An extra chapter for you ♥️

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The tip of the noses of the two children moved, sniffing the meat buns. An An immediately turned her head, not daring to look at Gu Chunzhu. Her eyes teary.

"Yes these are buns, large and delicious meat buns," Gu Chunzu sniffed it and restrained her urge to eat. "Xiaocheng quick take your sister to wash and go to the table to eat dinner."

Xiaocheng raised his eyebrows and narrowed his eyes, he carefully looked at Gu Chunzhu for a while, seeing that she seemed to be serious, he did what she said.

Gu Chunzhu put the two meat buns and a steamed bun on the table, and went to the stove to heat some water. When she returned, she saw that the two children had not started eating yet.

"Why not eat it?" Gu Chunzhu touched An An's head.

"Is it really okay ... It's so fragrant." An An looked up, looking up at Gu Chunzhu, her big eyes were filled with brightness. A pool of crystal liquid was left at the corner of her mouth.

Gu Chunzhu blinked her eyes and raised an eyebrow: "You need to do something so you can eat it!"

"What?" An An asked with her small mouth.

"Call me mother." Gu Chunzhu leaned sideways on the dining table, leaning her chin on her hand, asking intentionally.

After waiting for a while, An An saw that her brother didn't say anything, so she also stayed silent.

A bit of disappointment flashed in Gu Chunzhu's heart. She comforted herself for a moment. It was a little difficult for them to accept the once-harsh stepmother.

"Okay, you can still eat it, you must finish it." Gu Chunzhu reached out and untied the oily paper bag. She first took a meat bun and put it into An An's cleaned hands.

An An looked at Xiaocheng and Gu Chunzhu. She stared at the big and fat meat buns.

"Mother!" A low-pitched mother came out of An An's mouth.

Gu Chunzhu was suspecting that her ears might be broken, she wanted An An to say it again, but the little girl already began eating.

"Xiaocheng, this is yours." Gu Chunzhu handed another meat bun over.

Xiaocheng picked it up, but did not say anything, unlike An An. Gu Chunzhu didn't bother him. The child was eight years old and was not as easy to cheat as the four-year-old. Gu Chunzhu didn't force it.

"Eat it slowly, it won't go anywhere." Gu Chunzhu touched An An's small head and went to the basket to take the cold sweet potatoes to eat with hot water, it was also delicious.

Xiaocheng stopped holding the bun, and fixed his gaze on the cold sweet potato. He passed the bun that he had only eaten a few bites from, and said with a hard pout, "This is for you, let me eat sweet potatoes."

She hadn't expected Xiaocheng to be so good to her. She told him she didn't want it, just look at her fat flesh. "You eat it so you can grow taller and stronger." Gu Chunzhu pushed Xiaocheng's bun back.

Gu Chunzhu knew that this child was afraid of her, so he dared not eat buns.

After this, she naturally accepted the two children, the mother's love buried in her heart was also awakened. She watched the two children eat buns and felt happy seeing them.

Xiaocheng held up the bun silently again, his eyes looking disturbed, An An was a little young and naive, a big bun can coax her. She had oil on her mouth and mumbled, "Brother, this bun is delicious, you try it again."

Gu Chunzhu looked at the white bun left in the oil paper bag, she pondered keeping it for the siblings to eat in the morning.

Gu Chunzhu put down the cold sweet potato after eating half of it. She no longer felt hunger in her belly. Looking at her thick round arms, she didn't have any further interest in eating.

Gu Chunzhu of the previous life was also a very self-disciplined person, so she puts half of the cold sweet potato back in the basket.

This scene was captured by Xiao Cheng. His lashes fluttered a few times. He continued to eat the bun with his head down, but his clear eyes seemed to ripple.

While the two children were eating their bun, Gu Chunzhu placed some firewood in the firepit. The room turned a little warm.

She dried An An's wet sheets - which smells a bit strange - near it, and then prepared hot water for the children to wash their faces and feet.

"An'an, Xiaocheng, wash your face and feet before going to bed." Gu Chunzhu said .

An An's black grape-like eyes blinked, looking at her brother, seeing that Xiaocheng didn't stop her, she ran over and went closer to Gu Chunzhu.

Gu Chunzhu with a washcloth in hand, helped An An wipe her face, she asked: "An’an are you happy today?"

An An lips curved a little, she nodded and said: "Very happy, mother did not hit me and gave me a meat bun to eat."

"Well, in the future, mother will not hit people anymore. As for the meat buns, mother will also work hard!" Gu Chunzhu kissed An An's cheek, An An giggled with a little shy smile.

Xiaocheng stood aside, his black eyes reflected the scene, he was a little dazed.

Gu Chunzhu beckoned towards Xiaocheng, urging: "Xiaocheng should also wash his face, he will wash his feet with his sister."

Xiaocheng walked over, Gu Chunzhu wrung the towel,ready to wipe Xiaocheng. Xiaocheng hurried to hide, feeling embarrassed, "I'll do it myself."

Gu Chunzhu watched him clean his face, she then took off An An's shoes and socks. Seeing a pair of dirty feet, she couldn't help but quipped, "this is like a turtle's little paw."

"Brother, what is a turtle paw?" An An looked up and asked Xiaocheng.

(T/N: yeah what it is? 😂)

Xiaocheng frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "A tortoise, it is big. It can be caught in the river. It has a thick turtle shell. Its claws and head are black. If Daniel catches it next spring, I will take you there to see."

Daniel should be the child next door, Gu Chunzhu remembers such a person.

"No, An An doesn't have tortoise paws, An An wants to wash her feet now". An An's little black feet shooked in the basin several times.

Gu Chunzhu watched the two children talking in front of her, she was very happy. She held An An's feet and scrubbed it. "Mother will wipe it clean for you."

While rubbing, she accidentally scratched the itch of An An's feet. The little girl giggled and laughed.

"Xiaocheng, come and wash your feet." Gu Chunzhu patted the space at An An’s side.

"I'll do it myself when my sister is done," Xiaocheng resisted.

"When An'an finishes washing, the water will be dirty." Gu Chunzhu forced Xiaocheng over. She did not expect that he would have a pair of little turtle claws like An An.

Gu Chunzhu washed their feet in the basin, the water turned so dark it almost caught up with the color of ink. They had to make another basin of clean hot water to wash one last time.

There was only one face towel at home, and there's no cloth for wiping feet. Of course, as a modern person, Gu Chunzhu can't let them wipe their feet with a face towel. She is conflicted in her heart.

"Come on, wipe it on your mother's clothes, and go to bed." She said, grabbing An An's little feet and rubbing it on her clothes. The clothes were stained with a large water stain, which was not good-looking.

She wiped their feet on her clothes without saying a word, hurried both children to go to bed, and warned them not to sleep on the corner of the wall.

The two children crawled onto the bed, covered with the quilt, exposing two cute little faces looking at Gu Chunzhu. Gu Chunzhu looked at Xiaocheng's forehead injury, she remembered the gold sore medicine that she bought today, and gave him a little bit of it.

Gu Chunzhu smiled, such a day is actually quite good.