Chapter 46 Boss Berry, who has many skills, is always a blessing.

After the guests left, Qiao Tong called Feng Ci out of the room. The three of them sat in the living room. Qiao Tong said, "Xiao Ci, Guo Guo, Mom wants to discuss something with you."

Feng Ci sat upright and said, "Mom, go ahead."

Meiguo swallowed the yogurt in her mouth and said, "Mom, please go ahead."

"Mom is planning to go back to work. Once she starts working, she may not be able to be with you all the time." Feng Ci is going to college soon. Qiao Tong is not too worried about him. She is mainly worried about the little Meiguo.

"Guoguo, I might not have as much time to play with you after I start working." Qiao Tong didn't treat Meiguo like a child. Instead, she asked in a negotiating manner, "Do you think it's okay for me to go to work?"

Meiguo jumped off the sofa, put her little hands on her legs, and looked at her with her bright blue eyes: "Mom, is your work hard?"

"It's not hard. My job is to make beautiful clothes for people. It's something I've loved since I was a child, so I don't find it hard at all."

Meiguo squeezed Qiao Tong's hand and repeatedly confirmed, "Mom, is it okay for you to go out to work by yourself? Do you need me to accompany you?"

The child looked so worried that he made Qiao Tong feel warm in his heart.

A smile spread across her lips, and she hugged her daughter's small body: "Mommy won't go out. She'll work at home, baby."

Although she doesn't have to go out to work, she will be able to reclaim some of her attention compared to before when she was accompanying her daughter wholeheartedly.

Qiao Tong hasn't touched a pen in four years. Her studio was disbanded four years ago, and her current work is essentially a reconstruction.

When Meiguo heard that she was not going out, her frown relaxed: "Mom, I can help you with the work."

Feng Ci: "Thank God you don't make trouble. Just stay still and don't make any trouble."

Berry turned her head and said with a small face: "I will help, just don't say anything."

"How many words do you know now?"

"A lot."

Feng Ci immediately flipped through the chat history on his phone and clicked on each voice message one by one.

Quote: [Ultraman sits down with his hands on his face.jpg.]

I am Guoguo: [Brother, would you like to sit here and watch the little fish?]

Ci: [What are you looking at? I'm just checking whether you're reading well.]

I am Guoguo: [Brother, please don’t type. I can’t read. I’m still a little kid.]

I am Guoguo: [Can’t you talk on your phone? Come home and I’ll teach you how to speak!]

Meiguo was very dissatisfied with Feng Ci's behavior of pulling out his phone when he disagreed with her, and retorted irrelevantly: "That's because I know a lot of English."

"You? English?"

Feng Ci became interested. He usually didn't see the chubby boy reading English picture books or enlightenment animations. Was he secretly working hard?

He asked, "Then let me ask you, how do you say mom in English?"

Meiguo opened her mouth confidently and said in a loud voice: "Mom~"

Feng Ci raised his eyebrows and subconsciously looked at Qiao Tong with a questioning look. Qiao Tong was already smiling with her lips pursed and her eyes curved.

Feng Ci: "How do you say dad in English?"

"Dad too~"

"Where's grandma?"

"Nudder."

"...Where's Grandpa?"

"Dad."

"I can make a super long one!" Berry was very proud, and the tufts on his head jumped like rabbit ears. "Happy, brother, don't you know what this means? If you buy me an ice cream, I will tell you."

Qiao Tong bit the tip of her tongue and turned away to smile.

"You..." Feng Ci suppressed a laugh. "Who taught you these words? Is that how they're pronounced in the picture book?"

"I learned it from Xiaopang. He's my robot dog." Meiguo, with her round belly puffed out, answered word for word. "His mom calls him Beibi, and he calls his mom Mader, and his dad Bader. I just remembered everything I heard."

To be honest, Feng Ci's English was not that good, but his pronunciation was standard. He almost laughed out loud while listening to Meiguo talking back and forth.

Feng Ci: "Okay, I know how good you are. But don't learn English from the robot dog in the future. I can teach you."

"I didn't learn it." Berry pointed to her little head, "It was sent in."

The knowledge enters the brain automatically and has nothing to do with the child himself.

She doesn't want to study.

*

The next day, Qiao Tong took the brother and sister to the swimming pool. Feng Ci had already learned to swim when he was Meiguo's age, so Qiao Tong wanted to let Meiguo learn and practice as well.

It is always better to have more skills. The more children know, the more relieved their parents will be.

Feng Ci went to the swimming pool, changed his clothes, and dove into the water. The splash was minimal the moment he entered the water. The boy with broad shoulders and a narrow waist looked like a nimble and elegant mermaid underwater. Just one look at him was a visual feast.

Berry squatted on the shore, supporting his chubby chin, and gave full emotional value while watching.

"Wa ...

"The one who swims the fastest is my brother!"

Feng Ci caught the child's voice and when he raised his head to breathe, he didn't even pretend to smile. The boy couldn't help but praise him and swam another lap, but this time the shore was very quiet and there was no sound at all.

Feng Ci once again showed his head to breathe, and when he looked back, his face turned dark.

The chubby kid who had been showering him with compliments just now was now looking up at a 1.9-meter-tall coach with eight-pack abs and a figure comparable to a male model. His two small hands were clinging to the coach's slender waist, so he had no time to look at this "flower of the house."

Feng Ci swam back with a gloomy expression and grunted, then surfaced with a splash, perfectly displaying his vigorous figure that was between a young boy and a mature man.

"Berries."

Meiguo's body trembled, and he felt guilty as if he had been caught. "Brother, why are you back?"

If he doesn't come back, his house might be robbed. Feng Ci glanced at the male coach indifferently, and very naturally took the chubby boy off the coach's waist and hung him on himself.

