Chapter 101 Sleeping in a Hammock
After playing for about half an hour, Xiao Ci really didn't want to move anymore, so she lay on Liu Wangxue's shoe and asked to be held.
Youyou ran back panting, her little face flushed and her forehead covered with sweat.
Liu Wangxue took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat: "Shall we go to the hammock and take a rest?"
"Okay!" Youyou jumped, "Sit on the swing!"
Liu Wangxue picked up Xiaoci and called back Jinghe. The child was also sweating. He was having a great time playing Pengpeng. Jinghe was holding the ball, and he was still jumping to reach it.
Xu Qingsong and Du Yunkai got down from the hammock, loosened the rope a little more, and tied it higher to make it easier to swing as a swing.
Youyou ran and shouted, "Swing, here I come!"
He rushed directly towards the hammock. Fortunately, Xu Qingsong stretched out his arm to stop him in time. I was really afraid that he would fall to the ground. This is not a lawn without any debris.
Youyou lay in Xu Qingsong's arms and smiled: "Uncle Xu, I'll send it up, I'll send it up!"
Xu Qingsong helped him stand steadily and imitated his pronunciation: "Okay, you can send it up."
Although Xu Qingsong had adjusted the height of the hammock, it was still a bit high for Youyou. He stood on tiptoe to grab the center of the hanging hammock, then pulled it down hard and finally reached the edge of the hammock.
Xu Qingsong supported him when he raised his legs, and he successfully got on it. Then he exerted force and flipped his whole little body in. He amused himself and laughed non-stop.
Xu Qingsong and Du Yunkai stood aside and praised Xiao Youzi highly.
Youyou sat up and waved to Jinghe: "Brother, come here! It's fun!"
Jinghe ran over and sat with Youyou. He supported himself on the ground and took a few steps back. Then he lifted his legs and the hammock swung like a swing.
Yuyu screamed and laughed out loud.
The three adults all smiled unconsciously.
As the hammock gradually came to a stop, Youyou reached out to Liu Wangxue: "Sister, I want a cat."
Liu Wangxue put Xiaoci on it, Youyou hugged the cat and said, "Brother, let's do it again!"
Jinghe did the same thing, Youyou laughed happily, and the hair on Xiaoci's face was blown to his skin by the wind.
There was a look of confusion in its emerald green round eyes. After it came to its senses, it immediately turned around and buried its head in Youyou's arms.
Ah - he hates this swaying! It feels like the day when he couldn't get down from the tree branch.
After playing two more rounds, the two children and the cat lay in the hammock together. Liu Wangxue also lay in another one with Pengpeng.
The elderly people who had been enjoying the cool air gradually carried their small stools back home. It was almost time for dinner.
The wind blew slowly, bringing a slight coolness. The cicadas in the trees seemed to be calmed down and their calls gradually weakened.
Liu Wangxue looked at the sky where the sunset glow gradually faded away, and couldn't help but sigh: "Life is so beautiful——"
Xu Qingsong and Du Yunkai were standing against the tree trunk. Guaguao flew back and landed on Xu Qingsong's shoulder, chirping and saying something.
Du Yunkai reached out to tease it: "You've been chirping for so long, aren't you thirsty? Aren't you tired?"
Guagua pecked his fingers playfully, then flew to Liu Wangxue and nestled against her neck.
After lying there for a while, I became a little fuzzy unconsciously, and suddenly I heard Shen Nian'an's voice: "Oh, you are all asleep."
Liu Wangxue sat up and tried to wake herself up, and saw Shen Nian'an bending over, looking at the sleeping faces of his two sons.
He had been sitting in front of the computer for another afternoon, and now he was out to look for his children and relax. It was not dark yet, and he was not in a hurry to send the two children back home, so he just stood there and chatted with them.
Shen Nian'an brushed away Youyou's curly hair and poked his chubby face as if he was itching to do so: "I'm really sorry to bother you. I've been too busy these past two days and haven't been able to spend enough time with them."
Du Yunkai asked him: "Isn't it summer vacation now? Do you still have work at school?"
"No," Shen Nian'an shook his head and smiled helplessly, "I'm writing a paper and planning to apply for a professional title to see if I can move up a level."
Liu Wangxue said admiringly: "Brother Shen is awesome. What I hate most is writing papers."
The reason she didn't choose to continue her postgraduate studies was because she still had to write a thesis for a master's degree. All these years have passed, but she still remembers the days when she racked her brains for her undergraduate thesis.
Liu Wangxue felt that she would rather stay up all night and lose her hair for a script of hundreds of thousands of words than be tortured by a paper of tens of thousands of words. The end of hundreds of thousands of words is dawn, while the end of tens of thousands of words is the beginning of pain.
"Oh, I forgot to ask you last time," Xu Qingsong suddenly remembered, "What major does Brother Shen teach?"
"Have you heard of Chinese international education?" Shen Nian'an said.
"It seems not. An unpopular major?" Xu Qingsong and Du Yunkai didn't know much about it, so they asked, "What exactly does it do?"
Shen Nian'an replied: "It's not unpopular. In recent years, there are still many students applying for the exam, both domestic and foreign. There are even many institutions in the market that provide teacher training in this area."
Liu Wangxue asked Shen Nian'an: "Is it related to that Confucius Institute? There is a Confucius Institute in the university where Wenxi went to Country Y to hold the Hanfu exhibition. It seems to be jointly run with a university in Hai City."
"There is a certain relationship." Shen Nian'an explained, "Our major can be simply understood as learning how to teach foreigners to speak Chinese."
Du Yunkai changed his concept: "It's a bit like a foreign teacher, but the teaching language is changed to Chinese?"
"About the same," Shen Nian'an smiled. "Some of the students we train will go to the Confucius Institute, and some of the students from abroad will return to their hometowns after graduation and become Chinese teachers."
Xu Qingsong asked: "Then my sister-in-law is the same as you?"
Shen Nian'an nodded: "But she is mainly responsible for the courses for international students. Before the summer vacation started, we planned to come back together, but the teacher in charge of the summer camp for international students had a family accident, so the hospital asked her to take over."
Liu Wangxue felt sorry for her: "Willn't we be able to see a cute baby like Youyou for the entire summer?"
"She is quite focused on her work now. She agreed mainly because she has a good relationship with the teacher." Shen Nian'an calculated the days: "The summer camp will be over in the next two days. She will come over after she is done with her work. She should be able to catch the rooftop barbecue."
"That's great," Liu Wangxue applauded, "I can finally meet him in person. I'm really looking forward to it!"
It was getting dark, Shen Nian'an woke up the two children and had to go home. Jinghe rubbed his eyes and got off the hammock. Youyou was in a trance and didn't want to open her eyes at all.
Shen Nian'an picked him up and held him in his arms. Youyou continued to sleep on his shoulder. He patted her butt: "Wake up. You won't be able to sleep at night if you continue sleeping."
Youyou rubbed her face on Shen Nian'an's shoulder, buried her head in the crook of his neck, and continued to sleep.
After they packed up the hammocks and took their belongings, Gu Xuelan came over and called for dinner.
(End of this chapter)
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