CHAPTER 419: CHAPTER 419: HARD DAYS AHEAD

Rui Wen looked at his own sister actually serving Zhao Xuran with food, completely ignoring him, her own biological brother, not to mention the act of serving him at the table.

Rui Wen was really not happy about it, wondering why his sister was being so nice to Zhao Xuran.

"Brother Xu Ran, this meat is good."

Zhao Xuran took the meat and bit into it, "It is good."

While taking the opportunity to serve a piece of meat to Renee, "Ni Zi, you should eat more too."

"Brother Xu Ran, this soup is tasty."

"Mm, it is good, quite delicious, Ni Zi, you should drink more too."

Renee constantly served what she thought was good to Zhao Xuran.

Hmph, what’s so special about this dish? It’s not as good as grandma’s or Aunt Cai’s cooking, Zhao Guangran complained internally while eating, knowing that his mother’s cooking was better than this.

Renee’s actions made Gong Tao as a father quite heartbroken, as this used to be his treatment before. Every time they ate, his daughter didn’t serve him food, which always made Zhao Gang so irritated that he just wanted to have a daughter.

But today, it was completely embarrassing, who knows how Zhao Gang would mock him.

He couldn’t stand it, he had to make his daughter realize she still had a father, "Ni Zi ah, did you forget something today?" Couldn’t be too straightforward, or Zhao Gang might mock him.

Forgot something? Renee paused while serving dishes, just when Gong Tao thought his daughter remembered, "Didn’t forget anything."

Today was about checking the elders’ high school exam results, and she as a little bean wouldn’t be paying for the celebration meal, Renee truly couldn’t think of what she might have forgotten.

Zhao Gang saw his friend’s inability to resist speaking and couldn’t hold back anymore, it was truly too funny.

Though he didn’t laugh out loud, that big smile made Gong Tao very displeased.

Rui Wen saw his father in a losing stance, "Ni Zi, you forgot to serve me and Dad with food."

Hmph, truly don’t know why his sister was being so nice to Zhao Xuran today, though before Zhao Xuran had always been helping his sister with words, wasn’t it his doing?

If it wasn’t for Zhao Xuran, his sister wouldn’t be targeting Zhao Guangran in various ways, ultimately it was still Zhao Xuran’s fault.

Ah, right, forgot to serve Dad and them with food, Renee quickly served dishes to Gong Tao and Rui Wen, though future husband is important, maternal family is important too.

Renee wouldn’t do things to offend maternal family for one man, "Dad, this meat is delicious."

"Brother, this soup is tasty."

These words sounded rather unpleasant, Gong Tao glanced at the dishes on the table, with so many dishes, why specifically serve him meat.

Gong Tao admitted the meat was good, but it happened that before Ni Zi had already served Zhao Xuran with it, even the words were the same, just changed Brother Xu Ran to Dad, Gong Tao felt his status was lower than Zhao Xuran, as a proud father, this made him quite dissatisfied.

"Sister, I don’t like drinking soup." Unlike Gong Tao who was just inwardly dissatisfied, Rui Wen was much more direct, directly telling Renee he didn’t like drinking soup.

Don’t like drinking soup? When did his brother not like soup? Really, life just got a bit better, and he started being picky with food, such a temper can’t be spoiled.

"Even if you don’t like drinking you have to drink, once we go to Beijing, who knows if we’d still have such good meals." Renee thought about this, and didn’t have so much anticipation for going to Beijing to study.

What’s the meaning of this, Rui Wen couldn’t understand why his sister said this, he truly didn’t get it.

"So you can’t be picky." Renee looked at her brother’s blank expression, instinctively feeling he was pretending to be clueless.

"Where am I picky with food?" Rui Wen honestly felt wronged, seriously was he a picky eater? He was famous for eating anything edible, how come he ended up being labeled like this by his sister.

Rui Wen truly felt wronged, "I am not picky."

Really just a grown kid who never grew up, hearing her brother repeatedly defend that he’s not a picky eater, Renee was truly resigned, "Not loving soup is being picky."

Zhao Xuran watched the Gong Family Siblings discussing over a bowl of soup whether it was picky eating, his belly was almost bursting with laughter, but he couldn’t let it out, or it’d be too obvious.

"Alright, I’ll drink the soup." Rui Wen certainly didn’t want to bear the accusation of being picky, he had to say he’d drink the soup.

But before drinking, Rui Wen didn’t forget to throw a ’watch it’ glance at Zhao Xuran, knowing Zhao Xuran was no good, just in a short while he had coaxed his sister over.

Seeing Rui Wen’s defeated look, Zhao Guangran truly enjoyed the sight, "Brother, you’re awesome."

"How am I awesome, remember not to be picky, after we go to Beijing, there might not be so much meat to eat." Thinking of this, Zhao Xuran was truly reluctant to leave the Northeast.

At least here there’s meat to eat fish to eat, no worry of hunger, but once in the Northeast, eating such things wouldn’t be easy, though they wouldn’t starve, having a hearty meal with meat wouldn’t be easy.

Once those words were out, not only were Zhao Guangran and the kids unhappy, but the adults were also unwilling to let go.

"It’s okay, Beijing has suburbs too, there are mountains near Shuimu University, we can go hunting." Wan Qiweng promptly smooth things over, sharing her interesting experiences in Beijing, "Then on weekends we can picnic in the suburbs and hunt too."

"If possible, we can also gather some firewood to take home."

"Though we have coal, there’s not much of it." Wan Qiweng had never considered these before, and it was only after falling upon hard times that she slowly began to realize these things.

No way, not much coal, plus living in the city, Renee worried how they’d manage winter in future.

Even though Beijing’s winter is much warmer than the Northeast, one must admit Beijing’s winter is cold too, how to keep warm then.

"We’ll collect branches or buy some old furniture." Zhao Xuran, as the kids’ leader, quickly organized it.

"Then during the day we can all squeeze onto a heated brick bed." This can save quite a bit of money, can’t be as wasteful as here in the Northeast, as long as there’s enough firewood, any warmth on a brick bed goes.

No central heating? Renee thought of her past life in the Northeast during winter, it was all centralized heating, how come listening to Wan Qiweng seemed like there was no such thing, was it still local heating management per household?

This was a major issue, originally Renee thought after going to Beijing, they wouldn’t need to burn the brick bed, could have cozy centralized heating, but now realizing it was only a dream.

Renee now just wanted to know when they’d have centralized heating.