Chapter 266: The Non-Clingy Child (Page 1/2)
Huo Li left Huo Qinghuan in the living room to take care of the children, while Lin Man followed Huo Qingci to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
When Huo Qingci stepped into the kitchen, she quietly took out a huge bucket from the space.
The bucket was filled with various fish: three fat carps, two tender silver carp, a dozen crucian carps as wide as a palm, and even a small turtle weighing about two kilograms.
"Did you and grandpa catch all these fish together?" Lin Man asked in surprise.
Huo Qingci smiled and nodded in response, "Yes, these fish are the result of my and Grandpa's joint efforts throughout the afternoon!
As for the soft-shelled turtle, I caught it with a trap. Unfortunately, grass carp like to eat grass, so I had to use a fishing net. I didn't use a net when I went fishing with Grandpa today."
Lin Man laughed and joked, "Don't worry about eating grass carp. After all, I still have hundreds of tons of sea fish in my space."
Huo Qingci thought about the seafood in his wife's space. There were so many that he probably wouldn't be able to finish eating them in this lifetime.
"Manman, didn't I tell you before that you want to sell the medicinal herbs in my space wholesale to my friends?"
"Well, what did your friend say?"
"As long as I prepare the herbs, he will send a driver over. I negotiate the price of each herb with him, and then I try to ask him if he wants to buy seafood before the New Year.
As soon as he heard I had connections, he immediately said he needed 10,000 kilograms of hairtail, 5,000 kilograms of flower crabs, 2,000 kilograms of squid, and 8,000 kilograms of shrimp.”
Hearing this number, Lin Man couldn't help but ask with some concern: "Qingci, is your friend reliable? He doesn't doubt you, right?"
Huo Qingci replied calmly, "Don't worry, Manman. I told him that these seafood were a batch of goods that my family's friends in the coastal areas sent to the capital a few years ago.
The guy was in charge of purchasing and agreed without hesitation, saying he had sales channels.
Lin Man thought that the man wanted the best-selling seafood in the supply and marketing cooperative, such as hairtail, crabs and prawns. He didn't want the more expensive seafood. Where would he sell these seafood?
"Your friend wants so much seafood. Is it for his own personal use, or is he purchasing it for his company?"
Lin Man was worried that Huo Qingci's friends would not pay, and that she would take their seafood and sell it to black market vendors. If she dragged Huo Qingci into trouble, it would be a big trouble.
Huo Qingci saw Lin Man's worry and said, "Don't worry, Manman. He will pay first. He must have purchased these seafood for a factory. The factory is giving out New Year benefits to its employees."
"Which factory has such good benefits? They give us seafood. Your company doesn't even have this kind of benefit."
"This year, our company gave everyone five kilograms of pears and five kilograms of flour for the Lunar New Year."
Lin Man thought, the hospital still has five pounds of pears and five pounds of flour to give out. I wonder if their school will also give some New Year benefits to teachers. I don't think so, right? If they did, they would have held a meeting to announce it long ago.
The couple was busy in the kitchen. Because the mutton needed to be stewed, it took a long time. It took them more than an hour to finish the meal.
Just as the meal was served, Huo Junshan came over on his bicycle. As soon as he entered the room, he said to Huo Qinghuan:
"You had half a day off this afternoon, so why didn't you go home? Your mom and I didn't see you after get off work, so we went to school to look for you, and only then did we know that your school was closed for the afternoon."
Huo Qinghuan smiled slyly and said, "My sister-in-law said she would treat me to something delicious, so I came back with her. If you don't believe me, ask my sister-in-law."
Lin Man was setting the table and greeting Huo Junshan.
"Dad, you haven't finished your meal yet, right? Let's sit down and eat together. The school is closed for half a day today, and I thought about the final exams, so I made something delicious for Qinghuan to nourish him, so I called him over to play."
Huo Junshan pulled out a bench, sat down, took off his gloves and placed them on the table, and said slowly:
"We thought Huanhuan had gone out to play with his classmates, and we couldn't find him at school. We asked the gatekeeper and found out that he had come back with you."
