Unfortunately, he was the most unqualified person in the world to pretend to be noble, having monopolised everything of her mother and wanting to leave everything to Catherine and Hazel.
Now hearing Barney say that there was no need to talk about so many rules, Nellie felt a warm and fuzzy feeling.
The Brooks family was a traditional family.
Both Aleeza or Miriam were more concerned rules, and when she went to the Brooks family before, she felt that strongly.
“There are not so many rules in front of you, but what about back at the old mansion?” Thinking of the old mansion, Nellie deliberately teased him.
Barney froze at that.
And then he said, “Even if we go back to the old mansion, we don’t have to.”
“Really?”
“Nellie, if we are together, we will have very little time to go back to the old mansion, don’t you worry about that.”
Have very little time to go back?
But according to Nellie’s understanding of the Brooks family, the Brooks family has always been a harmonious family, and they would basically go back during the New Year and festivals.
They should go back a lot even at the usual time.
Yet now Barney said that he would rarely go back.
This was a trick, right?
“What?” Seeing that Nellie did not say anything, Barney hugged her and asked.
Nellie, “You must lie to me, you must go back a lot, right? The old lady always wanted you to go back more often, I know that you used to go back to keep her company.”
“That was before. If we were married, I will spend more time with you and naturally I will gone back less.”
Nellie blushed at his words.
She, who had originally teased Barney, now had a hint of embarrassment, not expecting Barney to be such a tease.
Barney said to her, “Alright, no more teasing, let’s eat.”
“Okay.”
Nellie did not stand up to teasing.
At the table, the dishes were all relatively light, and it was clear that the kitchen had been cooking to Barney’s taste all this time.
He just had surgery and he can’t eat spicy food.
The last six months were probably going to be all about nourishing his health.
Barney knew about Nellie’s taste and frowned, “You’ve been eating the same as me all this time?”
“Yeah, what’s the problem?”
Nellie asked in confusion.
All this time Barney had been eating in his room and Nellie only occasionally ate with him.
He had previously thought that it was made for her in the kitchen and tasted different, but he didn’t expect it to be made exactly to his taste.
Barney, “From now on, you can tell the kitchen what you want to eat.”
Nellie froze, then said with a smile on her lips, “I can eat anything, lighter is better for my health.”
She didn’t really ask for much in terms of food, she just might have been uncomfortable with it at first, but now, it seems that the lighter ones aren’t that bad.
In particular, the cook at Barney’s house was already good, so she wasn’t much of a reject.
And with all the time she’s been eating light, she’s noticeably feeling that her body doesn’t even seem to be as burdened.
“But if you don’t eat well, this will affect your mood.”
“No, don’t overthink it, hurry up and eat.”
Nellie helped Barney with food.
Barney looked at the dishes in the bowl. At Nellie’s very natural look, the corners of his eyes raised a natural and doting smile, “You eat too.”
“Okay.”
Nellie nodded and ate.
She was really hungry, so whatever she was eating at the moment tasted good.
Barney smiled with satisfaction, as she was with him.
“Didn’t you used to not eat bitter melon?” Watching Nellie picked up scrambled eggs with bitter melon, Barney couldn’t help but ask.
Although Nellie said she didn’t have high demands for food, Barney actually knew that she had actually a lot of food she didn’t eat.
At least she would never eat bitter melon in the past.
Now, surprisingly, she eat it.
When Nellie heard that, she said with a smile, “There’s nothing to not eat, I’m just not used to it.”
Does habit can make such a difference to a person? Or even, make one go through all the difficulties?
Barney did not know why Nellie had gotten used to it, but now that he was looking at her frank acceptance, he could not imagine how she had endured it at that time.
“Nellie, you don’t really need to put up with this when you’re around me, you know?”
“What are you talking about? Hurry up and eat, do I look like someone who would just put up with anything?”
Nellie said teasingly, lightening the mood.
Barney nodded.
He, in fact, knew that during this period of his illness, quite a lot of people in the Brooks family were upset with Nellie.
But things never came to his attention, and he thought it was must be Nellie stopped it.
Nancy came on the second day.
She came with Aleeza who was different from Miriam. Although Aleeza was grateful to Nellie, she had been dissatisfied with Nellie in her heart because of that messy wedding before.
Barney had, just now, seemingly been called away by a phone call from the old mansion, so now she saw Aleeza appearing here.
Nellie knew that the call had been made deliberately to call away Barney, and therefore knew why the old lady and Nancy had appeared here.
Sitting on the sofa without saying a word, Aleeza gave Nancy a wink, who nodded and took out a cheque from her bag, placing it on the coffee table in front of Nellie.
Nellie raised her eyebrows and took a glance at the figure on it. They were so generous as to give her a blank cheque to fill out at her leisure in order to send her away.
Aleeza looked at Nellie and said, “You can fill in any number you want on it.”
“Thanks a lot, Grandma, it’s just that right now, I don’t need it.” Nellie’s tone was light and calm.
As if she didn’t know what the cheque really meant to her.
But Miriam sank her face because of it.
She said in a sombre tone, “Nellie, I am grateful that you saved Barney and that you are now by his side.”
“…”
“But between you, it’s not right, and you’ll only harm him by being with him.”
Aleeza said in a serious tone, looking at Nellie with a gaze that was unprecedentedly cold and gloomy at this moment.
A dark light flashed under the eyes of Nellie.
“What do you mean by that?”
“Andre is still in Yupto now, right? And I’m sure you’re already aware of his methods against the Chambers family, who will inform you.”
At that, Nellie’s eyes became cold.
After that phone call yesterday, the Chambers family called her again this morning, and she wandered what Andre had done to the Chambers family.
However, Nellie knew exactly what the Chambers family would say at this point in time, so she did not answer that call.