The only two friends of the same age that Ming Yeqing had were Tan Mo and Qin Muye.
After a minute or so, Qin Muye returned with a disappointed expression. “Qing is now at his grandma’s. He can’t come.”
Qin Mufeng raised a brow as he was devastated by the fact that his sister was now big enough to lie to him.
Just a few minutes ago, she was suggesting to Tan Mo to hang out with Ming Yeqing later, which was proof that he was free for the whole day.
Yet, when Qin Mufeng had asked his sister to invite Ming Yeqing over, the boy was suddenly busy.
Never did the brother expect this day to arrive so soon, the day where his sister would lie to him for another boy.
Qin Mufeng felt as if his heart was being penetrated by thousands of needles.
On the other hand, since Ming Yeqing wasn’t coming, Wei Zhiqian now had a smile on his face. “How long will you be gone to visit your brother at work?” he asked Tan Mo.
“Only a few days,” Tan Mo replied as Wei Zhiqian picked up a strawberry. She quickly opened her mouth wide and pointed inside it.
Wei Zhiqian immediately let out a laugh as he was going to give the strawberry to her from the beginning.
Seriously, do you really think I’m eating this myself? Of course, I’m giving it to you.
Wei Zhiqian stopped his hand in front of Tan Mo’s mouth.
The strawberry was huge and bright red in colour with its sour white part removed. Only the tasty part was left.
Despite that, Tan Mo still could not shove the whole thing in her mouth and had to take a bite first.
Even half of the strawberry was enough to fill her mouth. Her cheek would bump up a little and moved as she chewed the strawberry, just like how a squirrel would eat.
Wei Zhiqian did not lower his arm and patiently waited for Tan Mo to finish the first half.
“I’m just going to see where big brother works and how the set looks like,” Tan Mo said after finishing the first half, and Wei Zhiqian fed her the rest of it. “Since the winter break is short, the next semester will start not long after the Lunar New Year ends.”
“Did you book a hotel already?” Wei Zhiqian asked as he looked at her. He was asking another question through his stare.
Tan Mo instantly understood it and pointed at the shine muscats in front of them.
Wei Zhiqian took a glance at the grapes and could feel the pain in his head.
Unlike the Kyoho grapes, which were much softer, the shine muscats were very hard to peel.
After letting out a sigh in his head, Wei Zhiqian picked one up and began to peel the skin for Tan Mo.
“I’ll be staying at the same hotel with my big brother,” Tan Mo answered as she stared at Wei Zhiqian’s hands, looking forward to tasting the grapes that he was peeling.
Wei Zhiqian finished peeling the grape and fed it to Tan Mo right away, not letting her dirty her hands.
He then turned to Tan Jinqi and asked, “Jinqi, what kind of hotel are you staying at?” His tone was like a father or uncle asking a question.
Do you really think you are my real uncle now? Tan Jinqi scolded in his head but still explained, “The crews are divided into three different groups. The directors, main actors, and special guests are all staying at a five-star hotel. The supporting actors stay in a four-star hotel, while the rest of the crew, including a few actors with minor roles, are staying in a three-star hotel. Since I’m an assistant director and have to coordinate with the director and main actors all the time, I get the benefit to stay in the same five-star hotel.”
Tan Jinqi paused and continued, “And since I’m introduced to Director Liu by Director Hou, he’s giving the same good treatment as well. It makes sense for Momo to stay in the same hotel as mine since it’s easy for me to take care of her.”
Tan Jinqi understood why Wei Zhiqian was worried, but he didn’t need an outsider to tell him how to be an older brother to Tan Mo.
Seeing that Wei Zhiqian was peeling the grapes for Tan Mo, Tan Jinqi naturally picked one up and started to peel for his sister as well. There was no way he was going to lose to an outsider.
As for Tan Jinsheng and Tan Jinyi, they had started peeling for their dear little sister when Wei Zhiqian was talking to Tan Jinqi.
Just as Wei Zhiqian was about to feed Tan Mo her second grape, a plate of peeled shine muscats was placed in front of them. There was even a tiny fork on there so that Tan Mo wouldn’t have to worry about dirtying her hand.
The sweet aroma and glistering flesh of the shine muscats immediately attracted Tan Mo’s attention as she turned to look at them with her mouth wide open. She was so captivated that she didn’t take a bite of the grape that Wei Zhiqian had just peeled for her.
Tan Jinqi pointed at the plate and smiled, “Your brothers peeled these for you.”
Tan Jinsheng and Tan Jinyi nodded and showed their hands that were still wet with the grape juices.
Tan Mo quickly ate the grape that Wei Zhiqian peeled for her and picked one that her brothers had peeled up with the tiny fork.
“Thank you! You guys are the best!” Tan Mo smiled.
Qin Muye was staring at her best friend enviously and turned to glare at her brother.
Why aren’t you peeling grapes for your cute little sister like they did?
Qin Mufeng looked at his sister speechlessly.
Are you serious? Tan Mo has three brothers and an uncle. It only took them like one minute to peel a bowl worth of grapes! You only have one brother, and you expect me to do the work of four people? Do you know how tiring that is?
Qin Muye scoffed at her brother, forcing the latter to let out a deep sigh before asking Auntie Li for a new plate of grapes so that he could peel them for his forceful sister.
As Qin Mufeng peeled the grapes alone, he did not forget to glance at Qin Zhenglu and Dong Hanbi from time to time.
Look at Tan Mo’s parents. Look at how hardworking they were and gave Tan Mo three brothers. You guys should learn from them…
Qin Zhenglu and Dong Hanbi turned to look at each other before back at their son.
Qin Mufeng was lucky that they had guests over or else the parents would’ve hit his ass on the spot.
*
No one could stop the days passing by and the Lunar New Year soon came to an end.
Tan Mo followed Tan Jinqi to the film studio where he worked at.
Tan Jinqi did notify Director Liu of his sister’s visit beforehand, that she just wanted to look around.
Before Director Liu could give out any warning, Tan Mo assured the Director that she would not cause any problem to them, that she would not take photos of the set and the actors.
Hearing how lovely and loveable Tan Mo was, Director Liu agreed to it right away.
On the next day they left B City, Tan Mo followed Tan Jinqi into the film studio and to where the set the filming crew would be working at.
Tan Jinqi settled his sister down in a dressing room and gave her a stack of papers. “This is the script. You can read it if you’re bored.”
Normally, the script was not meant to be shared with other people, but Tan Mo was no “other people”
Tan Jinqi was also confident that Tan Mo would not share the content of the script with outsiders.
It wouldn’t be like her to do that as she was only interested in things that were related to her family. She wasn’t keen on doing things that did not interest her, things such as leaking the script to the outside.
That was the kind of person Tan Mo was. The reason she chose to be a finance major student was so her three brothers could pursue their own dreams.
The reason she joined the two professors’ research teams was that they requested her to do so.
However, now that she thought about it, there wasn’t anything else that had really piqued her interest.
