Back For My Daughter

After the brief introduction and seeing them invite her, Miss Jhang was pleased to join Yuan Meng and Ning Wei.

"Sister Wei, maybe it's not bad to make a friend."

Yuan Meng muttered as they saw Miss Jhang walk to one of the free tables, her being somewhat happier compared to before.

"Hmm, I didn't feel that she was like others," Wei nodded.

By others, she meant some of the teachers who would sometimes look at them with disdain, partly because of jealousy from the attention they received from others.

With that, the two also followed Miss Jhang, making their way to the empty table which she was also walking to.

After settling themselves and opening the lunchboxes, a delicious aroma wafted out of Yuan Meng and Ning Wei's boxes, eliciting gazes from a few people sitting at the nearby tables.

In fact, even Miss Jhang couldn't help but take a sneak peek at them and was astonished that there was steam coming out of the boxes even now.

'They bought food from somewhere around.'

She thought and then looked at her own lunchbox, which although was slightly warm, wasn't the same as how it would be when the food within was just cooked.

"Miss Jhang, have some."

Yuan Meng said while extending a few spoonfuls of rice and dumplings.

Although rice would be a daily staple, there would be variations like vegetable stir fry, braised chicken, mushroom, etc, making the two ladies and also the children not feel bored of the lunch, yet at the same time keeping the meal full of nutritious.

One had to know that even if the girls had been somewhat of picky eaters before, ever since Grandma Yan and Ye Qian cooked for them, they just couldn't think that anything the two made wasn't delicious.

And that was already true for Little Qiqi who would often eat snacks of different vegetables prepared by her grandma.

"Ahh, thankyou, you should have some sweet eggplant too."

With that, she also passed her lunch box, allowing the two ladies to pick a few spoons of eggplant which seemed to be glistening with a sweet yet spicy sauce.

"Sniff, the aroma from this is really different, I have never heard of this dish."

Ning Wei's brows raised as she sniffed the dish and was amazed.

She knew how hard it was to cook an eggplant that would look good and at the same time taste good.

If it was overcooked, it would turn mushy, and if it wasn't cooked well enough, then it would leave a bitter taste after eating.

And since she had experienced both of the conclusions, she would always try to not make it knowing that it won't turn out to be good and she didn't want Jia to feel repulsed towards any food.

Yuan Meng also nodded in agreement, wanting to make Miss Jhang feel good in their company and make her awkward after seeing that she seemed hesitant.

"Hehe, Miss Ning is saying too much, it's simple, just tossing a few vegetables and it's done."

"No no, Miss Jhang, so far, every time I cooked eggplant, I would always mess it up, making me feel not want to make it, lest my daughter started hating the vegetable, due to my inability to cook it well."

Ning Wei shook her head with an embarrassed face, disagreeing with Miss Jhang who said that it was a simple recipe.

"Ahh, Miss Ning, you shouldn't feel bad, many a time, I also don't know how to cook different vegetables or dishes, so all I do is try them with some variations," Miss Jhang smiled but then her eyes turned wide as if she realized something from Ning Wei's words.

"Miss Ning has a daughter?" she asked, her brows raised high in shock.

From the looks of it, although Ning Wei seemed a bit older than Yuan Meng, it never came to her mind that Wei would be married much less even have a child.

"Umm, yes, she is in class 1 in the Turtle School," Ning Wei nodded as she took a bite of the eggplant with some of her rice and instantly her tastebuds tingled.

The sweet yet spicy taste of the eggplant along with the savoury taste of the mushroom rice made all of her tastebuds active.

Although it wasn't new to her, she had most of the time relished this every time she ate something that Ye Qian made.

In fact, according to her, every dish that Ye Qian would make had every kind of taste she knew of, and there were many times she felt that there was some different taste to the food which she couldn't actually pinpoint.

"Actually, I didn't think that you were married, much less be having a child," Miss Jhang forced a smile.

Although it was complimentary for women to be praised for their younger looks by men, rarely would a woman say the same.

This was because they would subconsciously think that they were comparing themselves to the other, and that would make them slightly feel envious.

"Hehe, Miss Jhang must be joking, I am just a year older than Sister Meng, how can that be?"

Ning Wei felt her cheeks burning red.

Although this was something that she had heard a few times, Miss Jhang was the first to be surprised but not envious of it.

Women liked to preserve their beauty and would always want to be considered as one.

But age was the limiting factor that would snatch it away from them, no matter how much they were to cling to it.

Hearing her words, Miss Jhang turned her gaze to Yuan Meng before turning back to Ning Wei.

She could easily conclude that even if Ning Wei had a child when she turned 25, she would now be 31 and with what she had just heard, then Yuan Meng was around 30 years old.

But from the looks, none of the two ladies looked older than 25.