Chapter 41: Returning Home_3
Looking at his daughter who had somehow fallen into an awkward situation, Lin Yun sighed helplessly, "It's after eight, haven't you eaten yet?"
"Don't, don't change the subject!"
Lin Xiaolu retracted one hand to cover her stomach, her ears heating up: "What I'm talking about is your indecisiveness!"
"Did you eat at noon?" Lin Yun undid his tie and walked towards the dining room.
Her gaze followed Lin Yun as he moved, and Lin Xiaolu subconsciously blurted out, "I didn't eat much... No, that's not what I'm talking about!"
Lin Yun, however, was taking off his suit jacket and draping it over the back of the dining room chair: "We generally don't keep fresh ingredients at home, but I happened to buy some vegetables today. Do you want meat for dinner?"
"Meat... it's already eight, let's not." Lin Xiaolu pondered.
"It's only eight, eating more meat is good for you."
While speaking, Lin Yun took out two plastic containers used for packaging meat: "It seems you haven't grown much taller this past month."
"It's not like I want it that way, my body just won't grow."
Mumbling, Lin Xiaolu stood up from the chair and edged into the kitchen: "I don't need to eat meat, I've been dieting lately."
"Dieting? You're barely a few pounds, skinny like a sprout."
Lin Yun washed his hands and started preparing the ingredients in the kitchen: "Plus, you're only fourteen, it's time to grow, why suddenly think about dieting?"
"I've eaten a bit too much recently."
Lin Xiaolu moved closer to the sink, her expression complicated: "Gained four pounds."
"How much?" Lin Yun turned to look at her.
"...Four pounds." Lin Xiaolu struggled mentally before saying it, "The food at the secret base is too good."
After scrutinizing Lin Xiaolu seriously, Lin Yun noticed that in these days, her face had indeed become slightly rounder. It was only because they were together day and night that such a subtle change had been overlooked until now.
"No worries, gaining some weight is fine."
After a moment's thought, his hand hovered over the plastic container, picked it up, and then put it back down, but in the end, he still tore off the wrapping: "Growing up, it's okay." Your adventure continues at My Virtual Library Empire
Even after noticing this change, he didn't mind his daughter gaining a little weight, in fact, Emerald Sparrow also cooked with this principle at the secret base. From the perspective of a father, his daughter's height and development were clearly more important.
Slightly opening her mouth, Lin Xiaolu probably realized that she wouldn't convince her father on this matter and took out several boxes of ready-made meals from the fridge: "...I'll prepare the side dishes."
During her time at the secret base, she had gradually gotten used to helping in the kitchen. Although she still wasn't very useful, she had learned what she was capable of, so naturally, there was no reason to sit idle.
Father and daughter stood side by side at the kitchen counter, Lin Yun handling the meat, while not forgetting to keep the conversation going: "So, what were you doing with a chair at the entrance? Why insist on sitting there and playing with your phone?"
"I wasn't sitting there playing with the phone."
Lin Xiaolu immediately raised her head and retorted, "I was waiting for you!"
"Waiting for me for what?"
"To tell you I saw you two-timing, to give you a warning!"
Lin Xiaolu earnestly said, "I wanted to tell you as soon as you got back, to have a deterrent effect!"
"...How did you come up with such an odd strategy?" Lin Yun was somewhat speechless.
"I saw it on TV." Lin Xiaolu said confidently.
"Fine, let's assume that's true. Then that small blackboard, wasn't it used for studying at home if I remember correctly? Why did you move it to the entrance?"
Lin Yun soaked the meat in water: "If you don't want it anymore, throw it out, don't leave it there like it's big trash."
"That's not throwing out trash."
Lin Xiaolu was slightly disgruntled: "I originally wanted to write a slogan on it!"
"What slogan?"
"A slogan against two-timing, to criticize harshly!" Lin Xiaolu ripped open the packaging of the ready-made meal box fiercely.
"...Even if what you say is right, where's your slogan?" Lin Yun asked curiously.
"Couldn't think of a good one, so I wiped it off." Lin Xiaolu said sullenly.
"After wiping it off you just gave up writing?"
"No, I thought about searching online for something decent."
Lin Xiaolu looked at the package in her hand, her voice getting quieter: "But after searching for a long time, I suddenly remembered I hadn't done today's tasks in the game."
"So?"
"Just, played a bit, incidentally." Lin Xiaolu shifted her gaze away.
This also clarified what shenanigans she was up to at the entrance, but compared to the somewhat comedic situation at the door, after learning the truth, Lin Yun was slightly troubled:
Did he have a silly daughter?
"I'm not silly!" Lin Xiaolu immediately retorted.
"I didn't say anything." Lin Yun glanced at her and continued with the food preparation.
"You didn't say anything because you think I'm silly!"
Lin Xiaolu was a bit annoyed: "These are just accidents!"
"Alright, alright, they're accidents." Lin Yun conceded with a nod.
"So, that's not what I want to talk about! Don't you try to change the subject! I want to discuss the matter of you going shopping with that woman!"
"Don't call her 'that woman' in such an impolite way, you could call her auntie, or sister, or at the very least, senior."
Lin Yun lectured, "After all, she is a senior in the Magical Girl field, and she's from Fangting City. You don't need to be so hostile towards her."
"She's even imitating my mom, how can I not be hostile towards her?"