Don't think of rebirth.

Chapter 636 Roasted Spinach

To be honest, Tao Shenxing thinks it’s quite fun to have two more people at home.

These two days, his father Tao Shenyan went back to the Tao family to pay New Year's greetings. Because they had to go back to their hometown to worship their ancestors, the mountains were high and the roads were long, so Xiang Ji Ri and Tao Shen Xing were not willing to go.

So Tao Shenyan was the only one who got on the car back to his hometown. Before leaving, he hugged Xiang Jiri and cried, not wanting to be separated from his wife and children at all.

Finally, Xiang Ji Ri impatiently stuffed him into the back seat and signaled the driver to take him away quickly.

Xiang Jiri and Tao Shenxing were the only ones left in the huge villa, and it was quite boring. So when Lu Jingying said she wanted to bring the children over, Xiang Jiri agreed so readily.

Tao Shenxing treated Lucas as his younger brother, and watched his mother silence Lu Jingying.

Lu Jingying said that the lunch arranged by Xiang Jiri was not good, it was all meat and fish, and the nutrition was unbalanced. She needed fresh vegetables.

Xiang Jiri took her to the yard and pointed to the small family vegetable garden that Tao Shenyan had built out of personal interest: "Lettuce, spinach, cabbage... there is also kale over there, pick whatever you want to eat."

As a result, Lu Jingying and Xiang Jiri stayed in the yard the whole afternoon, picking and selecting vegetables, and throwing the rotten leaves into the compost bucket.

Tao Shenxing also went to help, as his father often asked him to help out.

When he passed by Lu Jingying, he heard Lu Jingying muttering softly: "Xiang, you only know how to order me around! I'm going to pick all your vegetables!"

Tao Shenxing glanced at the weeds that Lu Jingying had picked up and felt that this person was very difficult to understand.

When he took the vegetables in the basket to wash, he saw Lucas standing on the steps, looking a little overwhelmed, and couldn't help asking, "Aren't you coming to play?"

"Can this be called 'playing'?" Lucas obviously couldn't understand.

"Harvest will bring happiness, right? I think as long as it makes me happy, it can be considered as playing." Tao Shenxing said carelessly.

Lucas thought about it and shook his head: "But it will dirty your clothes and body, and it will be troublesome to clean it afterwards. Why not just go to the store to buy vegetables?"

Tao Shenxing got a headache when he heard him talking, so he simply stuffed the basket into his hands and said, "Come on, come on, I'll take you to eat something delicious."

Lucas didn't know why, but he still obediently carried the basket and followed Tao Shen to the kitchen.

Tao Shenxing poured the freshly picked spinach into a basin and taught Lucas how to wash it clean. He then prepared hot water and added some salt to the water.

After Lucas had worked hard to wash the spinach, Tao Shenxing blanched it, then took it out, squeezed out excess water while wearing disposable gloves, and then put the spinach and chopped butter into a tin foil plate and put it into the air fryer.

"Just wait," Tao Shenxing clapped his hands, "In a few minutes we'll have roasted spinach to eat!"

This dish was shared by Gu Qinghuan in the class group. When she made it herself, she would put a layer of corn kernels in the tin foil plate.

When she is too lazy to go to the store, she makes it herself, which is simple and quick.

Lucas looked at the air fryer curiously and wanted to say something, but felt it was not appropriate to interfere with the owner's behavior, so he just shut his mouth.

While waiting, Tao Shenxing pushed Lucas to sit on the sofa and said righteously: "Let me tell you how to speak human language!"

He could no longer bear Lucas's robotic tone, and for the sake of his own ears, Tao Shenxing decided to teach Lucas to speak human language.

Lucas was confused: "What do you mean by 'speaking human language'?"

"It's just that the way you speak now is too uncomfortable to listen to! It doesn't sound like a human speaking, but like a robot." Tao Shenxing said directly, "Ordinary people would never speak like that!"

Lucas was shocked: "Is that so?"

"That's right!" Tao Shenxing sat down opposite Lucas and began to teach seriously, "First of all, you don't have to make every sentence so complete..."

When the air fryer finished working, Tao Shenxing had only finished talking about two points. He had no plan and just talked about whatever came to his mind. Plus, Lucas kept asking questions, it was quite time-consuming.

So when Tao Shenxing heard the prompt sound of the air fryer, he felt as if he had been pardoned: Great, I can interrupt for a while! He is really not cut out to teach people!

He stood up suddenly: "Let's not talk about it for now, the food is ready, let's go eat the grilled spinach!"

Lucas subconsciously wanted to say "OK", but then he remembered what Tao Shenxing had just taught him. After a moment's hesitation, he changed his words and said, "OK."

Tao Shenxing immediately gave him a thumbs up: "This sounds much simpler!"

With that, he ran off to the kitchen, leaving Lucas standing by the couch, deep in thought.

When Xiang Jiri and Lu Jingying returned to the house, each carrying a basket, they saw the children standing by the table eating grilled spinach.

Lucas was relatively good, he used chopsticks to pick up the food properly, but Tao Shenxing was different, he just put on disposable gloves and ate with his hands.

Xiang Jiri's hands were covered in dirt, so he couldn't hold his forehead with his hand. He could only use the back of his relatively clean hand to touch his forehead: "You are too unrefined."

"It's freshly baked, eat it while it's hot." Tao Shenxing took the bowl and chopsticks diligently, picked up some and handed it to Xiang Jiri, "Mom, you eat too, and see how good your son's cooking is."

Xiang Jiri rolled his eyes at him, took the chopsticks, picked up some roasted spinach and put it into his mouth, chewed and swallowed, nodded with satisfaction: "It tastes good, I didn't expect you could make this."

"No, our squad leader taught me that." Tao Shenxing raised his head proudly.

He noticed from the corner of his eye that Lucas was still standing there, so he found another set of bowls and chopsticks and stuffed them at Lucas: "Go, give some to your mother."

Lucas glanced at Lu Jingying's face, then picked up some roasted spinach and handed it to Lu Jingying: "Mom, you also picked some spinach, try it."

Lu Jingying took the bowl and chopsticks and took a bite: "It's okay."

Tao Shenxing added casually: "Lucas washed this spinach."

Lu Jingying looked at Lucas: "You wash the vegetables?"

Lucas hesitated and said "hmm" slowly.

Lu Jingying seemed to want to say something, but she held back and simply finished the roasted spinach in the bowl. Then she picked up the vegetable basket that was originally placed at her feet, handed it to Lucas, and said gently: "Since Lucas can wash vegetables, then you can wash this basket as well."

Tao Shenxing felt that the atmosphere was a little off. His eyes moved back and forth between Lu Jingying and Lucas, but was finally pushed gently by Xiang Jiri: "Then I'll leave this basket to you. Your Aunt Lu and I are going to rest. You guys go ahead and get busy."

After saying that, Xiang Ji Ri pulled Lu Jingying upstairs. Before leaving, she winked at Tao Shenxing, indicating that he should pay close attention to Lucas's situation.

Tao Shenxing and Lucas each stood in their positions holding a basket of vegetables. Lucas didn't say anything, and Tao Shenxing didn't know what to say.

He hesitated for a few seconds and decided to move first: "Hey, let's get started! Let's go wash the vegetables!"

Lucas said "hmm", followed Tao Shenxing to the sink again, and began to wash the vegetables quietly.