Starlight Has No Past Chapter 37.3

Starlight Has No Past

Chapter 37 Part 3

Grandma grumbled outside: “When did they go out? Why haven’t they come back after such a long time?”
Auntie Zong replied: “They’ve been out for half an hour now . They’ll probably be back soon . Qianxi hasn’t gotten up yet, should I go get her so we can all have breakfast together?”
As grandma mumbled an en, the door to Ye Qiao’s room suddenly jolted with a loud thud . It became unusually quiet outside Ye Qiao’s door .

AdvertisementZhou Tingsheng went blank, trying to discern the direction of the footsteps outside . He grew more and more tense as they drew closer, until they finally stopped right at the other side of the door .
Someone lightly tapped the door a couple of times and called her name in a low voice: “Qiaoqiao?”
Grandma’s voice seemed too weak to get a response from inside . Then Auntie Zong gave the door three hard knocks and called her: “Girl, are you up yet?”

Ye Qiao was taken aback by the sudden voice and almost lost her balance . The two outside the door didn’t hear a response inside, but they could clearly hear someone gasp at the other side of the door .
The sound of the gasp accompanied by the long, suppressed sigh from a man .

Shocked, grandma began to suspect that perhaps she had just imagined the noise . She looked at Auntie Zong, seeing the stupefied expression on the latter’s face . Grandma realized that she hadn’t imagined it . Auntie Zhong was embarrassed and blushed . She waved her hands and stammered a few words: “Well, no one answered our call . It’s probably the wind… . . . Shall I get Qianxi first? She likes to sleep in and won’t make it to breakfast if I don’t call her now . ”
It was probably the first time in grandma’s seventy plus years of life that she’d ever encountered such a situation . She gave a stilted reply: “Alright, alright . ”

However, they didn’t expect Qianxi had gotten out of bed early this morning out of excitement . She ran up the stairs, hungry: “Auntie Zong, why is there no breakfast yet?”
The two elders looked quite uneasy . One replied: “It’s almost done, almost done . Only the porridge isn’t done yet . Go wait at the dinner table . ” The other said: “Don’t rush up the stairs like that . Be careful or you’ll fall . ” Both ladies dragged Qianxi downstairs, nagging her all the while .
Facing two human walls, Qianxi was forced to step back down the stairs as if there was an evil spirit or ghost behind the two . Qianxi was terribly confused: “ . . . . . . ”

When Ye Qiao came down, she saw Qianxi sitting at the table with a black cloud over her head .
Qianxi dug her brain trying to figure out what had happened this morning . She didn’t think she had done anything wrong to irritate her grandma . She concluded that it was probably because she had gotten up too early and grandma happened to get up on the wrong side of the bed . It was just bad luck for her!

After Zhou Tingsheng came downstairs, he went to the kitchen to wash a basket full of winter jujube . He sat down right next to Ye Qiao and picked a jujube to feed her . Ye
Qiao gave him a look and refused . Zhou Tingsheng forced the jujube into her mouth .
Qianxi didn’t expect to see something so intimate between the two and took her own bowl and shifted to a seat further away .

The sour taste of the jujube irritated Ye Qiao’s sensitive teeth . She frowned: “It’s sour . ” Zhou Tingsheng caught the jujube Ye Qiao spit out and handed her a glass of milk . Ye Qiao didn’t want to drink the milk and gave him a stare . Zhou Tingsheng innocently said: “Sure you don’t want to drink it? It works better than water . ” Ye Qiao coldly said: “Take it away . ” But the sour taste lingered in her mouth and she grabbed Qianxi’s orange juice and drank it .
Qianxi watched a hand swiftly take her orange juice away before she could react to it . She widened her eyes-- --it’s so unfair!

Zhou Tingsheng chuckled and took out a few jujubes from the basket, then pushed the whole basket to Qianxi: “You want some?”
Qianxi took the bribe and started to eat jujubes while taking a few sneaky glances at her cousin .
Somehow she felt like everyone in this house this morning wasn’t acting normally .

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