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"Mm, okay." Wei Ruo agreed, a bright smile on her face.
Seeing this smile, Wei Jinyi's gaze also softened.
Then, Wei Jinyi asked Wei Ruo, "Can you stay a little longer today?"
Wei Ruo nodded.
Upon seeing this, the quick-witted Xiaobei immediately said, "Then I'll go prepare some food. Though our courtyard is small, the kitchen is not!"
It had been a long time since they had sat down to eat together.
Hearing this, Xiumei hurriedly said, "Your cooking skills are terrible. Even with good ingredients, you'd waste them. Let me do it instead."
"Yes, yes, Xiumei is right," Xiaobei said with a smile.
Then, the two of them went into the kitchen together.
Wei Ruo and Wei Jinyi hadn't even said they would have a meal together, but Xiaobei and Xiumei were already busy preparing.
Wei Ruo and Wei Jinyi exchanged a glance, and Wei Ruo laughed, "Looks like my Meimei wants to stay even more than I do."
While Xiumei and Xiaobei were busy in the kitchen, Wei Ruo planned to sit with Wei Jinyi in the main house.
Wei Jinyi stopped her and said, "I'll bring the table and chairs outside."
Wei Ruo asked, "Why?"
Wei Jinyi replied, "Men and women should maintain propriety."
Wei Ruo chuckled, "Yet just now, Second Brother was holding my hand?"
Hearing this, Wei Jinyi looked a bit embarrassed and didn't know how to respond.
Wei Ruo continued, "We are siblings; some rules don’t need to be so strictly followed."
After all, she still carried the soul of a modern person. In her mind, men and women should maintain propriety, but not to the extent that they couldn't even stay in the same room—especially when the other person was her own brother by blood.
"I cannot ruin your reputation."
After Wei Jinyi responded, he went into the house and moved the table and chairs to the courtyard.
Wei Ruo couldn't help but wonder—every time she visited Yingzhu Garden before, she always found him reading, writing, or painting in the pavilion. Even when they dined together, it was always in the pavilion. Perhaps it wasn't because he particularly enjoyed doing things there, but rather because he was deliberately avoiding being under the same roof as her.
Since Wei Jinyi insisted, Wei Ruo didn’t argue further.
She sat down on the chair he had brought and started chatting with him.
Just like in the past at Yingzhu Garden, although they hadn’t seen each other for a long time, and some things may have changed, others seemed to have remained exactly the same.
Soon after, Xiumei and Xiaobei brought out the prepared dishes.
Xiumei remarked to Wei Ruo that the kitchen here was larger and more convenient to use than the small kitchen at Yingzhu Garden.
Meanwhile, Xiaobei couldn't help but praise Xiumei’s cooking skills again. “Xiumei, you’re truly amazing! We’re using the exact same ingredients, yet my cooking turns out bland and boring, while yours makes people’s mouths water, their taste buds dance, and their appetites soar!”
Xiumei chuckled. “Xiaobei, you’ve used up all the idioms you learned from your young master just to describe my cooking, haven’t you?”
Xiaobei scratched his head in embarrassment and grinned. “Miss, please don’t tease me. I’m really not cut out for studying. Compared to the young master, I’m far behind. Please don’t tell anyone I learned from him—I’d just be embarrassing him.”
Xiumei laughed. “You’d better focus on learning how to cook from me instead. Otherwise, one day, your young master might not want you anymore.”
Xiaobei quickly agreed, “I’m already learning! As long as you have time to teach me, I promise to study hard and master a skill as soon as possible—so I don’t end up getting sold off by my young master!”
Wei Ruo and Xiumei were both amused by Xiaobei’s words, and even Wei Jinyi’s face showed a faint, gentle smile.
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