Chapter 859 Chapter 8: Visit
"Uncle, aunt...hello, my name is Zhong Ke..."
After the atmosphere eased a little, Zhong Ke stood up and greeted Li Muhan and Xia Yue.
"Okay, okay, you're good, I'm good, everyone's good. Lingyue is a very disrespectful child. If she bullies you, just tell uncle... Forget it, just call me brother. If she bullies you, just tell brother."
Zhong Ke folded her hands in front of her, as if she would blush every time Li Muhan spoke to her.
Xia Yue sipped from a bottle of milk tea while looking at Zhong Ke with a scrutinizing look.
"Mom...don't be like that. Just smile. This is my friend. Why are you jealous of a child?"
Xia Lingyue sat next to Xia Yue, holding her arms, and whispered to her while acting coquettishly.
When these two people sit together, Xia Lingyue feels like a sister. In fact, if Xia Yue wasn't dressed a little more maturely, she might look more like an older sister.
When a table full of delicious food was placed on the table, Li Lingsheng noticed that Zhong Ke seemed to be afraid to pick up her chopsticks. Although she was drooling at the sight of the delicious food, she still didn't dare to touch it at all.
So he directly picked up a large piece of meat that Xia Lingyue originally wanted to pick up and put it in Zhong Ke's bowl.
"You brat! I'm your sister! She's not! Are you turning your elbows outward? I'll be the one to hold you!"
So Xia Lingyue also started to put food into Zhong Ke's bowl.
The two siblings kept picking up food as if they were angry, and soon the bowl in front of Zhong Ke was full.
"Thank you, thank you! I, I can do it myself..."
"But you haven't touched your chopsticks yet." Li Muhan asked with a smile, "Don't you like the food here?"
"No! Uncle...Brother! No, it's...it's because of me, I..."
As Zhong Ke spoke, his eyes became red.
Now even Xia Yue, who had always had a blank expression on her face, was confused.
What happened? It’s because my eyes are too scary.
She quickly said, "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to look at you like that. I'm actually very grateful that you can be friends with Lingyue... Can you forgive me?"
"Oh, no, brother, sister, no...it's my mother..."
Xia Lingyue sat down next to her, put her arm around her shoulders and asked, "What's wrong? Didn't you just call your mother? Wouldn't your mother be very happy to hear that you were having dinner with your friends?"
"Yes, I'm sorry, Lingyue, I, I don't want to be like this, but...my mother...she, she might eat at night..."
She couldn't say any more.
Li Muhan felt something was wrong, so he looked at Xia Lingyue and asked.
"Lingyue, I remember you said before that Zhong Ke was bullied at school. Can you tell me what happened?"
Xia Lingyue nodded and told everyone what happened in Zhong Ke's home.
The atmosphere at the dinner table became even more serious.
Xia Yue stood up directly with a look of anger on her face. Li Muhan even suspected that she would turn into a vampire in the next second.
"How ridiculous..." Xia Yue said tremblingly, her hands clenched tightly. "These people are spreading rumors... This is too much."
Li Muhan gently held Xia Yue's trembling hand.
She had also been slandered before, but when it happened to her, she didn't care at all. However, once someone else was treated like this, Xia Yue would be extremely angry.
"I'm sorry... I, I don't want to ruin your mood. Today is your family gathering, and it's all because of me..." Zhong Ke carefully placed her hands under the table. Her already sickly thin body looked extremely petite because she shivered.
Li Muhan nodded, then he stood up and waved.
"waiter."
The waiter came over.
"Please pack it up. Oh, I want to order a few more dishes, and pack them up too."
Several people looked at Li Muhan, not understanding what he meant.
"Lingyue, you guys continue eating. I, I have to go back. My mother will be worried about me."
As if he didn't intend to ruin the family atmosphere anymore, Zhong Ke stood up, picked up his schoolbag and prepared to leave.
Li Muhan smiled and said to her, "Wait a minute, Zhong Ke, I packed the food because I want to visit your mother. I hope to have this meal with your mother."
Then he looked at Xia Yue: "And we both want to learn how to raise such an obedient daughter."
