Ivy didn’t like that her son lost the third round. She didn’t want Ulmer to enjoy the sense of victory.“You cheated, didn’t you, Ulmer?” Ivy barked. “Tell us, what trick did you pull?”“I ate a couple of bananas on my way here,” Ulmer replied. “Maybe those bananas did the trick?”A second of silence passed, but then Calvin and Fiona burst into laughter. “What a good sense of humor you’ve got, young man!” Calvin patted Ulmer’s back.After Calvin said those words, Ivy couldn’t continue questioning Ulmer. Unable to stay there anymore, she quickly left to her room.“That was a close fight,” Amelie clapped for both Ben and Ulmer, trying to ease the atmosphere. It worked as Ruth joined her.Calvin and Fiona also clapped and appreciated not just Ulmer but also Ben just as much, which made Ben feel good.Fiona suddenly clutched her stomach and cringed in pain. She was about to fall, so she put her hand on Calvin’s shoulder and took support from him.“F-Fiona,” Calvin quickly made her sit on
After Amelie explained what happened, Calvin looked at Mollie from top to bottom, but he didn’t say anything to her. Instead, he looked at Fiona.“It’s just one night, Calvin,” Fiona said.Calvin frowned and then loosened his fist. “If anything happens to you due to this mistake, I might not be able to forgive this family.” Saying that he began to walk toward the main door.“Sir, please don’t leave,” Jamie tried to stop him.“Let him be,” Fiona told Jamie. “After he gets some fresh air, he will return.”Jamie then stopped midway.He then asked his mother to come with him. He took her to the backyard and hissed at her. “Why do you always make things difficult for me?”“W-What did I do?” Mollie was confused.“Who told you to use your own skills on his wife?” Jamie was still angrily glaring at her. “What if something wrong happens to her? You think your home remedy can cure what doctors couldn’t for months?”“Jamie, what I gave her is just about an ounce of castor oil,” Mollie said.“She
Mollie and Ulmer spent more than thirty minutes in the garden. After talking with him for so long, Mollie’s mood improved.“It’s getting hotter outside. Let’s go,” she told him and was walking.He was following her, but then she stopped at a plant and looked at a leaf. Ulmer also noticed the leaf and was startled because he had carved a name on that leaf.He immediately plucked the leaf and shoved it in his mouth and chewed.Mollie faintly smiled. “Who is Ayana?” She turned to face him and was amused by seeing him chew the leaf like a goat. “You girlfriend?” she wiggled her eyebrows.Ulmer shook his head.“No? Then why did you write her name on a leaf?” she asked. “You carved it with your nail, so you definitely have feelings for her. Since you say she’s not your girlfriend, is it a one-sided love? Do you want me to talk to her? I will convince her to give you a chance.”Ulmer embarrassedly smiled. “Grandma… you don’t have to do anything. She’s already mine.”“Hahaha,” Mollie laughed.
Jamie didn’t want Ruth to keep acting like this in front of Amelie and her family, so he told her to go and help her mother prepare dinner.Ruth couldn’t refuse even though she wanted to. After all, she was afraid of her parents. Jamie wouldn’t beat her, but Ivy definitely would whenever Ruth crossed the limits.After Ruth left, Mollie leaned into Ulmer and said in a low voice, “She’s probably angry that you defeated her brother in arm wrestling. So don’t take her words to heart.”“It’s alright, Grandma,” Ulmer smiled back.Amelie was tossing a grape into her mouth. The grape hit her chin and was falling down. Ulmer swiftly kicked it up with his foot and caught it in his hand, surprising her very much. However, Ulmer then put the grape in his mouth, which made Amelie’s face flush a little. Did he do that on purpose? But he wasn’t even looking at her. Was all this intentional? She couldn’t tell.“You’ve got great reaction speed, boy,” Fiona complimented Ulmer.“Haha,” Mollie proudly la
The next morning.Calvin woke up and checked on his wife first. Fiona was still sleeping. “She’s gone to the bathroom four times. She should be feeling dehydrated.” He touched her feet, and they were hot. “As I thought… She needs some water.” He got up from the bed and walked, only to feel more pain in his knee.Nevertheless, he slowly walked to the door and opened it. He entered the hall, only to see Mollie sitting alone on the couch, as though waiting for him.“You’re not walking so well,” Mollie asked. “What’s the issue?”“Inflammation… in the knees,” Calvin disinterestedly replied and was heading toward the kitchen.“Wait,” Mollie poured water from a copper jar into a 300ml glass and then mixed lemon juice. “Drink this. It will make you feel better.”Calvin was thirsty, so he didn’t refuse it. But after drinking it, he looked disappointed. “I like drinking cold juices.”“That’s a bad habit,” Mollie said. “You should always drink liquids at room temperature as much as possible. If
Calvin looked for Ulmer but didn’t find him anywhere in the house, so he asked Mollie where he was. She told him Ulmer and Ben were sleeping on the rooftop.Calvin was shocked. “They slept outside? How would they bear the cold?”“They are young, so they can bear it, Mr. Calvin,” Mollie said, smiling because Calvin and his family members were so rich they were acting like sleeping outside was a difficult thing when it was not an uncommon thing for the middle class and especially the lower class people.Calvin wasn’t willing to climb the stairs, so he had to wait for them to come down.Meanwhile, on the rooftop.Ulmer was sleeping soundly, which annoyed Ben quite a bit. He was already awake. “Tsk, I couldn’t even get good sleep because he kept snoring like a pig!”Ben sat up and looked angrily at Ulmer who was seemingly having the sleep of his life. He felt like pouring a bucket of cold water on Ulmer right now.“His family died, but he’s able to sleep so well,” Ben shook his head. “I g
Ivy woke up late that day, so she quickly came to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, but to her surprise, Mollie had already finished cooking it.“W-What are you doing here?” Ivy looked at the items. “Did you cook all these?”“Yeah, you were sleeping, so I thought I should help,” Mollie said.Ivy frowned. “You should have woken me up, but you made use of the situation to cook this crap. You think they’re going to eat what you made when you haven’t cooked in years?”“Your husband grew up with the food I made, Ivy,” Mollie retorted. “Even after your marriage, who made you food? Didn’t you quarrel with your husband, saying that you don’t want to cook or clean? Didn’t you go back to your house and stay there for months? By God’s grace, you changed your mind because you got pregnant. Otherwise, you probably would have taken divorce back then, right?”“Don’t put words in my mouth!” Ivy hissed at her. She would have shouted, but she didn’t want others to hear their quarrel.“I’m only stating
As Ulmer served Calvin and Fiona, Mollie served her son Jamie.All three of them tried the salad first because it was more eye-catching compared to the other two dishes.Calvin hesitantly tasted the dish, but his impression immediately changed. Fiona also looked at him, and they nodded together. Their body language clearly told Ivy that they were satisfied by its taste.Ivy waited for Jamie’s response.And Jamie faintly smiled at his mother after tasting the salad. Though he didn’t say a word, Ivy could see that he liked the salad.Just Mollie served the salad to Ivy and said, “Actually, my daughter-in-law tasted the salad first and then added some salt, so she’s also responsible for its taste.”Calvin and Fiona looked at Ivy, forcing her to smile awkwardly.(Is she trying to embarrass me?) Ivy quickly tasted it and didn’t find any excess saltiness to it. (What the… I’m sure I added extra salt to ruin its taste, so why does it taste the same as before? Did she somehow remove the salt?