66 The Babysitting Experience 3 (2/2)

The yellowish flesh parted under the pressure of the sharp knife until the knife hit something hard.

'Huh?! What is this?' thought Lin Kang as he faced this unexpected obstacle. He expected the fruit to split beautifully in half but obviously that was not the case. With the knife etched into the pit, Lin Kang was caught in a rather awkward situation.

He could go and ask one of the maids for help but the thought of the rumours, ”the young master does not even know how to prepare a mango” going around the house was enough to make his face burn from embarrassment.

In any case, he had started this journey and he was going to see it to the end!

Examining the fruit that was sitting on the chopping block with the knife sticking out of it, he was reminded of a similar fruit, one that he was familiar with. It was called the avocado, or the plant butter for the rich. It is an expensive fruit that was eaten fresh so it was little wonder that Lin Kang was familiar with the fruit.

'Could the method of preparation be similar?' thought Lin Kang.

He immediately put it to the test. He wiggled the knife slightly loose and made a circular incision around the pit. 'So far so good!'

He then yanked out the knife. The next step if he was dealing with an avocado was to twist the two ends and they would break cleanly apart from the seed and so that was what Lin Kang did.

The mango gave more resistance than Lin Kang anticipated. 'Perhaps it got stuck,' thought the man and he twisted even harder.

The half eventually came off and so did the structural integrity of the mango. The soft flesh of the fruit had crumbled under Lin Kang's excessive force and what he had made was rough, unprocessed mango pulp and a whole lot of mess.

Lin Kang surveyed his surroundings and after a moment's pause, he swept the evidence of his failure aside, down right into the sink and decided, ”Alright, so this morning Lin Xi is going to have store bought garden peas baby food.”

He rummaged through the kitchen cupboard and found some emergency supply that Xiu Ling had probably placed in there. Well, he was definitely off to a great start!