"Old Li...!" Xia Lingyue looked at Li Muhan with dissatisfaction. Li Lingsheng tugged at her sister sensibly and told her not to speak.
Zhong Ke looked at the family in disbelief.
"No, don't bother, I..."
"Zhong Ke! I want to go to your house! I want to eat your cookies! Mom, let me tell you, the cookies baked by Zhong Ke's family are delicious!"
When she heard the word dessert, Xia Yue's eyes sparkled.
"Hehe, really?" She looked at Zhong Ke with a smile, her arms folded across her chest. "I'm very picky about desserts. Are you really confident that you can impress my taste buds?"
Zhong Ke's eyes were filled with tears and she nodded vigorously.
"Hmm...! If it's just cookies... I, I'm confident! The cookies my mom and I make are the best!"
"Hmph, you're so arrogant! Then show it to me, the absolute authority on desserts, so I can judge it."
Li Muhan sighed. You really are worthy of being my wife, for her to talk about her love for sweets so confidently.
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In a small bungalow on the outskirts of Tianhai City, there is a small and shabby pastry shop.
Most of the cakes sold are traditional cakes that are hard to find in shopping malls nowadays.
One of the woman's legs was lame. She carried the cold rice left over from yesterday with great difficulty, fried it in a pan, opened a can of pickled mustard greens that had been there for who knows how long, picked up a small piece with chopsticks and put it in the bowl, and started eating.
She looked to be in her forties, but her temples were gray, her body was gaunt, and she looked very haggard.
But the woman is still very happy today.
Because her daughter actually told her that she was going out to eat with friends.
It took a lot of effort for her to hold back her tears on the phone.
As long as her daughter is well, she is willing to give everything. Tomorrow she will give her daughter 100 yuan and let her treat her classmates to milk tea.
The woman thought so and a happy smile appeared on her face.
She only has a daughter now, so her daughter's happiness is more important than anything else.
Just as the woman was concentrating on eating.
A car stopped in front of the store.
The woman quickly put down her bowl and chopsticks and limped out.
"Please, please, I want to buy something."
The woman's Mandarin was not very standard and sounded like she had an accent. She must be from the countryside.
Her back was a little hunched, and the burden of life after her husband's death forced her to bear everything, including the abuse and accusations brought about by the innocence that her husband had not exchanged for his life.
"Mother......!"
But when the car door opened, the woman saw her daughter rushing towards her.
"Coco...? Didn't you...have dinner with your friends?"
The woman held the child gently and asked with some confusion.
"This lady."
Li Muhan also got out of the car from the passenger seat, along with two children about the same age as Zhong Ke. However, that boy... was so tall.
"Hello... Hello, please, may I ask who you are..."
"These are my daughter and son, they are Zhong Ke's friends."
Li Muhan said to the woman with a smile.
The woman held Zhong Ke's shoulders, her eyes full of humility.
"Oh...oh! Hello, hello, please...come in and sit down..."
Xia Lingyue and Li Lingsheng were holding two large bags in their hands. The girl ran to the woman and said with a smile.
"Auntie~ Let's have dinner with you."
"Eat, eat..." The woman only then smelled the fragrance of the food in the two children's hands. She was a little confused, and then realized something. She blushed and looked at Coco, and her voice suddenly became stern.
"But, Coco! Didn't mom tell you to leave me alone?!"
"Mom, Mom..."
"Ms. Wang, it's like this. Zhong Ke is a really smart and obedient child, but this girl in my family... Alas." Li Muhan looked at Xia Lingyue and sighed.
Xia Lingyue stuck out her tongue at Li Muhan in dissatisfaction and made a face.
"So my wife and I really wanted to come visit the mother who raised such a good girl, and ask you for advice on how to educate children. This meal was my own decision, I hope you don't mind, and don't blame Zhong Ke."
Women have always been suspicious.
Is this man really the parents of these two children? How can he be so young?
Then she saw Xia Yue, who had parked the car and was walking towards her.
Oh my God, it was the first time she saw such a beautiful girl.
As delicate and beautiful as a doll.
"This is my wife, Xia Yue."
Li Muhan held Xia Yue's hand and said to the woman.
The woman was even more confused. Didn't this girl look about the same age as her daughter?
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