Chapter 36
The next morning, Yin Zheng took a handbag, packed a set of clothes for Jiaojiao, two bottles of milk in a thermos, some toys, snacks and candies, then carried Jiaojiao and the bag to St. Ventherin's Hospital.
"Uncle Luo An, Jiaojiao is here." Jiaojiao waved her little hand as she entered the ward.
Luo Andeli, whose mood brightened at the sound of his little voice, drove his wheelchair forward to take him. As soon as the soft little body fell into his arms, he couldn't help but pinch his delicate little face: "Did you miss me?"
"I do." The crisp sound of "I do" made Luo Andeli's eyes full of smiles.
After Yin Zheng sent Jiaojiao to Luo Andeli, he prepared to leave and planned to wander around the central city to see if he could find a new source of income.
He had discussed this matter with Jiaojiao beforehand, and Jiaojiao had agreed. Unexpectedly, as he was leaving, he heard a voice behind him: "Dad."
Yin Zheng paused as he was leaving, and when he looked back, he saw Jiaojiao getting down from Luo Andeli's arms, running to the handbag with her short legs, squatting down, and taking out a few small snacks and a bottle of milk from it, then carrying them to him with great effort.
"Dad." He tilted his fair little face up, looking at him with his watery eyes: "Squat down."
Yin Zheng squatted down as he said, and Jiaojiao stood on tiptoe with the snacks in her arms and started stuffing them into his pockets.
Yin Zheng's clothes didn't have pockets before, but after he had Jiaojiao, all the clothes he bought came with two pockets. Whenever he took Jiaojiao out, he would put a bottle of cold water in his pocket.
After stuffing the bottle and snacks into Daddy's pocket, Jiaojiao said with a little worry, "Daddy, remember to eat and don't go hungry."
Yin Zheng glanced at his two stuffed pockets, reached out and touched his head, and replied softly: "Well, I'm not hungry."
When her father left, Jiaojiao held onto the door and stared at his back until he could no longer see her. Then she took small steps back to the ward.
Seeing this, Luo Andeli, who was sitting in a wheelchair in the ward, rubbed his furry little head hard.
"Uncle Luo An, please don't mess up Jiaojiao's hair. It doesn't look good." Jiaojiao shook her head and tried to shake his hand off.
"Oh, you even know how to love beauty?"
"Jiaojiao is not beautiful, but Jiaojiao is lovely."
"Heh." Luo Andeli smiled and poked his tender little face: "That's right, children need to be lively to be lovable."
As for children, people like them if they are well-behaved and sensible, but if they are too well-behaved and sensible, people will feel sorry for them.
After coming out of the hospital, Yin Zheng walked directly towards the busiest street. Along the way, many people carefully moved aside when they saw him, but when they saw his bulging pockets, the fear in their eyes turned into subtle disgust.
I don’t know which small city this person is from, but he actually puts things in his pockets.
For the people in the central city, there is no need to be afraid of a poor person who can't even afford a space storage device.
Yin Zheng was as usual unaffected by these gazes. After walking around and getting a rough idea in his mind, he set his sights on the mecha arena competition that was being hyped on the virtual screen in the air.
Yin Zheng knew himself. He could not speak, looked ferocious, and knew nothing technical. The only thing he knew was hunting alien species and fighting.
He really doesn't know how to use mechas, but he is very good at fighting.
After thinking for a moment, he walked forward.
In St. Ventherin's Hospital, Jiaojiao was sitting on Cloveford's bed. Luo Andeli went for a check-up. Considering that some machines carried radiation, he did not let Jiaojiao follow him.
Anyway, this hospital is very safe and no one has the courage to cause trouble here.
Luo Andeli, who had long been dissatisfied with Yin Zheng's way of raising children, thought for a while and let Jiaojiao play by herself. Children are like the apple of their eye, and it is healthy for them to run around and make noise.
So Jiaojiao came to Cloveford without Luo Andeli knowing.
Jiaojiao came with a gift. He stood outside the door, raised his little hand and knocked on the door very politely. After hearing the sound of someone coming in, he pushed open the half-closed door and came in.
Cloverd, who was sitting on the hospital bed, saw that it was him who came in, and a hint of subtle surprise flashed in his purple eyes.
Meeting his gaze, Jiaojiao smiled with her eyebrows curved, then walked to the bedside with the snacks in her arms. She tiptoed and laboriously handed the small dumpling snack in her hand to Cloveford: "Here, I scared you yesterday. Give it to Tiantian to comfort you."
Cloveford, who was sitting on the bed, looked down at him. When he heard his soft words and met his pair of pure and clean black eyes, he reached out and took the snacks from his little hand for no reason.
"Do you want Jiaojiao to help open it?" Jiaojiao asked softly after seeing him take the snacks.
"No need." Cloveford replied coldly, tearing open the food bag and taking a bite.
Sweet, so sweet!
This was the first thought that came to his mind.
After calmly placing the bitten glutinous rice dumpling on the bedside table, Cloveford picked up the water cup and took a sip to suppress the sweetness in his mouth. He turned his head to look at the child who was still standing by the bed: "You're not leaving?"
"Can Jiaojiao stay here for a while?"
Dad and Uncle Luo An were not at home, and this was a relatively unfamiliar place. Jiaojiao was a little scared staying alone.
