"Brother Gu Chen, is Grandpa Qin alright?"
Sitting in Gu Chen's car, Xiao Ruan's soft, sweet voice carried a hint of worry as she asked Gu Chen.
"Yes, the old man was originally in good health. With the detoxification and gradual recovery, although he can't return to his pre-poisoning state, he's out of immediate danger," Gu Chen said, stroking Xiao Ruanruan's soft hair.
"Thank you, Gu Chen." Before Xiao Ruanruan could speak, Qin Huan looked at Gu Chen and thanked him solemnly.
Gu Chen glanced at Qin Huan, a cold glint flashing in his deep eyes. This was the person who had eaten rabbit hotpot with Xiao Ruanruan and the others.
Little Ruanruan has never made him hot pot before!
His gentle tone turned cold. "I'm not helping you, so it's not your place to thank me."
Little Ruanruan looked at her brother Gu Chen with a confused expression as he suddenly changed his expression.
It seems that Brother Gu Chen doesn't really like Brother Qin Huan. Why is that?
Brother Qin Huan is a really nice person, isn't he?
Could it be because Tang Xue threw her sister into the pool and injured her, that Gu Chen thought Qin Huan was Tang Xue's son?
Little Ruanruan waved her little hand at Gu Chen, signaling him to bend down a little.
Gu Chen obediently bent down.
Little Ruanruan leaned close to his ear and whispered, covering his ear with her small hand, "Brother Gu Chen, Tang Xue isn't Brother Qin Huan's mother..."
Gu Chen: ...
He knows about this!
But he still listened obediently until Xiao Ruanruan finished speaking, and then looked at Xiao Ruanruan with a pitiful and aggrieved look in his deep eyes, "Xiao Ruanruan, I want to eat rabbit hot pot."
"Okay!" Little Ruanruan agreed readily. "Then let's find a good rabbit hot pot restaurant tonight."
"No!" Gu Chen refused. "I want to eat the rabbit hot pot you made."
"Hmm~~~" Little Ruanruan hesitated for a moment, but looking at Gu Chen's aggrieved face and his bright, watery eyes, she couldn't bear to refuse. In the end, she nodded and said, "Okay, then let's play for a while and then go back to Grandma Qin's house to make rabbit hot pot."
Su Xixi leaned closer and said, "Brother Qin Huan can't eat spicy food."
"Then let's make a hot pot with two broths," Xiao Ruanruan suggested.
Just as the two sisters were happily making their decision, Su Lei's deep voice reached their ears, "Su Xixi, do you know what your brother, who crawled out of the same belly as you, doesn't eat?"
Susie: "..."
She was focused on her nose, and her heart was closed off—she didn't know that!
Little Ruanruan immediately answered, "Brother Su Lei, I know you don't eat scallions and cilantro, so I never put scallions and cilantro in my cooking. The other day when we had rabbit hot pot, you didn't put scallions and cilantro in your dipping sauce either!"
Susie was completely unaware that Xiao Ruanruan was helping her out of a predicament.
He glanced at Su Lei with disdain, "A rabbit hot pot without scallions and cilantro is soulless!"
Little Softie: "..."
I gave my sister a sympathetic look. This teammate is hopeless. Rabbit hotpot has no soul, and you're about to lose your soul too, you know that?
Sure enough, Su Lei's face darkened even more as soon as Su Xixi opened her mouth.
Su Xixi quickly looked out the window, pretending not to see Su Lei.
Even without looking, he could feel Su Lei's gaze that seemed to pierce through him.
Qin Huan spoke up at the right moment, "Lei'er, it's all my fault, don't be angry with Qianqian. Maybe it's because I'm so useless that I fainted after eating some chili peppers, which is why Qianqian remembers this so well."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Ruanruan glanced at Brother Qin Huan, then subconsciously looked at Gu Chen.
This familiar recipe, this familiar taste...
Su Xixi finally understood and quickly nodded in agreement, "That's right, Su Lei, people fainted from eating chili peppers, how could I not remember?"
If you faint from eating cilantro next time, I'll remember it forever.
Su Xiaowu awkwardly put one arm around Qin Huan, who was much taller than him, and the other arm around Su Lei, saying, "Alright, alright, we're all brothers, right?"
It's not worth ruining our relationship over something so trivial.
Just then, Susie spotted a pet store outside and quickly told the driver to stop.
After getting off the bus, she went into the pet store.
He simply picked up the biggest turtle, bought it, and immediately handed it to Su Lei.
Su Lei's face turned green. "Why did you buy me a turtle?"
"A thousand-year-old tortoise or a ten-thousand-year-old turtle, with your stinky personality, you'll never make any friends. If I die one day, you'll be all alone in the world, which is quite pitiful."
"I'll buy you a turtle. If I die, the turtle will keep you company in my place. Maybe it can even live until the day you die of old age and see you off in your final days!" Su Qianqian said to Su Lei earnestly.
"Su, Qian, Qian!" Su Lei was truly angry, gritting his teeth as he spoke each word clearly, "If you can't speak properly, then shut up! What nonsense are you spouting all day long?"
Su Xixi ignored Su Lei and turned to pick out a snow-white rabbit, handing it to Qin Huan, saying, "You can hold this one."
Qin Huan's mind was still on the discussion about rabbit hotpot in the car, and he hadn't quite caught up yet. He blurted out, "Is this enough for all of us?"
Susie was so angry that she reached out to give him a good whack on the head, but found that the height difference was too great and she couldn't reach him at all.
With a furrowed brow, she huffed and puffed at Qin Huan, saying, "Be shorter!"
Qin Huan obediently squatted down.
Susie gave him a sharp rap on the head. "Are you stupid? Bunnies are so cute, how could you bear to eat them? Of course, you should take them home and keep them as pets."
Qin Huan glanced at the quiet, snow-white rabbit in his arms, then at the fierce-looking Su Qianqian, and his smile widened, his eyes and brows softening with tenderness.
This time, Su Lei did not stop Su Xixi.
Instead, she pulled Susie aside and asked, "Why did you give him a rabbit to keep as a pet?"
Su Xixi held Su Lei's hand and looked at him seriously. "Don't you think he's a lot like us back then? His father didn't care about him, and his mother wasn't his biological mother and didn't love him. He was all alone and quite pitiful, so we gave him a little rabbit to keep him company."
Su Lei frowned slightly.
For some reason, Su Xixi's words made him feel a sour, suffocating feeling in his heart, and he felt particularly uncomfortable.
Gu Chen, watching from the side, said enviously, "Little Ruanruan, I also want to have a pet. Can you give me one?"
Her big, bright, sparkling eyes looked at all the animals in the pet store, but she didn't think any of them were suitable for Gu Chen to keep.
She was just about to let Gu Chen choose one for himself, and she would give it to him.
Su Xiaowu then moved closer to Gu Chen and said, "Brother, why don't you take care of me?"
You need a pet, and I need someone to take care of me and help me escape the tyranny of a despot. We're a perfect match!
Gu Chen: "..."
Little Ruanruan looked at the older boy with a helpless expression, her eyes drooping. "Older brother..."
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