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However, this illusion of a peaceful and idyllic life was shattered when Su Xiaowu returned.
"Where did these apricots come from?" When Su Xiaowu returned covered in sweat, she saw the apricots that Gu Chen had washed in the winnowing basket. Without any hesitation, she scooped one up and stuffed it into her mouth.
The next second, his handsome face, which had once captivated the village girls, contorted in pain. But his upbringing prevented him from spitting out the apricots; he could only swallow them down before jumping up and down, shouting, "So sour! So sour!"
Su Xiaowu quickly ran back into the house and drank a large glass of water before running out again to look at the apricots that had been washed clean but had been dirtied by Su Xiaowu's stick-like hands, pouring them into the basin to wash them again.
Ignoring whether her hands were dirty or not, Su Xiaowu unceremoniously put her arm around Gu Chen's shoulder and asked, "Brother, who wants to eat these apricots?"
"I'll eat it."
With Xiao Ruanruan around, Gu Chen's temper is incredibly good.
Su Xiaowu stared at Gu Chen, his eyes widening in shock. After Gu Chen swallowed hard several times looking at the greenish-yellow apricots, Su Xiaowu finally spoke up like a comedian, "Brother, you can eat something so sour? I think you're not just sick with a cold, you're pregnant..."
At this point, Su Xiaowu seemed to understand something, her pupils widening as she stared at Gu Chen, "Brother Gu, could it be that you're one of those legendary intersex people, appearing as a boy but actually a girl..."
As Su Xiaowu spoke, she also glanced at Gu Chen's belly with a serious expression.
Gu Chen: ...
He felt a strong urge to punch his future brother-in-law, but what could he do with his future wife in front of him?
As the older brother's words became increasingly absurd, Xiao Ruanruan swung her little feet and jumped off the small chair. She walked aggressively in front of him, put her hands on her hips, frowned, and looked fierce. "Big brother, even if you don't have knowledge, you should at least have common sense. How could Brother Gu Chen, a boy, be pregnant?"
Su Xiaowu scratched the back of her head in confusion, "Yeah, that's true! Little Ruanruan, do you think Gu Chen might have some kind of illness that causes symptoms similar to pregnancy, like craving sour foods?"
Little Ruanruan sighed and rubbed her forehead. "Big brother, I picked these apricots!"
"But I'm not going to eat them directly after I pick them; I'm going to make candied fruit!" Little Ruanruan quickly finished her sentence before her older brother could say anything more earth-shattering.
Su Xiaowu suddenly realized, "Oh, you make candied fruit? You should have said so earlier. I almost fainted from the sourness just now, and I worried about Brother Gu for nothing."
Little Softie: ……
She had wanted to remind the young man, but he didn't give her a chance to speak at all!
She didn't want to dwell on this issue with the young man, so she changed the subject, "Young man, why are you back so early today?"
You should know that this little monkey, who has been released back into the mountains, usually doesn't go home until it's completely dark.
"Oh, I'm bringing something back for Brother Gu Chen."
When Xiao Ruanruan asked him this, Su Xiaowu remembered his important business. He took out a large handful of bird eggs from the bag that he had been carrying with some friends and handed it to Gu Chen. "Brother, here, these are bird eggs that I and some brothers from the village collected today. They said they are very nutritious. You can take them and cook them."
Gu Chen looked at the handful of bird eggs in Su Xiaowu's hand, which were no bigger than his little finger: ...
Well, my future brother-in-law is quite adorable; he's so much better than those other brothers-in-law.
Gu Chen reached out and took the bird egg. "Thank you, Xiao Wu!"
Su Xiaowu patted Gu Chen's back with his long, stick-like hand and said heartily, "We're all brothers, what's there to thank?"
Turning his head, he said to Xiao Ruanruan, "Xiao Ruanruan, wait here, your big brother will go and get some more bird eggs to help you grow stronger. Look at you, you're not growing at all!"
Su Xiaowu then cheekily gestured with his hand to show the height difference between Xiao Ruanruan and himself.
When Xiao Ruanruan first came back last year, he hadn't grown taller yet. Back then, Xiao Ruanruan could reach his chin. Now that he has grown taller, Xiao Ruanruan hasn't, and she only reaches his shoulder.
Little Ruanruan, who was quite happy upon hearing the first half of the sentence, became: ￣□￣｜｜
This guy's words really hit her hard. In the past year, her sister, her brother, and Su Lei had all grown taller, but she hadn't grown at all! Not even a little bit!
Little Ruanruan watched her older brother disappear into the mountains like a whirlwind, and slumped her head in frustration, her two chubby little hands scratching her two little pigtails.
Why doesn't she grow taller?
Did she grow taller when she was four or five years old, before she traveled back in time?
Little Ruanruan frowned and thought seriously.
But she didn't care about that issue at all back then. She was always thinking about how to get enough to eat with her brother Shi Yu. After Shi Yu left, it became even harder for her on her own.
However, she did grow taller as she grew up.
She remembered that after she became an adult, she was either 1.72 meters or 1.75 meters tall.
Although it's not particularly tall, it's tall enough for a girl.
Thinking about this, Xiao Ruanruan felt relieved.
Happy and cheerful, she took the apricots that Gu Chen had washed and put them in sugar to preserve them. Then she found a pretty jar to seal them and left the rest to time.
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