257 Cedric


    The first time Cedric Stretton saw Isabe, he was interested in her. Although he was an introvert, he could not help but want to greet his little chubby girl. Following her around the corner, he found she sneaking into the shadow of a grape rack, squatting forward, and acting like she was doing something bad.


    Was this beautiful girl actually a little demon?


    Cedric treaded softly and secretly watched Isabe. She dug a hole with a small child shovel and quickly ced in a bowl of quail eggs and buried it.


    Cedric could not help butugh. “It’s not wise to hide delicious food here. It will get dirty.”


    “Ah! Who are you?!”


    Isabe was startled that she sat on the ground. Then, she quickly covered the hole with her body and said cautiously, “Why did you peek at me?”


    Cedric scratched his head and said awkwardly, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to peek.”


    “Sorry isn’t good enough!”


    “Go away! If you dare to steal my egg, I will hit you with my shovel!” Isabe threatened Cedric, holding the child shovel.


    .....


    ‘This little girl was quite fierce.’ Cedric was amused.


    He looked at Isabe, who was clearly trembling in fear but was still protecting her food. He could not help butugh, “I won’t steal your egg. I’m reminding you from good intentions. That one is dirty. Eating it will give you an upset stomach.”


    “I won’t eat it!”


    Isabe snorted, “Those who eat eggs are all bad people!”


    “Why is that?” Cedric was puzzled.


    “Because dad said that the egg will hatch a bird.”


    Isabe mumbled and sprinkled the grass on the ground as a cover, “Don’t worry. When the guests leave, you can turn into birds and fly away.”


    Cedric was stunned. It seemed that the little girl was hoping that these cooked quail eggs would turn into birds. It was really childish and kind. He suddenly burst outughing.


    “What are youughing at? Are you still trying to steal my egg?”


    Isabe put her hands on her waist, and the two braids on her head raised to the sky.


    “No, those eggs you buried can’t hatch birds, because they are cooked, and the birds inside are already dead.”


    Cedric was interested and took the child shovel from Isabe. He dug out the bird egg again and was ready to give her a lesson.


    God, all the eggs had been broken. These quail eggs were not cooked but raw.


    “AAAHHH -”


    Isabe stared at the birds with her big, dark eyes. After one nce, she immediately sat on the ground and cried. “You killed the birds! You are a bad person!”


    “I didn’t kill them. They were crushed by stones.” Cedric exined weakly seeing Isabe crying so hard.


    “No! It was you who killed them with shovel! Argh -”


    Isabe cried so hard that Cedric was afraid adults wille to check and me him for making her cry. He squatted with his face flushed and wiped Isabe’s face with a handkerchief in his pocket. “Don’t cry, I’llpensate you a bird, okay?”


    Isabe peeked out between her fingers. “Alive bird?”


    “Yes, yes. It’s alive and colorful.”


    It turned out that Isabe had done this kind of scam to Cedric when she was young...


    Later, Cedric began to like Slike’s Restaurant. As promised, he brought a little budgerigar for Isabe.


    Isabe happily reached out to Cedric for a hug. Cedric picked up the chubby little girl and hung the parrot under the grape rack with her.


    Isabe happily kissed him on the cheek and brown nosed, “Cedric is the best! I like Cedric the most!”


    Cedric suddenly got kissed by Isabe, his face turned red. Then, he cleared his throat and warned Isabe, “Do you know that girls shouldn’t kiss others randomly?”


    “Why?”


    “I kiss dad and mom. They are happy when I kiss them.” Isabe asked innocently and fiddled with her chubby hands.


    “Other than mom and dad, you should not kiss the rest, especially boys.”


    Cedric did not know how to exin the rtionship between men and women to a five-year-old child, so he could only say this.


    “Alright, I won’t kiss Cedric anymore.”


    “...other than mom and dad, and also Cedric...”


    After the summer vacation, Cedric was sent to an exclusive boarding high school in the city. He could onlye back on weekends and go to the Slike Restaurant.


    At that time, he used blue sulfuric acid copper to imitate the Heart of the Sea in the Titanic and made a blue heart-shaped crystal. When he put it in the jar and was ready to bring it to Isabe as a gift, he did not expect to hear the news of the bombing at Slike’s Restaurant.


    At that time, the news was particrly sensational. The TV station reported it all day. Cedric saw from the far that the garden he used to y with Isabe was unrecognizable. Before he got the time to grieve, he was taken away by the bodyguards.


    At that time, he and Isabe had only met four or five times, but he already liked this cute and beautiful little girl very much. Therefore, he asked many people to know if Isabe survived from the explosion.


    But there was no result.


    Cedric felt so painful and even didn’t want to eat or drink. His father could no longer sit back and do nothing, he began to use the power of ck Rock Group, and finally got the message-


    Slike White’s wife and daughter were safe and sound, but because they were in debt, his wife had already been married to a faraway ce...


    Although it was sad that they may not see each other again, it was much better for Cedric to know that she was alive.


    Cedric Stretton finally put down the burden in his heart and slowly returned to his normal days...


    But he never thought that many yearster, the person who touched him deep inside under the silver moonlight was the cute and beautiful Isabe...


    “You are the Cedric?”


    Isabe looked at Cedric in surprise.


    “You finally remember me?” Cedric Stretton put away the disappointment and sadness in his memories and smiled happily.


    “Actually, I don’t remember...”


    Isabe looked at Cedric Stretton, paused, and then said honestly, “I just remember that someone I called Cedric gave me a small budgerigar, but I don’t remember what he looks like at all.”


    “You were too young at that time. You were only 4 or 5 years old.”


    Cedric indulgently rubbed Isabe’s head and measured her height with his hand. “At that time, you were only this high. Very chubby, like a dough.”


    Isabe couldn’t help butugh, “Sounds like you really are Cedric. I was indeed quite fat when I was a child. I could eat two bowls every meal if my dad cooks. I was simply a hopeless foodie.”


    Cedric slid down the hand that he ced on Isabe’s head and gently brushed across Isabe’s cheek. Her eyes were filled with an aura as gentle as water. “Isabe, Cedric really misses you...”


    Isabe instantly recalled her past carefree memories. She felt as if she had found a family. She couldn’t help but feel tears welling up in her eyes. She said excitedly, “Cedric, I finally see you again.”