The next day, after her morning run, Jiang Xiaoli went back to bed for a nap.
At noon, with her eyes still closed, she suddenly twitched her nose and smelled something wonderful.
She opened her eyes and saw Xiao Muyu holding a pig's trotter.
She instantly snapped back to reality. "Is this a tribute for me?"
Seeing that she was awake, Xiao Muyu immediately got up. "I knew this would wake you up! Get up and eat!"
She rubbed her head, tossed and turned on the bed a couple of times, and finally decided to get out of bed.
After washing up, Li Guizhi went to the apartment across the hall and helped her daughter tidy up the stray hairs on her head. "Xiaoyu is really good at this. I called you twice just now, and you woke up and then fell asleep again."
Jiang Xiaoli sat cross-legged on the sofa, hugging a cushion. "It's so inhumane not to let people get enough sleep during the holidays!"
Xiao Muyu pouted, "You can't sleep 15 hours a day like you, can you?"
She wanted to argue a bit more, but her gaze was drawn to the boneless chicken feet that Xu Feng had brought out.
She got up, shuffling through her slippers, and took small steps to the dining table. "Auntie, have you tried it yet?"
Xu Feng smiled and said, "I tried it, and I must say, it's really good, sour and spicy, very appetizing!"
Xiao Muyu then realized that when she saw Jiang Xiaoli putting a whole chicken foot into her mouth, she followed suit and put a chicken foot into her mouth as well.
The two of them moved in unison, crunching on the crisp bones of the chicken feet.
After finishing a chicken foot, Jiang Xiaoli asked with a smile, "How was it? Isn't the chicken foot you picked yourself especially delicious?"
Xiao Muyu nodded, but she said warily, "Don't try to trick me into picking chicken feet; my hands are killing me!"
She smiled and shook her head, "If you like it, when my factory launches a new product, I'll let you eat it until you're sick of it."
Xu Feng brought out a pot of braised dishes, saying, "Looks like my braised pig's trotters aren't very popular today."
Jiang Xiaoli quickly wiped her hands and obediently sat down at the dining table. "How could that be, Auntie? I am definitely your most loyal fan."
Xiao Muyu put down the food container as well, "Mom, don't forget about me!"
Li Guizhi carried a large plate of spicy hot pot, saying, "Look at how comfortable our lives are now."
Upon seeing the three dishes on the table, Xiao Jincheng sighed repeatedly, "No wonder people have been saying I've gained weight lately; we've been eating too well every day!"
Jiang Xiaoli glanced at his slightly protruding belly. "Uncle Xiao, this is called happy weight gain! As long as you're healthy, that's all that matters. By the way, have you had a physical exam recently?"
"Physical checkup? Oh dear, I think I completely forgot about it this year!"
Xu Feng chimed in, "Alright, when we get back from Lucheng, the first thing we should do is get a full physical exam. Xiao Li is right, health is the most important thing. Don't let all that money we earn go to medical bills!"
After dinner, Li Guizhi took her daughter home to pack their luggage.
Jiang Xiaoli looked at the pile of summer clothes and said, "Mom, let's bring less stuff and just buy it when we get there."
Li Guizhi ignored her and continued tidying up her things.
She muttered again, "Mom, have you withdrawn the cash?"
In her memory, withdrawing money from a different city is very troublesome nowadays. When she went on a business trip a while ago, Xiao Jincheng's briefcase was full of cash.
Li Guizhi impatiently shoved her aside, "If you're not going to help, go watch TV. Don't cause trouble here. The money was already withdrawn. Did you have to remind me? It'll be too late by then!"
Jiang Xiaoli didn't feel disliked at all. Sitting on the edge of the bed, she asked, "Mom, did Zong Jia give you the share of last month's steamed bun shop profits?"
"Yes, yes, I've saved them all!"
How much?
"Still 500,000! Alright, if you have nothing to do, go read a book. Stop nagging like a broken record!"
Alright, alright, if this place doesn't want me, there are plenty of other places that will.
It's been snowing in Xijing for the past two days. Apart from the roads that the property management has cleared, both sides of the residential area are covered in snow.
She changed into thick clothes and made two small snowballs outside, arranging them to look like mini snowmen.
She knocked on Xiao Muyu's window and showed her her masterpiece.
Xiao Muyu's eyes lit up. "Wait for me, I'll come out and we'll build a big one!"
They struggled for a long time, their gloves were all wet, but they still couldn't roll a big snowball.
Jiang Xiaoli simply borrowed a shovel from the property management staff, which indeed made things much faster.
The two of them built two snowmen at the entrance of their apartment building, one with a bigger head and the other with a smaller head.
When Xiao Muyu got home and asked Xu Feng for carrots, she discovered that the two girls had done something really big that afternoon!
She laughed and called Li Guizhi out to see. The two crooked snowmen used twigs as eyebrows and pebbles as eyes, looking both comical and playful.
When Xiao Jincheng saw their masterpiece, he laughed so hard he slapped his forehead. "Feng'er! Go get two scarves to dress up our two new members!"
Xu Feng gave him a reproachful look, but still went inside and brought out two scarves that she rarely used.
Xiao Muyu and Jiang Xiaoli wrapped scarves around the two snowmen and stuck carrots in their mouths.
When Zong Jia returned, he saw them all standing at the building entrance. "Why are you all outside? Are you going out?"
Li Guizhi smiled and pulled him to a snowman, "Look, this is Xiaoli and the other girl's masterpiece!"
The snowman Zong Jia saw had its head tilted and was wearing a plaid scarf, giving it an overall impression of being "unruly and rebellious."
"Hehe." He covered his mouth and chuckled. "Little Pear, did you pile these up?"
Jiang Xiaoli confidently put her hands on her hips and said, "Yeah, how about that? Isn't it amazing!"
Zong Jia's eyes were full of laughter. "Yes, it's very much your personal style."
Xiao Jincheng felt a bit cold from the wind. "It's really too cold, let's go back inside!"
Xiao Muyu was unhappy. "Xiao Li, I'll go get the camera. Let's take a group photo!"
"OK!"
She went back inside to get her camera, and the group took a few group photos before it got dark.
Finally, Zong Jia handed the camera to Xiao Muyu, saying, "Could you please take a picture of me and Xiao Lizi together?"
Xiao Muyu paused for two seconds, then quickly agreed, "Oh, okay!"
In the footage, Zong Jia and Jiang Xiaoli's movements are surprisingly synchronized, exactly like the snowman with the tilted head.
Xiao Muyu laughed so hard she bent over, "You two are so in sync!"
Jiang Xiaoli turned to look at Zong Jiayu, who hadn't yet changed his posture, and said, "Comrade Zong, you're still such a copycat!"
Zong Jia chuckled, "Little Pear, why are you allowed to imitate it, but I'm not?"
She wrinkled her nose. "Fine, I'll let it slide this time, but you can't plagiarize my ideas this time!"
Soon, the image froze in the shot.
Xiao Muyu burst out laughing and fell to the ground. "Hahaha! You two are hilarious!"
They both turned around at the same time and burst out laughing simultaneously.
Both of them were crossing their arms and turning their heads to the other side, as if they had just had a fight.
Jiang Xiaoli clutched her aching back. "I can't take it anymore, Zong Jiayu, tell me honestly, are you a tapeworm in my stomach?"
Zong Jia smiled, clearly in a good mood. "Little Pear, this is what you call tacit understanding."
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