I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 450. Xiaoyu catches her husband cheating!

seven in the morning.

"I was shameless enough to participate in the challenge when I was seventeen."

"Even celebrities have training programs; it's such a novel experience in just one year."

Yao Jinping leisurely stirred the egg mixture with chopsticks, humming Andy Lau's "17 Years Old" softly.

Wu Lingyu listened for half a minute by the kitchen doorway before whispering, "Good morning, Auntie!"

"Yeah~"

Yao Jinping put down the egg mixture and turned around: "Yu'er, you're up so early? I just started making breakfast, egg pancakes and dried vegetable porridge. I thought you weren't up this early."

Wu Lingyu smiled sweetly at Yao Jinping: "I went to bed very early last night, Auntie, let me help you!"

After she finished speaking, she picked up the apron hanging on the wall, put it on, rolled up her sleeves, and came in to help.

Yao Jinping didn't refuse; with Xiaoyu's help, she could finish earlier and go back to sleep.

Normally, she would never get up this early to make breakfast for the whole family, but today we have guests over!

Especially since there's a high possibility that her future daughter-in-law might be among them, Yao Jinping definitely needs to present a good mother-in-law image to them in advance.

[Although Xiaoxiao and Yu'er are great, it's good for the brat to have more choices, especially since the girls are all so pretty.]
[But Yu'er is truly virtuous. And she has a big butt too.]
Yao Jinping started heating the pan to make pancakes, but her gaze kept sweeping over Wu Lingyu.

"Auntie?" Xiaoyu blinked innocently.

"Oh, it's nothing, just checking how well you washed the dried vegetables." Yao Jinping nodded and smiled, continuing to make her pancakes.

"I've already washed it three times. Should I just put it directly into the porridge?" Wu Lingyu drained the water from the dried vegetables.

"Put the porridge in once it's boiling, and also put in the soaked dried scallops and dried fish from the small bowl," Yao Jinping replied.

Wu Lingyu opened the pot lid, and after seeing the water boil, she stirred the bottom of the pot with a spoon to prevent it from burning.

She first put in the dried scallops and dried fish, then poured in some peanut oil before adding the last of the dried vegetables.

Turn the fire down to a simmer and wait for twenty minutes, and you'll have a pot of delicious scallop and dried vegetable porridge.

[Fan Ge's favorite food is dried vegetable porridge with fried dough sticks!]
Wu Lingyu was in a great mood because Fan Ge could eat the loving breakfast she and his aunt made as soon as he got up.

She placed two chopsticks on the rim of the pot and left a gap when she closed the lid, so that the porridge wouldn't overflow after it boiled.

After finishing all that, Wu Lingyu wiped her hands clean on her apron and then looked at the large pile of ingredients on the worktable.

"Auntie, do these meats need to be cut and marinated?" she asked, pointing to the chicken, duck, goose, pork, and fish on the table.

"The whole chicken is steamed with five-finger peach, the duck is used to make soup, and half a goose is pan-fried and then used for braising." Yao Jinping explained her plans for these ingredients one by one, and Wu Lingyu knew what to do without her having to say another word.

If only things could continue like this in the future, with me getting up early and helping the aunt prepare breakfast and lunch for Fan Ge and everyone else.
Wu Lingyu felt that she would be very happy in the future!
It's not that she enjoys cooking, but rather that the thought of giving to the one she loves is something that brings her happiness.

Of course, the premise is that you can get love in return, otherwise you'd just be a simp.

Yao Jinping quickly finished making all the egg pancakes. After eating one herself, she picked up another and fed it to Xiaoyu.

"Let's eat some egg pancakes to fill our stomachs first."

"Thank you, Auntie!" Wu Lingyu was wearing gloves and had just finished massaging the chickens, so Yao Jinping had to feed them.

The egg pancake was finished very quickly.

Yao Jinping's hands were clean. She helped her tuck her hair behind her ear and said, "Go to the refrigerator and get a bottle of milk. Leave the rest to Auntie."

Our family has always had the habit of subscribing to milk. Every morning, someone delivers the milk to the milk box at the door. It's bottled Yantang milk, which only uses pasteurization and doesn't contain preservatives, so its shelf life is only three days.

"My hands are all dirty, let me continue," Wu Lingyu said with a beaming smile, raising her two hands.

"Alright then, Auntie will braise the goose first, then set a timer to make soup." Yao Jinping affectionately tapped her nose, not refusing Xiaoyu's kindness.

The two were busy in the kitchen, each doing their own task, which gave the impression of a harmonious relationship between a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

When goose meat is pan-fried in an iron wok, the skin and meat shrink when heated, and the fat is quickly rendered out, making a "crackling" sound on the wok.

Yao Jinping kept adjusting the position of the iron pot to ensure that each piece of goose was heated evenly.

