"Oh," Jian Yi responded and asked again, "Have you had dinner?"
"No." He Lichen answered truthfully, not knowing what she was thinking at all.
Jian Yi suddenly thought and said, "How about I cook noodles for you? There are only noodles in the refrigerator."
"No, I'm not hungry." He Lichen said that he was indeed not very hungry, but the main reason was that he didn't want her to cook, which would be troublesome and hard for her.
"No, I'm going to cook noodles for you." Jian Yi was stubborn and insisted on cooking for her uncle. As she said that, she wanted to jump off of her uncle and go to the kitchen to cook.
In the end, He Lichen couldn't defeat this girl, so he had no choice but to let her go.
However, Jian Yi stepped into the kitchen, and He Lichen followed suit.
"Uncle, just go sit outside and I'll cook the noodles myself," Jian Yi said, not wanting her uncle to follow her into the kitchen.
The kitchen is not big, and it is usually fine to be busy in the kitchen alone. However, when my uncle came in, the kitchen seemed very small, and it was difficult for him to turn around.
This should be... a psychological effect, right?
"No, I'll help you." After He Lichen said that, he started busy.
Although cooking noodles is very simple, it requires more or less hands-on work. He Lichen didn't want to overwork the little girl, so he did most of the cooking by himself.
Jian Yi stood next to her uncle and became a helper.
"Do you want to eat? How about cooking two portions?" He Lichen asked the girl next to him.
"No," Jian Yi replied, "I've already eaten. You can cook more for yourself."
"Yeah." Listening to her, the portion He Lichen cooked for himself was larger than the normal portion.
When the noodles were cooked, He Lichen walked out of the kitchen with a bowl of noodles and chopsticks in his hand.
Jian Yi followed behind and saw her uncle sitting down at the dining table, so she also sat down next to him.
"You really don't want to eat?" He Lichen asked the little girl again before eating.
Jian Yi shook her head and said she didn't want to eat.
I was not hungry, so I stopped eating and asked my uncle to eat quickly.
"Then I can eat it myself?"
"Yeah." Jian Yi nodded.
He Lichen was eating noodles. The hot noodles warmed his stomach. Moreover, the seasoning for this noodles was mixed by the little girl for him. It seemed... particularly delicious.
Halfway through the meal, He Lichen no longer felt hungry, and his eating movements slowed down.
At this moment, Jian Yi's inner thoughts were somewhat shaken.
"Uncle."
"Huh?" He Lichen turned his head and looked at the girl beside him.
"I want to eat too." Jian Yi blinked her big eyes and looked at her uncle innocently.
After hearing this, He Lichen didn't find it funny. Instead, he seemed to have guessed what the little girl was thinking. He nodded, then stretched out his long arm and said, "Come here."
Jian Yi understood what her uncle meant very well, so she immediately got into his arms and sat down directly on his lap.
Jian Yi is very thin. Sitting on He Lichen's lap, He Lichen does not feel heavy at all, nor does he feel that the space is small.
Jian Yi stayed in her uncle's arms, leaned forward, picked up his chopsticks, and ate a few bites of noodles, looking extremely satisfied.
"Wow, it tastes good." Jian Yi said happily.
Seeing her smile, He Lichen was in a good mood and said, "Well, the ingredients you prepared are delicious."
"Uncle, please eat more and finish them all," Jian Yi said.
"You eat first," He Lichen replied. "When you are full, I will eat the rest."
Before I met her, I never ate leftovers, but since I met her, I don’t know how many times I have eaten leftovers.
"No," Jian Yi refused and said coquettishly, "I won't eat it, you eat all the rest."
"Uncle, I'm actually not hungry at all. I've had dinner," Jian Yi continued, "Just now I saw how delicious you were eating, so I wanted to take a few bites. Now that I've eaten, I won't eat.
"
He Lichen knew that her child had such a temperament that everything was hot in three minutes, so he did not argue anymore, nodded and continued eating.
The two of them have long been inseparable from each other. They eat the same bowl of noodles and use the same pair of chopsticks. In their eyes, this kind of thing is perfectly normal.
After dinner, Jian Yi went to wash the dishes, but He Lichen stopped her and said seriously, "Just sit here and you are not allowed to enter the kitchen."
Jian Yi was a little frightened by her uncle's seriousness and did not dare to resist. She could only respond and then sat there obediently waiting for her uncle.
He Lichen was washing dishes in the kitchen, and he was also wondering. He rarely went into the kitchen at home, let alone washed dishes, but here with Niuer, there were things he had never done at home that he would never do here.
Did it.
He Lichen finished washing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen before coming out.
"It's getting late, I'll go with you to rest." He Lichen said, walked up to the little girl, stretched out his hand to hold the little girl's hand, and prepared to take the little girl to the room.
Jian Yi also obediently followed her uncle to the room. As she walked, she asked him, "Uncle, what should you do?"
"I'll leave after you fall asleep." He Lichen said.
"Do you want to go back?" Jian Yi asked in surprise.
"Yeah." He Lichen replied with one word, without explaining whether he should go home or go back to the hotel.
Jian Yi suddenly became unhappy. She walked into the bedroom and sat down by the bed, refusing to rest.
If you take a rest and your uncle leaves, then you won’t take a rest, so your uncle won’t leave either.
Seeing that this girl was still refusing to rest, He Lichen asked, "What's wrong? It's so late, aren't you still tired?"
"I don't take a rest," Jian Yi said directly without answering her uncle's words. She directly explained what she meant and said, "I'm afraid of sleeping alone, so I don't take a rest."
Seeing her losing her temper, He Lichen was not angry at all. Instead, he was worried about her anger and wanted to comfort her.
He Lichen stood in front of the little girl, then knelt down on one knee, held her arm with both hands, and asked her, "Then what are you going to do? What are your ideas?"
Since she was afraid of sleeping alone, she should have found a way to change her mind. She couldn't stay up all night.
Jian Yi looked at her uncle and said innocently, "I want you to accompany me."
Yes, that's what I mean. I actually want my uncle to accompany me.
In the past, I didn't feel scared when my uncle was not in the apartment. But today, he is here and has to leave, so I feel very lost. When I feel lost, I feel scared.
Looking at the little girl's beautiful face, He Lichen couldn't bear to refuse, so he agreed, "Okay, I'll stay with you."
"But you go to bed first. When you fall asleep, I will sleep on the sofa outside." He Lichen said.
The sofa outside is a sofa bed. Simply put it together to create a bed for sleeping.
Jian Yi shook her head and refused immediately, "No, I want to sleep with you."
After saying that, Jian Yi didn't care about anything and went straight forward, hugged her uncle and refused to let him go. (To be continued)