Chapter 220: District 9 Cake Shop.
Shu Lan was treated like a queen during her confinement period. Whenever she coughed, someone would come up to her and ask how she was doing. Everyone took care of her in strict accordance with the postpartum precautions. Father Li carried a camera and started filming the child from the moment he saw her.
Mother Li even prepared a bunch of exquisite little clothes for Shu Maomao to wear.
"Oh, our Maomao is sleeping. How cute."
After the parents and nurses left, Shu Lan asked Li Yanli to hold the baby to her side and whispered in his ear, "They're all gone. No need to act anymore. It's you, baby, my son Shu Maomao."
Little baby: “…”
Shu Lan looked over and saw that the baby's eyes were open, looking at this new world curiously. Shu Lan asked in confusion, "Baby, why aren't you talking?"
Li Yanli said, "Maybe he was afraid of scaring you. It's quite scary to see a child this young start to talk."
Shu Lan's mouth immediately drooped. Her emotions were extremely unstable. In that moment, her eyes began to redden again. "I think he is exactly the same as before. Born prematurely, can't cry, and is a boy."
Li Yanxin looked at her frail self with heartache, and tucked the stray hair on her forehead behind her ears. "Yes, exactly the same, it's Shu Maomao. But he's still young, and he might not remember it until some point, just like us."
He didn't dare pour cold water on the child by saying that he had no memory of the previous timeline and was not Shu Maomao, for fear that Shu Lan, who had been waiting for so long, would collapse on the spot.
Shu Lan placed her fingers on the baby's hand. The baby turned to look at her, put his five fingers together and held her tightly, his palm soft.
Her heart was also extremely soft, and she insisted in a low voice: "He is it."
Even though Shu Lan repeatedly said it was okay and there was no need to hold an engagement party, they could just get the marriage certificate when they reached the age.
But the two elders of the Li family insisted again and again, so their engagement banquet was held together with Shu Maomao's full moon banquet.
"Xiao Lan, how many relatives and friends are here with you?"
Whether it was her parents or relatives, they all pretended Shu Lan didn't exist in the world, and Shu Lan wouldn't think of them at a time like this. Instead, the figures that flashed through her mind were Zhong Mei, Lu Qinghe, Ji Lan, Huo Yu...
Finally she smiled and said, "Zero."
After hearing about her growth experience, the two elders felt even more sorry for her. Mother Li expressed her love by taking Shu Lan out shopping, while Father Li pulled Li Yanli into the study for some ideological education.
The whole family was rushing to take care of the children, but Shu Lan became the one with the least time. She ate, drank, and lay down to watch sports games every day. She became more plump than before, with a rosy complexion.
When Li Yanli's face appeared on the TV, Shu Lan held the dumb baby in her arms and pointed at him, saying, "Look, your dad is so handsome! I have good taste. Oh my! Your dad can jump so high even without any special abilities."
Everyone likes handsome and talented athletes. Li Yanli quickly became a little famous on the Internet, and endorsements and interviews came to him.
But soon people discovered that he always wore a sparkling ring on his hand when he was interviewed, and finally a reporter gossiped about it.
"Does the ring on your finger mean anything to you? Or is it just a decoration?"
Li Yanli smiled gently and said, "This is my engagement ring. I'm waiting for it to become a wedding ring."
Shu Lan hasn't reached the legal age for marriage yet, so he's just waiting.
After Shu Maomao, who is rich in nutrition, grows up from a red monkey, he is white and tender and incomparably cute. Everyone who takes him out for a walk will have to stop and take a closer look at him.
Every time he looked at the adults in front of him making faces at him with an expressionless face, his eyes hinted at a hint of speechlessness, and he possessed a maturity that did not belong to his age.
Even so, he is still extremely cute. Shu Lan and Li's parents take pictures of him with cameras and mobile phones every day, and they are reluctant to delete them even when the memory is full.
