Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!-Chapter 405: Irreparable

"Gained weight again," Zhao Gushen said.

Lifting him up every day, he could still feel it.

"Xiao Fei said I’m at the age where I’m supposed to be growing," the little one explained.

"That’s right," Zhao Gushen nodded in agreement.

Children grow fast, changing dramatically day by day from birth.

Living with Xiao Mo for a week, Zhao Gushen had come to this clear understanding.

He couldn’t help but regret.

At this moment, he could clearly feel Xiao Mo’s daily changes.

In those four years since Xiao Mo was born, the changes must have been even more pronounced.

Sadly, he missed out on seeing them.

Missing those four years is missing them indeed.

Time once gone never returns and cannot be made up for.

Zhao Gushen regretfully held Xiao Mo in his arms and kissed his soft little cheek.

Since missed time cannot be retrieved, he decided not to miss any more moments from now on.

He would definitely cherish his time with Ye Fei and Xiao Mo.

When he put the little one down, Zhao Gushen smelled the aroma wafting from the kitchen.

The scent was fresh and rich, indescribably delicious.

Zhao Gushen went into the kitchen: "What are you making? It smells so good."

Ye Fei was in the kitchen and hadn’t heard Zhao Gushen come back.

Now that he was there, Ye Fei realized he was home.

As Zhao Gushen spoke, he had come to Ye Fei’s side.

He reached out and encircled Ye Fei’s waist.

Her waist was so slender that he could encircle it with one arm and still have room to spare.

"It’s so nice to come home and see you," Zhao Gushen said with contentment.

This week, every day when he got home from work, he saw Ye Fei and Xiao Mo at the door.

Today was an exception, with Ye Fei in the kitchen.

You could tell she’d been there for quite a while.

Zhao Gushen bowed his head, found Ye Fei’s lips, and kissed them.

"Are you making soup?" Zhao Gushen asked.

"I’m trying out the stuffed yellow croaker," Ye Fei said. "I want to see if it can be a dish for the next competition."

"Stuffed yellow croaker, that’s a demanding dish. Not only in terms of ingredients but also knife skills," Zhao Gushen knew this.

Because ’Qi Wei’ also had this dish.

Ye Fei nodded, pointing at the big yellow croaker on the cutting board, "I’ve already removed the bones."

One of the challenges of stuffed yellow croaker is extracting the bones intact without damaging the fish belly.

Hearing this, Zhao Gushen released Ye Fei and went to look at the yellow croaker she had processed.

He saw that the fish scales and gills had been cleaned, and the skin on the fish head had been removed.

The internal fish bones had been extracted, and the innards cleaned out.

"Removing the skin from the fish head prevents the fishy smell from spreading," Ye Fei explained. "As for the fish bones, I made a small cut near the belly from the fish tail and extracted them, so the fish belly wasn’t damaged."

Zhao Gushen nodded, "Selecting this dish means the standards will likely be higher, because stuffed yellow croaker is one of Gu Changfeng’s signatures. Currently, not many people can make it, and among those, only Gu Changfeng can reach the taste standard."

"Other restaurants have stuffed yellow croaker as well, but they are modified versions, mostly by directly adding crab roe into the fish belly," Zhao Gushen said. "This way, they can market it as stuffed yellow croaker while saving costs."

"Although crab roe is not cheap, it reduces the cost significantly compared to the original broth ingredients, and the demands on the chef’s skills aren’t as high," Zhao Gushen said.