The Cub’s Father Pretends to Be Poor Everyday

At dinner, Gu Yanzhi’s eyes flicked across the little bear from time to time.

The little cub loves this teddy bear very much. When he got home, he saw little cub sitting on the sofa, watching cartoons with a bear in his arms. Now for dinner, he brought the little bear to the table and let the little bear sit next to him.

Gu Yanzhi could probably guess who gave this little bear, but he still pretended to ask inadvertently: “Bo Zai, where did this little bear come from? Dad seems to have never seen it before.”

“The kindergarten teacher gave it to Bo Zai.” Bo Zai thought about telling only his father this. Dad would not guess that he met his mother, so he confessed honestly, “Bo Zai did the teacher a favor before, and teacher gives this. Teacher made this toy bear as a gift.”

As he talked, he got a little excited and keeps talking about his mother’s greatness in front of his father: “The shirt, sweater, shoes, and schoolbag that the bear wears are all made by teacher. Teacher is super awesome. Right, Dad?”

Gu Yanzhi didn’t want to praise “Teacher Xie”, he gave little cub a dish with his chopstick, blocked his mouth, and said; “Your mother can do this too.”

When talking about Xie Yishu, Gu Yanzhi’s eyes softened: “Dad never told you before, so you don’t know that father and mother used to work part time in the same restaurant…”

“Bo Zai knows!” Bo Zai put down his chopsticks and shook his head, “Bo Zai knows, Dad, you used to be bored, bored…”

Bo Zai scratched his chubby face.

He forgot what that word was.

He vaguely remembers that it had something to do with eating. It sounded delicious. Little cub wrinkled his face and thought for a while. After a long while, he fist punched the palm of his hand. He remembered!

“Smoldering! Bo Zai knew that his father used to be smoldering. His father wanted to talk to his mother. He deliberately torn his work uniform and asked his mother to help him sew it.”

Gu Yanzhi pressed his forehead, a little helpless: “Boy, who told you this?”

The simple little cub didn’t know that he had betrayed his teammate: “It’s Uncle Fang.”

In the third district, Fangzi sneezed, and Shen Ding passed by, mercilessly taking a few bites of ice cream from his hand.

Gu Yanzhi didn’t want to arouse little cub’s curiosity in other aspects by correcting his words, so he didn’t continue this topic, and directly summarized: “Your mother is very good at these. If it is him, he will definitely make a better teddy bear.”

Bo Zai nodded his chubby face and agreed, “That’s for sure.”

As long as you practice more, you will make progress. Mom now makes a teddy bear again, it will definitely be better than this one.

But he doesn’t care about these.

He likes it as long as it is made by his mother.

After Bo Zai finished speaking, he saw Gu Yanzhi looking at him fixedly.

Xiao Pangdun panicked a little: “…Dad?”

Gu Yanzhi wiped off the rice grains on Bo Zai cheeks, and slowly said, “I’m going to District 21 tomorrow. Have you put all your small suitcases away?”

He thought that Bo Zai would like that “Teacher Xie” so much, maybe because that “Teacher Xie” does have a way to please children. Unlike the previous “Teacher Su Xuan”, who said he would be a “good friend” and suddenly wanted to be a “mother”, the little cub felt betrayed.

In addition, Bo Zai has never seen his mother since he was born, and all of his understanding of his mother comes from GuYanzhi. He knows that Xie Yishu is good, and he often talks about Xie Yishu to Bo Zai, but Bo Zai has never received care and love from Xie Yishu after all.

In little cub’s mind, Xie Yishu may really be just like “Teacher Xie” who would make him a teddy bear and buy small cakes for him.

Bo Zai nods: “Grandma Qiu help Bo Zai tidy up.”

“Daddy will check it for you tonight. Tomorrow Dad can finish work and come home early. Grandma will pick you up before ten o’clock.” He thinks this is a bit tricky. Fortunately, Ms. Ye Wan help him by asking him to hand the work over to her, “Bo Zai needs to listen to grandma.”

“Okay!” Bo Zai looked at the half of the little cake left on the table, “Dad, do you really not eat desserts after dinner?”

Gu Yanzhi looked at the edelweiss cake studded with grape jam. If he could, he would even like to throw this cake in the trash can.

“Dad won’t eat it, you can eat it.”

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After dinner, Gu Yanzhi and Bo Zai packed their suitcases together.

Bo Zai deliberately makes a space for the teddy bear. He wants to take the bear to his mother’s hometown.

Gu Yanzhi put a few packs of milk-flavored biscuits in to fill the space.

Bo Zai hurriedly take out the small biscuits and told Gu Yanzhi: “Dad, here is the seat of Little Bear.”

Gu Yanzhi knew that little cub wants to kept this teddy bear, but he didn’t want this bear to set foot in the place where Xie Yishu lived. It would give him a feeling that the pure land was polluted.

“Put the little bear at home because it’s easy to lose it when you take it to 21st District.”

Bo Zai hugs the bear tightly: “Bo Zai will always hold the bear and will not lose it.”

Gu Yanzhi still knows how to handle little cub’s psychologically: “Okay, but if you lose it, you can’t cry.”

