Chapter 5

“My daughter looks good in it too.” Guo Xia looked at Xidi wearing new clothes with satisfaction and glanced at Yan Xi complacently.

“Shuai Shuai, Mom is good to you.” Fan Fuying asked her son.

Shuai Shuai felt very heroic and proud in his new clothes, and shouted loudly: “Good!”

“Do you want a stepmother?” Fan Fuying asked again.

Shuai Shuai’s expression immediately changed and he refused loudly: “I don’t want it!”

“Why?” Fan Fuying asked deliberately.

“My stepmother is not good. She beats and scolds me, doesn’t give me delicious food, and never buys me new clothes!” Shuai Shuai said in one breath.

Fan Fuying glanced at Yan Xi arrogantly and comforted Shuai Shuai: “My son is lucky. He won’t have a stepmother.”

Shuai Shuai nodded heavily: “Yes!”

Fan Fuying deliberately performed this drama for Yan Xi, Fu Caihe and Nuannuan to see.

Yan Xi was indifferent, but Fu Caihe and Nuannuan were hurt.

They were originally speaking up for Yan Xi and were shocked by Yan Xi’s words “My Xiao He and Nuan Nuan”. However, they were like other children, envious of Shuai Shuai and Xi Di who had new clothes, and were hurt by Fan Fuying and Shuai Shuai’s words.

Both of them thought of their deceased biological parents, their faces were filled with sadness, and they lowered their heads.

Yan Xi said to them, “Xiao He, Nuan Nuan, come home and make dumplings with me.”

After saying that, she took the lead and walked towards home.

Fu Caihe and Nuannuan trotted after them.

Seeing that Yan Xi didn’t get angry and argue with her, Fan Fuying felt like she was hitting cotton with her fist and felt extremely unhappy.

She sneered at Yan Xi’s back: “Making dumplings! You can’t make dumplings at all!”

“That’s right!” Guo Xia also said disdainfully: “Everyone knows that she only knows how to eat and drink for free. Who is she pretending to be?”

…

Yan Xi returned home, put down the things in her hands, and shook her sore hands.

She was exhausted after carrying so many things along the way.

Yan Xi was thirsty and a little hungry.

She drank a glass of warm water and went to the cupboard to get some snacks.

When she opened the cupboard, she was stunned to see that the snacks in the cupboard did not appear to have been touched.

“What did you two have for lunch?” She turned around and asked Fu Caihe and Nuannuan.

She went out in the morning and it’s already past two in the afternoon.

Before she went out in the morning, she cooked the last bit of noodles and shared them with her two children. But there was only a little bit of noodles, and she was not full, while the two children were probably only about 70% full.

Fu Caihe didn’t say anything, but Nuannuan shook her head.

“Didn’t you two have lunch?” Yan Xi asked again.

Fu Caihe had a cold face and Nuannuan nodded.

Yan Xi let out a sigh and quickly realized why the two children didn’t touch the snacks in the cabinet.

The psychological trauma and vigilance caused by the original owner were not something she could change in just a few days.

Yan Xi took out peach cakes, biscuits and sesame cakes from the cupboard, placed them in front of them and said, “Eat.”

Nuannuan glanced at Fu Caihe and didn’t dare to reach out her hand.

“If I tell you to eat, just eat. I won’t hit you.” Yan Xi said.

The two children still didn’t move, especially Fu Caihe, who stared at him in disbelief.

Yan Xi no longer had the patience as she still had a lot of things to do.

“If you don’t eat and faint from hunger, do you want me to send you to the hospital and spend money to treat you?”

Fu Caihe sneered in his heart.

He asked why she was suddenly so nice to them, and it turned out that she was worried that they would get sick and have to go to the hospital and spend money.

She must still be resentful of the time when her sister ate the food given by Fan Fuying and got a stomachache, so he carried her sister to the health center and spent her money to treat her!

Fu Caihe raised his hand and took two pieces of peach cake, gave one to Nuannuan, and started eating.

When Nuannuan saw her brother eating, she quickly stuffed the peach cake into her little mouth, obviously she was very hungry.

“Eat slowly, don’t choke.” Yan Xi warned.

She got up to pour them some water, but found that there were only two enamel cups in the house, one was hers and the other was Fu Wen’s. The two children didn’t even have their own cups.

Yan Xi went to the kitchen, got two bowls, and poured them two cups of warm water.

The two children quickly picked up the bowl and drank a few sips of warm water.

“From now on, just eat when I tell you to. Don’t go hungry anymore.” Yan Xi emphasized again.

Fu Caihe ignored her. Nuannuan blinked her big black eyes and nodded ignorantly.

Yan Xi also ate a few pieces of peach cakes and biscuits to fill her stomach, then went to the kitchen.

She had just moved the things she bought into the kitchen when Nuannuan ran in with her mouth full of peach cakes and her cheeks puffed up.

“What’s wrong?” Yan Xi asked her.

Nuan Nuan swallowed the peach cake in her mouth and said softly, “Let’s make dumplings together with Auntie.”

The original owner did not allow the two children to call her “Mom”, but to call her “Auntie”. As the two children did not want to call her “Mom”, they kept calling her “Auntie”.

Yan Xi smiled.

She said that in front of Fan Fuying and the others just now, just to find an excuse to let the two children go home. She didn’t want them to stay there and be teased and bullied by Fan Fuying.

This little girl is quite well behaved.

“Can you make dumplings?” Yan Xi asked her with a smile.

Nuan Nuan shook her head.

“Today, Auntie will make dumplings by herself. I will teach you how to make dumplings some other day, and then we can make dumplings together.”

Nuannuan nodded.

“Go play with your brother at the biscuit.”

“Okay.” Nuannuan turned around and ran back.

Fu Caihe was still eating snacks. Since the woman asked them to eat and didn’t beat them, he ate them.

Nuannuan supported herself on the long bench with her thin little hands, stood on tiptoe, and jumped to sit next to Fu Caihe. She took another biscuit and stuffed it into her mouth.

While eating, she said incoherently: “Brother, Auntie Gai Tian taught us how to make dumplings, and she let us eat ice cream for fun.”

Fu Caihe said nothing.

After a while, Nuan Nuan said again: “Auntie also cut me.”

Fu Caihe was stunned for a moment, but still didn’t say anything.

Nuan Nuan continued to stuff biscuits into her mouth: “Brother, I feel that my aunt is different from before. She gives us food and even peels it for us.”

Fu Caihe stopped stuffing sesame cakes into his mouth and warned his sister: “Don’t be fooled by her! She is just pretending!”

Nuan Nuan tilted her head, swallowed a mouthful of biscuits, and asked in confusion: “Why do you have to pretend, Auntie?”

Fu Caihe was stumped by the question.

He was silent for a few seconds and said, “I don’t know either. But think about how she beat us and scolded us before.”

When Nuannuan thought about the scene of being beaten and scolded before, she was so scared that the biscuits in her hand no longer smelled good. Fear appeared on her face, her mouth pursed, and she was about to cry.

Fu Caihe patted her back and comforted her: “Don’t be afraid, I am here, and I will always protect you. You just need to know that she is pretending, and don’t be fooled by her.”

Nuannuan nodded heavily.

When she ate the biscuits in her hand, she took small bites, as if if she ate too much, Yan Xi would grab her ears, drag her off the chair and scold her like she did in the past, saying that she was eating too much and affecting her appetite.