"Old man." Zhou Ming hesitated for a long time, but finally spoke.
"What's the matter? Just tell me. Why are you making all that noise?" Mr. Lin glanced at the assistant beside him.
"Well, it's like this," Zhou Ming coughed lightly and continued, "Yesterday, Wang Yu and Young Master mentioned the child's background in a roundabout way in the car."
"What did he say?"
"The young master doesn't seem to think that Lin Momo is related to him by blood..."
Later, Wang Yu carefully mentioned to Lin Cheng what happened that night when he had the accident in the hotel.
But just as Wang Yu said this, he saw Lin Cheng's expression turned cold at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was obvious that he didn't want to recall what happened that night at all. Seeing this, Wang Yu had no choice but to give up.
Zhou Ming mentioned this to Grandpa Lin just to remind him subtly: Lin Momo is not necessarily Lin Cheng's child.
However, after hearing Zhou Ming's words, Elder Lin just snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "What could that brat know? If he knew a little, he wouldn't have let people spread those messy rumors in the first place."
Zhou Ming: “…”
Lin Cheng, the person involved, doesn’t even know whether Lin Momo is his child, so who else can know
Zhou Ming silently complained in his heart.
Before he could speak again, the old man asked, "How are the things I asked you to investigate going?"
Hearing this, Zhou Ming's face tensed and he replied, "We are still investigating."
Zhou Ming carefully reported the current progress of the investigation to Grandpa Lin: At present, apart from finding out some information about Lin Momo's current situation, he has not made much progress in the investigation of the events before Lin Momo's birth.
After hearing Zhou Ming's report, Mr. Lin frowned and looked dissatisfied: "I asked you to investigate for several days, and this is all you found?"
"For now, this is the case..."
"It's been such a long time, so it's really hard to investigate what happened back then." Zhou Ming explained in a low voice.
Mr. Lin asked him to investigate the story behind Lin Cheng's scandal, especially the one about cheating fans to x fans.
The first day after receiving the task, Zhou Ming arranged for his men to go to the hotel where Lin Cheng had the accident, and tried his best to collect supporting evidence that had been overlooked.
However, ten years have passed and many clues have long been lost. It is not easy to find out the whole truth.
"Where is the child's mother?" Mr. Lin asked again.
“So far, we haven’t found it.”
Hearing this, Mr. Lin frowned deeply: "Could that brat really have done something worse than an animal?"
"It should be," Zhou Ming paused for a moment and continued, "From what I have investigated so far, the young master's suspected scam of cheating fans in the hotel was most likely a human frame-up."
Not only that, the other party seemed to deliberately conceal the truth and created a lot of 'false truths' to confuse people, which was one of the reasons why his investigation was difficult.
"However, during my investigation, I did find something very strange."
"explain."
"I asked my people to check the birth records of all hospitals across the country when Momo was born, but none of them matched her information."
There are only two possibilities in this situation: either Lin Momo was not born in the country, or Lin Momo was not born normally in the hospital.
Of course, there is another possibility: Lin Momo's background is a misunderstanding, and she and Lin Cheng are not in a relationship.
Mr. Lin's eyes darkened slightly: "And then?"
Zhou Ming: "It's temporarily closed..."
"Keep checking."
"yes."
After thinking for a while, Zhou Ming asked again: "Do we need to ask the people at the recording site to find a way to get some test samples from Momo for DNA identification?"
He was also worried that the old man was eager to ask his great-grandson for help, so he wanted the old man to know the result as soon as possible.
However, Mr. Lin waved his hand and said, "There's no rush for this."
- He could see that his daughter Momo was participating in the recording of the program very seriously, and the old man didn’t want this incident to affect the recording of the program.
“Besides, isn’t it the same whether we check early or late?” Old Master Lin muttered, his voice calm, as if he firmly believed in his heart that Lin Momo must be his good great-grandson.
Thinking of something, Mr. Lin suddenly took out his cell phone.
"By the way, Zhou Ming, young man, please let me see what's wrong with my phone. Why doesn't my voting function work?" Grandpa Lin handed the phone to Zhou Ming anxiously.
This is a voting activity launched by the program team in the live broadcast room: among the five groups of celebrity families, the family with the highest number of votes will receive a 5-minute Easter egg segment after the main film is broadcast.
