Raising You This Small Stuff

Chapter 70.1 The Mo family’s hide and seek!

“I won’t play again, I won’t play again!” Mo Yixu covered his pockets tightly, “Second brother I can tell that you’re doing it on purpose today, you’re forgetting your brother because of your lover and turning your elbow outwards!”

Mo Yi Cheng was so relaxed that his eyes narrowed slightly, “It’s obviously turning inwards.”

Yuan Suo, as the ‘insider’ scratched his head in embarrassment.

“Mum!” Mo Yixu cried out in a sad voice.

Mother Mo, as the dealer, pushed the smart button on the table and the mahjong game reloaded again, “Pay up first, then come back to me for justice.”

Mo Yixu’s eyes became teary, “Housekeeper, you watched me grow up.”

The housekeeper coughed twice, “I’m…. I’m going to get a glass of water for Madam.”

In the end, Mo Yixu had to give up the last few red envelopes in his pockets, sighing afterwards with every card he played. In the end, Mother Mo had to pull his ears before he stopped.

After almost three hours of playing, Yuan Suo had basically mastered the game, Mother Mo’s bowl was full and Mo Yixu’s pockets were cleaner than his face, so the housekeeper reminded everyone kindly that it was time to take a break.

“Okay okay, that’s enough for the morning, I’ll go upstairs and have a rest, we’ll resume after lunch.” Mother Mo went upstairs with brisk steps.

Mo Yi Cheng took a cheque of 100,000 yuan from his pocket and handed it to the housekeeper.

“Second young master, you…. I just lost less than 10,000 yuan just now, you can’t give me this much.” The housekeeper pushed it back.

Mo Yi Cheng said, “I didn’t say I was helping you to cover your gambling debts, it’s the end of the year, this money is what you deserve for your hard work this year.”

“This…”

Mo Yixu who was looking on at the side said with shining eyes, “Just take it, we are not often at home, it’s thanks to your care that this family is maintained.”

Since it was better to accept it deferentially than to decline courteously, the housekeeper thanked him solemnly, then took the money.

When he left, Mo Yixu went to him hurriedly.

“Second brother, where is mine?”

Mo Yi Cheng frowned, “Where’s what yours?”

Mo Yixu twisted his three fingers together, “The one you just gave to the housekeeper. Just now I helped sister-in-law gain favor with mum, I lost a lot too, so I have to get a share of the credit!”

Mo Yi Cheng laughed coldly, “Didn’t you say I forgot my brother because of my lover? I’ve forgotten about you, so how can I give you credit for that?”

“….. Second brother! Are you still the same second brother I knew back then?” Seeing that the situation wasn’t good, Mo Yixu was ready to play the emotional card, “I still remember when I was young on New Year’s Eve, it was always big brother who took the two of us out to play, the three of us loved each other, and what big brother liked to take us to play the most was hide and seek.”

Mo Yi Cheng nodded, “Hmm, that’s because after being pestered by you, big brother wanted to find a place to hide to regain quiet.”

Mo Yixu: “…..”

Mo Yi Cheng said leisurely and slowly, “Do you know that almost every time you started counting to find us, big brother would have already driven out, finished his business outside before coming home and then come out from inside the closet and pretend that you’ve found him?”

Mo Yi Xu: “….”

His world view collapsed with an expression of unbelieve on his face.

“That’s why….. it would take me more than a few minutes to find you guys every time! Second brother, did you go out too?” Mo Yixu was overcome with grief and anger.

Mo Yi Cheng shook his head, “I was inside this villa, it’s just that dad gave me the keys to the secret compartment and I often hid in there.”

Yuan Suo on the side couldn’t even listen anymore. Mo Yixu was really so pitiful oh… his brother refused to play with him….

“You guys…. you guys…. you guys….” Mo Yixu pretended as if he was in a movie, pointing a trembling finger at his second brother, his cheeks shaking in disbelief.

“Uh, Mo Yi Cheng.” Yuan Suo spoke, “This, it’s not good.”

Mo Yi Cheng was still full of smiles when he suddenly noticed the glimmer of sadness inside the little thing’s eyes. He immediately remembered that when Yuan Suo was young, he also had several older brothers who always rejected him, so little pranks like this between brothers would cause him to recall the bad memories of his childhood.

“I’m sorry.” Mo Yi Cheng rubbed his head, feeling sorry for not being there for him through those difficult years.

“It’s…. it’s okay.”

“Hey!” Mo Yixu broke down, “Aren’t you supposed to be apologizing to me!”

