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Gu Chunzhu walked carefully holding the bowl of braised pork, she wasn't as excited when she went to buy a house in her previous life, or when she had millions of dollars in her bank account.

As soon as she saw their courtyard, Gu Chunzhu's step accelerated. Su Wangqin grabbed her hand reminding her: "Slow down, be careful not to fall."

"Don't treat me as a child."

Gu Chunzhu smirked, she tried to slow down. Seeing the dim light in the thatched house, she knew that the two children were at home.

She pushed open the door and was hugged by a fleshy little body.

Gu Chunzhu's heart melted.

"Mother, you've been out for a long time."

The little head with two braids rubbed her cheeks on her (Gu chunzhu) legs.

An An’s grape-like eyes sparkled.

"The little greedy cat must have smelled that mother came back with braised pork."

She handed the braised pork to Su Wangqin. Gu Chunzhu squatted and put her hand under An An's arm and picked her up.

She's become familiar with her weight in the past few days so she walked without any difficulty.

"It smells good. "An An sniffed deeply and hugged Gu Chunzhu's neck even more tightly, she sweetly said: "An An was waiting for mother, and did not expect to have braised pork."

Listening to the innocent and childlike words, Gu Chunzhu walked faster and carried An An toward the kitchen.

Xiaocheng was sitting on the wooden pier in front of the stove, waiting for the brown rice porridge to cook.

He sat there, watching his father and mother walk in with An An, his nose couldn't help but sniff the delicious smell. He moved his eyes and they fell on the bowl in Su Wangqin's hands.

"Look, XiaoCheng and An An are like puppies, they can smell the meat from afar."

Gu Chunzhu knew that the original owner didn't treat the children well.

An An had forgotten what she had done since she was young but Xiao Cheng was older.

She thought of deliberately teasing him.

Sure enough, Xiaocheng's earlobes turned red and he lowered his head in shame.

Gu Chunzhu put An An on the stool, she walked to the edge of the stove, opened the lid and started filling the bowl with brown rice porridge, she urged Xiaocheng:

"Hurry up and sit with your sister."

Xiaocheng walked past obediently and sat down slowly.

When Gu Chunzhu was satisfied with the preparation of the porridge. The big wooden spoon was suddenly grabbed by a thick and huge hand.

"I'll do it, go sit down with the children."

Gu Chunzhu looked up at Su Wangqin who had seized her position.

Still treating her like a child.

Her face blushed, fearing to be seen by the children, she bowed her head.

An An swallowed at the sight of braised pork. Gu Chunzhu saw this and smiled, she scraped her little nose, "Little Greedy Cat".

"Mother is not allowed to laugh, don't laugh!" An An reached out to cover Gu Chunzhu's mouth with her small hand, she moved her little butt to sit on her lap, clinging tightly to her arms.

Xiaocheng looked up at his sister, a smile flashed in his eyes, then quietly lowered his sight again.

This very quick moment was captured by Gu Chunzhu, this is good progress indicating that Xiaocheng has gradually accepted her in his heart.

Su Wangqin brought four bowls of brown rice porridge one after another. "It's hot. You stir it before eating."

This "you" also includes Gu Chunzhu. She stood up embarrassedly.

Su Wangqin treats her like a child!

(TL: Nope he's just clearly spoiling you hehe)

She took two bowls from the cupboard and placed them next to An An and Xiao Cheng. She put a piece of meat in each bowl and placed them beside the bowl of porridge.

An An's greedy saliva almost oozed out. Her two small hands holding her cheeks.

Gu Chunzhu said with a smile:

"Eat the braised pork first, and then drink the porridge when it's cooled down. Mother will go and fry Chinese cabbage to add to the dish."

After that, she went and took the cabbage she got from the market today.

"I'll do it." Su Wangqin put down his chopsticks and walked to her side. He tried to reach her hands but this time, Gu Chunzhu was prepared to take the cabbage away.

Su Wanqing's hand was left hanging in the air, Gu Chunzhu said: "Brother, just take your time to rest, you went to the mountains to hunt for 2 days. Rest and taste my craft."

She smiled and her two small dimples showed, Su Wanqing's eyes were glued on it.

She's getting better than before.

Her face, nose and eyes just looked more pleasing than before...she looked so much better..

Seeing her not-so-slender back busy in the kitchen while the two children were eating braised pork, Su Wangqin secretly vowed to earn more money.

"You can eat."

A plate of Chinese cabbage was brought over. The tender white stems and yellow leaves, with a little lard, smelled fragrant.

Su Wangqin took the chopsticks and ate it with the brown rice porridge. Gulping with big mouthfuls.

Seeing that his appetite was good, Gu Chunzhu moved her gaze to the two children, she put some vegetables on their bowls.

Seeing their oily little mouths, she urged: "You must also eat vegetables, so you can grow tall, strong and not be bullied."

"I understand mother, An An will eat a lot so I can be as strong as big brother." An An raised and lowered her head to continue eating. She chewed hard.

Speaking of being strong. Xiao Cheng's eyes reflected his yearning.

He wants to be strong so he could protect his sister.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Gu Chunzhu.

Gu Chunzhu just lowered her head down to drink her brown rice porridge.

XiaoCheng immediately looked away remembering that no one had beaten his sister now.

"Brother Wang, let's go to the county town to sell game tomorrow." After drinking a few sips of brown rice porridge, Gu Chunzhu raised her head and told Su Wangqin, "Let's sell it to a restaurant, we may earn more silver that way. I spent all the silver you gave last time. Before the winter starts, I want to make jackets for the two children so I bought cotton."

"Two silvers was not enough."

Su Wangqin knew a little about the price of cloth and cotton.

"Well, I also earned a lot of silver from selling my mule but I also paid a monthly tax of 15 coppers to be able to do a shrimp fishing business. Today, a lot of people started fishing shrimp."

Gu Chunzhu knows that she spent too much money and blames herself for her miscalculation. She almost buried her head into her bowl. As a transmigrator, she took things too seriously and thought too much of things.

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