Chapter 86, Third Update

86:

Mu Shaowu is gone, but Ye Qingxi must continue her studies.

After finishing his meal, he, Mu Shaoyan, and Mu Shaoting rode in Li Wei's car to the school.

During morning reading, instead of having the Chinese language representative lead the reading, the homeroom teacher stood on the podium and presented medals to the students who had won awards at the school sports meet two days prior.

Upon hearing her name called, Ye Qingxi immediately stood up and walked onto the podium.

"Here, this is yours." The homeroom teacher placed the gold medal around his neck.

Ye Qingxi held the cup in both hands and looked at it, feeling a little happy.

Kang Cong was the one who signed up for the most events and won the most medals among the four, with three medals: two gold and one silver.

Ye Qingxi didn't have a silver medal, so she borrowed his to look at. Kang Cong leaned closer and asked, "Isn't it beautiful?"

Ye Qingxi nodded.

Kang Cong was very generous, saying, "I'll lend it to you."

"No need," Ye Qingxi said, placing the medal around his neck. "You should wear it yourself."

Kang Cong smiled happily, touching his gold and silver medals with great affection.

After the medals were awarded, the homeroom teacher began handing out certificates to the families who had placed in the parent-child sports meet.

This time, Ye Qingxi received the most awards, with three certificates.

His classmates around him were curious and wanted to see the certificate in his hand, saying enviously, "Ye Qingxi, you're amazing! Your family is amazing too, they have three of them!"

Ye Qingxi: ...

Ye Qingxi thought his family was indeed impressive, but how could it be three certificates of merit?

Three cards are simply not enough to go around!

Ye Qingxi rested her chin on her hand, pondering what to do.

As for the photos taken by the homeroom teacher during the school sports meet, she did not distribute them during morning reading, but rather secretly slipped them to the relevant students during breaks as random surprises.

—After all, there were too many projects, and some students who participated and won awards were not photographed, and the homeroom teacher did not want them to feel bad.

When Ye Qingxi returned from the restroom, his homeroom teacher stopped him at the door and gave him his special surprise.

"I found the contact email address you filled in when you registered. You can download it," the homeroom teacher said gently.

Ye Qingxi nodded, then quickly asked, "Teacher, could you give me another certificate?"

"Why?" the homeroom teacher asked, puzzled. "You already have three, that's a lot."

Ye Qingxi sighed. This might be a lot for others, but for him, it was far too little.

Qin Cheng and Mu Zheng each have one card, Mu Shaowu has one card, Mu Shaoyan has one card, and Mu Shaoting has one card, so no matter how you calculate it, you need at least four cards.

"I'm afraid of losing it, so I'd like to get one more," Ye Qingxi said. "Just one more certificate for the parent-child relay race, is that okay?"

Looking at his expectant eyes, the homeroom teacher thought for a moment and finally agreed, "Okay, since you're the student who won the most awards in our class's parent-child projects, I'll give you an extra copy of the parent-child relay certificate. Just this once!"

Ye Qingxi nodded, "Thank you, teacher~"

"You're welcome," the homeroom teacher said with a smile. "If you really want to thank your teacher, do your best on the upcoming midterm exams, and try to get as good a score as you did in this sports meet."

"No problem," Ye Qingxi replied.

The homeroom teacher laughed, "Then I'll wait and see."

Before school ended at noon, his homeroom teacher called him to the office and gave him a new certificate for the parent-child relay.

Ye Qingxi happily took the certificate back to the classroom and stuffed it into his schoolbag. Now everyone had a certificate, so he didn't have to think about how to balance things out anymore.

Sigh, Ye Qingxi held her face with one hand, sometimes carrying water is a mental task!

At noon, he presented the first prize certificate for the parent-child jigsaw puzzle competition to Mu Zheng and Qin Cheng.

This was the only parent-child competition between Mu Zheng and Qin Cheng, and Ye Qingxi felt that giving them the certificate was far more meaningful than giving it to herself.

Mu Zheng and Qin Cheng looked at the certificate in his hand, feeling indescribable joy and relief.

"Thank you, Xiaoxi, but this is your certificate of merit, and Xiaocheng and I cannot accept it," Mu Zheng said.

