I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

"I didn't drink any love potion, but Grandma's pork rib soup was delicious, and her other dishes were also incredibly tasty." This was the reason given by foodie Chen Qi'an.

“Yes, Grandma’s cooking is delicious.” Chen Qinghan echoed, standing on the same side as her younger brother.

"...Don't let your mom know this."

Chen Shuo was silent for a while, then gave earnest advice. However, there was one thing he couldn't understand. Logically speaking, his wife's cooking skills were not bad either. In his opinion, they were about the same as Wu Yulan's.

He's even gotten used to it now and feels it tastes even better than Wu Yulan's cooking.

How could this be...?

After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Grandma makes all the things you like to eat, right?"

"Correct."

"Sweet and sour pork tenderloin, sweet and sour spare ribs, corn with pine nuts, what else?"

"And the crystal cherry flesh is delicious."

“…”

Chen Shuo paused for a moment and then asked, "You guys ate a lot of candy too, didn't you?"

“…”

Seeing that the two little ones didn't say anything, Chen Shuo didn't ask any more questions. Anyway, he understood that the two kids had come back from their grandparents' house after eating a lot of sweets. If they were at home, they wouldn't get this kind of treatment to prevent them from getting cavities.

No wonder she was reluctant to part with him and praised her grandma's cooking.

"Brush your teeth three times as soon as you get home."

Chapter 316 Audacious as a Dog

It's mid-December, and the weather is cold.

As we all know, there are a lot of trivial things to do in kindergarten, such as making crafts, counting the number of grains of rice, finding leaves, and observing small animals.

The homework assigned to the children sounds like it's meant for them, but it's actually just torture for the parents.

A while ago, my two kids' homework was to make a picture using sunflower seed shells.

When Chen Shuo heard about this assignment, he was shocked. How the hell did they come up with the idea of ​​making a painting with sunflower seed shells?

Every time this happens, he really wants to complain about that female teacher. Despite her friendly and approachable appearance, she proves that appearances can be deceiving by her bizarre assignments time and time again.

In his words, the man with thick eyebrows and big eyes betrayed the revolution.

As for this assignment, what else can we do but work on it?

With two kids at home, that's like having two sets of homework. Chen Shuo, the father, went to the supermarket and bought five pounds of sunflower seeds, which he and the mother kept eating.

It took two hours, and my lips were blistered from all the knocking, before I finally finished.

Then the two kids took a piece of cardboard, glued sunflower seed shells to it, and with Chen Shuo's help, each made a picture.

The two children, carrying their drawings and backpacks, went to kindergarten full of confidence, but they didn't receive any red flowers. The siblings always felt that it was because their father had no artistic talent.

With Christmas just around the corner, the kindergarten is holding an event that requires parents to participate. Bai Xiaoqi recently passed her driving test (Part 2) thanks to her own abilities and a bit of luck, and is now preparing for Part 3.

Upon hearing that the kindergarten was having a parent-child activity, he skipped his driving practice and eagerly wanted to participate.

Chen Shuo had no choice but to take his wife and two children to the kindergarten for some kind of parent-child activity.

The kindergarten occupies a large area, and rent is cheap in Yangcheng, a small place. If the kindergarten is small, it will not be competitive and it will be difficult to recruit children.

But this kindergarten doesn't have many children; all the classes combined have at most a hundred kids.

There are three grades: small, medium, and large, with two classes in each grade. The small class that the siblings are in is called the Little Sun Class, and it only has seventeen children, not even twenty.

Upon arriving at the kindergarten, one is greeted by a variety of Christmas decorations, creating a festive atmosphere.

A slightly plump female teacher stood at the classroom door with a large cardboard box at her feet. She kept greeting each parent who brought their child, and then took a Santa hat out of the box and put it on each child.

Once a group of parents led their children to sit on small stools, the parent-teacher meeting began.

Let's talk about how these little kids usually behave. Of course, they're still kids, so we'll just say nice things, like how well they behave or how good they are.

It's not like in elementary or middle school, where the teacher would put on a stern face and say, "Your child is no good. As parents, you can't just focus on work all day. You need to discipline them quickly, or they'll cause a huge mess or have no future," and so on.

Then the parents nodded and bowed repeatedly in agreement.

It's still kindergarten, and only the youngest class. They mainly use praise. Even when they criticize, it's done in a very tactful way. If someone is disobedient, they're called naughty. If someone bullies another child, they're called unsociable.

The teacher stood there and rattled off a bunch of things, then started handing out awards. There were seventeen kids in the class, and every little one got one.

Chen Shuo felt that all the bizarre awards were just for show. For example, Chen Qi'an received a certificate for being a good eater, which made the silly boy so happy that snot bubbles came out of his nose.

Chen Qinghan won three awards, the most of any child in the kindergarten, standing out from the crowd. One of them was "Hygiene Baby," because she was the only one in the class who had never wet her pants, a well-deserved honor.

The other one is a gifted speaker; she speaks clearly and logically, and she teaches her younger brother every day, imitating Chen Shuo's style, explaining principles that she herself may not know.

Finally, there's a little genius.

It basically means smart.

Having given birth to two children and received four awards, Bai Xiaoqi was overjoyed. She immediately perked up and laughed along with her little one. Relying on her good eyesight, she glanced around at the awards that other children had won.

The conclusion was that everyone else's items were just there to make up the numbers, but theirs were not.

