Time to put it on the agenda

After one bite, everyone let out an appreciative sigh. It was truly delicious.

The braised chicken was golden brown and slightly sweet, and the potatoes stewed with it were so soft they melted in the mouth.

The eggplant in savory sauce was tender, flavorful, and nutritious, a perfect dish to go with rice.

The other dishes looked, smelled, and tasted wonderful too. No one spoke; everyone ate in silence. The food was just that good.

{"It looks so delicious."}

{"I just finished eating, but now I want to eat again. What do I do?"}

{"Seriously, Shen Zeyu is so capable. It feels like nothing can stump him."}

After the meal, adults and children alike slumped in their chairs. Everyone had eaten too much.

Feifei said, "Yuyu, your little dad's cooking is really, really good."

Lu Yu said proudly, "Right? I wasn't lying. My little dad's cooking is really good."

"It's really, really delicious! This delicious!" Tiantian raised her arms to make a huge circle.

Shen Zeyu smiled as he listened to the children praise him. After resting for a while, he was about to clear the messy table.

Zi Yiting quickly stopped him. "Zeyu, that won't do. Whoever cooks doesn't have to wash the dishes."

Chen Ran and Ge Qing chimed in, "Put those down, put those down. We'll do it."

Shen Zeyu didn't refuse. "All right, I'll leave the rest to you."

One cleared the table, one washed the dishes, and one rinsed them. They soon had everything cleaned up.

Once they came out, Ge Qing said, "We still have to borrow a villager's bathroom to shower. What a miserable life."

After working all day, he had to get a shower no matter what. Zi Yiting felt the same.

In the end, they decided to ask the villagers they had helped that day to lend them their bathrooms. Zi Yiting set off first with Feifei.

Ge Qing called to Ge Zhou beside him. "Zhouzhou, let's go. I'll take you to have a shower."

Ge Zhou wasn't angry, but he wanted to hear another sincere apology from his brother, so he said nothing and walked ahead on his own. He still remembered the way.

Ge Qing strode after him and scooped him up. "All right, Zhouzhou, don't be angry. I promise I won't lie to you again."

"Swear it."

"All right, all right, I swear."

"Then I forgive you," Ge Zhou said with an air of mock pride.

"All right, thank you for being so magnanimous." With that, Ge Qing tossed Zhouzhou into the air.

Their cheerful laughter filled the journey.

After Zi Yiting and Ge Qing left to borrow bathrooms, Shen Zeyu and Chen Ran chatted briefly before returning to their rooms.

After stripping Lu Yu out of his clothes, Shen Zeyu gently bathed him.

Lu Yu said shyly, "Little Dad, I can wash myself."

Shen Zeyu said gently, "Let me help you today. Tomorrow you can wash yourself."

Shen Zeyu went on to ask, "Yuyu, are you having fun here?"

Lu Yu chattered away. "Yes! Zhouzhou is really nice, and the two girls are really cute." He liked them so much.

As long as he's having fun, Shen Zeyu thought. He had been worried that Lu Yu might have trouble adjusting when they first arrived.

Once Lu Yu was clean, Shen Zeyu let him watch cartoons on his phone and went in to shower himself.

Watching Lu Yu with the phone in his hands, the livestream viewers started virtually fawning over him again.

{"Yuyu is so cute, sitting there so nicely with the phone."}

{"Yuyu, let your auntie get her cuteness fix."}

Lu Yu was engrossed in his cartoons when he saw a video call coming in from his dad.

"Daddy," Lu Yu called after answering.

"Did you have fun today?" Lu Cizhou asked, even though he had watched the livestream.

"Yes, Daddy!" Thinking his dad didn't know, Lu Yu told him everything they had done that day.

{"Ahhh, that man's voice is back."}

{"But he still won't show his face. Damn it."}

After listening for a while, Lu Cizhou asked, "Where's your little dad?"

"Little Dad is showering," Lu Yu answered obediently.

Speak of the devil. The bathroom door opened, and Shen Zeyu's voice rang out. "Yuyu, who are you talking to?"

"It's Daddy! Little Dad, come here."

Shen Zeyu walked over while drying his hair, bending slightly to look at the phone.

Perhaps the bath towel didn't fit him very well. Shen Zeyu hadn't tied it tightly, leaving a broad expanse of collarbone exposed. Glimpses of what lay beneath teased the imagination.

And then Shen Zeyu blinked. "Was there something you wanted to tell us?"

His long, curled lashes were like little fans, fluttering straight into Lu Cizhou's heart and stirring ripples within it.

In an instant, Lu Cizhou's gaze turned frightening, like a wild beast staking out its territory.

Afraid of revealing his feelings, Lu Cizhou looked slightly away to conceal them. His low voice came through the phone. "Nothing. I just wanted to ask how your day went."

Shen Zeyu also assumed he hadn't watched the livestream. Drying his hair, he said, "Not bad. This episode isn't too difficult."

Shen Zeyu's movements left his already loose bathrobe on the verge of slipping off, testing Lu Cizhou's self-control at every moment.

"Tie your bathrobe tighter," Lu Cizhou said, suppressing his desire.

"Hm? What's wrong?" Shen Zeyu still hadn't noticed that his bathrobe was about to come undone.

"It's about to fall off." Worried Shen Zeyu might not take it seriously, he added, "You're on a livestream."

Shen Zeyu quickly tightened his bathrobe. Since he was on a livestream, he really should pay attention to his appearance.

Meanwhile, the comments were howling.

{"No, we don't mind! You don't have to tie it tighter."}

{"You're not a celebrity. You don't have to worry about your image."}

{"Pull it open!!!"}

{"Slurp, slurp. Those collarbones!"}

{"Hey, you above me, is there no one on the internet whose opinion you care about anymore?"}

{"Now I'm jealous of Shen Zeyu's husband. His husband just doesn't want us to look."}

{"Let's be honest, this damn man just doesn't want us to look."}

Once Shen Zeyu had tightened his robe, Lu Cizhou was satisfied. Those people still wanted to see his collarbones? In their dreams.

After making sure Shen Zeyu blow-dried his hair, Lu Cizhou said good night to each of them.

"Good night, Daddy," Lu Yu said.

Lu Cizhou stared at Shen Zeyu. Shen Zeyu coughed, feeling inexplicably nervous, and silently scolded himself. What is there to be nervous about? Get a grip.

Only after mentally preparing himself did he say, "Good night."

Then he immediately hung up. Lu Cizhou smiled faintly at the ended call, put down his phone, and headed for the bathroom.

He would have to take another shower.

Meanwhile, Tiantian was watching her dad pop his blisters. After chopping firewood all day, Chen Ran's hands were covered in them.

Watching her dad prick them with a needle while yelping, Tiantian asked worriedly, "Daddy, are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Don't worry. This is normal. It's only because I haven't done any work like this in a long time. They'll be fine once I pop them," Chen Ran reassured her.

Tiantian still looked at her dad with heartache. Once he finished popping them, she quickly said, "Daddy, let me blow on them for you."

Chen Ran held out his hands, thinking blissfully that a daughter really was a little sweetheart.

Not long after Ge Qing and Zi Yiting returned, the production crew stopped filming. The lights in the four rooms gradually went out, signaling that everyone had drifted off to sleep.

Having just emerged from the bathroom, Lu Cizhou thought that, for the sake of his future happiness, it was time to put certain things on the agenda.