Chapter 686 The Perception of Every Year

Chapter 686 The Perception of Every Year

"It's not certain yet," Jiang Ruan said. "I'll tell you before I come."

Huo Zhizhou looked at her for a while before saying in a low, hoarse voice, "Okay."

Jiang Ruan met his gaze and said calmly and rationally, "I'm leaving."

Huo Zhizhou saw her out.

Lin Bei was asked to take her to the hotel.

As soon as she left with Mo Mo, Sui Sui, who was standing next to Huo Zhizhou, spoke up. Her voice was crisp and childish, but her words lightened the mood: "Uncle Huo, if you keep standing here, you'll become a 'waiting-for-wife stone'."

Huo Zhizhou: "It's good to be able to be with your mother and become a 'waiting-for-wife stone' (a symbol of longing for one's wife)."

Sui Sui opened her mouth.

Dad seems a little unhappy.

"Before you become a statue waiting for your wife, could you please keep an eye on the little boy next to you?" Sui Sui said to him, not wanting him to remain immersed in the emotions of his mother leaving.

Huo Zhizhou looked away and asked him, "What does the child need?"

Sui Sui: "I want to eat fruit."

Huo Zhizhou: "What kind of fruit? I'll have Jiang Yu get it for you."

Sui Sui: "Hmph."

Huo Zhizhou crouched down to be at eye level with him, reached out and pinched his cheek: "What are you humming about, hmm?"

"I came all this way, and you didn't even offer to cut it for me yourself." Sui Sui crossed her arms, looking somewhat arrogant. "It seems that what you said about missing me was all a lie."

Huo Zhizhou hadn't let go of his cheek yet: "Want to eat something I made myself?"

Sui Sui didn't say a word.

Huo Zhizhou teased him, "Call me Daddy."

Sui Sui: "No."

Huo Zhizhou: "Really don't want it?"

Sui Sui: "I told you that Mom's husband is my dad. You've already divorced Mommy."

Huo Zhizhou exposed him: "Who just called me a 'wife-gazing stone'?"

“That’s a metaphor,” Sui Sui said seriously. “I haven’t been in school for many years, so it’s normal for me to use the wrong words.”

Huo Zhizhou pinched him again, then got up to prepare for him: "Wait here."

The two went inside together.

Huo Zhizhou went to the kitchen and got some fruit.

Watching her father peel and cut fruit, Sui Sui couldn't help but stare at him for a while longer.

Dad's hands seem to...

"Is this enough?" Huo Zhizhou finished cutting it up for him in no time. "If it's not enough, I'll cut some more for you."

"Hold me." Sui Sui looked at him.

His father was very good at cooking and chopping vegetables. He had seen his father cook and peel fruit for them before. His posture and movements just now were obviously not as strong as before.

Was he injured? Or was he truly too weak from hunger?

Huo Zhizhou was taken aback.

Even though he was smart, he didn't expect children to have such strong observational skills.

He just thought that he had been separated from him for too long and missed him: "Call me Daddy and I'll hug you."

Sui Sui: "Dad."

Huo Zhizhou slightly raised his eyes.

This is truly unexpected.

He knew how stubborn this kid was; if it weren't for other factors, he wouldn't have called him so casually, but now...

"Why aren't you hugging me yet? Are you trying to cheat me?" Sui Sui was afraid he would see through her intentions, so she deliberately argued with him as usual.

"Unhappy?" Huo Zhizhou asked him.

Sui Sui: "?"

Huo Zhizhou didn't know what was wrong with him. Seeing that he was unwilling to talk about it, he didn't ask any more questions. He planned to wait until he stayed here for a couple more days before asking. With that thought, he opened his arms to him and said, "Come on, let Daddy hug you."

Sui Sui walked over and threw herself into his arms.

Huo Zhizhou picked him up.