Last night, the old man was going to vote for Lin Momo and his group, but his phone said he didn't vote. The same thing happened when he used his tablet.
Later, the old man renewed his membership for another year, but it still didn't work.
"Let me see."
Zhou Ming took the phone, opened the voting channel of "Living with Dad" and studied it, and soon found out the reason.
"Grandpa, not everyone can get these votes. You need to watch ads on the app to get them." You can get 1 vote for every 30-second ad you watch.
"Advertisements? Where can I see the ads? You open them and I'll open them."
Zhou Ming's eyes nearly popped out when he heard the old man's words, but seeing the old man's expression of 'I'm kidding' and thinking about his own salary, Zhou Ming still opened an advertisement for the other party and taught him how to enter the advertising channel.
adc brand milk powder contains... ingredients to help your child win at the starting line...
Good home appliances give you a good life...
Various advertisements sounded in a loop in the carriage.
Zhou Ming carefully stole a glance at the old man. At this moment, the old man was watching the advertisement seriously. After watching for 30 seconds and getting one vote, the old man would exit and go to the live broadcast room to vote for Lin Cheng and Lin Momo.
Zhou Ming opened his mouth, hesitating whether to tell the old man the truth.
Several other celebrity families have dedicated fans voting for their idols, and the number of votes for their children can reach tens of millions, while the total number of votes for Lin Cheng and Lin Momo's group so far is only more than 4,000.
Even if the old man stayed up 24 hours a day and voted, the effect would be basically negligible.
At this moment, the old man suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhou Ming.
"Did you bring your cell phone?"
Zhou Ming replied: “I brought it.” What was going on with this ominous premonition
"Then you can come and see it too."
Zhou Ming: “…”
Thus, the advertising cycle in the car turned from a duet to a duet.
—
On the other hand, Lin Momo didn't know that Mr. Lin was silently working hard to get him to vote.
At this time, she was sitting at the stairs of the small building, staring at the direction of the door without blinking.
She was waiting for Lin Cheng to come back.
When Lin Momo was about to fall asleep, the faint sound of wheels woke her up suddenly.
Lin Momo's eyes lit up, and she jumped up from the small stool and ran towards the door.
Sure enough, after running a distance, Lin Momo saw Lin Cheng coming back on a tricycle.
"dad!"
When Lin Cheng saw the girl running towards him, a smile flashed in his eyes, but he quickly frowned again.
"What did I say before I left?" Lin Cheng got off the tricycle and asked Lin Momo.
Lin Momo stopped, was stunned for a moment, and then replied guiltily: "Let me stay at home and listen to the landlord's wife, and don't run around outside..."
"I didn't run around," Lin Momo raised her head and retorted, "I only ran out when I heard you came back... to pick you up."
Lin Cheng was deeply skeptical of Lin Momo's reasoning.
Lin Momo firmly emphasized: "Really!"
She could still recognize the sound of his tricycle.
After staring at the girl for a few seconds, Lin Cheng was defeated.
"Let's go back."
"Okay." Lin Momo followed Lin Cheng obediently.
At this moment, Lin Cheng said again: "It's not safe out there, don't run around when you're alone."
Judging from the performance of the program team, Lin Cheng did not trust him.
Hearing this, Lin Momo took it seriously and agreed with it deeply in her heart.
"dad."
"Um?"
"I almost ran into a human trafficker today."
Lin Cheng's face tensed, and he asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"
"I'll wait for you..." Lin Momo told Lin Cheng what happened in the evening based on her own understanding.
"Then?"
"Then I took all the money I found earlier to the policeman at the entrance of the alley."
"Am I very smart?" Lin Momo blinked and asked Lin Cheng.
She was still thinking about what Lin Cheng had said this morning about her being stupid.
Meeting the girl's gaze seeking praise, Lin Cheng raised the corners of his mouth slightly, but he didn't give her the answer she wanted. Instead, he raised his eyebrows and asked back: "Do you dare to run around next time?"
Lin Momo shook her head.
"That's right!" Thinking of something, Lin Momo suddenly took out something from her pocket and handed it to Lin Cheng, then said with a smile: "This is for you!"
Lin Cheng took the thing Lin Momo handed over and took a look at it. It was a gold coin-shaped chocolate.
"Does the landlady give you that?"
