Chapter 196 (1961st update) (Many comments)
196:
He Lei: ...
He Lei looked at him, somewhat aggrieved, "I wanted to tell you, but you wouldn't let me..."
Her voice was low, and her little head unconsciously lowered.
The viewers in the live stream couldn't help but feel indignant, exclaiming, "Hey bro, wasn't it you who wouldn't let her talk to you?"
【Ugh, how could he blame Leilei?! Leilei tried to talk to him several times, but he ignored her. If he had responded sooner, wouldn't he have known by now?!】
[Exactly! He kept saying that every second counts in a competition, but I didn't see any of the other dads neglecting their babies because of it. Every dad would talk to their baby when they got home, but he acted like he didn't even see Leilei!]
"That's right, just now, he even told Leilei to talk about it after the competition! It's only because Leilei was in a hurry and didn't listen to him that he spoke up directly, otherwise he'd still be blabbering about fetching water right now!"
[So what right does he have to blame Leilei?! He's insane!]
[I can't take it anymore! Can the production team please let He Yao quit?!]
[Leilei is really in a terrible situation to have such a temporary dad!]
[My heart aches for Leilei; she must be feeling so wronged right now!]
[After he poured the water and left, Leilei called him! I don't believe he really didn't hear her!]
[It's definitely an act!]
[You hit someone and didn't care, you don't care about Leilei either. He Yao, you're so self-centered!]
He Yao regretted it as soon as he said, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
There were cameras watching; he shouldn't have said those things to He Lei. It sounded like he was blaming her.
—Although, he did blame her in his heart.
How can I not blame them?
She clearly discovered something so big a long time ago, but didn't tell him in time!
Now look what happened, all that water he poured in was basically wasted, it all leaked out!
How can she be so clueless about priorities?!
Although he said he would talk about it after the competition, it was clear that he was prioritizing the competition. How could he not tell him about something as important as the hole in the water tank that was affecting the competition so early on?!
However, no matter how strange he felt inside, with the camera in front of him, He Yao still had to suppress his emotions.
He said gently, "Baby, Daddy doesn't mean to blame you. Daddy is just a little surprised."
"Look, there's a hole in the water tank. Didn't Dad just waste all the water he fetched before?"
[What, you want Leilei to compensate you for your water?] A viewer in the live stream passionately commented: [Aren't you just blaming her?!]
Stop making excuses! Everyone knows you!
He wouldn't even apologize to our Leilei!
[You spent all your time focusing on Mu Shaowu and only wanting to compare yourself to him. Now you've wasted your time, haven't you?]
[Hilarious! He actually wants to compare himself to Mu Shaowu? What does he have that Mu Shaowu has?]
Mu Shaowu genuinely cares about his child and is trying his best to be a good father. As for He Yao, well, get lost.
[He Yao, get out of "Look the Daddy"!]
That's right, get out!
He Lei lowered her head upon hearing his words, unsure of what to say.
He Yao really wanted to win, and seeing that the water tank was still leaking continuously, he was so anxious that he wanted to plug the hole.
He turned to the host and asked, "What happened? Was the water tank not checked when it was taken?"
"No," the host said gently.
No? Then what is this? A hidden quest in this round of the game? He Yao pondered.
That's true. If we don't plug this hole, the water won't fill up at all. So if we want to win, we have to solve the problem of this hole.
But what can we use to block it?
He Lei looked at him quietly without saying a word.
When Mu Shaowu returned after fetching water, he saw his father and the babies gathered together, discussing something. It seemed they knew about the hole in the water tank.
He poured the water into the water tank.
With a "whoosh," He Yao turned around instantly.
How come he's back so quickly!
Wait, he's pouring water! Is his water tank leaking? Or is the water level not yet high enough to reach the hole?
"Have they all discovered this hole?" Mu Shaowu asked Ye Qingxi.
Ye Qingxi nodded, "Just now, Leilei said that her water tank was leaking, and Tao Tao heard it. Tao Tao asked her why, and she said that there was a hole in the water tank. Then everyone found that everyone's water tank had a hole."
"Did Leilei get it blocked?"
Ye Qingxi shook his head and pointed to the special marker that had already served its purpose. "I originally wanted to tell Leilei to use this, but the acting village chief wouldn't let me, so I couldn't tell Leilei. Leilei just continued copying the ancient poems."
Upon hearing this, Mu Shaowu turned to look in He Lei's direction, only to catch He Yao staring at him.
He Yao:! ! !
He Yao quickly turned his head and looked down at the hole in the water tank.
Mu Shaowu: ? ? ?
Mu Shaowu was puzzled as to why He Yao was staring at him.
strangeness!
However, he didn't really care about He Yao, so he didn't take it seriously.
He only asked, "Have you finished copying the ancient poems?"
Ye Qingxi nodded, "Mm."
A viewer in the live stream corrected: "It's not copying, it's memorizing!"
That's right! All six poems were recited from memory by the child; not a single one was copied!
[And it's all correct! Not a single typo!]
Our baby is so smart! Both clever and well-behaved!
He was also very helpful; if the host hadn't stopped him, he would have shared the method he discovered with everyone much earlier.
What a good baby! Mommy gives you a kiss~
Mu Shaowu looked down and saw that the water vat was covered with golden characters written by Ye Qingxi.
His handwriting is very beautiful, probably because he practiced with Ye Min. Unlike other children his age, his handwriting is not crooked and messy, but rather elegant.
Mu Shaowu had been amazed by his handwriting when he looked at his homework before. If he didn't know that he was a five-year-old child, he would have thought that it was the handwriting of a junior or senior high school student.
His father calmly said, "Your Uncle Ye has beautiful handwriting. He even joined the calligraphy club in college and learned to write well. You have to start practicing calligraphy from a young age. I was too lenient with you when you were young, so much so that when you were in elementary school, your handwriting was so ugly that I didn't even want to sign your homework."
