Chapter 21 is not ordinary strength

  The "knock knock" sound came, and Xing Ye hurriedly got up, tidied up her clothes, and went to open the door.

  Big Brother Jia Kai stood outside the door with a plate in his hand.

  "Look at you, didn't eat anything for lunch, I brought some dim sum for you." Yu Jia Kai pointed to the plate in his hand, "I don't know what you like to eat, so I took a bit of everything we have."

  Staring at the big plate of dim sum all night, if I really finish it all, I can even skip breakfast tomorrow.

  He invited him in on a starry night, but after he came in, he found that there wasn't even a chair in the room. He couldn't let him sit on the bed, could he?

  Yu Jia Kai discovered the awkwardness of Xing Ye, "Why don't you go to the restaurant to eat? I seem to have forgotten to get you something to drink. It's best to have some snacks with Aunt Mei's stewed fruit tea."

  Xing Ye followed him to the restaurant, which was adjacent to the kitchen. Mei Yi poked her head out of the kitchen.

  "Aunt Mei, how's your signature fruit tea?"

  Mei Yi nodded and entered the kitchen.

  "Grandma loves drinking the flower tea cooked by Mei Yi, which is said to be good for the skin and lungs, as well as protecting the throat," Yu Jia Kai introduced.

  "Mei Yi's cooking is also delicious." Xing Ye thought of the noodle soup and small dishes at noon, the soup was rich and the noodles were smooth, and the small dishes were also crisp and refreshing.

  "Yes! You haven't had Aunt Mei's simmered soup, it's so fragrant that you'd want to swallow your tongue along with it." Yu Jia Kai exaggeratedly said.

  "It's not that delicious" Mei Yi smiled and came out of the kitchen, turning her head to Xing Ye and said: "Try it, I added a bit of honey on purpose."

  "Wow, no way, Aunt Mei! My mom saw Xing Ye and immediately said she wouldn't care about us two brothers anymore. Now even you are being biased, we two brothers have lost favor, it's really heartbreaking!" Yu Jia Kai's words became even more exaggerated.

  "When did I become biased?" Aunt Mei asked in puzzlement.

  "Why have you never put honey in the flower tea for us?" Yu Jia Kai made a very wronged expression, as if accusing Mei Ayi of abusing him.

  "Girls all like sweets, you're a big boy now, what's with the honey?"

  Drank a sip of flower tea on a starry night and immediately fell in love with this drink, full of fruit and tea leaves' fragrance, with a hint of sweetness, it's clear that Mei Ayi didn't add too much honey but just the right amount to give the tea its unique sweet aroma.

  "Mei Yi, it's really delicious! How did you make it? Can you teach me?" Xing Ye said excitedly.

  "Of course, no problem. Next time I cook, I'll teach you, and you'll learn it in one go." Mei Yi was overjoyed and immediately went to deliver a cup to the old lady, "You two chat, I'll go give her a cup too."

  "I think this flower tea is the best, here" Yu Jia Kai handed a sesame-filled pastry to Xing Ye.

  The small star-shaped crackers had a salty flavor, but they tasted very delicious.

  "Yesterday, I... " Jia Kai hesitated, unsure of what to say next.

  "Thanks a lot for yesterday, that youth hostel was really great." Xing Ye interrupted Jia Kai's words "Where are Uncle and Aunt?"

  "Dad went to work, he was the one who threw down a meeting room and ran back, isn't he in a hurry to go back and deal with it?" Xing Ye nodded understandingly, being the mayor isn't that easy, there must be a lot of things waiting for him.

  "As for my mom?" Yu Jia Kai paused for a moment, "She said she's going to buy you a gift, but you need to be mentally prepared."

  "A gift? What preparation?" She could still understand the word "gift", but what preparation? Did she need to prepare something in return?

  Jia Kai saw that Xing Ye was staring at him with a pair of eyes, and he knew she didn't understand. He pointed to his opponent and asked if this counted as speaking ill of his own mother.

  "Midnight, you don't know about my mom..." Midnight looked at him hesitantly and became even more curious, putting down the snack in his hand and focusing on him, afraid of missing something.

  "My mom is sometimes like a little kid, doing things recklessly without thinking, but she's absolutely a kind-hearted person, and sometimes even too enthusiastic. Can you understand what I mean?" Jia Kai said cautiously.

  He thought for a moment under the starry night and slowly nodded his head.

  It wasn't until late at night under the starry sky that I saw what made my aunt different from ordinary people.

