The little child obediently held his face, watching Grandpa
Ram work. He was a diligent little child and occasionally helped Grandpa Ram
with the screws.
Perhaps due to his old age, Ram worked slowly.
While working, he also taught his apprentice, a dark-skinned
teenager named Harry.
After hearing Harry’s name, the little child was momentarily
confused and asked Harry, “Principal Hardy?”
Harry: “?”
Harry didn’t know Principal Hardy.
The little child, seeing that Harry didn’t recognize his own
principal, didn’t dwell on it and continued to watch Grandpa Ram.
Huo Lin was not interested in this.
Huo Lin set up a table and started doing his homework.
The little child got a headache whenever he saw homework. He
stubbornly refused to turn around to look at his brother.
Huo Lin knew that he didn’t like doing homework, and with so
many people around, he couldn’t just drag the little child over to study. He
could only temporarily save face for the little child.
“Ningning, since you like watching Grandpa Ram build mechas
so much, when you grow up, do you want to become a mecha engineer too?” Harry
asked casually, seeing the little child’s interest.
Upon hearing Harry’s words, the little child slowly asks,
“Can mecha engineers earn a lot of money?”
Harry nodded. “Of course, as long as you become a top-notch
mecha engineer, you can earn a lot of money, more than you can spend.”
The little child: “...”
The little child looked down at his round little belly.
Blushing, he said, “Ningning can spend it all. Ningning can
eat a lot of meals.”
Harry chuckled. “Can your appetite be bigger than mine? Don’t
worry, as a mecha engineer, you won’t go hungry. When you grow up, remember to
come to our Sixth Planet to study mecha technology.”
The little child still hadn’t made up his mind.
He pouted his chubby face and worried, “Ningning will be very
busy when he grows up.”
Harry was puzzled. “What will you be busy with when you grow
up?”
The little child started counting on his fingers and listed
the things he wanted to do, “Ningning wants to take care of Dad, take care of
Uncle Ling Qi, Uncle Lulu, Auntie Ai Wei, and also Uncle Big Uncle Zhan, Uncle
Duo bi... and Auntie Huaya.”
“Ningning also wants to collect and sell scrap, plant
vegetables, sell vegetables...”
The little child kept counting, and even his ten chubby
fingers were not enough. He counted very seriously, while Harry listened in
astonishment.
Indeed, this little child seemed quite busy.
Huo Lin, who was sitting at a table nearby doing his
homework, listened to the little child chattering away, and a smile appeared at
the corners of his mouth. He felt himself being charmed by the other’s
cuteness.
The little child had excellent social skills.
Not only did he quickly become friends with Harry and Grandpa
Ram, but he also greeted Grandpa Ram’s guests when they came here. He even
moved small chairs for the guests to sit on!
The visiting guests looked at the little child, who moved a
small chair for them and trembled as he carefully handed them a large glass of
water. They couldn’t help but smile and say, “Ram, where did you find this
adorable grandson? He’s truly remarkable.”
Ram looked at the little child who moved chairs and poured
water for the guests, and a smile appeared in his eyes too.
He worked every day, but today, doing his work made him the
happiest. He chuckled and didn’t deny the claim that this little child was his
grandson.
After a few guests left, the sky began to darken.
Harry saw the darkening sky and immediately turned on the
lights.
In the courtyard, the little child, who had been “busy” for
most of the day, was now hugging Grandpa Ram’s thigh and asked, “Grandpa, can
you give Ningning some food?”
Ram patted his head and smiled, saying, “Okay.”
It was the first time having a meal at Grandpa Ram’s house,
and the little child made a special request, emphasizing, “I can eat a lot of
food! Grandpa, give me more food!”
Ram laughed and replied, “Alright, Grandpa will ask Harry to
make you some extra food.”
Harry was an apprentice here, responsible for the old man’s
daily needs.
He was hardworking and skilled in cooking. Today, to treat
the adorable little child, he added many special dishes to the meal.
While Harry was cooking, the little child brought a small
stool and sat in the kitchen, watching Harry work.
“These are all specialty dishes. You may not find them
outside,” Harry introduced his dishes to the little child proudly, saying,
“Nowadays, many people on the Sixth Planet are advocating for nutritional
supplements. A small dose of supplements can replace a meal and make you full,
but they can’t enjoy the delicious taste.”
“The Sixth Planet used to have a rich food culture, but it’s
almost disappearing now.”
Harry expressed regret as he talked about this, saying, “The
progressive faction always promotes technology and an intelligent lifestyle.
They haven’t even realized that the more they indulge in it, the more they
become assimilated into intelligent machines themselves.”
“Machines don’t have emotions. The fundamental difference
between humans and machines is that humans are emotionally rich beings, while
machines are cold and lifeless.”
Harry clearly belonged to the conservative faction.
Once he started talking, he couldn’t stop. He kept discussing
machines, intelligence, and humans, with the little child being his only
listener.
The little child sat by the fire pit, holding a firestick in
his chubby hands, his plump face looking serious.
Seeing his expression, Harry was deeply moved and said,
“Ningning, thank you for listening to me. My master doesn’t like talking, so I
don’t dare to talk nonsense to him. You’re good... You’re so young, and you
probably don’t understand what I’m saying, but you’re still listening so
attentively.”
