"Right, I probably won’t be able to co help tomorrow," Pei Yining said with a look of apology, "Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, and I’ve already made plans with my classmates to go take photos for others."
"It’s fine, the two of us can manage," Xu Nianhua didn’t want to hold Pei Yining back from her own plans, confident that he and his sister could handle things.
"Nianhua, my brother will co pick you up from the factory later, so I’ll head back first," Pei Yining said, quickly running off. She really went to a lot of trouble to give her brother and Nianhua so ti alone together.
"Ah."
Xu Nianhua picked up the bag from the corner, which his second brother had specially picked out for Pei Yining, full of things she would find useful.
"Never mind, I’ll bring them over later," Xu Nianhua said, returning to his busyness.
As the sky outside darkened further, the brother and sister were so engrossed in organizing their rchandise that they even forgot to eat dinner.
At the school gate, among a row of shops, only theirs was still lit up.
"Second brother, do you sll sothing delicious?" After tagging the last pair of earrings and placing them on the shelf, she caught the scent of dumplings, and her stomach began to growl.
"Little sister, did we forget to have dinner?" Xu Nian’an asked, his face blank as he lifted his head. Sorting the goods was a very tedious task, and with the decent sales they made that day, he also had to crunch so numbers.
In the hustle and bustle, Xu Nian’an had completely forgotten about dinner.
Pei Yicheng, who walked in with a plate of fried dumplings, frowned upon hearing they hadn’t eaten dinner yet and shot Xu Nian’an a glaring look that seed to question: How are you taking care of your sister?
Xu Nian’an guiltily touched his nose; he had simply been too busy and got muddled.
"Just in ti, I brought so fried dumplings," Pei Yicheng said as he opened the package of piping hot dumplings, the aroma instantly filling the shop.
"Slls amazing."
Taking a deep breath, Xu Nianhua, whose stomach was growling with hunger, looked at him sowhat sheepishly and asked, "Have you eaten?"
"I brought them for you to have as a late-night snack. Eat them while they’re warm," Pei Yicheng responded. Though he didn’t say much else, the concern in his eyes was clear as day. He said, "You eat first; I’m going to buy sothing else."
While calling Xu Nian’an over to eat, Xu Nianhua didn’t worry about what Pei Yicheng had gone out to buy, as the two siblings who’d missed dinner dug in.
Before long, Pei Yicheng returned, this ti with two more bags. He said, "On the way here, there was a shop that hadn’t closed yet—two bowls of egg noodles."
The fried dumplings he’d brought were ant as a snack and weren’t enough to fill them up.
"Thanks, Yicheng," Xu Nianhua, who was only half full, was instantly cheered up by the sight of the bowl of egg noodles.
Xu Nian’an looked at Pei Yicheng, then at his happy little sister, and thought that Pei Yicheng was really considerate, always thinking about his little sister’s needs.
"Yicheng..." Xu Nian’an began to say but then felt it wasn’t right; once he and his little sister were married, he would have to call him ’brother,’ so he corrected himself, "Yicheng, thank you."
"No problem," Pei Yicheng’s eyes twinkled, his smile growing even warr as he felt he had passed Xu Nian’an’s test.
"Little sister, you should go back and rest with Yicheng soon too, it’s cold. You don’t need to co too early tomorrow; I’ll be here watching the shop," Xu Nian’an softly instructed, knowing that relationships are built over ti. As long as they didn’t cross any lines, he felt they should spend more ti together. After school starts, such opportunities to be together would be rare.
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