Was it just my imagination? Ah Yuan called me "Dad"!
Nie Zhao almost burst into laughter for a moment, but when he looked at the ground, his face turned into a deadpan expression.
Li Xia has to cook for Chen Rou and steam egg cakes for the baby. She's currently cleaning the stove.
Since they had just finished cooking, the floor was naturally dirty, and she and Chen Rou were both wearing slippers.
At the Nie family home, not only did all the servants have to wear disposable shoe covers that were disinfected every morning, but Nie Zhao also instructed that the second-floor floor should be cleaned three times a day during this period, morning, noon and night, in order to minimize the amount of bacteria Ah Yuan would come into contact with.
There was a nanny with long hair who was also losing hair. After he discovered this, he managed her like a servant. During working hours, all her hair was covered with a net. If there was a single hair on the ground, Nie Zhao would trace its source.
He strives to keep his son free of bacteria during the crawling and food-eating phases.
When the child arrived at his maternal grandmother's house, there was obvious dirt on the floor, but Chen Rou let him crawl around like that.
He came in and tried to hug his son, but Chen Rou poked his chest with two fingers: "What kind of face is that? What kind of behavior is that?"
Nie Zhao himself didn't realize it, but his face looked terrible.
Just then, Li Xia washed her hands and picked up A Yuan, saying, "Look, who's here?"
He shook the child's little hand again: "Call me 'Daddy' again, so your dad can hear it."
Ah Yuan then continued blowing bubbles: "Pop, pop pop!"
Li Xia touched A Yuan's son with her forehead: "Our baby is so smart and wonderful!"
It's only been a few days, and he can already say "Dad." Clearly, when Nie Zhao left this morning, the little guy couldn't even do that yet.
Putting everything else aside, in his excitement, Nie Zhao grabbed his mother-in-law's shoulders with both hands: "Say it again?"
Li Xia also said, "Call him! This is Dad! Call him again!"
You need to save up your saliva to call someone "Dad," because it takes a bubble to pop and make a "pop" sound.
Ah Yuan held his saliva in his mouth for a while, but since he had already shouted, the saliva didn't look right. After a long pause, he finally said, "Pfft!"
But even "poo" is fine; it's a completely new pronunciation.
Nie Zhao was initially very happy, but after having a son, he fell into a kind of abnormal germaphobia. He saw that his mother-in-law's hands were wet and had not been dried, but she was holding his son's hand. The next second, his son was about to put his little hand in his mouth. His face fell, and he reached out to snatch the child away, but Chen Rou pointed two fingers at him and stopped him.
Nie Zhao stomped his feet in frustration, wishing he could turn against his wife, but as he always said, he dared not speak out against her anger.
Fortunately, Li Xia had classes in the afternoon. After holding the child for a while, she handed her over to Chen Rou, grabbed her schoolbag and said, "I have to go to class. Don't go. I've soaked some dried abalone. I'll cook it for you tonight."
With a loud bang, Nie Zhao immediately took the child from his wife's arms. Seeing her long face, he didn't dare to say anything, but simply carried his son into the bathroom, turned on the tap, and quickly washed the child's hands.
But halfway through washing, he paused for a moment, then went out to find wet wipes to dry the child's little paws.
But after wiping, he said, "These wipes come with a wine wipe, they're not for babies."
Chen Rou had just opened her bag, found the baby wipes, handed them to Nie Zhao, and said with a smile, "The tap water in this apartment building isn't up to standard, is it? You're worried about contamination even when your son washes his hands, but many people are still consuming it."
In mainland China today, social classes are not so distinct, but in Hong Kong, not to mention food, clothing, housing, and transportation, even the water and air that ordinary people use are different from those of wealthy families. The Nie family's water quality is of course the best.
But to Chen Rou, who belonged to the working class and was considered an animal, all of this seemed too unequal.
But Nie Zhao thinks it's normal, it's just that he has to put it nicely.
So he said, "A-Yuan is still young and his skin is too delicate, and the drinking water here has been treated twice."
He knew, of course, that he had disliked Li Xia as soon as he entered the room, which had upset Chen Rou.
At this point, he was still unaware that his son had climbed the 13-story Kowloon Police Station, known as the dirtiest and most chaotic police station in Kowloon, and had even breathed in the air with excessive levels of pneumonia bacteria from the clock tower. Just this morning, he had almost breathed in the stinky feet of a Taiwanese boy that made him vomit.
Holding his son and filled with hopeful anticipation, he tentatively asked, "Shall we go shopping in Central?"
Seeing Chen Rou with her arms crossed, he said, "It's okay to come out for a stroll occasionally, but I'll arrange a parking space in the apartment building. You can go directly to the parking space from now on, so you won't have to wander around outside."
Chen Rou opposed everything Nie Zhao said about raising the child.
However, when the baby wakes up at night, it is Nie Zhao who soothes him. Since the baby was born, Nie Zhao has been worrying about things like formula, bathing, and even bowel movements. Chen Rou has never interfered, afraid that Nie Zhao would say, "If you're so capable, then you do it yourself," so she doesn't dare to say anything.
Since Nie Zhao was only wishful thinking and believed that they had simply arrived in Central, she didn't say anything more.
Getting back to the main point, she said, "Shouldn't Ivanov and Sam be cooperating with the mainland police officers? Why are they following you? He has sharp eyes; even though I'm wearing a big hat, he spotted me immediately."
The kidnapping will likely happen tomorrow morning. Maozi and his men should be familiarizing themselves with the terrain, checking their weapons, and lubricating them. However, Nie Zhao said, "I have something to do at noon. They will take over the new job this afternoon."
At noon, because the nun was there, he wandered around outside, and to avoid being spotted, he left a few bodyguards with him.
He spoke very politely, saying, "Let's go, I'll take you home."
Chen Rou glanced at the stove. Li Xia said she would cook something delicious for her today. In her opinion, the child really didn't need to be so careful. Besides, she could make milk and soothe the baby to sleep here. She wanted to pick up Li Xia in the evening and go home together.
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