Chapter 45 Stay-at-Home Dad (9)
In order to take care of the super-powered baby, Bai Ye revised her child-rearing plan.
Two main meals are arranged each day, each consisting of about a large bowl of rice or noodles, along with two kinds of vegetables and two kinds of meat.
As for the 3000 ml of milk, apart from 500 ml each in the morning and evening, the rest of the milk is squeezed in between meals to fill the gaps.
In addition to diet, we started to strengthen our exercise, setting aside four hours every day to practice physical skills, including grasping, rolling over, crawling, and so on.
Bai Ye anticipated that the climbing walls on all four sides of the activity room would be needed within a month.
And language learning, yes, four hours a day is a must.
During infancy, sleep occupies half of the baby's time, which is already an ability that the "monster baby" possesses far exceeds that of ordinary babies.
After deducting meals, studies, and sports activities, the remaining playtime is less than two hours.
At first, the child found it novel and did whatever Bai Ye asked him to do, cooperating very well in every task.
But after only three days, he lost interest and would lie in bed pretending to be dead whenever it was time for studying or physical activity.
They even deliberately start a "guess where I am" game and hide inside the doll's body.
Bai Ye had become quite adept at finding the dolls, but the children's constant shirking of their duties left him feeling helpless.
Having found the right doll once again, Bai Ye stood on the balcony, holding the doll and the baby, one in each hand.
"Baby, you need to study. You are different from other babies. You need to grow up quickly."
“If you don’t learn now, you’ll fall behind the other babies later, and then you’ll be crying.”
"In six months, you need to learn at least 5,000 words, be able to have a fluent conversation with me, and... you also need to be able to casually write a short essay. In terms of sports, you need to be able to run, jump, and climb, and become a little sports champion."
The baby remained motionless, but the rag doll's eyes rolled, and bloody tears slowly streamed down its face.
How terrifying!
What Dad said was terrifying.
The doll stretched out her hands, her soft, fabric-covered little hands resting on Bai Ye's arm, her mouth opening and closing, "No, play, play."
"You can't play around now. If you don't work hard now, you'll suffer in the future."
"Play."
"You can play, but baby, we need to balance work and rest. That way, if we study for an hour, we can play for ten minutes. Or if we study for two hours straight, we can play for half an hour at a time. The same goes for physical activities."
The fabric dolls shed tears of blood even faster.
Bai Ye burned her arm and had to put the baby and doll back on the bed.
Now, not only were the baby bleeding, but the infant also began to wail loudly.
Each cry was mournful and piercing, drilling straight into Bai Ye's ears.
Bai Ye had a terrible headache, but she couldn't do anything to the clients, and she couldn't use the props in the information panel. So she decided to avoid seeing them and went to another room.
After he left, the entire house was filled with the cries of babies.
Along with the crying came the changing light outside the window, the sky shifting between light and dark, with dark clouds looming overhead, threatening a storm.
Bai Ye felt a pang of heartache, but when she thought of her mission, she could only harden her heart.
We cannot compromise, because compromising means giving in, and giving in means working hours will double, and we don't know when it will end.
But the baby is crying so pitifully. If he keeps crying like this, won't his voice become hoarse?
No, definitely not. She's a ghost infant, very powerful and strong.
Two emotions clashed and clashed in Bai Ye's mind, making it difficult to determine which was stronger.
Hesitating and hesitating, the crying suddenly stopped.
"Stop crying? What happened?"
Bai Ye's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately got up and went to the bedroom. She pushed open the door, but the bed was empty; the child was gone.
The rag doll lay there peacefully, blood and tears still streaming from its eyes.
"Baby? Baby?"
Bai Ye searched everywhere in the bedroom, saying as she searched, "Don't scare me. Don't play hide-and-seek with Daddy. Come out now. If you don't come out, Daddy will get angry."
[If a customer has run away from home, players are requested to search for them immediately. If they cannot be found within 24 hours, the police will intervene, and the quality of player service will be significantly reduced.]
The child has run away from home.
This tiny baby has run away from home!
Bai Ye was anxious and didn't hear the second half of what Guiyi said at all. All she could think about was: She can't walk yet, she hasn't even learned to crawl. Where could she have run away from home? How dangerous could this be!
"That's strange. Is there any way to locate the child?"
