Chapter 6 Part 2
Translator: Rya
The black cat seemed unable to stand the chatter of the human cubs and wanted to go home. Halfway through, it stretched out its traction rope, as if to remind the young master to hurry up and walk.
Liang Shuangqi pulled the traction rope, and he waved goodbye to Chu Xiaoxiao: "Xiao Xiao, I am going home. Goodbye."
Chu Xiaoxiao: "Goodbye."
Chu Xiaoxiao looked at the person and the cat who left. She always felt that the cat was walking the boy, not the boy walking the cat. She wandered in the yard for a while, found that it was already dark before returned to the house.
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During the Spring Festival, Chu Xiaoyi returned home for the first time in five years, which also brought a lot of changes to the lives of his family. According to the customs of previous years, Grandma, Granduncle, and Grandaunt will return to the old town after the New Year’s Eve dinner. The three old people have their own rhythm of life and cannot live with the children.
However, Chu Xiaoyi finally came back once in a while, so no one dared to leave at will, and they all planned to hold on until he left first. The family members were so eager to entertain him day after day that Chu Xiao Yi was under great pressure and could only respond politely and gently to everything. This is simply a strange phenomenon. Chu Xiaoyi feels that he is not like going home, but like living in a relative's house walking on thin ice, not daring to cause any trouble at all.
No one mentions the past, as if the memories have been easily turned over, leaving only home and people and everything.
The most relaxing moment for Chu Xiaoyi was when he was alone with Chu Xiaoxiao. They didn't have to pretend to each other, let alone talk politely in disguise. If the elders find that Chu Xiaoyi is reticent, then the matter will become a big deal. They will awkwardly chat with him, lest Chu Xiaoyi feels left out.
To avoid this situation, Chu Xiaoyi couldn't wait to stick to the Little Thing from time to time, and he almost annoyed Chu Xiaoxiao to death. Now that Chu Xiaoxiao has acquired a new skill, she can now treat her cheap brother like a cloud of air and ignore him no matter how he floats in front of her.
Chu Xiaoyi regards Chu Xiaoxiao as a tool to escape the awkward chat of the elders, and Chu Xiaoxiao regards Chu Xiaoyi as an invisible, colorless and tasteless fart(?).
However, Chu Xiaoyi used the same tricks too much, which also made the parents notice something odd. Chu Jiadong realized that the two brothers and sisters were silent to each other in the living room. He stepped in to warm up the atmosphere, expecting his children to get acquainted with each other, and suggested, "Xiao Xiao, do you want to show your brother your foreign language courses?"
Chu Jiadong felt that it was not good for the two not to say a word. So he wanted to choose a project their children are good at, and let them try to break the ice.
Chu Xiaoyi didn't speak, pretending to lower his head and scrolling the phone without looking at his father's eyes. Chu Xiaoxiao was watching the iPad, and she refused without raising her head: "No."
Chu Jiadong said with a good temper: "Then, do you want to listen to your brother singing? Your brother is very good at singing and dancing?"
Chu Xiaoxiao raised her head this time, and she said seriously: "Why don't Daddy show us foreign language courses and then sing and dance? I think Brother and I will be very happy?"
Chu Xiaoyi happily echoed: "I think so too ."
Chu Jiadong: "..." Very good, they succeeded in breaking the ice by striking themselves in unison.
Xiao Bi happened to be passed by the living room. Seeing her husband was defeated in front of the children, she sighed helplessly and suggested: "Xiao Yi, you take Xiao Xiao out to buy some fruit. You should also go shopping outside. Don't just stay at home."
Xiao Bi’s prestige at home is obviously the highest. Chu Xiaoyi can only put on his coat honestly, wrapped himself up tightly, and took the Little Thing for a walk. He had a little temper towards his father, but he was rather powerless and reluctant to contradict his mother.
Chu Xiaoxiao also wore her little padded jacket. She looked at her cheap brother wearing a black mask and a peaked cap, and commented: "You dress like a thief who steals a manhole cover."
Chu Xiaoyi, who considers himself a fashionable person: "?"
Chu Xiaoxiao didn't understand Chu Xiaoyi's fashion items at all, yet felt inwardly that he was really poor. He actually wears jeans in the winter, and there was a tear on his left knee, which seems to have been cut by a blade. Will this not expose to the cold wind?
The two had already walked out of the house, Chu Xiaoxiao stretched out her little hand, pulled the gap on his knee, and raised her eyebrows: "Let’s go back first and let Grandaunt sew it on for you. Then we'll go out and buy fruit."
Chu Xiaoyi: "????"
Chu Xiaoyi smiled in anger. He was so angry that he wanted to squeeze her little cheek, and he retorted: "This is where it's worth the money. If it hadn't been for this rip, I wouldn't have worn it again!"
The highlight of this pair of jeans was the tear on the left knee, which looks both simple and casual, and was considered the finishing touch. Without this particular rip, it would have been a mediocre pair of jeans, but now with the designer's inspired addition, it had leaped to become a big-name item.
Chu Xiaoxiao didn't understand the trend for the time being. She really showed a confused look and asked, "Could it be that this is the bowl for beggars to beg for. If you don't have a bowl, you won't be able to eat?"
Chu Xiaoxiao: Why are ripped pants better instead? Is he begging for food outside?
Chu Xiaoyi: "..."
He felt that his sister was not talented in foreign languages, but rather proficient in phrasing and sentence making. She can always use various rhetoric techniques to render people speechless.
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Hahaha 🤣😂 Xiaoxiao is soo cute.
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