Mr. Lin personally came to greet us at the Lin family's front door. Not everyone can get such treatment.
The last time the old man personally came to greet me was a few years ago.
—At that time, Mr. Lin's health improved and he began to deal with the affairs of the Lin family again. The first thing he did was to drive Lin Zhenhong and Ye Yun out of the Lin family for their excessive actions. The second thing he did was to let Lin Cheng return home.
That was also the first time Lin Cheng returned to the Lin family after leaving this home for nearly ten years.
That day, the old man was just like he is now, standing at the gate waiting eagerly even before anyone arrived.
…
However, it was obvious that the person Mr. Lin was waiting for today was not Lin Cheng.
When he saw the car sent to pick up Lin Cheng and the others driving into the house, Mr. Lin's eyes lit up. Before the car stopped, he walked down the stairs with his crutches and walked towards the car.
Watching Lin Cheng getting out of the car, Old Man Lin just glanced at him casually, then walked past him and looked behind Lin Cheng.
Seeing that there was no one behind Lin Cheng, Mr. Lin frowned and asked, "Where is the person?"
Lin Cheng did not answer, but glanced at the pink Mickey Mouse plush toy hanging on Grandpa Lin's crutch.
Seeing this, Lin Cheng quickly thought of a small episode during the recording process of the program.
He participated in the "Love Smile" activity and bought a khaki-colored sausage-mouthed caterpillar plush toy for Lin Momo. The child didn't seem to mind that the toy was ugly and kept holding it in his arms.
Until the next day, Lin Cheng took Lin Momo to the market over there to restock stocks. Lin Momo saw a charity organization still holding an event outside the market and distributing dolls.
There is no gap without comparison.
Although Lin Momo tried very hard not to show dislike for her caterpillar at that time, when she looked at the caterpillar in her arms and then at the cute stuffed toys on the activity doll distribution table, especially the Minnie doll with a pink bow, Lin Momo's eyes clearly revealed an expression of envy and desire.
…
Here, Lin Cheng didn't say anything. Grandpa Lin leaned closer to the car and looked inside again. After confirming that there was no one in the car, the old man frowned even deeper and glared at Lin Cheng angrily: "Let me ask you, where is our little Momo? Why didn't she come with us?"
After saying that, Mr. Lin looked at Zhou Ming behind Lin Cheng inquiringly.
Zhou Ming was stunned and looked embarrassed - the task assigned to him by the old man was indeed to pick up the young master and Lin Momo, but when he arrived, Lin Momo had already left.
"The recording is over, and I sent her away." Lin Cheng replied calmly.
This "home" is of course Lin Momo's own home.
"Besides," Lin Cheng paused and continued, "Lin Momo is not yours either."
No matter how much Lin Momo looks like him, she is a child found by the agent for the recording of this program and is not his.
Lin Cheng was worried that the old man was eager to ask for his great-grandson's help and was too absorbed in watching the show, so he gave him a reminder.
Hearing Lin Cheng's words, Mr. Lin was unhappy and snorted coldly: "What do you know!"
"I don't know, but do you know?" Lin Cheng asked back.
After a pause, Lin Cheng deliberately asked: "Why, are you not dizzy anymore?"
"Dizzy? When did I say I was dizzy?" Old Master Lin said with a look of dissatisfaction, and waved his hand again, saying: "I am fine, there is no need for you to come and see me."
After saying that, Mr. Lin turned around and walked home with his crutches, leaving Lin Cheng behind.
The subtext seems to be saying: You are not needed here anymore, go wherever you want.
Without seeing the beloved great-grandson that the family had been missing so much, Lin Cheng became a complete object of disgust in the eyes of old man Lin.
Zhou Ming on the side looked at Mr. Lin who had already entered the room, then looked at Lin Cheng on the right, with an embarrassed look on his face.
"Young Master, the old man just felt a little disappointed because he didn't see the child. Don't take it to heart." Zhou Ming said in a chosen tone.
"Yeah." Lin Cheng nodded indifferently.
"Since he is fine, I'll leave." After saying that, Lin Cheng turned around and prepared to leave.
