Little Awkwardness
In the end, Sun Miao and Su Ruixi still carried bags big and small as they sent Shen Yiqiu into the car. Shen Yiqiu even gave Sun Miao an address: “Normally, your uncle and I don’t live out in the suburbs; we are right in the villa within the city. If you miss us, come directly. It’s not far, the subway also goes straight there.”
Hearing this, Su Ruixi directly pulled Sun Miao behind herself. “She doesn’t want to. How is that missing you guys? Clearly, it is you guys thinking about wanting to make Miaomiao go over and cook dishes.”
Shen Yiqiu was currently somewhat speechless toward her own daughter, so she could only wave her hand and say goodbye to the two of them.
After Shen Yiqiu left, Su Ruixi did not let Sun Miao off the hook. Her voice carried a strand of sourness; she would not even let off the vinegar1 of her own biological mother.
“Miaomiao, you prepared so many things for my mom. You didn’t even spare my sour radishes. I love eating them, are there any left for me?” As she spoke, she leaned toward Sun Miao. By the end, her hands circled Sun Miao’s neck from behind, and her whole person was just like a koala, practically hanging on her body.
Sun Miao was pulled by her until she was a bit unsteady on her feet. She swayed her body, and Su Ruixi followed along, swaying together.
When Su Ruixi was being this kind of little zuo jing2, Sun Miao also liked it very much. She hummed a laughing sound from her nose and answered Su Ruixi, “Susu-jie, aren’t we about to go out and play? Radishes won’t taste good if soaked that long. Since Auntie just happened to come, I let her bring some back to eat. Yours are there; you have them for these next few days.”
“There were still some sour radishes; I even gave a bit to the neighbors. Zhou Ling’s mother also has them.”
Su Ruixi was somewhat unhappy. Her body leaned forward a little, and she bit Sun Miao’s ear.
“You gave them all to others! Gave them all!”
Su Ruixi did not bite heavily; it was light, actually more like she was doing sajiao3. Sun Miao felt her ear itching and couldn’t help reaching out to pat Su Ruixi’s head. Su Ruixi was older than her, and on normal days looked much more steady, but when it came to these moments, she couldn’t help but throw a little temper tantrum.
“Didn’t short you, really didn’t short you!”
“Then tomorrow morning, do I have meat Mooncakes to eat?”
“Still eating, ah? You already ate two today.”
“Just want to eat, just want to eat.”
Sun Miao, just like this, half-carried Su Ruixi all the way back to the front of the dining table at home. Seeing they had reached the place, Su Ruixi actively came down from Sun Miao’s back, then began busying herself tidying up the dining table. While tidying, she didn’t forget to apply eye drops4 regarding her biological mother: “My mom came over, eating and taking, and didn’t even know to help tidy up a bit.”
Sun Miao just smiled, pretending she didn’t hear.
Actually, Sun Miao quite liked Shen Yiqiu. Shen Yiqiu truly was a very good elder; she had no airs, wouldn’t say ugly words, and treated her quite well. This made Sun Miao, who had never experienced motherly love, feel that her life was slightly more complete again.
Especially when listening to Su Ruixi complain about Shen Yiqiu, and seeing Shen Yiqiu look helpless, Sun Miao would feel as if she herself had also blended into that family’s atmosphere, making her rejoice from the bottom of her heart.
This was also because she and Su Ruixi were together. If there were no Su Ruixi, Sun Miao could not have this experience that was exceptionally novel for her. Thus, Sun Miao prepared to lend Su Ruixi a hand today, but before she could even get close, she was pushed to the side by Su Ruixi.
“Right now is my work; you go rest.”
In the end, Sun Miao didn’t go directly to rest either. She made a fruit platter, whipped up a beverage, and waited for Su Ruixi to come over and watch TV together. When Su Ruixi finished bustling about, carefully washed her hands, and went to the sofa to nestle into Sun Miao’s embrace, Sun Miao suddenly felt: Su Ruixi seems a bit fatter than before.
She still remembered when she first met Su Ruixi, Su Ruixi didn’t eat properly, tossing and turning herself until she was hospitalized for stomach illness. At that time, Su Ruixi truly was a tall, thin, cold-feeling beauty. But now, sitting on the sofa, from Sun Miao’s line of sight, she could see her little tummy.
Of course, women will certainly have a little tummy, and looking with Sun Miao’s lesbian gaze, she would feel that the lines of a woman’s little tummy were very sexy. If it were completely flat, it would conversely be very weird and lack aesthetic sense. These are the lines bestowed upon women by nature; having a little tummy is nothing to care about.
It was just that before, Su Ruixi’s little tummy was still relatively flat; after all, she was thin. But after so long of Sun Miao’s feeding, Su Ruixi’s little tummy was still a bit softer than before.
Following Sun Miao’s gaze, Su Ruixi also somewhat surprisedly looked toward her own little tummy…
In this moment, Su Ruixi’s face went black. Originally still in a state of nestling in Sun Miao’s embrace, in this moment she immediately sprang up. She reached out and pulled at her clothes. Because of the movement of rubbing against the sofa just now, her clothes had lifted up that little bit, and coincidentally, her somewhat fattened belly was seen by Sun Miao.
That Su Ruixi would get fat, that was truly not strange at all.
She didn’t exercise.
Su Ruixi was extremely regular every day—on time for work, on time for meals, on time to get off work—where did she have the free time in the middle to make time for exercise? Her only exercise was probably tidying the dining table after dinner, and the adult exercise with Sun Miao on rest days.
After the adult exercise was finished, it was still Sun Miao carrying her to wash up.
Just like this, it was impossible for Su Ruixi not to grow meat.
