Chapter 21: Being cured (1/2)
TL: flarewk
The time now was slightly a little over 5 am in the morning. Previously, I always made western-style breakfasts, as it's more simple and less time-consuming to make. But since today's time was rather luxurious, I'll just make a more scrumptious breakfast instead.
Just when I was starting to wash the rice in order to cook porridge, a 'Huaaa~' yawning sound resounded from the living room's entrance. It's Laomā, who had walked into the living room.
Her hair had been slept into an utter mess, with her panda eyes being as thick as usual, as both of her arms hanged loosely from the shoulders, carrying an unmotivated look on her face. With this kind of condition, rather than saying she didn't sleep properly, it's more like she didn't sleep enough.
”Mm? Jun Cheng? You've awakened that early...........”
”That should be you instead, didn't you mention that you're able to rest today? Why did you wake up so early?”
It's only 5.30 and yet she had woken up already, I had thought that Laomā would be sleeping all the way till noon before waking up. I was planning to prepare her lunch as well when I'm making the lunchboxes later, but I didn't expect that she would actually wake up at such an early time.
”Ahh, it's because I thought that it's rare that I'm home, so I wanted to make breakfast for all of you for once~. It's Jun Cheng who's been preparing breakfast all along these two years, right. This motherly role of mine is simply too irresponsible already...........”
”Heeh, it's nothing as well, I'm already used to it.”
Because of Laomā's work, she would often return home in the middle of the night, hence it would be hard-pressed for her to prepare breakfast for us in the morning.
But all the way until I've graduated from elementary school, Laomā still persevered doing it. Afterwards, because I really didn't want her to be that overworked, I thus actively took over this mission from her.
In other people's eyes, doing household chores was probably an extremely troublesome and unenthusiastic act to carry out. Indeed, when I just started doing them, I had those sort of feelings too since I wasn't used to it yet at that time. But since I was rather free anyway, doing household chores could also help me while away my spare time. Also, it's not bad feeling as well, being able to master the skills of doing these household chores. While in the act of both sweeping and tidying, seeing everything to be in proper order would make my mood be gratified. It's the same as well when I'm doing the cooking, and I especially love making desserts, as kneading the dough, baking cakes and all were actually rather interesting things.
Also, ”Veggies swift slicing”, ”Carrots pattern carving”, ”Pan-tossing” and so on, don't these skills look to be rather cool too?
”Just leave it to me for today, Jun Cheng. What were you preparing to make?”
”Umm, about that; adzuki bean porridge, stir-fry celery with cashew nuts, green pepper scrambled eggs, fruit salad, and maybe some taro cake as well.”
”Huh? Adzuki bean porridge, it's red bean porridge right? Taro cake, err..........”
Laomā awkwardly combed her hair; maybe she wasn't that clear on those dishes that I was talking about.
”Ahaha, just let me do it, mom, go ahead and lie on the sofa and catch some more z's.”
After the sole cook of the household changed holders to me, I of course kept improving myself continuously. Because Laomā and Laobà's provided allowance wasn't less at all, plus the fact that they also specially bought an oven for me, hence I'll often go buy a few ingredients to experiment new dishes. The menu of course was from Laomā's initial teachings which then expanded to many more varieties later on.
”You've unconsciously grown so big already huh, my dearest son.”
Laomā suddenly became reminisced, as she hugged me from behind and plastered her cheeks onto my back.
The act of hugging me from the back made me recall that scenario where Xin Ran earlier hugged me in the washroom, and my entire body gave off a shudder as a result, nearly making me cut my finger.
”Err, mom? What are you doing...........”
”Just lemme hug for a little while~, no hugs anymore after you've grown up? Sobsobsob, mummy is about to cry already mn?”
”Don't play already, it's dangerous here.”
”I remembered during the start last time you still called me An Yue-ahyi, and you even blushed when you called me mummy for the first time too, huhu~ just like that, 10 years had gone already huh..........”
”Yeah.........”
”Fufu, that girl, Ke Ling would definitely be head over heels for a gege like you.”
”Huh?”
I didn't expect that the problem I was worrying about to be actually spoken out of Laomā's mouth, which made my entire body freeze up instantaneously.
But because Laomā was behind my back, she didn't notice onto my abnormality, and continued to use a casual tone to speak: ”Since that girl's favorite type of men are the same as mine~, and since you're so alike with your dad, she'll definitely like you very much till the point of being hopeless.”
Phew...........it nearly scared me to death, as I thought Laomā knew about something already.
”Is that so?”
”It's definitely like that! And Xin Ran as well! Although she expressed it rather aloofly, but she must be a good meimei who loves gege a lot, since she's..........cough, anyway, she definitely must be in love with you.”
”Ahaha.........”
Laomā, you had really hit the nail onto that one, she's indeed a good meimei who loves her gege, except that her love was way too overboard already...........
”And so my dearest son, you'd better be careful with that girl Ke Ling, who knows that there's a day when she'll do something extremely overboard.”
”It can't be, Ke Ling's so well-behaved...........”
Although that 'Haraguro type' on her title made me a little concerned, but since it's pink-colored and carried a 'bro-con' as well, it should be fine then...........maybe............
”Fufu, who knows, last time when I was chasing after your Laobà, I used a lot of means as well, mm? That girl's my own daughter after all..........”
What made me very concerned from that speech, was that did Ke Ling too learn plenty of those means under her listening and viewing from your examples?
Wah! Laomā, what did you exactly teach her!
That's why she would be a haraguro type, right!
Return my gentle, kind, cute and clingy Ke Ling-meimei to me!
”Well, the useless mummy will then wait to eat her dearest son's personally made breakfast~ good luuck~, Jun Cheng~”
”Okay, okay..........”
After an hour later, when it's almost reaching 6.20, I finished making breakfast as well as lunchboxes for lunchtime later. It's time to call both meimeis to wake up.
After taking off the apron and hanging onto the hook by the fridge, I woke up Laomā who was drooling while she slept noisily on the sofa, and proceeded up to the second floor afterwards, preparing to wake meimei up.
I've just walked up to the second floor when I met Xin Ran who had already put on her school uniform, and although she looked to be no different from last time, the feeling she gave to me was that she's way different from then already.
”Breakfast is done, go downstairs and eat it, alright.”
”Mm.”
”Then I'll first go wake Ke Ling up then.”
”Gege.”
”Mm?”
”Ke Ling, she..........comfort her well.”
”Ahh? Comfort? What do you mean? Ah, ooii!”
Xin Ran didn't give me an answer at all, but straightaway walked downstairs, with only the back of her figure being displayed to me.
Why did she suddenly change back to her aloof personality again already, at least explain your words properly...........
I shook my head and walked to the front of Ke Ling's door and gently knocked 3 times. I didn't get any response at all, hence I just directly pushed open the door and entered. Let me say this beforehand, I've already obtained Ke Ling's permission to just directly open the door and enter when I'm waking her up in the morning, otherwise I absolutely wouldn't do any such thing like barging inside my meimei's room without consent at all!
Entering the room that was almost seemingly stuffed full with dolls, I came to Ke Ling's bedside and gently called out.
”Ke Ling, time to wake up~.”