Sure enough, Cao Xing came back the next day.
Seeing the big plush dolphin he was holding, Cao Xiong could shoot knives out of his eyes.
"Xiaorou, Xiaorou! This... I bought it for you." Cao Xing broke out in cold sweat.
He thought about taking this to the annex as soon as he got home in the morning. Unexpectedly, the weather was so good that the old man made breakfast under the shade of the trees in the atrium on a whim. So he caught him right away.
"That's it, that's what I want! Thank you Brother Cao Xing." Xia Rou, a young cover expert, stepped forward immediately.
"Haha," Cao Xing laughed dryly, "No need, no need. As long as you like it."
Cao Xiong looked at this pair of guys with poor acting skills, and coldly "hummed", and didn't bother to pay attention to them.
Cao Bin was dumbfounded!
He thought that Cao Yang liked Xia Rou only because he had seen a lot of them when they lived together, and he would naturally have a good impression of the cute little girl.
But what happened to Cao Xing playing plush again
Cao Xing dared to play with fluffy, so what happened to their biological father who didn't take off his belt on the spot to whip him
What he couldn't believe was Xia Rou. How dare this little girl perform such a clumsy play in front of their father
She is not afraid of Cao Xiong
And what about their own father who untied his belt and whipped people if they disagreed? Actually just let it go with a "hum"
When did his biological father become so talkative
when!
He leaned towards Cao Yang, and squeezed out a voice through his teeth: "When I was not at home, what happened?"
How long has he not been home! Why is the whole painting style in the house wrong!
The corners of Cao Yang's mouth slightly curled up: "Of course it's different now that there is an extra girl in the family."
He raised his cup, drank the black tea, looked at Xia Rou who was talking with Cao Xing head-to-head, and then at Cao Xiong, the head of the family.
Although my father didn't speak, he only read the newspaper. But accompanied by Xia Rou's "tweet-tweet-tweet-tweet" voice, which was so low that she couldn't hear what she was saying, her father was obviously in a good mood.
"How's the situation on the second floor?" Cao Xiong put down the newspaper and asked.
"It's all packed, and it's been hanging out for several days." Cao Yang said.
"Get someone to test for formaldehyde. If there's no problem, let Xiaorou move here. It's shameful to live in the annex all the time."
"OK."
"When will the fourth child come back?" Cao Xiong asked again.
"About another week or two. He went on a trip with his classmates."
"snort."
Hearing that they mentioned Cao An, Xia Rou also stopped talking and pricked up her ears to listen.
Suddenly felt the line of sight. Turning his gaze, he saw that Cao Bin was sizing her up carefully.
Xia Rou smiled at him.
Cao Bin was taken aback.
Xia Rou knows why Cao Bin looks at her.
Among the four brothers of the Cao family, Cao Bin was probably the most difficult to get in touch with, and the one who accepted her last.
He has many thoughts and deep thoughts, and has always been like this. There is always a smile on his face, but he will never trust others easily. Because of this character, he did not follow his father's life path into the army like Cao Yang and Cao Xing. His ambition was to enter politics.
Now, at the age of twenty-seven, he is already doing well in the city government of Hu City. Of course, there are factors of his family background, but more importantly, his own outstanding ability.
Xia Rou even thought that if she died, her elder brother Cao Yang would definitely avenge her.
It must be the second brother Cao Bin who advises the eldest brother.
The fourth brother was busy trying his best to stop the third brother, so as to prevent him from impulsively going directly to beat him to death.
A few days ago, whenever she thought of her death, she felt sad and uncomfortable.
But now, her heart is becoming more and more peaceful, and she can already look directly at the past. If you think about those things again, you can even make such a happy assumption.
When she looked at Cao Bin again, there was not only a smile in her eyes, but also intimacy.
Speaking of it, she and Cao Bin are not close.
She thought that he had always been a little disliked by her.
But when Cao Yang loved her wholeheartedly, and when Cao Xing and Cao An were willing to treat her well, Cao Bin still accepted her.
Even though he didn't like her, after accepting her, he was willing to treat her as his younger sister.
Looking back, she felt grateful in her heart.
Cao Bin felt a little surprised.
Because of his work, he spends less time at home. Today, many things surprised him. But what surprised him the most was Xia Rou.
She wasn't afraid of them at all.
Every man in the Cao family, from Cao Xiong to Cao Xing. She is not afraid. She had an indescribable familiarity with each of them, a genuine closeness.
Her fearlessness stems from this closeness.
Cao Bin thought, this Xia Rou, she is either a very rich person, or... a really simple-minded person.
Cao Bin looked at her for a while and decided to believe the latter.
Because when Xia Rou looked at him and smiled, there was only intimacy in that smile, not flattery, nor the calculations and thoughts of those women.
More importantly, if a person has a city mansion, he will no longer have such clear and clean eyes.
He observed her with his sharp eyes for a while, and found that she was really a girl who looked very comfortable.
Even after watching it for a long time, he felt happy.
So, Cao Bin decided to start liking Xia Rou.
This is much earlier than he decided to accept Xia Rou in his previous life.
A few days later, Xia Rou finally moved from the side building to the main building, and once again stepped into the room with the blue rose wallpaper.
This time, I only feel that the light blue is refreshing.
