“You…” Amanda felt hurt and let go of Andrew’s hand and took Loredana’ hand, “Mommy, Mommy, look, my brother is so annoying. He doesn’t trust me and even hits me. The teacher said that children should be praised so that they can improve. If he keeps hitting me, I’ll become dumb.”
Loredana felt funny. Could praise make people smart?
However, she didn’t say so. Well, praise was needed. Otherwise, what if she really got dumb?
“Amanda is the best. You can definitely make perfect wontons.”
“Mommy, I want to make wontons too,” Andrew said. Otherwise, what should he do when Mommy and his sister made wontons together? He wanted to be a part of it.
Loredana smiled dotingly and helplessly, “Okay, you guys can do whatever you want, okay?”
The two children laughed happily. It was like they heard the helplessness in Loredana’ tone and were amused by their mischief.
Gradually, they walked into the neighborhood, and their voices grew lower and lower, and finally they could not be heard at all.
Cormac remained standing in place. Hearing their conversation, he remembered the time when Loredana got petulant and gave him all the dough made by the two children, which made him unable to sleep all night.
He could still feel how he felt at that time. The corners of his mouth lifted slightly without him realizing it.
Happiness was so simple. There were no flashy words, no exciting scenes. Having a simple family was happiness.
He stood on the roadside and watched the building where Loredana lived from day to night. The lights went on in that building.
He found a place where he could sit, threw his suit on the ground, tilted his head, and quietly looked at the building, imagining what the people inside were doing at the moment. He occasionally let out a giggle as if he thought of something funny.
Oscar arrived at Loredana’ house. As he parked his car, he happened to see a man sitting on the roadside giggling. After he got out of the car, he glanced in the man’s direction again. He just thought he had been mistaken. This time, he was sure he wasn’t mistaken. There was indeed a man sitting on the roadside, very handsome, but like a fool.
Oscar felt sorry for him. It was a pity that such a good-looking man was a fool.
He just got back and had to see Loredana right away, so he didn’t have time for this. He walked quickly into the neighborhood. He came back on the noon flight, so he was later than Cormac, and Theresa shouldn’t be back until tomorrow morning. She took the evening flight.
Oscar arrived just in time to see Loredana and the two kids making wontons. He changed his shoes and walked in, “Well, I’m back just in time for dinner.”
He walked to the table and saw the wontons on the table, partly exquisite and partly horrible. He frowned, pointed to the dough made by Andrew and Amanda, and asked, “What are these? Are they edible?” “Not for you.” Amanda was irritated.
“Well, what’s wrong with Amanda today? Did you eat dynamite? If you don’t let me eat them, I can grab some.” Hearing Oscar’s words, Amanda pulled a wry face and glanced at him, “You’re a bandit, huh?” Oscar rubbed her head, “I used to be a bandit.”
Amanda’s eyes widened. All the bandits she’d seen on TV were bad guys. Could he be a bad guy too?
“Bandits are bad guys, so are you a bad guy too?”
Oscar immediately denied, “I’m not a bad guy.”
“Then why do you say you’re a bandit? Bandits are bad people.” Amanda was so stubborn that she had to make it clear.
Oscar pulled up a chair and sat down, “Well, I am whatever you say.” After saying that, he thought of the person he saw downstairs and said to Loredana, “You should be careful when you go in and out of the neighborhood lately.”
“Hmm? What’s going on?” Loredana looked up and asked.
“I see a fool at the entrance to the neighborhood. I’m afraid he’s mentally ill and will hurt you and the two kids,” Oscar said seriously.
“Really? When I came back, I didn’t see anything unusual downstairs, much less any fool.” Loredana put the wontons on the table and took another piece of wrapper.
“You’d better be careful. Why would a normal person sit on the roadside and giggle? He looks good-looking, and there’s a suit thrown on the ground. I guess he probably failed in business and was stimulated. Nowadays, people who fail in business will even jump off buildings! It is common for them to become fools. Have you seen the news? A pretty big company in C city was acquired, and its owner almost jumped off the building.”
Loredana got up after finishing the last couple of wontons and prepared to go cook them.
