Mom said you hadn't eaten your fill, so you hadn't eaten your fill.
Hearing Mom's words, Chen Mo could only circulate his True Essence, speeding up his stomach's digestion to process the food he had eaten faster.
Setting everything else aside, with his strength, digesting some noodles was nothing. He could easily finish an entire basin of saozi noodles.
After eating, Chen Mo tried hard to show that he was full and did not need any more noodles. He had nearly lifted his shirt like he had as a child to show off his full belly.
Only then did Mom contentedly take away the bowl—no, the basin—and happily went to wash up.
Sigh!
It wasn't easy!
Such heavy motherly love left him speechless.
Yet in that atmosphere, Chen Mo felt an incredible calm deep in his heart.
Once again, only Chen Mo and Chen Jianguo remained in the courtyard. It grew so quiet that neither of them knew what to say.
Chen Jianguo had always been a man of few words and rarely lectured Chen Mo or his siblings. When Chen Mo had been young, Chen Jianguo had also always worn a stern, silent expression. As a result, even now, the two of them did not know what to talk about.
Although Chen Mo could feel Chen Jianguo's love for him, it was not something that could always be spoken aloud.
So Chen Jianguo smoked off to the side, while Chen Mo made occasional small talk beside him.
Just then, the front gate was pushed open again. Chen Ping hurried in, her voice arriving before she did. "Er Wa, you're finally back?!"
Sigh! Chen Mo's face filled with black lines. He was already a man in his fifties, yet he was still being called by his childhood nickname. It was