My Dreamy Old Husband

There were a lot of cats and dogs in the neighborhood—Sophia had six cats, Linus had four stray cats, and the other households also had cats. Hanging cured meat outside the house was risky. There were always several big orange cats sitting at the bottom of the shelf where the meat was hung, especially where the dried fish were. It would all disappear in an instant after being hung up.

Someone always had to keep watch outside Villa No. 8 to chase the animals away. Meanwhile, Linus had already designed an intelligent system to cure meat. He created an environment where there was constant temperature, adjustable wind direction, and humidity.

Moreover, he even made two intelligent robots that used infrasound to chase away the animals that were stealing the food. The dried fish he left outside his house was still in perfect condition after several days.

Indeed, science and technology were revolutionary.

Sophia had so much admiration for him, too. She gazed at Michael with a yearning look in her eyes. I really want a cured meat robot!

Michael decided to put his pride aside and ask Linus for a robot, but he still felt like it was too shameful.

This is so embarrassing!

Fortunately, Linus was sensible enough to give them a robot as a way of thanking them for teaching him how to cure meat.

Not only did he send it to their doorstep, he even wrapped it in protective packaging. The dried fish Sophia hung outside the house could be cured perfectly now.

Feeling delighted, she decided to give Linus a treasured, decade-old, pickling liquid to make pickled vegetables with.

But Michael thought it was a shabby gift. After all, Linus was the second-in-command at Michel Group. Fass had brought him up to be his successor. If everything went smoothly, he would also become the head of the Michel Family in the future. Was a jar of pickling liquid worthy enough for a man like him?

When Linus received the pickling liquid, however, he was quite happy about it and had the cook in his house make a large amount of pickled vegetables.

…

Sophia had not gone to school lately and had just been resting at home. Because she had enough cured meat to last the whole year, and she had the robot that Linus sent to her, she was quite content. She would drop by Linus’ place every day. When she came back, she always bombarded Michael with endless compliments about Linus’ house.

“Linus has a 3D projector in his room! It’s so cool. You can even see the stars!”

to the beach at his old place in Eastern

care of his cats. It can process a hundred different cat body languages and noises to distinguish what the

“Linus…”

as if she was just dying to live there. Whenever that happened, Michael felt like he was about to grow

an intelligent conversation with a person. The robot could check on the state of an injury; it had a program that detected emotions,

orange cats at the

effort to go home and keep Sophia company, Michael was deserted. Sulking on the sofa, he was watching television while Sophia and Nathan had gone off to Linus’ place. They claimed that they wanted

stood in front of Michael. It asked politely, “Dad, I want a

was even leaning its head to one side as it acted

forehead when he looked at the robot that was even more obedient than Nathan. He felt

wearing a tiger hat on his head. He intentionally made a hole through the hat

would be left alone at home so he reluctantly sacrificed his

took Michael’s hand to put on

television, he did not say a word. After the robot was content with the head pats, he went to sit next to Michael on the sofa and

moment later, it said, “Dad, I

the remote control and switched to a kids

and a robot were watching cartoons together. The robot was very happy and was even

shoes to the robot. He did it to make it seem like it

“Nicholas.”

suddenly called the

“Oh!”

“Call me ‘Dad’.”

“Dad! Dad!”

was little, that unfilial brat had never really called him

Michael said, “Again.”