Chapter 2334

Chapter 2334: Chapter 2334

"Ah?" Yang Hong was momentarily confused and let out a sound.

"Brown sugar, red dates." Duan Xi.

"Oh, that... we probably don’t have it at home... we don’t." Yang Hong stood up awkwardly and said after searching through several cabinets. They had just moved in a few days ago and hadn’t prepared many things.

Duan Xi frowned and turned to leave, reminding him, "Don’t touch the ginger."

"Oh, okay." Yang Hong.

After Duan Xi left the kitchen, there was a quiet inquiry from outside, and after the sound of a door closing, Yang Hong quietly asked Ruan Lei, "Brother Lei, what does Brother Xi want those things for?"

Ruan Lei responded nonchalantly, "Jiaojiao caught a cold today, he’s making her some brown sugar ginger water to warm her up."

This was a tradition in the Ruan Family: whenever someone got caught in the rain or caught a cold, the Ruanlin Family would make them drink a bowl of brown sugar ginger water. Now that the Ruanlin Family wasn’t around, it wasn’t strange for Duan Xi to make it.

Yang Hong widened his eyes in surprise and after a moment said, "Their relationship really is good."

"Of course, they grew up together, how could it not be? Xiao Hong, your sister..." Ruan Lei subtly shifted the topic, and the two of them began chatting about Yang Tao.

About 20 minutes later, Ruan Jiaojiao stared at the large bowl of brown sugar ginger water Duan Xi had placed in front of her, her little face full of resistance.

"Brother Xi, if I drink this, I might not have room for dinner. How about, Xiao Tao, we share it half and half..."

"No way, I won’t drink that stuff. I haven’t caught a cold, I’ll go check how the dinner is coming along..." Yang Tao swiftly escaped the scene as she spoke.

Unable to share half of it, Ruan Jiaojiao’s little face fell.

"Drink as much as you can." Duan Xi coaxed her.

Ruan Jiaojiao puffed up her cheeks, unwilling to waste Duan Xi’s hard work, drank it sip by sip from his hand, but there was simply too much. After drinking about half, her little belly felt full.

Duan Xi coaxed her again, and feeling she had drunk enough, he finished the rest in one gulp.

Duan Xi returned the bowl to the kitchen, and when he came back, he saw Ruan Jiaojiao counting something on her fingers. He sat next to her, pulled her little hand over and felt that it was warm before asking, "What are you calculating?"

Ruan Jiaojiao glanced at him, "It’s all your fault, I have to start over."

She lowered her eyelids, curling a finger with each name, "Dad, Mom, Grandma, Big Brother, Second Brother, Grandpa, Little Potato, Godmother, Qin Li..."

By the end, all ten fingers were curled, and her eyes narrowed happily into a thin slit. She murmured to herself, "Luckily there’s just enough to divide."

She shared her calculation with Duan Xi, "Brother Xi, I received a thousand yuan, and if I were to buy things, it wouldn’t be enough to divide. So I thought I’d give each person 100 yuan. Besides our family’s six, plus Grandpa, Godmother, Uncle, and Aunt, I’ll just give it to Little Potato and Qin Li, don’t you think that’s good?"

Not good, very not good!

"Weren’t you going to buy me a gift?" Duan Xi’s face turned very gloomy.

"..." Ruan Jiaojiao.

Her lowered eyelashes fluttered nervously. She had been overly excited and eager to please, speaking without thinking it through. Later, sitting in the car, she realized if she spent it all on a gift for Duan Xi, it might offend everyone else.