“Holy crap!”
“Practice exercises?!”
“What kind of evil thing is this?”
“I don’t want it! Take it away, take it away!”
Zhuo Wenmao looked like he was holding a bomb. Without even hesitating for a second, he threw it away immediately.
“Hey, that’s good stuff. Why did you throw it away?” Huang Xiaoxiao complained unhappily. She had specially prepared it for him.
Zhuo Wenmao glared at her.
He knew this woman had bad intentions.
“Fine, if you don’t want it, then forget it. I’ll just sell it for money.”
Huang Xiaoxiao picked up the beautifully packaged exercise book and dusted it off.
“What? Sell it?”
“Do you even know how much this thing costs?”
Zhuo Wenmao whipped his head around, eyes wide.
“Otherwise? You don’t want it.”
“If I don’t sell it, should I just let it collect dust in my hands?”
One of the children had specially given her those exercises as thanks for saving them. Apparently, they had originally been bought for that child’s younger brother.
She heard the thing was super expensive.
The moment Huang Xiaoxiao heard “expensive,” she didn’t even care whether it was useful or not and immediately stuffed it into her space.
Only while sorting through the gifts earlier did, she realize this thing was completely useless to her.
“You… you wasteful prodigal child!”
Zhuo Wenmao looked furious at her lack of appreciation.
“Give it to me!”
He snatched the exercise book away.
“Alright then, I’ll leave it to you.”
Hmph. Let’s see if I can’t handle one little brat.
After the gifts were distributed, Huang Xiaoxiao yawned.
“Well then, I’m going to take a nap. You two can play by yourselves.”
“Hey—” Zhuo Wenmao wanted to stop her.
But Zhuo Wenxuan pulled him back.
“Let her sleep.”
???
Zhuo Wenmao looked confused.
He blinked and stared at Zhuo Wenxuan.
What was going on?
Weren’t they supposed to be dealing with Huang Xiaoxiao together?
Why was she suddenly speaking up for her?
Zhuo Wenxuan pressed her lips together and stayed silent.
Just this once.
Next time, she definitely wouldn’t let her off.
……
This nap of Huang Xiaoxiao’s lasted all the way until night.
She checked the time. It was already nine in the evening.
Why hadn’t anyone woken her up for dinner?
Rubbing her stomach, she put on her shoes and walked into the living room.
“Why is it only you two? Where’s your big brother?” Huang Xiaoxiao asked.
The two children lazily raised their heads to look at her.
“Big Brother still isn’t back,” Zhuo Wenmao replied.
“He still isn’t back? Then have you eaten yet?”
“Obviously not!”
Zhuo Wenmao rolled his eyes at her.
What a stupid question.
Huang Xiaoxiao: “……”
Why was this kid’s mouth so unlikeable?
She walked into the kitchen and took out ingredients.
As the older brother, Zhuo Yi was really too careless.
He actually left two children at home alone.
Rustle rustle, clang clang…
After busying herself for more than half an hour—
a huge pot of fragrant mixed stew was finally ready.
“You two outside, come in and get the bowls,” Huang Xiaoxiao shouted toward the living room.
“We’re coming!”
The two children were already starving.
The moment they heard her, they rushed into the kitchen noisily.
One grabbed bowls, the other grabbed chopsticks.
Before the clock struck ten, they finally solved the issue of food and hunger.
Huang Xiaoxiao patted her stomach and lazily collapsed onto the sofa.
“So full. I didn’t expect your cooking to actually be pretty good.”
Zhuo Wenmao copied her posture, sprawled across the sofa like he had no bones.
Zhuo Wenxuan looked at them and felt it was extremely improper.
But seeing how comfortably the two were lying there, she eventually couldn’t resist either. She walked over to another sofa and lay down.
Mmm~
It actually felt pretty comfortable.
“Zhuo Wenxuan, go wash the dishes!”
