Since it was Christmas Eve last night, nothing happened.
While eating breakfast, Bai Tian was in a fairly good mood, chatting casually with Mu Hu.
As the conversation progressed, the topic turned to the Bai family next to Niantao Village and the connection between the Bai and Mu families.
With a "clatter," the sound of chopsticks falling to the ground rang out beside Juanjuan.
The little guy turned to look at his third brother.
Jiang Dai also looked at her third son: "There's another clean one here, use that first."
Bai Yun'an smiled, nodded, and accepted the gift, thanking her mother in return.
That made it seem as if he had really dropped his chopsticks unintentionally.
But only he himself knew what he was thinking.
Nian Tao Village, Bei Lanfeng, Mu Family Army, Bai Family... It seemed as if a thread suddenly connected these words in my mind.
How could I have forgotten about that cousin from the Bai family!
[That's really clever. With the yamen guards protecting them here, they're already on guard. It would have been better to go to the village and find Bai's cousin, who's also a member of the Mu family's army.]
[They were both from the Mu family army. One was completely unprepared, while the other was on high alert. It was manageable for them to retreat and hide in the village. They arrived near Niantao Village around 4 AM last night, and it's now 5 AM...]
Juanjuan ate her meal in small bites, but her attention was entirely focused on her third brother.
This was the first time she had ever heard her third brother speak in such a tone in her mind.
Serious, earnest, and with a hint of... the defiant spirit of someone who slipped while catching a grasshopper with a sledgehammer, as if his competitive drive had been ignited.
It's still hard to describe Juanjuan accurately in words, but this Third Brother is very different from before.
"Uncle Tiger, is my cousin really that amazing? Why is he back?"
Bai Yun'an opened his bright eyes, his face showing no sign of anything unusual, only curiosity.
Even his responses were perfectly timed; during our conversation, we were talking about Bai Jiaxing.
"Your cousin is quite capable, mainly because he's smart and quick-witted. It's just that... he got injured, which is why we sent him back to recuperate."
Bai Yun'an became even more interested and stopped eating: "Then, then my cousin, could he take on five of those bad guys from the other night?"
Juanjuan looked at her third brother and seemed to understand what he was trying to do.
As someone who has been listening to Brother San's psychology lectures for more than three months, most of the little bit of cunning thoughts I have left in my mind are learned from him.
Having learned more, I naturally can't compare to my third brother.
But even though Third Brother had already thought of so much and laid the groundwork, Juanjuan could still tell what Third Brother was performing.
Third Brother is making Father, Mother, Second Brother, and Uncle Muhu think that bad guys have made a move against Bai Family Cousin!
Mu Hu chuckled: "Your cousin isn't good enough. Those people are very capable; they're all elites."
"Oh, as long as it's not that bad." Bai Yun'an nodded. "Last time, my second aunt said that when my cousin comes back, he'll give us a good scolding. Uncle Mu Hu, my cousin isn't that kind of person, is he?"
“Of course not, it’s just…” Mu Hu turned to look at Bai Tian and Jiang Dai: “The relationship between your two families…”
"The family wasn't very harmonious, so they split up, and I was kicked out," Bai Tian said with a smile.
Bai Yun'an: ...
[Why haven't we figured out if any of these people are even reliable?]
Could you be more specific? But...
"Won't bad guys bully my cousin?"
A childish, curious voice rang out.
In that instant, almost everyone's eyes fell on Bai Jiaxiaojuan.
The little guy, almost five years old, calmly put a mouthful of rice into his mouth under their watchful eyes, holding his rice bowl, and looked at them curiously.
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