Xiao Fan looked unconvinced, "But you treat Mom differently than you treat other people."
Lu Zhengye was taken aback. It was one thing for Wei Qing and the others to be able to see it, but how could a little kid be able to see it? Was he really that obvious?
"How so?" Lu Zhengye actually seemed to want to humbly ask for advice.
Lu Shifan got tired of sitting, so he lay down and patted the seat next to him with his little hand, signaling his father to lie down as well.
Lu Zhengye complied and turned off the lights, leaving only a nightlight on.
The father and son slept in the same bed for the first time.
Lu Shifan couldn't even control his smile. He was actually very happy that his father hadn't abandoned him and his mother, and that his father was so good, so tall and handsome.
He was determined to take his father back to their hometown in Jiangnan, so that those gossiping people would open their eyes and see for themselves that he wasn't some wild child without a father.
So the most urgent thing is, as the TV said, to get Mom and Dad back together.
Lu Shifan rested his head on Lu Zhengye's arm and asked, "Dad, I really want to live with you and Mom."
Lu Zhengye: "..."
Did you and your mother have a fight?
"No."
Lu Shifan: "So there's a misunderstanding?"
Lu Zhengye, "..."
Lu Shifan also fell silent. He didn't know much to begin with, having learned mostly from television, and at this moment he really didn't know how to comfort his father.
Seeing that the little guy hadn't made a sound for a long time, Lu Zhengye looked down at him.
He had a furrowed brow and looked worried.
He couldn't help but ask, "You're just a kid, you don't have any worries, why are you frowning?"
“I have a problem. I’m especially afraid of not having a dad or a mom.”
Lu Shifan's tone was downcast when he said this.
Lu Zheng's ambition clenched. He remained silent for a moment, then said, "No."
"But if your relationship isn't good, even if you are my parents, I won't have a home."
Lu Shifan's tone was low, and it even sounded like he was about to cry.
Lu Zheng's ambition clenched, and he blurted out instinctively, "No."
"Really?" The moment Lu Shifan looked up, all her sadness vanished, and her eyes sparkled.
Lu Zhengye was silent for a while, then said, "From now on, you can only watch cartoons."
"I rarely watch cartoons; I mostly watch TV dramas with my grandma."
Lu Zhengye pulled the blanket over him and said, "That's why you've ruined your brain."
"Can watching cartoons improve your brain function?"
Lu Zhengye: "...No."
"Then why watch cartoons?"
Lu Zhengye felt speechless again, and he finally understood the meaning of the saying "a generation gap every three years".
Lu Shifan slept for a long time while getting his injection this afternoon, so he wasn't sleepy at all. He opened his big eyes and asked Lu Zhengye, "Dad, is there anything you want to ask me?"
Aren't you sleepy?
Lu Zhengye had actually wanted to ask some questions for a long time, but he hadn't found the opportunity until now.
Lu Shifan shook his head, "I'm sleepy, I'll fall asleep right away."
"Then tell your dad how your mom has taken care of you these past few years."
Lu Shifan smiled slyly, "Dad, you've actually wanted to ask this for a long time, haven't you?"
Lu Zhengye: "...Did you not drink the Meng Po soup when you were reincarnated?"
Compared to his peers, his son is incredibly smart.
"What is that? What does that sentence mean?"
Lu Zhengye: "It's nothing."
“Dad, I’m still young. If I encounter something I don’t understand, you have to explain it to me, otherwise I’ll never understand it in my whole life,” Lu Shifan said earnestly.
Lu Zhengye said, "There are some things you don't need to understand so early. Answer Dad's question first."
"oh."
Lu Shifan said, "I don't remember much from my childhood, but my grandma said that I was born prematurely and my mom went through a lot of hardship to give birth to me. Back then, my grandparents even signed the critical condition notices for me and my mom. Every time they talked about it, they would cry. I also wanted to cry because my mom must have been in a lot of pain."
“My mother doesn’t like to go out much over there. She spends almost all her time with me. When she has free time, she just goes to pray to Buddha. She says she’s praying for you, Dad.”
“I also went to pray for my dad, but I couldn’t keep it up. It was so boring and my knees hurt. But my mom could always keep it up for a long time, even longer than my great-grandmother.”
“I didn’t know you were my dad, and my mom and dad never say your name, but I can feel that Mommy misses you a lot…”
Lu Shifan's voice gradually faded. The child's drowsiness came suddenly, and he fell asleep within seconds.
Lu Zhengye's emotions were showing; his eyes reddened from suppressing them, and tears were glistening inside.
His hand, which was being used as a pillow by Lu Shifan, was already clenched into a fist, with veins bulging on his arm and his short fingernails still making his palm bloody and mangled.
Upon hearing the word "premature birth," Lu Zhengye's mind was filled with his experiences on the Island of the Dead.
Despite suffering so much, she never hated him and even prayed for him...
Lu Zhengye was wide awake, his mind filled with thoughts of Lin Yusheng.
He almost couldn't resist texting her several times.
At one o'clock in the morning, Lu Shifan's body became hot again, and he groaned in discomfort.
Lu Zhengye applied a wet towel to his forehead and wiped his body, but it didn't bring the swelling down.
He was extremely anxious and immediately called Xu Yifan, waking him up from his sleep.
It's actually quite normal for children to have recurring fevers. If it were someone else, Xu Yifan would definitely suggest using physical methods to lower the temperature.
But that was Lu Zhengye's son, so even if Xu Yifan harbored deep resentment, he didn't dare not come.
Xu Yifan was also helping Lu Shifan cool down physically. He looked at Lu Zhengye, who was anxiously frowning, and comforted him.
"It's normal for children to have recurring fevers, so you don't need to be too worried."
"I've been trying to lower my fever with physical methods for almost an hour, but it still hasn't gone down."
“If one hour isn’t enough, then two or three hours. Children’s bodies can’t handle too much medication, so this is the best way,” Xu Yifan explained.
Lu Zhengye didn't understand medicine, so at this point he could only choose to keep quiet.
At that moment, Lu Zhengye's phone, which was on the table, lit up; it was a WeChat message notification.
Xu Yifan saw it too and asked, "Who is it? It's a woman's profile picture, and there's no nickname at all?"
Lu Zhengye: "...Shut up, don't ask questions you shouldn't ask."
Xu Yifan understood what was going on and made a smug gesture to shut up.
He picked up his phone; the only woman without a contact name could be Lin Yusheng, whom he had just added.
Lin Yu-sheng: "Has Fanfan's fever returned?"
Lu Zhengye: "Why aren't you asleep yet?"
Lin Yusheng: "It was the first time Fanfan had left my side, and I couldn't sleep."
Lu Zhengye: "His fever has returned, and Xu Yifan is using physical methods to lower his temperature."
After a long while, they returned from the other side.
Lin Yusheng: "Do you need me to come over? I have more experience."
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