At the dinner table, Yu Dong could feel something was off between little bun and Chen Mi, for instance, the sticky baby wasn't sticking to his daddy instead he was sulking, yes sulking - by plastering his chubby body to his daddy Liu. Not once did he look at his daddy and his pout, oh my God his pout was really something, it was as if he was greatly wronged by someone.
Then she turned to look at Chen Mi who was clutching his chopsticks so hard that she was surprised at the durability of those two sticks. How were they still intact and didn't crack into half?
She took a small bite of her braised pork and then turned to Shen Li before leaning closer to him as she whispered " what's wrong? Weren't they fine a few minutes ago?"
Shen Li too had no idea about what actually happened so he could only shrug helplessly. He too didn't know what went down in just a few minutes, all he knew was that when he knocked on Chen Mi's room and walked inside the room to call the two of them for dinner - he witnessed a rather peculiar scene, Chen Mi was trembling and his fingers were wriggling as if he wanted to smack Little bun's butt but couldn't because the latter was too young for smacking as for little bun, it was actually shaking his butt as if poking fun at his daddy.
And what led to this situation, Shen Li had no idea about it.
Yu Dong didn't know what was wrong with the two, she wanted to ask but then decided against it. She was indeed Chen Mi's wife and Little bun's mother but she too couldn't interfere too much in their relationship, If Chen Mi wanted to teach Little bun then she could only let him do what he was trying to do but this - she looked at Little bun and Chen Mi their sulking face looking identically similar. She sighed, sometimes she really couldn't understand what was going on with her family.
How was she supposed to know that Chen Mi was upset because his son looked down on him and how could she find out that her son was upset because his father called him a round ball who would soon start bouncing and rolling and the floor?
One was upset because he was called ugly and the other was upset because he was called fat.
On Lang's side, Zhu Qian was gently feeding his daughter the shredded chicken porridge that Yu Mai delivered. Originally, Yu Mai wanted to come inside and talk with Lang Ru but when his gaze met with Lang Ru's fierce eyes that resembled her mother, his face flushed red and he ran away. He never had a friend, so he couldn't bring himself to talk with his new friend especially with a girl! Who was so pretty!
Lang noticed his awkwardness and laughed to herself, it was really rare for her to see a child who was this shy and honest. Zhu Qian on the other hand had eyes only for his daughter, as he fed her the porridge bit by bit, he noticed his daughter eagerly finishing off the porridge. Chicken wasn't expensive and every family could eat it, once in a while but he was so useless that he couldn't even save enough to feed his daughter a few bites of meat.
When he saw that his daughter was eating the chicken porridge so eagerly, his eyes once again began to tear up.
" Daddy, I'm okay you don't need to worry about me anymore. See, don't I look better than before?" Lang Ru was a sensible child and she had seen her parents suffer, she knew that her mother worked in their family's field like an ox while her father was bullied to do the household chores from morning till night. Her parents worked the hardest in the family yet her grandparents favoured her eldest aunt more and bullied her mother, she can't even count how many times she caught her father crying alone in the backyard. Lang Ru didn't like seeing her father cry especially when he cried because of her, so no matter how weak she was - she still raised her weak arms and wiped the tears from the corner of her father's eyes.
Lang also comforted her husband " come on Qian Qian, don't cry anymore. Haven't you heard? After escaping a calamity, fortune will abound. Now that our family have escaped a great tragedy like that, I can assure you that we will have a good life ahead - so stop crying. You don't look pretty when you cry, isn't it right Ruru? Your father looks like an ugly duckling with his swollen eyes. "
Zhu Qian didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard his wife teasing him. So, he gently slapped her right arm and said " you only know how to make fun of me! Humph, I won't try to act petty with you but you are right, I believe that good days are ahead of us now. Soon, we will have a good life! "
" Daddy, now that we are alright, shouldn't we bring little brother back? You have sent him to grandmother house for so long, I am afraid brother would be missing us a lot" said Lang Ru when they were kicked out by her eldest aunt and grandparents, Her father sent her little brother to their grandmother's house because they didn't have the means to protect her little brother who was a mer. Her mother was worried that if they brought her little brother to the tavern something inauspicious might fall on him so she sent him to her paternal grandmother's house.
Zhu Qian who was feeding his daughter paused and then bit his lips, that's right it has been months since he last saw his Lian'er. He knew that though his mother was poor she would treat his son well despite him being a mer but growing up with parents and growing up with his grandparents was really different but " we can't do that, madam Yu brought us here because she is sympathetic towards us, we can't burden her by bringing Lian Lian here as well "
Lang leaned forward and pinched her husband's cheek as she lightly rebuked her" what are you trying to say? Do you think our new mistress is that petty? look around carefully, she wants you to treat her as a family member not as a master though we shouldn't forget our boundaries. But I don't think that Yu Dong would be upset if we bring our son here. But if you still feel that it's not alright then I will ask her about it, will that be okay?"
After thinking about it Zhu Qian nodded, the temptation of seeing his son was too much for him to worry about anything else.