LPLFDA Chapter 45

While waiting for his older brothers and sisters, Feng Yuan sat on the sofa with his little short legs tucked in. He even started calling out in advance to Qin Xun in the video.

“Brother!”

“Sister!”

“Hello!”

Feng Yuan’s chubby face was serious as he practiced ahead of time.

Qin Xun watched him intently. When Feng Yuan called out “Brother”, his eyes flickered slightly.

He made a soft “hm” sound.

Hearing his response, Feng Yuan even hummed a little.

“I wasn’t calling you.”

“I know.”

Qin Xun knew that he had no familial relation with Feng Yuan at all.

He couldn’t make Feng Yuan call him “Brother”.

But the way Feng Yuan said it was so sweet and soft that he really wanted to hear it.

Looking at Qin Xun in the video, Feng Yuan glanced at him, his eyes darted, and suddenly he shouted, “Brother Qin Xun!”

Qin Xun’s eyes suddenly widened.

Seeing his reaction, Feng Yuan giggled.

“So you really want to be a brother, huh?”

Feng Yuan giggled, finding Qin Xun’s changing expressions incredibly amusing.

He deliberately teased Qin Xun like this and had even gotten a little addicted to it.

He called out “Brother” several more times in a row.

Sure enough, Qin Xun’s expression changed again.

Feng Yuan’s little face was mischievous, looking like a prank well executed.

“Yuan Yuan even took a screenshot for you!”

He had captured Qin Xun’s flustered expression in a screenshot.

Qin Xun let him take it freely.

With Qin Xun there on the call, Feng Yuan, who had been a little nervous at first, wasn’t nervous at all amid his own giggles.

He laughed so hard that his small body slumped into the sofa.

While he was still laughing, the sound of two footsteps grew closer from afar.

Feng Yuan, caught up in his own amusement, hadn’t noticed the sound yet.

His little body was sprawled sideways, his messy curls made even messier by the pillow.

While he was still laughing, the owners of the footsteps had already arrived in front of him.

Feng Yuan: “!”

Feng Yuan looked blankly at the two children walking toward him, his smile freezing.

His little face stared in daze. His chubby little hand even pointed at Li Si in front.

Li Si wore a white princess dress, her features delicate, her face soft and beautiful. Anyone who saw her would think her bearing rivaled that of a real princess.

Looking at the beautiful Li Si, Feng Yuan’s mind went completely fuzzy.

“Sister.”

He called out dazedly, clearly remembering that he had seen his sister earlier that day.

At that time, his sister hadn’t spoken to him.

Hearing him call “Sister”, Li Si’s face didn’t flicker with any emotion.

She just crossed her arms, looking down imperiously at this new little unlucky kid in the house.

When the little unlucky kid smiled, he looked even more easy to bully.

She thought back to earlier that day, when he had hidden in a corner, quietly pulling down his pants, crying over his little chubby legs, and then she looked at this dazed little kid in front of her. She thought that this kid’s expressions were actually quite rich, his feelings quite full.

Not at all like the rest of the Li family.

Li Si silently scrutinized Feng Yuan. Meanwhile, Li Wang beside her also let his gaze fall on Feng Yuan’s little face.

Li Wang only looked twice, then, uninterested, withdrew his eyes.

He was still equally uninterested in everyone.

Having been thoroughly examined by his older brothers and sisters, Feng Yuan finally came back to his senses.

He shook his little head and, after regaining awareness, sat up straight.

“Brother, Sister, I’m Yuan Yuan!”

“Hello!”

“I brought gifts for you!”

Even though his brother and sister didn’t seem enthusiastic, Feng Yuan himself was still full of energy.

Following the plan he had prepared earlier, he gave a self-introduction.

After greeting his brother and sister, Feng Yuan rummaged through his little backpack.

The backpack no longer held his tattered old books.

Now, it was filled with his favorite toys and the gifts he had prepared for his brother and sister!

The gifts weren’t expensive or rare.