Ye Qingxi tilted her head to look at him, "It's okay, I have two more certificates. I participated in three competitions and got certificates from all three, so please accept them, Uncle."

Mu Zheng was a little embarrassed, "This..."

“Besides, this is the only parent-child competition you and your brother Qin Cheng will ever have,” Ye Qingxi advised him. “Uncle, don’t you want to keep it as a memento?”

"Then don't you want to?" Mu Zheng asked him.

"I just said, I have two more."

Since he said that, Mu Zheng felt embarrassed to refuse again, so he accepted it.

"I'll give you a gift another day."

"No need," Ye Qingxi smiled. "Uncle, you've already given me so many gifts."

Mu Zheng looked at him, feeling an indescribable gratitude in her heart.

From signing him up for the competition to giving him the award certificate he won, Ye Qingxi had done everything for the sake of the father and son.

It wasn't that he particularly wanted to participate in this parent-child jigsaw puzzle competition, but rather that this competition was the only one that allowed him and Qin Cheng to participate together, giving them, father and son, a chance to make up for the time they had lost and the regrets that arose from that time.

Mu Zheng looked at the certificate in his hand, then looked at Qin Cheng beside him.

I feel fortunate and satisfied.

He was grateful that his father had adopted Ye Qingxi.

He and his children are fortunate to have a family like Ye Qingxi.

Fortunately, what he once missed, he can now embrace again.

Thankfully, everything has become better and better because of Ye Qingxi's existence.

Mu Zheng thought, Ye Qingxi is no genius baby at all, he's more like a lucky baby.

They are the Mu family's little lucky star.

After giving the certificates of merit to Mu Zheng and Qin Cheng, Ye Qingxi brought their relay certificates to Mu Shaoyan when she picked him up after school in the afternoon.

Looking at the inscription "First Place in Parent-Child Relay Race: Ye Qingxi," Mu Shaoyan exclaimed happily, "There's even a certificate! Not bad!"

After saying that, he asked Ye Qingxi, "Is this certificate unique to me, or do other people have it too?"

“My aunt has one too,” Ye Qingxi said.

Mu Shaoyan: ...

Mu Shaoyan hugged him. "Baby, next time we sign up, can we sign up for the relay race that's just the two of us?"

Ye Qingxi reminded him, "There won't be a next time. We won't have a parent-child sports meet in second grade."

Mu Shaoyan felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

"Doesn't that mean I can participate with you just this once?!"

Ye Qingxi nodded, "Mm."

Mu Shaoyan: ...

Mu Shaoyan thought his father was really something. Hadn't he already seen Ye Qingxi when she was a month old and even held her?!

Why didn't you take them back to your home to raise them back then!

Even if Uncle Ye were still alive at that time, we could have brought him over with us!

It's not like they don't have enough room in their house.

Mu Shaoyan said regretfully, "Uncle and I met too late. We missed each other for too long!"

Ye Qingxi: ? ? ?

Ye Qingxi: ...

"If you had known me any earlier, I wouldn't be the person you knew," Ye Qingxi thought to herself. "Idiot."

Duan Yi hadn't seen Ye Qingxi for three days, so he was quite pleasantly surprised when he saw him again.

"Are you done with your work?" he joked.

Ye Qingxi nodded, "Brother Duan Yi, I won first place in the sports meet."

“Your uncle already told me.” Duan Yi patted his hair. “Great!”

Ye Qingxi entered the room, changed into slippers, and walked into Duan Yi's bedroom as if she knew the way well. Then she discovered, "Candied hawthorns."

Ye Qingxi walked to her seat, picked it up, and turned to look at Duan Yi, "Brother, did you buy this for me?"

Duan Yi nodded, "Congratulations on the successful conclusion of your sports meet."

Ye Qingxi smiled and said, "Thank you, brother."

He took the candied hawthorn out of the bag and found that it was a skewer of mixed fruits, including hawthorn, strawberry, orange, and grape.

Ye Qingxi happily took a bite of the top strawberry; it was very sweet and delicious.

He quickly ate the whole strawberry, then turned to Duan Yi, who was approaching, with the candied hawthorn in his hand. "Brother, you should have some too."

"If your brother doesn't want to eat, you can eat it yourself."