Cloveford lowered his eyes and said nothing. Seeing that he didn't say anything, Jiaojiao ran to the corner by the window and squatted down. She stretched out her little hand and gestured, then said eagerly, "Jiaojiao doesn't take up any space. Just squat here and stay for a while."
Looking at the small group squatting in the corner by the window, Cloveford raised his hand and beckoned, his low voice containing a sense of gravel: "Come here"
After Jiaojiao came over, he assessed her strength before bending down and carrying her to the bedside: "Can you take off your shoes?"
"Yes." Jiaojiao responded happily, took off her shoes, and looked at Cloveford with curved eyes.
Meeting his sparkling eyes, Cloveford raised his hand and pointed inside: "Sit inside."
Jiaojiao nodded, climbed up on the bed with her hands, and walked inside a little unsteadily on the bed.
During this time, Cloveford glanced at him, and only looked away after seeing him walk safely to his destination.
"Uncle, Jiaojiao can tell you stories and put you to sleep." Jiaojiao, who was left behind, tilted her head and thought for a while before coming up with this way of exchange.
Cloveford raised his eyes to look at the child who said he would tell him a story to put him to sleep. The sunlight fell on his tall nose, and his iris-purple eyes, which were blocked by the light, were bright and no emotion could be seen.
After a long while, he finally spoke: "Tell me."
"A long, long time ago, the sky was a vast ocean. In the ocean were huge blue fish... On the back of the largest fish grew a huge tree... The leaves that fell from the tree became tiny fish..."
Sunlight streamed in from the window, the chirping of birds was accompanied by the rustling of leaves in the wind. Cloveford leaned back on the headboard of the bed and glanced up at the child who was sleeping beside his calf.
She said she wanted to coax him to sleep, but ended up coaxing herself to sleep.
Seeing the child sleeping soundly, Cloversha gradually felt sleepy as well.
He leaned back, closed his eyes and dozed off.
The Mecha Arena Competition is a very popular event on the entire Blue Star. Of course, because mechas are expensive and mecha masters are rare, there are few cities that can support the event, but this definitely does not include the Central City.
The arena is divided into elementary, intermediate and advanced levels, and the prize money for each level is different. For example, the prize money for each win in the elementary arena is only 100,000, the intermediate is 500,000 but there are dividends from tickets and broadcasters, and the advanced is 1 million, and half of the money from tickets, broadcasts and GG merchants will be divided into two parts to give to the winner.
There is a lot of money involved. You have to know that with the popularity of Mecha Masters, the ticket revenue alone is a considerable amount of income.
However, very few mecha pilots would come to participate in the competition. After all, their identity as mecha pilots is a fortune. Occasionally, some military academy students would come to participate when they are short of money, but that would only happen rarely. After all, it is impossible for students in the mecha driving department of a military academy to be short of money.
As long as they pass the mecha driving department exam, the military academy and the military will provide funding, even mechas will be allocated and repaired, and during actual combat training they can also sell the alien species they hunt.
Of course, there are also some military academy students who love to show off and like to participate in such competitions. The military academy will not stop them and is happy for them to participate in such competitions to gain experience.
Because every three years, Blue Star holds a military academy league. The original purpose of holding the league hundreds of years ago was to boost morale. Over the years, it has become a tradition, gradually turning into a platform to showcase the heritage of military academies and a way to supply talents to major legions.
Therefore, the military academy is happy to see its students accumulate combat experience in the mecha arena competition in advance, and naturally will not stop it.
Military academy students usually participate in high-end games, while those who participate in intermediate competitions are some people who are talented but cannot be admitted to military academies, have average strength, and can barely be considered mecha commanders.
As for the beginners, they are generally mecha enthusiasts who don’t have much talent but have some financial resources at home and can barely operate mechas, so they call themselves mecha masters.
Yin Zheng participated in the beginner's round. Since he didn't have a mecha, he used the one provided by the organizer. After signing the agreement, he was led to the back to wait.
Yin Zheng knew nothing about mechas. While waiting, he squatted in the mecha, looking up how to operate it online while practicing it on the mecha a bit clumsily.
Today's mechas have not yet reached the point where they can be completely controlled by mental power, and many parts still require manual control.
Just as Yin Zheng was squatting in the mecha conducting research, Luo Andeli at the hospital, after coming out of the examination and not seeing Jiaojiao in the ward, began his journey to look for Jiaojiao with great interest.
He was not in a hurry because he had already informed the people who were guarding every corner of the building to prevent the boss from escaping and asked them to help look after Jiaojiao.
After searching for a while and failing to find it, Luo Andeli simply gave Jiaojiao a call out of laziness.
When the bell rang from the adjacent ward, the smile on Luo Andeli's face froze as he sat in a wheelchair in the corridor.
He hung up the phone and dialed again in disbelief. The familiar ringtone came again from the adjacent ward.
"Hello, Uncle Luo An." Jiaojiao's voice was still a little unclear after being woken up. He rubbed his eyes and looked around for a while before realizing where he was.
"Uncle Luo An, Jiaojiao is here with another uncle. Have you finished the examination?"
"...Done, done." He said with a slightly difficult tone.
Whenever Luo Andeli thought about who was living in the ward where Jiaojiao was staying, his heart almost broke.
No more, I'll make up for it with another chapter tomorrow~
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