Transmigrated as the Villain Boss's Precious Darling-Chapter 27: The Lousy Carpenter Uncle

"Have you eaten yet?"

Byron Thorne asked with a gentle smile. He looked a bit like Shane Thorne—scholarly and rather refined. Felix Thorne resembled his mother, Raina, but his two younger brothers both took after Byron Thorne, with handsome, cultured features.

"No."

Tang Xiaonan shook her head. Her second uncle, Frederick Thorne, and his wife, Lana Steiner, weren’t home. They lived in town.

Because Lana Steiner couldn’t have children, Byron Thorne and Raina were very displeased with their second daughter-in-law—even more so than they were with Phoebe Huxley.

They had often told Frederick Thorne to divorce her and remarry, but he refused. He and Lana Steiner had a strong relationship. Fearing the conflict at home would worsen, Frederick had simply bought a house in town. The couple rarely returned to Millstone Peak, so their house in the old village was almost always empty.

Frederick Thorne worked at the town distillery, and Lana Steiner was a teacher at the town’s middle school. As a dual-income couple, their earnings were quite good. Their biggest regret was not having children.

Her youngest uncle, Goldie Thorne, had no proper trade. Byron Thorne had sent him to learn carpentry, and after a three-year apprenticeship, he finally graduated and made a chair for his father. Byron Thorne sat down on it, pleased, and then... CRACK! He fell right through.

The chair had four legs—three long and one short. It would have been a miracle if he hadn’t fallen.

From then on, Goldie Thorne earned the nickname "Wobbles." "Wobbles" was a local slang term for someone with a limp.

Carpentry had been a waste of three years. After that, Goldie Thorne tried learning other trades, but he was always stuck in the middle—not good enough for the top, but unwilling to settle for the bottom. Now, at twenty-five, he still didn’t have a respectable profession, so naturally, no girl was willing to marry him. Byron Thorne had a love-hate relationship with his youngest son.

But Goldie Thorne deeply admired his eldest brother, Felix Thorne, and was the kindest to the Thorne family’s four children. Even if he only had a single dime in his pocket, he would spend it all on candy for Tang Xiaonan.

’Besides, Goldie Thorne is actually quite sharp. He just isn’t willing to farm and has missed out on good opportunities, so he’s ended up as a good-for-nothing loafer. In the book, his ending isn’t good either.’

Goldie Thorne scarfed down several pieces of fatty intestine, finally bringing some life back to his taste buds. He slowed his eating and now had the leisure to tease his little niece, ruffling her hair nonstop.

Tang Xiaonan’s face was wooden as she suppressed her annoyance. ’My youngest uncle was genuinely good to the original owner of this body,’ she thought. ’I’ll endure it!’

’But I need to add another item to my reformation plan,’ she schemed. ’Goldie Thorne has to turn over a new leaf. And then I’ll find him a fierce tigress of a wife. Hmph, that’ll whip him into shape!’

Raina came out carrying a large bowl of pig’s feet and soybeans, but Tang Xiaonan wasn’t looking forward to it. ’Knowing how frugal Raina is, who knows how many times she’s topped this bowl up with more soybeans. Forget pig’s feet, even the pig hairs have probably been boiled into nothing.’

"Have some before you go back!" Raina said with a smile.

Tang Xiaonan and her three brothers all shook their heads in unison. They had no desire to eat greens and soybeans.

There were only two dishes on the table: a bowl of stir-fried greens and a bowl of pig’s feet and soybeans. However, one could only see soybeans, with not a shadow of a pig’s foot in sight. Goldie Thorne was only picking out the meat and fatty intestines to eat, leaving the greens and soybeans untouched.

"Grandpa, Grandma, you eat the meat," Tang Xiaonan said sweetly.

Raina’s smile grew even more affectionate. She didn’t insist on them staying and let them go home. Howard Thorne really didn’t want to take the pig’s feet and soybeans—the stuff looked terrible at a glance—but Tang Xiaonan picked up the bowl first, so he had no choice but to accept it from her.

"Bye, Grandpa, Grandma, Youngest Uncle!"

At the doorway, Tang Xiaonan deliberately raised her voice. ’First step to changing their impression of me is to be polite.’

"Why is Tang Xiaonan being so polite today? How weird," Goldie Thorne muttered. Byron Thorne rapped his hand with a chopstick. Raina scooped a few slices of meat and fatty intestine from the bowl onto a small plate and took the rest away.

Goldie Thorne’s mouth twitched. ’I should have eaten faster,’ he thought with a sigh.