Raising a Family [Rebirth]

Chapter 35

The students are on holiday on New Year's Day, and the noodle restaurant's traffic is not as much as usual, but there are still many customers in the shop.

Early in the morning, Wen Rui drove Jiang Yueting to the store by car. Zhang Huaibin was busy in the back kitchen, and there were many guests having breakfast in the store.

A regular customer greeted Wen Rui when he saw him coming.

Someone saw Jiang Yueting beside him and asked curiously, "This is your sister?" Jiang Yueting was wearing a hat and a mask, only showing a pair of beautiful eyes, the person did not recognize that it was a boy.

Wen Rui hurriedly said, "No, it's the younger brother, he's a boy." He pulled off Jiang Yueting's mask and found a place for him to sit.

Wen Rui took out an old newspaper from behind the counter and spread it on the table, and took Jiang Yueting's picture album, paper and pen out of his school bag, and said, "You play first, I'll go to the back kitchen to cook, and I'll be done when I'm done." I will accompany you again."

Jiang Yueting nodded, fiddling with the brush on his own.

Wen Rui entered the kitchen, Zhang Huaibin saw him coming in and handed him the chopsticks in his hand, "There are still five servings of noodles. The steamed dumplings are not yet cooked, so watch carefully. Is your brother here?" Wen Rui called him yesterday He said hello and said he would bring the children over.

Wen Rui: "Well, sit outside."

"You're busy." The old man wiped his hands and went out of the kitchen. He saw Jiang Yueting at a glance. He walked over and looked at the child, and saw that the child was wrapped like a dumpling. He was very cute. Jiang Yueting was about the same age as his grandson, and the old man was heartbroken. Soft, his face softened, and he asked softly, "What are you doing?"

Jiang Yueting looked at the painting he had made and was silent for a while before saying, "Grandpa, I'm drawing." Wen Rui told him that the boss is an old man, and told him to be polite.

When Zhang Huaibin heard the child call him Grandpa, his eyes and brows were filled with smiles, and he sat next to Jiang Yueting to chat with him.

Jiang Yueting was drawing his dog, and he didn't raise his head to answer. Although he didn't speak much, he answered every question.

Wen Rui brought out two servings of noodles from the back kitchen and put them on the counter. He said, "Boss, the steamed dumplings are ready. Come and serve them."

"Okay." Zhang Huaibin set the counter flat and handed it to the guests, and when he turned around, he saw Jiang Yueting entering the kitchen.

Wen Rui felt that someone behind him thought it was an old man, so he picked up the cage and turned around and handed it over. Unexpectedly, he saw Jiang Yueting behind him. He was startled and hurriedly stopped the car, so that the cage of steamed dumplings did not burn Jiang Yueting. .

Wen Rui thought something happened to him, so he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Yueting stretched out his hands towards him: "I'll serve it."

Wen Rui looked at him with helplessness on his face: "No, it's very hot."

Jiang Yueting always wanted to help Wen Rui with work, and yesterday he had to help wash the dishes, but he was a little higher than the table, and when he reached out to wash the dishes, his sleeves were almost soaked in the sink.

Wen Rui could only move a bench for him and let him stand on it.Wen Rui was afraid that he would not be able to stand steadily, so he stood behind Jiang Yueting and put his hands on the edge of the table to half-circle him.

Jiang Yueting was meticulous in his work. He could wash the bowl two or three times with dish soap, holding the bowl in his small hands and rubbing it back and forth until the bowl was completely wiped out.

His hands were too small to hold the dinner plate, so Wen Rui held it for him, and he just rubbed it with his hands.

Seeing his serious face, Wen Rui couldn't help but ask, "Why do you always want to help me with work?"

Jiang Yueting said seriously: "You are very tired of earning money to support your family."

The latter sentence is self-evident, Wen Rui was amused by him and laughed, but the satisfaction in his heart was overflowing, and he rubbed Jiang Yueting's hair with his chin.

"Come on, I'll teach you to wash." Wen Rui asked him to hold the plate with both hands, wrapped Jiang Yueting's little hand with his big hand, and slowly led him to rub it on the plate. He said softly, "One wash is enough, remember Rinse off the foam with clean water..."

Both of them had dish soap on their hands, which was very sticky and uncomfortable.

Wen Rui arched his waist, and his chin was pressed against Jiang Yueting's temples. There was a faint lemon smell on his body, which was the smell of bath liquid.

Jiang Yueting doesn't like lemons, but he likes the smell of Wen Rui.

He stood there feeling Wen Rui's breath, as if something broke out of his heart, and began to germinate silently.