Just as Lin Cheng was about to leave, housekeeper Zhou chased out of the house.
"Master, the old man asked you to go in and have dinner before leaving."
"No."
After hearing Lin Cheng's refusal, Butler Zhou advised again: "Now that you are home, just accompany the old man for a meal. The old man asked the kitchen to start preparing early in the morning."
—It shouldn’t be prepared for him, right
Lin Cheng complained in his heart with a headache, but he still put down his luggage and went home.
The second uncle of the Lin family was sent by the old man to "overcome difficulties" on a project of the Lin family in country D. At this time, the old man was the only one at home.
In the restaurant, Mr. Lin sat at the head of the table, and a large table of exquisite dishes was already laid out on the table.
When Lin Cheng came in and sat down next to him, Old Man Lin pursed his lips in dissatisfaction.
"I've been suffering from three highs lately. Please take away these sweet and sour spareribs, squirrel fish... and that dessert and sweet soup." Grandpa Lin instructed the servant beside him.
Mr. Lin doesn't like sweet food.
The one who liked sweets the most in this family should be Lin Cheng's mother. Lin Cheng seemed to have inherited this aspect from Chen Shu.
After watching the show, Grandpa Lin was pleasantly surprised to find that Lin Momo also liked sweets, and her taste was almost exactly the same as Lin Cheng's.
However, the dishes he prepared today were not for this bastard.
Old Master Lin ignored Lin Cheng and started eating.
Lin Cheng did not take Mr. Lin's boring "retaliation" behavior to heart, and quietly accompanied the old man for a meal.
—
After the meal, Grandpa Lin threw a folder to Lin Cheng and said, "These are also our Lin family's assets. Although they are not big assets, they are left by your grandmother's generation and are of great significance."
"Your second uncle was in charge before, and the business situation is not very ideal. You can go and take a look. Go this weekend." said the old man.
On the side, listening to Mr. Lin's serious nonsense, Butler Zhou lowered his head silently.
—He knew that the several businesses that the old man asked Lin Cheng to visit were actually several high-end restaurants owned by the Lin family.
The places where these restaurants are located are the several villas owned by the Lin family. It is true that they are of great significance.
As for the 'business situation', it's complete nonsense.
Apart from the Lin family's banquets and some special guests, those restaurants are usually not open to ordinary diners, so how can they be expected to be in business
The old man's purpose in asking Lin Cheng to go over this weekend is self-evident.
Lin Cheng took the information and took a look at it, and obviously guessed the old man's intention.
"I'll go take a look when I have time. As for the rest..." After a pause, Lin Cheng said calmly, "No need."
"you!"
"Do you think I can become a five-star chef overnight?"
“…” This time, it was the old man’s turn to suffer.
"I'm afraid that you'll let our little Momo starve." Old Master Lin muttered in dissatisfaction.
—
Lin Cheng sat with Old Man Lin in the Lin family for a while, staring at each other, before leaving.
When leaving the Lin family, Butler Zhou handed a bag of packed food to Lin Cheng.
"Young Master, these are your favorite dishes. Grandpa has specially asked the kitchen to pack them for you to take with you." Butler Zhou said.
In fact, what Mr. Lin said was: Let that kid take away those unwanted leftovers.
"Old people are sometimes prone to emotionality. Young master, please be more understanding." Butler Zhou said again.
"I know." Lin Cheng nodded.
After a pause, Lin Cheng continued: "Convince him more often and let him think less about unrealistic things."
The so-called "unrealistic things" refers to Lin Momo's matter.
Hearing this, Butler Zhou was stunned and nodded. However, after thinking about it, he couldn't help but whispered again: "I will give the old man more advice, but... Young Master, have you ever thought that the child might be yours?"
Having worked in this family for such a long time, Zhou Xing has rarely seen the old man so sure about one thing.
Moreover, the old man has already asked people to collect samples and prepare to use them for DNA identification of Lin Cheng and Lin Momo.
It's just that there were some minor troubles in the process.
—In order to prevent Lin Momo from finding out and scaring her, Grandpa Lin originally planned to have someone wait until Lin Momo and Lin Cheng finished recording, and then quietly find some things that could be used as samples in the house where they lived.
