Chapter 78

Shi Yu discovered that she really had no idea what to do with the crying and noisy human cub!

It was Xiao who took care of the child the entire time... But after finding food for the child and finally bringing him to the radio station, Shi Yu felt as if all his energy had been drained out, and he sat on a bench at the side with a listless look.

"Thank you for your hard work, Shi Yu," Xiao said, holding the child lightly, "Just rest here. I'll take him inside to have a look."

Shigure rubbed his sore calf and nodded.

The child's crying seemed to still linger in his ears... Shi Yu looked at Xiao's back, shook his head tiredly, and tried to kick out the hallucinatory noise from his mind.

She wanted to make herself happier, so she tried to focus on her current date - although she was delayed a little by bringing her children, she could still go shopping at various stalls in the afternoon, and it didn't matter if she couldn't see any performances!

As long as I can be with Xiao...

After a while, Xiao's figure appeared in sight, and Shi Yu quickly cheered up and stood up.

The boy was still holding the baby in his arms, and he was talking patiently to the staff member who walked out with him. Shi Yu saw that the man with the work badge had an embarrassed look on his face, and then he shook his head at Xiao.

...Huh?

"What's going on? Xiao."

Shi Yu was a little confused as she looked at Xiao who had finished the conversation and was walking towards her. The boy let out a low breath and looked at the baby in his arms, his tone sounding a little troubled and helpless.

"The radio station isn't open yet. We have to wait until six in the afternoon," Xiao said. "The staff said this radio station was set up temporarily to ensure the fireworks display goes smoothly. The equipment hasn't been delivered yet."

Shi Yu was stunned for a moment, then asked depressedly, "But if we wait a few more hours, what if we can't find the child's parents? Well...is there no other way?"

"The organizers will use the terminals to inform all staff at the festival that the child is missing. Because the location where the child was found seems a bit strange, and considering the possibility that he was deliberately abandoned, I asked that gentleman to help contact a public rescue organization."

"They will come and take over the child, but," Xiao said, "it may take some time."

Shigure: “…Yeah.”

——In other words, they will have to take this little devil with them for the time being.

The young man from the East Country looked down at Shi Yu's head which was about to droop, and then naturally changed his posture of holding the child, freeing one hand to rub the other's soft head.

"What's wrong?" The boy's voice was filled with a smile, so soft that it almost sounded like he was coaxing her with the same tone he used to coax a baby. "Shi Yu, cheer up. Didn't you just say you wanted to go somewhere else to play?"

Shi Yu was feeling a little down, but she couldn't put her finger on what made her unhappy. The baby was now lying quietly in Xiao's arms, biting his fingers and sleeping without making any noise. Besides, it wasn't his fault that he was abandoned in the bathroom...

"Where do you want to go?" Xiao said, "I'll go with you, okay?"

The young man leaned forward slightly, and the aroma of beer faintly enveloped her head. Shi Yu froze, and her bright and moist black eyes blinked, and she suddenly glanced at him secretly.

If it had ears—Xiao inexplicably amused herself by the association of the girl in front of her with her little black cat at home—I'm afraid they would be unconcealably erect.

"...Shouldn't we wait here for help?"

She pursed her lips and asked quietly.

"No need to wait," he understood the reason for the girl's loss and couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle from his throat. His palm, which had not been retracted, tilted slightly and moved close to the girl's temples, rubbing the top of her head as if to comfort her.

Shi Yu was ready to have her head rubbed again, but perhaps she was still a little shy, and the girl's drooping eyelashes trembled slightly - but she didn't expect Xiao to just lower his eyes, carefully and steadily tuck the few strands of hair scattered around her ears behind her ears, and gently scrape her earlobes with his rough and hot fingertips.

"Once they arrive, they'll send a communication, and we can just come over then."

Xiao stood up straight, holding the baby again, and explained to her.

Shi Yu hummed awkwardly, not daring to look up. She wanted to touch her hot ears, but was afraid of appearing too weird, so she had to endure it and told Xiao about the plan she had made before.

Because they were with their child, they could not participate in any intense activities. Twenty minutes later, they stopped at a goldfish scooping stall very close to the radio station. Shi Yu excitedly rolled up his long sleeves, holding a paper net bag, ready to show his skills.

A minute later, she looked at the five neatly torn net bags in her hands, stunned and shocked.

"Xiao! You try it."

Although she didn't really want the goldfish, she still sought help because she was unwilling to accept the result.

"Ah, yes, yes..." Before Xiao finished the second half of her sentence, Shigure had already stretched out her hand and made a gesture to receive the baby. She opened her eyes wide and looked at the sleeping child in front of her vigilantly, as if she was going to receive a small bomb that could explode at any time.

dawn:"……"

The young man from the East Country in military uniform looked at Shi Yu, who looked serious and solemn as if facing a great enemy, and couldn't help laughing. He coughed twice and handed the child to her, and at the same time guided her to adjust the posture of holding the child.

Shi Yu didn't pay attention to the battle situation on Akatsuki's side, she was too busy to take care of herself!

She held the baby stiffly, observing the sleeping little face. At first everything seemed normal.

But as she watched, she suddenly became alert and noticed that the baby's nose twitched slightly, a sign that the baby was about to wake up.

...Danger!!

Shi Yu still remembered the cry of the child when he was hungry. Just when she was feeling a little hesitant and wondering whether she should tell Xiao to stop catching the goldfish or hand the child to him, the baby suddenly opened his eyes.