Players can purchase "Anxinbao" to locate customer targets in real time, narrowing down to a ten-meter range.
"Is there a faster, more direct location method?"
[Players please note that searching is an active action; do not attempt to obtain something for nothing.]
"Okay, then I'll buy a reassuring device."
[Player confirms purchase of "Peace of Mind Treasure," 500 Ghost Coins deducted.]
Bai Ye paused, annoyed by the bizarre situation where the price wasn't even mentioned beforehand.
But it was too late; finding the child was the priority.
When Bai Ye used Anxinbao, a virtual screen quickly appeared in front of her, displaying the child's current coordinates—
"Super Happy Amusement Park?"
A large amusement park, a paradise for children to play on weekends and holidays.
But the key point is that this place is a full ten kilometers away from home.
In such a short time, the baby was able to run so far.
Bai Ye's understanding of the strange baby's mobility was refreshed once again. At the same time, he immediately took a taxi to the amusement park.
Ten minutes later, at the amusement park entrance.
After paying and getting out of the car, Baiye followed the directions on the virtual screen, entered the gate, and ran southeast, getting faster and faster.
Closer, even closer.
However, the target disappeared from the virtual screen the next second.
"That's weird, what's going on?"
Without any instructions, Bai Ye stood in the crowd and immediately lost her bearings.
[Attention players: The Anxinbao device is ineffective within a 10-meter radius. Players are advised to locate customers themselves.]
Bai Ye understood; the distance between the child and herself had shrunk to within ten meters.
From now on, I'll have to rely on my own eyes to find it.
But the problem is—
Bai Ye looked ahead at the sea of people. Next to each attraction, adults and children were crowded together, especially the children, who were screaming "Ahhh!" with excitement.
There were too many sounds, too many noises, to distinguish them at all.
The baby can't walk yet, so even if he runs away from home, he should be attached to something, which is consistent with the operation in the game.
Bai Ye had no choice but to use his current position as the center and a radius of ten meters as the radius, sweeping in a fan-shaped pattern from one direction.
I carefully examined every little object that each child was holding, whether it was a water bottle, a doll, or a hair clip.
No, this is not a baby.
No, that's not it either.
No, none of them, none of them...
As time went by, Bai Ye became increasingly anxious and impatient with his search.
If I hadn't still had a shred of reason left, I would have liked to just snatch all the children's belongings.
"Baby, where are you?"
"Please come out and come home with Daddy."
Bai Ye stood beside the carousel, staring blankly at it. The carousel was turning, and the children sitting on it were laughing happily.
They smiled broadly, revealing bright white teeth, and waved vigorously at the adults outside.
"Mom, this is so much fun! The carousel is spinning!"
"Daddy, Daddy, I want to play more, I want to play more."
"Little Pony Feifei, fly up!"
Bai Ye felt terrible. His baby could talk now, and he wondered what he would say if the baby were beside him.
I wish I could hear the baby's voice...
Sound, sound!
Bai Ye thought of something and immediately tapped the screen to open the item list.
[Watermelon Seeds: Strange seeds from a plant, capable of listening to eerie thoughts; a must-have for gossip and entertainment. (Note: Single-use consumable; one seed can only be used on one strange entity.)]
"How could I have forgotten about this?"
Bai Ye immediately took out watermelon seeds and said, "Use them, select the target: the client for this instance mission."
In an instant, the surrounding noise receded and disappeared like flowing water, and the world became extremely quiet.
A very soft sob sounded in my ear.
"Baby doesn't want to study, baby wants to play, baby is still a baby."
"Why do we have to study? Why do we have to work so hard? I don't like it."
"Daddy doesn't like the baby, Daddy doesn't love me."
"Baby is no longer a good baby, waaaaah..."
Bai Ye clearly heard that the source of the sound was diagonally behind him.
He turned around abruptly, looked in that direction, and walked over while listening.
The sound continued.
"Baby wants to play, but Daddy won't let me play."
"Other people's dads are so great, so wonderful."
"Even when the baby is hiding in the cat's nest, they can still spin around."
Bai Ye stopped in front of a little boy who was playing with a swivel chair. The chair wasn't spinning very fast, and Bai Ye could clearly see a delicate cat-shaped brooch pinned to the boy's chest.
