Chapter 28: Chapter 028 Adorable Little Brother_1
“Well, we make do as we can.”
“Give me a moment to think!”
“By the way, your grandmother wants you to stop by her place on your way back from town.”
“Sure, I’ll go right away.”
Advertisement Having already prepared herself for an inevitable conversation with grandma, Nan Fei came out of her room to find Jiang Yang still obediently sitting under the pomegranate tree, and couldn’t help but smile.
What an adorable and obedient little brother.
First, she carried the bones and meat to the kitchen. When she came out, she ran into Jiang Zhuanzhuan who had just returned from doing the laundry.
“Sis, you’re back!” Jiang Zhuanzhuan put down her basin of laundry, stood in front of the clothesline, and smiled at her. She looked much more relaxed than she had the day before.
“Yes! I bought some meat and bones from town. We’ll make braised pork for lunch and stew the bones for Mum and Dad.”
Upon hearing that there was meat, Jiang Zhuanzhuan’s eyes brightened, and she nodded enthusiastically.
“Great! I’ll cook. I know how.”
Ever since she was little, Zhuanzhuan has been dexterous and good at both house chores and crafts, much more so than Nan Fei. Her cooking was particularly tasty. When they were children on school break, the two sisters would share the housework.
Nan Fei mainly did the laundry and dishwashing, while Zhuanzhuan was in charge of cooking.
Their grandparents lived on their own, separate from their son’s family, just behind them. They resided in an old-style tiled house, with a small but extremely clean courtyard.
In the courtyard was a brick flowerbed, full of sunflowers, cockcomb flowers, and canna lilies.
All of these were seeds that Nan Fei had brought back from school when she was a child living with her grandparents; they had been preserved all the way to the present day.
In the sweltering weather, as soon as they stepped into the yard the cool breeze would greet them. Granny was sitting in the shade, sorting through beans, her white hair meticulously combed, looking far cleaner and neater than the other village grannies.
“Granny.” For some reason, Nan Fei felt a little guilty standing in front of her grandmother, not knowing what to do with herself.
“Hehe…” Granny didn’t lift her head and continued focusedly sorting the beans in the winnowing tray.
“Granny?” Nan Fei was finished! Granny was about to show her a little of her power.
A scene from deep in Nan Fei’s memory emerged, a scene of her granny arguing with someone. She had tongue-lashed the formidable second Granny until she was red in the face, sputtering without a word to say.
“Oh!” Granny looked up, “Isn’t this my second granddaughter? Have you come to your senses, or am I dreaming?”
“Granny, I was wrong! I admit my mistake.” Nan Fei honestly lowered her head, “If you want to scold me, go ahead!” She finally remembered: just before her rebirth, she had argued with her granny.
Because her granny had discovered the love letters she had exchanged with Qiao Jingxuan, and had scolded her harshly! After that, she had gone to work in a textile factory and never visited her grandmother’s house, and then, last night, Granny Huo had paid a visit.
“With your fierce temper and haughty self-esteem, I wouldn’t dare! Isn’t that just shortening my life?”
Nan Fei gave a bitter smile, “Granny, I really realise my mistake now! Are you satisfied with how I’ve been behaving?”
Guan Rufang was amused by her behaviour and couldn’t contain her smile any longer. “Come here and sit.”
Nan Fei gladly obliged, moving a small stool next to her granny’s, and gingerly sitting down. Her gaze was filled with closeness, completely melting the stern expression Granny had purposefully put on.
In fact, Granny had already steeled herself for a fierce resistance from Nan Fei last night. But to her surprise, the once-stubborn girl had come around and understood that their actions were for her own good and had learned gratitude.
Thus, the anger that had been lodged in her heart was finally dispelled.