As a result, because Lin Cheng and Lin Momo cleaned the house too thoroughly before leaving, they couldn't find enough samples, let alone a single hair.
Lin Cheng glanced at Butler Zhou with an unpredictable look, and finally said firmly: "That's not possible."
…
On the other side, Zhou Qi sent Lin Momo to where she and her grandmother lived.
Only after arriving at a familiar place did Lin Momo finally recover from the slight disappointment of separation from Lin Cheng.
After saying goodbye to Zhou Qi, Lin Momo ran into the building.
When she reached the corridor, Lin Momo stopped.
She stuffed the cell phone number and unlock password that Lin Cheng had written to her, along with the cell phone, into a gap between a pile of junk in the corridor, hid them, and walked up carefully.
When she arrived at the door, Lin Momo leaned against it and listened for a while. After confirming that Zhang Xiaoqiang was not there, she ran to pick up the phone and returned home.
At this time, Liu Cuifang was the only one at home.
Seeing that her grandmother was able to walk again, Lin Momo looked very happy.
"Grandma, is your leg healed?" Lin Momo asked in surprise.
"Okay." Although he still limped a little when he walked, it didn't matter anymore.
"I said last week that I didn't need to live here anymore, but Xiao Chen insisted on paying for another week of rehabilitation. It's a waste of money," said Liu Cuifang, feeling a little sorry for the money.
Lin Momo shook her head and said comfortingly: "Uncle Chen Yu also hopes that grandma's leg can recover better."
"Has anyone come to our house?" Lin Momo looked around and found that their family's 'property' seemed to be missing a few pieces.
Hearing this, Liu Cuifang sighed and said, "It's just that damn bastard."
If Liu Cuifang had not received a call from her next-door neighbor the day before yesterday, telling her that Zhang Xiaoqiang had arrived and was banging on the door, she would not have rushed over from there in such a hurry.
"Is he here to steal grandma's money again?"
"It's okay, it's okay. I left some money with Aunt Zhang in advance, and he only took a little over a hundred yuan."
Originally, Liu Cuifang didn't want to give Zhang Xiaoqiang a penny, but thinking that Lin Momo would be leaving home soon, Liu Cuifang was worried that Zhang Xiaoqiang would come to ask for money again and affect Lin Momo, so she left more than 100 yuan and sent Zhang Xiaoqiang away.
"Let's not talk about him. How has Xiao Momo been doing this week? Has she not caused any trouble to others?" Liu Cuifang asked anxiously.
"No," Lin Momo shook her head and said, "I'm very good."
Lin Momo talked to Liu Cuifang in great spirits about her recording of the program in the past few days, as well as some interesting things, and of course, she also mentioned Lin Cheng.
"He gave me a little doll."
"This is it!" Lin Momo took out the caterpillar that Lin Cheng gave her from her bag and showed it to Liu Cuifang as if she were presenting a treasure.
"Oh, by the way! He also helped me get the 11.5 yuan I lost from the policeman."
Before, Lin Momo's money was robbed by the owner of the tobacco shop, who falsely accused her of being a thief. Lin Momo was afraid that her grandmother would worry, so she did not tell the truth and just said that she lost it accidentally.
Now, Lin Cheng asked for it again.
Hearing Lin Momo's words, Liu Cuifang nodded.
"Mr. Lin is a good man."
Liu Cuifang didn't have a mobile phone or knew how to use the Internet, so she didn't know how Lin Momo and Lin Cheng spent the recording of the show. But judging from Lin Momo's appearance at the moment, Mr. Lin didn't treat her badly and took good care of her.
Moreover, Liu Cuifang also knew that Chen Yu sent her to treat her leg injury and recuperate because of Mr. Lin's relationship.
"Yes!" Lin Momo nodded vigorously, holding the ugly caterpillar in her hand and smiling again, she hung the caterpillar on the small nail nailed to the wall above the 'bed' where she slept.
Finally, there is a small decoration in the empty house.
—
On Saturday night, the first episode of "Living with Dad" was officially aired.
