Chapter 221 What about me?
Shu Lan, wearing work clothes, stood by the tasting table and said to passersby with a smile: "This is a new cake shop. Free tastings are available. Come and try it."
Shu Maomao stood on a high stool, imitating her as she handed plates to passersby, and said in a baby voice, "Try it."
A group of beautiful women passing by stopped and covered their mouths and screamed: "So cute!!!"
"Give Auntie a piece, Auntie can try it."
"Boss, your son looks like you. Wow! What kind of cake is this?"
Shu Maomao has become the mascot at the entrance of the store. Every day people stop to see him, taste his cakes, are amazed by his delicious cakes, and then go into the store to buy them.
Gradually, more and more customers came and business gradually improved.
The shop assistant suggested that Shu Lan upload the video of Shu Maomao soliciting customers at the store door to the Internet, which would attract fans to the account and customers to the store at the same time.
Shu Lan did not adopt this suggestion.
I chose this name to evoke memories of my life in District 9. For a country this big and a store this small, even if someone saw it, they wouldn't find it odd.
But if she accidentally became famous on the Internet, she might really be recognized as the cruel and arbitrary Commander Qin Xiaoshuang in that apocalyptic dream, and her son was a murderous plunderer.
That would be a waste of time.
Now she is just a human woman who sells desserts, the Zombie King is a somewhat powerful athlete, and the Predator is a cute human cub who has no special powers and has not taken away her vitality.
They can live an ordinary life peacefully and without incident.
They humans won the game, and what happened in the apocalypse was nothing but a nightmare.
Although Shu Maomao's appearance, personality, and hobbies are exactly the same as before, he has no memory of that timeline.
Shu Lan felt regretful but comforted herself: It doesn't matter, I'll just take good care of him again.
After Shu Maomao's third birthday, Shu Lan and Li Yanli got their marriage certificate and held their wedding.
Shu Lan pulled at the glittering wedding dress, feeling a little pained at the price. She whispered to Li Yanli, "Shu Maomao and I found this kind of dress as trash in the city before. I didn't expect it to be so expensive."
Li Yanli imitated her and lowered her voice: "The money before was also garbage, thrown away carelessly, garbage for garbage."
Shu Lan thought about it and agreed. Money is something that you should spend if you have it, and earn more if you don’t have it. Being happy is the most important thing.
When she and Li Yanli separated and were waiting for the wedding to begin in the dressing room, Shu Maomao ran in wearing a white suit. Seeing the big skirt of Shu Lan's wedding dress, he lifted it up and got in, hugging her calves.
Then a little girl in a white dress, about the same age as Shu Maomao, ran in, calling out in a crisp voice, "Brother Maomao! Eh?"
The little girl is the daughter of Li Yanli's cousin. She is responsible for being a flower girl with Shu Maomao, carrying a flower basket and following behind her after she appears.
She is very attached to Shu Maomao, but Shu Maomao thinks she is noisy and ignores her.
"Aunt, where is Brother Maomao?"
Shu Lan lied with a smile: "I don't know. My aunt didn't see him. She might have gone out to play. Go look for him near my aunt's grandmother and grandfather."
The little girl went out in a daze. Shu Lan then lifted her skirt high and called out like a thief: "She's gone, baby, come out. Don't mess up your hair, you handsome little prince."
Shu Maomao came out and sat next to her, looking a little impatient: "Mommy, when does it start?"
Shu Lan said, "There are still ten minutes left. Don't you want to play with Sister Xin'er?"
"No, I don't want to. I don't understand what she says. She's babble-like and laughs for no apparent reason. If I ignore her, she starts crying."
The precocious Shu Maomao has trouble communicating with his peers.
Shu Lan said, "Then you'll have to hide from your classmates every day when you go to kindergarten, because kindergarten is full of kids like that."
"Then I won't go to kindergarten."
"Go ahead, go have some fun. Baby, do you want some?" Shu Lan held up her refreshing American coffee and offered it to him. "It's a chocolate-flavored drink, very sweet."
Shu Maomao took a sip without a doubt, his face wrinkled into a bun: "It's bitter, you lied to me again!"
Shu Lan laughed without hesitation. Shu Maomao was so funny when he was a child.
The wedding was held on the lawn. Shu Lan, wearing a wedding dress, walked in front, and Shu Maomao followed her slowly behind, grabbing the petals in the basket and scattering them into the sky. She was a very responsible little flower girl.
When the declaration was made and the emcee announced that the groom could kiss the bride, Shu Maomao watched the two of them kiss and hug each other, and suddenly ran up. He moved so fast that his grandmother couldn't catch him.
He stood in front of his parents, one hand grasping Li Yanli's suit trouser leg, the other grasping the hem of Shu Lan's skirt, his brows furrowed as he said unhappily, "What about me?"
Li Yanli bent down, picked him up, and placed him in the middle. He and Shu Lan looked at each other, smiled, and kissed both sides of his cheeks at the same time.
The photographer quickly took the photo, and the developed photos were later hung in the living room of his home.
Not long after the wedding, Li Yanli went abroad to compete again.
That's how athletes are. We see them less in real life than on TV.
Shu Lan put up a sign in the cake shop saying it was temporarily closed, and she and Shu Maomao went back to their hometown with her parents-in-law to experience life in the countryside.
Seeing the endless rice paddies and the beautiful single-family house, Shu Lan felt as if she had returned to a different dimension. She even wondered if three balls of different colors would pop out when the door opened.
But no, standing at the door were two elderly people with kind smiles. They had appeared at the time of engagement and wedding. They were Li Yanli's grandparents.
Shu Lan saw a watermelon field on the road. After asking the owner, she paid Shu Maomao and took him to the field to pick a few watermelons.
The watermelon was chilled in well water and became refreshingly sweet. After taking a nap, Shu Lan cut a smaller watermelon and she and Shu Maomao each took half, sitting under the big tree at the door and eating slowly in the breeze.
"Mommy, look, a mouse."
Shu Lan looked in the direction he pointed and saw that there was indeed a gray-skinned vole in the field.
She nodded: "Yeah, it's a mouse, and it's quite big."
Shu Maomao asked, "It's not as big as in my dream. Mommy, I'll get a knife and kill it."
Shu Lan suddenly stopped eating watermelon and turned to look at him in astonishment: "Dream? What did you dream about?"
Shu Maomao said calmly, "I dreamed that we lived in a small house, just you and me, without grandparents or dad. There was a lot of dirty garbage nearby, and we ate noodles and rice soup every day. Sometimes rats this big, black, and ran very slowly would appear, and you would ask me to kill them with a long knife."
Shu Lan's heartbeat began to quicken with excitement: "What else? Baby! Did you dream of anything else?"
Shu Maomao shook his head. "No, why are you crying, Mommy? Are you afraid of mice? Don't be afraid. It's gone now. I'll kill it if it comes out again."
Shu Lan was crying and laughing at the same time. She knew that Shu Maomao couldn't bear to leave her and would definitely remember her, but he would just be a little slower than her and Li Yanli.
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