When Shu Maomao was six months old, he began to make vague sounds of "Mom". Li Yanli came back from vacation and tried to teach him the word "Dad". Shu Maomao slapped him on the face, stepped on his face and crawled over to Shu Lan's arms.
Li Yanli rubbed her nose and sat up, looking at him with a mixture of laughter and tears: "I suspect he has the memory, but he just won't tell us."
Shu Lan shook her head: "Not yet. When he remembers, he'll just call you Li Yanli."
"Then help me teach him how to call daddy."
"No."
"Please, wife."
Shu Lan got goosebumps all over her body and said in disgust, "Don't call me that. It's so corny."
Li Yanli leaned back on the sofa, thinking she had discovered Shu Lan's weakness, and said cheekily, "If you don't teach him, I'll call you that every day."
Shu Lan was not going to admit defeat. She vowed to retaliate and cried out in a sweet voice, "Dear Yalili~"
Li Yanli nodded calmly: "I'm here, dear Shu Lanlan."
Shu Lan: “…”
She stopped playing, having underestimated how shameless this man was.
When Shu Maomao was ten months old, he could clearly say "Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, Grandpa" and could also communicate in simple language.
Shu Lan asked his father, Li, the most educated person in the family, to give him a formal name, following Shu Lan's surname Shu, and named him Shu Qiuyu.
This full name is rarely used. The whole family prefers to follow Shu Lan and call him Shu Maomao, because only when they call Shu Maomao will the baby turn around and pay attention to them.
When Li Yanli went abroad to compete, the family of four flew abroad to watch the game and took the opportunity to travel and take photos.
They visited beautiful and complete scenic spots, the clean and lively sea, the aquarium, the zoo, and foreigners with different skin and hair colors.
Shu Maomao opened his big eyes like black grapes, turned his little head left and right, and looked at all the living things curiously.
Shu Lan kissed him and said with a smile, "Baby, Mommy didn't lie to you, the living Blue Star is more fun."
Shu Maomao hugged her neck and kissed her back.
Li Yanli came over and kissed Shu Lan. Shu Maomao was stunned for a moment and reached out to wipe Shu Lan's face.
Li Yanli laughed angrily: "Shu Maomao, you can kiss me but not me? Do you dislike your dad so much? Come on, Shu Lan, let me hug him."
Shu Lan handed Shu Maomao to him. Li Yanli bent down and kissed Shu Maomao's face. Shu Maomao quickly wiped his face. Li Yanli then kissed his arms and neck, making the child twist and turn to avoid, and cried: "Mommy, save me!"
"She can't save you, and even if she does, I'll still kiss you. Daddy is the Zombie King, and he loves kissing delicious humans like you."
Shu Maomao turned around and shouted again: "Grandma, Grandma!"
Shu Lan laughed so hard that she fell forward and backward.
Shu Maomao returned to her grandmother's embrace and glared at Li Yanli angrily: "Hate Dad!"
Shu Lan stuffed a candy into Li Yanli's hand. Li Yanli peeled it open and stuffed it into Shu Maomao's mouth, saying, "You are not allowed to hate Daddy after eating his candy."
Shu Maomao snorted and turned away, ignoring him. After a while, Li Yanli said, "Grandma is tired. Come, let Daddy hold you."
Shu Maomao still opened his arms obediently and moved into Li Yanli's arms.
When Shu Maomao was a little over two years old, Shu Lan made all the preparations to open a shop. She found a shop in a good location, renovated it and opened it, and named it "District 9 Cake Shop".
At the beginning, business was not very good, so Shu Lan set up a tasting table at the door and stood behind the table every day to invite passers-by to taste the food.
She wanted Shu Maomao to stay at home with his grandparents, but Shu Maomao insisted on following her. Even if she left early when he was asleep, he would call his grandparents to come to her shop.
Shu Lan put a cut-out cake shop employee hat on him with a smile and pinched his cheek: "Then continue to follow Mommy, you clingy mama's boy."
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