night, Jiang Zhaoyu handed Xu Yin a card.
“Don’t you want to go shopping tomorrow? Buy whatever you like. If it’s not enough, give me a call.”
Xu Yin subconsciously wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, she accepted it: "Thank you, brother."
To pull him out of depression, breaking the barriers between each other and conveying the warmth of relatives is the first step.
Jiang Zhaoyu seemed to be relieved, glanced at her, waved his hands without saying anything, walked through the corridor, and returned to his room.
Xu Yin’s room is at the other end. It was originally the master bedroom, with an independent bathroom, a dressing room, and a large terrace.
When the rooms were divided, Jiang Zhaoyu left this room to Xu's father, and Xu's father gave it to his daughter. The two men chose the guest room.
When his daughter is older, Xu’s father will not knock on his daughter’s door. Due to Jiang Zhaoyu’s step-sister’s rejection of him, people from the other side of the stairs rarely come over, let alone knocking on the door. The boundary between Chu and Han is quite clear.
But none of them could have guessed that the girl's room was so empty.
I'm afraid Yuan She didn't want to move here at all. She felt that living in the house that Jiang Zhaoyu paid for with a down payment would be tantamount to accepting him and his mother, which was a betrayal of her own mother.
Therefore, after moving, she quietly moved her belongings out in several trips with the help of suitcases and schoolbags. Some were placed in the dormitory and some were stored at Qian Mingyue's house.
Qian Mingyue is a native of the capital. Her family runs a pet hospital, and she keeps her rarely used luggage and items in the storage room of the Qian's pet hospital. The bedroom is as empty as a guest room that has not been occupied all year round.
The only traces left behind are two foxes, one large and one small, drawn with lipstick on the lower right corner of the dressing mirror. A long knife passed through the bodies of the two foxes, and the tip of the knife was so sharp that it seemed like it could pierce the mirror.
The lipstick has dried, which shows that it took a long time to paint it. Maybe it was painted just after moving in.
The original person's hatred and disgust for his stepmother and stepbrother were so deep.