The air in the house was filled with the aroma of fried garlic sauce. Ningchu sat on the sofa in the living room, but her eyes kept wandering into the kitchen. Through the transparent sliding door, she could clearly see the man cooking the seafood and frying the steak.
Her stomach, which had already detected the aroma, was a little hungry and made a protesting gurgling sound.
In the kitchen, her mother was busy going in and out, setting the lunch she had prepared in advance on the table, helping to clean the seafood, and crushing the garlic. There was a touch of girlish joy in her brow, and a thin layer of blush was always on her cheeks. Even her steps had become a little lighter.
“Mom, I'm hungry!”
Black Bean was pestering her on the side, accepting her food from time to time. Her tone was even more gentle: “You go ahead and eat. The seafood and steak will have to wait.”
“I want steak~“
”I also made braised pork for you~“
It was obvious that her mother was very happy, as the tone of her voice had a slight upward inflection.
Ning Chu had never seen her mother act like this before. She sniffed the aroma, swallowed, and turned to look at Ning Yuan, who was sitting on the other side of the sofa with an expressionless face. ‘Brother, I feel that Uncle and Mom are a good match~ What do you think?’
”Well, it feels okay.”
She leaned back on the sofa and muttered, “Brother, have you never noticed?”
“How could I have noticed while I was in college these past few years? How come you never noticed?”
“I...” Ning Chu could only awkwardly look away, “Mom must have hidden it well! She deliberately kept it from us both!”
Since her mother's death in junior high school, everything she had experienced had nothing to do with this parallel world, and she had no memories of the past three or five years. Fortunately, their personalities were similar, so she had not been exposed.
As for where the original Ning Chu went?
Perhaps she traveled to the world she was in, or perhaps she merged with her soul, or perhaps the grass on her grave is three zhang high... God knows what happened.
Ning Chu had no desire to explore such things... She was not the protagonist of anything, nor did she have any ambitions. She only focused on the present, and was just a small citizen who hoped that she and her family could live a good life.
What was the reason for the journey through time, the nature of the parallel world, and the connection between the role and plot of Xiao Huangwen and her...
Exploring these things will not change her back into a man, nor will it allow her to return to the world of the past. She is not interested in any of this.
Even if she could go back, she wouldn't want to.
She is more afraid that everything in front of her is a dream that will disappear without a trace at some point.
“Dinner!” her mother shouted, “Ningchu! Ningyuan! Come and eat!”
"Coming!”
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The chaotic thoughts in her heart dispersed cleanly, and Ningchu immediately stood up, greeted her mother's gentle smile, and excitedly ran to the table. 3“;5.”
She looked at the table full of dishes and sighed, “When I came back yesterday, it wasn't this rich.”
Her mother gave her a dirty look and said, “Your brother and uncle are here today, so there are two more mouths to feed, so of course there's more food.”
"Black beans! There's one steak per person, so don't drool over your sister's steak.”
“Oh~“
Ning Chu sat down at the table and used her knife to cut the steak in front of her in half, placing it on Black Bean's plate with a fork.
”My sister is so good to me~“
”You're so greedy,“ said her mother, rubbing Black Bean's head vigorously.
”Children are like that when they're growing up~” Ning Chu didn't mind at all, smiling as she looked at the man in the kitchen, ”Is the seafood not ready yet?”
“Just arrange it on a plate and it can be steamed."
Unlike the authoritative impression she had at first, the current Uncle was busy in the kitchen, with a little smile in the corner of his eyes, like a busy family cook.
This kind of impression was obviously better than the beginning, and it also made her feel a little more relaxed.
At least it seems a lot more approachable.
Ning Chu turned her head and looked at her brother sitting on the side. Ning Yuan just quietly ate his meal, occasionally observing the situation of the uncle, and did not show any rejection or acceptance of the uncle.
“The seafood will take a while to steam, so let's eat first.“
The uncle walked out of the kitchen, carrying a bowl of poached shrimp, and sat down next to his mother.
He looked up at the siblings, smiled and nodded to them, then started chatting with his mother: ‘I had someone buy this steak from Sam's Club for you. I heard it's pretty good, so I brought some back for you to try.’
”If you like it, I can have someone buy some more and send it over for the kids to have for breakfast.”
The black bean ears stood up, and he quickly nodded in agreement, “Yes! Have it for breakfast!”
“Such an expensive thing for breakfast?” The mother frowned at the man and muttered, “Do you have too much money to burn?”
The man smiled slightly embarrassed, took a few bites, and then habitually took out a cigarette from his pocket.
“Go smoke in the hallway, it's full of smoke.”
He obediently got up and went to the hallway to smoke.
Does he seem a bit henpecked? At least he's not a chauvinist.
Ning Chu looked at the uncle's departing back. So far, she had a pretty good impression of him. He doted on his mother, and didn't get angry when he was contradicted. He had a certain air of authority when he was expressionless, but also seemed very friendly when he smiled.
The main point was his figure! He definitely wouldn't be easily taken advantage of!
Fortunately, he wasn't some greasy, wretched, fat uncle that she often saw in books, otherwise, no matter how good he was to her mother, the first impression would not be good.
“Mom, you used to scold my brother whenever you saw him smoking,“ Ning Chu asked with a teasing smile, resting his chin in one hand. ‘Why did you just tell the uncle to go outside when you saw him smoking?’
”How old is your brother? What's he smoking?“
”I'm over twenty too,“ Ning Yuan muttered. ‘Why are you treating me like a child?’
”Mom's turning against her own son,”
Annoyed, her mother tapped Ning Chu on the head with her chopsticks: “A steak can't even shut you up, can it! Can you learn from Ning Xin! Just eat and don't talk!”
Heidi was so focused on eating that her cheeks were full and she couldn't even talk.
Ning Chu only quieted down for half a minute before she couldn't help but say, “Mom, that uncle seems really nice to you.”
“What does he do?” Ning Yuan followed up.
“He's kind of a small contractor.“
Ning Chu didn't have a specific concept of the occupation of contractor, as she had never come into contact with it before. She only knew that this occupation often made the news because of wage arrears.
She muttered, ‘It sounds average.’
”He's much better than your boyfriend,” her mother glared at her daughter.
Ning Chu had a problem with this: ”Wen Yang is only a freshman, okay! How is that comparable! When he's forty years old, he might even be a big boss!”
“Right, big boss, big boss.“
She glared at her mother angrily, while her mother added a piece of spare ribs to her bowl: ‘Eat, adults’ business just know to meddle.”
“Sigh~”
Ning Yuan sighed softly, and seeing her younger sister defending Wen Yang, she inexplicably felt a kind of sadness like an old father.
It was as if someone had trashed her own flowers and plants, and it made her feel bad.
As for his mother and uncle, on the contrary, he was quite happy to see them. Like Ning Chuanyi, he would like to see his mother find a compatible other half.