Chapter 224: Shu Maomao's Enrollment in the Garden
Shu Lan said, "Try everything, baby. You can't just say you don't like it without trying."
After much persuasion, Shu Maomao finally agreed to go to kindergarten to play.
Kindergartens have trial days where children can try attending classes for a day to see how they adapt before deciding whether to enroll.
"Follow the teacher in, listen to the teacher, and play with other children."
When Shu Maomao was sent in, he had a sour face and followed the teacher with his neck twisted backwards.
His mom and dad stood at the kindergarten door, smiling and waving at him.
Unable to see the door anymore, Shu Maomao turned his head back, his brows furrowed, and his cheeks puffed out.
"Little Shu Qiyu, please sit here."
Shu Maomao accepted his name, looked at the child on his left, then at the child on his right, and finally sat down with a depressed mood.
He didn't understand why he couldn't stay with his mother from beginning to end like in his dream, but had to come to this place full of strangers and strange children.
But Mommy kept asking him to try it, so he could just wait for a day and then say if he didn’t like it.
Outside the kindergarten gate, after losing sight of her son, Shu Lan's smile instantly vanished, replaced by a mournful expression: "Wow, wow, wow, thinking about not being able to see him for a day, I feel so sad."
But she had to let go, to let Shu Maomao approach the society with herself as the center, to know that the world can still be rich and colorful without her, to meet new friends, to adapt to new rules, and to practice saying goodbye in advance.
Li Yanli asked, "Then why didn't you go when the teacher asked you to go in with him to experience it?"
Shu Lan stood on tiptoe, straining to find her son. "Of course we have to be completely separated. I can accompany him to kindergarten, but what about elementary school? Junior high? Does he need his mother to accompany him, too? I'm not the kind of clingy mom who can't leave my son."
Half an hour later, Li Yanli carried Shu Lan on her back so that she could see Shu Maomao playing games with the teacher from above the kindergarten wall. She said helplessly, "Say it again, you're really not the kind of clingy mom who can't live without her son?"
Shu Lan remained stubborn, "No, I wasn't. I was just thinking, what if he cried? You know it's very rare for Shu Maomao to cry."
Li Yanli asked, "Did he cry?"
"No." Shu Lan retracted her head: "Put me down, he seems to have seen me."
Li Yanli squatted down, and the kindergarten security guard was eating melon seeds while watching the sneaky young couple with a smile.
In kindergarten, Shu Maomao withdrew his gaze and heard the teacher say "touch your little nose". He casually put his hand on his nose and secretly raised the corners of his mouth.
He saw that Mommy was outside.
Shu Lan was like a wilted sunflower, squatting on the ground and crying, "Li Yanli, will Shu Maomao think that I don't want him anymore..."
Li Yanli was at a loss for words: "How could that be? He's so smart, he must know you're doing this for his own good."
"How come children grow up so fast? They're already four years old in the blink of an eye?"
Li Yanli thought of the thick stack of family photo albums on the bookshelf at home and didn't know how to respond for a moment: "Uh..."
In the blink of an eye...?
Shu Lan didn't need him to reply, she could comfort herself: "Oh, let's go, we're already in, we'll pick him up in the evening."
Walking to the car, Shu Lan opened the door, frowned, and turned around: "No, Shu Maomao has a big appetite and won't tell you when he's not full. He wants to eat two bowls of lunch. I have to go back and talk to the teacher."
Li Yanli put his hands on her shoulders and turned her body back: "You already said it."
"Have you told me that?"
"I made sure I said it. I heard it clearly. I told her as soon as I got here. The teacher also said she would remember it."
"oh……"
Shu Lan got into the car and sighed heavily.
Li Yanli narrowed her eyes and said, "Dear Ms. Shu Lan, didn't you say that we should learn to let go and let him grow up healthily? Who should learn to let go? It seems your separation anxiety is even worse than his."
Shu Lan turned her head away without saying anything, her eyes gradually turning red.
From the time Shu Maomao was born in the previous timeline to the time he entered kindergarten, she and he had never been apart for a single day.
Shu Lan knew that she also had to learn to let go.
But being clear is one thing, and being unable to let go is another.
The child who had been in front of her suddenly disappeared, and she felt like a piece of her body was missing.
Li Yanli said, "Let's sit here for a while. If you want to leave, I'll drive."
"Um……"
After a while, Li Yanli asked, "Guess what he'll say when we pick him up tonight and ask him if kindergarten is fun?"
Shu Lan thought about it and finally smiled: "He should say, it's not fun, they are all idiots, I don't know what they are doing."
That's right.
Shu Maomao didn't know why a game of touching facial features would take so long. The facial features are on the face, so can't you touch them when washing your face?
I don’t know why those kids suddenly started screaming and grabbing their mouths and making faces.
And when they were drawing, the teacher clearly told everyone to draw on their own paper, but the little girl next to him insisted on poking her crayon on his paper: "You should draw a flower first."
Shu Maomao looked at the girl coldly for a moment and said, "This is my painting."
The little girl said, "Can we draw together?"
Shu Maomao threw the paper away, walked to the teacher, and held out his hand: "I want a clean piece of paper. She made my drawing dirty."
The teacher said gently, "Little Xixi wants to draw with you. Do you want to draw with her?"
Shu Maomao flatly refused: "No."
The little girl burst into tears and the teacher had to coax her for a long time.
Shu Maomao took a new piece of white paper from the table behind the teacher, returned to his seat, took out a black crayon, drew a circle to represent his face, and then drew black hair.
His mother also has black eyes, black eyebrows, and a red mouth. She often wears the light blue work clothes of the cake shop.
The louder the little girl cried, the more seriously he painted. Finally, all five members of the family came alive on the paper. The girl was finally coaxed into submission and asked aggrievedly, "Why don't you paint the flowers? My mother taught me to paint the flowers first."
Shu Maomao walked around her, handed his finished drawing to the teacher, and asked, "Now that I'm done, what else do I need to do before school ends?"
Mommy said he can leave here after school.
The teacher said, "Don't worry, kids. After we have lunch, take a nap, learn to sing songs, and play some games, we will see mom and dad."
Shu Maomao walked back, sat down on the stool, held his face and sighed heavily.
Oh, how the day has become so long.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Shu Lan and Li Yanli stood at the door of the kindergarten, looking forward to it. As soon as the door opened, the little kids lined up and walked out to be recognized by their parents.
Shu Maomao was walking in the middle of the team. When he saw his parents, he ran over like a baby bird returning to its nest and hugged Shu Lan's thighs.
Shu Lan squatted down and asked with a smile, "How is it, baby? Is kindergarten fun?"
Shu Maomao's face was full of unhappiness: "It's not fun. They are all idiots. I don't know what they are doing."
Shu Lan and Li Yanli looked at each other and burst into laughter at the same time.
Shu Maomao: “?”
Weird mom and dad! What's so funny!
In the end, Shu Maomao was unable to attend kindergarten because the teacher said that his mental level was not on the same level as other children of the same age. He could not experience the fun of games in kindergarten and could not make friends.
Then Shu Maomao was taken by Li Yanli to practice physical education. Competitive sports made Shu Maomao even more immersed in it, and he would not feel bored even if he stayed in the training ground for a whole day.
Since then, a new star has been rising in the sports world.
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