Eyes meeting—

Ah, no crying.

The child had just woken up, his face still a little confused, looking somewhat innocent and cute... Shi Yu blinked, and his stiff shoulders slowly relaxed.

She suddenly felt that taking care of a child was not so scary after all.

Xiao quickly completed Shigure's commission, and after paying, he came to Shigure with a small goldfish bag. The little goldfish swimming in it seemed to attract the baby's attention. He stretched out his little claws and waved them to reach the goldfish bag in Xiao's hand.

"Oh, you want this?"

Xiao smiled and shook the water bag in his hand, as if he was teasing a child, but Shigure's attention was involuntarily drawn to it.

This is the goldfish she just asked Xiao to catch...

Ugh, I don't really want it that much, but—

"No," Xiao took back the goldfish bag seriously, bent down and took it from Shi Yu's arms, and lifted it up with a smile, "This is for my sister, you can't have it."

The baby didn't make a fuss when he didn't get the goldfish. Instead, he felt curious about Xiao's small movements of lifting him up. He waved his chubby little hands and cried even louder.

Shi Yu got the goldfish, but she didn't feel satisfied at all. She stared at the two people who were having fun together, and felt inexplicably complicated.

"ma...m."

The baby clenched his fists while speaking incoherently, then suddenly giggled and pointed a little finger at Shi Yu.

Shigure: ...?

She glared at Xiao's expression of trying not to laugh, and thought a little depressedly, What? I'm not your mother.

The baby's babbling sound touched Xiao's heart. The boy continued to tease the child with a sullen laugh: "Yes, Mommy." He gently grasped the soft finger and tilted it towards himself. "What about me?"

Xiao lowered her eyes and looked at the baby in her arms naturally. Shi Yu stared at Xiao Feng's calm profile with wide eyes a few steps away, then her cheeks flushed as she also shifted her attention to the child.

Under the gaze of the two, the baby waved his hands and whimpered, then blew out a small bubble.

"Mama!"

He pointed at Xiao and suddenly spoke, his words much clearer than before.

As if that wasn't enough, he repeated it again, "ma...ma!"

"puff."

Shi Yu covered his mouth and burst out laughing. The only thing left in his mind was a trendy word: male mother, male mother, male mother...

When had she ever seen Xiao so embarrassed? She turned her gaze back to Xiao, ready to see if he would have any embarrassed reaction, but unexpectedly, the young man tilted his head, his elegant eyebrows slightly curved, and Shi Yu happened to fall into his sight.

Even though they were some distance apart, she seemed to be able to see the reflection of her own smile in her eyes. There was no sadness, no gloom, just a pure, hearty smile. It was as if the happy expression she finally revealed comforted the boy, so he also smiled and murmured, "Yes, I am a mother too."

At this moment, Shi Yu seemed to realize that Xiao was looking at her earlier than she was. They were still looking at each other, and a certain delicate and gentle emotion in the boy's eyes made Shi Yu's heart beat like a drum, as if all the tiny, sweet and sour emotions were exposed to the sun. She didn't need to get along with him with those feelings that could only be tasted alone, because he was the same.

Her heavy heart was throbbing with some kind of beating. After a while, she realized it belatedly and quickly avoided Xiao's gaze. She wiped the corners of her sore eyes a little nervously.

"Shigure."

Still a little shy... She couldn't seem natural, and even her soft responses sounded cautious.

"Uh-huh……"

"Where are we going next?" the boy asked helplessly and softly. Shi Yu was not sure if Akatsuki was still looking at him.

"I think we still have a long time before rescue organizations come."

…

Next, after playing the ring toss and shooting games, Shi Yu took the apple candy, and with difficulty, he scraped off a small piece of candy skin from it and handed it to the baby's mouth for him to lick.

"He wouldn't swallow it directly, would he?"

After spending some time with the silent baby, Shi Yu began to care about the child. She worriedly dragged Xiao to look after the child, so that he would not swallow the candy skin while playing and hurt his throat.

Oh, but if I don't give him candy, he'll keep crying for it. It's so troublesome to take care of a child...

What should I do in the future?

Shi Yu had consciously put himself in the role of a parent and began to worry about the child's future, completely forgetting that he was still a long way from this stage of life.

"Well," Xiao said, "so it's best to feed the child soft, easy-to-swallow foods, but as long as we're watching him, there won't be any problems."

After hearing this, Shi Yu continued to look at the child worriedly. At this time, Xiao's terminal suddenly rang.

"Yes, it's us..."

Xiao stood up, answered a few words politely, and explained their current location. Shi Yu realized something and was afraid that he would be careless, so he snatched the candied fruit from the baby and listened attentively to Xiao's response.

The person on the other end of the line seemed to be explaining something to Xiao. The relaxed expression of the young man from Eastern Country slowly turned serious. "Are you saying... this child was originally from a charity organization? Where's his childcare worker?"

"I understand." Xiao glanced at Shi Yu's uneasy expression and spoke softly, signaling her not to be nervous. "Please wait a moment, we'll be there soon."

The author has something to say:

Wuwu...I'm sorry...I'm really busy.

It’s all early morning, with no weekends, and there are extra online tutoring classes. There is even only one day off for May Day!

I will be back at the end of the month, and I will definitely update every day QAQ

Well, the next date is Simon-chan! The date after that is Wayne! After the Wayne date, we'll start the trial marriage chapter!