Only when he held the baby did he realize how badly his body had been worn out during this time. He used to hold the baby effortlessly, but now he felt the weight. In such a short period of time, even if the baby grew, he wouldn't grow much bigger.

The only answer is that his physical condition has really deteriorated.

Sui Sui also noticed it at the same time.

He had been hugged countless times over the years, so he could tell that this hug was definitely not right.

It seems that Dad's self-inflicted injury scheme really backfired on him.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Huo Zhizhou held him with one arm and held a fruit bowl in the other. "Missing me?"

Sui Sui pursed her lips, ultimately unable to bear continuing to argue with him: "You've lost so much weight."

Huo Zhizhou: "I'm not used to the local environment."

Sui Sui: "You didn't do it on purpose to make Mommy feel sorry for you?"

“It’s not that you can’t say it that way,” Huo Zhizhou said, deliberately teasing him.

Sui Sui wanted to push him a little: "Then I'll use this trick to apologize to people in the future too."

Huo Zhizhou paused, then looked at him seriously and formally: "This is wrong. An apology should be sincere, not done in such a despicable way."

“But you used it.” Sui Sui looked at it carefully.

"But it failed," Huo Zhizhou said. "Insincere people will be punished."

This moment.

Suddenly, a flood of emotions welled up in Sui Sui's heart.

He didn't know how to tell him.

"Don't worry, Dad will never use such despicable methods again after this." Huo Zhizhou put him down and placed the fruit plate in front of him. "Dad will have a good talk with your mom."

Sui Sui: "You don't have a chance."

He said this in a declarative sentence.

Huo Zhizhou rubbed his head: "How will you know if you don't try more? As long as you don't cause trouble or annoyance to the other party, you can try more within the limited conditions."

Sui Sui's round eyes met his gaze.

Dad's eyes were dark, reflecting his image and his desire to be with Mom.

"Didn't you want to eat fruit? Eat up." Huo Zhizhou rubbed his head.

Sui Sui kept her head down, picked up her fork, and put pieces into her mouth one by one.

After eating a few pieces, he forked a piece and put it in Huo Zhizhou's mouth, his childish voice carrying his own awkward concern and care: "This melon is very sweet, you should try it."

Huo Zhizhou hadn't opened his mouth yet.

Jiang Yuxian stepped forward and said, "The boss isn't really in a good position to be involved in this gossip lately."

The doctor specifically instructed that the boss is not in good condition right now and cannot eat many things indiscriminately.

Before they learned that the young master was coming, the family had never had these fruits.

"Why?" Sui Sui withdrew her hand.

"It's nothing, he's making a fuss over nothing." Huo Zhizhou held his little hand, brought the melon to his mouth, and swallowed it after biting into it.

That moment.

Jiang Yu's brows furrowed unconsciously.

The boss is going to have a hard time later.

Sui Sui noticed his reaction and instinctively told him that his father was hiding something from him: "Is it... that you have a stomach problem?"

"Didn't you see how my stomach was when we ate earlier?" Huo Zhizhou didn't want him to worry. "Don't worry, it's just that I've been staying up too late lately and my immunity has dropped. The doctor prescribed some medicine."

"Does the medicine conflict with this fruit?" Sui Sui asked.

"It shouldn't be eaten with cold foods, but I don't need to take that medicine tonight, so it's fine." Huo Zhizhou was quite good at lying. "Your Uncle Jiang Yu is just overly concerned."

Sui Sui's tense heart relaxed a little: "That's good."

Huo Zhizhou rubbed his head: "Eat up."

Sui Sui: "Oh."

Sui Sui: "That's right."

Huo Zhizhou: "Hmm?"

Looking at his noticeably thinner face and body, Sui Sui asked in a serious tone, "How did you lose so much weight? Were you starving?"

"No, I lost weight through exercise." Huo Zhizhou's ability to lie was getting better and better.

In short.

This made Sui Sui suspicious again.

If he lost weight through exercise, why isn't he as strong as he used to be when you hold him?