The Assassin's Enemy Lover

310 How to interrogate your kids

The sound of two bowls, with three ice cream flavors, scoops with bright cherries and a light drizzle of chocolate sauce on top, being slid on the kitchen counter filled the dimly lit room. On the sides were peeled bananas sandwiching the three scoops of ice cream bringing together the most perfect banana split the Marshal had ever made.

Opposite him were his two greedy kids eyeballing the tantalizing dessert with drool at the corner of their lips. He made sure to keep the distance between them and the bowls long enough that he would be able to retrieve them if they dared act recklessly.

While polishing three dessert spoons he gazed at the pair of siblings and asked, “Youxi does it look good?”

Yi Youxi swallowed his saliva while averting his gaze like he wasn’t going to answer that question. The Marshal didn’t mind. To bring down their defenses one had to go for the weakest link in the chain and that link was his youngest child.

“Ming Ming sweety, does it look yummy?” he asked as he laid out the dessert spoons on the kitchen counter one by one. The clanking sound drew Ming Ming’s attention back from staring at the yummy yummy dessert.

With her index finger in her mouth, she nodded her head her eyes big and round like a doll begging for permission to eat.

“That’s good. I made it for you two especially,” he said as he took one dessert spoon and hovered it around the two bowls as though trying to pick which one to eat first.

“Dad, I thought you made it for us?” asked Ming Ming her brows furrowed while looking at that dessert spoon like it was the enemy. If she had laser beam eyes she would have zapped that despicable dessert spoon a long time ago.

“Mn, I did I did... it’s just that it kinda comes at a cost. I will give it to you only if you truthfully answer my questions,” he said having picked Yi Youxi’s bowl to pick on first.

.....

Ming Ming relaxed her tense muscles when she realized that hers wasn’t picked first. Yi Youxi on the other hand tried to play it cool but damn... it was so freaking hard. He decided to use his ‘get out of any trouble’ card which was bringing up his mother when his dad wanted to punish him but the problem was that his dad had already thought about that.

Marshal Yi wouldn’t do this unless he was very certain that his wife wouldn’t be able to rescue them.

“I am going to call mum,” said Yi Youxi but the Marshal chuckled as the dessert spoon slid down the chocolate flavored scoop. It wasn’t Yi Youxi’s favorite. His favorite one was the peppermint and it was at the far end. If his father followed this trend he had a lot of time before his father eats his way to his favorite ice cream.

“Your mum took a sleeping pill because she was having a headache so for the next eight... no ten hours we will be hanging out together,” he said and the pair gulped unconsciously.

“So we can’t go to sleep?” asked Ming Ming feeling a little worried. She had seen how her oldest brother would stay up training before and she was worried they were next.

“Oh, you can go to sleep sweetheart. I will just stay up and eat all of this all by myself. I will also be watching the exclusive Temple adventures movie by myself. I know you two couldn’t wait to watch it,” he replied his expression looking like the villain professor Kripke in the new temple adventures movie.

“Ha...,” gasped Ming Ming while placing her hand on her chest like an adult.

“How evil,” said Yi Youxi as he watched his father place a spoonful of chocolate ice cream in his mouth.

After swallowing the Marshal dropped an even bigger bomb. “After that, I will spoil it for you down to every last detail but never tell you the ending,” he said and Ming Ming yelled,

“You monster.”

Marshal Yi shrugged his shoulder before shifting his dessert spoon towards Ming Ming’s ice cream bowl. Just as the spoon touched the strawberry ice cream Ming Ming started cracking.

“I will tell you. I will tell you. Just step away from my ice cream,” she said her hand hovering above her bowl blocking the spoon.

Marshal Yi smiled happily seeing that the little fishy had taken the bait. “Okay, but if you are lying I will know. Now... what is going on between your mother and that auntie you went out with today? What are they plotting?”

Yi Youxi, “...”

He knew that this had to be the reason why he brought them here but he didn’t think his father would use this method to get the information.

“Easy, nothing. Mum and auntie are best friends and they aren’t plotting anything,” honestly answered Ming Ming with no hint of deception.

Marshal Yi felt like he should rephrase his question thus he asked, “Is your oldest brother dating someone?”

Yi Youxi, “...”

So direct? Yi Youxi kept his mouth shut while Ming Ming who had no idea what the word dating meant nervously glanced at her ice cream that was safe for now and said, “No.”

Marshal Yi seemed to notice that she didn’t understand the question so he rephrased it again and asked, “Ming Ming, does your eldest brother have a girlfriend?”

That question was easy to answer. The answer was obviously no. That’s because her oldest brother had a boyfriend, not a girlfriend and Ming Ming was quick to answer. “No. Can I eat now?”

Marshal Yi stared at the both of them for a while as though contemplating something. After thinking it through he asked, “Then does he have a boyfrien-,” only for him to get interrupted by Lin Ruoxi who came into the room unexpectedly.

“There you are? Why are the three of you hanging in the kitchen at this hour?” she said seeming very exhausted. She walked to the sink and poured out a glass of water.