For his brother, he had a game console, a few packs of spicy sticks brought from home, and a small bag of candy.

For his sister, he had a crystal hair clip, a dried flower arrangement he made himself in craft class, and his favorite chocolate.

As he took out the gifts, Feng Yuan didn’t know whether his brothers and sisters would like them.

He simply handed the gifts to his brother and sister, one by one.

After giving out all the gifts, Feng Yuan’s little face looked as if he had accomplished something important. He seemed a bit more relaxed than before.

“Brother, Sister, if you want any more gifts, you can tell Yuan Yuan.”

“Yuan Yuan will buy them for you!”

For the first time having older brothers and sisters, Feng Yuan instinctively awakened a little CEO-like trait. He is determined to spoil his siblings endlessly.

After saying this, little CEO Yuan Yuan even puffed out his small chest a bit.

Seeing him like this, Li Si narrowed her eyes and spoke her first words to him.

“You’ll buy me whatever I want?”

“Mm! Yuan Yuan will buy it for Sister!”

“Then I want the ownership rights of the Western Green Anaconda Forest. Can you buy that for me?”

Feng Yuan: “?”

A question mark seemed to pop up above Feng Yuan’s little head.

He looked at his sister with a bewildered expression: “What are ownership rights?”

Li Si: “……”

Li Si replied succinctly, “It’s a forest. It costs three hundred million dollars to develop.”

Three hundred million dollars. That number still left Feng Yuan a bit dazed.

He lowered his head and started counting on his chubby fingers.

“One, ten, hundred…”

After that, he didn’t know how to count.

Li Si watched him counting on his fingers. The corner of her mouth twitched.

Enough, this little unlucky kid clearly looked like a poor student.

“Stop counting. Three hundred million is a lot of money. Give me all the money you have.”

Li Si went straight for the money.

The little pauper’s face turned red at being asked for money.

He shyly lowered his little head, his baby voice stammering, “Yuan Yuan… Yuan Yuan doesn’t have any money.”

Today, whenever he spent money outside, it had all been paid for by his aunt.

The pocket money from his two dads and his little uncle, he had spent all on stray cats and dogs.

Housing for the cats and dogs, food, medical care, neutering, adoption…

It all costs a lot.

Qin Xun had originally planned to cover these expenses, but Feng Yuan, the “boss of Huasheng Street” and kindergarten tyrant, did not agree.

He believed that as the boss, he had to be responsible.

If the cats and dogs called him boss all day, he had to protect them all day.

So he used his own pocket money to cover these expenses.

His pocket money wasn’t much. Feng Qi knew his spending habits, so he gave him the same allowance as an ordinary family would.

Feng Yuan, a “spendthrift”, no, a “star-light spender”, now faced his sister. His little head sank so low he could barely lift it.

His face was as red as a ripe little cherry tomato.

“Sister, Yuan Yuan can make money.”

In his tiny baby voice, Feng Yuan defended his honor: “Yuan Yuan can pick up junk. Selling the junk can earn money.”

Li Si: “?”

Li Si: “Pick up junk?”

Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, the words “pick up junk” were completely foreign to Li Si.

She didn’t know Feng Yuan very well.

So she had never imagined that this kid would actually pick up junk.

“Mm! Picking up junk! Yuan Yuan is really good at picking up junk.”

Talking about his own “business”, Feng Yuan lifted his little head again.

Confidence returned to his eyes. To his seemingly curious sister, he began explaining his little junk-picking techniques.

“You have to go really early or when it’s really hot, so no one else takes it.”

“Iron scraps, copper, they’re worth more than bottles!”

“You need to wear a mask. The trash cans smell bad.”

“And be careful with glass. Glass can break and poke your paws… um, poke your hands.”

As Feng Yuan spoke about his junk-picking experience, he sounded so practiced that Li Si had no doubt he had really been collecting junk for a long time.

“You…”

Li Si, who was usually eloquent and persuasive, found herself unexpectedly at a loss for words.

She pressed her lips together.

