Chapter 485: Chapter 485: The Father and Daughters Who Stole Ice Cream (1st Update)
An Yan was sound asleep in the room.
Xue An and his daughters, Xue Xiang and Nian Nian, were outside scoping out the situation.
“Daddy, Mommy seems to have fallen asleep!” Xiang Xiang whispered in a low voice.
“It’s not ‘seems,’ she definitely has. I can even hear Mommy’s snoring!” Nian Nian said.
Xue An nodded, “You two wait here, don’t go anywhere, understand?”
The two little girls nodded in unison.
Xue An tip-toed into the room.
Although it was freezing outside, the room was heated by an ancient warming technology known as “火龙,” and he felt the warmth engulfing him as he stepped inside.
Xue An walked to the bedside, looked closely for a moment, then gently placed his hand on the ring An Yan was wearing.
Xue An opened the Mustard Seed Ring and, with great speed, took out a huge box from it.
Xue An, holding the box, was about to turn around and leave.
An Yan murmured and turned over in her sleep.
This startled the two little girls peeping through the crack in the door outside; Nian Nian almost cried out in alarm, but was luckily silenced in time as Xiang Xiang quickly covered her mouth.
Xue An held his breath and watched for a while. Seeing that An Yan had merely turned over and then had fallen back into a deep sleep, he breathed a sigh of relief and signaled “OK” to the outside.
The two little girls had stars in their eyes.
Xue An slowly backed away until he reached the doorway, before saying in a low voice, “Follow me!”
Turning around, Xue An, like a mouse that had snagged something, tiptoed forward, with the two little girls lightly treading behind him.
Once they finally reached the bottom of the stairs and turned the corner of the corridor, Nian Nian let out a cheer.
“Yay! Daddy, you are the best!”
Xue An crouched down smiling and placed the huge round box on the railing.
The two little girls crowded around as well, and the three of them quietly stared at the round box.
Xiang Xiang licked her lips, “Daddy, shall we open it?”
Xue An nodded, “Yes, open it!”
Nian Nian was practically drooling, “Daddy, can we eat it all up?”
With that, Xue An pried open the lid of the round box, and a scent of vanilla mixed with cream wafted out.
Xue An then unwrapped the paper seal, revealing an ice cream with a faint scent of fresh grass.
This ice cream was much bigger than usual, nearly filling the entire large box.
The two little girls’ eyes shone as they gazed at it.
Nian Nian was so excited she was nearly in tears.
“Daddy, when did you buy this ice cream?”
Xue An chuckled, “I bought it a long time ago; it’s just that your mom placed it in her Mustard Seed Ring and wouldn’t let you have it!”
As Xue An had said, knowing his daughters’ love for ice cream, he contacted the Häagen-Dazs factory directly and ordered several of their favorite flavors.
At first, the company didn’t pay any attention to Xue An.
After all, no matter how much Xue An ordered, it was insignificant for a big company.
But it seemed there wasn’t a problem in the world that money couldn’t solve.
Thus, he successfully custom ordered many special ice cream styles that were unique in the whole world.
big round box, for one.
The father and his two daughters were beside themselves with excitement, but then they encountered a serious problem.
That was the lack of spoons!
“What do we do? Scoop it out with our hands?” Xiang Xiang asked.
“I have no objections, and if that doesn’t work, I can always lick it!” Nian Nian was already impatient.
Xue An pointed at the small flat pans hanging around their necks, “Eat with this!”
“Huh?” Both little girls looked puzzled.
Xue An chuckled, squatting down and gripping the two small flat pans. Narrowing his eyes slightly, he then said, “Okay! Now take off your necklaces and shout ‘I want to eat ice cream!'”
The two little girls immediately took off their pans and shouted in unison, “I want to eat ice cream!”
In the swirling light, the two tiny flat pans transformed into two large spoons.
Upon seeing this, the two little girls were so ecstatic they cheered and rushed forward, each giving Xue An a kiss.
“Dad, you’re amazing!”
Xue An thought proudly that he indeed was amazing, otherwise how could an ordinary person add an extra spoon function to the Qingmu Spiritual Artifact!
Then with a grin, he said, “Alright, go eat quickly, or your mother will discover it, and you won’t be able to eat any!”
The two little girls blissfully began scooping up the ice cream with their Qingmu spoons.
Outside, the world lay under unmelted snow; cold wind blew through the corridor, yet the two young ladies didn’t mind at all and kept eating their ice cream in big bites.
The scene always seemed a bit odd.
At least when Zhu Ruyan passed by and saw this, she was somewhat flabbergasted.
Xue An shook his head, gesturing for silence, and whispered softly, “It’s nothing, the two little girls were fussing to eat ice cream, but Yan’er was worried they’d catch a cold again and wouldn’t let them have any, so I had to sneak it out.”
Zhu Ruyan was torn between laughter and tears at this.
Who could imagine that the mighty Mr. Xue known throughout Kunlun would sneakily lead his daughters to steal ice cream.
Still, she couldn’t help but worry and said, “Sir, what if they really get sick from it?”
Xue An laughed and shook his head, “Nonsense, these are my daughters, how could they get sick from eating ice cream?”
Zhu Ruyan laughed awkwardly, “Sir, I think it’s better not to eat too much, and if Sister Yan finds out, won’t she be angry?”
After speaking, Zhu Ruyan winked at Xue An.
“No need! Yan’er is sleeping, by the time she wakes up, we will have finished the ice cream! She won’t know! Also, what’s wrong with your eyes, Ruyan?”
Just then, a cool voice came from behind, “Oh, really?”
Upon hearing this voice, Xue An stiffened and slowly turned around.
There stood An Yan, arms crossed, looking at him with a playful gaze.
Xue An forced a unnatural smile, “Ahem, Yan’er, listen to me, you were sleeping so soundly, I didn’t want to disturb your rest, so I didn’t say hello before taking out the ice cream!”
The two little girls also saw their mother’s arrival, and they quickly turned around, using their small bodies to block the box of ice cream.
There were remains of ice cream at the corner of Nian Nian’s mouth, and Xiang Xiang nudged her, signaling with a look.
Nian Nian hurriedly licked it clean, and then both little girls stood stiffly, with faces pretending as if they knew nothing about what just happened, that it was all dad’s doing and they had nothing to do with it.
An Yan looked at this scene with a mix of laughter and helplessness, and with no other option, she had to put on a stern face and addressed Xue An.
“Sneaking ice cream with two daughters, tell me, how should you be punished?”
Xue An stood with a bitter expression receiving An Yan’s moral lessons, and the two little girls weren’t spared either as they stood in punishment alongside him.
From time to time, the trio would secretly pull faces to make each other laugh.
An Yan could only helplessly maintain a stern face, posing as the queen of the household.
Zhu Ruyan watched the scene unfold and suddenly felt very envious.
This… this is what a family is!