Chapter 170 - Chapter 170: Chapter 170: Must Not Tarnish Your (1/2)
Chapter 170: Chapter 170: Must Not Tarnish Your
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“Mm, good,” Wei Ruo agreed, a bright smile on her face.
Looking at this smile, Wei Jinyi couldn’t help but soften his gaze.
Soon after, Wei Jinyi asked Wei Ruo, “Can we return a bit later today?”
Wei Ruo nodded.
Seeing this, the sprightly Xiaobei hurriedly said, “Then I’ll go and prepare some food, our courtyard may be small, but our kitchen is not!”
The few of them hadn’t sat down for a meal together in a long time.
Hearing this, Xiumei hurriedly said, “Your cooking is so bad, even good ingredients are wasted by you. Let me do it instead.”
“Yes, yes, Lady Xiumei is right,” Xiaobei said with a smile.
The two of them then went into the kitchen together.
Before Wei Ruo and Wei Jinyi could mention having a meal together, Xiaobei and Xiumei had already started preparing.
Wei Ruo and Wei Jinyi looked at each other, Wei Ruo laughed, “It seems that my Meimei wants to stay more than I do.”
As Xiumei and Xiaobei were busy in the kitchen, Wei Ruo prepared to sit in the main room with Wei Jinyi.
Wei Jinyi stopped her, “I’ll bring the table and chairs out.”
Wei Ruo asked, “Why?”
Wei Jinyi, “Men and women should act differently.”
Wei Ruo laughed, “You still held my hand just now even though men and women should act differently?”
Hearing this, Wei Jinyi was somewhat embarrassed and didn’t know how to respond.
Wei Ruo continued, “We’re siblings. We don’t need to care so much about certain rules.”
Wei Ruo, with a modern soul inside her, believed that men and women needed to maintain a certain distance. But it wasn’t so strict that they couldn’t be in the same room, especially when the other party was her own blood-related elder brother.
“I won’t ruin your reputation.”
After Wei Jinyi answered, he moved the tables and chairs to the courtyard.
Wei Ruo couldn’t help but wonder if he always avoided being under the same roof with her. Remembering his past habit of reading and painting in the pavilion and also dining there, she thought maybe it was not that he liked to do things in the pavilion, but to avoid sharing a room with her.
Wei Jinyi insisted, so Wei Ruo did not say anything else.
She then sat in the chair he brought and started to chat with him.
They chatted like old times, as if nothing had changed despite the long time they had not seen each other.
Lady Xiumei and Xiaobei then brought the prepared food.
Xiumei expressed to Wei Ruo how the kitchen here was bigger and more convenient than the one in their old house.
Xiaobei couldn’t help but praise Xiumei’s culinary skills: “Lady Xiumei is amazing. We have the same ingredients, but what I cook is dull and uninteresting, while what you cook is mouthwatering and irresistible.”
Xiumei laughed, “Xiaobei, did you use all the idioms you learned from your young master on this?”
Xiaobei embarrassedly laughed, scratching his head as he replied, “Miss, don’t make fun of me. I’m not good at studying, so I can’t compare to the young master. Don’t tell others that I learned from him, I don’t want to embarrass my young master.”
Xiumei laughed, “You better keep learning cooking from me, or be careful that your young master will fire you.”
Xiaobei quickly agreed, “I’m doing it, I’m doing it. As long as Lady Xiumei can spare the time to teach me, I guarantee that I’ll study hard to master a skill as soon as possible, so I won’t be sold by my young master!”
Wei Ruo and Xiumei both burst into laughter at Xiaobei’s words, and a warm smile silently appeared on Wei Jinyi’s face.