Chapter 1376 Whose Child Is This?
The three women spent the whole afternoon cutting out more than sixty even pieces of red date cake.
After tasting it, everyone praised it highly. Even Fu Yancheng, who doesn't like sweets, ate a whole piece: "Natural ingredients, tastes great."
What they didn't know was that the rich, sweet aroma of red dates wafted far and wide, attracting many children who came to smell it.
Chu Xue never expected that the sweet aroma would attract so many children. It's no exaggeration to say that some of the children were drooling with envy. Thinking that most children in later generations grew up in a honey pot, Chu Xue felt a pang of pity.
After glancing briefly at the children gathered at the gate, Chu Xue had her sister-in-law take a few pieces of jujube cake and cut them into two-finger-wide slices. She carried the cakes to the gate and called to the children, "Here, these are jujube cakes that your auntie just made. There aren't many, so I'll give each of you a small piece to taste."
The children were surprised by this good thing, and with the exception of a few, they all thanked them very politely.
Seeing some children eagerly devour the date cake as soon as they received it, while others savored it bite by bite, afraid of finishing it all at once and missing out on its deliciousness, Chu Xue was deeply moved by both reactions.
Just as he was lost in thought, Chuxue's sudden "Ah!" pulled him back to reality.
Then I saw two children fighting.
Chu Xue wanted to go and break up the fight, but Fu Yancheng stopped her, saying, "I'll handle it. You just wait."
Before Fu Yancheng could make a move, someone who had just returned from training stepped forward and separated the two children: "You two usually play together so well, how did you end up fighting?"
The boy whose jaw was scratched and bled felt quite innocent: "How was I supposed to know that the jujube cake in his hand would fall? I don't have eyes in the back of my head. He didn't say anything. I just turned my head to look at him and he punched me."
At this moment, Fu Yancheng also walked over and looked at the child who was being accused: "Is he right?"
The child, with a small, expressionless face, said, "I didn't even have much to eat, and he stepped on it."
The other one objected: "You were standing behind me, and I didn't even notice you dropped your jujube cake. How can you blame me?"
Thinking of something, he continued, "Did you drop it because you weren't holding it properly, or was it knocked to the ground by someone else? If it was because you weren't holding it properly, that's your own problem. If it was knocked to the ground by someone else, you should go find that person. Why are you taking your anger out on me?"
Chu Xue was surprised that the child was so young yet spoke so clearly and articulately, and couldn't help but ask Mo Ruhua beside her, "Whose child is this?"
Mo Ruhua leaned closer to Chuxue: "This is Tian Jianping, the eldest son of Company Commander Tian under your Fu Camp."
Upon hearing that the boy was the son of Company Commander Tian, Chu Xue nodded in agreement. "The parents have good values, and the child they raised is no slouch either," she said. "This kid is quite smart."
Fu Yancheng stared at the child who had scratched the other child: "Gen Hong, how did you drop your pastry?"
He knew both children. One was Tian Jianping, the eldest son of his company commander Tian Changxing, and the other was Xu Genhong, the son of company commander Xu Yinghu.
Xu Genhong glanced sideways at another child standing to the side. Fu Yancheng followed his gaze and saw Ye Fengze, the son of the Third Regiment Commander Ye Mingli, retreating into the crowd with a guilty look on his face.
Commander Ye happened to be among those who were finishing their training: "Feng Ze, is what Gen Hong said true?"
With so many people watching, and given her parents' upbringing, Ye Fengze couldn't afford to deny it or implicate others: "I didn't mean to. We were standing back to back, how was I supposed to know I'd bump into him?"
(End of this chapter)
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