Daddy's Gourmet Shop-Chapter 426 - 416: What Is a Shaved Ice Machine?

In the evening, Huang Tao picked up his precious daughter, Xuanxuan, at the gate of Golden Sun Kindergarten.

The little one, as usual, ran toward her father as soon as she heard Teacher Ye call her name.

She eagerly showed her father the two red flower stickers on her forehead.

"Daddy, Daddy, look, look at the red flowers on my forehead that Teacher Ye rewarded me with, hehe, only I have two red flowers! And they’re Peppa Pig design!"

Xuanxuan raised her little head, wanting her father to see the red flowers on her forehead more clearly.

"Let Daddy take a look..."

Naturally, Huang Tao was very attentive to the reward his precious daughter received, and he reached out to touch them.

"Uh, Daddy, don’t touch. You’ll mess them up..."

Xuanxuan pouted unconsciously, quickly reaching to cover her forehead mid-air.

Afraid they would accidentally fall off. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

There’s actually a little story behind this.

Since Xuanxuan got two red flowers in the morning, her joyful smile had hardly faded.

Even during nap time, she slept with her mouth curled up as if she was dreaming of something happy.

But...

Joy often follows misfortune.

She always had trouble sleeping quietly, always moving around.

As a result...

When she woke up in the afternoon, the two red flowers on her forehead were rubbed off at some point...

After Qianqian reminded her of the missing flowers, she quickly rummaged through her bed.

Eventually, with Ye Wen’s help, they were found.

But the two red flowers had been disfigured beyond recognition.

The little one was so sad that her eyes welled up with tears, and she burst into tears, crying loudly.

She cried so sorrowfully!

"Waaah..."

Perhaps she felt very unwilling, or perhaps she was filled with remorse, but all the emotions gathering in her heart resulted in unstoppable sadness.

This sorrow pushed Xuanxuan to cry into Ye Wen’s arms, turning into a tearful mess.

No matter how Ye Wen gently comforted her, it was to no avail.

Xuanxuan’s beautiful big eyes were red from crying.

Her pitiful appearance would evoke sympathy in anyone who saw it!

Finally, Teacher Ye had no choice but to carry her outside the classroom to the swing set to comfort her, or else her heartbroken crying might even cause some of her emotional classmates to shed a few sympathetic tears!

If that happened, it would be challenging for the two teachers to calm them all down!

It took quite a while to console her!

Xuanxuan’s mood gradually improved, though she wasn’t as sad as before.

But her mood had yet to be fully uplifted, and even her favorite slide and swing seemed less fun.

She didn’t want to play!

With Ye Wen holding Xuanxuan’s hand, they went to her office, where she retrieved some sticky Peppa Pig red flower stickers and reapplied them to Xuanxuan’s forehead, finally making the little one smile again.

However...

After experiencing the loss, Xuanxuan became more cautious.

Constantly protecting and focusing on the two red flowers on her forehead.

No one was allowed to touch them.

Even when her father wanted to touch them, she was immensely worried.

Huang Tao chuckled and said, "Alright, Daddy won’t touch your red flowers, just let me have a quick look, see what our Xuanxuan’s Peppa Pig red flowers look like."

"Mmm, okay~"

Xuanxuan blinked her pretty big eyes, thought for a moment, nodded, and agreed.

However, the sticker edges were slightly curling up, making it hard to see the Peppa Pig design clearly without smoothing them out with a hand.

After all, she’s her dad’s beloved daughter, the treatment is inevitably a little different from others.

One can only wonder what kind of intense internal struggle the little girl went through.

Finally, she fluttered her pretty big eyes and hesitantly relented, "Then Daddy, be very careful, touch it gently, just gently touch it, okay? Don’t ruin or peel it off!"

Not knowing about his daughter’s "painful loss" of the red flowers, Huang Tao was quite puzzled.

She used to get four or five red flowers a day and never valued them so much!

Why is she treasuring them so much today?

Could it be just because this time the red flowers have a Peppa Pig design?

Perhaps!

That’s how he thought.

Looking at his daughter’s treasured expression, Huang Tao knew he must frame them when they got home, to prevent any accidental damage or loss that might devastate Xuanxuan.

But even if Xuanxuan didn’t care, Huang Tao would preserve them.

After all, these are the awards his daughter won!

He used to stick the red flowers Xuanxuan won in a notebook for keepsake.

After arranging things with Teacher Xu Weiwei, Ye Wen approached with a smile and gently told Huang Tao about Xuanxuan’s day at school: "Mr. Xuan, there’s something I need to tell you. After nap time today, the red flowers on Xuanxuan’s forehead got rubbed off. She was very sad and cried at the time, but don’t worry, thanks to the teacher’s comfort, her mood improved..."

"I see!"

Listening to what Teacher Ye said, Huang Tao suddenly understood why his precious daughter cared so much about this time’s red flowers, he looked at Ye Wen and thanked her, "Thank you for your trouble, Teacher Ye."

After saying that, he looked down at Xuanxuan with a heart full of affection, stroking her little head, ignoring even Teacher Ye’s words.

Xuanxuan held Huang Tao’s hand, tilted her face up, and with a big smile said, "Daddy, I’m not sad now, because Teacher Ye gave me better-looking red flowers."

Several hours had passed, and the little sadness in her heart had long dissipated.

Huang Tao watched her with a smile, nodding to show that he believed her words.

They bid farewell to Ye Wen and the other kids.

The father and daughter got in the car.

"Daddy, can you take a photo of me later, and send it to Grandpa and Grandma to see, okay?"

Sitting in the car, Xuanxuan, as usual, was chattering non-stop, while lightly touching her forehead to check if the red flowers were still there as she spoke.

"Of course, Xuanxuan got red flowers, we have to let Grandpa and Grandma know."

Huang Tao, holding the wheel, replied with a smile.

Just then, his precious daughter let out a surprised sound: "Huh? Daddy, what’s in the box on the passenger seat next to you?"

"Oh, that... It’s an ice shaving machine."

Earlier on the way here, Huang Tao had taken the automatic ice shaving machine he received from the system and placed it on the back seat after some tinkering.

He hadn’t expected the little one to be so sharp-eyed!

Spotting the anomaly right away.

Xuanxuan tilted her little head, wondering: What’s an ice shaving machine?

Huang Tao, noticing her curiosity, smiled and said, "This is a machine for making cold drinks. When we get home, I’ll make you a cold drink, alright?"

"Yay, yay~"

Xuanxuan happily swung her little legs.

She loves cold drinks the most.

Especially ice cream!

But...

Dad rarely lets her have it!

Don’t ask why?

Just that eating ice cream is too cold and not good for a child’s stomach and intestines, so she should eat it less...