Chapter 28
7:30 a.m.
"Mom, today is your first day of kindergarten. Do you know what to say?" Xu Qingyan knelt down to help Xu Yirou put on her pearl-embroidered little leather shoes.
The cub's mother sat on a small stool, wearing a light blue uniform skirt and a light yellow hat. Her hair was tied in butterfly pigtails, giving her a strong anime vibe.
"Of course I know," Xu Yirou said proudly, raising her chin. "You have to greet your teachers and classmates, and then introduce yourself."
"Yes, that's right." Xu Qingyan lowered her head, holding her other little foot. "Will Mommy be scared?"
"What's there to be afraid of?" Xu Yirou pouted, tugging at the little beads on her hair tie. "You underestimate me. That's just how much I worry you."
Xu Qingyan paused slightly, his dark eyes fixed on her, a warm and gentle smile spreading across his face: "It's not that we underestimate you, nor that we don't trust you, it's that we don't trust ourselves."
“Mom goes to kindergarten alone, and as your child, I am left at home, I must miss you very much.”
Xu Yirou was stunned for a moment, and a sense of pride and sweetness slowly spread from her heart.
It turns out her three darlings are so reluctant to let her go to school QAQ
She thought... *sob*, that she had misunderstood them.
Her dimples were faintly visible on her cheeks. She straightened her little body and patted Da Bao's head.
“Every baby has to go to kindergarten, so I can’t stay home with you all the time. You and the baby should stay home and wait for Mommy to come home from school.”
"Be strong, Mommy will be back after a short school trip. It's not that I don't want you."
A mother's earnest advice to her child who is starting kindergarten.
Xu Qingyan smiled and said, "Okay, Mom."
After putting on her shoes, Xu Qingyan helped her stand up and took something out of his pocket: "This is a children's phone watch. It has similar functions to a mobile phone. I have already saved our three contact information in advance. Mom can send a message or make a call anytime she misses us."
Young children who have just started kindergarten often suffer from separation anxiety and will cry loudly when their parents are not around.
Will Mom be scared and cry because the three siblings aren't around?
Worried that her mother wouldn't adapt well, Xu Qingyan took Secretary Feng's suggestion and bought a children's smartwatch so her mother could call them anytime she missed them.
Xu Yirou looked at the pink watch on her wrist with curiosity and excitement, her face beaming with joy: "Don't worry, I will definitely study hard and strive to become the best kid in the whole kindergarten!"
Xu Qingyan took the schoolbag from the maid, then took her hand and said, "Everything is for your happiness, Mom. Nothing else matters."
The adult and the child went out and left.
Xu Yirou attends the best international bilingual kindergarten in Beijing, with a first-class environment and educational resources. Any one of the children there is either rich or noble.
In April, when the grass grows and birds fly, the city is full of spring, and the mild weather is perfect for going out.
The area in front of the kindergarten was a vast expanse of blue, with luxury cars scattered all over the ground like cabbages in a field.
Xu Qingyan led Xu Yirou by the hand to the middle class where she was studying.
Xu Yirou enrolled as a transfer student, and her homeroom teacher, Ms. Lin, had been waiting for a long time. Upon seeing the good-looking mother and son, she couldn't help but be impressed.
"Good morning, Xu Yirou. I'm your homeroom teacher, Ms. Lin. Nice to meet you." Ms. Lin has a slightly chubby, round face and a very friendly smile.
Xu Yirou responded obediently, "Hello, Teacher Lin. You can just call me Rou Rou."
The children all called her Rou Rou, and Rou Rou naturally became her nickname.
Xu Qingyan glanced briefly at the classroom, relieved and seeing that her mother wasn't in any negative mood, she stayed for a short while before leaving.
There aren't many children in the class, only twenty in total.
Xu Yirou arrived early, and at a glance there were only a few children. After Teacher Lin arranged a seat for her, she took out toys and distributed them to them to play with.
"Waaaaah, Mommy, don't go!"
"Mother!"
The sudden cries startled Xu Yirou, causing her hand to tremble and the Lego bricks in her hand to fall back into the basket, where they rolled around.
Xu Yirou looked up blankly and saw a little girl sitting at the door, holding Erkang's hand and crying her heart out.
Teacher Lin squatted down beside her and gently comforted her: "Yinyin, don't worry, Mom will pick you up after school. There are new friends in the class today. Yinyin, do you want to go and meet your new friend?"
Yinyin: "Waaah—"
Xu Yirou is very perceptive; the "new kid" is definitely referring to her.
"It's me, I'm here!" She waved her little hands, ran over from her seat, squatted down and said sweetly, "Hello, my name is Rou Rou, I'm a new kid."
The crying cub paused, its wet eyelashes fluttering tremulously.
"What's your name?" Xu Yirou took the cub's hand familiarly, her dark, bright eyes meeting hers directly. "I think I heard the teacher call you Yinyin. Is your name Yinyin?"
"Waaah, I... my name is Yin Yin." Yin Yin sobbed, her voice hoarse. "Waaah, I want my mommy."
After saying that, she continued dropping small pearls.
"Oh, don't cry, or you'll turn into Mickey Mouse."
Yin Yin asked, puzzled, "Why did it turn into Mickey Mouse?"
Xu Yirou argued confidently: "Because if you keep crying, your voice will be ruined. First you'll turn into Mickey Mouse, then into Donald Duck, quacking away."
Yinyin: ...
Yinyin listened blankly, tears still clinging to her eyelashes, her mouth slowly pursing: "I...I don't want to become Donald Duck, boo-hoo!"
Seeing that the water was about to flood Jinshan again, Teacher Lin quickly picked him up and comforted him.