Cao Xing specially bought a big plush toy for her.
What makes Xia Rou speechless is that in this life, for some reason, the fluffy ones Cao Xing bought for her are all very large. Compared with the sneaky and secretive ones in the previous life, Cao Xing is like a donkey who has been unleashed. Yes, I am very happy when I kick my son.
In early August, Xiarou received the admission letter from Nanhua High School.
In late August, when it was not long before leaving school, Cao An, the fourth brother Xia Rou had been thinking about, finally came back.
Cao An is very different from Cao's family.
Among the four brothers, he is the only one who looks neither like his father nor like his mother. When he was young, he was favored by Mrs. Cao, and later because of his similar face to his late mother, he always got special favor from Cao Xiong. Later Cao Xiong thought that there was something wrong with his character, and when he tried to discipline him harshly, his character had already formed, and it was difficult to get back.
He was the only one of four brothers who did not join the army or politics. He majored in fashion design abroad.
He loves fashion, and after returning to China, he wants to make a big splash in the fashion industry.
But Xia Rou knew that later on, he finally compromised with his autocratic father and entered the real estate industry.
In this family, Cao Xiong kept his word, and no one could defy him after all.
As in Xia Rou's memory, Cao An didn't come back alone, he also brought someone to live in Cao's house.
"This is my classmate, He Chengzhe. We plan to build a studio together," he said.
He Chengzhe was also a tall, long-legged, handsome young man. Both Cao An and Cao An are full of fashion, they look like two models. Both of them are still young, only in their early twenties, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are two big boys.
Xia Rou is also very familiar with He Chengzhe. In the next ten years, she saw a lot of emotional entanglements between these two people. They came and went, but they couldn't be separated, and they got together for ten years all of a sudden.
He Chengzhe exchanged pleasantries with Cao Xiong and Cao Yang. It is impossible for Cao An not to notice Xia Rou beside Cao Yang.
"Xiarou, isn't it?" He has peach blossom eyes, which are casually flirtatious, a bit like a playboy. "I'm Cao An, I met you when I was a child."
Xia Rou obediently called "Brother Cao An".
"You've grown into a big girl." Cao An sighed.
Xia Rouji pursed her lips and smiled. Her jet-black eyes were bent like crescent moons, and her cheeks were white, giving her a clean breath. When the men were talking, she sat quietly by the side.
Cao An's first impression of her was very good.
"Chengzhe hasn't found a good house yet, so I'll live here for the time being. It's okay, it's okay. You don't need to arrange a guest room, just live in my room. We are roommates outside, and we have lived in the same house for several years."
In this way, He Chengzhe temporarily lived in Cao's house.
When they returned to the room, He Chengzhe asked, "Who is that little girl?"
Cao An sat on the edge of the bed with a cigarette in his mouth and took off his shoes: "My dad used to have a woman who died of illness a while ago. Xia Rou is her daughter."
"It can't be your own sister?" He Chengzhe joked.
"No." Cao An was sure, "When my father met her mother, she was already seven or eight years old. Her biological father's surname was Xia, and she ran away with another girl."
"Why is your background so bloody?" He Chengzhe was speechless, "Looks like a cute little girl."
"Why, you like this type?" Cao An squinted at him.
"It's a little small. In a few years, it's not impossible to be an adult." He Chengzhe snatched the cigarette from his mouth, put it in his own mouth, and deliberately teased him.
Cao An kicked it out. He laughed and jumped away.
The two laughed for a while before stopping.
"Speaking seriously, your family is very kind. I think your father and brother have a very good attitude towards her, and they seem to be getting along well."
For a child like Xia Rou who depends on others, if he is unhappy, there will be traces no matter how he hides it. But he saw that the girl got along with Cao Xiong and Cao Yang in a very natural and harmonious way, without any fake look at all. This can only show that the Cao family man treats her very well.
"Her mother has been with my father for eight years." Cao An said, "My father likes that girl."
"I like it, why don't you marry me?" He Chengzhe asked.
Cao Andan looked at him steadily: "There is always a reason why you can't marry."
"Yes, they all have their own difficulties." He Chengzhe spit out white smoke, as if ironic, as if mocking.
Cao An said unhappily: "Didn't you just stop talking about this!"
He Chengzhe looked at him for a while, then turned and went to the bathroom.
Cao An was a little annoyed, so he lit a cigarette again.
He thought, his father really liked Cheng Wan. Otherwise, the eldest brother would not have specifically told him on the phone not to mention Cheng Wan, lest his father be depressed.
Cao Yang also asked him to treat Xia Rou better.
Dad liked her, he said, and since she came, Dad was in a much better mood.
She's a good girl, he said.
When Cao An came back this time, he really felt that his father was really old as his elder brother said.
He remembered that when he came back from the last vacation, he was not so old. When Cheng Wan left, it seemed as if he took a part of his life away.
That Xia Rou looks quite obedient, not annoying.
But Cao An was still a little surprised that she could make Cao Yang call him "good boy".
In this family, Cao Yang is second only to Cao Xiong, like a copy of Cao Xiong. He is strict with his younger brothers, no less than his father.
The little girl was able to be at ease in front of those two people, and she took it for granted that they were kind to her, which was considered a skill.
Cao An thought that she had probably never seen his father and brother when they were outside.