This was a time-consuming but effortless task, so she had time to chat with Wu Lingyu: "The midterm exams are coming up soon, right? Xiaoyu, are you still confident of getting first place?"

“Fan Ge and Xiao Xiao are much smarter than me~” Wu Lingyu replied in a charmingly innocent way.

One is her youngest child, and the other is her own son; Yao Jinping can't very well put one down and the other up.

She laughed and said, "It doesn't matter what rank I get, as long as I give it my all."

“I know!” Wu Lingyu replied with a smile.

Yao Jinping then asked, "Yu'er is in Class 10, right?"

“Yes, Class 10 of Grade 1, Fan Ge and Ruan Wen are in Class 16, Xiao Xiao is in Class 1, and Wan Ning and Yi Yi are in Class 2.” Wu Lingyu introduced everyone’s classes.

"Yu'er, are you getting used to being in a class all by yourself?"

Have you made any new classmates or friends?

Wu Lingyu immediately replied, "Auntie is used to it. Brother Fan sometimes eats with everyone and has met many new classmates."

"Are there both male and female students?" Yao Jinping suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Wu Lingyu blinked.

Although she didn't understand what the aunt meant by asking that question, she still answered truthfully, "I am the class monitor, so everyone knows me."

Yao Jinping was extremely anxious; that wasn't what she really wanted to ask!
"Has Xiaoyu made any close friends at school?"

“Like Xiao Xiao Wan Ning and the others, and my rascal!” she added.

"Yes, there is!" Wu Lingyu answered after hearing only the first half of the sentence, and Xie Rui was the first person that came to her mind.

"what?"

"Really?"

Yao Jinping was instantly flustered. What if, by some accident, her chosen daughter-in-law was snatched away by someone else!

Wu Lingyu was also dumbfounded. Look at what they were saying, what did they mean by "Really?"

what?
Is Xiaoyu some kind of really bad person?

Can't I make good friends?
"No, no, that's not what Auntie meant!"

"Auntie means... she means..."

Yao Jinping also panicked instantly, remembering a comment Lin Jing often made about her: "If you can't speak properly, you should just shut up."

"That's not what Auntie meant. Auntie is just worried that you might make some bad friends of the opposite sex. Yu'er's mother isn't usually around, so I definitely need to keep an eye on you!"

"Pfft." Wu Lingyu's shoulders trembled as she tried to hold back her laughter.

She thought this kind of aunt was especially cute, just like the bad guy Fan who was caught doing something wrong that night!
Wu Lingyu's face flushed slightly as she said, "I don't have any male friends." She didn't understand why Yao Jinping emphasized the word "male," but she still had a faint expectation in her heart.

[Could it be that Auntie wants me to be Fan's wife, that's why?]
Yao Jinping's eyes lit up, but soon, a strange smell wafted into her nose.

She followed the scent, turned around and looked down to see a goose being fried in a pot.

"goose!"

"My goodness!" Yao Jinping hurriedly flipped the goose meat with a spatula. The small piece of goose meat that had just been heated had already turned completely charred.

Wu Lingyu rushed over to check, and luckily only a small part was burnt; she could scrape it off with a knife and still eat it.

"Auntie, you can just scrape it clean with a knife." She kindly handed over a small knife.

Yao Jinping regained her composure and picked up a knife to remove the small piece of paste.

"High school should still focus on academics, okay? Auntie was just worried that Yu'er might start dating too early. Since she hasn't made any male friends, I'm relieved for your mother." She explained, her words seemingly aimed at concealing something.

"I know!" Wu Lingyu's eyes crinkled into crescent moons with laughter.

[Focus on your studies, and dating Fan Ge will be secondary!] Xiao Yu silently added in her mind.

"Yu'er has always been so well-behaved and never causes any trouble."

"Tell your aunt about what happened at school."

Yao Jinping started humming Andy Lau's "Forget Love Potion" again, indicating that she was in a really good mood.

"Okay!"

"Auntie, let me tell you something."

Wu Lingyu immediately told Yao Jinping about Xie Rui's situation.

"Fan suggested that the school issue scholarships based on abnormal meal card spending. Now Xie Rui receives a 60 yuan subsidy on his meal card every week, and he no longer has to secretly buy white rice for himself!"

To avoid revealing Xu Qingfan's donation to the school, Wu Lingyu recounted the events with reservations.

"You did a good deed but didn't even tell your mother!" My mother was still as proud and aloof as ever.

Yao Jinping was quite happy. She had originally thought about sponsoring the child's schooling after hearing the first half of the story, but her son had solved the problem with just a few words.

“Because in Brother Fan’s eyes it’s just a small matter!” Wu Lingyu’s eyes shone.

Yao Jinping silently memorized Xie Rui's name, thinking, "Next time I prepare things for the children, I can prepare an extra set for her."
"If she wants to work during the winter break, she can come to my shop. I'll pay her a high salary!"

