Night Owl bit her ear and said, "You are my woman. No one can stop me from showing off as I want."
Bai Suye's heart trembled because of his previous words.
After a while, she took Night Owl's hand away, turned around and looked at him with a smile, "You don't have to worry about it, but your godfather may be even more displeased with me when he gets back. I'm trying my best to please him, you have to help me and don't cause me any more trouble."
Night Owl looked at her deeply, nodded, and let her go, "Go."
Bai Suye didn't stay any longer and went to the kitchen.
"Why are you back again?" When Ye's mother saw her come in, she couldn't help but look at her quietly. Seeing that there was no emotion on her face, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"I want to cook a dish for Ye Xiao. Also, he said his adoptive father likes to eat taro, so I want to cook some too." Bai Suye smiled faintly and said a little embarrassedly: "Aunt, can you cook? I seldom cook, so I don't know much."
When Ye Mu heard her say this, she immediately smiled and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, I know all of these. If you want to learn, I will teach you."
Finally, she added, "Actually, when I didn't have much contact with his adoptive father before, I was also quite afraid of him. However, after getting to know him a little better, I felt that he was not as cold and heartless as he seemed. It may be because of his age. The older people are, the more afraid of loneliness they are. I have experienced this and I know it best. So, don't be afraid of Mr. Fei. Sooner or later, he will let go of your matter."
Bai Suye nodded.
In fact, her impression of Ferens has always been the same as before—cruel, cold-blooded and heartless. However, what Night Mother said was not wrong. Ferens has not had a real relative besides Night Owl for so many years, and he is probably afraid of loneliness. Especially when the years pass by and the years invade.
So, no matter how indestructible people seem on the outside, they actually always have a fragile side.
… … … …
The kitchen was quite lively.
After Bai Suye finished making the tomato and egg soup, she carefully learned from Ye Mu how to steam pork ribs with taro, which took quite a while.
By the time the servants brought the other dishes to the table, Ferrens was already sitting there with a dark face from hunger.
When Bai Suye came out of the kitchen with the remaining dishes, Feilunsi said, "You are really clumsy. It takes so much effort to make one dish!"
Although Ye's mother had comforted Bai Suye in the kitchen before, she was, after all, someone who had been threatened with a gun by Ferens, so she was not so relaxed in front of him.
Bai Suye, on the other hand, didn't care about his anger. She just placed the taro ribs in front of him and said, "I'm worried that you have bad teeth and can't chew the ribs, so I steamed them a little softer for you. It will definitely take a little longer."
"What a joke! Who said I had bad teeth? Nonsense!" Ferrens glared at him.
Bai Suye pointed at Ye Xiao and betrayed him directly, "Your son said so."
Night Owl was speechless. She must have done it on purpose.
The next second, the anger really burned to his head. Ferrens looked at him coldly, "You think I'm old, right?"
"I don't dare."
"I think you're very brave!"
Ye Xiao did not answer his adoptive father's words. He just pulled Bai Suye's hand and said, "Sit down and eat."
Ferrens snorted, his cold eyes drifted over the two people, and finally asked the servant beside him with a stern face, "What two dishes did she cook?"
"Mr. Fei, one is the taro in front of you, and the other is tomato."
"Hmph!" Ferrens pushed Xiangtaro away and glanced at her with disdain, "It's so ugly, it makes me sick to put it in front of me. Take it away, take it away!"
The servant looked at him, then at Ye Xiao and Bai Suye, not knowing what to do for a moment. Miss Bai really put a lot of effort into the kitchen. If she took it away like this, she would probably be sad, right
"It looks a bit ugly, but it tastes good." Just as Ye Mu was about to speak to smooth things over, Bai Suye spoke first. She didn't look sad at all, but took a spoon to scoop up some taro and pork ribs and put them into Ferens' bowl. Ferens frowned, "What are you doing?"
Bai Suye replied calmly, "I'm trying to please you, otherwise I wouldn't have made this dish."
As if he didn't expect her to answer so bluntly, Ferrens was stunned. Night Owl couldn't help but look up at her twice.
"Hmph! Don't think I'm so easy to bribe! Take a look at what you've done first. Can a few pieces of taro offset that?"
Bai Suye was so shameless that it was rare for her to say, "If a few pieces can't make up for it, then I'll make more in the future."
"Thinking about the future? That's nice of you!"
She smiled and didn't say anything. Ferrens saw her smiling face and was speechless for a moment. He lowered his head to look at the taro and pork ribs in the bowl, and pushed them aside with his chopsticks, but never ate them.
Bai Suye did not talk to Feiren Si anymore, only occasionally chatting with Ye Mu and Ye Xiao. When he looked at Feiren Si's bowl again, the taro ribs were gone, leaving only two bare ribs. On the side, when the servant silently scooped taro for him, he did not resist anymore.
Ye Mu also noticed this phenomenon and looked at her with some encouragement and relief in her eyes.
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After dinner, Ye Xiao sent Bai Suye back to the hotel. Along the way, the two of them didn't talk much and were each thinking about their own things.
At midnight, Ye Xiao's cell phone started ringing frantically.
Bai Suye raised her eyes from his arms in a daze, and Ye Xiao also woke up, "Did I disturb you?"
Bai Suye shook her head. "You're calling so late, maybe it's urgent?"
Ye Xiao took the phone from the bedside and took a look at it. "It's Uncle Ming. I'll listen first."
"Um."
Ye Xiao took the phone and put it to his ear. After listening to the two sounds, his expression darkened. "I know. I'll be right there."
He just said this and hung up the phone. His expression was solemn.
"Did something happen?" Bai Suye suddenly lost his sleepiness.
"My adoptive father is in the hospital." Ye Xiao had already stood up and said to her while putting on his clothes: "You continue to sleep, I have to go over there."
How could Bai Suye sleep? She got out of bed and put on her clothes.
Ye Xiao wanted to say something, but his hand was held tightly by him, "I'll go with you."
…
Bai Suye didn't ask about the specific situation, but from Ye Xiao's expression, he could tell that Feirens's condition was probably very serious. He went abroad for recuperation a month ago, which might have been related to this condition.
She knew how Ye Xiao felt about Ferens and wanted to say something to comfort him, but in the end, she said nothing and just silently held his hand tightly in hers.