Holidays go by very quickly, especially the Spring Festival holiday, which seems to end in the blink of an eye.
The holiday is over, and those who need to go to work should go back to work, and those who need to go to school should go back to school.
Even Bai Yu, a man with nothing better to do, left the small fishing village before the Lantern Festival and headed to Haikou.
Although Bai Yu doesn't manage company affairs and is a hands-off manager from beginning to end, he still has his own things to do.
The simplest point is that he needs to resume training.
Currently, Bai Yu is far ahead of the competition in track and field, achieving unprecedented success.
But this is not the end for him!
Because he is still young, even though he has been here for 25 years, Bai Yu is only 28 years old and has not yet turned 28.
For an athlete, this age is the peak of their career, and there's no reason for them to retire from the sport at that peak.
Although Bai Yu had this thought, after all, he was a man without desires and did not care too much about so-called fame and money.
Besides, he already has that fame and money; he doesn't lack those things.
The honors he has received so far are unprecedented, placing him among the world's top figures.
However, if he doesn't continue competing and just announces his retirement, it seems a bit too early.
Let alone whether Bai Yu is willing or not, even if he were willing, there would still be a large number of people who wouldn't be.
After all, in the field of track and field, Bai Yu is the only name that can carry the torch. If he retires, there will be no one left in long-distance running.
So even if Bai Yu wanted to retire, he couldn't do it now; at least someone had to be able to take over.
Or perhaps he is genuinely getting old and his abilities have declined significantly.
It would be such a shame for him to retire when he's at his peak.
So after the New Year, Bai Yu's team started training early to prepare for the competition in the new year.
In order to allow Bai Yu to focus on the competition and win more gold medals and honors for the track and field team, the higher-ups treated Bai Yu very well.
If Bai Yu doesn't want to participate in a match, then he doesn't have to participate.
For example, the 25th Diamond League in athletics has more than ten stops. Bai Yu missed several stops because he was taking a break.
The higher-ups didn't say much about it; as long as Bai Yu could reach the Diamond League finals, that would be quite an achievement.
Training is a very tedious and boring thing, but Bai Yu has gotten used to it.
Even in closed training, he was still able to persevere.
In the days that followed, Bai Yu's daily routine consisted of training at sunrise and resting at sunset, and participating in competitions whenever they were available.
Although life was somewhat dull, he was still able to accomplish his tasks well.
If he had time in between, he would go out to sea with Wang Hai and others to go fishing or go beachcombing to enrich their rest time.
In addition, his two social media accounts are updated daily, with all sorts of content appearing on his accounts, from competitions to beachcombing and fishing, adding some color to his life.
Bai Yu's career is progressing steadily, and he is working hard towards the next Grand Slam.
His companies are also expanding, particularly his shipping company, although they are no longer increasing the number of fishing vessels.
However, they are no longer operating as a single company; they have begun to collaborate with other shipping companies or individual fishing vessels.
Thanks to these collaborations, their company's daily fish catch has been steadily increasing, with massive amounts of seafood being brought back to the county's docks every day.
As a result, the shipping company's catch increased, and the processing plant's workload naturally increased as well, inevitably leading to another expansion and recruitment drive.
As the production of processing plants increases, the number of live-streaming sales sessions will also increase. Otherwise, where will the products produced by processing plants be sold?
After all, their company's production volume is very large, and their offline sales channels are very limited, so they can only rely on online sales to bring in more revenue for their company.
With the production capacity and revenue of the three companies increasing simultaneously, that's great news for Chairman Bai Yu—he's going to make money again!
Even though Bai Yu is not in the company, and he is rarely in China, his company is still making money for him, and making even more money.
Everything was going well, but Bai Yu always felt like something was missing.
It was just a feeling, a feeling he couldn't put into words. He really didn't know what was missing.
It wasn't until the summer vacation that Bai Yu and Li Xue each took a month off and had a good time traveling around China.
