Lu Yang: "..."
"Okay." In the end, Lu Yang agreed to his girl, Qing Qing's request. He could never refuse her in this lifetime.
The children had already prepared dinner, fragrant wontons. Shushu happily called her downstairs to eat.
Lu Wanqing and Lu Yang exchanged a glance, then happily went downstairs.
In the living room on the first floor, the small house was filled with people, making it very lively.
"Mom, we made wontons, they're delicious!" Lan Lan immediately came over, saying with great excitement.
Lu Wanqing smiled and nodded quickly, "Great."
It was the first time she had eaten dinner prepared by the children together, and she felt a strange sense of anticipation.
The family's dining table wasn't large enough, but fortunately, all the children who had grown up with Lu Wanqing had developed a very good habit. Now, each of them had several super large space twists, the kind with massive storage bought at a high price from Tian Xing.
Everyone, like Lu Wanqing before, always kept various daily necessities in their space twists, covering food, clothing, housing, and transportation. They could take out whatever they needed at any time, never lacking anything.
Since the table wasn't big enough, any of the children could easily take out a table and some chairs and assemble them, enough for everyone to sit down and eat together.
However, this happiness didn't last long, because when Lu Wanqing was eating a wonton, she suddenly tasted one that was...
"Why is it so salty?" Lu Wanqing's expression changed, and she couldn't help but spit out the wonton in her mouth.
Hearing this, everyone was bewildered. In the next moment, all eyes turned to Zhong Li Feiyu.
Zhong Li Feiyu instinctively tensed up. He looked at the wonton in Lu Wanqing's bowl, nervous, "Is it very salty?"
Lu Wanqing suddenly remembered the meals cooked by Marshal Zhong Li when she was at the Zhong Li's home; they were... indescribable.
Her gaze involuntarily shifted to Xiao Yi.
Xiao Yi quickly explained, "It wasn't me! My cooking is delicious!"
"...It's just so-so, not as good as mine," Lan Lan couldn't help but snort lightly.
When they were little, they liked to compete. Lan Lan thought that if Dad learned to cook well, he could be with Mom later. Later, Xiao Yi was also motivated. After Lu Wanqing left, he practiced cooking frequently, not only for himself but also to bring his dad along.
It was a pity that his dad was a disappointment, and his cooking was as bad as his grandpa's, utterly inedible. Xiao Yi had no choice but to work extra hard to make his own cooking even better, surpassing Uncle Mu and Lan Lan's, so he could win against them and get Mom to come to their house.
Xiao Yi's culinary skills were developed in this way.
Although later on, neither his dad nor Lan Lan's dad succeeded, and Mom didn't end up with their fathers but chose Emperor Dad, it didn't stop them from learning to cook.
"My cooking is even better than yours!" Xiao Yi refused to be outdone and immediately started arguing with Lan Lan.
"Mom ate mine, mine is the most delicious!" While the two older brothers were arguing, Shushu, holding her chopsticks, picked a wonton she had made and put it into her mother's bowl, piling a large bowl full for her.
Lu Wanqing looked at the wontons in her bowl, feeling curious, "How do you know which wonton is yours?"
As soon as this question was asked, half the people in the dining room froze.
Harvey, being cunning, immediately shouted, "Because they marked the wontons, they're all different!"
"Mom, look at this one, it has a corner, like Bai Ze, it's Lan Lan Gege's."
"Xiao Yi Gege's are the most standard, square and neat, but each one has a scratch, a mark Xiao Yi Gege intentionally made."
"And Shushu Jiejie's, Shushu Jiejie's wontons all have small leaves drawn on them, they're leaves!"
"Only Zhong Li Shushu's wontons have no marks, but Zhong Li Shushu's wontons are the ugliest, you can tell them apart at a glance, they're easy to identify too!" Harvey said.
Lu Wanqing: "..."
Lu Wanqing looked closely at these wontons and indeed found these markings. It was amusing. She hadn't expected the children to have such little tricks when making wontons.
But Harvey was also amazing. He had been sleeping with them in the afternoon and had no idea what was happening in the kitchen, yet he recognized the finished wontons at a glance. Indeed, everyone had their own area of expertise, and Harvey's sensitivity to people's emotions was something the other children could never match.
Everyone happily finished dinner together. After dinner, there was still plenty of time.
Shushu suggested, "Mom, let's go out and play together tonight."
When they were little, everyone usually went to bed early, but now it was the holidays, and everyone had grown up. It should be okay to play out together at night and stay up a little later occasionally, right?
Going out tonight?
Lu Wanqing was a little tempted. She looked at the children, then turned to look at Lu Yang.
Lu Yang lowered his gaze and looked at her, dotingly saying, "If you want to go, then go."
"Okay!" Lu Wanqing immediately agreed.
Shushu was instantly happy and looked at Cui Cui.
Cui Cui was also happy; they hadn't had a family outing like this in a long time.
Lan Lan, Xiao Yi, and Harvey were also happy, and even Wei Wei.
The children's fathers hadn't left either. That night, they all went out together, played at the amusement park at night, and went shopping. Lu Wanqing bought lots of clothes for the children, for the older ones, and for little baby Wei Wei.
Not only Lu Wanqing bought, but the older brothers and sisters also bought a lot for Wei Wei. Wei Wei was a little darling, doted on to the heavens by a group of older brothers and sisters!
After a night of fun, they finally got into the hovercar late at night to go home.
The children were reluctant to go back to their own homes; they all wanted to stay in Lu Wanqing's small house and spend the night with their mother.
Mu Sijie and the others were helpless, but they also understood that their children were different from Harvey and Cui Cui. Harvey and Cui Cui had lived with Lu Wanqing in the empire for so long, while their children could only be with their mother occasionally during holidays. Now that it was finally the holidays again, it was normal for the children to want to be with their mother.
After much discussion, they finally decided that the children would stay in Lu Wanqing's house, while Mu Sijie, Zhong Li Feiyu, and Yu Nong returned to their own homes.
Three days of happy days passed. Three days later, Lu Wanqing suddenly wanted to visit Earth.
Since she and Cui Cui had last left Earth, the entire interstellar community had cooperated to purify Earth. Lu Wanqing really wanted to see what Earth was like now after being purified.
Everyone supported Lu Wanqing's idea. To be precise, everyone was very curious about Earth and had long wanted to visit it. They all really liked Lu Wanqing's suggestion, so they quickly agreed.