When Jiang Xingchen rushed home, just after noon, as soon as he pushed open the courtyard door, he smelled a scorched smell.

"Huh?" Jiang Xingchen was slightly stunned, but immediately understood, and strode towards the kitchen. Don't ask, the little girl is cooking again.

Pushing open the kitchen door, Jiang Xingchen saw that Mei'er was clumsily making a face, and a layer of fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead. On the stove next to it, there were three irregularly shaped flatbreads, but they were charred everywhere, and they were obviously burned.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Mei'er turned her head, saw Jiang Xingchen, and asked in surprise, "Brother, why did you come back so early today?"

"It's done, of course I'm back!" Closing the door with his backhand, Jiang Xingchen walked up to Mei'er, reached out and wiped the sweat on her forehead, and said, "Didn't I leave you money and food, why do you still have to cook!"

"Brother, my illness has been cured, and there is no problem with my body...... My brother will earn money outside to support the family in the future, so don't be busy when you come back, Mei'er can do all the work at home!" Mei'er smiled a little weakly and whispered.

"Who said that your body is better, don't feel okay and don't care, Uncle Xiang said that your body needs to be conditioned for a long time...... You can do all the work at home, can you cook?"

Jiang Xingchen's mouth fell, but his hand gently stroked the top of Mei'er's head, and his eyes also showed distress. He knew very well that the little girl's heart, whether it was joking with himself or taking care of the housework, in the final analysis, it was to increase her sense of existence, and she was afraid that she would have no meaning in this family.

And the root of all this is her sensitive heart, years of loneliness have made her always unconsciously express herself in front of Jiang Xingchen, and even has formed a habit......

Hearing her brother say cooking, Mei'er glanced at the flatbread on the stove, her face was slightly red, and she lowered her head and muttered, "Aren't I learning...... For the past three years, I was the one who cooked......"

Jiang Xingchen squatted down, pinched Mei'er's face, which was getting whiter and whiter, and said softly: "In the past three years, Mei'er has always taken care of my brother! When my brother was injured after taking fake medicine, Mei'er would let her brother sleep on the ground, and go outside to work hard to earn money, your illness was caused by such cold and tiredness...... Now that Mei'er is sick, of course it's time for my brother to take care of you! If you really want to take care of your family, take care of your illness thoroughly, and then whatever you want to do, your brother will support you!"

Listening to Jiang Xingchen's words, Mei'er's eyes became redder and redder, and tears dripped down unconsciously.

"Why are you crying, is it because the food you cook is not good...... I'll taste it!" Jiang Xingchen gently wiped away the little girl's tears with his thumb, picked up a piece of cake with his hand, tore a piece and put it in his mouth.

"Hmm~ Although it doesn't look good, it tastes good! It's much stronger than the uncooked one I gave me last time!" Jiang Xingchen showed a satisfied look, chewed hard, and then tore off a piece and put it in his mouth.

Mei'er stopped her tears, blinked her eyes, looked at the blackened flatbread, and then looked at Jiang Xingchen, who was chewing hard, showing a puzzled expression, and then slowly stretched out her hand, gently tearing off a small piece and putting it in her mouth!

Mei'er grabbed the cake in Jiang Xingchen's hand and said loudly: "Brother, don't eat it!"

"Hehe, little girl, don't cry!" Jiang Xingchen said with a smile.

"Nasty!" Mei'er gently hammered Jiang Xingchen's arm like a coquettish, then lunged forward, hugged his neck tightly, and rested her chin on his shoulder.

In order to comfort her, her brother ate that bitter cake, which really moved her very much, and the emotions in her heart gushed out, and she directly vented it in this way.

Jiang Xingchen froze for a moment, then folded his arms and hugged Mei'er's small body......

After a long time, Jiang Xingchen patted Mei'er and whispered, "Brother will show you something!"

"What?" Mei'er didn't seem to hear clearly, left Jiang Xingchen's embrace, and looked at him suspiciously.

Then, a pale yellow sign appeared in front of her eyes, and four words were clearly written on it, Baron of the Third Rank.

"It's ......" Mei'er's pupils shrank suddenly, her eyes widened wider and wider, and the expression of joy accumulated on her face.

"My brother has researched a way to stitch up his wounds, and he has made a great contribution to the empire, and he has been promoted by two levels in a row! This is the temporary identity card given to his brother by the Marquis of Dingbei, and in ten days, during the New Year's song and dance preselection, the identity of the third-class baron of the elder brother will be officially recognized. ”

"Brother, does this mean that we ......" Mei'er's thinking was a little dull at this time, and she slowly reached out and took the identity card, stared at the four words, and touched it gently, as if she was afraid that this was a dream.

"That's right! We're about to get the territory back, and we're still one step away!" Jiang Xingchen confirmed.

"Great!" a cheer, Mei'er's whole body was enveloped in joy, and only then did she fully confirm that this was not a dream, and her brother had really won the knighthood.

Thinking of her brother's promise to herself when she was seriously ill, the little girl couldn't help but hug Jiang Xingchen again, crying with joy. He was still holding the temporary identity card tightly in his hand, as if he was grasping the most precious thing, for fear that he would lose it if he let go.

"Hey!" Jiang Xingchen blinked, a little strange: "Why didn't the little girl have a convulsion this time!"