A small figure half-hugs Yinyin, gently patting her back, and sings in a sweet, childlike voice: "Mommy and Daddy go to work, I go to kindergarten, I won't cry or fuss, I'll say good morning to the teacher~"
The floodwaters at Jinshan Temple stopped. Yinyin stared with her big eyes, biting her little hand, and said, "You sang differently. You sang off-key."
As the singing gradually stopped, Xu Yirou remained calm: "I wasn't off-key. You didn't know, did you? There are many different versions of this song. The one I sang was the most special one. Most people don't get to hear it."
Yinyin looked confused and mumbled, "Oh, is that so?"
"Can you sing other songs?"
Although the versions are different, they both sound pretty good.
Yes, do you want to hear it?
Yinyin had completely stopped crying. She sniffed and nodded, "I want to hear it."
Xu Yirou stretched out her hand: "Okay, come with me to your seat, and I'll sing for you."
Yinyin rubbed her eyes, clasped her two chubby little hands together, and happily walked towards her seat.
Teacher Lin smiled with delight and relief, and her fondness for Xu Yirou skyrocketed.
Rou Rou is such a good girl, she must be the little angel in her class.
"The sun shines brightly, the flowers smile at me, the little birds chirp 'Good morning,' why are you carrying explosives and a bomb?"
"I'm going to blow up the school. The teachers won't know. I'll pull the cord and run. Boom! The school's gone!"
Teacher Lin: !!!
Teacher Lin was petrified and cracked.
Oh... isn't this the song they sang when they were kids?
Little Yin Yin, who knew nothing about it, exclaimed: "Wow, I've never heard this version before! It's so beautiful! Rou Rou, can you teach me to sing it?"
"No!" Teacher Lin's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly spoke up to divert the two children's attention.
"Good morning, children! I have some good news to tell you before class today."
Teacher Lin patted the hand drum and said energetically, "Today, we have a new student in our middle class. Her name is Rou Rou. Let's invite Rou Rou to come up and say hello to us and introduce herself."
Xu Yirou walked with great strides and high spirits, her twin ponytails swaying behind her head, full of vitality.
"Hello everyone, my name is Xu Yirou, you can call me Rou Rou."
The cub had a clear, bright voice and stood confidently at the front. Although it wasn't very old for its age, it was surprisingly composed.
Young cubs are usually very shy when introducing themselves. The better ones can say a couple of complete sentences, while the more timid ones stammer even when introducing their names.
Xu Yirou is neither of those two.
She's a little girl who's been coaxed into letting loose by her son, and she's determined to be the best kid in the whole kindergarten.
So after introducing herself, she volunteered to play "The Painter" on the piano, which made all the fans look at her with starry eyes.
"This is a piece my mom taught me to play." Xu Yirou said, head held high. "If you want to learn, you can come to my house to play."
On her first day of school, Xu Yirou's performance moved Teacher Lin deeply.
She eats her meals obediently, takes her afternoon nap obediently, and even helps soothe the toddlers who are fussing and want to go home. Apart from that somewhat outrageous song that blows up the school in the morning, she is simply an angelic little helper sent by the principal.
Xu Yirou's busy day at kindergarten is finally coming to an end.
She carried her little schoolbag and happily lined up in the after-school queue, waiting for her daughter to pick her up and take her home.
Xu Niancheng saw her cub's mother from afar; she had missed her terribly after not seeing her for a day.
As soon as he got off the bus, he left the agile elderly men and women behind and ran briskly to the door.
"Your Highness, I've come to take you home!"
"Xiao Bao!"
The mother and daughter waved to each other across the fence. For safety reasons, Teacher Lin first inquired about Xu Niancheng's identity.
Xu Niancheng remained unfazed: "She is my great-aunt, and I am her grandniece."
Teacher Lin was taken aback.
...Auntie? That little girl Rou Rou has such a high seniority in the family.
Oh dear, you can't judge a book by its cover.
Xu Niancheng's voice wasn't loud, but because she was close by, all the children around her could hear her clearly.
The cubs all looked at them with shock and envy.
Yinyin's mouth formed an "o" shape as she stared wide-eyed at her new friend in disbelief.
"Rou Rou, you actually have a granddaughter!"
Yes.
Xu Yirou deliberately held up three slender white fingers and proudly boasted, "I have two grand-nephews and one grand-niece, hehehe."
What?! Three adults actually want to call her "Grandma"!
The cubs went wild, chattering excitedly: "This is so cool! I want to be a grandma too!"
"You idiot, your grandma is a girl and you're a boy, you can never be one in this lifetime."
After confirming her identity, Teacher Lin smiled and took out her phone: "Hello, my grandniece Rou Rou, in order to facilitate the smooth progress of educational work between home and school, we may need parents to join our class group. Could you please help me inform Rou Rou's mother?"
She called Qiao Wen several times today but couldn't get through.
Xu Niancheng: "I'll add them, I'm also one of the guardians."
Teacher Lin hesitated for two seconds, then nodded.
I heard that Rou Rou's family is quite complicated. Since her grandniece is her guardian, it's in accordance with the rules for her to join the parents' group.
Xu Niancheng successfully picked up Xu Yirou, leaving behind a group of children who were still chattering and discussing.
The car drove smoothly, and the mother and daughter started chatting as soon as they got in.
Xu Niancheng cupped the baby's mother's face in her hands, looked her up and down carefully, and asked earnestly, "Mom, how was kindergarten today? Are you adjusting well? If you're not adjusting well, you must tell me."
She spent the whole day agonizing over whether or not to call her mother, tossing and turning between waiting for the call and making it. When she finally decided to call, she looked down and realized it was already time for school to end.
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