The gluttonous little boy is four and a half years old, and even the wealthy family kneels down and

The next day, Xiao Jin arrived at the kindergarten early.

She carried her schoolbag in one hand and held up the 4x4 Rubik's Cube in the other.

Yesterday, Yun Ziqian took the Rubik's Cube apart and put it back together, and changed a few stickers. Now all six sides are neatly arranged.

Xiao Jin kept reciting the mnemonic the whole way, and even Yun Ziang, who was looking at her in the rearview mirror, couldn't help but laugh at her earnestness.

As soon as she entered the Whale Class, Xiao Jin ran over to Fu Yuzhou and put the Rubik's Cube on his desk:

"Xiao Jin has learned it! Come on, let's have a competition!"

Fu Yuzhou looked up at her, not in a hurry to take the Rubik's Cube, but simply asked, "How long have you been learning?"

"I learned it last night! My grand-nephew Ziqian taught me once, and I remembered it immediately." Xiao Jin said, raising her chin high.

The competition took place between two small tables placed side by side.

Gu Fei and Ren Feichen stood on the sidelines as referees.

The teacher stood by, watching with great interest. The two began at the same time.

Xiao Jin's movements were somewhat clumsy, and she would occasionally stop to think; Fu Yuzhou, on the other hand, was like a veteran, his fingers moving nimbly without pausing.

Finally, Fu Yuzhou solved the Rubik's Cube first.

When he put the Rubik's Cube down, Xiao Jin was still one step away from solving it.

"The boss actually lost," Ren Feichen muttered.

Xiao Jin looked at the two Rubik's Cubes, then at Fu Yuzhou, and clapped her hands enthusiastically: "Zhouzhou, you're so amazing! Xiao Jin almost caught up with you!"

She smiled, her eyes crinkling, as if she wasn't sad at all about losing the game.

Fu Yuzhou, however, was not so happy.

He was silent for two seconds, then suddenly asked, "Haven't you ever played with a Rubik's Cube before?"

Xiao Jin shook her head: "No. Xiao Jin has only played with the big radish that Master gave her, and the small stones on the ground... and the little frogs, little monkeys and the like."

Fu Yuzhou pursed his lips, as if he was thinking about something very serious.

He then asked, "Don't you feel very full after eating so much at lunch every day?"

Xiao Jin tilted her head, rubbed her tummy, and answered seriously:

"I'm not full, Xiao Jin is still hungry. If Xiao Jin doesn't eat more, she won't have the energy to play games this afternoon."

"Did you skip breakfast this morning?" Fu Yuzhou asked again.

Xiao Jin thought for a moment and said, "I ate, but I wasn't full."

She had only eaten two meat buns, a bowl of porridge, an egg, and half a rice cake.

Fu Yuzhou frowned.

He glanced at the abrasion on Xiao Jin's wrist that hadn't completely faded, then at the Rubik's Cube in her hand, and finally back at her little face.

The doubt in his heart slowly turned into a conclusion that made him very uncomfortable:

Xiao Jin has no parents and has not been properly cared for.

She was injured, but no one saw it; she had never seen a Rubik's Cube because no one would buy it for her; she was always hungry because there wasn't enough good food at home.

Xiao Jin might have been bullied just like him, but she just didn't say anything.

He recalled a time when a maid in his household deliberately didn't feed him enough.

He was very young then and couldn't even explain himself clearly when he complained. Later, Fu Zongxu discovered this and the man was driven away.

He remembers the feeling of being hungry, and he also remembers the feeling of being ignored by everyone around him.

So when he learned that Xiao Jin was "just like him," he felt as if something heavy was pressing down on his heart, and his chest felt tight.

He suddenly reached out and grabbed Xiao Jin's hand.

Xiao Jin was taken aback and looked up at him.

Fu Yuzhou's expression was more serious than ever before; the tips of his ears were even a little red, but he spoke each word clearly:

"From now on, you'll be with me. I won't let you get hurt, and I won't let you go hungry. I'll share half of my food with you every day."

Xiao Jin didn't react much to the first half of the sentence, but when she heard "I'll share my food with you," her eyes lit up like two little stars.

"Really? You're giving all your food to Xiaojin?"

Fu Yuzhou nodded, but then felt that the promise wasn't enough, so he said more solemnly:

"When it's my birthday, I'll tell my dad I'm going to buy you and bring you home."

"My dad is very rich."

"You'll take my surname and be called Fu Xiaojin. My family has plenty of food; you can eat your fill."

Xiao Jin didn't understand what was wrong with what he said at all.

All she knew was the phrase "lots of rice," which seemed to have fallen into her lap like a pie from the sky.

