"You've grown taller and become a grown-up girl. You look so pretty now, but you're too thin." Touching Xu Manman's face, his eyes were full of heartache. "Did you not eat well when you were growing up in the countryside? The food at school isn't oily enough..."
He kept on chattering, completely ignoring Xu Manman's son and a group of nephews behind him.
Xu Jianjun touched his nose. He was used to it. His mother was a typical girl-favoring girl. As long as his sister was around, she didn't care about anyone else.
After asking his younger brothers to move the luggage down, the eldest brother Xu Jianbing had to go to the military area to return the car first.
It was not until she entered and sat down that Li Fang paid some attention to other people.
"Everyone's here. You must have had a hard time riding the bus all the way. Second brother, take your brothers to put their things in the room. You can rest for a while and then eat." She turned to look at Xu Manman and said, "Grandma made you your favorite dish of razor clam and egg. Eat more later. You look so thin."
Xu Manman hugged her aunt's arm and said, "How did you know I wanted to eat this? I've been wanting to eat the food you cook all day long when I'm out."
"Then stay here for a few more days. Grandma will make it for you every day. If our sweetheart can grow some flesh on his face, he will look even better."
Li Fang devoted herself to raising her eldest niece to be plump and fair. When she was a child, she was chubby like a glutinous rice dumpling, so adorable. No one would dislike her when she walked on the street.
The two ladies were chatting on the sofa. Xu Manman acted coquettishly and cutely towards her aunt, which made Li Fang very happy.
Xu Jianjun still stepped forward to interrupt, "Mom, it's almost twelve o'clock." If he didn't cook, his sister would starve.
Although his chief has reached the level of being assigned service personnel, he and his mother do not like to have people at home. In addition, the two brothers are usually in the barracks, so the number of people at home is very small.
So the service staff only come to help with the general cleaning once a week, and his mother does all the housework and cooking on weekdays.
Li Fang looked at her second son impatiently, but finally endured it and didn't get angry.
"Are you hungry, dear? Sit down for a while. I'll make you something delicious."
Xu Manman did not rush to help in the kitchen on the first day because... she had to pee urgently.
There are two floors and six rooms in total, two downstairs and four upstairs. When she first came here, she was still young and slept with her aunt in the master bedroom on the first floor. Later, when she grew up, her aunt was worried about her, so she moved her room opposite the master bedroom to make it easier to take care of her at night.
Later, when Xu Manman grew up and there were many people coming in and out of the house, she was moved upstairs to the largest room at the end of the corridor, which also had a bathroom. The room on the first floor where Xu Manman originally lived was converted into a study.
The rooms on the second floor, from the stairs inward, are: guest room/storage room, second cousin Xu Jianjun's room, eldest cousin Xu Jianbing's room, and the innermost is Xu Manman's room.
In addition to Xu Manman's room, there is also a toilet on the left side of the stairs, diagonally opposite the guest room.
As soon as she reached the second floor, she saw a row of boys standing by the railing.
"Are you here to watch the sea?" She walked forward and stood next to Chen Feng.
Xu Jianan, the fourth cousin standing in the middle, said, "Well, apart from anything else, the scenery here is really nice. I never get tired of it every time I come here."
Indeed, this small building faces the sea. It is not clear from below, but when you go up to the second floor, the view is truly unbeatable.
Xu Jianguo suggested to his brothers, "Let's go swimming this afternoon."
The brothers were very excited, but a little hesitant. They looked at Xu Manman, and she shrugged, "Go ahead if you want to. Don't worry about me. I'll be at home playing with my aunt."
She was a landlubber and had no contact with water in either of her two lives. In her previous life, she almost drowned at the beach. Although she often came to the island in this life, she also choked on water at the beach when she was a child. Since then, her aunt had expressly forbade them to take her into the water.
Xu Jianjun happened to be coming upstairs when he heard this and said, "Mom is going to the art troupe this afternoon. It will be so boring for you to be alone at home. Come with me. We won't go in the water, you can just go fishing nearby."
She had no objection to going to the beach, so she left a few boys to continue enjoying the scenery while Xu Manman went back to the room to use the bathroom.
When I came out, I saw that her backpack and suitcase had been put in by some brother, so I packed them together.
She took out the clothes from the suitcase and backpack and was about to put them in the closet when she saw that in addition to her old clothes, there were several new sets of clothes.
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