Chapter 259 - 250
After a while, she finally pushed him away, complaining, "You’re so cold..." She turned over and continued sleeping.
He had just come in from outside, bringing the chill with him.
He looked at her still groggy and clueless expression, chuckling as he took off his coat, "When did you get here?"
"I had dinner at your place," she replied, still drowsy, yawning and telling him with her eyes closed, "Sister Qian made pickled fish, scallion oil chicken, and eggplant with soy sauce today. It was delicious; I had three bowls of rice..."
He laughed out loud, bent down, and reached to touch her belly, "Three bowls and you still ate all these snacks? What’ll you do if you get fat?"
She wrinkled her nose and slapped his hand away, still very dismissive, "Your hand is cold!"
Even though she said his hand was cold, he insisted on getting her up, "Get up, brush your teeth, and then go back to sleep."
She sat up, still bleary-eyed, and asked him, "Did you eat? What did you eat?"
It was all meaningless "chatter." He had gone home; he must have eaten since he came back so late. But he enjoyed talking about these things with her. This "chatter" was interesting with her. Grandma used to ask him like this, whether he had eaten, what he had eaten, and who he had eaten with. Even though Grandma often didn’t know what he ate or recognize the people he ate with, he would still describe it all to her in detail. Now she also liked to ask, so he told her, "I did. There were a lot of dishes, but I just ate fish, fried meatballs, and half a bowl of vegetables. I didn’t eat as much rice as you did."
"Are you hungry?" she yawned, "Sister Qian also wrapped dumplings for breakfast tomorrow, with beef filling, pork and shepherd’s purse filling, three fresh fillings, and vegetarian fillings. I mixed the fillings. Which one would you like?"
"Really? You can mix fillings too? Didn’t cause any trouble, did you?" See, it was all these everyday trivialities, but he found it interesting and genuinely enjoyed talking about them with her, even though he never told her.