Chapter 356: I’ll Give the Gift
"I didn’t say that," Qin Xiangnuan gave him a smile, but it was just a slight tug at her red lips—it was such a perfunctory effort that Jian Zhiqing pinched her face hard, "Little girl, your mouth is getting sharper, teasing your Brother Jian comes with a price."
Qin Xiangnuan rubbed her own face, alright, stop pinching, she knew she was wrong, but really, she had never intended to make Jian Zhiqing into the kind that upon looking back, would frighten a comet into crashing into Earth—that would make her sick just watching.
Handsome men are such a pleasant sight, she’s been accustomed to seeing them since she was little, her considerable immunity to men all came from Jian Zhiqing.
Sometimes Li Li and Mao Xiaomei would be in a daze, hands propped under their chins, turning into a blossoming flower, and then they would utter something like, that guy is so handsome, like XXX, looking for someone who is really good-looking, like my idol XXX.
Qin Xiangnuan sometimes would also look with an appreciative eye, but with one glance she knew she was quite off base, not as tall as Jian Zhiqing, not as handsome as Jian Zhiqing, not having Jian Zhiqing’s good personality, and even less his temperament. They were like little weak chicks, shoulders unable to carry, hands unable to lift, truly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, like Li Li adoring someone who is just a pretentiously high-minded skinny pole, who happens to be quite tall and can paint, Li Li says, that’s an artist’s temperament, but in Qin Xiangnuan’s view, that’s just a sissy, and also someone with an affectedly delicate manner, even the acne all over his face, Li Li would swoon, saying even his pimples are prettier than others’, it seems to her it just might be more than others.
The work in the fields progressed extremely fast, nearing evening time, with overtime efforts, they finally finished one, the second one would be done tomorrow, might be even faster, the slowest would actually be the third one, the one that is all glass on four sides and is a bit larger, so that one is troublesome, also requiring scaffolding and the like, but it’s also expected to be done in four days.
When they returned, Granny Lu made them porridge, specially steamed buns and flower rolls, stir-fried a few meat dishes, cucumber salad, bean sprouts salad, and an "ants climbing a tree," essentially a dish of meat and glass noodles. With just a few of them around, Taotao and Jian Zhiqin were both there, the family was busy with important matters, the two little ones were taken by Mr. Li to discipline, saving Granny Lu the trouble of a one-person effort.
Qin Xiangnuan picked up a flower roll and started eating, taking a bite of the flower roll, then a sip of porridge, she wasn’t picky about eating manners at all. On the contrary, Jian Zhiqing was much more refined, which also had to do with his own upbringing and habits, no one could say anything about it.
Qin Xiangnuan picked up another flower roll, feeling she wouldn’t be able to finish it, but she didn’t want to be hungry either, and holding it in her hand, it would be impolite to put it down, so she tore it in half and gave it to Jian Zhiqing.