The package has assigned me way too many objects.

"You've already cut it? I didn't realize Xiao Chu Nan had such good knife skills. Do you often help your elders with chores at home?"

Chu Yinan thought to himself with a straight face, "At home, I just eat and don't cook!"

Lee Hyun-eun didn't want to discuss the "plates" in the punishment of plating, since she herself was the one being plated. The beautiful young woman picked up a slice of apple; it was the first time she had ever seen someone slice an apple so thinly it was like a cicada's wing.

"Little Chu Nan's cut is just too good!"

Chu Yinan didn't take credit for it, and frankly said, "It wasn't me, it was this doll that cut it. This is a domestic function."

He was getting impatient and couldn't hesitate any longer. When he was slicing the cake, Aunt Liu should have already received the message he sent on time. He also added a note that he didn't know if it was useful: "I ran into Sister Xuanya while playing, so I went to her house to eat cake."

If you keep being coy, Aunt Liu will come after you.

He picked up a thin slice of lemon and said considerately, "It's a bit embarrassing to keep doing this. Let's just arrange it simply to end the punishment. How should we arrange this?"

Jiang Xuanya pulled her mother along, and amidst the woman's awkwardness, made her lie down on the glass coffee table. Li Xuan'en lay on the glass, her two beautiful mounds of flesh changing shape like water, naturally drooping with a sense of weight. The coolness of the glass made her somewhat uncomfortable.

"Mom, you taught me before that fruit plating should either be arranged in specific animal shapes or stacked in layers. If that doesn't work, you should arrange it according to the shape of the plate. You're the one who taught me that!"

Randomly, a lemon slice, stacked into a long strip, was placed in the valley between the two mountains.

Lee Hyun-eun scolded playfully, "You child, really..."

Chu Yinan was too embarrassed to leave it lying around, so she planned to just put the lemon slices on her stomach and be done with it.

But Jiang Xuanya grabbed his small wrist and pushed the lemon slice all the way from the plain to the summit.

Chu Yinan remained silent, wanting to say that it was Xuan Ya who made it!

This plating couldn't be played with for too long. It was only on Lee Hyun-eun for a little over a minute, almost two minutes, before she got up and "laid down" her daughter on the glass coffee table as revenge.

Lee Hyun-eun held the little boy with one arm and grasped his wrist with the other, haphazardly placing lemon slices on Kang Seon-ah.

“Little Chu Nanlai, use your little hands a little harder and squeeze lemon juice onto your sister Xuan Ya to make her sour.”

Chu Yinan remained silent, thinking to himself that this was not his intention, so he couldn't be blamed.

Squeezing lemon juice upwards... wouldn't that be considered a high-mountain-flowing-water technique?

The plating is indeed elegant; it's quite sophisticated.

Lemon juice doesn't cause much irritation on the skin unless it comes into contact with mucous membranes, but the cool, damp feeling made Jiang Xuanya a little itchy.

"Hey! You've gone too far! I wasn't even this crowded just now, and neither was Xiao Chunan. Aunt Hyun-eun told you to squeeze, and you really did!"

Chu Yinan felt it was a difficult situation: "Then... how about I bring some water to help Sister Xuanya wash up?"

Jiang Xuanya took off the fruit slices from her body. A few slices accidentally bounced off the soft, elastic surface and fell to the ground, so she had to throw them into the trash can.

After tidying up the fruit slices, Jiang Xuanya cupped Chu Yinan's cheeks. "It's so unfair to make us be the plates! Little Chu Yinan ate the cake we made, so you can be the plate for a minute!"

Chapter 27 Seconds

Why did they suddenly add a punishment for me, and for a whole minute at that? I had only been jumping around for less than a minute!

However, one is bound to be obliged if one accepts a favor. Previously, he had asked Sister Xuan Ya and Aunt Xuan En to help him make cakes, all of which were done for free. Now that they were making a request, Chu Yinan really felt embarrassed to refuse.

After thinking it over, Chu Yinan asked, "Can I pay for it? Consider it buying a cake."

Jiang Xuanya wiped the sticky juice off her hands with a wet wipe, and then touched Chu Yinan's belly with her cool hands:

"That won't do. We even helped you test out the problems with the recipe and made improvements. This effort can't be replaced by money!"

