Qian Yixiu cradled it with one hand and smacked its tiny bottom with the other, laughing, "I've been back for so long, and you didn't even visit me in the main courtyard. I even brought you a gift, which I'll give to you later."
Mother and the others were chatting upstairs for a while, and Cheng Yue, with teary eyes, spoke of her yearning feelings. Even the little boy Qian Yeejin, in a rather cheesy manner, said, "It's not just Mother who cries because she misses her sister all the time; even Brother misses her desperately. In the future, no matter where Sister goes, Brother has to be by her side."
Except during meals, the little boy's hand was always holding Qian Yixiu's, making her palm sweaty. Qian Yixiu tried several times to shake him off, but seeing the boy's unhappy look, she let him hold her hand.
The mothers chatted away until late before finally persuading Qian Yeejin to go back, and also asking him to take the gifts for Dashan and Tiaotiao back to the courtyard.