After a long time, Mei'er slowly calmed down, and found that she was lying in her brother's arms, her little face was red, she smiled embarrassedly, hurriedly stood up, and then happily took the identity card and watched it carefully.

But when she changed the identity card to the front, her little face suddenly stiffened, and she asked in a panic: "Brother, this brand is not yours?"

"Who said no, my brother just changed his name!" Jiang Xingchen said very indifferently.

"Change your name!" Mei'er was a little puzzled and asked again, "Weishenme?"

"Because I like the stars in the sky, I changed my name to Jiang Xingchen!"

When I used to ask my brother to watch the stars with me, you said that you hated the stars the most!"

Jiang Xingchen's head was suddenly full of black lines, how did he know that there was such a thing before.

"I didn't like it before, but now I like it! You said it, I'm not the same as before...... Little girl, remember, my brother will be called Jiang Xingchen in the future!"

"That's it!" The strange thing is that Mei'er didn't ask, but showed a sweet smile, and her eyes were bent: "Did my brother know that Mei'er likes to look at the stars, so he changed this name......"

"This ...... Sort of!" Jiang Xingchen said hesitantly.

"Hee-hee, brother is so nice!" Mei'er smiled sweetly, and her eyes began to light up again.

Seeing the little girl's appearance, Jiang Xingchen hurriedly took a step back and said, "Okay, brother, let's cook, I'll take you to watch a song and dance show after eating!"

"Oh!" Mei'er didn't seem to hear Jiang Xingchen's words, still holding the identity card and laughing. It took at least a minute before he realized, "Ahhh

"Fake!" Jiang Xingchen pretended to be angry, lightly knocked her on the head, and got up to cook in front of the stove.

Mei'er puffed out her little face, stuck out her tongue at Jiang Xingchen's back, and then walked up to him happily and watched him cook carefully.

"By the way, what about Qian Feng and Zhou Xiong?" Jiang Xingchen suddenly remembered that he didn't see the two of them at the door.

"On such a cold day, I saw that it was too cold for the two uncles to stand at the door, so I invited them into the house!"

"This girl ......" Jiang Xingchen couldn't help but reach out and rub her head.

"Ah......h Jiang Xingchen laughed......

After a while, after baking the flatbread, Jiang Xingchen and Mei'er walked out of the kitchen and returned to the room.

As soon as he entered the house, Jiang Xingchen was stunned, Qian Feng and Zhou Xiong were five sons in a row, and they looked so concentrated, no wonder they didn't hear such a big movement in the kitchen.

"Cough!" Jiang Xingchen coughed heavily, which woke the two up.

"Young Master Jiang, you're back so early!" the two hurriedly got up, looking flustered. Sun Sanqiang asked them to come at the behest of orders, but they started playing, if this made Young Master Jiang dissatisfied, they would be unlucky.

"It's okay!" Jiang Xingchen waved his hand and beckoned the two: "Freshly baked cakes, let's eat them together, let's go out after eating!"

"Alas!" Seeing that Jiang Xingchen was not angry, the two hurriedly responded. In fact, a large part of the reason why they are so bold is that they know that Jiang Xingchen has a good temper.

After eating, Qian Feng and the two set up the carriage and took Jiang Xingchen and Mei'er straight to the singing and dancing venue.

The song and dance venue is the largest building in Hongyuan City, which can accommodate a thousand people, and it took two years to build the most famous building family in the empire, and it is located between the aristocratic district and the north of the city where the mercenaries gather, Jiang Xingchen has seen it from afar.

When I came to the venue, it just opened, and it was two song and dance troupes formed by the students of the Imperial Academy, which were not very famous, and the ticket prices were not very high, a citrine coin.

After buying a ticket to enter it, Jiang Xingchen was surprised to find that there were really a lot of people watching the singing and dancing performances, and at least eighty percent of the seats in the venue were seated.

At the foreground, it resembles a stage, nearly two meters above the ground, and several women are singing and dancing on it.

found the position, the little girl looked interested, her eyes fixed on the stage.

Jiang Xingchen frowned, they came late, the location was relatively backward, and the venue of nearly a thousand people could no longer hear what was being sung on stage.

After watching it for a while, Jiang Xingchen fell asleep, and the performances of several women were similar to those rehearsed by Wanrou, although the dance movements were not the same, but the basic posture did not change. Although the singing tune is different, it also has no feeling, plus he is in the back row, it sounds like moaning without disease.

For two whole months, the two song and dance troupes took turns to appear, and after each show, there was a round of applause, and the little girl also applauded excitedly, and then watched it carefully.

Although Jiang Xingchen felt bored, Mei'er just looked happy, which was originally to make the little girl happy.

After the performance, sitting in the carriage and returning, the little girl's face was red with excitement, and she chattered with Jiang Xingchen about which song and dance program was the best and which dance was the most beautiful.

Jiang Xingchen pursed his lips and said, "What's so good about this, my brother will play it for you, it's much better than them!"

When Mei'er heard this, her eyes widened, and she said in surprise: "Brother, the songs and dances are all performed by girls!"

"Uh!" Jiang Xingchen was stunned for a moment, and asked a little sneeringly: "Isn't there a male actor?"

"Yes!" Mei'er nodded and said, "There are no men in all song and dance troupes, do you think, can men dance beautifully!"

Hearing this, Jiang Xingchen's heart suddenly moved.