Chapter 5 Love Dad a Little More
Xingxing sat on a small stool, her chin supported by her little hand, staring in a daze at Zhou Xiangyang's busy back.
The ball flew over from the window and landed on his shoulder. After kissing the child's cheek, he began to replay the original learning content in his mind with Xingxing.
It was at the end of the world, when Hu Xingzhe learned that Xingxing was leaving for the new world, that he specifically told his human cubs some of their daily lives.
"The stars have gone to a new world. Remember to go to the bathroom before going to bed, otherwise you might wet the bed in the middle of the night."
"You should hold the chopsticks like this, but don't be too anxious, you can use a spoon first and learn slowly."
"Drink more water, eat three meals a day carefully, and don't eat too many snacks."
"When it's cold, you need to wear clothes. When it's hot, you can't stay cool. When you sleep, you need to cover your stomach. Otherwise, you are likely to get sick, catch a cold, or have a stomachache."
"If you are bullied by a kid, fight back, but don't hit them too hard or use your super powers. Kids are very fragile, just beat them until they cry."
"If you are bullied by an adult, tell the new parents and ask them to solve the problem. If the parents don't care, use your supernatural powers to beat them hard until they cry and run away."
"If you go to the new world and have no money and no one to take care of you, you can use the gold and gems in the space to exchange for enough money. You will have supernatural powers, and you can listen to your heart and won't be deceived."
“…………”
"Finally, if Xingxing misses us in the new world, just hug yourself, because we miss Xingxing too and want to hug you very much."
“…”
Xingxing has actually read these reminders over and over again, countless times.
But every time he would stare at the person in the picture, his eyes curved from beginning to end.
"Xingxing, do you want to record what Sunflower's father says in the future?" The ball flew up and hit the child's forehead, without being willing to use any force at all.
Hearing this, Xingxing tilted her head and looked at her father who was standing at the windowsill, busy with a spatula in his hand. After several seconds, she nodded slightly.
"want."
"Okay, I'll turn on the recording function then."
Qiuqiu agreed decisively, turned off the light curtain, and squatted on Xingxing's shoulder. The two little ones watched Sunflower's father cook with eager eyes.
Dinner was the scrambled eggs with tomatoes that Xingxing wanted, and a small dish of stir-fried vegetables, which Zhou Xiangyang had deliberately left behind when he went to buy supplies.
The father and son sat facing each other on a stool. The child held the spoon a little awkwardly and tentatively scooped a small spoonful of tomato soup.
Nothing tastes as good as scrambled eggs with tomatoes that you grow yourself in the doomsday.
But there seems to be some other different taste.
Xingxing smacked her lips, feeling the taste blooming in her mouth. When her father asked if it tasted good, she raised the spoon and nodded seriously.
Zhou Xiangyang was always easily amused by the little guy's actions. He reached out, took the spoon from his son's hand, picked up the plate, scooped the tomato scrambled egg soup and the large pieces of egg wrapped in the soup into Xingxing's small bowl, then mixed it well for him, so that every grain of rice was coated with the sour and fragrant tomato soup.
"Go to bed early after dinner. Tomorrow morning, Dad will go downstairs to buy breakfast and put it on the table. When Xingxing wakes up, he can eat it by himself. When Dad comes back, I will take you out to play..."
While eating, Zhou Xiangyang made some brief arrangements for tomorrow's schedule.
Selling vegetables every afternoon is just one of his jobs. He has to get up at five in the morning and take the bus to another place to work. It is a job that the neighborhood committee helped him find. He guards the warehouse in a market and helps with the loading and unloading of goods.
The salary is low, but there is no choice. No one wants to do other jobs Zhou Xiangyang wants to do.
As he instructed, Xingxing nodded obediently, lowered her head and ate her first human dinner bite by bite.
When it was time to go to bed after taking a bath, Xingxing was brought into the bed first, and then the adult's warm body naturally held him in his arms, and patted his head to coax him to sleep.
Zhou Xiangyang is very tired every day, so he often falls asleep as soon as he touches the pillow.
But Xingxing’s soul is a little zombie who has never really slept.
Listening to the steady rising and falling breathing sounds beside their ears, Xingxing and Qiuqiu looked at each other in the darkness.
"Baby, how about I play a cartoon for you?" Qiuqiu was also a little confused because he had never coaxed a child to sleep.
Xingxing was a little moved, but thinking of his uncle's instructions, he shook his head, closed his eyes, and began to pretend to be asleep just like in the doomsday.
Qiuqiu monitored Xingxing's body functions nervously. Soon, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw a line of words on the panel indicating that he was entering a light sleep.
It seems that the soul of the star and the body of the human cub are highly compatible, and long-term insomnia will not occur.
"Cub, I hope you can have a dream that only human cubs can have."
The ball flew into the bed, and Xingxing huddled in the arms of Sunflower Dad. It huddled in Xingxing's arms, set an alarm, and then turned off itself.
"Good night, stars."
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"Xingxing, it's only five o'clock in the morning." Qiuqiu looked at the time and reminded the child who suddenly opened his eyes in bed.