Seeing Jiang Xuanya wiping her hands just now, Chu Yinan sensed something was wrong. If he had been the plate-maker, wouldn't he be covered in sticky residue afterwards?

It's difficult to explain to Aunt Liu.

But the timing is also awkward. If Aunt Liu were here now, Jiang Xuanya and Li Xuanen would definitely not have the idea of ​​playing with him on the plating. They would probably be busy getting dressed.

But the problem is that they haven't arrived yet, and Chu Yinan can't easily refuse.

He decided to go all in, because if things dragged on, Aunt Liu would show up halfway through the process, and that would be the worst thing ever!

If we finish early, we'll have a little time to dry ourselves off.

“One minute is too long, thirty seconds.” Chu Yinan tried to bargain, and his speaking speed increased, almost 1.5 times faster than usual.

Lee Hyun-eun thought it was already great that the little guy agreed, but thirty seconds really wasn't enough, so she plated it one slice at a time.

Jiang Xuanya started discussing the "price" before her, saying, "If it's thirty seconds, wouldn't we be too busy setting it up to have any time to look at it? Fifty seconds!"

Judging from Xuan Ya's tone, Chu Yinan could tell that there was room for further bargaining, but it would be a loss to continue bargaining, and the negotiation time alone might take more than a minute.

"Row."

He glanced at "Fu Xi," and the tablet in the puppet maid's hand suddenly displayed a timer, along with a fleeting map, and a small red dot was moving toward him.

That's definitely Aunt Liu's spot! She hasn't moved; she's probably waiting for the traffic light!

Chu Yinan dared not delay any longer. After finishing his sentence, he prepared to lie down on the coffee table, but Jiang Xuanya stopped him.

"Why are you still wearing your outer pants? Look at this coffee table, it's covered in sticky juice. If you lie down on it, you'll get your clothes dirty."

That's true, it would be hard to clean Aunt Liu's car if he got it dirty. He quickly pulled down his outer pants without much pressure, since he still had a pair of beach shorts.

Lying down on the glass coffee table, Chu Yinan felt like a fish on a chopping board, having to urge the butcher to hurry up and make his move.

"Sister Xuan Ya, Aunt Xuan En, are you done? I'll have the puppet keep track of time."

Chu Yinan took off his pants in a hurry, and then didn't straighten them, causing the cuffs of his beach shorts to roll up a bit, leaving some areas uncovered.

A head popped out (pointing to the toes)...

Jiang Xuanya and Li Xuanen each held a few lemon slices, ready to cover the little one with fruit slices every second, but their eyes were now fixed on something else.

The two looked at each other with strange and surprised expressions. The beautiful young woman was especially astonished, her disbelief lingering in her eyes. She swallowed hard, and her mouth inadvertently uttered the thought that had flashed through her mind: "Such a small child, even smaller than my husband's..."

When Jiang Xuanya hugged Chu Yinan earlier, she accidentally brushed against him, but she thought it might be her imagination. She never expected it to actually happen...

"Sister Xuanya, why haven't you started yet?" Chu Yinan tilted her head, focused on the countdown on the tablet, afraid of missing even a second, and didn't notice the two ladies' strange behavior.

Jiang Xuanya snapped out of her reverie: "Oh, I was just thinking about what to put out."

She reached out to smooth out Chu Yinan's trouser legs, her slender fingers inevitably brushing against... a bit of skin on his leg. Chu Yinan recoiled as if electrocuted, realizing her lapse in composure, and instantly felt so embarrassed that her face turned bright red.

A girl's heart says, pink and warm...

Then, she patted her mother, and after a brief discussion, they decided to fold a rough lemon pattern, neatly stacking an oval lemon shape on the "little boy plate".

Due to time constraints, the design is somewhat rough, but it can still be considered exquisite overall.

Just as he finished plating the food, Chu Yinan's phone rang again. He knew who was calling and quickened his pace in getting dressed.

Fu Xi, who had been standing by his side taking many candid photos of him, got up and took out his phone for him.

Chu Yinan took the phone and clearly saw a barely perceptible smile on "Veronica's" face.

Oh no, they've taken a lot of embarrassing photos of me!

Before answering the call, Chu Yinan glanced at the message bar. The task of plating the food was finally completed, but the score was not high, probably because the time was too short.

