Only when Ms. Meng and Chen Bai approached did the group begin to return in a mighty procession.
After returning to the family compound, everyone went home in a lively manner.
Erdan happily followed Su Qinghu, carrying a heavy bucket, chattering about how to cook the seafood.
Dadan glanced at him, and he lowered his voice, but he also spoke to clarify, "Brother, sometimes, I sleep better when someone talks to me..."
He is like that, especially in winter. He would curl up on the sofa with a blanket and listen to them talking. He would fall asleep in seconds, and he would be very deep.
He chuckled and glanced at the display in front of him. He stretched out his claws and scratched the little chestnut ball, then quickly withdrew his hand.
Xiaolituaner was sleeping soundly on Chen Lie's shoulder, not affected by the outside world at all.
Under Dadan's glare, Erdan said with a smile, "Brother, see, is it what I said? Forget about us talking. Even if you pull him away, Xiaoli Tuan'er won't even open his eyes to look at us."
Big Egg: “…”
Seeing that Chen Lie had no intention of punishing his silly brother, Dadan shifted his gaze slightly and called out to Su Qinghu.
Su Qinghu shifted his gaze away from the swimming crab in the bucket and looked at Dadan inquiringly.
People obviously didn't notice the content of his conversation with Erdan...
Dadan: "...Mom, this is our first time going to the beach, I want to -"
Erdan: "You don't want to!"
Su Qinghu glanced between the two of them, then narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Dadan, "You want to write—"
Before she could finish her words, Dadan interrupted, "Erdan and I would like to each write a short bilingual essay on the theme of sea fishing."
"I--" Erdan's remaining two "I don't want to" were stillborn before they came out.
Dadan: "Erdan said he wants you to revise it for us, and then submit it to earn some royalties when you get back."
Erdan, with a look of pain on his face, remained silent.
Earn royalties?
That’s fine too.
"Are you sure?" After cultivating the habit of recording in the children, Su Qinghu rarely forced them to write short essays. Now, hearing such a request, Su Qinghu was at a loss.
She clearly heard the subtle meaning in the two brothers' words.
But...is it really a good idea to hurt the enemy by a thousand and lose yourself by eight hundred?
She was willing to give them a chance to regret.
"Are you sure?" Dadan looked at his brother with a distorted expression and asked for his opinion with a slight smile.
Erdan took a deep breath, and in his heart he wanted to hug Su Qinghu's thighs and cry loudly, but on the surface he still pretended to be calm and said, "It's not difficult to write it, so just confirm it."
His and his brother's writing skills have improved, and the magazine they are familiar with has also raised their price. If their works are really adopted, their small treasury will increase by another 5-10 yuan.
Su Qinghu's eyes were unfathomable. "As long as you are willing to write, it's not impossible for me to help you revise it."
Dadan is good at time management, and writing a small essay will not take up his free time at all.
Erdan is different, but fortunately this time... he feels both pain and happiness?
Chen Bai and Ms. Meng just listened with a smile and did not interfere in the children's education. This was also the tacit understanding between them and Su Qinghu.
Chen Bai protected Xiaoli Tuan'er's back with his hands, looked at them from the side, and caught a glimpse of Erdan's expression that was neither crying nor laughing, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.
It's quite interesting.
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When they got home, Chen Lie wanted to put the little chestnut ball, whose drool was all over his shoulder, on the bed. Finally, under Su Qinghu's insistence, he gave him a careful bath and put the clean little guy on the bed.
Standing beside the bed, Chen Lie looked at his son who was sleeping soundly and couldn't help laughing.
The little guy hasn't even opened his eyes yet.
After Chen Lie put the person to sleep, he watched for a long time before leaving the bedroom.
When I entered the living room, I saw Ms. Meng in the kitchen sorting the seafood into clean basins and buckets and changing the water. Su Qinghu took the salt shaker and sprinkled salt into it.
Chen Lie came in and took over Ms. Meng's work.
"Have Dadan and Erdan finished taking a shower?" Ms. Meng gave up her seat and asked Chen Lie.
"I'm done." Erdan, who had just come out of the bathroom, heard the question and replied before coming over in his slippers. "Mom, what are we having for lunch? Do you want to eat what we caught today?"
"Let's eat it tonight." Su Qinghu pointed to the basin, "The mud and sand haven't been cleaned yet. But we can steam the crabs."
Erdan nodded and took the initiative to take charge of the rest. "Then I'll clean the crabs, and my brother will make the ginger vinegar sauce."
He and his brother were very skilled at these tasks and completed them in minutes.
Chen Lie suddenly felt that he had no place in the kitchen. He looked around and asked, "What's the staple food?"
"I want to eat rice." Erdan said it without even looking at the person Chen Lie was asking the question to.
Seeing Chen Lie speechless for a moment, Su Qinghu smiled and nodded, "Rice, then. As for Xiao Li Tuan'er, make him some vegetable mashed potatoes and a seafood winter melon soup."
Chen Lie skillfully washed the rice and put it into the pot, Su Qinghu made other preparations, and Erdan happily cleaned the crabs beside him.
When Dadan finished washing and drying his clothes, Erdan started to order him around without any hesitation, "Brother, I'm counting on you to make the ginger vinegar sauce."
Dadan had no objection, but there was no rush to make the ginger vinegar sauce, so he asked Su Qinghu and took the winter melon to peel it.
Ms. Meng also knew that she had to give them space to get along, but she was still a little confused by being squeezed out of the kitchen like this.
Chen Baili came out with his shoes on, looking at her with a smile. Ms. Meng rolled her eyes at him, thought for a while while standing in the living room, and went to the bathroom to look for Xiaoli Tuaner's changed clothes. She didn't find any, but she saw Erdan's.
She washed them and when she went to hang them out to dry, she found that Xiaolituaner's clothes had been washed and were hanging together with Dadan's clothes.
"This child." Ms. Meng shook her head and smiled.
When Dadan was washing clothes, he left Erdan's clothes untouched.
However, the weather in the south is really hot and humid, and my body feels sticky and uncomfortable.
If she didn't have to eat later, she would have wanted to take a shower.
After washing the family's clothes, Ms. Meng came out and saw her husband Chen Bai cutting watermelon. "Why are you cutting watermelon now?"
Chen Bai: "It helps to relieve the heat."
"So are you going to eat later?" Ms. Meng shook her head. "I'll eat the melon after I eat."
As he was speaking, he suddenly turned around as if realizing something, and then he saw the little guy walking towards him barefoot, with his arms slightly stretched out, step by step steadily.
Just when Ms. Meng wanted to go over and hug him, Chen Bo said, "Don't go, wait for him to come over."
Xiao Su once said that if the child is not injured or in danger, let the child handle everything on his own.
He remembered all these instructions.
Ms. Meng raised her foot and then retracted it, smiling as she watched Xiaoli Tuaner coming over.
"Ga~"
As soon as he arrived, Xiaoli Tuaner pointed at the watermelon and talked to the two elders.
Chen Bai glanced at the kitchen and saw that Su Qinghu wasn't looking in his direction. He quickly used a knife to dig out a piece of watermelon from the middle, bent down and handed it to his little grandson, whispering softly, "Eat it quickly, this piece is sweet!"
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