"Come on, Da Bao and Xiao Bao, give your certificates to Mommy, and Mommy will hang them on the wall when we get home."

Many parents did the same thing, preparing to keep their children's award certificates and then take them home to frame and hang them on the wall.

No matter what it is, it is an honor for a child.

After the awards ceremony, all the parents and children were overjoyed, and the kindergarten's Christmas activities officially began.

First, a group of little kids went up to perform the play "Santa Claus is Coming," and Chen Qinghan was among them. She took off her Santa hat, stuffed it into the pocket of her down jacket, and then went on stage with the group of children.

Before leaving, she turned back and said, "Mom and Dad, cheer me on!"

Okay, good luck to you.

"Yes, yes, Mom is cheering you on." Bai Xiaoqi nodded vigorously, then clenched her fist and waved it twice as if to encourage herself.

"I'm cheering for you too! Go Da Bao!" Chen Qi'an shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Keep your voice down." Chen Shuo patted the Santa hat on his head, thinking to himself, why isn't there a prize for the loudest voice? Otherwise, this kid would definitely win two prizes.

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a loud voice from the front row shouted, "Go, Da Bao!"

Chen Shuo looked in the direction of the sound and saw a somewhat familiar chubby figure. His eyes then sharpened.

Who gave you permission to call my daughter Dabao?

Lu Haotian didn't notice Chen Shuo behind him. The Santa hat on his head looked a bit comical. He excitedly said to the couple beside him, "Dad, look! Mom, look! Isn't Da Bao really beautiful? I like her. When I grow up, I want to marry her."

These words reached Chen Shuo's ears without missing a single one, and his expression instantly turned ferocious.

The veins on his arms bulged, and his hands were clenched into fists, the knuckles cracking.

"I'll teach this chubby kid a lesson sooner or later—it's all about what it means to get into trouble because of what you say!"

Chen Shuo really wanted to kick him, but reason made him give up the idea. He could only suppress his anger and say a harsh word through gritted teeth.

How dare they covet my precious daughter!

The chubby boy sitting in the front row seemed to sense something and turned around to look. He met Chen Shuo's gaze, which was filled with murderous intent and anger. The boy burst into tears.

The parents nearby, not knowing what was wrong, quickly comforted the child and asked, "Why are you crying all of a sudden?"

"That uncle's eyes were so scary." The chubby boy sobbed, clearly quite frightened.

"Which uncle?" The chubby boy's father turned around and glanced at the group of parents behind him. None of them knew which uncle his son was talking about, and after looking around, he couldn't find any uncle with scary eyes.

Of course he couldn't find him, because as soon as the little fat boy started crying, Chen Shuo had already looked away and was now talking to his wife with his head down.

Bai Xiaoqi held his arm in her arms, gently stroking the back of Chen Shuo's hand, and kept whispering things like "calm down."

But she was also very angry and couldn't understand how there could be such a shameless child in the world.

Chapter 317 You Don't Want to Be With Dad

Because of that chubby boy, Chen Shuo, the daughter performing on stage, didn't pay much attention. When he calmed down a bit and turned his attention back to the stage, the play was almost over.

A bunch of kids were dressed in their own clothes, and it didn't look like a stage play at all. The only difference was Da Bao.

Although she was also wrapped in a thick down jacket, she was wearing a white fake beard on her chin and holding a cane, so it seemed that the role she was playing was an old man.

The old man paced back and forth on the stage, seemingly imitating walking on the street, while reciting lines such as, "Christmas is coming, but nowadays kids don't believe in Santa Claus anymore, so they don't celebrate Christmas."

Then a group of children came out and overheard these words, and told Da Bao that Santa Claus is fake and there is no Santa Claus in the world.

The children's show had rather simple dialogue and acting, but you could tell that these kids were trying very hard to perform.

After a string of lines, the play reached its climax when Chen Qinghan took a Santa hat out of her pocket, put it on her head, and then took off her down jacket, revealing a red Santa suit underneath.

"I'm not pretending anymore, I'm Santa Claus, I'm coming clean."

The adults below were all stunned. Holy crap, what kind of genius came up with this plot?

Chen Shuo started watching from this part, and he was shocked. A kindergarten performing this kind of program, like the crooked-mouthed war god, isn't it too advanced for these little kids?

The rest of the play involves a bunch of kids learning about Santa Claus and so on, and then it ends there.

A group of kids bowed together on stage, and Chen Qinghan grabbed her down jacket and ran off the stage, asking her expectantly how her performance went.

"Well done, exceptionally well done!" Although he only watched a short part of the later part, Chen Shuo still praised his daughter's acting skills.

At least she didn't feel embarrassed standing on stage performing such a stupid play; in comparison, he, as her father, was actually embarrassed.

"Dad, you're so fake. I saw it all up there, but you clearly didn't look at it much."

"Uh...."

Chen Shuo felt awkward. Da Bao was the same age as Xiao Bao, but he was much smarter than his younger brother, like a little adult, and sometimes he was even a bit wicked.

Since you know Dad didn't watch it, why are you still asking? Aren't you doing this on purpose?

Bai Xiaoqi took the down jacket from Chen Qinghan and placed it on her lap. Then she reached out and hugged her daughter, kissed her little cheek, and pointed to the chubby boy in the front row, saying, "Do you know that chubby boy?"

"Yes, I know him. He's Lu Haotian."

"Mommy, Mommy, I know it too, why didn't you ask me?"