After they had visited most of the tourist attractions, natural landscapes, and popular photo spots in China, Bai Yu realized what was missing.
Traveling abroad!
Although Bai Yu had already taken Li Xue and the others on a global trip before this.
However, that global trip was incomplete; they only visited some coastal countries and cities, and were forced to return home before even having the chance to see the Middle East and South Asia.
Now Bai Yu thought of this again: there are still many places in this world that he and Li Xue have not yet visited.
Then he discussed it with Li Xue, and they planned to take another round-the-world trip if they had time in the future.
Moreover, their main targets this time are two continents they have never been to before: Antarctica and the Arctic!
As for why we say we'll go later when we have time, instead of going now?
The answer is quite simple: Bai Yu's identity is about to change, and the current conditions do not allow him to go to these two places.
When Bai Yu and Li Xue were traveling in China, the latter was already pregnant, but the pregnancy was still in its early stages and would not affect their trip.
In other words, Bai Yu will become a father in a few months.
This is really too much for Bai Yu. They've been married for so long, but they still haven't had a child. Before, it was because Bai Yu was preparing for various competitions and working hard for her own honor...
Neither the Bai family nor Li Xue's family intended to pressure them to have children; instead, they planned to let nature take its course and let the two of them decide for themselves.
But now that the wedding is over, everything has changed. Bai's mother and godmother Bai Yu are like completely different people, constantly urging them to have children.
So much so that after the New Year, no matter whether Bai Yu was training or participating in competitions outside, he would return to the small fishing village to work hard whenever he had time.
After a long period of hard work, Bai Yu finally had her own child.
Because of this child, many of Bai Yu's previous preparations had to be adjusted.
First of all, the idea of traveling around the world will definitely continue, but not now; it will be postponed for a few years.
Taking advantage of this time, Bai Yu found a shipyard that cooperated with their company and placed an astronomical order with them.
He wanted them to build him a super cruise ship, at least 100 meters long, capable of breaking through the ice at the North and South Poles.
As for how much it would cost, that wasn't on Bai Yu's mind. As long as it didn't exceed eleven figures, he was happy to pay for it.
Eleven digits is his limit, but it may never be his limit.
The shipyard was shaken by Bai Yu's order and accepted it without hesitation.
Although their shipyard lacked experience in building such large cruise ships, that didn't prevent them from securing this order.
After all, their shipyard can even build warships, so why would they be afraid of not being able to build a mere hundred-meter-long cruise ship?
Moreover, considering Bai Yu's requirements, although this cruise ship is indeed quite large, it is not the largest cruise ship in China.
Our family owns a shipyard with some shipbuilding experience. It doesn't matter if their shipyard lacks experience; we can just find another shipyard to cooperate with.
At worst, they can share some of the profits, but after the cooperation is completed, their shipyard will have experience in casting 100-meter cruise ships, which will be very beneficial to their shipyard in the future.
By the time this cruise ship is built, it will probably be several years from now.
When that time came, Bai Yu prepared to board the cruise ship and embark on another round-the-world trip.
He has already planned out this round-the-world trip; he will definitely visit both coastal countries and landlocked countries on other continents.
As for who will go with me, Li Xue will definitely be there, and we'll decide on the others later.
Anyway, there's no rush. There are still several years to go. Maybe by then, he'll already be a world-renowned triple crown winner.
Bai Yu said he was quite looking forward to this wonderful prospect.
In the days that followed, Bai Yu began traveling back and forth between Sanya and abroad. He would only leave Sanya when he needed to compete; the rest of the time he stayed in his hometown.
Even his daily training was conducted at the county's middle school.
This is Bai Yu's former alma mater. Although the facilities here are not very professional, they are sufficient for Bai Yu's needs.
Aside from competitions and training, he turned down everything else. He no longer went fishing at sea; at most, he would take a fishing rod and fish a couple of times by the shore.
