Chapter 15: I Can't Coax, But I Can Learn
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Thinking of this, the two brothers looked at each other tacitly.
Ye Zhao poked the fried egg on the plate and muttered in his heart. He wondered what the paternity test results would be like. If the little thing was not the old man's biological child...
He raised his eyes and quickly glanced at Le Bao, who was trying hard to eat a bun, and happened to meet her eyes.
Le Bao's cheeks puffed up like a little hamster. She raised the food in her hand and asked hesitantly, "Little Big Brother, is there not enough to eat?"
As soon as she said this, the other father and son looked over at Ye Zhao.
Nanny Liang looked at Ye Zhao's empty bowl and reached out to take it. "Fifth Young Master, I'll get you another bowl."
"No need, no need. I'm just full!"
"At your age, you're just growing. You should eat more!" Nanny Liang added another bowl of millet porridge for him.
Le Bao finished the rest of the buns and quickly raised her hand. "Auntie Liang, Auntie Liang, Le Bao wants another bowl too!"
"Yes, Little Miss."
Ye Chong frowned. "How can you eat that much? Can your stomach hold it all?"
"Le Bao, here!" She patted her round belly. "Can eat more."
Ye Chong shook his head. "Little rice bucket, I might not be able to raise you if you eat so much."
"Then… Then I'll eat less." Le Bao quickly put down her spoon. "I'm not eating anymore. Le Bao will eat less in the future."
"Dad was just joking." Ye Wei quickly gave her his breakfast. "Even if Dad can't afford to raise your big brothers, he can afford to raise you."
Le Bao's eyes were red as she wiped away the tears that did not exist. She lowered her head and said in a nasal voice, "Thank you, Big Brother."
Ye Zhao's heart ached when he saw this. He immediately jumped up and rebuked the old man for the first time. "Dad! Don't scare her like this. We don't need such a small mouthful of rice. If you think she eats too much, I'll just eat less in the future!"
Ye Chong had only said it casually, and did not expect the three children to react so strongly, especially when he saw the little dumpling timidly taking his words seriously. He immediately regretted what he had said just now.
But at this moment, he couldn't put down his pride to explain, so he could only pretend not to care and replied, "Why are you taking it seriously? Just eat what you need to eat. The food wasted by the Ye family in a year can feed a few of you."
Le Bao lowered her head and secretly wiped her face. When she raised her head again, her two beautiful eyes were as red as a little rabbit. Her eyes were filled with uneasiness, but she still forced a smile. "Le Bao will be very obedient."
The three men's hearts clenched. Ye Wei couldn't help but stand up and comfort her. "No one wants Le Bao to be obedient. As long as you're happy, you can eat whatever you want and buy whatever you want. Dad will buy it for you, and so will Big Brother."
She pursed her lips and wiped her eyes even harder. Large drops of tears fell. "Le Bao didn't cry, she didn't cry."
Ye Zhao got up anxiously and walked around her helplessly. "Little Sister, don't cry. Dad was just joking. Don't take it seriously. I'll give you whatever you want!"
Le Bao wiped her tears and shook her head violently. "Don't cry, don't cry, Bao Bao, don't cry…Wah... I miss Mommy!"
Clack!
Ye Zhao and Ye Wei turned their heads at the same time. They saw Ye Chong standing up and pulling out a chair to walk around the table. His face was dark as if he wanted to eat someone alive.
The two brothers felt their scalps tighten. This was a typical sign of their father's anger. In the past, when their father had such a reaction, it was usually because the brothers had made a big mistake. What awaited them was a fierce lesson.
The first reaction of the two brothers was to stand in front of Little Le Bao. Ye Wei was still relatively calm. He only asked softly, "Dad, what are you…?"
Ye Zhao couldn't help but spread his arms in front of Le Bao and shouted, "Don't, don't, Dad. This little thing will be flattened with one punch. I know you don't like children, but let's talk things out!"
"She's already here. Even if you don't like her, we can just raise her. Le Bao is so cute. If it really doesn't work out, I'll go out and work to earn money to support her! It won't be an eyesore for the two of us to move out. I'll teach her well and provide for her to study…"
Ye Chong's mouth twitched and he could not take it anymore. He growled, "Get out of my way!"
"I won't!" Ye Zhao closed his eyes and looked like a warrior ready to die. "If you want to teach me a lesson, then teach me a lesson! Anyway, I was the one who got beaten up the most!"
Ye Wei hurriedly pulled his silly brother away before his father really got angry.
Ye Chong's tall figure pressed down on Le Bao's head. She forgot to cry, so she widened her eyes and wiped her tears in a panic. "Daddy, I won't cry anymore. Don't hit me, don't hit me!"
Nanny Liang wanted to say something, but she did not dare to. Ye Chong pulled up his trousers and squatted down.
He raised his hand to wipe away a small grain of rice next to Le Bao's mouth. His expression was extremely disgusted, but his hands were extremely gentle as he picked her up from the chair.
"Enough, are you all fools? Didn't I say something wrong? What are you guys doing?" Ye Chong said gruffly, wiping away the tears at the corner of Le Bao's eyes.
"I've never raised a little brat like you. I don't know how to coax you, but I can learn in the future. Just don't cry like this with me."
Ye Chong paused for a moment. "It gives me a headache!"
Although his tone was heavy, a few normal people could hear a different meaning.
Ye Zhao heaved a sigh of relief and secretly rejoiced in his heart.
Great, no matter what the results of the paternity test were, Le Bao would not be sent away!
Le Bao nodded and hugged Ye Chong's neck, sobbing softly against his chest, "S-Sorry, Le Bao was just thinking about Mommy."
"In the past, when Mommy was around... No one, no one dared to bully Le Bao."
"But after Mommy went to a faraway place, there were bad uncles and aunties who didn't let Le Bao eat. Otherwise, they wanted Le Bao to be sent to a faraway place!"
Ye Chong narrowed his eyes and his face turned cold. "Who dares to treat you like this?"
Le Bao shook her head. "Sorry, Le Bao was just... scared."
Ye Chong's heart ached when he heard her words, mixed with a strange and indescribable pain.
He softened his tone and comforted Le Bao. "In the future, no one will dare to bully you. I will not spare anyone who dares to bully you!"
Le Bao nodded heavily in his arms. After she transmigrated, she lived in the countryside for a few days.
Before her mother wrote to Ye Chong and Ye Chong sent someone to pick her up, she was sent to her uncle and aunt's house in name.
The other party knew that she might have a rich father, but he had not come to acknowledge her as his relative. They did not know the exact outcome, so they did not dare to do anything.
Secretly, they had taken all kinds of deductions from her diet. They had taken her mother's money to feed their son with fish and meat, but they had given her some non-nutritious food or fast food.
Even though Le Bao still had baby fat, she was a little thinner than children of the same age.
The results of the paternity test were not out yet. It was written that she was Ye Chong's biological daughter, but Ye Chong did not like children so young. Furthermore, Le Bao would often cry for no reason due to her lack of security. She did not like to talk about her grievances or sadness.
This caused the father and daughter to be estranged from the beginning, and Le Bao had an unhappy childhood.
Now that she was Le Bao, she would not repeat the same mistake with a precedent!
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