Zhang Huaibin followed in, and Wen Rui asked him to lead Jiang Yueting out, but the child pursed his lips and stood there without moving.

He smiled and said, "Didn't I say that I earn money to support the family? The work at home belongs to you, and I won't compete with you."

Jiang Yueting nodded after thinking about it, and left the back kitchen.

When there were fewer customers in the shop, the old man went to sell vegetables, while Wen Rui and Jiang Yueting stayed behind to guard the shop.There is an iron frame nailed to the corner of the small shop, and a TV is placed on it, which is always on at ordinary times.

Wen Rui wanted to show Jiang Yueting a cartoon to watch, but he couldn't find it after searching around. During the channel change, he happened to see a little leopard with its mouth open asking for something to eat.

He glanced at Jiang Yueting who was watching him change the channel seriously, and felt that the little guy looked like a little leopard, so he just let him watch this.

Jiang Yueting wasn't picky either, at first she just focused on painting, and would glance at it from time to time, then she simply put down her brush, raised her head high, and looked at the TV seriously.

He didn't say it looked good, but Wen Rui understood what he meant by liking it.

The boss came back soon, and he bought a lot of extra dishes.

Wen Rui took the dishes and prepared to put them in the kitchen. He asked puzzledly, "Do you buy chicken and dried fish? Do you want to start a side business?"

The old man gave him a blank look: "Improve our food, I'm tired of eating noodles." The two usually try to cook some noodles for lunch, but now that they have a child, they can't suffer from it.

Zhang Huaibin looked at Jiang Yueting who was watching TV with his head up, and asked kindly: "Yueting, what do you like to eat?"

Wen Rui came out after putting away his things, and when he heard his question, he smiled and said, "He doesn't even know."

The old man ignored him and asked again.

Jiang Yueting glanced at him and said, "I don't know."

Zhang Huaibin: "...then what don't you like to eat?"

Jiang Yueting thought for a while and said, "I'm not picky about food."

Zhang Huaibin quickly responded: "It's good not to be picky eaters. It's healthy to not be picky eaters. I like children who are not picky eaters."

Jiang Yueting replied blankly, "Thank you."

The old man didn't feel disappointed either. Wen Rui told him that the child has a mild personality and usually doesn't like to care about others, but he knows in his heart that you treat him well.

Wen Rui was going to wash the vegetables, Jiang Yueting quickly jumped off the stool and followed Wen Rui's ass and said, "I'll help you."

The old man's heart is so warm, what an obedient child.

Wen Rui used cold water to wash the vegetables, so he wouldn't let him touch them. He pushed the man in front of the old man: "Hey, go and choose vegetables with grandpa."

The old man also knew what he meant, and said quickly: "Come on, let's go together."

Jiang Yueting didn't refuse, and followed the old man to choose dishes in the store.

He squatted on the ground imitating the old man's movements to crush the leaves, and looked up at the TV from time to time.

The old man watched the leopard on TV and said casually: "This big cat is quite cute."

Jiang Yueting corrected him: "It's a little leopard."

This was the first time he took the initiative to talk to Zhang Huaibin, which made the old man entertain himself for a while.

Seeing him smiling, Jiang Yueting gave him another look and didn't say a word. After a while, he said, "Grandpa, you don't have a fierce smile." After speaking, he sent the selected dishes into the kitchen.

Zhang Huaibin froze for a moment and smiled even more happily.

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Time passed quickly, and elementary and high schools all began to have winter vacation.

Zhang Huaibin said that he had to go to his daughter to celebrate the New Year in a few days, and he would pay Wen Rui his salary in advance.

Wen Rui has also started to buy new year's goods, this year is the first year he and Jiang Yueting spend together, although it's just the two of them who have to prepare well.

When he found time, he took Jiang Yueting to go shopping. He bought three sets of new clothes for Jiang Yueting, and the clothes that Fang Yuwei sent to Jiang Yueting were all worn out.

Wen Rui also bought color TVs, sofas and coffee tables in the mall, and added tables, chairs and beds to Jiang Yueting's room, which cost a total of less than [-] yuan.

But the layout of the room was the layout, Jiang Yueting just refused to live in it, and would come to his bed every night with a pillow in his arms.

Wen Rui talked about him a few times, Jiang Yueting simply stuffed his feet into his arms, and said calmly, "Sleep by yourself, it's cold."

Wen Rui could only compromise, thinking that it would be fine to wait for Xia Tian.

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Wen Rui's face was almost stuck on Jiang Yueting's fingers, and he murmured: "Hey, don't move, don't move."

Jiang Yueting's nails grew long, and he couldn't cut them by himself. Last time, he even cut the tender flesh between his nails.

