Chapter 29: Update
The little girls walked outside hand in hand affectionately.
There was only one children's chair at home but there were two children, so the adults simply put the food on the coffee table in the living room, each took a pillow as a cushion, and ate breakfast together around the coffee table.
It is called breakfast, but it is actually more like brunch. Unlike Ms. Miao who is good at making various Chinese dishes, Jiang Tangxia is good at making Western-style dishes.
Jiang Tangxia prepared an exceptionally rich brunch, including fresh fruit waffles, North African eggs with baguette, and creamy shrimp risotto.
The fresh fruits dipped in syrup sparkled attractively under the light, the fried browned baguette slices were poked in the red diced tomatoes that had been fried into juice, in the middle was a bright yellow egg, and the fragrant smell of cream wafted to everyone's nose.
Ren Fenghe stared at the dishes greedily.
It looks and smells delicious!
But, isn't this a bit too much...?
Ren Fenghe scratched his face. Three dishes for four people sounded okay, but the portions of these three were extremely large.
Jiang Tangxia and her daughter came after breakfast. Ren Fenghe was a child and couldn't eat much. With Jiang Tangxia present, Jiang Shen had no choice but to eat less.
Seeing Jiang Tangxia doing so much, he already imagined the scene of Jiang Tangxia staring at him hungrily and asking him to stuff the food into his mouth one bite at a time.
Before Jiang Tangxia left, he had to eat to his heart's content.
Jiang Shen said: "After this meal, I can last until the evening."
Jiang Tangxia sneered and said, "If I leave later, you will be able to last until tomorrow night."
Jiang Shen said: "Diet control is not to this extent."
Jiang Tangxia repeated in a sarcastic tone: "Diet control is not to this extent."
The little girls gathered together, observing everything in front of them, whispering to each other.
Jiang Qian said: "Mom is always like this to my uncle."
Ren Fenghe explained for Jiang Tangxia: "She is afraid that your uncle won't eat."
Jiang Qian immediately said, "My uncle really doesn't eat all day. The teacher and my parents all said that being picky about food is not a good thing."
Ren Fenghe tried to save Jiang Shen's reputation by saying, "Being picky about food is not a good thing, but your uncle is an adult."
Jiang Qian suddenly realized and said, "So this rule only applies to us kids?"
Ren Fenghe nodded.
Jiang Qian's lips were pouted so much that you could hang something on them. After a while, she said, "Adults are too overbearing! Why are they so picky about food?"
The children were chatting and the adults' topic was still going on.
"When are you leaving this time?" Jiang Shen asked.
"The day after tomorrow, I'll stay here for a few more days and watch you eat." Jiang Tangxia looked at Jiang Shen's paper-thin figure with disdain. "Tell me, can you be healthy if you eat so little and practice dancing all day?"
Ren Fenghe nodded in agreement.
Jiang Tangxia saw Ren Fenghe's actions and said, "Look, even children know that they need to eat more to stay healthy."
During the meal, Jiang Tangxia whispered countless times in Jiang Shen's ear, telling him to eat well and sleep well, and Jiang Shen's ears were sore from hearing it.
After eating and drinking, Jiang Shen put the dishes into the dishwasher. Then he remembered that he had not told Ms. Miao that he would not cook lunch today and there was no need to buy groceries, so he quickly called her.
After finishing the call, Jiang Tangxia put on the coat that he had taken off on the sofa when he entered the room and asked, "Did you invite an aunt?"
Jiang Shen said: "Yes, Yuanyuan is a girl, it would be more convenient and appropriate to have an aunt to help take care of her."
He asked again: "You're leaving now?"
Jiang Tangxia said: "I see you are eager for me to leave."
Jiang Shen said: "That's not it either."
Although his ears were calloused, he really liked the feeling of eating together as a family.
Just as Jiang Shen knew that Jiang Tangxia was nagging so much for his own good, Jiang Tangxia also knew what Jiang Shen was thinking. She told Jiang Shen about the arrangements for this trip.
"This time, we will stay until the day after tomorrow. It's a rare opportunity for us to come here, and we can't just stay here all the time. You don't have anything you want." Jiang Tangxia was full of disgust.
Then, she added, "I'll leave Jiang Qian with you today. I'm going to go shopping at the mall. I'll go to an amusement park with Jiang Qian tomorrow, and fly back the day after tomorrow."
Jiang Tangxia put on her coat and packed her things. When she turned to look at Jiang Shen, she found that Ren Fenghe had been secretly observing her.
Their eyes met, and Jiang Tangxia suddenly asked with a squinting eye: "Yuanyuan, do you want to go to the amusement park with Auntie and Xiaoqian tomorrow?"
"It just so happens that Jiang Shen helps me take care of the child for a day, so I help Jiang Shen take care of the child for a day."
Jiang Shen turned his head and looked at Ren Fenghe.
Seeing Ren Fenghe's big eyes and the familiar movement of pursing her lips, Jiang Shen knew what she was thinking.
"She is willing." Jiang Shen answered for her.
Jiang Shen was sitting on the sofa, wiping off the pink and blue colors on his feet with the nail polish remover he bought from takeout. He felt the sofa shaking and couldn't help but look to the side.
Ren Fenghe was jumping up and down on the sofa holding a pillow. The light in the room fell on her eyes. She still had the same expression as before, with bright eyes and a very faint smile. But judging from her movements, she was extremely excited.
"Do you want to go to the amusement park so much?" Jiang Shen asked with a smile.
There were two children at home today. Jiang Shen did not go to the studio, but played house with Jiang Qian and Ren Fenghe.