Mo Yi Cheng couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Mo Yixu’s personality among the three brothers was the most simplest, as a child he was really somewhat silly and also clingy. He and Mo Yi Yan had matured early and were more independent, so being followed by a small dumpling all day long as he clinged to them in their teenage years made them inevitably a little perfunctory.

“Let’s make a deal. To apologize and make up for your lack of childhood…..” Mo Yi Cheng trailed off.

“How are you going to compensate me?” Mo Yixu raised his chin arrogantly.

“How about Du Du and I accompany you to play hide and seek once?” Mo Yi Cheng was quite sincere in this proposal.

Mo Yixu froze for a moment. He didn’t expect his second brother to make such an offer. He thought… it would be like the old days, that he would use money to solve it.

“How old are you, still playing that kind of child’s game.” Mo Yixu’s mouth curled, but his heart warmed.

“Oh, that means you don’t want to play.” Mo Yi Cheng’s voice sank.

“That, it’s fine to play.” Mo Yixu took his words back, “But who knows if you guys will play tricks again.”

Mo Yi Cheng said, “We can call the housekeeper to supervise.”

Mo Yixu’s eyes lit up, “How will he supervise?”

Mo Yi Cheng said, “Supervise that we won’t leave the villa during the game and that we won’t enter the secret room.”

“If that’s the case…” Mo Yixu still didn’t want to lose face.

Yuan Suo said, “Hide and seek, Du Du hasn’t played this game before, let’s play together!”

“What’s in it for me?” Mo Yixu continued to raise his head.

Yuan Suo thought for a moment, “More… more red envelopes for you, okay?”

Chapter 70.2 The Mo family’s hide and seek!

“Really?” Mo Yixu looked towards his second brother for confirmation.

Mo Yi Cheng said, “What he says, is what I say.”

“Alright then!”

It was a done deal!

The three person hide and seek game officially begun.

Mo Yixu, in his accustomed role of finding people, volunteered, “Second brother, how about this, if I find the two of you, how about you double my allowance for next semester?”

Mo Yi Cheng nodded, “Alright.”

Mo Yixu crouched down in a corner honestly and started to count.

“Where should we hide?” Yuan Suo whispered, excited because it was the first time he was playing this child-like game.

“Follow me.” Mo Yi Cheng took his hand and the two of them walked upstairs with lighter steps, not forgetting to take a mahjong tile and throw it in another direction to divert Mo Yixu’s attention.

The most dangerous place was the safest. Mo Yi Cheng took Yuan Suo back inside his room and holding hands, went into the cloakroom.

“Hiding under your clothes?”

“That’s not safe enough.” Mo Yi Cheng took the quilt from the bed smoothly and placed it on the already carpeted floor, so that the two of them could rest against the shelves in the cloakroom later.

“I remember your apartment has a wardrobe, right?” Mo Yi Cheng said.

Yuan Suo nodded, “I remember!” The wardrobe Mo Yi Cheng bought for him at the beginning wasn’t very big, but he had always cherished it, so he didn’t change it even after he moved to a new apartment.

“Then, don’t you think it’s just right to put it in here?” Because the cloakroom had been made in a U-shaped space, by putting a wardrobe in the way, it would be perfectly possible to create an extra small enclosed space that wouldn’t be very easy to spot without one looking closely.

“Doesn’t that count as cheating?” Yuan Suo was a little worried.

Mo Yi Cheng said, “Of course not.”

“Oh oh!” Then that was good. Yuan Suo trusted Mo Yi Cheng 100 percent.

Mo Yi Cheng spent gold coins to take the wardrobe out, created an enclosed space and then the two of them sat on the floor. Because there was a section of cover and not enough light, the atmosphere suddenly turned a little ambiguous.

Mo Yixu finished counting to 100 honestly, then went to ask the housekeeper to make sure that they hadn’t left before he started looking for them with his arms crossed.

Mo Yi Cheng’s judgement proved to be correct, as Mo Yixu ruled out his bedroom first, searched the guest room and study on the first floor, then went to Mother Mo’s room on the third floor, where he was thrown out of the room in anger.

Only then did he lock his eyes on Mo Yi Cheng’s bedroom.

At this time, Mo Yi Cheng was already hugging his little thing and the two of them had been browsing through Weibo for a while. Yuan Suo also took advantage of this time to return to the game and posted the last comic he had drawn online. The fans rejoiced as the long-lost author of their popular comic strip had returned.

They’d finally waited for him to come back!

[This is the best gift of the new year, I’m so happy I’m crying!]

[So great! The little elf finally reunited with his owner after waiting for so long!]

[Happy New Year! Welcome back!]

[@Mo Yi Cheng. Great Mo, are you the one who summoned him back?]

