Song Tiantian and her friends walked along the corridor at the entrance and smelled a rich aroma of caramel when they arrived in front of the kitchen.
The sweet roasted aroma mixed with the rich aroma of chestnuts immediately reminds people of walking on the cold streets in winter, holding sugar-roasted chestnuts just fried from a stall, and while walking, they can't help but take out a hot chestnut, blowing on it and eating it while walking.
Just by smelling the aroma, Lu Chuanbei couldn't help but recall the time when he and Song Jiaqi first started dating, when they sold sugar-roasted chestnuts at the school gate, and ate and chatted on the playground while braving the cold winter wind.
Thinking of this, Lu Chuanbei couldn't help but smile.
Xu Qi looked at Lu Chuanbei's expression and couldn't help but jokingly said, "Who are you thinking about, Xiao Lu?"
"Ah?" Lu Chuanbei quickly came back to his senses and looked at Xu Qi: "Brother Xu, what did you just say?"
"I mean, you are smiling like this, are you thinking about your sister-in-law?" Xu Qi said with a smile.
"Hehe, is it so obvious?" Lu Chuanbei scratched his head and said with a smile.
"Of course. The corners of my mouth are almost cracked all the way to the back of my head. Isn't it obvious?"
Lu Chuanbei subconsciously touched the corner of his mouth.
This action amused Xu Qi and Fang Xiuzhu who were watching the show at the stove.
Lu Chuanbei also laughed after he realized what was happening.
Before Song Tiantian and the others entered the house, they heard laughter coming from the kitchen.
The little ones hurried into the kitchen. Xu Anjia couldn't wait to run to Xu Qi and asked, "Dad, are the sugar-roasted chestnuts ready?"
"Hey." Xu Qi picked her up and nodded at her nose, saying, "My daughter has a very sharp nose. She can actually smell that we are making sugar-roasted chestnuts."
"Of course, I can smell the aroma of sugar-roasted chestnuts from far away." As he spoke, Xu Anjia was still busy looking into the pot. When he saw the shiny oily sugar-roasted chestnuts in the pot, Xu Anjia immediately became greedy: "Dad, are these sugar-roasted chestnuts ready?"
"Yeah, I was just about to serve it when you guys showed up. What a coincidence!"
"It's quite a coincidence, so I want to eat more." Xu Anjia couldn't wait to taste the sugar-roasted chestnuts.
"Okay, I'll serve it to you right away." Xu Qi said, and then he put his daughter down, took a few bowls from the cupboard next to the stove, and served a bowl of freshly cooked sugar-roasted chestnuts to the eager little ones.
The sugar-roasted chestnuts that have been cut open not only have their entire brown-red shells fried until shiny, but even the flesh that is exposed is shiny and oily yellow, which makes people feel hungry just by looking at it.
Just as Song Tiantian took the small bowl of chestnuts, she couldn't wait to pick up a chestnut and started to break it apart along the cut edge.
The shell, which had been fried until crispy, was broken off without much effort, revealing the golden and shiny chestnuts. Song Tiantian grabbed the flesh and took a small bite without hesitation.
The chestnuts just out of the pot were still very hot. Song Tiantian couldn't help eating the soft and delicious chestnuts with caramel flavor one bite after another while breathing out.
"Eat slowly, there's no rush."
"Yeah," Song Tiantian nodded, stuffing the remaining chestnuts in her hand into her mouth, puffing out a little cheek flesh, and then she couldn't wait to pick up another chestnut and started peeling it.
Looking at the little guy eating eagerly, Lu Chuanbei couldn't help but grab the chestnuts that Xu Qisheng had put in the winnowing basket.
After eating the soft, sweet and fragrant chestnuts, Lu Chuanbei immediately understood why his daughter ate so much without even raising her head.
After eating several of them, Song Tiantian stopped and remembered the purpose of their visit.
But when she looked up, she saw that He Jingnian, who had originally said that he would take sugar-roasted chestnuts to the village to look for someone, now had a greasy mouth.
Seeing this, the little girl quickly touched her mouth with the back of her hand. Only after she found that there was no sticky sugar juice on her face did she secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
At this moment, Fang Xiuzhu, who was eating sugar-roasted chestnuts, also remembered that there was one person missing from their group: "Oh, where's Old He? Has he gone out to digest his food and hasn't come back yet?"
Upon hearing this, He Jingnian remembered why he had come to the kitchen just now. He nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, my dad has been out and hasn't come back since. I guess he must have been chatting with someone and forgot to come back."
"It's possible, otherwise Uncle He would have rushed back long ago after smelling the delicious sugar-roasted chestnuts." Xu Anjia, who is also a foodie, said with certainty.
Xu Qi smiled and said, "That's true."
As he spoke, he glanced outside: "But he's been out for almost an hour now, right? What could we possibly be talking about now?"
"I don't know, but we have planned to go to the village to find him." He Jingnian said, and then he found a clean bag and poured all the uneaten chestnuts in the small bowl into it, and then grabbed a few more handfuls from the winnowing basket.