Except for Lin Momo herself who couldn't see it, whether it was Grandpa Lin, Chen Yu and his companions, or Lin Cheng himself, all opened the video terminal on time.
After a short theme song, the different life experiences of five celebrity families were officially presented to the audience.
The program adopts a sequential splicing method. The first half broadcasts the first day of life of five families entering the "home".
The order of playback is still the same as the previous trailer: Bai Yulin is in the first group, followed by actor Gao Yuankai and president dad Zheng Chengye, and the team leader dad Duan Bei is the finale and will be broadcast last.
Lin Cheng's group is still in the fourth group.
When the first three groups were broadcast, the topics discussed by the audience in the program comment section were similar to those during the live broadcast.
As soon as Bai Yulin and his daughter appeared on the screen, the audience's comments instantly flooded the screen. Most of the content was: Bai Yulin is so handsome! His daughter is so cute! The interaction between this father and daughter is so loving! The week-long wait was worth it! …
When it came to Gao Yuankai's group, the program intentionally edited out a series of operations in which Gao Yuankai repaired light bulbs, door locks, rice cookers, washed clothes and cooked, which made the audience exclaim: Awesome.
For Zheng Chengye's group, the program crew used a method of first criticizing and then praising in editing: at the beginning, the scene of the naughty kid throwing tantrums, acting like a rogue, and holding on to his mobile phone and tablet tightly did cause dissatisfaction among many viewers. Then, the program broadcast several funny scenes of the naughty kid making bold statements, and a scene of the naughty kid telling a beggar that he would buy him a yacht.
The comments section quickly turned positive:
Suddenly I found that Zheng Chengye’s son is quite funny.
I've had the aura of a domineering boss since I was a child.
Children speak without restraint.
Children still listen to kindness.
…
Until the end of the first day of the father and son's life together, the comment section was still filled with viewers imitating the naughty child's tone of "rich talk".
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"Brother Cheng and the others will be here soon." Wang Xi, who was sitting in front of the computer, became nervous: after all, in last week's trailer, not only was Lin Cheng edited out, but Lin Momo was also maliciously edited out, which was really too tragic.
"It shouldn't be worse than the previous trailer." After all, that's the bottom line.
Zhou Qi whispered, feeling nervous.
The previous group ended, and after a narration, the scene switched to Lin Cheng and Lin Momo.
The scene on the screen was Lin Cheng taking Lin Momo into their "home".
Unlike the cleaned house shown in the previous trailer, this time, when Lin Cheng and Lin Momo opened the door, the scene inside the house was real, without being cleaned or tidied.
Then there was a scene where the father and daughter started cleaning the room.
Although this segment was broadcast in fast-forward mode, the audience could clearly see how the house became clean and tidy little by little thanks to everyone's efforts.
The comment section started to get lively.
After watching the preview last week, I was planning to skip this group. If I wasn’t waiting for Duan Bei, I would have watched it directly. But what did I see?!
Are the houses in this group really so bad
It wasn’t like this when we entered the house in the previous trailer!
The trailer clearly shows what it looks like after it has been cleaned.
I was wondering, what was Lin Momo doing running up and down in the previous trailer? In this house, she would have to run up and down several times to clean it up. I was saying that this kid was being pretentious before, but it turns out that the clown is actually me
The dog clip is so misleading.
…
This group is easy to recognize.
Indeed, watching them clean up the house gives me an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.
Me too.
There is a sense of hard work paying off.
…
Seeing that the audience's comments were mostly positive, Wang Xi and Zhou Qi breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, they felt incredible.
"Is it fake? The program crew didn't make trouble with Brother Cheng and the others?" Wang Xi said in disbelief.
Zhou Qi also nodded - this part was too normal, so normal that it was abnormal!
There was no malicious editing, no deliberate dragging down, and even the length of Lin Cheng and his team's segment was about the same as that of the other groups.
"Could it be that Brother Chen Yu went to give money to the program team?" Wang Xi muttered.
"How is that possible?" Zhou Qi glanced at Wang Xi, then looked at the screen again and murmured, "Let's wait and see."
The following few sections are the ones where Lin Momo was criticized the most in the trailer.
The current normality may just be the calm before the storm...