"I'll teach you how to swim."

Qiao Tong looked at Feng Ci, "Xiao Ci, don't you find this troublesome?"

Feng Ci's face was serious: "...No, Mom, it's my duty as a brother to teach my sister how to swim. Let me teach Guoguo."

Qiao Tong smiled inwardly, "That's fine." He turned to the coach and said, "I'm sorry, Coach Li, I won't drop out of that course. You can go teach other students."

You can still get paid without dropping the course and you don’t have to attend classes. Who would complain when you encounter such a good thing?

After seeing off the coach who had been on the field for less than two minutes, Feng Ci and Berry, who was hanging on his body, stared at each other.

"Come on, get in the water and get used to it first."

Meiguo clung to Feng Ci like a little bear and refused to let go: "I don't want to go down."

The child has never learned to swim before, so he will definitely be afraid when going into the water. Let's take it step by step, Feng Ci thought as he encouraged Meiguo in a gentle voice.

Berry: "I don't want to touch water. I'll get wet if I touch a sailor."

"So what if you get wet? How can you not touch the water when you come to the swimming pool?" Feng Ci said, "Don't worry, I will hold you up and won't let you sink."

Meiguo shyly pinched her hands and told the truth: "But the big brother shook hands with me, and I didn't want to wash my hands yet."

Feng Ci was stunned.

"So you're reluctant to wash your hands because of that coach?"

"hold head high."

Feng Ci's blood pressure suddenly rose. His sister couldn't be a big fan of race. Besides, how could that boy be more handsome than him? He was obviously younger and more handsome!

"You have very poor vision." Feng Ci was both sour and angry, and he pushed the child away. "Hurry up, go swimming."

"Get moving."

"You have to move your hands and feet."

The child floated lazily on the water, his fat arms and legs swaying in a doggy paddle under the water, and finally swam out gracefully.

Feng Ci was stunned: "You learned it already?"

"I can do it anyway." Meiguo dug further and further away, waving lazily at Feng Ci, "Brother, I'm leaving now. Bye."

“…”

I was careless, the child pretended to be a pig and ate the tiger.

*

Feng Ci was still brooding over this matter when he returned home. He had long since gotten over the heartless Meiguo and had completely forgotten what the handsome coach looked like.

Feng Ci thought it was because he was always hanging around the little girl, and she was used to his handsome face, so she thought a man who was far less handsome than him was.

Anyway, school still had more than half a month to go before it started, so Feng Ci thought it would be better to arrange a week-long trip with Zhang Mai and the others. By then, Meiguo would definitely have a fair and correct assessment of his face.

Feng Ci was planning a trip, while Meiguo was thinking about her grand ambitions. She hadn't picked up cardboard for several days, so she had to quickly drag out the cardboard hidden in the community and sell them.

Meiguo pushed the small trailer out of the door, and Feng Ci followed her with an umbrella, his tone full of admiration for her.

"Goddess, wouldn't it be nice to stay at home and enjoy the air conditioning on such a hot day? Picking up cardboard is not something a little witch like you should do."

"You're so hot, your hair is all wet."

Berry said proudly: "I want to save a lot of money!"

"What do you want to buy? I'll buy it for you."

"Really?" As soon as the rolling little trailer stopped, the child stared at him with his big, bright eyes.

"real."

Meiguo clicked on her phone watch and said, "I'll send a few and you give me two dollars."

The child who earned two dollars was very happy and pulled the cart with more energy. Feng Ci realized that she had no intention of going home and then he realized what was going on.

"Aren't you going to buy something? Why aren't you going yet?"

Meiguo wiped the sweat from his forehead and chuckled, "I'm going to sell the cardboard and buy some more."

Berry hid the cardboard in the parking spaces in the underground parking lot. They were all people she knew, so no one would steal it.

Meiguo bluntly instructed Feng Ci to put the cardboard in the car, and then called Grandpa Wang, who specialized in collecting cardboard, and the two parties agreed to meet at the gate of the community.

Feng Ci followed Meiguo out under the scorching sun, feeling hot and tired, and in the end he only sold ten dollars.

Meiguo's face flushed red, and it was hard to tell whether it was from the sun or happiness. She pressed the small shoulder bag on her body and said, "Brother, I have money again!"

"Brother, do you think I'm awesome?!"

The child's blue eyes were squeezed to the bridge of her nose. She stood with her hands on her waist in a proud manner, feeling that she was so great.

Feng Ci looked back and his eyes crossed.

"Puchi, hahaha." Feng Ci's depression dissipated with Meiguo's funny expression.

Boss Mei, who had made money, did not treat his younger brother who followed him badly at all. He generously treated Feng Ci to a small pudding and two packets of konjac.

The brother and sister squatted under a tree by the roadside. Feng Ci tried to persuade them kindly, "You're eating something cold and spicy. If you get a stomachache later, give me the konjac and we can eat it tomorrow."

Boss Mei: "Xiao Ci, please stop talking and be quiet."

“…” Hey, she even quit.

Feng Ci has stopped talking. You can only know the pain after you experience it yourself.

Sure enough, after a while, Boss Mei's face wrinkled, and he held his stomach with his mouth pale. Feng Ci immediately asked, "Does your stomach hurt?"

Berry bit her lip and said nothing.

"Let's go, there's a clinic over there, let's go check it out."

Meiguo hurriedly shook her head. She didn't want to go to a place that liked to beat children until they cried.

The child began to mumble something, and Feng Ci leaned in to listen:

"My dear, I'm wrong. I will never eat anything carelessly again. Please stop feeling pain and let me go. Thank you."

Feng Ci laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back. He actually thought the little witch was casting a spell to cure him.

This unlucky child.