Seeing everyone lying down, Huang Xiaoxiao shouted at her from across the room.
“What?”
“You want me to wash the dishes?”
Zhuo Wenxuan sprang upright from the sofa and pointed at herself.
“What’s wrong with that? I cooked. Don’t tell me you still expect me to wash the dishes too?”
“But I…”
“What ‘but I’?”
“Hurry up!”
Huang Xiaoxiao interrupted impatiently. She didn’t care about her excuses.
“Yeah, Third Sister, hurry up,” Zhuo Wenmao said, thinking Huang Xiaoxiao made sense.
“What do you mean ‘Third Sister, hurry up’? You’re going too.”
Don’t think you can escape just because you’re younger.
“Huh?”
“What ‘huh’? Hurry up!”
And so, Miss Zhuo Wenxuan and Young Master Zhuo Wenmao—who had never washed dishes in their lives—
handed over their first experience right there.
Clang clang, bang bang—
after making a huge mess in the kitchen for ages, they finally finished cleaning up.
“All done?”
“All done!”
“Good. Go wash up and sleep.”
Huang Xiaoxiao waved her hand and shooed them away.
Rarely, neither of them argued back.
Of course, that might just have been because it was too late and they had no energy left.
Huang Xiaoxiao had only slept for a while earlier, so she still wasn’t very sleepy.
She sat on the sofa, turned on her light brain, and found a game to play.
But after playing for a while, her eyelids started drooping.
She didn’t even know when she fell asleep.
When Zhuo Yi returned home—
the first thing he saw was the woman curled up on the sofa.
Warmth instantly rippled through his eyes.
He hung his cold coat by the entrance.
After standing indoors for a while to get rid of the chill from his body, he walked over to the sofa and gently picked her up.
After laying her on the bed, he checked the room next door.
The two children were sleeping soundly.
Then he went to the kitchen to make something to eat.
Suddenly, he noticed the warming stove still glowing.
His heart stirred.
He opened it.
Sure enough—
inside was a large basin full of hot food.
Something instantly filled his heart.
Warm… soft…
……
Early the next morning—
“Why are you two still here?”
After coming downstairs and seeing the two children, Huang Xiaoxiao froze.
“Aren’t you going to school today?”
“Idiot. Today’s a rest day. What school? Did sleeping make you stupid?”
“Your brain’s the one that got stupid from sleeping!”
This little brat was asking for a beating again.
“Fine then. Go play by yourselves.”
After speaking, she headed into the courtyard. Today she planned to forge two storage spaces.
“You’re forging again?” Zhuo Wenmao hurriedly asked when he saw her going outside.
“Yep! I’m planning to forge a storage space for your big brother.”
Huang Xiaoxiao’s eyes rolled before she answered.
“Then let me help!”
“I’ll help too!” Zhuo Wenxuan stood up as well.
“Fine, but today, whatever I say goes. Don’t cause trouble.”
Huang Xiaoxiao stared at them seriously and specially warned them.
“Don’t worry. We definitely won’t cause trouble.”
Yeah right.
The three of them walked into the courtyard and were just about to start—
when her father, Huang Nan, called.
“Hello, Dad? What’s up?”
“Xiaoxiao! Big news! Great news!”
Her father sounded extremely excited.
“Oh? What big news?”
Huang Xiaoxiao’s tone was calm.
“Haha! You know, this time when I went hunting with the others, I showed off my mighty power—”
“Dad, can you get to the point already?”
Huang Xiaoxiao interrupted him immediately. She had zero interest in listening to her father brag.
It was always the same routine over and over again.
“Ahem. The point is, Uncle Li next door, Grandpa Huang, Second Auntie, Fourth Uncle, and all the others nearby…”
“They all want the storage bracelet you forged.”
“They’re asking if you can make one for them too.”
“Don’t worry, they’ll pay the normal market price.”
Business was coming.
Huang Xiaoxiao’s eyes instantly lit up.