Xu Wan knew without turning around that Xiao Xiao had seen Jiang Tingzhou.
She stopped and looked at her daughter in her arms, saying earnestly, "Xiaoxiao, can Mommy ask you a question?"
"Hmm?" Xiaoxiao turned her head back. "Mommy, go ahead and ask."
Looking at her daughter's clean and lovely face, Xu Wan said, "Xiaoxiao, if—I mean if—Daddy also had a disability and couldn't run and jump with you like other children's dads, would you be disappointed? Would you regret meeting him? Would you not want him to be your dad?"
Xu Wan asked all the questions she wanted to ask in one go.
After asking the question, she even felt a little regretful.
It is said that children speak without restraint.
Xiaoxiao is still a child, and her thoughts are very simple. Her understanding of the role of a father is based on other children's fathers.
So her expectations of her father are likely that he is like other children's fathers, someone who can accompany her to run and jump, go to amusement parks, and so on.
If you knew your father was in a wheelchair, would you directly express your disappointment?
Xiao Xiao tilted her head and thought for a while, "In that case, would Dad be about the same height as me?"
"Um?"
Xu Wan didn't immediately understand what it meant.
"If Daddy sat like that uncle all the time, he wouldn't be as tall, and I could climb onto his lap anytime and play with him." Xiaoxiao became more and more excited as she spoke, revealing her cute little baby teeth, and concluded, "I would like a Daddy like that! I like Daddy no matter what!"
Xu Wan never expected her daughter to think from this perspective.
"Dad will definitely love Xiaoxiao just the way she is."
She hugged her daughter tightly, but felt a pang of sadness in her heart.
Even a child can understand this principle, but Jiang Tingzhou cannot.
What good would it do for her to find a healthy boyfriend?
That person is not Xiaoxiao's biological father.
Xiao Xiao hugged Xu Wan's neck and asked earnestly, "Mommy, when can I see Daddy?"
Xu Wan turned to look in the man's direction, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Xiaoxiao, shall we go and say hello to that uncle in the wheelchair?"
"Huh?" Xiaoxiao was taken aback for a moment, then quickly replied, "Okay!"
Jiang Tingzhou had been looking in the direction of Xu Wan and her daughter.
Just when I thought the two of them were about to get on the bus and I was feeling a little reluctant to part with them, they suddenly turned around and walked back in my direction!
Jiang Tingzhou has been disabled for several years and has encountered many strange looks, but he doesn't care.
But at that very moment, as he watched Xu Wan carrying her daughter and talking to her as she walked towards him, Jiang Tingzhou felt nervous for the first time in a long time.
He smoothed his suit jacket with his palm, straightened it, then adjusted the cuffs, and didn't forget to use his hand to slightly cover the scar on his right cheek.
He didn't know why the mother and daughter had come; he just hoped to leave a good impression on his daughter.
Xu Wan carried her daughter across the road, and Xiao Xiao twisted her body and asked to get off.
Xu Wan bent down and put her daughter down.
Watching his daughter waddle towards him on her short legs, Jiang Tingzhou almost couldn't resist opening his arms to hug the daughter he had been longing for day and night...
But Xiaoxiao stopped in front of the man, bowed earnestly, and said in her sweet little voice, word by word, "Hello, Uncle. My name is Jiang Xiaoxiao. I am my mommy's daughter. My mommy said she knows you."
The moment the word "uncle" was uttered, it felt like a heavy stone pressing down on the man's chest.
Xu Wan stood aside without saying a word.
Jiang Tingzhou forced a smile and said in a low voice, "Hello."
“Mommy said that Uncle’s child goes to the same kindergarten as me, but you’re too scared to pick him up.” Xiaoxiao looked up at Jiang Tingzhou seriously. “Uncle, look, you’re about the same height as me, so I can see your face very easily. Isn’t that great? Your child’s friends will definitely like you.”
Xiao Xiao, like a little adult, earnestly persuaded the man in her childish voice.
Jiang Tingzhou didn't particularly like children, but at this moment, he saw his well-mannered daughter standing in front of him, earnestly advising him.
On the surface, he appeared calm, but inside he was surging with emotion.
He opened his mouth several times, but in the end he could only manage to utter two words, "Thank you."
He had no other right to say anything else.
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