??Chapter 345: 345. Luxury lon_1
Chapter 345: 345. Luxury lon_1
A mont later, Chen Yunyun touched her belly, her eyes darting around, not daring to look at the remaining half of the waterlon.
Her mom sat upright on the small stool in the kitchen, picking vegetables with a straight back as if sitting before not a trash can but a high-end mahogany table in a eting room.
The atmosphere beca montarily stagnant.
After a while, it was Chen Yunyun who couldn’t keep her cool any longer, “Mom, that half won’t be fresh if we leave it, how about we eat it now, and we can open another one when dad cos back?”
“Sure,” her mom quickly nodded, “You’re right.”
She then picked up the waterlon to wash it, and with a swift motion of her knife, cut it cleanly.
Soon, the kitchen was filled with the “crunch” of waterlon eating.
In the living room, the old lady tiptoed over, pressing her ear against the kitchen door, feeling her saliva dripping at her age.
Yet she really didn’t dare to speak up, and when she heard so noise inside, she quickly tiptoed back to her room.
But after listening attentively in her room for a while, and not hearing any sounds of soone leaving the kitchen, the old lady felt a stirring in her heart…
On the other side, feeling quite full, Chen Yunyun licked her lips and couldn’t help burping, “Mom, I’m full. But my mouth still craves more…”
“You mustn’t overeat…”
Her mom looked blankly, staring at the garbage bin with waterlon rinds, and suddenly hesitated,
“We shouldn’t have thrown out those rinds, we could have picked them up, peeled them, and made a dish…”
Imagining the taste of the waterlon rind, Chen Yunyun involuntarily smacked her lips, then said troubledly, “It’s true, we can’t waste! How about this, Mom, let’s cut another one. We can eat a bit more and save the rinds in a bowl.”
“When dad cos back in the middle of the night, he’ll just eat the remaining half and will definitely put the rinds in a bowl as well.”
“Or…”
Mother and daughter looked at each other, and said in unison, “Let’s cut half more!”
This ti, we’ll only cut a small half!
…
At last, Chen Yunyun, holding her belly, went to the living room and kept wandering around the house all night, making the old lady feel anxious and short of breath, wishing she could lock her silly granddaughter in her room.
Finally, at midnight, after several trips to the toilet, Chen Yunyun finally settled down and went back to her room. Through the door, one could still hear her playing video gas and howling like a banshee.
The old lady sat up in bed, her movents particularly agile. She didn’t bother to turn on the lights, but groped her way to the kitchen in the dark.
Then, turning on the flashlight on her phone, she managed to grab the remaining half of the waterlon from the fridge, guided by that faint light.
She thought to herself, despite having diabetes, she had already taken two sugar-lowering pills earlier, so eating just a couple of bites now – just two – wouldn’t be too excessive, right?
Determined, she didn’t even bother to cut the waterlon; she decided to just hold it and eat with a spoon.
It would leave a pit, but if her son ca back and saw it, that would be fine. After all, Yunyun liked to eat it that way too.
With this thought, she felt completely at ease.
…
It wasn’t much later, when suddenly, the door of the room went “click”.
But with the kitchen door closed, and the old lady blissfully indulging with her eyes shut, she heard nothing.
Chen’s dad was ho.
The house was pitch-dark; his wife was surely asleep by this hour, but Yunyun definitely wasn’t, as he could still hear noises…
He turned on the light, set his phone down, and prepared to take a quick shower. However, he paused in his steps as if he heard so noise coming from the kitchen!
In the dead of night, the kitchen was dark except for a faint glint of light…
He grew alert—might there be a thief in the house?!
Chen’s dad’s heart skipped a beat. Without alerting his family, he grabbed a dining chair as a shield and tiptoed toward the kitchen door handle.
Next!
As the door opened, he clicked the light on—
“Ouch!”
“Smack!”
A familiar voice rang out, and Dad Chen was startled. He quickly peered in and saw a little old lady crouching, her round body strikingly familiar.
She was squatting on the ground, picking up the remaining waterlon rinds with a pained expression that made one feel heartbroken and sorry for her.
Dad Chen imdiately beca anxious, “Mom, if you’re going to eat waterlon, why would you—”
“Oh.” Halfway through his sentence, he had a realization, his expression turning cold again:
“Your blood sugar was so frighteningly high at last week’s check-up, how can you still dare to eat waterlon?!”
The old lady defiantly lifted her head: “I took sugar-lowering dication!”
Then looking at the waterlon on the floor, her face filled with regret: “I haven’t finished eating this…”
It wasn’t until then that Dad Chen managed to turn his attention to the smashed waterlon on the floor—what hadn’t she finished eating?
The waterlon was split in two, looking like half an empty shell. There wasn’t much of the red flesh left!
He rembered sothing then, inhaling sharply at that mont: “You ate this much?!”
But his mother was off-topic: “I didn’t even scrape the flesh off these rinds cleanly…”
…
With all this commotion, Chen Yunyun, who was playing gas in her room, also noticed the noise. Glancing outside, she noticed her dad’s shoes and bag at the doorstep.
And then looking at the kitchen—
“Well, well! Grandma, you actually dared to sneak eat waterlon behind our backs!”
“What do you an sneak eat? What do you an sneak eat?”
Faced with her granddaughter, the old lady got tough: “I took dication! Besides, how can eating waterlon be considered sneaking?”
“But you have diabetes—” Before she finished her sentence, Yunyun also started yelling at the smashed waterlon rinds on the floor: “Why waste it like this? There’s still so much left!”
Dad Chen: …What? After just one day without seeing you, Yunyun, who used to eat waterlon with pits in it, is now a frugality expert?
How are you supposed to eat this now? Chew through the rind?
Totally unnecessary!
Yet the old lady also looked distressed: “Exactly, I was enjoying it until your dad scared ! Look, he even moved this big stool. If he hadn’t turned on the light, it could have fallen right onto this old lady’s head.”
Dad Chen was also aggrieved: “I heard noises in the kitchen; I didn’t turn on the light either, I thought it was a thief…”
“What kind of thief would steal a worthless waterlon!”
The old lady was stubborn.
But suddenly Yunyun rembered: “Ah, not that it’s worthless, this waterlon cost 20 yuan per kilo.”
Dad Chen: …
Grandma Chen: …
Mother and son turned to stare at her simultaneously: “Yunyun, are you indulging in luxury now!”
Yunyun: …I buy waterlon with good intentions, you don’t reimburse , and now you say I’m indulging in luxury?
So she sighed: “It’s not about indulging in luxury, it’s that you don’t appreciate things. The waterlon tasted so good today, my mom even said she’d use the rind for cooking. Now it’s all smashed to pieces, and we can’t salvage it. We only bought four, ant to leave half for you, and now, well, only two are left…”
The old lady also had a regretful face: “Exactly! All thanks to your dad.”
Dad Chen: …
Fine, so it’s all my fault, right?!
He huffed and moved the chair aside, then grabbed a waterlon, rinsed it under the tap, and with one chop, sliced it in half!
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