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Xiu Ziheng took a small bite with a puzzled look on his face, chewed it, and found it to be normal, as this was always the taste of his mother’s cooking.
Seeing that Xiu Ziheng didn’t believe it at all, Xiaojun nervously called Teacher Xiaoguo over, “Teacher Xiaoguo, Xiu Ziheng didn’t put salt in his fried rice!”
”Hmm?” Teacher Guo came over, picked up the spoon and tasted it, “There is really no salt. Teacher will add some for you.” Then Teacher Guo took the fried rice to the school’s small kitchen.
Xiu Ziheng looked at everyone’s reactions eagerly. Isn’t the food my mother cooks always taste like this? It’s a little different from what you eat outside, but my mother says this is healthy.
Xiao Shu broke half of the sandwich and put it on Xiu Ziheng’s plate, nodded to him and said, “Eat some sandwich first!”
”Thank you, brother!” Xiu Ziheng thanked him politely, then took a bite of the sandwich. After chewing it for a few times, Xiu Ziheng’s eyes suddenly lit up. He pointed at the bacon in the sandwich and said, “What is this? It’s delicious!”
”Bacon.” Xiaojun answered immediately, and imitated Xiaoshu, sharing some of his chicken drumstick rice with Xiu Ziheng, “Try mine. Have you ever had curry chicken drumstick?”
Xiu Ziheng ate it greedily.
Does such delicious food really exist in the world?
Xixi frowned and asked tentatively, “Have you never eaten these foods?”
Xiu Ziheng stared at the hamburger in Xixi’s hand, “Xixi, can I have a taste of yours?”
The first time Xiu Ziheng ate junk food, he was so moved that he almost cried. He ate one bite after another and couldn’t stop.
The other children were a little scared when they saw him eating so fast. They advised him not to eat anymore, but Xiu Ziheng simply couldn’t stop. He grabbed the bacon sandwich with his hands and stuffed it into his mouth.
Gu Qianjing was still staring and struggling with the pile of messy silver threads in front of her. She was dazzled and had pain in her cervical vertebra, waist and fingers.
Lu Yi next to her was in a similar situation, complaining with a bitter face, “Being a craftsman is harder than being an athlete!”
Gu Qianjing stood up and stretched a few times. She felt as if her whole body was rusted. Her bones made crackling sounds when she moved. She really admired these craftsmen who had been working on craft for decades.
Li Yunhua lowered her head and filled the pattern with silk very seriously. The silk in front of her had already taken shape. She was able to do so well in such a short time, and even Boss Liang was impressed.
”Teacher Li, Teacher Li, Ziheng is in trouble, please go and check it out!”
A noisy sound of footsteps accompanied by the photography assistant’s crying voice broke the silence in the jewelry store.
Li Yunhua was pulled out of her concentration and didn’t react for a moment, “What did you say?”
”Ziheng is in trouble. I don’t know what he ate. He is vomiting and having diarrhea. He has been sent to the town health center. Teacher Li, please go and take a look!”
Li Yunhua threw down the tweezers and silver thread in her hand and rushed out.
Upon hearing that Ziheng had met with such a serious accident, the other mothers stopped caring about their studies and after saying hello to Boss Liang, they all rushed to the town clinic.
As soon as Xiu Ziheng complained of stomachache, Teacher Guo sent him to the town clinic. When the mothers arrived, Xiu Ziheng was already receiving an IV drip.
The doctor was an old doctor with gray hair. He took off his mask and made a calm gesture.
”The child is fine. He just had acute gastroenteritis caused by overeating. Now the vomiting and diarrhea are under control. Let him have a good rest in the next two days and eat a light diet.”
”How could he eat too much?” Li Yunhua subconsciously refuted the doctor’s words loudly, “The lunch I brought him this morning was well-controlled. Even if he ate it all, it wouldn’t be like this!”
Teacher Guo’s eyes were red. When she took on this task, the program crew repeatedly told her that these children were extremely precious. She gritted her teeth and took on this job in order to save more money for her marriage, but she didn’t expect to cause such a big disaster.
”Auntie.” Xiaojun was the first to come forward to explain the situation, “Brother didn’t eat the fried rice. He ate up all the four of us lunch by himself. There were… um… two sandwiches, a hamburger and a rice bowl.”
”What did you say?” Li Yunhua turned around and glared at Xiaojun from top to bottom with her angry red eyes.
Xiaojun was startled and quickly distanced himself from the matter, “Yes… yes… Xiaoshu gave it to him first.”
Xiao Shu’s dark pupils suddenly shrank, and his face turned pale without a trace of blood. He didn’t know that there was poison in the sandwich.
Seeing her son so frightened, Gu Qianjing, as a mother, felt so heartbroken.
She bent down, picked up Xiaoshu, and gently patted his back, helping him calm down slowly.