"Have one, have one~" Ye Qingxi said to him coquettishly.

Mu Shaoyan: !!!

Mu Shaoyan said sourly, "Ye Qingxi, who are you being affectionate with?!"

Ye Qingxi: ...

Ye Qingxi had no choice but to hand the candied hawthorn to him, "Uncle, you eat one, you have one."

Mu Shaoyan snorted and said arrogantly, "Then you should act cute for me too."

Ye Qingxi: ? ? ?

Duan Yi: ...

Duan Yi pulled Ye Qingxi to his side, "Xiao Xi, don't pay attention to him, let him eat or not, it's up to him."

Mu Shaoyan: ? ? ?

Mu Shaoyan thought he was being ridiculous. He and his nephew had a deep uncle-nephew relationship, so who was this monster to interfere?

Mu Shaoyan grabbed Ye Qingxi's other arm and pulled her closer to him. "Who's ignoring whom? Get this straight, I'm his uncle, his parent, his family. It's more likely he'll ignore you."

Duan Yi grabbed Ye Qingxi and pulled her back, saying, "You? Do you even deserve to be Xiaoxi's uncle?"

Mu Shaoyan pulled Ye Qingxi towards him again, "If I'm not good enough for you, are you? You'd love to, but too bad, you're not surnamed Mu~"

Duan Yi: !!!

"Xiao Xi's surname isn't Mu either!"

"Well, Xiao Xi's surname isn't Duan either~"

Ye Qingxi: ...

Ye Qingxi stood between the two of them, trying to express her opinion: "Could you let me go first?"

In an instant, Duan Yi and Mu Shaoyan both realized what was happening, one checking his left arm and the other checking his right arm.

"Does it hurt, baby? It's all Uncle's fault. Did Uncle pinch you too hard?"

"Me too, why bother arguing with him?" Duan Yi apologized. "Xiao Xi, is your arm hurting?"

Ye Qingxi shook his head. It was cold today, so he was wearing a lot of clothes. He had just entered Duan Yi's bedroom and hadn't taken off his coat yet. In addition, although the two of them were pulling each other back and forth, they hadn't used much force, so he didn't really feel anything.

He just felt the situation was very strange, very much like the scenes he played as a child where parents and children were arguing while disciplining their children. The father pulls the left side, wanting the child to listen to him, written like this; the mother pulls the right side, feeling the child should listen to her, written like that.

Finally, the children were all sleepy, but they hadn't finished their homework.

Ye Qingxi: ...

Ye Qingxi took a bite of the candied hawthorn and realized that her idea was really outrageous.

What parents and kids? The three of them are clearly the school bully's classmate, the school bully, and the school bully's nephew.

This is the correct and reasonable relationship.

"Ah~" Mu Shaoyan leaned closer to him, trying to please him, "Didn't you just say I could have one? I'll eat it now~"

Ye Qingxi blinked. "But I've already taken a bite."

"It's alright, your uncle doesn't mind." Mu Shaoyan said, preparing to go eat.

Ye Qingxi quickly took away what she had already eaten.

Mu Shaoyan: ?

Then he saw his adorable little nephew hand him a candied hawthorn, saying, "I've eaten that one, Uncle, you can have a new one now."

Mu Shaoyan's heart softened, and he felt that his little nephew was really an angel!

He doesn't deserve it!

He lowered his head, took a bite, and ate the grape coated in sugar.

"Delicious," Mu Shaoyan said as he ate.

Ye Qingxi turned to Duan Yi and said, "Brother, you should have one too."

Duan Yi: ...

Duan Yi was reluctant to part with it.

There were only a few fruits on the candied hawthorn skewer. If he ate them, Ye Qingxi would have one less.

But Ye Qingxi stared at him with clear, expectant eyes.

Duan Yi couldn't resist and lowered his head to eat a hawthorn covered in sugar.

“Not bad,” he said.

Ye Qingxi was satisfied and happily sat between the two of them, eating the remaining candied hawthorns.

It wasn't until they were almost finished eating that Ye Qingxi suddenly realized, "Did I take your seat, Uncle?"

He stood up and quickly offered his seat, saying, "Uncle, please sit down, please sit down."