Bab 209: Help her comb her hair 209

"Second Brother, let me do it." She's been living in the Xiao Family for quite some time now, and cooking a meal wasn't much. Besides, since she decided to stay, she couldn't just be a freeloader every day.

She gathered some thin, dry branches and firewood into a pile, then struck a few times with two flintstones. Sparks flew, lighting up the dry grass. Then, she moved the small fire into the stove, deftly adding a large timber to fuel the blaze.

Watching her build the fire, Xiao Yishan found that, for some reason, even her movements seemed extraordinarily pleasing to the eye.

When he came back to his senses, she had already washed the big pot on the stove, scooped rice into the pot from the rice vat, then added water from the water jar. She briskly stirred the rice in the pot with a rice scoop.

Xiao Yuchuan stood at the kitchen doorway, staring blankly as his wife moved around, "Wife, why do I find the way you cook so captivating?"