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I sometimes think of Yi Shouzhuo, how he was waiting for me on the mountain path when I was young, how he gave me an expensive set of sports equipment for my birthday. I think of the days when Gao Kan brought me back to the Chenchen, Yi Shouzhuo often nagged a few words.

"Glittering, look at the food in the fridge, which one do you like? Dad... I'll make it for you. If you want to eat anything in the future, just let me know or write a note. When she's not home, I'll give it to you. "

"Glittering, don't always be with people like Gao Kan. I can give you anything good that you want to eat and want new clothes. Sooner or later, he will leave, what will you do then? "

"Glittering, Glittering is your sister. You can't be rude to her, apologize to her quickly! I'll be very angry if I see you say something unpleasant to her in the future. "

"Gao Kan, I'll leave it to you to take care of my family. This child's personality is too stubborn, she will definitely suffer a great deal in the future. "Also, she's still young and isn't suitable for a relationship. I'll have to trouble you to take care of her and not let the boys at school bother her."

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Because I refused to call her father and mother no matter what, Wu Yue half-heartedly treated me well for two days, and then completely returned to her original appearance. I don't know why, but she had an incomparable hatred for me that reached the bone.

Only when Gao Kan comes to my house will she pretend to be good to me.

Furthermore, she doesn't allow Yi Shouzhuo to treat me well, nor does she allow Yi Canlan to approach me.

But in the beginning, Yi Shouzhuo was still pretty good to me. Even though I was unwilling to admit it, and hated how useless he looked in front of my wife, deep down in my heart, I still cared about him.

Only when she was on a business trip did Yi Shouzhuo dare to come to the school to pick me up. He took me to the market and bought the dishes that Gao Kan told him I liked to eat the most before rolling up his sleeves and waving a spatula in the kitchen. He cooked a big table full of dishes and invited Gao Kan to my house to eat with him.

He would pinch so many dishes into my bowl that he would like to make up for all my inadequacies.

But someone as stubborn as me, I only have Gao Kan in my heart and simply do not accept Yi Shouzhuo's kind intentions.

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I still remember that the most delicious dish that Yi Shouzhuo cooked was the Stewed Bullfrog with garlic and soy sauce. The flavor was spicy and fragrant enough to make one salivate just by thinking about it.

After leaving the Chenchen, he no longer stayed at the same place as Yi Shouzhuo and ate a lot of chili sauce, garlic, soy sauce and Bullfrogs cooked by other restaurants.

Because Gao Kan likes to eat this, he would cook it regularly. As for me, it's only when I cook this dish that I would look straight at Yi Shouzhuo and silently call him father in my heart.

We don't buy the Bullfrogs that we sell in the market, Gao Kan doesn't like to eat the farmed ones, so Yi Shouzhuo drove us to the countryside to catch wild animals. This is the happiest thing I did with them after returning to the Yi Family.

They usually left at night with simple tools, a flashlight, and a chemical fiber bag filled with fertilizer.

We went to the stream on the east side of the village with our flashlights, searching carefully and patiently. Where there was water and stone, the bullfrogs lay on their bellies, one after the other. I found it. Don't be impatient. Just use the flashlight to shoot into its eyes and then slowly take the bag from behind. A bullfrog easily entered the bag.

I was timid and afraid of the dark, so I pulled on Gao Kan's clothes tightly and followed him as they ran in the stream, helping him. However, the startled yells scared away the Bullfrogs.

Usually at times like this, Gao Kan would throw me on the ground, not allowing me to get close to the small stream. This young master has a special hobby of catching and killing bullfrogs. I suspect that he is venting all his evil thoughts onto them.

After I was driven to the farmlands by Gao Kan, Yi Shouzhuo found an excuse to accompany me there. He didn't dare to get too close, and just sat a meter away from me.

Although I was disdainful of him, I still enjoyed it and fell asleep after listening to him often.

Yi Shouzhuo's voice was very magnetic, low and gentle. It had a magical hypnotizing effect.

When I often wake up, Gao Kan had already returned home full of rewards. He would throw the chests over to Yi Shouzhuo, then pick me up, carry me on his back, board the carriage, and return home.

Even though Yi Shouzhuo had some complaints about my intimate contact with him, he could do nothing about it because I relied too much on him.

I still remember one night when I was sleeping, I was awoken by bugs gnawing at me. When I suddenly opened my eyes, I saw Yi Shouzhuo chasing small flying bugs away with a fan made from wild grass.

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That night, the moonlight was very bright, and he was still humming a melody in a low voice. The way he looked at me was also very gentle. Even the movements of his hands were very light and rhythmic, afraid to wake me up.

If I hadn't suddenly awoken, I definitely wouldn't have known he was by my side.

At that moment, I had a lot of feelings in my heart. Recalling the words "fatherly love like the mountain" in the textbook, it should be around what Yi Shouzhuo did.

Even though he was just a small mountain that wasn't even worth talking about, it wasn't towering in the slightest.

Anyway, I felt warm in my heart, and the word Dad, hidden in my throat, was going to come out, but I didn't say it, but I had to resist the itch and pretend to go back to sleep, because I didn't want to ruin such a nice, warm atmosphere.

But later on, because of a single sentence Yi Shouzhuo said to Gao Kan, my feelings for him fell into place once more, and they have been frozen for a long time.

When Gao Kan came to my side with the bag containing the Bullfrog, I was actually already awake. He wanted to wake me up, but Yi Shouzhuo stopped him.

He said he wanted to talk to him, and then he said a long, thoughtful sentence.

Gao Kan, I know you are a good child and have always been at ease with you. But Gleaming, she is a girl at the time of puberty, so it is very easy for her to have feelings for the opposite sex. I hope that you can stay away from her, so that this child won't fall for you.

At that time, Gao Kan laughed disapprovingly, saying that she had already fallen in love with me. It's already too late for you to say this now.

Yi Shouzhuo said that you would leave her sooner or later, and there was no way that she would have a future. Perhaps you would think this was very fun, but to Winky, this was a disaster. Stay away from her. In the future, don't come looking for her at home. I will take good care of her.

Hearing Yi Shouzhuo's words, I was especially angry at that time. I opened my eyes, and immediately sat up and shouted his name, telling him not to meddle in other people's business.

I still remember back then, because I was very angry at him pointing fingers at me and because I was afraid that Gao Kan would really move away from me, I impulsively scolded him as someone who didn't have the qualifications to bother about me.

After that, Yi Shouzhuo did not say anything and only sighed. After returning to the city, Gao Kan told me that he cried when I fell asleep. He said it was the first time in his life that a man cried so loudly and cried so much.

But I was unmoved by this.

Actually, thinking back now, what he said to Gao Kan, from a father's point of view, was indeed not wrong. His worries were all true, it was just that my heart was preoccupied with Gao Kan and I had never once looked back at the even taller figure behind me.