Yuan Suo replied to the popular comments that had been bumped up one by one, but when he saw the message Mo Yi Cheng had left earlier, he almost shed tears.

Mo Yi Cheng took him into his arms, “No crying, it’s unlucky to cry on the first day of the new year.”

“Really?”

“Hmm, really.”

“Then I won’t cry again.” Yuan Suo sniffled.

At that moment, there was the sudden sound of a door being pushed.

“It’s Yixu.” Mo Yi Cheng lowered his voice.

“Uh…..” Yuan Suo covered his mouth hurriedly, afraid that he would make a little noise.

“Cough, cough….. second brother, I’ve seen the two of you! Come out!” Mo Yixu bluffed.

Yuan Suo was surprised, “We’ve been discovered!”

“Shh—” Mo Yi Cheng shook his head and let him rest his head on his chest “He’s lying.”

“Lying…” They could even lie in this game oh!

Mo Yi Xu searched the room, then finally moved to the cloakroom, but after a round of searching he still didn’t see anything… except for the small cabinet across the middle… how come it looked so abrupt? Second brother’s aesthetics was really…..

After two more turns, they was still no one.

“Second brother, then I’m leaving!” After saying this, he waited for a while but there was still no sound. This was the last room and there was still no one….. In the end, he decided to resort to his ultimate tactic, although it was dishonorable, it was the only way to win!

He took his cell phone out, found Mo Yi Cheng’s name and clicked on it!

Mo Yi Cheng and Yuan Suo were waiting with bated breath for Mo Yixu to leave when the screen of the phone, which had been switched off, suddenly lit up, followed by a ringing sound!

Yuan Suo was so shocked that he trembled, almost screaming out loud. Mo Yi Cheng’s hand turned the phone off hurriedly, but it was too late. Mo Yixu caught the source of the sound quickly and was already walking towards the cloakroom with a strange laugh.

“He cheated!” Yuan Suo was furious!

The footsteps were getting closer…

“Get back inside the game!” Mo Yi Cheng wanted to save one person.

Who expected that Yuan Suo would refuse, “He cheated, we can’t.”

At this moment, Mo Yixu had already exerted all his strength to move the modest wardrobe belonging to Yuan Suo out of the way, causing a beam of light to shine in.

Quick as a flash, Mo Yi Cheng picked the quilt from the floor and covered Yuan Suo who was sitting curled up on the floor.

“Ha ha ha ha ha, second brother, you were being clever, but I still found you, didn’t I!” Mo Yixu saw only Mo Yi Cheng.

Mo Yi Cheng snorted coldly, “Your tactics weren’t very honourable.”

“You’re the one who didn’t think it through. Why didn’t you mute your phone when playing a game like this!” Mo Yixu argued.

He actually…. had a point. Mo Yi Cheng had thought about it at first, but when Yuan Suo saw him reaching for his phone, he immediately raised the idea of wanting to take a look at his Weibo, and with this interruption, he forgot about it.

“But you’ve only found just one person.” Mo Yi Cheng said this purely in the hopes of keeping the little thing inside the quilt behind him through psychological warfare.

Mo Yixu immediately laughed out loud three times, “Second brother, I just found such a highly intelligent and alert person like you, with little sister-in-law’s IQ of just 80 at most, is that still a problem?”

As soon as his words fell, he felt a chill creep up his tailbone to his cervical spine, causing him to feel a chill all over his body.

“Cough, cough, cough… second brother, you, you, you don’t look at me like that, hitting people is against the law, besides it’s New Year…” Mo Yixu backed up repeatedly.

At this moment, Mo Yi Cheng also came out from the gap in the wardrobe.

“Second brother! I was wrong!” Mo Yixu apologized immediately, then a brilliant light flashing in his eyes, he side-stepped him and squeezed in towards the gap in the cloakroom!

Mo Yi Cheng instinctively moved to block him with one hand, but ended up missing.

Chapter 70.3 The Mo family’s hide and seek!

The expected sound of Mo Yixu’s triumphant voice didn’t appear as he lifted the quilt up…

Only two pillows were piled under.

He turned his head suspiciously and Mo Yi Cheng raised his eyebrows, “To rest, one naturally needs pillows.”

Mo Yixu searched the cloakroom for a while, he even measured the thickness of the wall and the length of the cloakroom and finally determining that there was no hidden space, left resentfully to continue searching, but as he was leaving, he grumbled in a very confused manner, “How is it possible that you guys are hiding separately?”

When Mo Yixu left the room, Mo Yi Cheng turned his cell phone on and discovered that Yuan Suo had already returned to the apartment in the game and was standing in the living room, slightly nervous.

“I wasn’t discovered, right?” Yuan Suo whispered.