The little guy in front of her had finished talking about picking up junk and had promised that he would definitely earn money to spend on her.

Her nearly nonexistent conscience almost stirred under the earnest little gaze of the kid.

Fortunately, she furrowed her brow and didn’t let this strange feeling continue to grow.

“I was just joking.”

Li Si interrupted him in a flat voice: “I don’t need you to pick up junk to make money. I… am very rich.”

Feng Yuan: “……”

Feng Yuan’s eyes lit up as he looked at her. Hearing that she had money, he felt nothing but relief.

Sister has money to spend. Then she can buy whatever she wants!

The little guy’s eyes were so pure.

From his eyes, Li Si could see all of his thoughts and intentions.

So innocent, so clean, such a little cub…

Li Si deeply questioned herself: Is this really her own kid?

“Brother, Sister, can Yuan Yuan play with you a little longer?”

After giving out the gifts, Feng Yuan still wanted to have a little more conversation with his older brother and sister.

He was about to start training soon. He wanted to ask a few questions about it.

Li Si and Li Wang were still holding the gifts he had handed them. The latter, indifferent, sat down on a sofa to the side.

He had no intention of playing with Feng Yuan.

But he followed Grandpa’s instructions: he wouldn’t just leave the little guy and go to his room.

Li Si wasn’t as unfriendly as her brother.

She also took a seat. After sitting down, she unwrapped the snacks Feng Yuan had given her.

“Sister, this one’s really sweet. It even has alcohol inside.”

Seeing her unwrap the chocolate, Feng Yuan specifically explained, “This is liquor-filled chocolate. In the store south of our kindergarten, they have lots of these.”

Feng Yuan was introducing Li Si to the scarce snacks from the stationery shop—liquor-filled chocolates.

These chocolates, whether the alcohol inside or the chocolate outside, had a distinctly cheap taste.

It was Li Si’s first time eating such low-quality snacks.

She took one bite and didn’t want a second, so she went back to unwrapping another snack.

Seeing her toss the liquor-filled chocolate aside, Feng Yuan hesitated for a moment, then picked it up and ate it himself.

Li Si: “?”

Seeing him eat the leftover chocolate, a flicker of surprise passed through her deep blue eyes.

“I already took a bite,” she reminded him.

Feng Yuan had already swallowed the chocolate.

His curled lashes trembled, looking like an innocent, startled little fawn. “I-I know! I thought you weren’t going to eat it.”

Li Si: “I wasn’t planning to eat it.”

Li Si frowned in confusion: “You’re not disgusted?”

Though the Li family didn’t have severe cleanliness issues, they were all a little particular about daily life.

They would never eat food that someone else had already eaten.

Feng Yuan was also a Li family kid. How could he eat something she had bitten?

Feng Yuan blinked.

He understood what Li Si meant.

He grinned, and his beautiful eyes curved into crescent moons.

“I’m not disgusted! Sister, you’re not dirty!”

On Feng Yuan’s soft little face appeared a clean and warm smile.

Li Si almost lost her composure at his smiling face.

She pursed her lips, ignored Feng Yuan, and continued unwrapping the snacks like opening blind boxes.

She didn’t actively chat with him, but Feng Yuan plopped down right beside her.

There was a small gap between them.

Feng Yuan looked for a topic to talk about. As he spoke, he inched his little body closer and closer.

Bit by bit, he moved toward his sister.

Before long, he had successfully snuggled up to her!

Li Si raised an eyebrow, her peripheral vision having already caught the little cub sneaking closer.

Warm. Soft.

Li Si pressed against him and drew this conclusion.

“Sister, Yuan Yuan has training tomorrow, too. What do we have to do in training?”

“A lot of things.”

Li Si had a lollipop in her mouth, lychee-flavored, fifty cents a stick.

She could tolerate the taste of this lollipop.

The novelty of the flavor made her want to give it a try.

For the sake of the candy, Li Si answered the little cub’s question.

“Your physical training and academic lessons will start first.”

After training for a few days, you’ll be ready for mental training.

