After eating and drinking to their fill, Bo Sishen carried a large plastic bag and accompanied Mu Shini for a leisurely walk to aid digestion.
"Nian Nian, I didn’t expect you to be so good at getting along with people." Bo Sishen’s eyes were full of tenderness.
This girl, he hadn’t chosen wrong, and he didn’t regret marrying her.
"By the way, Uncle, you don’t have anything to do tonight, right?" Mu Shini suddenly remembered something and turned to ask him.
"I’ll keep you company." Bo Sishen responded without hesitation.
Mu Shini snapped her fingers and said, "Uncle, let’s go to the mall to buy some noodles, and then go to a place."
Bo Sishen looked at her with curiosity but didn’t ask any questions. He followed her to the mall to buy noodles, and then they took the subway to an outlying garden.
It was a simple garden, with dim yellow lights illuminating the entrance, above which hung a wooden signboard named Qingfu Welfare Institute.
"Nian Nian, what are you here for?"
Bo Sishen asked with confusion.
Mu Shini knocked on the door, and after a while, a girl around ten years old opened it. Upon seeing Mu Shini, she happily rushed up and hugged her around the waist, "Nian Nian sister! You’re here!"
Saying that, she shouted into the house, "Nian Nian sister is here!"
At around 7 PM, the Qingfu Welfare Institute lit up like daylight, because Mu Shini had arrived, and they turned on all the lights.
"Nian Nian, why did you come over at night?" The director, lovingly referred to as Mom, walked up to Mu Shini, holding her little hand. When she saw the man standing next to Mu Shini, she paused, "Nian Nian, this is..."
"Oh, I brought him over tonight to make late-night snacks for the kids." Mu Shini explained, introducing them, "Mom, this is my university teacher."
"Uncle, this is the director!"
"Hello, hello!" The director reached out, wanting to shake Bo Sishen’s hand.
But Bo Sishen’s hands were full with two bags, making him unable to shake hands, so he nodded, "Hello."
"Mom, I’ll take the teacher to the kitchen to make some food for the kids! They’ll eat and then sleep!" Mu Shini said, pulling Bo Sishen towards the kitchen. Get full chapters from 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭·𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦·𝘯𝘦𝘵
The kitchen was rather small, and Bo Sishen, who was 1.88 meters tall, had to bend down to enter through the door.
Mu Shini followed right behind him.
"Uncle, sorry to trouble you!" Mu Shini patted Bo Sishen’s arm.
"Where are you going?" Bo Sishen asked with a frown as he saw her about to leave.
"I’m going to play with the kids!"
As soon as Mu Shini spoke, several children rushed into the kitchen, "Nian Nian sister! Play with us! Play with us!"
"Alright! Let’s go out!" Mu Shini led two children out of the kitchen. At the doorway, she looked back at Bo Sishen, "Uncle, sorry to trouble you!"
Bo Sishen watched her act like a child herself, helplessly shook his head, took off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves, and began to boil water and make the late-night snacks.
Bo Sishen put various kinds of balls into the pot to cook, letting them float before adding the noodles.
Just as the noodles were about to be done, Mu Shini came in.
"Uncle! It smells so good!"
Mu Shini walked over, picked up a beef ball with chopsticks, and immediately ate it.
"Be careful, don’t burn yourself!" Bo Sishen said with some concern as she put the freshly cooked beef ball into her mouth.
After she took a bite, he grabbed her wrist, slightly bending down, grasped her wrist, and blew on the beef ball.
He let her eat it only after it cooled down.
Watching him blow on the beef ball, Mu Shini was reminded of when she was a child, pretending she was sick to get her dad to feed her porridge, cooling it by blowing on it because it was hot.
Her eyes slightly warmed with the memory.
Bo Sishen looked up and noticed her expression, frowning, he asked, "What’s wrong?"