Xiao Shu rested his chin on Gu Qianjing’s neck, smelling the familiar scent of his mother. The fear in his heart slowly dissipated. A child with a mother is not afraid of anything!
After Xiao Shu calmed down a bit, Gu Qianjing also calmed down before speaking.
”The doctor has already said that Ziheng just ate too much and is fine now. Teacher Li, please calm down and don’t scare the other children. As for what happened before, please ask the cameraman to help replay the video.”
[That’s right, Qianqian was much calmer. Li Yunhua shouldn’t have acted like that. It was just gastroenteritis, but she acted like the sky was falling, scaring the kids.]
[No, Gu Qianjing is not in a hurry because it is not her son who is injured, okay? It is easier to talk than to feel the pain in the waist. ]
[Li Yunhua is Xiu Ziheng’s stepmother. Stepmothers are prone to being used against by others, so there is nothing wrong with her being cautious.]
[Don’t keep talking about stepmothers above. Stepmothers are great. Li Yunhua is a paranoid person. Don’t keep using stepmothers to whitewash her. It’s so annoying! ]
The noise in the live broadcast room became more and more intense. In the health center, several mothers, Teacher Guo and the old doctor all came to the camera.
Seeing Xiu Ziheng devouring the food like a hungry wolf in the live broadcast room, Li Yunhua fell silent. She stared at the screen fiercely, using the last bit of her rationality to remind herself, now in the live-streaming, audiences across the country are watching.
Don’t go crazy, stay calm.
But, I clearly tell him every time that he is different from other children and will do great things in the future, so why doesn’t he understand?
Why would you stuff your mouth with junk food like a pig in front of the whole country?
Li Yunhua’s defense is really about to break down.
The old doctor at the health center glanced at Li Yunhua, and a trace of pity appeared on his wrinkled face. “I’m telling you, at least give the child something delicious to eat. You’ve forced such a good child into this state.”
Li Yunhua endured it again and again, but finally couldn’t hold it back any longer and yelled out in a bad tone.
”Shut up! This is my child, and I get to decide what kind of life he wants to live. People like you who have lived in this shabby town all your life, what do you know? Why do you think you can lecture me?”
The system’s mechanical voice sounded over and over in her mind, [Host, please pay attention to your emotions, you are live now, host, please pay attention to your emotions…]
The familiar mechanical voice brought back a trace of her rationality, and she forcibly suppressed the even more unpleasant words that followed.
The old doctor was so confused by her that he was so angry that he also shouted,
”Although I have never left this shabby town in my life, I live a happier and more comfortable life than you! In my eyes, you are just a pitiful creature!”
Various voices came one after another in the live broadcast room.
[I’m sorry, I’m the person who has never walked out of a shabby town in my life. I don’t deserve to watch Teacher Li’s show. By the way, I was really offended and turned against Li Yunhua. ]
[Although it may sound unpleasant, class does exist, and I can understand Li Yunhua better.]
[Speaking of social classes, I have to say a few words. I want to ask everyone on the show, whose social class is higher than the Lin family? Why can Xiao Shu eat food that Xiu Ziheng cannot? ]
[The mother’s way of raising children is quite different. Gu Qianjing is the carefree type! ]
At this time, the photography assistant reminded the other mothers in time, “The children just didn’t have time to eat lunch. The program team discussed and gave each family 50 yuan. Moms, take the children to have lunch first!”
After leaving the clinic, Xiao Shu finally moved his chin away from Gu Qianjing’s neck, picked up the writing board hanging around his neck, and wrote a line of words on it:
”Xiao Shu wants to eat fried chicken!”
”Yeah.” Gu Qianjing nodded vigorously.
Our baby was scared. Let alone eating fried chicken, even if you want to eat Ultraman…
Forget Ultraman, this mother really can’t do it.
Gu Qianjing stopped a passing middle school student and asked, “Classmate, is there a fried chicken shop in town?”
The other party scratched his head and answered slowly, “Yes, we have, but we are not open yet. The store will open at five or six in the afternoon.”
The light in Xiao Shu’s big eyes dimmed little by little.
Gu Qianjing raised her wrist and looked at the watch. “It’s still early now. Go to the market and buy some chicken. Mom will fry it for you!” It’s just fried chicken. As long as you don’t want deep-fried Ultraman, Mom can do it!
Then she turned her head again and asked, “Xiao Ju, can we have fried chicken for lunch?”
Xiao Ju curled up in Lu Yi’s arms and nodded frantically. No child can resist the tender and crispy fried chicken.
When Xixi heard what Gu Qianjing said, she whispered a few words into Liu Zhizi’s ear.
Liu Zhizi raised her head and called Gu Qianjing awkwardly, “Um, Teacher Gu, Xixi said she also wants to eat fried chicken. Can we come with you?”
”Okay, let’s go, it’s a handy thing.”
While several mothers were heading to the vegetable market, Lin Mingqi’s lunch was also delivered to the office.