When Loredana didn’t answer, Oscar added, “Do you hear me? Be careful! You must drop them off and pick them up every day. If you don’t have time, just let me go. Don’t be careless. If you lose such beautiful children, you’ll regret it.”
Loredana knew Oscar cared about them. She smiled and said, “Okay, I will.”
Andrew got flour and meat on his hands while making the wontons. He wanted to wash his hands, so he got out of his chair. Oscar kept talking to Amanda. When he heard the movement, he looked over at Andrew. When he saw his face, he froze for a moment and then laughed out loud, “Andrew, why do you look like a fool?”
Andrew’s face darkened, “You’re the fool.”
Oscar froze for a moment, not expecting such a big reaction from Andrew. But, on second thought, he knew why he was so angry. No one would be happy to be called a fool. For a moment, Oscar thought that Andrew looked so much like the “fool” downstairs. He explained, “Although you look alike, I know Andrew is a smart kid who is going to be a big boss in the future. How can you be a fool!”
Oscar thought since Loredana didn’t want to accept JK, then JK could be given to Andrew in the future.
Andrew washed his hands and walked out, looked at Oscar, and asked, “Where’s the fool? I want to see how stupid he is.”
Oscar sat motionless in his chair and pointed to the balcony, “You can see him by standing on the balcony and looking down.”
Andrew was just about to walk over when Loredana said from the kitchen, “Andrew, do Mommy a favor, okay?”
“Okay.” Andrew walked to the kitchen and Loredana pointed to the green onions in the basket, “Can you help Mommy peel some green onions, please?”
Andrew picked up the green onions and gave Loredana the answer with his actions.
By the time Andrew had peeled the green onions, Loredana had already cooked the wontons. She took the green onions that Andrew had peeled, washed them and chopped them up and put them in the bowls. The soup for the wontons was made in the bowl directly. She put some shrimps, oil, a little soy sauce, and chopped green onions in the bowl. Then, she added some soup to mix everything. Finally, she put the wontons in the bowl. Then the wontons were done.
“Wash your hands. It’s time to eat,” Loredana said to Andrew. She placed the bowl with the wontons on the plate so it wouldn’t burn her hands.
Andrew already smelled the wontons and didn’t have time to look at the “fool”. He washed his hands, sat down on the chair at the table, and waited for his dinner.
The soup of the wontons smelled good because of the oil. The shrimps added a fresh flavor to the wontons. The wrappers of the wontons were made of dietary alkaline so they were very smooth. Loredana brought the bowls for the two children to them and then offered Oscar one of the two remaining bowls, “If you don’t get enough, I’ll make you something else.”
Loredana had no idea he would be back so early. She thought Oscar would be back with Theresa, so she didn’t prepare too many wontons. She was worried that he wouldn’t get enough with just one bowl of wontons.
Oscar waved his hand and said with a smile, “No need. I ate something on the plane. This is enough. I’m sorry for stealing yours.”
He looked at the two children and asked, “Are these enough for you guys?”
Amanda licked her lips and looked at Oscar with a smile. Then she said sweetly, “Mr. Adams, when I finish my wontons later, can you take me out for a walk, please?”
She wanted to eat ice cream, but Mommy wouldn’t buy it for her. Mommy said that too much ice cream was bad for her stomach, but she wanted it so much.
Andrew instantly knew what Amanda wanted to do. So, he said, “I want to go too, take me with you.”
He wanted to eat ice cream too, especially after eating hot wontons.
Loredana frowned, “What do you guys want? Huh?”
“Oh, we just want to take a walk outside to help digestion after eating so much.” Amanda pouted and looked at Andrew, “Right, brother?”
Andrew cooperated with her rarely, “Yes, it’s good for our bodies to take a walk after eating.”
Loredana wanted to say something else, but Oscar said first, “Well, they just want to go out. You don’t have to worry about it with me following them.”
Since Oscar said so, she couldn’t say no. After dinner, Loredana cleaned up the dishes on the table, and Oscar put a flash drive on the table, “This is the video I let someone record at the scene. Check it out when you have time. You should be there, it’s very nice. It’s a pity that you weren’t there.”
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.