After the children were tired from playing and fell asleep, Jiang Shen simply picked a Disney movie for them to watch.
Later, after watching the movie and having dinner made by Ms. Miao, Jiang Tangxia, who had gained a lot in the mall, finally came back with various desserts in her hands. After spending a wonderful dessert time with the little girls, she took Jiang Qian home.
Before going home, Jiang Tangxia hugged Ren Fenghe and told her to go to bed early tonight and that she would pick her up early tomorrow to go to the amusement park.
After that, Ren Fenghe became very excited.
Ren Fenghe didn't want to be seen through, so she immediately sat down on the sofa, shook her head and said, "I don't really want to go."
Jiang Shen smiled without saying a word, watching the joy in her eyes and eyebrows.
"I'll take you there next time I have the chance, or ask Aunt Miao to take you there," Jiang Shen said.
Ren Fenghe glanced at him.
If he took her there, she would have to live in fear all day long.
Besides, she really wasn't excited about going to the amusement park.
She just...
Ren Fenghe moved her butt forward, from sitting to lying down. She seemed to still have the faint and pleasant smell of perfume emanating from Jiang Tangxia when he hugged her in her nose.
She was just kind of looking forward to being around female elders, and she was curious about what that would be like.
"Let's talk about it later." Ren Fenghe chose neither to agree nor to refuse.
Jiang Shen shook his head helplessly and smiled.
Ren Fenghe also felt that she was a little too excited. He took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, then turned over and sat up. "Okay! I'm ready to go to bed!"
After saying that, she ran to the toy box, opened the lid, changed the placement of the toys inside, and after making sure her comic books were safe, she ran back to her room.
After the door slammed mercilessly, the person on the sofa threw the pink and purple cotton pad into the trash can, then looked at the color of his fingernails and remembered that he had not removed it.
He tiptoed to the toy box, pricked up his ears to pay attention to the movements in the room, and opened the toy box.
Although, before Yangyang came today, Yuanyuan had basically never touched the dressing toys inside, let alone used the children's nail polish inside.
but!
Jiang Shen recalled Ren Fenghe's devilish smile this morning and her increasingly naughty behavior of teasing him recently. It was hard not to wonder if Ren Fenghe would ask to paint his nails again.
Therefore, he wanted to confiscate all the toys inside that might be used on him!
To make sure everything was safe, he took out the toys one by one to check.
Children's cosmetics, confiscated!
Evil nail polish, confiscated!
Water gun...it looks like it might be possible to shoot it at him, confiscate it!
Has he ever bought an insect toy? Was it a gift from the merchant?
Hey, why are there still cockroaches? Jiang Shen frowned in disgust, gritted his teeth and pinched the tentacles of the cockroach model, stretching his hand as long as he could, not wanting the cockroach model to get too close to him, and then threw it into the trash can.
The depth of the toy box gradually became shallower. Ren Fenghe, who was tossing and turning in the room and unable to sleep because of anticipation, didn't know that her comic book was about to be exposed to Jiang Shen.
Jiang Shen took out a new box of unopened puzzles. After taking it out, three comic books placed side by side appeared in front of him.
Jiang Shen took out the comic book in confusion, not understanding how something that should have been on the bookshelf could be in the toy box.
He didn't have any books of his own, and these books were not the picture books he brought back last time. They could only be the new ones he and Ms. Miao bought this time.
He put the other toys back into the toy box one by one, closed the box again, and sat on the floor to start flipping through comics.
Just like the picture book, he originally just wanted to confirm whether there was any content that was inappropriate for children, but as he read on, Jiang Shen became fascinated.
I don't know how long he read, but I only knew that he finished reading the three comic books in one go after the lights in other neighbors' homes outside the window seemed to have been turned off.
When he looked up after reading it, he realized that a long time had passed.
The comic was not finished yet, he was still unsatisfied and looked at the author's name.
Maybe it's serialized online. If so, he'd like to finish it in one go.
Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the pen name was from the same author as the picture book that he thought was so well illustrated just this morning.
Jiang Shen stared at the author's name, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it seemed.
I remember it!
Jiang Shen instantly caught the clue from his memory.
Jiang Shen put the comic books, which the children might not understand but could read, back on the small bookshelf after checking them, and took out his mobile phone to open the chat history with Brother Jinsi.
After deciding to ask Ms. Miao to take care of Yuanyuan, Brother Jinsi told Jiang Shen some of Ms. Miao's family situation in order to reassure Jiang Shen and ensure that Ms. Miao would not tell anyone about his affairs.
"My aunt has a daughter who is not in good health. She is an illustrator with a pen name of Yang Xia. I remember she was quite famous, but my aunt didn't understand. She was afraid that one day she would pass away unexpectedly and her daughter would not be able to earn money and no one would take care of her. That's why she came out to look for a job even though she is of retirement age."
Jiang Shen looked at the word "Yang Xia" on the screen and his eyes slowly moved upwards. The author of the picture book and the comic book both wrote the word "Yang Xia".
He simply searched the Internet, but there was no clear evidence that it was the same person. However, fans of illustrator Yang Xia and cartoonist Yang Xia dug up various evidences to confirm that it was the same person.
He sent a message to Brother Jinsi.
"Do you have the contact information of Aunt Miao's daughter?"
The other party replied immediately: "?? What's wrong?"
Jiang Shen said: "Please ask her where her comics are updated? Does she have a lot of manuscripts? Is it finished? If not, can you draw more?"
It’s so beautiful. It’s really so beautiful.
Jiang Shen chose to urge for more updates.
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