As soon as he said this, the little cub hesitated again. Looking at the little chubby bear in his arms, and then at the suitcase, he reluctantly stuffed the little biscuit that had just been take out inside again: “Then Bo Zai won’t bring the little bear with the Bo Zai.”

Gu Yanzhi breathed a sigh of relief. Before he could speak again, he saw little cub hugging the puppet bear and kissed him twice. He said “It’s okay, it’s okay, Bo Zai will sleep with you tonight.

Gu Yanzhi: “…”

Gu Yanzhi: “Bo Zai, we can’t sleep with the little bear.”

Bo Zai raised his chubby face, a little anxious: “Why?”

He can no longer take his mother’s bear to his mother’s hometown, why can’t he even sleep together with the bear!

Gu Yanzhi looked lightly and gave the reason: “You will press it when you sleep. This is not good for it. Dad will find someone to give it a small bed and let it sleep on his own small bed. Let it sleep in the guest room today.”

Bo Zai was a little suspicious: “Really?”

Gu Yanzhi patiently said, “Of course it’s true, don’t you believe in Dad?”

Bo Zai thought about it, and finally chose to believe in Dad. Before sleep, he placed the chubby bear in the guest room, let it rest on a soft pillow, and carefully covered it with a quilt: “Little Bear, good night .”

He said silently in his heart: Mom, good night.

After a few moments he realized that he has his mother’s Xunxin. So he can say “good night” to his mother. He quickly took out little light brain, opened the chat interface of his mother, and asked Tori to send it for him.

[Bo Zai: Teacher Xie, good night!]

[Bo Zai: Tweeted.jpg]

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Xie Yishu stayed in the sleeping for a while, and only saw the message from the cub when he got off the bus.

Three hours have passed since the message was sent. Xie Yishu stopped and said “Good night” before continuing to push the suitcase forward.

At 12:30 in the night, the port area was still brightly lit.

There were many people standing at the pick-up point. Xie Yishu looked around in the crowd and saw Ning Buzhao who was looking at him with a smile.

It has been five years, and the other party does not seem to have changed much. If you have to say it, he seems to be thinner again.

Xie Yishu thought a lot on the bus. He thought that maybe after a while he didn’t see Ning Buzhao he would be speechless and become a stranger after five years.

But when he really saw Ning Buzhao, he found that he seemed to think too much.

He felt like he was back when they went to school together. When e stayed on duty, Ning Buzhao, Wei Shi and Jiang Zhou will wait for him at the school gate to return to the orphanage together.

“Brother.” Xie Yishu quickened his pace, and Ning Buzhao walked to him.

Ning Buzhao took the suitcase in his hand naturally, and gave him the milk tea that he carried all the way in his hand. He smiled and said, “You haven’t had dinner, right?”

“I didn’t eat yet.” Xie Yishu’s departure time is a bit tight so he can’t catch up with the bus if he decides to eat dinner first. Though the bus did provide meals such as lunch boxes and snacks, they are too expensive than in supermarket. Xie Yishu was not willing to buy them.

The milk tea was still warm to the touch. Xie Yishu poked the straw into the seal and took a sip. His eyes lit up, “Shi Ji’s milk tea?”

He looked down at the cup: “They has changed its packaging?”

“They change it a long time ago.” Ning Buzhao pushed the suitcase and walked beside him, looking at Xie Yishu with a gentle gaze, “You haven’t come back for five years. I think you must miss their milk tea very much. When I come to pick you up, I stop by the store and buy you a cup.”

“Thank you, brother.” Xie Yishu took another sip of the milk tea; the smooth milk tea warmed the stomach that was hungry all night.

Xie Yishu asked, “Where are Wei Shi and Jiang Zhou?”

“They are coming from District 16, and they will arrive a little later. Then they will find the hotel by themselves.” Ning Buzhao smiled, “My task is to pick you up.”

Xie Yishu was a little embarrassed: “I can also find a hotel by myself…”

“You have a criminal record. Mother is worried that she won’t see you again, and told me to get you.”

Xie Yishu was even more embarrassed: “I was in a special situation…”

“We are all afraid that you will suddenly be ‘in a special situation’ again this time.” Ning Buzhao paused and laughed again, “not only dean’s mother was worried; I’m also not at ease.” So he needs to meet the person with his own eyes. Only then can he feel relieved.

 Xie Yishu didn’t say anything, and took a few more sips of the tea, and changed the subject: “By the way, where do I will be sleeping tonight?” He came back before and lived in the orphanage, where there is a room for four of them.

But five years later, Ning Buzhao, Wei Shi, and Jiang Zhou all left the orphanage and became independent. Their original four-person room can be occupied by someone else.

“I booked a hotel for 899 interstellar coins for one night.”

After buying a round-trip ticket, the money in his account was not enough to cover the hotel expenses. He just wanted to ask Ning Buzhao to help him cancel. When he looked for another hotel on his own, he heard Ning Buzhao say: “But now it seems that it can be cancelled.”

“Where is Gu Yanzhi? He didn’t come back with you?”

The author has something to say:

Alas, I really like Ning Buzhao.