Actually, Su Ruixi had also discovered it a bit recently, especially when Sun Miao delivered Bridgehead Pork Ribs to her last time. She finished off two large portions and two cups of watermelon boba tea in one breath; she knew then that she had gotten fat. But knowing was one thing; the feeling of being seen through by Sun Miao was different.
“You, you saw it?”
Sun Miao froze for a moment before reacting to what Su Ruixi was saying. She couldn’t help laughing out: “Saw it, Susu-jie’s little tummy.”
Su Ruixi’s aojiao5 energy, at this time, surged up. She was a person with very high requirements for herself and simply could not tolerate herself having problems. So facing Sun Miao’s smile, it went to her head in an instant, her face flushing red: “I am a little fat, b-but I can slim down very quickly!”
Sun Miao was stunned. She widened her eyes slightly and reached out to pull Su Ruixi. Su Ruixi was not willing; she scooted to the side, dodging her hand, clearly throwing a fit of nao bieniu6.
Sun Miao asked her, “Then how does Susu-jie plan to slim down?”
Su Ruixi thought about it. She really couldn’t extract the free time. Usually, work took up a lot of her time, and the time she had together with Sun Miao after work was only that little bit; she didn’t want to waste time doing other things. Dragging Sun Miao to exercise together? She couldn’t bear to do it.
It was she herself who got fat, not Sun Miao who got fat. Furthermore, Sun Miao was already very tired from cooking and setting up the stall usually; why torment Sun Miao further?
Saturdays and Sundays were even more out of the question; she only wanted to laze around together with Sun Miao. If Sun Miao went out to set up the stall, she could make time to exercise, but recently Sun Miao was resting at home, and she didn’t want to leave Sun Miao behind to run off and lose weight herself.
This wouldn’t work, that wouldn’t work; then ultimately there was only one method.
This method, however, was beaten back by Sun Miao before it even left her mouth: “Susu-jie, you aren’t preparing to eat less to lose weight, are you!” Sun Miao’s surprised tone made Su Ruixi unable to speak. “If you don’t eat, I will be very sad. Susu-jie clearly likes eating the things I make so much!”
Speaking of this, Su Ruixi thought of the countless delicious things Sun Miao made for her. As Sun Miao’s lover, her treatment was not something those customers could compare to. Leaving aside the three meals of morning, noon, and night, Sun Miao would also send her afternoon tea from time to time…
Wait, Su Ruixi discovered the key to the problem.
“I like eating what you make, but you always prepare afternoon tea for me.”
Even when not delivering it personally, Sun Miao would prepare some small snacks beneath Su Ruixi’s lunch. Huaihua Fen7 didn’t need mentioning, there were also some small cookies and small cakes she made time to bake herself; before, she even directly delivered Bridgehead Pork Ribs to the door.
“But Susu-jie clearly eats very happily.”
“…”
Neither of them expected that their first fight after getting together would actually be over this issue of afternoon tea. Su Ruixi felt she had discovered the crux of the matter, and that was afternoon tea. Not missing a single meal was enough, but there was unexpectedly also afternoon tea! If she wasn’t fat, who would be fat!
Su Ruixi began to strictly refuse this extra meal. Sun Miao, however, felt: “Susu-jie isn’t fat, ah? Just that the little tummy has a bit more soft meat, it is normal for girls to have soft meat.”
Sun Miao was not having “Xi Shi in the eye of the beholder”8; she truly felt this way. From the start, she felt Su Ruixi was too thin. Now that she had eaten until she was a bit fatter, having some meat on her body, that was all a good thing. It proved she was raising Su Ruixi very well.
Look, the person was slightly fatter, more symmetrical, the face had a bit more meat-meat, and the whole person was more spirited. That kind of refusing-people-a-thousand-li9-away cold feeling from before had lessened a bit.
It was just that Su Ruixi didn’t think so. She had too high requirements for herself and could not allow herself to become fat.
Regarding this problem, the two obviously didn’t reach a unified opinion. However, it didn’t count as a fight, just that Su Ruixi was not willing to eat afternoon tea anymore. The next day upon waking, Sun Miao first made brunch, and still secretly stuffed two small boxes in the bottom of the lunch box.
One small box contained fruit; she had washed them all clean, so eating them directly after the meal was fine. Inside the other box was a little snack.
It was dried sweet potato she made. It looked dry, but ate soft. Chewing two sticks when there was nothing to do made one feel their whole person’s mood would become comfortable. But Su Ruixi had done her homework in advance and knew dried sweet potato calories were extremely high; it was the chief culprit for the meat growing on her small belly recently!
Su Ruixi wanted to secretly take it out, but in the end, she didn’t succeed. Before going out in the morning, she ate two Suzhou-style Mooncakes and a small saucer of sour radishes paired with a bowl of congee; Su Ruixi felt extremely guilty again.
After arriving at the company and finishing the morning’s busy work, Su Ruixi heated lunch using the office microwave and finished eating. She looked at the fruit inside the small box and pondered: Fruit calories aren’t big, eating it should be okay. So Su Ruixi finished off that small box of fruit entirely after the meal as well.
The employees in the company were becoming more and more capable. After everything stepped onto the right track, Su Ruixi’s rest time actually increased. At noon, she no longer needed to give her assistant pointers on work10, instead, she could cover herself with a small blanket and rest for a little while.
By the time afternoon work started, Su Ruixi felt her spirit and energy were incredibly good. She naturally knew there was also Sun Miao’s contribution in this.
When it reached 3:30 PM, also the time a wage-earner’s stomach most easily got hungry, Su Ruixi’s gaze couldn’t help but drift towards the small box in her drawer. Sun Miao bought the very small kind of preservation box; inside the transparent box was the dark-orange-red dried sweet potato.
Because it was dried sweet potato, it didn’t even need to be put in the refrigerator; it was right in Su Ruixi’s drawer.
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