  In the evening, Uncle pushed away his social engagement and rushed over. He and his wife lived in a house allocated by the municipal government, but they didn't live here; instead, their two sons often stayed here most of the time.

  My grandparents' emotions have obviously improved a lot, after all, they are people who have experienced great storms and have grown older. This morning's excitement was also due to the sudden news, and their reaction was somewhat out of control.

  Grandma kept holding Xing Ye's hand, calling her "heart's treasure" and seeing the face that resembled her mother's made her tear up again. She didn't let go of Xing Ye's hand throughout the entire meal.

  This makes Xingye think of Grandmother Jia seeing Daiyu for the first time in Dream of the Red Chamber, it's probably this kind of situation, happy for a moment then crying again. But others have Baoyu to ease the tension and bring joy, where is our Baoyu brother?

  Yu Jia Kai saw the desperate gaze that Xing Ye cast at him, but he averted his eyes on purpose and muttered to himself, "Why hasn't my mom come back yet?"

  "Mom, you're always dragging Xing Ye around, how can she eat?" Uncle finally couldn't stand it and helped Xing Ye out of the situation.

  "Right, I'm confused again. Look at this child, so thin! Need to supplement well, tomorrow let Mei sister make more good dishes, like chicken soup or fish soup with nutrition."

  The old lady let go of Xing Ye's hand, but she kept putting food into his bowl and repeatedly said "Eat more, eat more."

  Xīng yè xiàn zài shí fēn hòu huǐ wèi shén me yào zài fàn qián chī diǎn xīn, xiǎo hái zi dōu zhī dào nà bú shì hǎo xí guàn.

  The person opposite her who was giving her dim sum, lowered his head with a look of the food being very delicious, but Xing Ye saw that the corners of his mouth were about to split to his ears, and his two shoulders were also shaking uncontrollably.

  Go ahead and laugh, let's see if you can still laugh after being choked.

  The family of K'ai across from us suddenly burst into loud coughing, obviously choking on their food.

  Good heavens, what a coincidence!

  "Look at you, such a big person now, and you still choke on your food." Yu Zhongliang said, patting his son's back.

  Yu Jia Kai coughed until tears came down and finally caught his breath.

  Xīng yè chèn hái rén shí gěi le tā yī gè guǐ liǎn, jiā kǎi piē piē zuǐ méi yǒu shuō huà.

  Translation:

  At night when no one was around, he made a ghostly face at him, and Jia Kai pouted without saying anything.

  The doorbell rang, and Aunt Mei hurried to open the door.

  Auntie Liang Huiru walked in with a bunch of shopping bags, "Xingye, come quick and see what I've bought for you!" Xingye saw that Aunt Mei, who came in after her, had even more bags in her hands.

  Staring at his aunt excitedly, one by one, she took out things from the bag, and soon the clothes, shoes, hats, and scarves surrounded him.

  Everyone around her had a tacit understanding and retreated more than three meters away, even the grandmother who was holding onto her also dodged away.

  "How is it? Do you like it? It's all carefully prepared by your aunt for you." Liang Huiru held up a plaid skirt and compared it to Xingye's body.

  "Like, like," Xing Ye said with a stiff upper lip, "Auntie, this is too much, you're being too extravagant." Oh my, what's all this? It's not even the end of the first month and you can already buy cheongsam dresses. Auntie is really something else.

  "There's nothing, I've been looking forward to this day for many years, and finally there's a girl who can fulfill my wish." Auntie's words made Xing Ye shiver, why did she have the feeling of a little mouse being caught by a cat.

  "Look at the cuteness?" Xing Ye stared blankly at the fluffy pink rabbit slippers held up in front of her by her aunt, saying "Cute, really cute."

  Xing Ye suppressed the urge to roll her eyes, everything Aunt bought could be described as cute. The rabbit slippers were still wearable, the Minnie printed pajamas weren't too embarrassing to wear in front of people, but what about this half-person tall Winnie the Pooh? Was she supposed to hug it to sleep? When Aunt pulled out a whole set of Barbie dolls, Xing Ye was completely speechless.

  Staring at Jia Kai with a night sky that wanted to cry but had no tears, Jia Kai bluntly hid behind his father and sneaked away laughing.

  "Come on, go and try them on to see if they fit." Auntie pulled out a pile of clothes for Xing Ye, urging her to hurry up and change.

  It's clear that at heart she is thirty years old, physically sixteen years old, but her aunt, in order to satisfy her own desires, has been forcing herself to dress up as a six-year-old!