ATBLM [QT] Chapter 92.1

The cold wind outside the house blows off the leaves, and the inside of the greenhouse is as warm as spring.

After Jiang Rui asked this sentence, it seemed that even the flowers and plants in the room were quiet for a moment.

Huo Changyao looked a little surprised and then gently squeezed her cheek with his fingers, “What nonsense are you talking about? Big Brother is good to you, am I still greedy for rewards?”

Jiang Rui did not stomp her foot in annoyance as usual. She tilted her head on the pillow and rubbed the place where he had pinched just now, before asking: “If you don’t need the reciprocate, why are you so kind to me?”

Huo Changyao’s eyebrows wrinkled slightly. Originally with a somewhat casual expression, but he also stood up solemnly. He bent his knees and squatted in front of Jiang Rui with one leg on his knees. His eyes were at eye level with her, and he said squarely: “Xiao Qi, why do you have such thoughts?”

“Isn’t that the case?” Jiang Rui tilted her head.

Huo Changyao could not help but touch her head before saying, “I don’t know how other people are, but Big Brother is kind to you and doesn’t want your return, or rather, I have already received it.”

“But, I haven’t given you anything.” Jiang Rui said.

Huo Changyao gently hooked the corner of his mouth.

His age is actually not too old, but his facial features are cold and his face is always expressionless. He looks extraordinarily serious like an elder. But when he curves the corners of his mouth, his smile is actually warm, like the feeling of sunlight spreading on the body.

Jiang Rui likes sunlight, and her gaze is unconsciously glued to his face.

He said: “You can think of it this way. Big Brother’s wish is to want you to be happy. And after I did this, you were happy, then I achieved the purpose I wanted, and this is my reward.”

Jiang Rui immediately retorted: “Your wishes are not good for you.”

“Who said that?” Huo Changyao said: “When I see you happy, I am happy. So you see, the ultimate goal of what I do is to make myself happy. You don’t have to think about anything in return.”

His statement is simply a fallacy, and there are many loopholes. Jiang Rui can refute it again. For example, if she is happy, why will he be happy? For example, if you want to make yourself happy, there are many ways, why should you go around so many detours and choose the most troublesome one?

But she did not ask that. She was just silent for a while and then said, “What if one day, your wishes change?”

Now he wants her to be happy, so her happiness is a reward. But if one day later, he no longer needs her to be happy, at that time, will he ask for something else in return, or will he simply not be nice to her?

Huo Changyao sighed and said, “Big Brother doesn’t dare to promise you whether there will be that day or not. But what is certain is that if there is, it must be a long, long time later. Maybe Big Brother was confused at that time, so confused that he forgot who he was and who Xiao Qi was. Otherwise, how could Big Brother not want Xiao Qi to be happy?”

Jiang Rui smiled when he said self-ridicule words but with a serious expression on his face.

“Are you so happy to hear that Big Brother will be confused?” Huo Changyao scratched the bridge of her nose.

Jiang Rui did not answer, avoided his hand, put the pillow on her head, and said something irrelevant, “I want to sleep here for a while.”

The topic was turned so quickly, but Huo Changyao did not feel the slightest abrupt. He nodded and took a hat woven with flowers and plants from the flower stand on the side: “Cover this on your face, don’t get sunburned. Ring the bell when your stomach is hungry, someone will come up to call you at lunchtime. Big Brother has something to do today. How about we watch the sunrise together tomorrow morning?”

Jiang Rui nodded, hugged the pillow, and lay comfortably in the blanket. She covered the straw hat over her face and waved at him, “Goodbye, Big Brother.”

Huo Changyao covered her with a straw hat and blanket before leaving.

Knowing that the greenhouse had been built, that night, Huo Changlin dragged Xu Hansheng over to rub for a meal and visited the greenhouse along the way.

As he watched, he shook his head and sighed, “I really didn’t see it, our eldest brother also has a nerve named ‘romantic’ in his mind.”

“Very good, Xiao Qi should like it very much.” Xu Hansheng nodded while watching the surroundings.

“Who doesn’t like it? If someone smashes me with so much money, I like it too.”

Xu Hansheng took a step to the side and moved away from him.

Huo Changlin is curious: “What are you doing?”

“You have a smell.”

“What’s the smell? I only took a shower before going out.” Huo Changlin sniffed from left to right on his body and even raised his armpit to sniff.

“The smell of copper¹The stench of copper: used in derogatory phrases to describe people who seem to be greedy for money.” Xu Hansheng said with a smile.

Only then did Huo Changlin react, “Okay, Old Sixth, dare to laugh at your Second Brother! Come on, come here, the Second Brother has two ancestral fists here to reward you.”

They went downstairs while laughing, just in time when Huo Changyao arrived home, and the four of them had dinner together.

When leaving Huo Mansion, Huo Changlin kept muttering: “I can’t come here anymore, I’ll be blinded if I come too many times. Old Sixth, have you noticed that after not seeing each other for a few days, Big Brother and Xiao Qi are even more nauseous than before?”

Xu Hansheng was puzzled: “Are there any?”

“It seems you are the one who is really blind.” Huo Changlin gave him a look of disdain, “You have to learn to observe, you know, and your sense of smell needs to be sharp. A few days ago, Big Brother just helped Xiao Qi peel the shrimp, but today he even helped her with the soup. After it was ready, Xiao Qi took one more look at the dish and immediately Big Brother put it in front of her. In such a completely selfless state, he clearly didn’t take the two of us seriously.”

 

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Translator’s Comment:

Marshal: Hmm… I am happy, do you have a problem? Let us see when you have a wife, Old Second!

 

Our Sixth Brother is really pure and innocent, which makes me worry. Haha…

 

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