Chapter 724: Chapter 724: Mommy, Time to Eat Chapter 724: Chapter 724: Mommy, Time to Eat Brandon Piers’ disdain grew even stronger as he saw Adam Piers’ look of defeat. “Adam, I’m sorry.”

“It’s not your fault.” Although he didn’t like the smell of alcohol on Adam, Brandon answered his question decisively.

But Adam didn’t think so. “How could it not be my fault? If I hadn’t miscalculated, we wouldn’t have lost this land in the east of the city!”

What’s even funnier is that a tech company’s bid was just one hundred million less than his. Not only did he lose to Joshua, but he almost lost to an insignificant company with no solid foundation.

And this was clearly due to his misjudgment and poor preliminary investigation. He found out that Evergrowing’s bid was twenty-three billion, and specifically asked Brandon to increase it to twenty-five billion, but Evergrowing directly bid thirty billion, six times higher than the bid.

“Your preliminary work was fine, we just didn’t expect Evergrowing to go so big.” Brandon’s tone was mild but strongly reassuring.

It was impossible for Evergrowing to come up with such a large amount of liquidity at once. The most likely explanation was support from the Croft family behind Joshua.

And Brandon wasn’t lying to Adam. He knew Evergrowing couldn’t go that big, but Joshua could.

“Regardless, the result was my failure.” Adam knew Brandon was comforting him, but he felt even more downhearted. He had hoped to change Bertha Swift’s perception of him through this incident but instead ended in a complete failure.

However, Brandon raised an eyebrow at this, “Who said we lost?”

“Didn’t we?” Adam looked at Brandon, bewildered. In an open and fair bidding, once the result was announced, there was no room for manipulation.

“Apart from the land in the east of the city, didn’t I ask you to bid on another? Did you get it?” Brandon suddenly shifted the topic.

“Oh, you mean the urban village in the suburbs? Yes, we got it for three billion. You know that piece is just useless, although the price is low, the demolition cost is too high, and the government didn’t even want to take it over. If it wasn’t to look good to the higher-ups, I would have wanted to get it for two billion.” Adam didn’t understand why Brandon suddenly brought up the useless piece of land but couldn’t help but grumble.

Brandon nodded, “Oh, how much do you think the demolition compensation will be?”

“I had the team evaluate it, it should be around ten billion. Although it’s in the suburbs, there are quite a lot of people. Every household would demand at least a million. Transportation is also a problem.” Even focused on the east land, Adam had still put his heart into the task Brandon gave him.

Brandon smiled mysteriously at Adam, “Go back early and get some rest.”

After talking about the suburbs, Adam, still feeling low, remained silent.

That was it?

Adam looked at Brandon, puzzled, but Brandon had already turned and was heading to the second floor.

Adam got anxious, “I’m not done yet! Can I still stay in the company?”

“The land you bid for is naturally your responsibility.” Brandon threw out the line without looking back.

Adam, who had been dejected, instantly brightened up, stood straight, and gave a salute, “Rest assured, this time I’ll handle it!”

But after shouting, his body relaxed and reverted back to his dandy demeanor.

Pullan, who had been watching from the side, gave him a strange look and quickly followed his boss.

…

Abigail tossed and turned all night, only falling asleep around five in the morning. When she woke up, she was met with a soft little face.

“Mommy, mommy…” Seeing Abigail open her eyes, Teddy happily called out, his eyes that resembled Abigail’s were quite beautiful.

Her bad mood from the night before was cured by her son in an instant. She reached out to hold the little guy and placed him on her stomach. “Teddy, tell me how you got in here.”

“Doggy!” Teddy understood Abigail’s words and pointed towards the bed.

Abigail then noticed that Threo was also there. Raising an eyebrow, she wondered if the little guy had climbed up on Threo. Her eyes were filled with astonishment, almost disbelief. “Did it lift you onto the bed?”

“Teddy crawled, Teddy crawled…” Teddy was very smart. He could understand many complex sentences but wasn’t good at expressing himself. Hearing his mom’s words, he immediately protested.

Abigail raised her eyebrows, “So Teddy climbed up himself? Teddy is awesome!”

“Giggling…” Hearing his mom’s praise, Teddy laughed happily.

Abigail couldn’t resist her son’s laughter. When he laughed, she also couldn’t help but laugh. Then she noticed that although Teddy’s eye shape was like hers, they were not as black as she initially thought. His eyes had a hint of brown. Normally she didn’t notice, but now, with the sunlight streaming in, wrapping them in the morning glow, she could clearly see a layer of amber in the little guy’s eyes, shining like glass.

Abigail, who had already restrained herself from thinking about Brandon, couldn’t help but remember the engagement news she saw last night. She sighed, kissed Teddy on the face, “Teddy, do you miss daddy?”

“Mommy kiss.” Teddy loved being kissed by mommy. After one kiss, he moved his face closer for more.

Abigail laughed, “Mommy asked Teddy if he misses daddy?”

“Miss.” Teddy saw mommy not kissing him, so he leaned in to kiss her instead, not really knowing what his mommy meant but just going along with her words.

Abigail felt a bit sad. Children are the clingiest creatures but also the most forgetful. Teddy used to cling to Brandon, but now, after just a month, he had forgotten what daddy was like.

With a light sigh, Abigail looked at the little guy covering her face with kisses, “Since Teddy misses daddy so much, should we go see daddy?”

“Okay.” Teddy replied cheerfully. He must have understood this time.

Just then, hurried footsteps sounded outside, followed by a knock on the door. Abigail replied and Aunt Claudia pushed the door open, seeing Teddy sitting on Abigail, she let out a sigh of relief, “You scared me. Lois is making breakfast. I turned around for a moment to get milk and he disappeared. I looked all over the first floor and couldn’t find him. How did he get up here?”

This is the second floor.

“I don’t even know how he got on the bed.” Abigail was even more surprised.

To her surprise, Teddy, seeing Aunt Claudia, thinking she was going to take him downstairs, nimbly rolled off Abigail, climbed to the edge of the bed, and Threo sprang into action, bending down. Then Abigail and Aunt Claudia saw little Teddy climbing onto Threo’s back and then sliding down his legs, standing up while holding onto the edge of the bed, wobbly. “Mommy, eat food!”

Abigail and Aunt Claudia were shocked. They knew Teddy was smart, but he was only just over a year old. Then Teddy’s series of actions left them stunned.

And Threo, this dog had to be a genius, right?

“Mommy…” Seeing that his mommy wasn’t paying attention to him, Teddy sat on the bed and urgently called out again, clearly feeling that eating was of utmost importance.