Chapter 64: The Heart-Warming Lin Chujiu

Lin Chujiu's eyes were already brimming with tears. Hearing his eldest sister drop his familiar nickname and address him so formally, he burst into aggrieved sobs right then and there.

Lin Chuyi sighed silently, yet maintained a firm tone. "What are you crying for? You don't look like a little man at all. Tell me why you were playing with the silver. If you do something wrong, you need to apologize. If Eldest Sister misunderstood you, you can explain it to me, and I will apologize to you."

With his emotions slightly settled, Lin Chujiu released his mud-covered little hands and said with a wronged expression, "I just wanted to make the silver multiply so that Eldest Sister, Second Brother, and Father wouldn't have to work so hard."

Lin Chuyi's body trembled slightly, and her nose stung with emotion. She truly never expected this little rascal to utter such heartwarming words.

"Why would you think that? Even if you bury silver in the soil, it won't grow more," Lin Chuyi said, pinching Little Jiu's cheek with a helpless smile.

"But didn't Eldest Sister tell Second Brother that if you bury silver in the dirt, it will grow a whole bunch of them?"

Hearing this, Lin Chuyi was left speechless between laughter and tears. What she had said back then was merely a joke; she never imagined Little Jiu would take it to heart. It seemed she would need to be more mindful of her words in the future.

"Eldest Sister was just joking with Second Brother," Lin Chuyi said, pulling Little Jiu away from Lin Jiuyue's arms and speaking earnestly. "Eldest Sister wronged you, and I apologize to you. Little Jiu, are you willing to forgive Eldest Sister?"

Seeing that the eldest sister he loved so dearly had finally returned to calling his pet name, Lin Chujiu immediately cried as he threw himself into Lin Chuyi's arms, nodding eagerly and repeatedly.

Because she was half-squatting, Lin Chuyi let out a soft exclamation and was knocked flat onto the ground.

"Ouch, this outfit of mine is very expensive. Little Jiu, you'll have to compensate me for getting it dirty," Lin Chuyi pouted, feigning sadness.

After all, Lin Chujiu was still a child, and he was immediately amused. He snorted and proudly turned his head away, declaring, "I won't compensate you! I just won't!"

"Oh? So you're going to renege on it?"

Once misunderstandings are cleared up, family remains family. The affection between them does not diminish with misunderstandings; instead, it becomes increasingly inseparable as time goes on.

Not far away, Mo Sang watched Lin Chuyi rolling around on the ground with Lin Chujiu and said with utter contempt, "She was already ugly enough, and now she's rolled around in the dirt until she looks like a mud monkey. Even uglier."

Hearing this, Lin Qiyue glared fiercely at him and snapped, "No one is treating you as a mute if you don't speak."

They had no common ground, and every sentence they exchanged was dripping with sarcasm, each trying their utmost to reduce the other to dirt.

Being too engrossed in his bickering with Lin Qiyue, Mo Sang completely failed to notice the profound gaze fixed upon him from the side.

Mo Yu looked at Mo Sang with a smile that was not quite a smile, a peculiar glint flashing across his eyes before he instantly looked away.

His perception of Lin Qiyue had undergone a subtle shift after all.

Earlier, just as the three of them arrived, Lin Qiyue had stopped them in their tracks.

He had said that he trusted Yiyi would handle the matter properly, and that their intervention would only make things worse. If they went to help Little Jiu, Little Jiu would feel he had something to lean on and choose to escape the situation. If they went together to scold Little Jiu, the boy would only feel more wronged and would be even less inclined to offer any explanation. Therefore, the best approach was for all of them to act as outsiders and let Yiyi handle the matter entirely on her own.

Such a simple logic, yet how many people could truly understand it?

After playing around with the two boys for a good while, Lin Chuyi finally smiled and dug all the silver ingots out of the small pit.

She glanced at the bag of silver beside her, and the corners of her mouth twitched involuntarily. She remembered hiding those silver pieces extremely well—to think this little rascal had actually managed to find them!

With a speechless tap to her forehead, Lin Chuyi picked up the cloth bag in one hand and took Lin Chujiu's hand with the other.