Chapter 539: I will help you
Chapter 539: I will help you
“It’s all right, let’s eat first, then we will go to the study room and take a look at this all right?” Yu Dong noticed that Ye Liu’s crying was getting a bit ugly, she was worried that if the others were to hear him cry like this, they will think that she was bullying him. So, she patted his back and softly coaxed him until he stopped crying because of the numbers that were haunting him even when he closed the accounting notebook. “It’s alright, you will be fine.”She waited until Ye Liu was calm enough to rationally think that there was no need for him to cry over some addition and subtractions before she pushed herself off the chair and went to the kitchen to warm the crab porridge and tomato soup that was sitting on the side of the table.
” Do you want anything else?” She asked knowing fully well that one of the ways to cheer her husbands up was to cook something delicious for them, her poor husbands have been starved for many years. Whether they were at their paternal home or the house of their in-laws, they never got the chance of eating their fill, so every time she cooked something nice for them, she was always rewarded with a smile for sure.
” Can we have some noodles?” Ye Liu asked as he stood up from his seat as well while sniffing. He wanted to help Yu Dong but the latter simply waved off her hand and asked him to sit back down. “It’s all right, I can make some hot noodles for us in a jiffy, there is no need for you to come here and crowd me in the kitchen.”
” I don’t hear you complaining when you are cuddling me in the bed,” muttered Ye Liu under his breath as he sat back in his seat while Yu Dong smiled at him. ” Of course, I don’t because then you are all soft and pliant against me, but right now you are like an angry kitten.”
Ye Liu’s face flushed as he looked around the room and hissed at her, ” Don’t say such things like this, what will others say?”
Yu Dong tilted her head as she shelled the crab meat and placed it in a pot to steam it before replying to Ye Liu, ” They will think that we are very much compatible in bed what else?”
She dodged the rag that came flying towards her and picked up a handful of dried noodles that she has made at home before putting it inside the boiling water that she has set aside on the stove when she heard Ye Liu asking for noodles.
Ye Liu harrumphed but he didn’t say anything while Yu Dong added the oil to the wok, and sautéed the chopped shallots until it turned aromatic, only then did she add ginger and scallion to the wok.
Once she was done, she poured in the seasonings, added the noodles and seasoned it with sesame oil once everything was nicely done.
After the noodles were prepared she delivered them into the two bowls that she picked up while the noodles were cooking before she added the chicken broth that was left over from lunch, she tossed the crab meat inside it and added the egg whites in the mix before ladling it all up and pouring it over the noodles that she has prepared only then did she call for Ye Liu. ” Come and bring it to the table, it’s hot so be careful.”
” I know, I am not that careless,” he said but Yu Dong noticed the faint curl of his lips as he picked up the bowls. He might act like he was annoyed by her care but clearly, he adored it when she showed him concern.
Yu Dong on the other hand picked up the big bowl that had the crab porridge along with the tomato soup bowl and brought it to the dining table.
The two of them didn’t speak until they were finished eating, only then did Ye Liu cast an uncomfortable glance at the accounting book that was sitting aside on the table and said to Yu Dong. “Let’s go, I don’t want to be scolded by brother Li if I don’t finish this by the morning.”
Ye Liu stood up from the table and picked up the dirty dishes before placing them one by one in the water vat that was sitting inside the kitchen. ” I will wash them later after we are done with the accounting.”
” Yes, Yes…” Yu Dong knew that there was no way Ye Liu was going to just drop the matter, so she pushed herself off the chair and walked towards the study room, her hands gripping the account notebook.
Ye Liu followed right after her after he was done wiping his hands on the towel that was hanging inside the kitchen and closed the door of the makeshift study. Of course, calling it a study would be too far-fetched given that the room only had a few boxes, some scattered books along with a table and chair.
Placing the accounts book on the table, Yu Dong took a seat before she tipped her chin to the chair opposite the table before saying, ” Come on sit down, I will teach you how to do these problems properly.”
Ye Liu did as she asked him, he sat down pulled the notebook towards himself and started working through the entire month’s accounts just as Yu Dong taught him but —-
“That’s not what I said!”
” Not like this !”
” Are you even listening to me?”
” That is not how you are supposed to do this, I just showed you ..do it like that, all right?”
” You… Ye Liu!”
Yu Dong wished that she could open her second husband’s head and see for herself what was going on inside his head as far as she knew, he was no fool so why was he acting like one? Why wasn’t he able to do something as simple as this?
Ye Liu looked at her and then looked down at the mess he has made before he blinked his eyes and said softly, ” Brother Li started just like you as well, he said that he will help me but then he got mad and went to sleep….you are not going to do that right? You love me, don’t you? If you do then you will not angry at me.”
Yu Dong: “….” This cheeky mer.
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