"No." Lin Momo shook her head.
She bought this with her own money.
In the small shop at the entrance of the alley, Lin Momo spent two dollars to buy this piece of chocolate.
The money was taken from the 11 yuan that she had lost and found again, in order to ask Xie Lincheng to help her get the money back.
Lin Cheng quickly found the meaning from Lin Momo's explanation.
Lin Cheng: "Didn't you say you were running around?"
Lin Momo: “…”
Looking at Lin Momo who ran back to the small building guiltily, Lin Cheng laughed secretly.
He glanced at the 'gold coin' in his hand again - although he could smell the inferior flavor of the chocolate through the wrapping paper, Lin Cheng still put the gold coin safely into his pocket.
—
The two returned to the house.
The first thing is to calculate his income today.
Although the buns were not easy to sell at night, because the stall was open for a long time and the price was 50 cents lower than in the morning, Lin Cheng managed to sell all the remaining buns and made 65 yuan.
Including the money he earned during the day and at night, he earned a total of 143 yuan today.
Lin Momo counted the money with a look of joy on her face.
However, the smile on Lin Momo's face soon fell.
—His family owed 800 yuan this week, and he only had 4 days to sell buns. If his daily income remained the same in the future, he would not be able to complete the task.
"It's because my buns are too ugly..." Lin Momo said in a low voice with a 'sad look' on her face.
Otherwise, if he could sell all six baskets of buns in the morning, he wouldn’t have to wait until the evening to sell them at a lower price.
This way you can earn more money in a day.
"Not ugly." Looking at the girl's disappointed look, Lin Cheng rarely said something against his will.
—
After finishing the meal, the two began to prepare buns for tomorrow.
In order to ensure the production, the two still used yesterday's method to make dumplings.
Lin Cheng was responsible for making the basic shape of the buns, while Lin Momo pinched the small tips on them to distinguish the flavors.
Although Lin Momo tried very hard to make her nipples look nice, they still looked ugly.
Staring at the bun in front of her with disdain, Lin Momo suddenly had an idea and started fiddling with the bun again.
"Dad, look at this." Lin Momo handed the bun in her hand to Lin Cheng.
Originally, there were only 6 pointed buns, but now Lin Momo found 20 more small pointed ones.
Lin Cheng: “…”
"What the hell?" Lin Cheng thought that Lin Momo was taking revenge on these 'ugly guys'.
Lin Momo pouted: "It's not a ghost, it's a little hedgehog."
Lin Momo raised her hand, took the bun in her hand and moved closer to Lin Cheng, showing it carefully in front of him.
Lin Cheng then noticed that the small spikes on the bun were all along one side, while Lin Momo had pinched a single spike on the other side and vividly carved two eyes with red beans on both sides.
Looking at it this way, it is indeed a little hedgehog.
"Very cute." Lin Cheng commented.
Hearing this, Lin Momo smiled: "Hehe, I think it's cute too."
"Can I wrap my buns into the shape of small animals? That way, others won't think they are ugly." Lin Momo expressed her thoughts.
Children's sudden ideas are not always useful.
After thinking for a few seconds, Lin Cheng said, "We can try."
“Okay!”
In the following time, Lin Cheng continued to wrap the prototype of the buns, while Lin Momo was responsible for molding them into the shapes of various animals.
The ones with red bean paste filling are little hedgehogs, the ones with peanut filling are little pigs, the ones with white sugar filling are little snails, and the ones with cabbage filling are little owls…
Although Lin Momo's shaping is not very good, she is still very cute.
As the buns shaped like small animals appeared on the chopping board, more and more comments appeared in the live broadcast room:
Wow, so cute!
My daughter is so smart!
It’s over, it’s over. Looking at it this way makes me want to buy it.
Cute, want to buy.
Me too. If I were also in City C, I would definitely rush over to buy it!
Request the same item.
Request the full set!
…
Lin family.
Mr. Lin, who had been waiting in front of the live broadcast room, looked at the steamed buns that appeared on the screen. Although he didn't say anything, his eyes revealed an expression of "I want the same style, I want the whole set".
Butler Zhou on the side silently took the old man's expression to heart.
At this moment, Zhou Ming knocked on the door.
"Grandpa, the crew of 'Living with Dad' just sent over some information."
"What?"
"Alternative family background for the next show recording."