With ten fingers connected to his heart, Jiang Yueting's heart contracted suddenly in pain. He pinched his fingers and stared at Wen Rui, with a hint of grievance in his eyes, but he just refused to call out pain.

The old man bought delicious food every day, and made Jiang Yueting fat. Now his cheeks are fleshy, and Wen Rui's appearance makes Wen Rui feel funny and distressed, so he can only cut his nails for him.

Wen Rui specially bought a pair of small nail clippers. It was his first time cutting someone else's nails. He was afraid that Jiang Yueting's flesh would be cut, and he looked tense.

He polished Jiang Yueting's nails round, and the child's nails are beautiful, plump and round, pale pink.

"The toenails were also cut, and the socks were punctured." Wen Rui said and pulled his feet.

Jiang Yueting had just finished taking a shower, and was lying on the sofa in his cotton pajamas with bare feet. When Wen Rui came to grab his feet, he immediately hid.

Seeing his unnatural expression, Wen Rui asked strangely, "What's the matter?"

Jiang Yueting remained expressionless, and reached for the small nail clippers in Wen Rui's hand: "Do it yourself."

Wen Rui didn't care, he took out another one from under the coffee table and said, "That's for fingernails, this is for your feet."

Jiang Yueting heard that he wanted to come over to get it again, but Wen Rui grabbed his feet.

Wen Rui coaxed: "Hurry up, let's watch the animal world after cutting."

Jiang Yueting really likes to watch the animal world, as long as it is on TV, he will sit on the sofa and watch it without moving.

Unexpectedly, his little finger lightly rubbed against Jiang Yueting's sole of the foot, and the other party smiled immediately, his beautiful eyes were bent into half crescents, the eyes were bright, as if there was light, and the whole person seemed to be soaked by the sun.

It was the first time Wen Rui saw him laughing, and his heart softened so much that he couldn't help laughing: "Are you ticklish?"

As he spoke, he scratched the soles of Jiang Yueting's feet, and the other party laughed even harder, tears came out, and his face was flushed, but he didn't make a sound, just like him crying, it was silent.

Wen Rui quarreled with him for a while, afraid that Jiang Yueting would lose his temper from laughing, so he didn't dare to quarrel with him again.

Jiang Yueting lay on the sofa panting, and stopped laughing after a while. He looked at Wen Rui without saying a word.

Seeing this, Wen Rui knew that he was a little angry, and said generously, "Why don't you scratch me too."

Jiang Yueting hesitated and sat up from the sofa, ignoring Wen Rui with a cold face.

Wen Rui sighed in his heart, he leaned over and stroked Jiang Yueting's forehead hair, and said softly, "Baby, you look beautiful when you smile."

Jiang Yueting still didn't say a word, and after a while suddenly asked: "Doesn't it look good if you don't smile?"

Hearing what he said, Wen Rui knew that he had calmed down, and hurriedly said, "They all look good, and my little one is the most beautiful." He smiled and looked at the other party, speaking glibly, but his eyes were gentle, without any greasy feeling.

Jiang Yueting was silent for a while before saying, "You look good too."

"Thank you." Wen Rui discussed with him after the fight with him, "Can I cut your toenails? I promise not to touch the soles of your feet."

Jiang Yueting didn't speak, Wen Rui reached out to shake his foot, but the other party didn't object.

Only then did Wen Rui carefully cut his toenails.

"Okay, watch TV." Wen Rui wrapped a blanket around his feet, "Just watch it for an hour, and go to bed later."

"Yes." Jiang Yueting leaned against him and continued to look at his animal world.

With sharp ears, Jiang Yueting suddenly said, "The phone is ringing."

Wen Rui listened carefully, and it was true.He stood up from the sofa in confusion, who could it be so late?

He took a look at the mobile phone on the dining table, and saw that it was Uncle Li's call. Wen Rui showed a surprised expression. The other party hadn't contacted him since they finished talking about selling the house.

He got on the phone.

"Hello, Wen Rui? How are you going to live your new year?"

Wen Rui glanced at Jiang Yueting who was on the sofa, and said with a smile, "Just have a casual meal at home."

Li Mincheng hurriedly said: "Come to my house. It just so happens that my daughter is also back. Let's have a meal together and make it lively. It's not good for you to go out alone for many years."

Wen Rui felt that this sentence was not right, but he couldn't remember what was wrong for a while, but there was a day difference between the north and the south.

He originally wanted to shirk, but the other party was too enthusiastic and said that he would come to pick him up when the time came.

Wen Rui felt that it would be hypocritical to say no, so he had to agree.