"Thank you, aunt!"

"I'll go back to school and talk to her about it this week!"

Wu Lingyu also remembered Xie Rui mentioning that cutting a pair of trouser legs would only earn one cent, and even working for an hour wouldn't guarantee five yuan.

[Xie Rui is hardworking; introducing him to help out at Auntie's shop is a win-win situation!]
"By the way, Yu'er," Yao Jinping suddenly said.

"What's wrong?" Wu Lingyu came back to her senses and looked up in confusion.

"Is Xie Rui pretty?" Yao Jinping asked, somewhat embarrassed.

Wu Lingyu:
"She's very tall, just as tall as Xiaoxiao."

"You're tall, that's great." Yao Jinping knew Wu Lingyu wouldn't lie; if she only said she was tall and didn't mention whether she was pretty or not, then she definitely wasn't pretty.

The two worked from 7:00 to 8:30 and finally finished processing all the ingredients.

"Ha~ Auntie is going back to sleep. If I'm not awake by midnight, Yu'er, you can call that brat to cook." Yao Jinping yawned. She got up at six to buy groceries, and she was already at her limit.

"got it!"

After watching Yao Jinping leave, Wu Lingyu went to the restroom first to wash her hands.

After smelling her hands to make sure there was no fishy smell, she dried them and came out of the bathroom.

The wall clock already showed nine o'clock, but apart from my little brother who was up, everyone else in the family was still sleeping.

Why isn't everyone up yet?
Wu Lingyu tilted her head in confusion. She remembered that everyone went to bed at 11 o'clock last night. Even if they slept for nine hours, they should have woken up around 8 o'clock.

And don't people usually wake up very early on their first night sleeping in a new environment?
Wu Lingyu returned to the second floor with doubts.

Upon arriving at the room where the six of them were huddled together, unsurprisingly, all the doors were tightly closed.

Wu Lingyu bit her lower lip lightly. It was 9:10. It was about time to wake everyone up for breakfast.

The first person she wanted to wake up was naturally Xu Qingfan!
Once she had an idea, she put it into practice. Although Xiao Xiao and Ruan Wen's rooms were closest to hers, Wu Lingyu still took a few extra steps to reach Xu Qingfan's door.

[Fan Ge is definitely going to kiss me again, but I won't let him kiss me until I brush my teeth!]
Wu Lingyu recalled the scenes in her mind when she used to wake Fan Ge up, either by holding her tightly or burying her head in her body and sucking her breath.

Although Xu Qingfan had promised that he wouldn't do anything without her permission, Wu Lingyu still decided to lock the door from the inside after entering the house!

Because she allowed it.

The thought flashed through her mind in an instant, and a smile spread across Wu Lingyu's face.

then.

Her smile faltered.

Damn it, the door is locked from the inside!!!

Wu Lingyu didn't keep a key to Xu Qingfan's room, so she couldn't lock the door like Xia Xiaoxiao did and have a backup plan.

[Bad Fan, not allowed this week!]
Xiaoyu looked aggrieved and had no choice but to turn around and call Wanning to get up.

Lin Wanning's door opened with a turn of the knob, and Wu Lingyu peeked inside to take a look.

The girl was fast asleep, hugging her blanket, breathing steadily, and it seemed she wouldn't wake up anytime soon.

[Wan Ning usually sleeps until after ten o'clock.] Wu Lingyu gently closed the door, deciding not to wake Lin Wan Ning for the time being.

After she came out, she looked around. To her left was Xiao Ruanwen, and to her right was Zhang Yiyi.

Just as Wu Lingyu was thinking about who to call first, a voice suddenly popped into her head, telling her that she should call Yiqi to get up first.

It's not that there was actually a voice that was so eerie, it's just that I suddenly subconsciously wanted to do this first.

Wu Lingyu took two steps to Zhang Yiyi's room door, put her hand on the doorknob, and with a little force, the door was unlocked.

She opened the door a crack and, just like before, peeked inside to observe. If Yi Yi was also fast asleep, she would then go check on Xiao Xiao and Ruan Wen's room.

however.

Wu Lingyu thought she was seeing things, blinked, blinked again, but the bed remained empty.

Unconvinced, she rubbed her eyes again, but the room remained empty.

"no."

Wu Lingyu was dumbfounded. Where was such a big guy?
She went into the room and searched carefully, even under the bed, but still couldn't find Zhang Yiyi.

Suddenly, a possibility occurred to her, and without even bothering to put on her shoes, she rushed out of the room barefoot.

There is no toilet.

There is no balcony.

Ruan Wen's room was empty.

There's still no small room!

After searching everywhere, Wu Lingyu finally returned to Xu Qingfan's bedroom door, her eyes seemingly able to see through things, staring intently inside.

She was certain.

[Here it is.]
[In Fan Ge's room!]
(End of this chapter)