The baby is hidden inside this brooch.
Bai Ye finally found her child and couldn't help but cry tears of joy. Before she could even think, her hand had already reached out on its own.
As he grabbed the brooch, the little boy burst into tears.
He cried and shouted, "Daddy, Daddy, someone's robbing us!"
A man stood up from his chair, rushed over like the wind, and grabbed Bai Ye by the collar.
"Kid, you trying to rob me?"
Bai Ye immediately raised his hand and explained, "Big brother, I'm not robbing anyone, I just..."
"What is it?"
Bai Ye turned his head and glanced at it, then resignedly said, "Well, I'm eyeing your son's brooch and want to buy it from him. What do you think, brother?"
The man looked at Bai Ye with an expression as if he were crazy, then after a long while, he grabbed his son, turned around, and left.
"Hey, big brother, don't go! I really want to buy it, please sell it to me!"
"Get lost, you're crazy."
"Brother, I'm serious. I also have a daughter who loves cats, and she really likes this brooch. Can I pay ten times the price for it?"
"I'll sell it to you for 10,000, even if it's a hundred times the price."
The man only wanted to drive away Bai Ye, who was following him, but the other party didn't play by the rules and directly offered to transfer 10,000 yuan.
The man accepted the offer of ten thousand yuan and a brooch after assessing his own strength.
Before making the payment, the virtual screen reappeared, displaying a target red dot.
The client has moved on, and the child has chosen to possess someone else's spirit.
Bai Ye froze, stunned, as if she were making a payment.
The man sensed something was wrong, his eyes flashing fiercely. "I'm telling you, don't mess with me, or else—"
"I'll buy it."
Bai Ye promptly paid the money, took the brooch, and immediately began a new round of searching.
With the help of the baby care app and the ability to listen to the baby's heartbeat, finding the baby becomes much faster.
But the other party seemed to know that they were being searched for, and would always move away again the moment they were found in the white night.
They chased each other like this, and Bai Ye chased after every single ride in the entire amusement park.
Finally, just before closing time, Bai Ye managed to grab a tabby cat that was trying to escape.
This time, the child's spirit possessed a living being.
Holding the tabby cat tightly, Bai Ye dared not let go, no matter how much the cat struggled and scratched.
"Baby, Daddy was wrong. Please don't play hide-and-seek anymore, okay?"
"Meow!" [Bad dad, let go, let go.]
Bai Ye didn't let go, but loosened his grip a little to allow the cat in his arms to stretch its body more comfortably.
At the same time, try to avoid being scratched. "Baby, I know you are very capable, but Daddy is really worried. You are so young, what if you run out alone and encounter danger?"
"Meow! Meow!" [Studying at such a young age, always studying and studying, and then running away.]
“Baby, you really need to study hard, otherwise you won’t be able to keep up when you grow up.”
"Meow!!!" [That's what you think! That's what you think!!]
Bai Ye was startled and stood frozen in place, holding the tabby cat.
Some distant memories flashed through my mind.
"Xiao Tian, you're secretly playing with cards again. Didn't I tell you to review after you finish your homework? How will you get into a good middle school if you don't study hard?"
"I don't want to study. I've already finished my homework. I want to play."
"You can't play games. Playing games will ruin your ambition. If you don't get ahead of others now, you'll fall far behind when you get to junior high school."
"I don't want to be a top student."
"No, you must study hard. Studying is the most important thing for you right now."
"I don't want to study, I want to play. Children should play."
"Smack—"
"Wow……"
I have clearly experienced firsthand the frustration of imposing my will on others.
But why do we forget things as we grow up?
I clearly hated that kind of face the most, but as I grew up, I became the very thing I used to despise.
The Ghost Baby is indeed powerful, both in its learning and action abilities.
But in essence, psychologically he is still a baby.
Is it really a good thing to force a baby to learn faster?
Why should someone with strong abilities learn faster and more?
Can't we just study normally?
"Baby, do you want to grow up slowly?"
Bai Ye stroked the tabby cat with extremely gentle movements, and his voice was even gentler, "If you don't want to learn quickly, then we won't learn. Daddy is wrong, Daddy is wrong. We should do it according to your wishes, baby. We can be ordinary children too."
The tabby cat stopped struggling, turned its head to look up, its eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment.
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