Looking at his actions, Lu Chuanbei couldn't help but say with satisfaction: "Niannian is so filial that he even brought chestnuts to He Gete."
"Uh... this isn't for him." The "filial son" immediately rejected the idea of filial piety: "I'm going to use this to make my dad jealous. He was jealous of me when he was eating steamed buns just now, so I'm going to get my revenge."
Hearing this, Lu Chuanbei couldn't help but twitch his mouth, and mourned for He Xuebin for a moment.
However, he still did not get involved in the confrontation between the father and son.
When they put on their raincoats and left with the chestnuts, Lu Chuanbei and Xu Qi packed a few more bags of chestnuts for them and asked them to distribute the roasted chestnuts to Director Liu, Zhang Bosong and others while they went to find He Xuebin.
Song Tiantian nodded, carrying a bag full of chestnuts and a bulging shoulder bag around her waist, and walked towards the house where Director Liu and the others were.
Along the way, the drizzle was still falling. Fortunately, the roads in the village were paved with cement, so even if walking on rainy days, there was no need to worry about the road being difficult to walk on.
Because the entire village of Xiejia Village has been relocated, the cement road, which has been in disrepair for many years, has become somewhat bumpy.
As soon as she saw the puddle, Song Tiantian's little feet couldn't help but want to step into the puddle.
In the live broadcast room, everyone couldn't help but laugh as they watched Song Tiantian walk to the puddle several times and the puddle seemed to be ready to move.
【From here, it seems that Tiantian is still a child. 】
[Looking at the way Tiantian looked at the puddle, you knew she must want to play in it, right?]
I always thought Tiantian was too well-behaved for a child her age, but now it seems she is still young.
[Seeing this, I finally found a hobby my daughter and Tiantian share, which is stepping in puddles, especially in the afternoon. As soon as they see a puddle, they can't help but jump in it and step on it a few times.]
My child is the same. He's already seven or eight years old, but he goes crazy when he sees a puddle.
[Yeah, look at Nian Nian and Jia Jia, they're both eager to try. If they weren't holding chestnuts, they probably wouldn't be able to hold back, right?]
[It seems like all kids in the world have similar hobbies when they're young.]
[However, seeing how innocent they are, I'm worried about how worried they'll be when they learn from Director Liu and the others that Professor An and the others have lost contact.]
"Yeah, we were just going up the mountain, but how could it end up like this?"
[I still hope Dabin and the others can quickly find clues to Professor An and his team's disappearance...]
Song Tiantian, who still didn't know that Professor An and the others had lost contact, tried hard to look away from the puddle: "Well, let's go and deliver the chestnuts first."
He Jingnian nodded hurriedly in agreement: "Yeah, let's hurry up and come back to play later."
Xu Anjia's eyes lit up: "I think it's okay."
For a moment, the three little guys' thoughts were revealed, and then they all looked at the only guy who had not expressed his opinion yet.
Looking at the gazes of Song Tiantian and the others, Xiangfangnan couldn't help but stretch out his free hand and touch the tip of his nose: "Well, I think this is a good idea too."
"Hehe, Nan Nan, I know you want to play too." He Jingnian patted Xiang Nan's shoulder with satisfaction.
Xiangfangnan felt the splash of water on his shoulder and quickly moved away from him: "Didn't you say you were going to give us chestnuts? Let's go quickly, otherwise the chestnuts will get cold and won't taste good."
"You're right, let's go quickly." He Jingnian said, and walked towards the house that was not far away. That was where Director Liu and the others were temporarily staying.
As soon as she arrived at the gate of the yard, Song Tiantian couldn't help but feel strange.
She looked towards the yard and saw that there were no staff members who usually slacked off and watched live broadcasts on their mobile phones or tablets, whether under the corridor or under the eaves.
Moreover, even when they came, no one noticed.
This is very abnormal for the staff who usually know in advance from the live broadcast room when they come out and rush to watch or get food.
"Strange, why is it so quiet here today?" Xu Anjia also found something wrong.
On the contrary, He Jingnian said nonchalantly: "On rainy days, everyone is indoors, so of course the yard is quiet."
"Is that so?" Song Tiantian still felt something was not right.
"Let's go in and take a look." Xiangfangnan said, and walked straight into the yard.
When they walked to the main room where Director Liu usually lay on a recliner, they saw Director Liu, Zhang Bosong, the staff who usually walked around nearby, and He Jingnian, who had been taking a walk to digest his food for most of the day and had not returned yet.
At this moment, they were all concentrating on looking at the drone operating screen in front of them, or each of them had a computer or tablet in their hands, watching it non-stop.
Yu Xiaoming and others, who had already noticed Song Tiantian and the others coming in, looked at Director Liu, Zhang Bosong and others in the room, who were still paying attention to the video and had no idea that they were being watched by a few little guys behind them. They couldn't help but sigh, thinking that if the program team didn't have them, it would really be doomed.
Just then, Lu Yang moved his body and suddenly looked back in surprise: "Hey, Tiantian, why are you guys here like this?"
"What?"
"Tiantian and the others are here?"
"When did it happen? When did you get here?"
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