[ContrastTeamInADadW/BabyShow] Chapter 43.1 — Candies

Hearing Lin Momo’s words, Old Master Lin came back to his senses. With a ‘kindly grandpa smile’ on his face, he nodded quickly and said, “I do want to.”

“I was just passing by and saw that your store looked good, so I came over to have a taste,” the old man added.

Behind him, Zhou Ming’s mouth twitched slightly.

Old Master, can you be more careful in your explanation? Zhou Ming complained in his heart.

Lin Momo, on the other hand, only felt happy when she heard that there were more customers for their small restaurant again. She put the ‘OPEN’ sign up again with a smile.

“Please come in.

“The dishes we serve in our store are very fresh, and the ingredients are all good. You can order whatever you want…” Lin Momo said as she ushered Old Master Lin and Zhou Ming inside the restaurant.

Looking at the small figure walking ahead of them, the smile on Old Master Lin’s face became brighter and brighter.

It wasn’t until he walked into the restaurant and his eyes met Lin Cheng behind the kitchen partition that the smile on Old Master Lin’s face fell, changing into an expression of dislike.

This dislike also contained a hint of jealousy.

Old Master Lin looked at the lively and very colorful ‘Patrick Star’ and ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ on Lin Cheng and Lin Momo, and then down at the nondescript casual jacket he was wearing, and he berated Butler Zhou in his heart.

Originally, the old man planned to come here wearing that ‘Squidward’ T-shirt. But before he went out, Zhou Xing was worried that he would catch a cold in the afternoon because he didn’t have enough clothes, so he advised him to put on a coat over ‘Squidward’.

“What kind of food do you want to eat?” Lin Momo’s voice interrupted Old Master Lin and Lin Cheng’s stare off.

“Ah?” Old Master Lin turned and focused on Lin Momo. “What kind of dishes are there?”

“We have a lot of fresh ingredients today. You can order whatever you want, and my dad can cook it.”

“So that’s it. …” After hearing this, Old Master Lin glanced at Lin Cheng: he was somewhat doubtful about the statement that Lin Cheng could do anything.

“Can you make pinenut with corn, fish-flavored eggplant, and steamed pork with rice flour?”

Lin Momo thought for a moment, mentally comparing what the old man ordered to the vegetables and ingredients they had in the freezer, and nodded, “We can.”

“Pork slices, sauced pork ribs, chrysanthemum fish?”

“Yeah, okay.”

Hearing this, Old Master Lin nodded with satisfaction, and then said, “Let’s also have some crispy sweet and sour pork, crystal elbow flower…”

“Ahem.”

Old Master Lin was interrupted by a cough from Zhou Ming next to him.

“What?” Old Master Lin looked at Zhou Ming in dissatisfaction.

“Old master, please take it easy…” Zhou Ming lowered his voice to remind Old Master Lin to keep a low profile.

Zhou Ming was embarrassed by the old master’s manner of ordering. Of course he understood that the old master ordered so many dishes in order to help Lin Cheng and Lin Momo complete their tasks this week. But if one didn’t know this, when seeing the old man’s attitude, one might think… he was only here to cause trouble.

… …

Zhou Ming was actually not wrong about this.

In the livestream channel, after seeing this scene, a lot of complaints started popping up in the barrage area:

[Just two people and ordered so many?]

[And they are all difficult to make dishes. Can Lin Cheng do so much?]

[Isn’t this old man here to cause trouble?]

[It could also be that a competitor sent him to cause trouble.]

… …

Back at the small restaurant.

Lin Momo glanced down at the small notebook where she had written down a list of dishes, then looked at the two guests in front of her. “If there are only two of you, just order two dishes and one soup,” Lin Momo reminded, “All this is too much. It would only be a waste.”

After a pause, Lin Momo said with a bit of pride, “Our food servings are very generous.”

After hearing this, Old Master Lin waved his hand indifferently and said with a smile, “It’s not too much, not too much at all. I ordered so many because we have a lot of family members, so we can pack away all the food we won’t be able to finish.”

After saying that, Old Master Lin touched his chin again and said, “I’ll think about it again… Kung Pao Chicken, Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs, Immortal Tofu…”

Old Master Lin wanted to order some more expensive dishes, but when he looked up and met Lin Cheng’s eyes full of warning, the old man suddenly stopped.

“Well, although I said all those dishes, we don’t really need them all. Let’s have a boiled cabbage heart, a steamed sea bass, and a wintermelon meat slice soup.”

“Okay! Please wait a moment, we will serve you as soon as possible.” Lin Momo wrote down the last few dishes the old man mentioned and ran to the kitchen to hand them to Lin Cheng.

Old Master Lin sat in his seat, but his eyes never moved away from Lin Momo, and he whispered from time to time, “Our little Momo is so good…”

Looking at the old man’s eagerness to look at Lin Momo, Zhou Ming—who was standing by him—was worried that the old man might accidentally twist his neck…

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Lin Momo made a pot of tea for the guests.

Seeing Lin Momo walking cautiously towards this side with a pot full of hot tea, Old Master Lin couldn’t help but feel nervous. Such a big pot of tea would contain hot water at 70 or 80 degrees celsius. What to do if their little Momo got burned!

Thinking of this, Old Master Lin couldn’t sit still anymore and was about to get up and go over to get the teapot from Lin Momo.

Fortunately, Zhou Ming held Old Master Lin back.

Zhou Ming silently pointed to several cameras in the restaurant, reminding the old man to keep a low profile and not reveal himself.

Seeing this, Old Master Lin had no choice but to sit back again.

Even so, the old man’s heart still followed the pot of tea in Lin Momo’s hand.

It wasn’t until Lin Momo safely delivered the teapot to their table that Old Master Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

“Please drink tea,” Lin Momo put the teapot on the table and handed a teacup to Old Master Lin and Zhou Ming respectively.

“Okay, okay, thank you for your hard work. Go sit down and take a rest.” Old Master Lin said nervously to Lin Momo.

Lin Momo shook her head, smiled at the customers, and said, “It’s not necessary, I’m not tired. If you need anything, you can always come to me.”

Saying this, Lin Momo was about to pour tea for Old Master Lin and Zhou Ming, but she was stopped by the old man. “Put it down quickly, be careful not to burn yourself with it, we can do it ourselves.”

With a look from the old man, Zhou Ming quickly took the teapot from the table and poured tea for the old man himself.

Seeing that there seemed to be nothing else for her to do, Lin Momo quietly stepped aside.

Old Master Lin picked up the tea in his hand, blew on it to cool it a bit, and sipped it happily.

Seeing Old Master Lin enjoying himself while drinking tea, the corners of Zhou Ming’s mouth started twitching, and he complained in his heart. The old master has always been very particular about drinking tea even when he was still young. As his young assistant, he knew very well that the old master only drank the best tea, from the best teacups, using the best tea sets. Failure to meet such high requirements and any deviation in water temperature would make this picky old man feel disgusted for a long time.

The tea in front of him now was basically the cheapest tea stem. He never expected that the old master would enjoy it so much.

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

T/N: Spareribs in Sauce