"Lin Chen."
Entering the password to open the door, Xu Mengyao smelled the aroma of food.
Lin Chen was in the kitchen cooking, Lin Xiaoxi was painting on the balcony, and Xu Mengyao changed her shoes and went to the kitchen door.
"Husband."
Xu Mengyao called out.
She now calls him husband more and more naturally. With a marriage certificate, affection, and a child, there's nothing wrong with calling him that.
"Hey!"
Lin Chen turned around and responded with a smile.
"Mommy!"
Lin Xiaoxi ran over from the balcony, "Daddy, I won."
Xu Mengyao picked up Lin Xiaoxi and asked, "Qianqian, what did you win?"
Lin Xiaoxi giggled and said, "Daddy and I bet on whether you would look for Daddy or me first when you came back."
"I bet Mommy would look for Daddy first."
"I won, hee hee."
Xu Mengyao: "..."
She pinched Lin Xiaoxi's little face and said unhappily, "Aren't you bored, actually betting on this? Besides, Qianqian, are you sure you really won?"
Lin Xiaoxi was puzzled: "I won. Mommy, you came to find Daddy."
Lin Chen smiled and said, "Qianqian, Mommy means, she came over to find me first, so you won the bet, but she came to find me first, so actually you lost."
Lin Xiaoxi shook her head.
"Daddy, that's not right."
"As long as Mommy loves Daddy, and Daddy loves Mommy, I will always be Daddy and Mommy's little baby."
Lin Chen and Xu Mengyao were stunned.
They thought Lin Xiaoxi didn't understand, but what she said was the truth.
She is happiest when her mom and dad love each other. Many adults don't understand this as well as she does.
"Qianqian, you won."
Lin Chen said with a smile, "You and Mommy go wash your hands, and I can cook another green vegetable and we can eat."
"Okay, okay."
"Mommy, let's go wash our hands quickly."
Lin Xiaoxi urged.
"You little glutton."
Xu Mengyao took Lin Xiaoxi to wash her hands.
Soon Lin Chen cooked the dishes and put them on the table, and Lin Xiaoxi was already sitting upright in her dining chair.
"Lin Chen, how did you make this? Why can you make ordinary tofu so delicious?"
Xu Mengyao asked suspiciously.
Lin Chen smiled and said, "The tofu is ordinary tofu, but the soup is not. The flavors of some foods will interfere with each other, while others will enhance each other."
"How to grasp the degree is very important. In a sense, you actually know some of this."
Xu Mengyao's eyes lit up: "What do I know?"
Lin Chen: "You know how to put oil and salt, but you don't do it very well, sometimes too much and sometimes too little."
Xu Mengyao: "..."
She rolled her beautiful eyes at Lin Chen: "Thank you."
Lin Chen chuckled and said, "The principle is actually the same. Oil and salt can be used for seasoning, and so can other things."
"It depends on whether you know how to use it."
Lin Xiaoxi glanced at Xu Mengyao: "Mommy, don't be inferior."
Xu Mengyao: "..."
"Daddy said that everyone is good at different things. Fish are good at swimming, birds are good at flying, monkeys are good at climbing trees, and even little ants are strongmen."
Lin Xiaoxi said in a childish voice.
Xu Mengyao asked, "Qianqian, you are good at painting, so what is Mommy good at?"
Lin Xiaoxi looked at Xu Mengyao, thinking.
"You have to think for so long, doesn't Mommy have anything she's good at?"
Xu Mengyao was a little sad.
Lin Xiaoxi's eyes suddenly lit up: "Mommy, you are good at finding a husband, Daddy is the most amazing."
Xu Mengyao: "..."
Good heavens, she exclaimed good heavens!
Lin Chen smiled: "Qianqian, Mommy is also good at many things. Mommy is good at doing business and making money. And Mommy plays the piano very well, doesn't she?"
Lin Xiaoxi asked suspiciously, "Daddy, isn't being good at something being the best at it? Mommy is the best at this."
Xu Mengyao gave Lin Xiaoxi a piece of meat: "Eat quickly, Qianqian, if you don't know what to say, you can say a little less."
Lin Chen said with a smile: "Qianqian, Daddy supports you. Mengyao, do you have time on Saturday the day after tomorrow?"
Xu Mengyao asked suspiciously, "I should, why?"
Lin Chen: "Elder Jiang and others want to see me, they plan to come to Modu, I originally wanted to visit him later, but they can't wait to come over."
"If you have time, you have to take care of Qianqian the day after tomorrow."
Xu Mengyao: "Are you planning to meet Elder Jiang and the others outside?"
Lin Chen nodded.
"There are a lot of them, if they come here, I'm afraid there won't even be a place to sit, I'll find a place outside."
Xu Mengyao shook her head: "You better not look for it. Your place is too small to accommodate them, my place is very big."
"They came from thousands of miles away, it's not good to entertain them outside."
Lin Chen: "Is it appropriate to go to your place?"
"What's inappropriate?"
Xu Mengyao asked rhetorically, "It's hard to find a place with such good conditions outside."
Lin Chen thought for a while and said, "If we go to your place, Qianqian and I will have to move there tomorrow, and I will have to go to the nearby farmers market to buy more vegetables early the day after tomorrow."
"My cooking skills will be revealed in the future, if Elder Jiang and the others come to my house, it would be inappropriate for me not to cook."
Xu Mengyao nodded.
Lin Xiaoxi's eyes lit up and said, "Mommy, Daddy and I will pick you up from work, and then we will go home together."
"Who are you?"
Xu Mengyao asked with a puzzled look.
Lin Xiaoxi: "I am your most beloved baby."
"Really?"
Xu Mengyao snorted.
"Yes, Mommy, I'll kiss you."
Xu Mengyao brought her head closer, and Lin Xiaoxi kissed her several times: "Mommy, do you remember now?"
"If you don't remember, I'll let Daddy kiss you too. Then you will definitely remember."
Xu Mengyao: "..."
She said unhappily: "I remember."
"Lin Chen, has your calligraphy improved again?"
Xu Mengyao looked at Lin Chen and asked suspiciously, "Elder Jiang and the others are posting on Weibo saying that your calligraphy is stronger."
"It has improved a little bit."
Lin Chen smiled.
"Wait for me."
Lin Chen got up and went to the study to take out the book he wanted to give to Xu Mengyao: "Wife, this is the first signed book in this batch."
Xu Mengyao took the book and opened it.
"To my wife--"
"Holding your hand, growing old together."
"Lin Chen."
Seeing what Lin Chen wrote on it, Xu Mengyao was stunned, and her pretty face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Xu Mengyao looked carefully, and pictures appeared in her mind, she and Lin Chen gradually grew old, but they walked hand in hand happily day by day.
Finally, Xu Mengyao "saw" that their hair was all white.
The two held hands and strolled in the sunset.
"Phew!"
Xu Mengyao breathed a sigh of relief.
"Mommy, what happened to you just now?"
Lin Xiaoxi looked at Xu Mengyao and asked worriedly.
Xu Mengyao had been staring blankly at the book for four or five minutes.
Xu Mengyao shook her head.
"Mommy is fine, Mommy was engrossed in reading."
Xu Mengyao's beautiful eyes looked at Lin Chen.
Her eyes were full of affection.
"Husband, thank you for the book, I like it very much."
Lin Xiaoxi: "Mommy, then you have to say I love you, husband."
