They slept a little on the car ride last night and arrived at City Hang at 3 AM and started merchandising at 4 AM. Now, they were all exhausted. Nobody said anything but slept all the way back to City Nan.
The good thing about splitting a car was that the driver would drop them off at the front of their shop. It was now 10 AM, and the workers and foreman were working on the remodeling. Zhang Huaxiu wasn’t at the shop. The foreman told Shu Yan that she went to get some stuff from the market.
Shu Yan was worried about her kids at home, so she didn’t wait around for Zhang Huaxiu but left a word with the foreman and headed home.
The two kids were very well behaved. Jingjing was doing her homework and Tianbo was sitting in bed playing with his toy car.
“Mom.” Jingjing’s eyes beamed when she saw her mother.
Their mother had left the night before for merchandising and didn’t know when she’d be back. She even bought them food ahead of time. Ye Jingjing didn’t think she’d be back so soon.
“Have you had breakfast yet?” Shu Yan glanced over at the kitchen. She worried about them using the stove and wouldn’t let them go inside the kitchen. She bought them a lot of biscuits and other dried goods.
“Yes.”
“No.”
The two kids replied at the same time.
Jingjing was the one who said they had eaten and Tianbo was the one who said they hadn’t. Shu Yan could see biscuit crumbs around Tianbo’s mouth. She poked him on his forehead and said, “A little puppy ate the biscuits then.”
“There’s no puppy in the house,” said Tianbo, looking at Shu Yan dumbfounded.
“Yes, it’s right here.” Shu Yan laughed and pinched his nose.
“I am not a puppy.” Ye Tianbao giggled.
“Mom will go and make you lunch. It won’t be long.” It’s already past 11 AM. The two kids must be starving.
She quickly cooked some noodles, fried up a few eggs, mixed a cold dish, and a simple lunch was done. Shu Yan drank a few spoonful of hot soup and her stomach felt much better right away. In the past, she had always thought that those in the clothing industry always got to dress up nicely, put on nice makeup, and just sit around the shop to collect money. Now that she had her own shop, she finally learned that being in the clothing industry was no small feat.
She really didn’t want to do the dishes. Shu Yan had Jingjing take Tianbo to play in her room. Once Shu Yan got back to her own room, she didn’t even change before she plopped down in bed. Her entire brain felt dull right now, and she fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
When the alarm went off, Shu Yan really wanted to toss it across the room. But, thinking about the two kids, she must get up to make them dinner. No wonder everybody says that mothers are superhumans. They were all forced into it.
Spareribs and corn soup, a plate of fried vegetables, and a cold dish, that was the dinner for the three of them.
“I want more, Mom.” Tianbo could eat on his own now and was very good at it too.
That was mainly the credit of the teachers. The teachers at the kindergarten and tutorial center didn’t care if you had eaten enough. If students didn’t want to eat, then they would go hungry in the afternoon. After two or three times, Tianbo became very proactive when it came to eating. He even stopped being picky about what he ate at home as well.
“Mom, I want to bring lunch like big sister too.” Tianbo was very envious that his sister got to bring the lunch that their mother made for her to bring to school every day. There were eggs and meat. He only got a couple slices of meat at the kindergarten.
“You don’t like the meals at the kindergarten?” They charged $200 a month. That was definitely high end as far as kindergartens were concerned. They weren’t skimming on the kids’ food, were they?
“It was all carrots, potatoes, and leafy vegetables. We only get one to two slices of meat. Mom’s cooking is way better,” said Tianbo while looking at his mother like a little puppy.
“Mom will go and check it out at the kindergarten tomorrow.” Shu Yan suddenly remembered news that she had heard in the past when parents found out that the kitchens of some kindergartens were very dirty, and they only fed the kids with potatoes and leafy vegetables. She suddenly felt worried and decided that she’d have to personally go check it out.
