Chapter 57: Bitter Gourd

She still remembered her daughter was beside her, couldn't let her daughter notice anything. She closed her eyes and calmed her emotions a bit.

Zhu Xueheng's matter wasn't really related to her, but what Chu Han Ya did made her angry.

Ji Yan recalled Su Yu's thoughts, she said, "Uncle and Chu Han Ya took a bed photo." Looking at today's events, she knew how that photo came about.

Chu Han Ya actually stayed in Su Xi's lounge without clothes!

She even directly gave someone medicine!

Just thinking that Su Yu might walk in on this scene, and possibly inhale that medicine, Ji Yan's inner fire wouldn't subside!

Their group arrived at the restaurant, Su Xi let Qin Tao order on his own and put it on his tab. He then took Su Yu and Ji Yan into a private room.

"Come on, go wash your hands, let your mom order."

"Okay!"

Su Yu was held by Su Xi while washing her hands in the private room's attached washroom.

After washing her hands, Su Yu was again held over to the table, dried her hands with a dry towel, and obediently sat aside waiting for the main course.

"Baby, are you hungry? Want some shrimp dumplings?"

Su Yu shook her head, her eyes fixed on a video introducing Cantonese cuisine.

She wanted to wait for the main course!

The waiter soon pushed a cart in.

Watching the dishes Ji Yan ordered being served one after another, Su Yu's smile gradually stiffened.

"Mom, we already have winter melon soup, why still need bitter gourd?"

【Moreover it's stir-fried bitter gourd plain. Although I think vegetables are even bitterer than coptis, I don't want bitterness upon bitterness!】

"Beef easily causes internal heat, so I ordered a plate of bitter gourd."

Actually Ji Yan had strong inner fire; seeing cooling dishes she wanted to order them. This was already the result of her self-restraint.

Su Yu scrunched her little face looking at the other dishes on the table, then stared at that plate of bitter gourd.

【Beef bone soup, stir-fried beef, white-cut chicken, baked lobster, fish balls, roasted goose—the heating dishes aren't actually that many, and there's winter melon soup too, why would we need bitter gourd?】

"Mom, you could actually drink some cooling tea!"

【Boo! The winter melon soup is so small, the main vegetable is still bitter gourd, how can I eat it?】

Ji Yan saw her daughter's teary eyes and said, "Shall I order another vegetable?"

"Okay!"

Su Xi watched the mother-daughter interaction, thinking maybe next time he could try letting Su Yu choose between bitter gourd and other vegetables.

【Uncle, what's that look?】

"Uncle, you wouldn't go back on your word, would you?"

【We had agreed to eat only a fixed amount, you don't want me to torment you, do you?】

"The food gets cold and won't taste good."

"Alright!"

Su Yu happily ate her rice.

Finally, Su Yu left the restaurant with a little face scrunched up comparable to bitter gourd, and when she lifted her gaze, her eye sockets were all red.

【Wow, how can their bitter gourd be this bitter!!! If I knew bitter gourd was this unpleasant, I'd rather eat two portions of vegetables!】

Su Xi held Su Yu, who ultimately couldn't escape eating the bitter gourd, wanting to laugh but afraid she'd cause a scene.

Ji Yan silently complained in her heart, I had stopped her, I said we'd order another vegetable, but baby you patted your chest saying you could handle it! In the end she even said while tearing up, we ate it all……

……

"You guys finally came back!"

Su Yu listlessly looked at Zhu Xueheng, weakly calling out, "Uncle hello!"

"Oh dear, what a poor little thing. I say, brother, this isn't like you at all—the Jiang family folks are provoking you like this, and you don't even lift a finger! Look how you've made our little Yu Yu angry! Are you crying miserably?"

"???"

【Is it because I ate too much bitter gourd that I can't understand speech? When did the Jiang family provoke my uncle? Provoking my uncle, what am I crying about?】

Su Xi: Too much? It's only four pieces, you're making it seem like you ate forty!

"She just ate some bitter gourd."

Su Xi's words interrupted Zhu Xueheng's brain-filling. He brought Su Yu out today precisely to use her and Ji Yan's heat to bring up Chu Han Ya's matter again. Chu Han Ya's entry can't go up, but Su Yu's, Ji Yan's, and his Su Xi's can.

He just wouldn't believe it!

Even if Chu Han Ya had great value, after repeatedly provoking public anger and constantly making blunders, would the Chu family still protect her?

"Ah?"

Zhu Xueheng was dazed, what lousy reporter! Also saying that Su Xi's family of three happily went out shopping but returned disinterested because Madame Jiang snatched clothes. After Su Yu came out of the custom tailoring studio, her mood was low, spirits not high, seemingly she had cried.

That before-and-after expression comparison image was made so realistic it made him believe it! Who could have thought that Su Yu's gloomy expression was merely because she ate bitter gourd she didn't like?

【What does "she just ate some bitter gourd" mean? It's a lot of bitter gourd! Three pieces or more is a lot! Four pieces is one more than three, that's a lot!】

Su Yu glared at Su Xi, unconvinced.

Su Xi also stared at Su Yu.

Su Xi: Just four pieces, saying all that is just giving you face, okay?

"Let's have a fight!"

【If I win I'm happy, if I lose you get scolded, either way I don't lose!】

Su Xi held Su Yu, put her on the sofa in her own office, while Su Yu clenched her fists and rubbed her palms, he took out a big lollipop from the bag on the coffee table and shook it, "Still want to fight?"

Su Yu happily took the lollipop, her round peach-blossom eyes curved, revealing tiny rabbit teeth, "No more fighting!"

【There's candy! Let's talk about fighting another time!】

Su Yu wasn't hungry yet; she picked up her own little-bear water cup, took a sip of water, then, holding the pretty candy, she ran to the sunshine and spun.

Zhu Xueheng gazed at Su Yu playing with the lollipop's shadow on the blanket, wearing a kind fatherly smile, and said, "Su Xi, how does your family's chef make the candy? Give me the recipe, or else send the chef over? The kid's mom would probably like it too."

Sour sons, spicy daughters; she loves spicy food, so she must be a girl. When my daughter grows up, I'll also learn to use candy to coax her."

【??? I only spent a morning, right? Now there's a baby? The Liang Family is so easy to talk to? But in the plot, that kid isn't older than me? Did I remember wrong? Or is there another baby?】

Su Yu turned her head, looking at Zhu Xueheng in surprise.

"I can give you a video of making the candy, but don't even think about getting the person."

【Yes! I still need to eat!】

"That works too. We each have our own kids now, so the meeting gifts cancel out—we won't give any."

Zhu Xueheng smiled very proudly.

Su Yu originally didn't intend to get a meeting gift from her uncle's friend's hands; hearing Zhu Xueheng's words, she smiled and said, "Congratulations, Uncle!", then went back to playing by herself.

Su Xi was reviewing documents, while Zhu Xueheng continually watched Su Yu play with a kind fatherly smile, making Su Yu feel creeped out.

【Those who don't know would think you're my dad!】

Su Yu went over to her uncle's side, poked him with the lollipop stick, and said, "You manage him for me—I'm a little scared!"

"Give me your candy, and I'll take care of it."

"No way!"

Su Yu held the lollipop with both hands, shook her head. She can only eat one per day; if she gave it to Su Xi, he would surely not let her eat again.

Zhu Xueheng just snapped out of his daydream about interacting with his daughter, hearing only a few scattered words: "What's there to manage? Tell Uncle, Uncle will help you!"

【How should I tell you to take care of yourself?】

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