There was nothing he could do; Li Xue was pregnant, and this was his first child, so he couldn't afford to be careless.
Although he can't do much normally, at most he can give Li Xue a massage, pick her up and drop her off at work, and bring her food, but he doesn't know how to do anything else.
That's right. Even though she was pregnant, Li Xue still went to work every day until eight months into her pregnancy.
It wasn't that Bai Yu was exploiting Li Xue's labor; it's just that she's the kind of person who can't stay idle. Even if you made her stay at home, she wouldn't be able to stay still.
Not to mention that Li Xue's mother is a nurse, and the head nurse of the obstetrics and gynecology department. Even Bai Yu was delivered by her.
Her advice to pregnant women is that they should not stay at home all the time, and should have appropriate exercise and sun exposure.
This will be more conducive to the child's development and will be beneficial to the baby in the womb.
As Li Xue's biological mother and the maternal grandmother of the child in her womb, her godmother's words were undoubtedly for the child's good.
So Li Xue usually goes to get off work and leaves work on time, and her pregnancy doesn't interfere with her work.
Whenever Bai Yu is home, he delivers her to his home in the morning, picks her up in the evening, and even brings her lunch.
If he's not home, then Bai Yue takes care of all these things, arranging everything for Li Xue in a very clear and organized manner.
Childbirth is a major life event for a woman, but it can also be a life-threatening one.
Ten months of pregnancy, the painful days begin from the moment a woman becomes pregnant.
Ten months may seem like a long time, but it passes in the blink of an eye, and soon it was Li Xue's due date.
Bai Yu returned to Sanya well before Li Xue's due date, and even cancelled a match that was about to start.
In Bai Yu's view, no competition is more important than his wife giving birth, and at this critical juncture, everything else can be postponed.
So what if it's an international competition? So what if he's already made it to the finals? If he says he won't participate, then he won't participate.
Bai Yu wouldn't go, no matter if it meant losing points or being fined.
As for the suspension?
That's not the case. Bai Yu withdrew from the competition through proper procedures; he didn't withdraw on the spot. He had a special reason for it.
As the due date approached, Bai Yu brought Li Xue to the Municipal Maternal and Child Health Hospital, which was also where Li Xue's mother worked.
Once they arrived here, it was as if they had entered Li Xue's mother's territory. All the daily check-ups and arrangements were in place, so Bai Yu didn't need to worry about anything.
When Li Xue's mother has nothing to do, she will sit by Li Xue's boat and chat with him to help him relax.
Li Xue relaxed, but Bai Yu, who was accompanying her, was extremely nervous, and his nervousness increased exponentially with each passing day.
How to describe that feeling? It was a hundred times, even ten thousand times more nerve-wracking than when he first stepped onto the international stage or gave his first television interview.
Moreover, this kind of tension is something that others cannot empathize with; he can only silently endure it.
The tension reached its peak when his wife was wheeled into the delivery room. He paced back and forth outside the delivery room, eventually turning into a run.
I don't know how much time passed, but my godmother opened the door first, carrying a small package, and then Li Xue was wheeled out on the hospital bed.
"Xiaoyu, come and see! You have a son! He looks exactly like you when you were little. Come and give him a hug!"
As soon as the godmother came out, she beckoned Bai Yu to go and see her child.
But Bai Yu's mind wasn't on the little guy at the moment. Instead, he walked right past his godmother to the bedside and took Li Xue's hand.
"Xue'er, are you alright? I heard that childbirth is very tiring. Is there anything you want to eat? You can order, and I'll go home and cook it for you right now."
"I'm not hungry. Our son is quite well-behaved and hasn't bothered me much. Go and see him, see if he's ugly. If he is, don't bring him to me yet."
"Not ugly, how could he be ugly? Mom said he looks like me, so he must be a handsome young man!"
After saying this, Bai Yu looked at Li Xue, and the two smiled at each other.
(over)
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