"Why are you saying this? I know you'll be very busy in the next two years. Besides, even if we haven't seen each other for three years, we're still friends, right?"

"Yeah." Xu Ling lowered his head and responded softly, with a little redness at the corners of his eyes.

"Come, let your aunt see if our Minmin has grown taller?" Li Qiao spread her arms and led the little girl into her arms.

Minmin buried her face in her mother's arms, not daring to go over. Xu Ling touched her head and said, "Come over, your aunt is calling you."

The little girl hesitated for a moment, but still ran over, not daring to move in her pretty aunt's arms.

Li Qiao smelled the milky aroma coming from the little girl. This was the first time she had smelled such a scent. She didn't know why her child didn't have the milky aroma that other children have. Maybe it was because she hadn't drunk milk powder very often.

Right now, asking those two kids to drink milk powder is like killing them. They cry and don’t want to drink it, insisting that only little kids drink this kind of stuff, while older children only eat rice.

Then Li Qiao told them that there are milk powders for teenagers and milk powders for the elderly. They just said, "I just won't listen. I won't drink it no matter what you say."

Later, before Li Qiao could give the two remaining cans of milk powder to others, Caius drank them all out of boredom...

There was constant laughter in the living room. In the kitchen, the father and his two sons looked at each other, and no one spoke for a while.

"See, I told you that mom likes her." Little Li Yao threw the vegetables into the sink, jumped off the small stool, ran out, and squeezed into his mother's arms, asking her to hold him. Now she no longer said that he was a big boy.

Caius looked at the vegetables floating in the sink and muttered, "You little bastard, I think you just don't want to work."

He sighed, looked at his eldest son who was still washing vegetables diligently, and sighed again, "Forget it, forget it, you should go out too, that little girl is still playing in your room, go and keep her company." Stop wasting time on the vegetables, they're all washed out, alas...

Li Yao thought about it and felt a little uneasy about leaving Ning Ning in there alone... Thinking of this, he also jumped off the bench and ran back to his room.

Xu Ling didn't come here just to see Li Qiao, but mainly to give him money. Now that she has taken over the Huo family's business, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. After figuring things out on her own, she has figured out some ways, so she came to Li Qiao to give him money. To put it bluntly, she wants cooperation.

The Huo family owns a shopping mall. She is ambitious and wants to be like Li Qiao, working hard to give her children a good family background.

She always believed that having money would naturally give her the power to speak her mind. She hoped that her daughter would not be like her, clinging to men whenever they offered her some benefits.

"Let's not talk about this. Let's talk about these things at the company. Besides, Yao Mo is in charge of this aspect on my side, so he has to listen to it."

"...Um, sorry, I was too impatient."

…

The meal was delicious. Minmin from Xu Ling's family could also eat some complementary food. The meal made by Caius was delicious. She ate so much that her belly was round and she couldn't hide the smile on her face.

Compared to the shy Minmin, Ning Ning is really outgoing. She eats openly and even picks up food for Li Yao. However, it is her first time to pick up food for others, so she is very excited. She stares at Li Yao, wanting him to eat it.

But, she picked up a piece of bean sprouts with chopsticks.

Li Yao doesn't like eating bean sprouts, so he kept putting it off until the last minute.

In Ning Ning's eyes, she thought he was reluctant to eat it, so he saved it for last, so she looked away contentedly.

"Li Yao, I'm having dinner at your house today. Next time, you can have dinner at my house, okay?"

Li Yao was shaken so much that he staggered back and forth. He knew what would happen if he shook his head, so he nodded with difficulty. It didn't matter. Children have bad memories anyway, and they will forget it in a few days.

“They have a really good relationship.”

Little Li Yao said this secretly to Caius.

Caius raised his eyebrows slightly and pinched his little face, "Why? Are you envious?"

"No way!" The little guy shook his head vigorously, asking his bad dad not to wrongly accuse him. He didn't want to play with a bad-tempered girl.

Although he looks the same as his brother, Ning Ning can recognize him at a glance. Moreover, he only likes to play with his brother. In front of his brother, he is a soft-spoken and good boy, but in front of him, he is a bad boy with bared teeth and claws.

"It's okay, you also have Mu Mu. That little girl likes to play with you." Caius patted his shoulder and asked him to think about it. He has more friends.

In fact, Caius didn't know why his child with a unique personality was so... tolerant towards Ning Ning.

Yes, tolerance, a bit of special treatment.

Take Caius himself for example. He was able to reach where he is today thanks to his unique handsome face and thick skin.

What about the little girl? Did she do anything?

No.

perhaps……

This brat must be unable to show a bad face to the girl because he sees that she is so well-behaved and gentle, and looks like a little princess.

He firmly believed in this reason.

After the meal, Caius washed all the dishes at a very fast speed, which surprised Xu Ling.

She was originally thinking about whether she should remind Li Qiao not to give her true heart easily, as most men are not trustworthy.

But looking at it this way, this person is not an ordinary man.

As far as she knew, most men didn't cook, wash dishes, do housework, or take care of children. Caius was a little different... He was just a little weird, but she couldn't put her finger on what was weird, so she simply said nothing.

Li Qiao seemed to have gotten used to it and didn't show any reaction to Caius cooking and washing dishes. When Caius came back after washing the dishes, he even handed him a wet wipe.

Caius smiled brightly and took the wet wipes. The wipes smelled good, and he wiped his hands with them out of habit, even though he had already wiped them in the kitchen.

…

After Xu Ling came, Li Qiao started to get busy. Caius knew that she wanted to help Xu Ling.

"Don't be too tired." He said that this matter should not be of any concern to him.

He doesn't have a best friend and doesn't understand why Li Qiao does this.

He believed that under normal circumstances, Li Qiao would not be interested in what Xu Ling could give.

Li Qiao is such a homebody, but just for her, he ran out in the hot weather to have dinner and talk with others. Caius could hardly bear to see it.

The main reason was that Li Qiao hadn’t eaten at home for a long time, so he cooked the meal.

"We're almost done." Li Qiao glanced at him, "Yao Mo is more tired than me."

That's right, Yao Mo was so tired that he almost fell asleep as soon as he got home.

What does it have to do with me if he’s tired?

Caius blinked and simply uttered, "Then I hope he drinks more hot water."