Lin Cheng took Lin Momo to their room.

Probably because she slept for too long during the day, at this time, when she came to the hotel room, Lin Momo was like a fully wound-up toy and not sleepy at all.

Lin Cheng took the mobile phone provided by the program team and used the hotel’s WiFi to check on information about their store online. Lin Momo took the paper and pen she got from the hotel front desk and began to concentrate on writing and drawing. .

Lin Cheng would glance at Lin Momo from the corner of his eye from time to time.

Just when Lin Cheng thought that Lin Momo would go to sleep on her own if she got tired of writing and drawing, he saw Lin Momo trotting towards him with a stack of paper in her hand and an excited look on her face.

“Dad! This is for you.”

“What is it?” Lin Cheng asked.

“Recipes!” Lin Momo said seriously.

The recipe book she had was left at home, so she wrote another one from memory.

Unfortunately, she missed a few of the more difficult dishes as Lin Momo really couldn’t remember them, but she could remember all the other simple, home-cooked dishes.

Hearing this, Lin Cheng raised his eyebrows, and his eyes fell on the recipes held out in front of him.

At first glance, Lin Cheng saw the dish ‘Fried Eggs with Tomatoes’ written on the top.

[Fried eggs with tomatoes: Break three eggs into a bowl and mix well with chopsticks. Add a little oil to the pot, heat until the oil is hot, add the eggs, wait until all the eggs are cooked and fluffy, remove eggs, then add a little more oil to the pot. Add a little minced ginger, stir-fry twice, add tomatoes cut into thumb-sized pieces and stir-fry together. When you can smell the aroma of tomatoes and oil, add the previously fried eggs and stir-fry together. After stir-frying for more than twenty times, add salt…]

“Grandma Zhao Xiaobao taught me this,” Lin Momo said from the side.

Lin Cheng: “…” He could definitely see it.

Such a ‘colloquial’ recipe was indeed very different from the recipes found on the Internet.

And there were also several ‘little bits’ of instructions added in there—these should be to save money and fuel no?

“This dish made by Grandma Zhao Xiaobao is super delicious.

“There is also this one!” Lin Momo pointed to the ‘Shredded Green Pepper Potatoes’ and said to Lin Cheng, “This is Grandma Zhou’s specialty dish.” 

“This one!” Lin Momo pointed to the next recipe. “It’s Aunt Xiao Yang’s specialty…”

Lin Cheng looked down where Lin Momo pointed.

These were ways to fry peanuts, pickle cucumbers, roast eggplants….

Next to each recipe, Lin Momo also drew a schematic diagram in great detail.

“Look, you just need to beat the eggs like this, stir like this, and stir in one direction…” Lin Momo explained to Lin Cheng while pointing at the schematic diagram and gesticulating with her hands.

Seeing Lin Momo’s schematic diagram showing the entire process of breaking eggs into a bowl and then beating them, Lin Cheng’s mouth twitched. 

Does this girl think he can’t even beat eggs?

“And this, Grandma Li said that when chopping onions, you have to bend your fingers like this so that you won’t easily cut your hands.

“And there’s more…”

Lin Momo kept talking. And so Lin Cheng, sitting patiently, opened his mouth several times to tell this girl that he could cook but never found a chance.

It wasn’t until he saw Lin Momo yawning that Lin Cheng finally interrupted her.

“Go to sleep,” Lin Cheng said.

“Wait, there’s still a little more.”

“Go to bed.”

“But…”

“I can read the rest by myself,” Lin Cheng added to appease the girl.

Hearing Lin Cheng’s words, Lin Momo reluctantly nodded, “Okay, but if there is anything you don’t understand, you have to ask me.” 

Seeing Lin Momo’s serious look, Lin Cheng hid a smile.

He nodded again and had to say ‘ok’ before finally coaxing Lin Momo to sleep.

In the bedroom, Lin Cheng tucked in Lin Momo’s quilt and said, “Good night, sleep well.” 

“Okay, good night, Dad.”

Lin Cheng touched Lin Momo’s head, then turned and walked out of the room. .

After Lin Cheng went out, Lin Momo opened her eyes again, raised her hand to cover her forehead, and smiled in a happy daze.

This was the place where Lin Cheng touched her head just now. Somehow, it still felt warm.

… …

Early the next morning, after a brief cleaning, the program crew’s car took Lin Cheng and Lin Momo to Liuming Street where they were about to live for a week.

This was a side road that connects to the main road.

Towards the end of this road was a residential area. There were also some commercial buildings around it, so the flow of people was neither large nor too small.

There were more than thirty small shops on the whole street, most of which were small stores, small restaurants, and milk tea snack shops.

Lin Momo’s shop was also among them.

The program team’s car drove all the way inside and finally stopped in front of a store. Lin Momo was full of expectations.

This shop was sandwiched between a small noodle shop that has been in operation for many years and a small dried goods store. The entrance was a glass door with several rows of dish names written on it. However, it has long since oxidized due to the years of exposure to the sun and rain, and now, one couldn’t even read clearly anymore what the words were. The only thing that could still be read are the words ‘STORE CLOSED’’ posted next to the door.

At this time, the door was secured with a big lock. Since there were no lights on and the glass door had what seemed to be years worth of accumulated dust, it was difficult to see the inside of the store.

But you could completely imagine how depressing the inside must be…

Lin Momo stood next to Lin Cheng and pulled Lin Cheng’s sleeve.

“Dad, is this our store?” Lin Momo asked.

Lin Cheng glanced at the words ‘Liuming Small Restaurant’ on the door, which was missing an arm and a few legs, and then looked at the house number next to it. 

It was indeed No. 17.

“This is it,” Lin agreed.

Lin Momo: “…”  

It felt a bit different from the small restaurant she imagined.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

At this time, the audience in the livestream channel also started discussing:

[That’s it? ? ?]

[Hey, I thought that this time Lin Cheng’s team would finally not have it as bad as the previous two periods. I never expected this! ]

[This small restaurant must have been closed for a long time due to poor management. Are you sure Lin Cheng and Momo can reopen the restaurant?]

[I feel bad, this episode will be even worse than the last one when they had to sell buns.]

[I think it’s true that the program team deliberately wants to cause trouble for Lin Cheng and Lin Momo. Why is their team so miserable every time?] 

Some netizens raised questions about how the program team was manipulating things behind the scenes.

At this time, in the program team’s office, the chief director himself was speechless looking at the livestream, his heart shouting that he was wronged!

This time, he swore that he really didn’t manipulate things behind the scenes!

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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