Harry was touched.
However, the little child continued poking the fire without
any reaction to Harry’s gratitude.
Harry: “...”
Harry belatedly sensed that something was amiss.
He leaned closer and pinched the little child’s cheeks.
“Ningning, what are you doing?”
Did he actually hear him speaking?
Only after being pinched did the little child show a
reaction. He looked up and said to Harry, “Ningning is cooking!”
Harry: “?”
Harry paused for a moment. “What kind of food are you
making?”
The little child earnestly replied, “Eggs!”
Harry became even more bewildered. He saw the little child
sitting behind the pot without moving his small body. How could he cook
anything like this?
Before Harry could ask further, the little child pointed at
the flames and added an explanation, “Grandpa Ram said we can put peanuts and
sweet potatoes in the fire. But Ningning didn’t have peanuts and guagua, so
Ningning put eggs instead!”
Harry hazarded a guess and inferred that the “guagua” the
child mentioned probably referred to sweet potatoes, so the eggs...
“Ningning, did you put the eggs in there?”
“Yes!”
The little child nodded, wearing an expression that awaited
praise.
Harry’s eyelid twitched, and at that moment, his ears also
caught the peculiar, faint sound coming from the flames. Without thinking, the
next second, he grabbed the child and tried to run outside.
But they were still a bit slow.
The explosion of the eggs splattered them with ash and egg
liquid, covering their bodies.
Harry’s nostrils twitched, and at this moment, he untimely
concluded that the exploding eggs seemed to be rotten.
The little child, who was held tightly by Harry, was also
stunned by the explosion.
His chubby little face was rosy just a moment ago, but now
it’s smudged and his pretty clothes have become dirty.
The bewildered little child, flapping his short legs in the
air, has turned around and was now tearfully calling his older brother.
Huo Lin and Ram heard the commotion in the kitchen.
After hearing the noise, both of them had a serious
expression and rushed in.
“Harry, what’s going on?!”
Upon seeing the chaotic mess in the kitchen, and the little
child held in Harry’s arms, flapping his legs, Ram’s blood pressure started to
rise.
Initially scared, the little child now heard Grandpa Ram
blaming his brother Harry and, holding back tears, he took the initiative to
admit his mistake, saying, “It was Ningning, it was Ningning who did it.”
Harry put the little child down on the ground.
The little child didn’t care about finding his older brother
and instead rushed to Grandpa Ram’s leg. With a face resembling a small kitten,
he apologized, saying, “Ningning wanted to cook, but it exploded.”
Ram: “...”
Ram looked at Harry.
Harry explained from behind, “He threw the egg into the fire,
and then it exploded.”
Ram’s family didn’t commonly use this type of cooking pot,
not even on the Sixth Planet. Such things were rarely seen, even on the White
Mist Star.
The little child had never used this pot to cook for his
father before and didn’t know that eggs couldn’t be roasted over fire. He
looked back at the messy kitchen, wiped his eyes, and sounded even more guilty
with his soft voice, saying, “Grandpa, I’ll pay you back with money.”
Every year during the New Year, he would receive lucky money.
His father said to save it for him and, when he grew up, he could use it to
marry a wife.
But now he didn’t want a wife anymore; he wanted to repay the
money to his grandpa.
After understanding the situation with the little child, Ram
first lowered his head to check if he was hurt. When he found no injuries, he
smiled and said, “It’s alright, grandpa doesn’t need you to pay.”
He stroked the little child’s soft curly hair and then looked
at Huo Lin, saying, “Caesar, take Ningning and tidy up.”
Huo Lin responded with a nod, carrying the dirty little child
away, planning to wash the other.
After the child left, Harry also tidied up the kitchen again.
“Master, it was my fault for not keeping an eye on
Ningning...”
“It’s not your fault.”
Ram patted Harry’s shoulder and asked him to tidy up as well,
saying, “Leave it to me here. Take a shower and come back.”
Due to a kitchen accident, dinner was delayed by over an
hour.
At the dining table.
The little child, who had already been cleaned up, took out
the powdered milk that it had secretly brought in a suitcase and wanted to give
it to Harry and Grandpa Ram to drink.
While handing out the powdered milk, Huo Lin lowered his
voice and explained to the two how precious the powdered milk was to the little
child.
Uncle Zhan thought that since the child was already going to
school, drinking powdered milk wouldn’t provide much nutrition, so he stopped
giving it to the child.
But despite the apparent success of quitting powdered milk,
the child was secretly making powdered milk for himself behind his father’s
back and drinking it.
Upon hearing that powdered milk was so precious to the little
child, Ram and Harry, even though they didn’t particularly like the taste, drank
it all under the child’s watchful gaze.
The little child felt somewhat relieved seeing them finish
the milk.
“Ningning, come and eat.”
Harry put a large piece of meat in the child’s bowl, as he
made plenty of food and could definitely feed the little child.
The little child happily bit into the meat and wagged his
little feet.
They had just started eating when the man who had visited
during the day suddenly appeared. Seeing that they were all having dinner, the
man casually pulled up a chair and sat down.
“Why is your dinner so late today?”
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