Xingxing's hair was messed up by his sleep. He sat up in a daze, staring at the door that was slightly open.
Qiuqiu followed the direction of Xingxing's gaze and said, "Son, Sunflower Daddy got up five minutes ago. He has washed his face, brushed his teeth, got dressed, and is going downstairs to buy you breakfast."
And Qiuqiu set his own startup time to be only less than five minutes earlier than Zhou Xiangyang.
Xingxing rubbed her eyes, which were so sleepy that she could hardly open them, and slowly crawled out of the bed. She lay on the edge of the bed and slid down. She let go after she successfully stepped on the floor.
"Xingxing, do you want to go out with Sunflower Dad?" Qiuqiu was a little confused by the child's silence.
From the time he woke up until now, Xingxing hasn't said a word, and he didn't respond to anything Qiuqiu said.
Like a silly little sleepwalking ghost.
When Qiuqiu chased after Xingxing and squatted on his shoulder, the child finally made other moves.
He pursed his lips and his eyes began to turn red quickly.
Qiuqiu: “!!!”
It was so scared that the whole ball seemed to want to explode. It looked at Xingxing's eyes in shock as mist quickly filled up. It was so panicked that it didn't know what to do for a moment.
This, this, this... I've never encountered such a scene before!
The stars are crying???
Crying after a nap?!
"Baby, baby, don't cry. What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?" Qiuqiu was so panicked that the whole ball was emitting a mess of light. He leaned close to the child's face and frantically used his body to wipe his tears.
Xingxing stood at the door. In a blink of an eye, a crystal tear flowed down her cheek from her eye socket, and it was getting more and more.
Qiuqiu: “……!”
Ahhhhh who am I where am I and what happened to me?! ?
The light ball was so anxious that it almost grew two hands to hug the star and comfort it, but it didn't have this function and could only fly and jump around aimlessly in place.
By the way, I kept asking what happened to the stars.
This chaotic process lasted for about a full minute.
A minute later, when footsteps were heard on the stairs, the tearful child seemed to come back to his senses suddenly. He raised his little hands to wipe away his tears, and his eyes became clear and bright.
"..."Xingxing looked down at the wet tears on the back of her hand, her expression dazed for a moment.
"Kid...are you feeling better?" Qiuqiu didn't know what had happened. Seeing that he stopped crying, she came over and asked carefully.
Xingxing raised her eyes, shook her head slightly, and was about to speak to Qiuqiu when Zhou Xiangyang's tall figure appeared at the stairs.
In his hands, he was holding half a portion of steaming dumplings and a pack of milk.
He probably didn't expect Xingxing to wake up so early. He stopped in surprise for a moment, looked at the child from a distance for a second, and then strode towards Xingxing.
"Xingxing? Why are you awake so early? Do you need to go to the bathroom?"
Shaking her head, Xingxing reached out and grabbed her father's clothes, and followed him into the house.
Only after he placed the things in his hands on the small table did Zhou Xiangyang finally have the hands to embrace the stars.
"Why did you get up so early today? Is it too hot?" he asked while helping his son smooth up his sweaty hair.
After asking, Zhou Xiangyang put his hair up and only then did he see his son's wet and red eyes.
He was stunned and reached out to wipe the child's still wet eyelids.
"Why are you crying?"
He frowned distressedly, hugged the dumb child into his arms, and asked gently, "Because you didn't see your dad when you woke up?"
Xingxing looked up at him, her pupils, which had just been washed by tears, were dark and clear, clearly reflecting Zhou Xiangyang's more concerned eyes.
"dad……"
When the child opened his mouth, his voice was a little hoarse from having just woken up from crying, and sounded soft and lifeless.
Xingxing's little hands were still tugging at Zhou Xiangyang's clothes. She lowered her head and buried herself in his arms, saying in a muffled voice, "I'm not crying, it's another Xingxing who is crying."
He was dreaming.
In my dream, I saw another star living with Sunflower Dad. I saw that little star fell asleep with a high fever and never woke up again. I saw Sunflower Dad had to go to the construction site to work with his tired body after work...
Today is the day that little boy Zhou Chenxing died.
The little boy said that he wanted to take one last look at Sunflower Dad, so Xingxing gave her body to him.
In other words, it is briefly returned to its original state.
"What other star?" Zhou Xiangyang rubbed the child's head in his arms and said gently, "Are you sleepy? How about eating first and then going back to sleep?"
Children's thoughts and dreams are always wild and unrestrained, and Zhou Xiangyang is not a particularly meticulous person. He didn't take Xingxing's words to heart. He just thought that the little guy probably had a nightmare or was emotionally sensitive recently, so he started to become clingy again.
“……”Xingxing didn’t say anything else.
He buried himself in the arms of Sunflower's father, closed his eyes, and listened to little Zhou Chenxing saying thank you to him with tears in his eyes.
Tell him to help love dad more.
Can love help too?
The stars don’t understand, but they will seriously fulfill the strange wishes of human cubs.
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