"Oh? Lord Qin, you don't find it beneath you?" Yu He teased intentionally.
Qin Beiting let out a cold laugh, "Heh, do you think I'm an idiot? First, you play hard to get, and now you're trying to provoke me. You just want me to stay, don't you?"
"Oh, not bad, you figured it out," Yu He said, showing no sign of shame at being exposed in front of everyone.
At this moment, Duoduo had already jumped down from her chair and fetched a new set of chopsticks and a spoon. She handed them to Qin Beiting, "Handsome Uncle, please, don't be shy. Try my Mommy's cooking. I guarantee you'll want more after the first bite."
Qin Beiting glanced at the dishes on the table. They looked good, but the fact that others had already touched them made him disgusted. "You want me to eat leftovers?"
Yueyue, sitting next to Duoduo, saw Qin Beiting's disgusted expression and jotted down in his phone's memo:
Fussy, particular, arrogant.
Yu He had anticipated Qin Beiting's potential disdain. She got up and went to the kitchen. She was stewing some soup in a pot. She added a piece of noodle to the soup. After a while, a bowl of pork rib noodles was placed in front of Qin Beiting.
Qin Beiting's gaze shifted slightly. This woman seemed to have put in a lot of effort. She even found out he liked pork rib noodles.
He couldn't quite remember when he started liking pork rib noodles. It felt like there was a delicious bowl of pork rib noodles from his memory, but he had tried many others and none tasted like the one he remembered.
Qin Beiting took a sip of the soup. It was very fresh and tasted familiar, exactly the taste he was looking for!
He suddenly looked up, "Who did you learn this noodle dish from?"
"I learned it from my grandmother when I was little," Yu He replied.
However, she had combined it with her own knowledge of medicinal diets and tonics for the broth.
"She..."
"Sister He, there's a patient outside who needs you." At this moment, Xiao Qing entered, interrupting Qin Beiting.
"If it's good, eat more. I need to go out. Yueyue, Duoduo, you two eat nicely by yourselves." Yu He put down the bowl and chopsticks she had just picked up and left.
At the dinner table, only the two adults and two children remained. Although Qin Beiting was still upset with the children's behavior earlier, he decided not to hold it against them for now, considering the special bowl of pork rib noodles made just for him.
"Handsome Uncle, isn't my Mommy pretty? Is her cooking delicious? Do you want to consider marrying her?" Duoduo asked with blinking eyes.
Qin Beiting was not accustomed to talking while eating. He lowered his head and focused on the noodles.
The taste was so familiar. And that lease signed five years ago. It indicated that the house had been transferred to Yu He five years ago, otherwise, she wouldn't have been so brazen.
He had a nagging feeling that they knew each other five years ago, but for some reason, he couldn't recall anything.
Seeing Qin Beiting's silence, Duoduo thought he was still angry about her pulling his hair. She proactively apologized:
"Handsome Uncle, I'm sorry about earlier. Why don't you stay here tonight? Let my Mommy tell you a bedtime story, and you won't be angry anymore, okay?"
Upon hearing this, Qin Beiting looked up at her. Yueyue immediately pulled Duoduo aside and whispered, "Why are you asking him to stay overnight?"
"If he stays overnight, we can pull his hair while he's asleep tonight!" Duoduo said innocently.
How could you even think of that?
"We can do it now. Why wait until tonight?" Yueyue whispered.
"How can we do it now? Daddy won't be so foolish as to let us pull his hair twice, right?" Duoduo said.
"Watch me." Yueyue said, then whispered his plan into Duoduo's ear.
Before Duoduo could ask if it would work, he had already turned around and started rummaging through the refrigerator for some fruit to wash in the kitchen.
Duoduo had no choice but to return to her seat and continue with her plan.
If Daddy stayed and lived with Mommy for a night, and then it was like in those CEO novels with a one-night stand, Daddy and Mommy would be bound together forever.
"Handsome Uncle, have you thought about it?" Duoduo tilted her head and asked.
Seeing that he was still silent, Duoduo added, "My Daddy already abandoned me and Mommy. He's a big jerk and has forgotten Mommy. He won't come back to fight with you for me and my brother. If you marry my Mommy, you'll have two adorable children like us..."
Qin Beiting finished his pork rib noodles slowly and contentedly. The only downside was the noise.
He put down his chopsticks and elegantly wiped the corner of his mouth with a napkin. "Didn't you say last time that your father was an ugly, poor, and short-lived man?"
Duoduo: "Uh..."
Did she say that last time?
"Stop babbling. I am not going to be a rebound." Qin Beiting said coldly.
Hearing this, Duoduo pouted, her eyebrows drooping, looking at him pitifully, as if on the verge of tears.
For some reason, Qin Beiting felt a pang of reluctance.
"Uncle Qin, have you eaten enough? Have some fruit afterwards."
At this moment, Yueyue came over with a plate of persimmons. A fruit knife was placed next to the fruit platter.
He walked to the dining table, found the right angle, and then suddenly tripped over his right foot with his left foot. He stumbled forward, and the fruit platter and the knife on it were hurled directly at Qin Beiting.
Yueyue: "Oh no, Uncle Qin, be careful!"
Seeing a small bun and a pile of things lunging at him, Qin Beiting instinctively raised his hand to support Yueyue, preventing him from hitting the tabletop. The persimmons and the fruit knife all landed on his lap.
"Oh dear, I'm so sorry, I slipped. Did I hurt you?" Yueyue said, leaning on Qin Beiting's lap to check.
The sharp fruit knife slid down from his thigh, cutting a small gash and scratching his leg, causing a few drops of blood to bead.
Yueyue quickly grabbed a tissue and helped him wipe away the blood. Seeing only a few tiny drops of blood, as if not enough for a paternity test, he poked it a bit harder.
Duoduo also came over to look. "Wow, brother, you're so careless. Hurry and call Mommy, or the wound will heal."
"..."
"Get lost!" Qin Beiting got up, pushed the two children away, and left with a grim expression.
"Brother, is Daddy angry?" Duoduo took two steps back, almost falling.
"Don't mind him," Yueyue said, looking at the tissue with a bit of Qin Beiting's blood on it and frowning. "I don't know if this little bit is enough."
Upon hearing this, Duoduo's attention was immediately diverted. "Then let's hurry and send it to the hospital's paternity testing center to ask?"
The two little ones acted quickly. While the adults were busy, they quietly slipped out the back door.
They took a taxi to the hospital. The nurse saw two adorable children and squatted down, asking, "Little ones, is something the matter?"
"Miss Nurse, we suspect we might not be Daddy's biological children, so we'd like to do a paternity test. Where can we do it?" Duoduo asked obediently.
The nurse was charmed by her cuteness. "But paternity tests require an adult to be present."
"We have money," Duoduo said, pulling out a bank card.
The nurse looked at it. This was the Shen family's black card!
Were these two little rascals the Shen family's children?
But wasn't Shen Yao an only child?
Could they be Shen Yao's children?