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"Dad, where else can I go? If I'm not at home or at school, then I must be going back to grandpa's house! Should I take a bus to the city and visit my uncle's house?"
Huo Li picked up the bowl and chopsticks and interrupted, "Junshan, stop talking and eat. If you don't eat it while it's hot, the food will get fishy."
Huo Junshan looked at the pot of mutton stewed with radish and the bowl of fish and mutton on the table, and his mouth was watering.
Qinghuan came to his dad's house, probably to have a feast. Thanks to his youngest son, he will have a good meal tonight.
"Qingci, where did you buy this mutton? Should we buy half a mutton for the New Year?"
Huo Qingci opened his mouth and said, "I bought it from a friend. If Dad likes to eat mutton, I will buy some more for the New Year."
Lin Man soaked rice in fish soup and fed it to her youngest son. As for her eldest son, who loved meat, she hardly needed to pay attention to him while he ate. She just had to put some food in his bowl and he would eat it by himself.
Huo Li frowned as he watched his son and grandson devour bowl after bowl of rice. Were these two released from prison? How could they eat so much?
"Junshan, there are a few pounds of mutton left in the kitchen. Take it back and cook it tomorrow."
Huo Junshan looked up in a daze and asked in confusion, "Dad, you want me to take the mutton back? We can just eat it tonight. You can eat the rest of the mutton yourselves. Ningning also likes to eat mutton."
Huo Yining chewed the mutton and said with a smile: "Grandpa, I like to eat all kinds of meat, pork, mutton, chicken and duck."
"Oh, is there no meat you don't like to eat?"
Huo Yining nodded like a chick pecking at rice, "Grandpa, I don't like eating human flesh, dog flesh, and insect flesh."
Huo Qingci picked up a piece of skinless mutton from the basin and put it into Huo Yining's bowl, saying, "Ningning, eat your meal and don't talk."
Huo Yining puffed his lips, looking a little unhappy. Huo Junshan said, "Okay Qingci, Ningning is still a child. Why are you interfering so much with him?"
Huo Li also put two pieces of mutton into Huo Yining's bowl and coaxed him, "Eat quickly and ignore your dad!"
Lin Man on the side shook her head slightly. It was over. Her fat son was going to be spoiled by his grandfather and father-in-law.
Let's go back to the room and correct this kid later. We can't let him continue like this, otherwise he will become as willful as his second aunt.
After dinner, Huo Junshan said to Huo Qinghuan, "Let's go. It's getting late. We should go back early."
"Dad, my cousin is not here, I will sleep in the living room tonight."
"Your mother and I will take a break tomorrow. I want to take Ningning to our house to play."
Huo Qinghuan was immediately happy when he heard that he was going to take his nephew home. He looked at Lin Man quietly and said, "Sister-in-law, Dad asked Ningning to go home with us."
Lin Man didn’t know whether Liao Sijie would come back tomorrow morning. If not, she could only take Ningning to school and take him to the classroom to attend classes with the students.
Since my parents-in-law have a day off tomorrow, let them take me out to play for a day.
Huo Junshan smiled and explained to Lin Man, "Xiao Man, your mother asked me to take Ningning over to play for two days. What do you think?"
Lin Man asked Huo Yining, "Ningning, do you want to go to Grandpa's house to play?"
Huo Yining looked at Huo Junshan, then at Lin Man, and asked Huo Junshan in a baby voice, "Grandpa, do you have any delicious food at home? If you do, I'll come over and play."
"Yes, Grandpa will buy you egg cakes, rice cakes, glutinous rice noodles, egg pancakes, and canned lychees tomorrow... What do you say?"
Upon hearing so many delicious dishes, Huo Yining nodded in agreement, regardless of whether they tasted good or not.
He hugged Lin Man's thigh and said, "Mom, please help me pack my clothes. I'm moving to Grandpa's house tonight."
Lin Man didn't expect that her little fat boy was not shy at all for a little food, and he didn't cry or make a fuss when he went to a strange place alone.
If this were An An, she would definitely cry if she couldn't see him at night. Why is this child not clingy at all? Is it better for children to be clingy or not?
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