She nodded blankly, "Okay! Xiao Jin can be called Fu Xiao Jin, and she can eat a lot of food!"

She even stretched out her little finger to make a pinky promise with Fu Yuzhou.

Fu Yuzhou also extended his little finger and hooked it with hers.

Ren Feichen, listening from the side, widened his eyes in astonishment: "Boss, are you changing your surname to Fu? Fu Xiaojin? Then I'll call you Boss Fu from now on?"

He scratched his head. "No, no, I finally managed to remember the name Yun Fengjin."

Gu Fei was about to cry: "Xiao Jin, don't go to Fu Yuzhou's house. Come to my house, and I'll give you half of my bunny bed."

She held Xiao Jin's hand, her voice incredibly soft.

Surrounded by their chatter, Xiao Jin was completely unaware of the enormous thing she had just "agreed" to.

She held Fu Yuzhou's little hand and said with a smile, "Zhouzhou, you're so good!"

Upon hearing this, Fu Yuzhou's lips curled up slightly, then he quickly suppressed it, as if hiding a joy that he couldn't let anyone see.

The teacher welcomed the last child in, clapped her hands, and said, "Alright, children, go back to your seats and look at the teacher."

After hearing this, the children all went back to their seats.

"Today we're going to learn..."

......

At lunchtime, Fu Yuzhou really did share half of the food on his plate with Xiao Jin.

Seeing Xiao Jin's chubby cheeks and beaming smile as she ate, his resolve to "protect Xiao Jin" only strengthened.

Xiao Jin, on the other hand, only felt that she had made a very good friend.

She had no idea that Fu Yuzhou had already regarded her as a pitiful little thing who needed to be taken home and raised.

-

Meanwhile, the entire Yun family has been busy with a major event these past two days, as Yun Zhengbang's birthday banquet is in three days.

Yun Zhengbang rarely appears in public these days, and the Yun family has not held any grand celebrations for many years.

But this year is different.

With Xiao Jin's arrival, the family has gone through a lot again, Yun Mingyue said:

"Grandpa has to hold this birthday banquet, and we also need to let Xiaojin know what our family's prestige is."

Jiang Shulan smiled and agreed, saying that this was a good opportunity for Xiao Jin to meet more people.

Yun Ziqian, with a dark expression throughout, was in charge of the most tedious tasks behind the scenes of the "prestige": guest list, security, seating arrangements, and countless confirmation calls.

Yun Mingyue sat on the living room floor, directing Uncle Chen to line up several floral arrangement pictures.

She looked left and right, feeling that something was not elegant enough, and also thought the colors were too noisy.

Jiang Shulan sat to the side, flipping through the banquet menu, occasionally circling something with her pen: "This dish is good, light, suitable for the old man. This one is too oily, remove it."

Yun Ziqian came out of the study, still holding his phone. Seeing the two of them like this, he simply said:

"Mom, Aunt, please don't turn Grandpa's birthday banquet into an awards ceremony, like walking the red carpet."

Yun Mingyue didn't even look up: "What do you know? Your grandfather may not say it, but he likes excitement. Besides, this is Xiaojin's first time attending a big event at our house. We can't let her think that the Yun family only knows how to catch ghosts."

Jiang Shulan chuckled and continued circling the menu.

When Xiao Jin came home from school, she saw that the living room was covered with things, leaving no room to even step. So she stood at the door with her schoolbag in her arms and looked around.

She saw Yun Mingyue sitting on the floor, Jiang Shulan holding a notebook, and Yun Ziqian standing by the window making a phone call, so she couldn't help but ask:

"It's Zheng Bang's birthday, can Xiao Jin perform a talent?"

Yun Ziqian hung up the phone and walked over: "What do you want to perform?"

Xiao Jin thought for a moment and said, "Xiao Jin can wiggle her butt."

As she spoke, she even demonstrated a couple of times while holding onto the sofa, twisting her body in a round and cute way.

Yun Mingyue laughed so hard she leaned back.

Jiang Shulan couldn't help but laugh: "This program must be saved for last so that all the uncles and aunties in the audience can watch it."

Yun Ziqian rubbed his temples and said, "You'd better not scare anyone out of their dentures at the banquet."

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

The birthday banquet was held at a private club owned by the Yun family. Although it was called a "family banquet," all the guests were celebrities who had old acquaintances with the Yun family, plus a few close relatives.

Outside the clubhouse, cars were parked one after another.

The courtyard was decorated very elegantly, and a band was invited to play music in front of the hall.

Yun Zhengbang, dressed in a dark red Tang suit, sat in the main seat. His complexion was rosy today, and he seemed to be in much better spirits than in the past few days. He smiled at everyone he met.