<h4>Chapter 161: Chapter 159: I Can Learn</h4>
Mooke Vis.
It was alreadyte, and beneath the clear sky and the bright moon, the summer cicadas were chirping in the trees.
"Lana, has Norman Bet not returned yet?"
Elliana Lyle, who was holding a bag of spicy radish sticks, was changing her shoes at the door.
Lana, who had returned earlier to tidy up the room, came over upon hearing this. Taking the bag from her hand, she said, "The young master hasn’t returned yet. Are you hungry, young mistress?"
"Not hungry, I came back full." After having a meal with Auntie Nan andter ate-night snack with Luna, she still felt stuffed.
Then she nced at the clock; it was already 11 o’clock. She thought she woulde backte and couldn’t avoid being criticized by Norman Bet.
Unexpectedly, Norman Bet hadn’t returned yet either.
"Young mistress, you...?" Lana frowned slightly before confirming, "You ate stinky tofu."
Elliana: "(●—●)"
Yes, she ate it, and even added two portions of duck feet. She knew Norman Bet never allowed her to eat these strong-smelling foods, perhaps because Norman Bet didn’t like the smell of stinky tofu, but stinky tofu was just so delicious~
She gave Lana a guilty smile; she had obviously rinsed her mouth after eating, but it was still smelled out. She quickly acted coy: "Lana, don’t tell Norman Bet, please, please～ I’ll go take a shower right away."
Saying this, she hurried upstairs without waiting for Lana’s agreement.
Lana, quite helpless, instructed a cleaning maid: "Wang Ma, please get rid of the smell in the house."
"Okay."
After washing up, Elliana deliberately spun around in front of Lana, who smelled carefully and said, "There is still a bit."
"..." The street vendor’s slogan was that the smell couldn’t be erased...
But she had already brushed her teeth and used a fragrant bubble bath...
Perhaps because the toothpaste and shower gel had a very light fragrance, they couldn’t cover it!
"Lana, do you have any perfume? Let me borrow some to spray."
Lana shook her head, she didn’t even buy cosmetics, so how could she have perfume? But she still said, "I’ll go downstairs and ask."
...
a.m.
The man returned to the vi, exhausted. He never made anyone wait for him in the middle of the night, so everyone was already resting, except the security guard who was keeping watch in the small house outside.
Upon reaching the second floor, as soon as he entered the door, he smelled a scent.
To be precise, it was a very low-quality fragrance, already sickeningly sweet at the entrance.
But the closer he walked, the tighter his brow furrowed.
Until he reached the bedside.
He was very surprised; the pungent smell was actuallying from the little girl. He remembered the little girl naturally had a fragrant sweetness about her, but it wasn’t this kind of...
Elliana, who was asleep, didn’t know that at this moment the man was staring at her with a sullen face. She turned over and continued to sleep.
Until she felt her body being lifted, as if flying, she woke up in shock!
Seeing the man’s face, she felt somewhat relieved, rubbing her eyes that wouldn’t open, but before she could speak, the man put her in the bathtub.
"Norman Bet?" She looked puzzled, leaning on the edge of the bathtub, not understanding the man’s intention.
Why, for no reason, did he bring her to the bathroom?
The man took the showerhead, adjusted the water temperature, and started filling the bathtub.
"What have you done?"
Faced with the man’s questioning, she was at a loss, what had she done? What could she have done?
"I haven’t done anything."
Seeing this, the man’s expression became even colder, his tone increasingly stern: "Where did the smell on your bodye from?"
"..." Elliana was momentarily stunned, then remembered the stinky tofu she ate, but thought it was strange.
Impossible, she had sprayed so much perfume, how could the man still smell the stinky tofu?
She felt a bit embarrassed, looking down at the man, and in a small voice asked, "How did you smell it out?"
The man said nothing, only looked at his little girl with an expressionless face.
Does this still need to be smelled out? Anyone with a sense of smell wouldn’t say such things.
He even began to wonder if the little girl had no sense of smell. Just as he was about to ask, he saw the little girl with a pitiful face saying, "Norman Bet, I’ll never eat stinky tofu again."
Norman Bet: "..."
...
The next day.
a.m.
Elliana sat alone on the balcony, thinking about her silly self confessing without being pressed the night before, and wanted to crawl under a rock.
She must have been sleep-deprived, she must have!
The creak～
The sound of the door opening made her turn her head immediately, only to see the man walking straight to her.
"Norman Bet... morning."
"Mm."
The man bent down, scooped her into his arms, and then ced her by the dining table on the first floor.
It seemed he was asking her to have breakfast.
Seeing the porridge Lana brought over, she suddenly remembered Auntie Nan’s pickles and quickly said, "Lana, where’s the bag I gave you yesterday? There are pickles inside, bring out a small dish."
"Yes, young mistress."
During the meal, the man said to her, "After eating, tidy up for tomorrow is grandmother’s birthday; we’ll be going back to the Shen residence."
"Ah?" This was somewhat sudden; she hadn’t prepared a gift properly yet!
Seeing the situation, the man sighed helplessly, "I mentioned it to you half a month ago."
"I know, but I haven’t finished embroidering the Hundred Longevity Diagram!"
Half a month ago, she had ordered a cross-stitch online, of which she had only embroidered eighty-plus long-life characters out of a hundred.
Though she also prepared a yellow jade bracelet, she still felt that adding the personally embroidered Hundred Longevity Diagram would be more heartfelt.
"Lana can help you."
Faced with the man’s suggestion, she immediately refused, "No, I can’t have someone else do such things, can I?"
Seeing the worried little girl’s face, the man gently asked, "How about I keep youpany to finish it?"
"Can you?" Well, it’s not impossible, after all, they’re a married couple!
The man said, "No."
Elliana: "(●—●)"
Listening to one of his words is worth more than listening to a hundred others.
"I can learn."
This was nice to hear, but Elliana had no expectation that the man could help her; it had taken her a whole day to learn.
Moreover, this needlework usually associated with women might take even longer for a man to learn.
"Forget it, I’ll do it myself, at worst I’ll embroider on the ride."
―――Half an hourter.
"Norman Bet, have you learned it?"
The man slightly furrowed his brows, awkwardly holding the embroidery needle, saying: "I’ll try."
In less than five minutes, the man was efficiently and skillfully embroidering the Hundred Longevity Diagram, the movements resembling calligraphy.
"Norman Bet, you learned faster than I did."
She entrusted the remaining embroidery of the Hundred Longevity Diagram to the man, as Lana was already calling her to try on the dress she needed to wear.
Because it was to meet elders, she had to choose carefully.
Lana apanied her in the dressing room as she changed from one outfit to another, finally choosing a blue and white dress, with a white lining and ayer of very light blue silk gauze on the outside.
Although it was a strapless design, it looked very serene, of course, given that she herself remained calm.
"Lana, package it carefully, I’ll wear it when we get there."
After Lana agreed, she asked, "Then what will you wear tonight, young mistress? You’ll arrive around 7 p.m. if you leave in the afternoon, and then dinner will be served."
"Hmm... What does grandmother like?"
Upon hearing this, Lana seriously pondered for a moment, then said, "The old madam likes subtle and unpretentious colors; young mistress is still young, perhaps Morandi shades would suit you well."