Mu Shaowu: ...Why are you using his son to put him down again!
His handwriting wasn't that bad when he was a child!
However, now, looking at the words on the jar, Mu Shaowu realized that his handwriting was indeed not as good as his son's when he was a child.
No wonder he's his son!
That's just so awesome!
Mu Shaowu was so proud he could practically swagger.
"Then you should rest well. Dad will go get some water first. Dad can't hold you back," Mu Shaowu said.
"It's okay." Ye Qingxi smiled and looked up. "I'm small, and Dad is holding me back, so I'll just walk with him."
Mu Shaowu burst into laughter.
His childlike remarks amused the viewers in the live stream.
So cute!
Xiao Xi is so sweet!
[Ahhh, what an incredibly beautiful father-son relationship!]
[Sob sob, I really want to pinch my baby's smiling face~]
Mu Shaowu chuckled and playfully pinched Ye Qingxi's nose. "That won't do. You're number one now, so Daddy has to go with you, not the other way around!"
Let's go!
After saying that, Mu Shaowu picked up the bucket and ran forward.
He Yao:! ! !
He Yao immediately became anxious!
He picked up He Lei's marker and tried to insert it into the hole in the water tank, but found that the marker was too thick and couldn't be inserted at all.
If it's not a marker, then what is it?
On the other side, Yang Jin had already inserted the specially made marker.
Yang Shu is quiet and reserved. She loves reading and stationery, so when she received the box, she flipped through all the markers inside, trying to find the one with the best color to write from memory.
Therefore, she naturally discovered that special marker.
Yang Jin just came back and told me about the hole in the water tank. I wondered, "Should we plug it up with something?"
He tentatively tried to insert the marker from Yang Shu's box into the box, but when he found that he couldn't, he said regretfully, "It would look better if it were a little thinner."
Yang Shu immediately thought of that special marker.
She quickly flipped it out and handed it to her father, saying, "This one is thinner at the front."
Yang Jin took a look and it was indeed true.
He quickly inserted it, and sure enough, it worked.
Yang Jin exclaimed in delight, "Xiao Shu, you're so smart!"
Yang Shu smiled and said, "Dad, go fetch some water. I'm almost done reciting my ancient poems."
"Okay," Yang Jin said gently.
He quickly set off with the bucket in his hand.
He Yao:? ? ? ! ! !
Why did he leave too!
Did he also plug the hole in the water tank?
What exactly is it that makes it work?!
After thinking it over, He Yao realized that all the production team had given them was a water tank and this box, so the most likely candidate was the box.
He squatted down and started searching.
During this time, the other fathers also found the special marker, plugged the hole, and continued to draw water.
He Yao suddenly found himself at the very end.
When he finally found the special marker, took it out and put it into the hole in the water tank, he was shocked to discover that all the other fathers were gone, and he was the only one left.
Even Mu Shaowu is almost back from fetching water!
He Yao was so anxious that he picked up the bucket and ran forward.
He Lei: ...
He Lei thought for a moment, picked up her pen, and began copying ancient poems.
Live stream viewers: ...
【No, they're leaving again? Without even saying a word to our Leilei?】
[It seems Leilei has gotten used to it and has given up hope on him.]
Me too, I've given up hope on him!
[Hopefully he'll come in last this time!]
But then Leilei wouldn't have any good ingredients!
Oh dear...
Whether she's last or not is uncertain, but she definitely won't be first.
"That's right, Mu Shaowu's water tank has much more water than his."
[Haha, so he's going to lose to Mu Shaowu again?]
[He cares so much; if he really loses, he'll probably be furious!]
I like it! Go Mu Shaowu!
[I'm dying of laughter. Just thinking about how He Yao chased after Mu Shaowu for so long, but still lost to him, makes me laugh so hard.]
The key point is that Mu Shaowu never cared about him at all from beginning to end [facepalm]
[I don't just care, I haven't even noticed it!]
[Wouldn't this infuriate He Yao?]
[Mu Shaowu, it has to be you again!]
As expected by the viewers in the live stream, when Mu Shaowu returned from fetching water for the third time and poured the water into the water tank, the water level in the tank instantly rose above the water level.
The host announced, "Congratulations to Mu Shaowu and Ye Qingxi for being the first to complete the task!"
The other children had already finished copying the ancient poems and couldn't help but cheer for their fathers, shouting, "Go, Dad!"
"Dad, hurry up!"
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Daddy, hurry!"
However, He Lei did not shout.
She glanced at He Yao not far away, then looked down at the words on the water vat, carefully checking whether she had written them wrong.
She couldn't bring herself to shout it out, nor did she really want to.
But if she didn't shout, she seemed different from the other kids, so He Lei found something to do that allowed her to do without having to cheer.
Inspired by his son, Zhang Ye became the second person to raise the water level in the tank above the horizontal line.
Hu Kai is the third.
Tao Rui secured fourth place with a 30-second advantage.
He breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily, he wasn't last. Otherwise, he would have been too embarrassed to team up with Mu Shaowu—it wasn't teaming up, it was practically freeloading, although now... it seems like he is still freeloading.
He Yao came in fifth place because he was thirty seconds slower.
Yang Jin came in last, one minute slower than He Yao.
Yang Jin felt a little embarrassed when she heard that she was in last place.
Yang Shu comforted him, "It's okay, Dad. We came in second in the last round, so it doesn't matter if we come in a little lower this time. We'll just try harder in the next round."
Yang Jin nodded; he was indeed not very good at games that tested speed and strength.
"Dad, do your best in the next round!" he said to his daughter.
Yang Shu smiled and said, "Mm."
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