The night draped over the city softly like silk, embracing the noisy world gently. At this mont, countless hos lit up with warm lights, sparkling like stars, cloaking the city in a golden glow.
It’s still the Liu family.
"Yuanyuan, dinner ti!"
Xu Caihong brought steaming dishes out from the kitchen, smiling as she called out to Yuanyuan, who was watching TV in the living room: "Grandma made your favorite at!"
at?!
Upon hearing that, Yuanyuan’s eyes imdiately lit up.
She replied joyfully, "Coming!"
Then she slid off the sofa at once, leaving behind even her favorite cartoon, and dashed excitedly towards the dining room.
Looking at the dishes on the table, they saw besides a noticeable platter of white-cut at, several other dishes also contained many at slices and chunks. They couldn’t help joking: "Mom, this isn’t just a full Manchu-Han feast, it’s practically a full at feast!"
Hearing this analogy, Xu Caihong couldn’t help but chuckle: "Oh, stop teasing . Yuanyuan loves it, so I put so at in every dish, letting her eat as much as she likes."
Oh!
It can only be said that the way elders express love is always so simple and direct: as long as the child loves to eat, let them eat to their heart’s content!
"Let see, let see~"
Liu Yuanyuan climbed onto her special chair and took a look at the table...
Wow~
So much at!
Eh?
But why is it different from the at at kindergarten?
Just as she was puzzled, Xu Caihong picked up so white-cut at with chopsticks, dipped it in sauce.
Rembering how Yang Yuxi said Yuanyuan learned to use a spoon at kindergarten and could eat by herself, tonight she didn’t directly feed her but placed the white-cut at on her special plate, wanting her to eat on her own.
"Yuanyuan, co, this is the at grandma specially cooked for you, eat up!"
Yuanyuan shook her little head, speaking in a childish voice: "Grandma, I don’t want this at, I want cooked at."
"Oh dear, what are you talking about?"
Xu Caihong found her words amusing yet helpless: "It may look white, but it’s indeed cooked at. Uncooked at would be raw, inedible!"
As she spoke, she picked up a piece of white-cut at and ate it, hoping to show Yuanyuan that this at was indeed cooked, and also hoping to change Yuanyuan’s mind and get her to accept this dish.
However, things didn’t go as she hoped.
Despite her earnest intentions, Yuanyuan wasn’t buying it.
She pouted and said, "I don’t want this at, I don’t want this at, I want cooked at..."
Xu Caihong: "..."
Can anyone tell her what on earth this "cooked at" is...
"Mom, Yuanyuan is probably talking about braised beef..."
Li Xiuxian belatedly rembered.
It’s not that there’s a special understanding between her and the daughter, but in the afternoon while waiting to pick up Yuanyuan at the kindergarten entrance, she noticed the day’s nu posted on the notice board, rembers today’s lunch dishes.
And though Yuanyuan heard Miss Yang announce the nas of the dishes during lunch, since Miss Yang only announced it once, plus there were quite a few dishes, she only rembered the words "cooked at," making it unclear.
Now, when mom ntioned the lunch content, she imdiately realized and responded: "Yes, it’s braised at, no, it’s braised beef."
So that’s it!
Xu Caihong finally understood!
She would love to imdiately make this braised beef for her precious granddaughter, but alas, there was no beef at ho, so she had to give up!
She comforted her with a smile: "Yuanyuan, grandma didn’t know you wanted to eat beef, so I didn’t buy it today. How about this, I’ll make braised beef for you tomorrow night, okay?"
Yuanyuan deflated like a punctured balloon, thoroughly dispirited.
Xu Caihong tenderly continued to coax her: "There there, grandma will definitely make it for you tomorrow!"
"Then grandma, you feed the al!"
"Okay, sure!"
Xu Caihong imdiately agreed and reached out to pick up Yuanyuan’s special plate, only to be stopped by Li Xiuxian: "Mom, don’t feed her, let her eat by herself."
"This..."
Seeing her daughter-in-law’s firm attitude, to avoid family conflict, she could only give up reluctantly.
Li Xiuxian turned her head towards Yuanyuan, smiling as she said: "Yuanyuan, teacher said you did very well today, you can eat by yourself with a spoon, how about you eat on your own now?"
"No!"
Yuanyuan shook her head, pouting: "Mama, if you won’t let grandma feed, then you feed !"
Li Xiuxian: (((φ(◎ロ◎;)φ)))
At this mont, she once again doubted the authenticity of Miss Yang’s words about her precious daughter eating by herself at kindergarten.
Indeed.
She worried Miss Yang might have said nice things just to reassure her.
She couldn’t help but ask again: "Yuanyuan, tell mom, during lunch at kindergarten today, was it Miss Yang feeding you or did you use a spoon yourself?"
Finally, she added: "You must tell mom the truth, okay!"
Yuanyuan listened and replied without thinking: "I ate by myself!"
Her voice carried a hint of pride.
"Then why won’t you eat by yourself at ho? You must have mom feed you?"
"At ho it’s..."
She pouted, her gaze catching the displeasure on mom’s face,
Uh-oh!
Not good!
Mom is going to get angry!
In her desperate survival mode, she swallowed back the second half of her sentence "there’s no good braised beef," and raised her little face, cooing: "Because I love mom, I want mom to feed ~"
She even purposely prolonged her childish voice.
Li Xiuxian: "(o__)ﾉ
Loving mom ans mom has to feed her, what kind of logic is that?
Looking at Yuanyuan’s cute deanor, Li Xiuxian felt both angry and amused, but feeding was not an option.
And hearing her daughter’s soft "I love mom," Liu Qiangtao, who hadn’t voiced any opinion all along, felt an itch to experience this love from his daughter, so he promptly offered eagerly.
"Yuanyuan, co, daddy will feed you."
The little one didn’t mind who it was, imdiately bringing her bowl to Liu Qiangtao’s side, saying sweetly: "Papa feed."
"Yuanyuan, tell daddy, why do you want daddy to feed you?" Liu Qiangtao quickly asked with hopeful anticipation.
This ti.
Yuanyuan was stumped!
She looked up at him with confusion in her eyes: "No reason! Papa, you said you wanted to feed Yuanyuan!"
Cold, cold arrow pierced crazily into the heart...
In that instant, Liu Qiangtao’s heart shattered like dumpling filling.
Upon hearing this, Li Xiuxian laughed gleefully.
Xu Caihong also couldn’t help but chuckle.
Liu Qiangtao sadly handed back Yuanyuan’s bowl: "Yuanyuan, you eat by yourself, daddy doesn’t want to feed you anymore."
But the little one wasn’t so easily dismissed!
She puffed up her cheeks and pouted, "Papa is a big liar, I’m not talking to Papa, hum~"
Finally, she turned her face away.
She just didn’t want to see dad’s face!
Hey!
Tease the daughter for a mont, soothing her is a lifeti in hell.
Ultimately!
Liu Qiangtao tearfully chased after her with the bowl to feed her.
No choice!
The als at ho aren’t as tasty as at kindergarten, if you don’t feed her, she might really not eat, and just run back to the living room to watch cartoons, then snack when hungry.
In fact, Yuanyuan’s case isn’t unique.
Many kids can eat by themselves at kindergarten, but need to be fed at ho, so even refuse food despite being fed.
Faced with such a situation, many parents start to question whether the teacher’s words during dismissal are just pleasantries.
Otherwise, why won’t kids eat when they get ho?
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