Chu Yinan's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally relaxed. He answered the phone: "Hello, Aunt Liu."

[Yan Liu: I've already parked the car and am getting ready to pack up and go home. Please open the door for me.]

After hanging up the phone, Chu Yinan briefly explained the situation, and Li Xuan'en and Jiang Xuanya hurriedly went back to their room to change their clothes.

......

Since her own child was eating and drinking at someone else's house, Yan Liu couldn't just tell Chu Yinan to pack her things and leave. She had to go and thank her herself.

Lee Hyun-eun and Kang Seon-ah had already changed their clothes, but in their rush, they couldn't get very neat. They didn't even have time to put on their underwear, so they just put on their outer garments for now.

Jiang Xuanya is relaxed about this aspect; super short hot pants and tank tops are timeless. Li Xuanen usually wears more complicated clothes, but now she can only wear yoga clothes for the time being.

However, because they don't have bras to support them, you can feel the shaking when they walk even through their clothes.

Yan Liu felt that they were dressed a bit too casually, but it was their own home, so it was quite normal. Yan Liu herself didn't want to bother with what to wear when she was at home and not going out.

"My little darling has caused you so much trouble. I really didn't expect Xiao Chu Nan to come here and freeload off your snacks~"

Lee Hyun-eun nodded, replying somewhat guiltily:

"It's okay, Xuan Ya also wants a little brother to play with. We also like to bake desserts, so Xiao Chunan can come whenever he wants. We were just playing and arranging fruit platters together, but we got so engrossed in playing that so many pieces fell on the floor." She explained the fruit slices that hadn't been cleaned up yet.

"Little Chu Nan still likes to play this?" Yan Liu hugged him and sniffed him: "You smell like lemons all over. Did you sneak a lot of lemons from your senior's place?"

"I haven't eaten anything, not even had any juice," Chu Yinan said softly.

"Yan Liu, would you like to stay for a simple meal?"

"No, I'll invite you to my house for a meal another day. Otherwise, I'll feel bad if my little mouse comes here to freeload."

Chapter 28 The Little Yellow Duck Flipped Over

It seems the matter has been successfully concealed.

After leaving Jiang Xuanya's house, Chu Yinan got into Aunt Liu's car and went home. On the way, they stopped at the supermarket, bought some freshly squeezed juice and milk, and then went home to rest.

Yan Liu was definitely curious about how the little guy ended up at Li Xuan'en's house while playing outside:

"Little Chunan, why did you go to someone else's house for snacks? Is there some secret you're hiding?"

"Unexpectedly, I secretly asked the owner of the hot spring shop in the scenic area for another recipe, this time for desserts. But I couldn't understand it, so I asked Sister Xuanya to figure it out. Then today, on the weekend, I happened to run into her and she asked me to come over and try it."

My own little brat has been secretly using the recipes for free, and the worst part is that the woman named Minagawa Izumi actually gave them to him.

This generosity was truly astonishing, but Yan Liu admired the woman more for her culinary skills, especially her ability to casually produce so many recipes, all of which were just right to satisfy this picky eater.

"What kind of dessert is it this time? Is it good? Is it lemon flavored or something else?"

Chu Yinan recalled that strange smell and shook his head in lingering fear:

"It was really hard to eat. According to Sister Xuan Ya, it was made with some obscure spices, but they are all beneficial. Apart from the sour and rancid taste, it was hard to eat, but there was nothing wrong with it. It was only after Sister Xuan Ya and Aunt Xuan En helped to modify the recipe and make it into a cake that it was somewhat edible."

This was the first time Yan Liu had ever seen Chu Yinan make that face like an ordinary person being sour about lemons. She smiled with a sense of novelty. This little brat usually eats lemons like they're candy, without even a twitch of his eyebrows.

She chuckled and said, "You've taken too much. People are complaining. Next time you want it, remember to say, 'Can I buy the right to use it, but not for commercial purposes?'"

Recipes are not to be shared, so they must be very expensive to buy. But that's not a big deal. It's not too expensive. It's alright to buy it here. I'll just have the maid at the Lefie family learn it when I get back, and then ask Morgan to reimburse me. That way, I'll have sold a family cookbook.

"Let's talk about it next time, it's too infuriating." Chu Yinan shook his head, indicating that he was very hurt.

I trusted the female monster so much, and this is how she treated me!