Chapter 1508: Yueyue is so pitiful

Hahahaha, Li Dashao laughed very happily.

"It's right that you don't have it, and even if you did, you couldn't give it to him. That old guy has too many schemes. Let me tell you, he even came here asking me if I had the Gu Family Cookbook. He's simply insane. What makes him think I have it?"

"My skills were all figured out by myself through years of struggling and grinding, not learned from looking at a couple of cookbooks. Someone like that is possessed by a ghost."

"Besides, he's a cook too, so how does he not know that a cookbook is a cook's lifeline? Which cook doesn't have their own private recipes, and whose private recipes are easily passed on to others?"

"Oh, he asked you about the Gu Family Cookbook too?"

Zichen was a bit surprised. It seemed Huo Zhenteng had become obsessed to the point of madness over the cookbook.

"Yeah, how could I possibly have it? Isn't that sick? I scolded him until he ran away. That old guy, I think he's going crazy..."

The two of them finished a bottle of white liquor, and only then did Zichen leave and return to his master's house.

He pulled his master into a separate room and said to him very seriously, "Huo Zhenteng is asking about the Gu Family Cookbook and has already asked Li Dage. Did he ask you, and did you reveal anything to him?"

Gu Zhihao nodded firmly, then shook his head: "He asked me too, and I said I haven't had it for a long time. I might be muddled about anything else, but I could never be muddled about this matter. You didn't reveal a single word either, did you?"

Zichen said, "No."

Just because no one leaked it didn't mean they could sit back and relax.

Zichen wanted to go home immediately to find a new place to hide the cookbook!

He didn't know why, but he suddenly felt uneasy, worried that home wasn't safe either.

Gu Zhihao didn't try to keep him. He said to Zichen, "Anyway, the cookbook is in your hands, and my life is in your hands too. If anything happens to the cookbook, I won't go on living."

Zichen:...

Hearing him say this made Zichen feel heavy-hearted. He went to say goodbye to his grandparents and left for home immediately.

Sheng Family.

"Big brother, big brother, big brother..." Yueyue ran over on her short little legs.

Although she hadn't seen him for nearly half a year, the little one hadn't forgotten Zichen and recognized him at a glance.

Yueyue had grown a lot taller; the little girl was pink and tender, becoming even more adorable!

"Yueyue, let brother hold you." Zichen picked up his little sister; she was quite a bit heavier.

It wasn't just that she had grown taller; the little one seemed to have gotten fatter too. Chubby and soft, the little sister wrapped her lotus-root-like arms around her brother's neck, looking like she had no intention of getting down!

Zichen teased her: "Yueyue, you little thing, what good food have you been eating? You're too heavy, I can barely hold you anymore." As he spoke, he acted as if he were overwhelmed, looking like he could collapse at any moment.

"Hmph!"

The little one pouted, turned her head to the side, and got angry.

Angry as she was, she had no intention of jumping down at all!

Seeing Yueyue's adorable appearance, Zichen couldn't bear to keep teasing her.

"Big brother said it wrong, okay? Our Yueyue didn't get fat, she grew taller, that's why big brother can't hold her."

"Mm, that's right." The little girl was happy, smiling sweetly, and kissed her big brother on the cheek.

"Big brother, are you back to stay, and not leaving?"

The little girl's bright eyes were full of anticipation.

Zichen told her that he was back for summer break and still had to go back; he couldn't stay.

But he would be home for a while and would spend plenty of time with her.

Yueyue's mouth turned down, and she complained aggrievedly: "Everyone is mean, Mommy is bad, she makes the two brothers at home bad too, and sister is bad... none of them play with Yueyue."

"Big brother is back, but you spend so little time with me, I'm not happy!"

"Why doesn't everyone play with you? Is it because Yueyue isn't being good that they don't like you?" Zichen teased her.

"No, that's not it."

The little girl counted on her fingers: "Third brother has to study, fourth brother doesn't want to study, and third brother is watching him study..."

"Sister had a baby and has her own little Baobao now, so Yueyue isn't her little cutie anymore!" The little one pouted aggrievedly, looking so adorable it was unbelievable.

"What about Mommy? How did Mommy upset you too?" Zichen felt his little sister was especially cute and couldn't stop teasing her.

The little one put her hands on her hips and said righteously: "Sister had a baby, shouldn't Mommy go see her? Mommy runs to the hospital, and then no one watches Baobao, Baobao is so pitiful."

That's right, she was only two-plus years old and was a Baobao herself.

But Mommy said that since it was her sister's child, she had to call her 'Little Aunt', and that a Little Aunt was an elder who had to yield to her niece.

What elders and juniors? Yueyue's little head didn't have these concepts; she only knew that an extra child had appeared and taken away half of her love—no, more than half.

Yueyue's two chubby little hands twisted together, and tears welled up in her eyes, looking like they could fall at any moment.

Zichen coaxed her: "Yueyue, don't cry, big brother will play with you, okay?"

"Okay, big brother, I want to eat candy!" Yueyue's tears vanished instantly, replaced by a sunny, radiant smile of a conspiracy successfully carried out.

Zichen searched everywhere they kept snacks, but there was no candy.

Yueyue said: "The candy is all hidden away, let's go out and buy some."

Zichen felt like he had been schemed against, hadn't he?

A student from Jiangzhou University, schemed against by a little girl not even three years old?

Even if it were true, he couldn't admit it.

"Let's go, let's go buy candy, but you have to walk on your own, okay?" Zichen's arms were numb and sore; he couldn't hold her anymore.

"Okay, I'll walk myself." Big brother agreed to buy candy, so Yueyue was very easy to talk to.

Big hand holding small hand, they walked to the courtyard gate and were blocked by Mommy.

"Zichen, you're back. When did you arrive?" Shi Youxuan was pleasantly surprised.

A moment later, she complained: "Why didn't you say anything before coming back? I could have stayed home to wait for you. I'll call Zirui and Zihan; they went to a classmate's house to play. What do you want to eat? I'll have Fang Jie make it... By the way, where are you two going?"

Shi Youxuan said a whole lot, and only at the end did she remember to ask where her son and daughter were going!

Yueyue looked at Mommy vigilantly, then kicked her brother, meaning he shouldn't tell.

But Big Brother still said, "I'm taking Yueyue to buy candy."

Shi Youxuan had a "I knew it" look on her face: "She acted pitiful again before asking you to buy candy, right? Saying no one cares about her, no one is good to her, she's so pitiful, her heart is so bitter, and she needs candy to sweeten it up."

How did you know?

"How could I not know her? She has used this trick on so many people, and it works every single time!"

"You are not allowed to eat any more candy; if you keep eating it, you won't be able to keep your teeth," Shi Youxuan said, pulling her young daughter back.

Yueyue made a bitter little face: "Mom, you came back a bit too early."

"That's right."

Shi Youxuan dotingly flicked her daughter's little nose: "If I had come back later, you would have eaten it. I've told you so many times to eat less candy, eat less candy, that eating candy is bad for your teeth, but you just won't listen..."

"Not listening, not listening..." Yueyue covered her ears, glanced at her mom, and said: "Mom is chanting scriptures!"