Cheng Rui blushed with anger.
"Sister, don't treat me like a child. I'm all grown up now. Uncle and my older brother both say we're already little men. They sent me here to help you with chores and protect you. Don't always treat me like a child."
"Okay, okay, okay,"
Quickly and easily appease them.
"Of course, you're a man. Otherwise, why do you think your sister would send you here? Of course, it's so you can help her with the chores. There are still many things your sister needs your help with."
The young boy was immediately comforted.
"Really? Sis, you're not lying to me?"
"Really, really,"
Seeing that she had successfully appeased him, Jian Dan quickly changed the subject.
"By the way, Xiao An, are you lying down properly? Are you hungry? What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you."
The boy's attention was immediately diverted, and he quickened his pace.
"Sis, let me do it. What do you want to eat? I've brought it all. You should just rest."
Okay.
It's easy to see that as soon as they arrived, he was completely sidelined, and as soon as he returned, even his chores like sweeping the floor were taken away from him.
The two sisters were cooking and making a mess, but the atmosphere was quite harmonious.
“Xiao Rui, the clothes you’re wearing are a bit too small. I still have cotton and fabric in my room. After dinner, go to Uncle Liu’s house. You know everyone there. Go find Aunt Liu and have her take your measurements. We’ll make two sets of cotton-padded clothes and two outer garments for each of you.”
Xiao An seems to have lost weight compared to you now. Remember to tell Third Grandma to make Xiao An's clothes a little smaller, so they don't fall apart and get stuffy in the dead of winter, letting the wind in.
Since they were already so familiar with each other, Cheng Rui didn't stand on ceremony with his older sister.
"Thank you, sister. Then I won't be polite. But we don't need to make too much. We brought cotton-padded clothes and outerwear with us. The cotton-padded clothes might be a little small, so we can just make one to alternate wearing."
He simply sat on a small stool, tending the fire, without even lifting his head.
"Wasn't that made last year? You've all grown so much taller this year, how can you still wear those clothes from last year?"
Make two more, you're growing fast, what will the little ones wear?
Don't worry about saving me any money, I have plenty of these. Oh, right, and the cotton shoes too, I almost forgot.
"Think about it, what else?"
Cheng Rui's nose stung with tears. He lowered his head, feeling a drop of water fall into the vegetable bowl.
"I don't need anything, sis. This is more than enough."
Cheng Rui is no longer a naive child. He understands very well that his older sister, who is from a distant relative and was adopted later in life, has not received a single bit of help from the Cheng family. However, she has been wholeheartedly helping the Cheng family. She is so thoughtful and considerate towards the two brothers whose parents are not around. He doesn't know what to say.
Even Cheng Chao and Cheng Jin didn't expect them to grow up so fast. They had to change their clothes every few months. The clothes they were wearing were the ones they had simply had made and sent over before, and they were already a bit too small for them.
That cotton-padded coat was simply made for him last winter, and Cheng Jin still hasn't thought about whether it's too small.
Of course, it's also possible that he knew there were things he hadn't thought of, so he gave all sorts of receipts and money to Jian Dan, letting her make all the decisions.
The young boy was in a state of confusion and didn't even realize that his speech was nasal.
He paused briefly, but didn't expose anything. He filled the firewood into the stove pit, got up, went to the east room to find something, and left the scene to Cheng Rui.
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