Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show

Chapter 10,Part 1: Livelihood Issues - A very serious problem

Although he knew that the reason Lin Momo gave was mostly nonsense, upon hearing the girl’s words, Lin Cheng’s heart was still slightly touched.

Putting the steamed buns into Lin Momo’s hands, Lin Cheng said, “Let’s go back.”

During the process, Lin Cheng himself didn’t realize that the expression on his face was much softer than before.

[That’s all?]

[I thought that according to the attributes of the father and daughter, the father would teach his daughter a lesson.]

[Haha, I guess Dad didn’t know that his daughter ran out to dump that pile of garbage just now.]

[And secretly hid it.]

[In other words, she just hid those bottles and cans, maybe it’s for the convenience of playing next time, right?]

[It can only be said that children can turn everything into a toy.]

With their built-in, preconceived notions, most people would not connect the children of celebrities with two things: collecting bottles and selling them for money.

[But it’s still not acceptable to play with garbage. ]

… …

That evening, inside the house.

Lin Momo sat in front of the desk and bench that Lin Cheng had temporarily assembled from two boxes, holding a notebook with a dignified expression.

This was the life plan she made before.

After knowing that they only had 200 yuan for living expenses, Lin Momo secretly did this.

The page was folded in half from the middle, and the names of Lin Cheng and Lin Momo were written on the left and right sides respectively, and below the names were the daily living expenses of the two.

[Day 1]

Lin Cheng: Breakfast is 6 yuan, lunch is 10 yuan, dinner is 10 yuan, drinking water is 2 yuan, transportation fee is 8 yuan.

Lin Momo: Mantou for breakfast is 1 yuan, steamed buns for lunch are 2 yuan, and steamed buns for dinner are 2 yuan.

Total: 41 yuan.

[Second day]

…

[Fifth day]

Lin Cheng: Breakfast is 6 yuan, lunch is 6 yuan, drinking water is 2 yuan, transportation fee is 8 yuan.

Lin Momo: 2 yuan for breakfast and 2 yuan for lunch.

Anyway, it’s the last day, so it shouldn’t matter if you’re hungry.

Finally, leave 10 yuan for spare.

……

Originally, Lin Momo had calculated all these things, but she never expected that a small loss would make the family that was already not well-to-do fall even worse.

It cost 55 yuan to buy medical supplies, and another 10 yuan was spent on dinner just now.

Looking at the only 135 yuan left in front of her, Lin Momo’s hand may not be bleeding anymore, but her heart sure was dripping blood.

She stared at the page and thought for a long time.

Lin Momo took the eraser and erased her items first, and replaced all breakfast, lunch and dinner with mantou.

Later, the cost of Lin Cheng’s three meals was also changed.

In the end, the transportation fee was left.

Lin Momo looked at Lin Cheng who was not far away, and called him.

“Umm, Dad?”

“What is it?”

“When you go to work, instead of taking the subway, can you take the bus instead?” Lin Momo asked.

Hearing this, Lin Cheng’s eyes flashed with puzzlement. “Why do you ask that?”

“Well, it’s like this,” Lin Momo handed her notebook to him and explained, “Originally, you could take the subway with the money we had, but because you spent an extra 55 yuan today, the remaining money is not enough …”

After finishing speaking, Lin Momo lowered her head again, and whispered to Lin Cheng, “I’m sorry.”

After all, the extra 55 yuan was spent because of her.

Looking at the notebook handed over by the girl, Lin Cheng was a little surprised.

Seeing Lin Momo writing something so seriously with a pencil and a notebook just now, Lin Cheng thought she was doing the homework she brought for the summer break but, unexpectedly, she was writing this instead?

When his eyes fell on Lin Momo’s three meals, Lin Cheng frowned.

Eat mantou for her three meals a day? How was this okay?!

Even if it was just a reality show, even if she wasn’t his own child, it was impossible for him to let Lin Momo only eat three pieces of bread a day!

“I’ll go to work tomorrow,” Lin Cheng said to Lin Momo, trying to tell her not to worry about these things.

According to the regulations of the program group, Lin Cheng will report at the LPG distribution station at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning, and then he can earn wages by delivering gas.

It’s not appropriate for a child like Lin Momo to worry about the family’s living expenses.

“But our family still owes 600 yuan to others,” Lin Momo reminded in a quiet voice.

This was the task set by the program group for them.

Lin Cheng: “…”

… …

Off the screen, the audience couldn’t see what was written in Lin Momo’s notebook, but they could hear the conversation between the father and daughter.

For a while, the originally deserted barrage area became lively.

[Eh?? I misunderstood before? I thought the father and daughter were looking down on the 200 yuan.]

[Me too.]

[So it seems that they really care about the living expenses.]

[I’m curious about what is written on the daughter’s living expenses budget.]

[Lin Momo: I am heartbroken about this family. ]

[200 yuan is really too embarrassing.]

[Haha, it’s only 135 yuan now! ]

……

Here, seeing Lin Momo sitting on the box-turned-stool without saying a word, obviously still worrying about his own livelihood, Lin Cheng had a headache.

“These are not issues you need to consider,” Lin Cheng said in a deep voice.

As if realizing that his tone was a little heavy, Lin Cheng’s expression relaxed a little, and he said, “I will take care of the program task. Wash up and go to sleep.”

Lin Momo opened her mouth and wanted to say something more, but, thinking that Lin Cheng would have to get up early to go to work tomorrow, she could only nod her head obediently. “Okay.”

The two simply washed up and brushed their teeth.

As the lights in the house were turned off, the screen in the livestream chat also went dark.

… …

Outside the livestream channel, the trio of Chen Yu and his two assistants, who had been sitting in front of the computer all day, breathed a collective sigh of relief.

“Has the popularity of Brother Cheng’s livestream increased a little?” Wang Xi said excitedly looking at the dynamic data of the livestream channel.

Chen Yu responded, “The viewers have come up a bit.” During the day, the number of people online was only a little over a thousand, but now it has risen to 3,598.

Hearing this, Wang Xi grinned, making ‘heh?ehe’ sounds, and said, “I hope it will rise a little more tomorrow!”

Zhou Qi also nodded at the side, “Best if it would double!”

Different from the expectations of the two, Chen Yu only hoped that tomorrow the dad and baby team wouldn’t make any mistakes while recording.

Chen Yu couldn’t even imagine how the scene of Lin Cheng delivering the LPG tanks would go.

T/N: I think I figured out how to add photos ??

EDIT: I just realized I updated the wrong series! is the other c-novel I’m translating here on Foxaholic, and it updates evenings while Lin Momo and her Dad updates in the mornings (Beijing time). So y’all got a new chapter 12 hours earlier than scheduled ??

Footnotes

is simply steamed dough, with no filling inside. The steamed bun (or ) that Lin Cheng bought for their dinner in the previous chapter, and is listed as costing 2yuan in Lin Momo’s budget, would have savory fillings of vegetable and/or meat, or sweetened paste inside, which would make them more filling than plain mantou.