The assistant opened the solid wood takeout box, took out the food in small compartments, and placed them neatly on the coffee table.
A small bowl of pure white rice, a plate of sashimi, a small plate of grilled eel, and a bowl of miso soup. The portions are ridiculously small, but the price of Kaiseki cuisine is as high as four figures.
After arranging the dishes, the assistant stepped back and stood respectfully beside the table with his hands behind his back, “Boss Lin, there’s a little problem with your wife.”
Lin Mingqi is busy with work and doesn’t have time to watch the live broadcast room all day, so he arranges an assistant to watch the room and report any problems in a timely manner.
”Hmm?” Lin Mingqi put down his bamboo chopsticks, took out a cotton towel and dipped it on his lips, “What’s going on?”
The assistant turned on the recording of the health center and placed the phone in front of Lin Mingqi, “Master Xiao Shu seems to be frightened.”
The dark pupils shrank slightly, and Lin Mingqi’s tone remained calm and composed, with no emotion to be heard.
”Is this a previous recording? How is it going now?”
The assistant exited the recording, turned on the current live broadcast, and put the phone in front of Lin Mingqi again, “Xiao Shu wants to eat fried chicken, my wife is preparing it.”
Gu Qianjing and her friends had already bought the chicken, and she was washing the chicken in the kitchen sink with her sleeves rolled up.
Xiao Shu stood obediently beside his mother, raised his little face, and stared at his mother adoringly with his big eyes.
Gu Qianjing poured soy sauce, salt and mushrooms into the cleaned chicken and marinated it. Xiao Shu looked at his mother in admiration. His mother knew everything and was super amazing!
Take out the marinated chicken, coat it with a layer of egg liquid and then a layer of bread crumbs. Xiaoshu admires his mother even more. She can beat eggs, which is even more amazing!
When it was time to fry the chicken nuggets, Gu Qianjing couldn’t help but ask Xiaoshu to leave the kitchen. “Xiaoshu, can you wait for mom outside? Frying is dangerous.”
Xiao Shu then reluctantly moved out of the kitchen and hid behind the glass door to observe his mother quietly.
The breaded chicken pieces are put into the hot oil pan, and a sizzling sound can be heard.
Xiao Shu wrinkled his nose, with pride written all over his face!
Lin Mingqi held his forehead and felt relieved. Xiaoshu seemed to be fine, but when did Gu Qianjing learn how to fry chicken nuggets?
It seems that the operation is very skillful.
The fried chicken nuggets were served with fruit salad made by Liu Zhizi, orange juice and mashed potatoes made by Lu Yi. They looked exactly the same as those made at Ultraman Fried Chicken.
Gu Qianjing picked up a piece of hot chicken, blew it to cool it down a little, and handed it to Xiaoshu’s mouth.
Xiao Shu took a big bite. The skin was crispy on the outside, and the chicken inside was tender and smooth, with rich juice. He couldn’t help but give a thumbs up to his mother. It was super delicious!
Gu Qianjing rubbed Xiaoshu’s soft and smooth head. “Were you scared just now? Are you still scared now?”
Xiao Shu took a bite of the fragrant and soft chicken and shook his head vigorously. He was no longer afraid.
He pointed at Xiao Ju again, meaning that his sister was also scared?
Gu Qianjing looked over and saw Xiao Ju eating fried chicken while cursing.
Eat a bite of fried chicken,
”We did nothing wrong. Aren’t children supposed to share?”
Take another big bite of fried chicken.
”My brother is greedy because his mother doesn’t give him food on normal days. If she gives him food on normal days, wouldn’t it be okay?”
Slurp, slurp, take a big sip of orange juice,
”It’s not our fault anyway!”
Gu Qianjing laughed, “Little sister is very brave and was not scared!” Nothing happened, she could still comfort herself!
While everyone was chatting and laughing while eating fried chicken, Deng Li came down from upstairs.
She was stranded in the B&B for a whole day and had already learned from the live broadcast room that Xiu Ziheng was in the hospital.
Deng Li floated over from the dining table and cursed in a sarcastic tone, “You put someone’s child in the hospital, and you can still eat it. Hey, fried chicken, what? You started pretending to be a good mother on the last show. I wonder who feeds their son plain porridge at home!”
White porridge?
Gu Qianjing suspected that she had heard it wrongly, “Deng Li, what did you say?”
Deng Li also realized that she seemed to have let something slip. It was He Chun who told her that Gu Qianjing gave Xiao Shu white porridge. Now that she was saying it out loud, wasn’t that tantamount to confessing herself?
”Nothing.” Deng Li said perfunctorily. Anyway, Gu Qianjing probably didn’t hear it clearly, so she walked away.
A playful sneer gradually appeared on Lin Mingqi’s lips outside the screen. He waved to the assistant standing beside him and said, “If you can’t find He Chun, then check this Deng Li.”
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