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?
A few minutes after Jamie and others finished their breakfast, Amelie and Ben separately had the breakfast, and Amelie was all praises for Mollie and asked her if it’d be possible for her to teach Amelie how to cook.“Uh, I don’t think that’s a good idea,” Mollie said, knowing all the hurdles before her. Firstly, Ivy might get extremely jealous and angry if Amelie were to learn from Mollie. And this might upset Ben, too.“Why not?” Amelie asked, clueless about the relationship between Ivy and Mollie. “Ben, don’t you want me to cook like this for you?”“Yeah, but I know how to cook, so I will cook for you, Amelie,” Ben said.“Huh, I ate the omelet you cooked once. There was so much oil in it that I felt my tongue and mouth burning,” Amelie said. “You should also learn from your grandmother along with me.”Ben was unable to counter that.Meanwhile, Ulmer was talking with Calvin in the backyard.“This house isn’t as big as the mansion I grew up in,” Calvin said, “but it’s not a bad place
Ulmer was talking with Calvin, so he didn’t notice the snake attacking Mollie, but the moment she screamed, he dashed toward her like wind.After biting Mollie, the cobra went for Fiona straight away.Fiona fell back in shock, and the cobra raised its hood and scared the shit out of her. As it went for a bite on Fiona’s foot, Ulmer suddenly appeared and caught it by the head and squeezed it.The snake’s head was crushed, and it died right away. Ulmer tossed it aside and quickly took a look at Mollie’s bite. He could see the nasty double bite mark and beyond it. The venom was spreading fast through the blood as well as the muscle.“U-Ulmer…” Mollie looked very nervous. She might be old, but clearly, she was afraid of dying.Ulmer immediately bit on the wound and sucked the blood and venom out. By the time Calvin arrived there with his sick knees, Ulmer finished spitting the blood out.“Don’t worry, Grandma,” Ulmer told her. “We will go to the hospital soon. Nothing will happen to you.