In short, among these three areas, Li Si chose the one with the highest difficulty for herself. She would take the last one.

Feng Yuan was the complete opposite of her. The moment he heard the words “academic lessons”, his little face scrunched up like a bitter melon.

“Yuan Yuan has no learning.”

Not even graduated from kindergarten yet, Feng Yuan had no hope at all for his academic training.

He had followed Grandpa home just to avoid exams and studying.

But now that he was at Grandpa’s house, he still had to study!

Li Si and Li Wang couldn’t sympathize with Feng Yuan’s troubles.

The twin siblings had exceptionally high IQs.

Their academic level was so advanced that, if placed back home, they could directly sit for the college entrance exam.

And what’s more, they would pass it effortlessly!

The little school dunce, with his gloomy face, looked at his brother’s and sister’s expressions and realized that he was the only one lagging behind.

He rubbed his chubby cheeks with his hand and let out a long sigh.

“Forget it, let’s not talk about studying.”

Feng Yuan forced himself to perk up and skipped over the subject of academics.

He asked about the physical training instead.

Li Si tugged at the corner of her lips. “Let me tell you some good news.”

Feng Yuan tilted his head. “What good news?”

Li Si informed him, “Your physical training is very simple.”

Feng Yuan’s eyes lit up. “Really?”

Li Si: “Mm. If you don’t believe me, ask Li Wang.”

Li Wang glanced at him but didn’t deny it.

Seeing this, Feng Yuan was so happy he nearly jumped up.

“That’s great! Yuan Yuan likes simple things!”

Feng Yuan was so delighted he nearly lost his sense of direction, completely unaware that what Li Si and Li Wang considered “simple mode” would be about the same as hell mode for him.

Still basking in his excitement, Feng Yuan let his guard down for a moment, and his little body tilted onto Li Si.

His chubby cheek brushed against her chin, and his soft little body tumbled onto her lap.

Li Si: “……”

Li Si narrowed her eyes.

Even softer.

Was this cub made out of cotton?

Like a cotton-stuffed little one, the soft cub scrambled up in a fluster.

He mumbled an apology to his sister.

He was afraid he might have hurt his sister by pressing on her.

Hearing his concern, Li Si simply sat up from the sofa.

“With just this bit of weight of yours, do you think I can’t handle it?”

Li Si looked displeased, as if offended at being underestimated.

Feng Yuan waved his little hands, about to say that wasn’t what he meant.

The next second.

He was directly lifted by Li Si.

Feng Yuan: “!”

Wow!

Li Si lifted him with ease. After raising him up, she tossed the little cub over to Li Wang.

“Did you do your weight training today?”

Li Wang hadn’t planned to catch him, but thinking of his own training, he frowned and still caught the cub.

The two of them started using Feng Yuan as a weight for strength training.

Being lifted up, Feng Yuan found it fun.

He stretched out his little hands and hugged his brother and sister’s wrists.

Li Si and Li Wang let him hold on.

Their weight training wasn’t just done standing in place.

They even expanded the range of movement.

Feng Yuan loved playing the “lift high” game the most.

Back when he lived with his dad, his dad’s health wasn’t good, so he couldn’t always lift him up high.

Later, even though he had Big Dad, since he thought he had grown up, he didn’t often ask Big Dad to play “lift high” with him.

But deep down, he had always longed to be lifted up.

Now, his brother and sister had fulfilled that wish for him!

The little cub, lost in the joy of being lifted high, looked utterly happy, his chubby face full of bliss.

He thought having an older brother and sister was truly wonderful!

Li Si and Li Wang were still lifting him.

After ten minutes or so.

The cub being lifted high no longer grinned, and his little face stopped smiling.

He kicked his chubby legs dangling in midair.

“Brother.”

His baby voice was a little weak: “Can you put Yuan Yuan down now?”

Li Wang didn’t move.

Feng Yuan kicked his legs again, his baby voice even weaker: “Yuan Yuan wants to throw up.”

Li Wang: “!”

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