Chapter 67: Chapter 67: She’s Not the Toothless Yu Nuannuan Anymore

Gu Mo looked up at Xu Shuhua with a pair of innocent, round eyes. “I’m doing the laundry.”

After a pause, Gu Mo added, “I came to play with Nuanbao.”

Yu Nuannuan glanced at Gu Mo when she heard this, certain he wasn’t telling the truth.

If she could talk, maybe she and Gu Mo could actually play together. But aside from eating, she couldn’t do anything else. What would they do, just sit and eat face-to-face?

As she was thinking this, Chen Qiaoqin came back carrying a bowl of groundcherries.

“Here you go, Daibao, have some groundcherries. These are really sweet.”

Gu Mo wasn’t much of a smiler, so he just looked at Chen Qiaoqin seriously and said, “Thank you, Auntie.”

His earnest expression, paired with his soft, childish voice, made Chen Qiaoqin’s eyes crinkle with laughter. “Daibao is such a good boy! Go ahead and eat!”

Yu Nuannuan reached out as well. She was no longer the toothless Yu Nuannuan she used to be!

Now she was Yu Nuannuan with two tiny baby teeth!

Even though her two little bottom teeth had only grown out about a third of the way—just the size of rice grains—they were more than enough to bite through the skin of a groundcherry.

Yu Nuannuan’s move was so sudden and swift that neither Chen Qiaoqin nor Xu Shuhua noticed.

By the time they saw, Yu Nuannuan was already stuffing a groundcherry into her mouth.

Chen Qiaoqin turned pale with fright. “Nuanbao—”

“What are you yelling for!”

Xu Shuhua shot Chen Qiaoqin an annoyed look. “You’ll scare Nuanbao if you keep shouting!”

Even as she said this, Xu Shuhua was clearly nervous too. “Nuanbao, be good, give the groundcherry to Grandma, okay?”

Nuanbao’s hands were still small, and this groundcherry was bigger than usual. She couldn’t even wrap her whole hand around it, and you could see the skin of the fruit peeking out between her fingers.

Xu Shuhua kept glancing anxiously between Yu Nuannuan’s face and her hand, worried that if Nuanbao squeezed too hard, her little fingernails would break the skin, and then...

Xu Shuhua closed her eyes and forced herself to stop thinking about what might happen next.

What next?

Nothing next!

“Nuanbao, be good, give it to Grandma, okay?”

“Oh, come on! You’ve got so many groundcherries at home, and you can’t even bear to let the child have one? Don’t you always say you dote on your granddaughter the most? Now you won’t even let her have a single groundcherry. Looks to me like all that love is just talk.”

Hearing this, Xu Shuhua turned to look at the door and saw Wang Pozi standing there, looking all excited like she’d discovered a new continent.

Normally, Xu Shuhua would’ve snapped right back, maybe even marched over to give Wang Pozi a piece of her mind.

But not now!

Right now, the most important thing was the groundcherry in Yu Nuannuan’s hand.

But to Xu Shuhua’s surprise, in the brief moment she turned her head, when she looked back, Yu Nuannuan was already gnawing on the groundcherry.

Her soft, chubby little hand gripped the bottom half of the fruit.

Her rosy, moist little mouth was sucking away with all her might.

With each bite, the groundcherry visibly shrank.

From start to finish, not a single drop of juice or pulp dribbled from the corners of her mouth.

Xu Shuhua blinked, then blinked again.

“My Nuanbao! She’s amazing! So little and already eating by herself! Look how neat she is—nothing spilled at all! Not like some kids, who are over a year old and still get food all over themselves every time they eat.”

Wang Pozi’s eyebrows shot up. “Who are you talking about?”

“I didn’t say you, did I? Are you a kid? Are you just over a year old? Stop fishing for compliments!”"

"**