Niu Cuiping turned and left.

Yingyue went home, and Huo Cheng was reading a book.

I saw her come in with a frown on her face, her displeasure clearly written all over her face.

Huo Cheng chuckled and closed the book. "What's wrong? Who upset Comrade Yingyue?"

“A strange middle-aged woman.”

Yingyue sat down next to Huo Cheng unhappily. "She said I don't have any friends and wants to be friends with me."

Upon hearing this, Huo Cheng's expression remained unchanged. "What else did she say?"

"They even asked me what I do at home, and said they'd treat me to candy if I told them."

As Yingyue finished speaking, her face became even more unhappy. She turned to Huo Cheng and asked, "Is she trying to fool me like I'm an idiot?"

Even if she's not very bright, she knows she shouldn't eat food from strangers!

"Hmm? Then why did Yingyue eat the meat bun I gave her before?"

Huo Cheng asked, amused.

Yingyue glanced at him and answered quickly, "Because you're a good person!"

"Oh, then that aunt isn't a good person?"

"Hmm, doesn't seem like a good person."

Yingyue answered seriously.

Huo Cheng squeezed her hand. "Then we'll ignore her when we see her from now on. If Yingyue wants candy, I'll go buy it for you."

"Uh-huh."

Yingyue was happy again.

Her little mood really came and went quickly.

Huo Cheng watched Yingyue happily go to play shuttlecock, and his eyes darkened slightly as he thought about what she had just said.

It seems there are quite a few rats eyeing their house in this compound...

During dinner that evening, Huo Guangming learned that the braised pork on the table was something Yingyue had suggested packing up, and he praised Yingyue profusely.

Then Liu Qiuyue was asked to give Yingyue more money.

Try to exchange some cloth coupons or something to get the little girl a few more nice outfits.

Young girls should be dressed up nicely.

Liu Qiuyue nodded to indicate that she remembered, and would give Yingyue some money in a little while.

"Mom, you and Dad can keep your salaries for yourselves. I have enough money to support Yingyue."

Huo Cheng spoke up.

He can support his partner himself.

Yingyue nodded in agreement.

"Huo Cheng is rich."

Seeing this, Liu Qiuyue and Huo Guangming couldn't help but laugh and said, "Alright, then let the eldest brother raise it himself."

"But let me make this clear first: if you make Yueya thin, don't blame us for being impolite."

Huo Guangming threatened his son with a stern face.

Huo Cheng and Liu Qiuyue were not surprised by this.

But Yingyue took it seriously.

She didn't know why her uncle was so fierce. She looked up at her uncle and then at Huo Cheng.

He lowered his head and ate a couple more bites of rice.

"I'll get fat."

"Uncle, please don't be angry with Huo Cheng."

This young girl really couldn't bear to see Huo Cheng suffer any injustice.

Huo Guangming and Liu Qiuyue felt both gratified and moved.

After being single for so many years, everyone thought he would grow old alone. Who would have thought that he would meet such a wonderful girl as Yingyue when he was about to turn twenty-eight?

After the family finished eating, Yingyue went to the kitchen to help Liu Qiuyue wash the dishes, while Huo Cheng and Huo Guangming talked outside.

They talked about the committee members coming over during the day, and then about the atmosphere in the compound.

The father and son didn't speak in a back-and-forth manner.

Instead, it would take him a long time to utter a single sentence.

Moreover, many things don't need to be said very directly; after saying the first half of a sentence, the other person will know what he wants to express.

Yingyue came out of the kitchen.

She still had the face cream that Liu Qiuyue had applied for her.

"Yingyue, the face cream needs to be rubbed in to be effective."

Liu Qiuyue followed Yingyue out, reached out and took her hand, and helped her rub the face cream on the back of her hand.

The fragrant snow cream spread on the back of my hand, making my already delicate skin even more smooth and moisturized.

Yingyue sniffed her hands, then happily ran to Huo Cheng and held them up to his nose. "Do my hands smell good?"

He's really just a little kid.

Huo Cheng's expression softened, and he replied cooperatively, "It smells good."

"I'll put some lotion on you too."

Yingyue took out a box of face cream from her pocket; it was what Liu Qiuyue had just given her.

She scooped out a lump and placed it on the back of Huo Cheng's hand.

Huo Cheng said helplessly, "Yingyue, I'm a man."

"Can't men wear perfume?"

She asked, puzzled.

She didn't slow down her application of face cream at all.

Just as Liu Qiuyue had rubbed the face cream into Huo Cheng's hand, Yingyue now imitated her, carefully rubbing the face cream into Huo Cheng's hand as well.

She lowered her eyes, completely focused.

Slender fingers glided across the back of his hand, between his fingers, between his fingers, on his fingertips, and in his palm.

Huo Cheng lowered his eyes and looked at the girl with an extremely serious expression. His heart softened, and he had an urge to pull her into his arms.

Her hands seemed to be applying face cream to him, but Huo Cheng felt that her hands were more like scratching his heart.

Liu Qiuyue, who was not far away, glanced at her husband, then took his arm and left the living room.

Huo Guangming?

What are you doing? He still has something to say to the boss, and he hasn't finished yet!

Liu Qiuyue glared at him, her voice low, "Can't you see the boss and Yingyue?"

Huo Guangming...

He's not blind, how could he not see his grown son and Yueya?

Liu Qiuyue didn't waste any words with her husband and dragged him upstairs, leaving the first floor to the two young people who had just started dating.

Two days have passed.

Professor Wu replied, saying that a solution had been developed.

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