Mo Yi Cheng replied, “No, Du Du was very smart. But didn’t… say that we shouldn’t cheat, why did you suddenly change your mind?”

Yuan Suo grumbled in a small dissatisfied voice, “I… my IQ is over 80.”

“Pfft…” So the little thing was angry because of Mo Yixu’s remark, no wonder, “Hmm, ignore him, I know Du Du is very smart.”

“… I’m okay.”

“Ha ha!” Mo Yi Cheng couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

And that was when the door to the room was suddenly slammed open and Mo Yixu shouted, “Aha! I got you guys!” He thought he would catch them in the act, but all he saw was Mo Yi Cheng holding his cell phone and talking to himself.

Maybe he was sending a voice message?

“Mo, Yi, Xu.” Mo Yi Cheng’s voice suddenly turned cold.

Mo Yixu, who was in a victorious stance, immediately felt as if lightning had struck him. His face turned white and he ran out in a huff, head in his hands.

Yuan Suo stayed in the phone until lunch, during which he went to the pet sitting centre to take Marshmallow. The little thing had been raised so well at the centre that it had become so chubby and white. When it saw Yuan Suo, it whimpered and wagged its tail.

When it was time to take the little thing away, a little short-legged Corgi barked furiously inside the cage, and Marshmallow pounced on it with a look of being unwilling to part with it. The care centre staff said that the little corgi, whose name was Little Cloud, came into the care centre around the same time as Marshmallow and the two dogs got along very well.

Yuan Suo was tempted to take Little Cloud home too, but the procedure for adopting a pet from the centre was extremely complicated and couldn’t be done in a short time, so the matter had to be put on hold.

The housekeeper came knocking on the door to call them down for dinner.

Mo Yi Cheng went downstairs with his cell phone in his hand in a relaxed manner.

When Mother Mo saw him, she asked, “Where’s Du Du?”

Mo Yi Cheng, “He’s hiding.”

Mother Mo didn’t understand, “Hiding? Did you bully him?”

“No, he’s playing hide and seek with Yixu.” Mo Yi Cheng said as he sat down at the dining table.

“Really, where is he hiding?”

Mo Yi Cheng shook his head, “The mysteries of heaven must not be revealed.”

“Ah ah ah ah!” Old Third, who was hiding in the shadows ready to eavesdrop on Mo Yi Cheng’s automatic report of the location, freaked out completely as he jumped in front of Mo Yi Cheng, “Second Brother, I admit defeat, tell him to come out.”

“You won’t look for him anymore?”

“I won’t look!”

“Du Du’s IQ is only less than 80?”

“It’s definitely over 80! It’s 180!”

“What of your New Year’s red envelope and pocket money?”

“As long as second brother tells me where he’s hiding, I…. I just want the usual amount. Woo woo woo….. if I keep looking I’m really going to be driven crazy o(╥﹏╥)o”

Mo Yi Cheng pretended to think, then looked at his phone, at Yuan Suo who was snickering with his mouth covered inside the game.

Mother Mo’s curiosity seemed to have been piqued as well, “Where is Du Du hiding? That it has driven Yixu crazy like this.”

“Actually, he’s not hiding in a hidden place, it’s just that Yixu is too careless.” Mo Yi Cheng said lightly.

Mother Mo asked, “Oh? Then where exactly is he hiding?”

“In the kitchen.” Mo Yi Cheng answered.

“No way, I even looked inside the kitchen cabinet.” Mo Yixu retorted.

“I told you, it’s you who didn’t look carefully.” With that, Mo Yi Cheng got up and seeing that Mo Yixu was about to follow him, he raised his hand to stop him then walked into the kitchen alone, and after making sure that there was no one around, called Du Du out.

Mo Yixu watched Mo Yi Cheng walk into the kitchen alone, and then really bring Du Du out with him. A million alpacas ran through his heart, not counting that the whole group sneezed!

“I… I… I really searched everywhere! Du Du, could it be that you know how to shrink your bones?”

Mo Yi Cheng and Yuan Suo laughed at the same time but didn’t say anything. This mystery was destined to haunt the hide-and-seek black hole in Mo Yixu again.

Meanwhile.

At Chen Jiao’s flat, Mo Yi Yan finally got his way.

The two men, who had eaten two frozen persimmons and one frozen autumn pear in a row, sat shivering on the sofa, watching the re-run of the Spring Festival Gala together with two thick quilts around them.

“If I had known, I wouldn’t have eaten so much.” Chen Jiao began to miss the hot bed of his childhood home.

Mo Yi Yan nodded solemnly, “En.” Then wrapped the quilt around a little more tightly…