Chapter 70

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Elderly people slept shallowly, Teacher Chu woke up at half past five.

Last night, Chu Xun sent him a text message saying that he couldn’t go home because of work, so Jiu Jiu slept with them.

For today’s breakfast he made silken tofu, he made a savory one for himself, and a sweet one for Jiu Jiu.

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Jiu Jiu sat in his baby chair and ate with a plastic spoon. He carefully corrected Jiu Jiu’s hand posture as he used the spoon. Now, Jiu Jiu was beginning to eat more and more. He was very obedient. He ate slowly, not letting a single mouthful escape. All the way until he was unable to scoop up anymore food, he would use both hands to pick up his small bowl and continue to eat.

Jiu Jiu raised his head, and boldly put the bowl to his face. The soup at the bottom of the bowl was poured directly onto his face.

Jiu Jiu was stupefied.

His grandpa and grandma: “Hahahahaha.”

Grandma: “Aiyo, my little baby, amusing me to death… Don’t wipe for him! I want to take a picture first!”

Jiu Jiu heard his grandparents laugh so he also grinned. Next to two white and small front teeth, were the sharp points of two more teeth about to grow in. He looked extremely sweet.

Grandpa wrung the towel. First, he wiped his face and little hands, then his collar that had been stained by the soup. Grandpa felt that he might as well take Jiu Jiu to change his clothes and wash his hands so he would smell nice and clean again.

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After wiping him, Teacher Chu picked up Jiu Jiu and smelled: “En, Jiu Jiu is a sweet-smelling little baby!”

Jiu Jiu giggled and clapped his little hands: “Grandpa.”

Chu Xiaopang came over: “Woof woof!”

“Pang Pang!” Jiu Jiu said happily.

He had made a lot of progress in speaking now, but it was still not very clear. When he spoke, it sounded like he had a date in his mouth. In addition to “Dad”, “Grandpa” and “Grandma”, he had also learned “Pang Pang” which was specially used to call Chu Xiaopang.

Jiu Jiu was very happy to see Chu Xiaopang. He wriggled around, showing his grandpa that he wanted to be put down.

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Chu Xun said: “There is still something I need to do, Dad. I… I’m still at the company.”

Teacher Chu said, “Then you won’t come back today either? You being a father, that’s too irresponsible. Not caring for your child the entire day, it’s becoming more and more excessive. Maybe one day Jiu Jiu won’t even recognize you as his father. If you neglect your child like this, there will definitely be conflicts in his adolescence.”

Who was being irresponsible? He even thought a decade into the future. Chu Xun became gloomy and glared at Lin Yanchen. That bastard caused him to be scolded by his father.

Lin Yanchen looked away.

Teacher Chu continued to grumble: “And that Lin Yanchen, even more irresponsible, even saying he would marry you. I don’t think he has an ounce of sincerity at all! Jiu Jiu is already this big. Has he even taken care of the baby for a day? Jiu Jiu really will not recognize him as a father.”

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Chu Xun heard the words “Lin Yanchen” and immediately put it on speaker. Let Lin Yanchen properly listen to how he was being scolded. At the same time, he mouthed to Lin Yanchen silently, in schadenfreude, “Did you hear that?”

Two people were scolded together until dog blood was dripping down, bearing the difficulty together.

Chu Xun said, “Dad, I think so too. Lin Yanchen is too irresponsible.”

Teacher Chu echoed, “Right? The more you think about it, the angrier you get… Aiyo, Jiu Jiu what are you doing!”

Not knowing what happened, Teacher Chu urgently hung up.

Chu Xun bewilderingly woke up in an unfamiliar big bed this morning with a sore back and weak legs, then discovered Lin Yanchen holding onto him.

He woke up in anger and with one kick, kicked the other off of the bed.

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Lin Yanchen got up from the ground, confused and his hair in a mess: “What’s the matter?”

Chu Xun was very angry: “You have the face to ask me what’s wrong?”

Lin Yanchen rubbed the back of his head and laughed mischievously.

Chu Xun: “Laugh my ass!”

After that, he hadn’t even been able to put on his clothes, when he got a phone call from his father. He was quite panicked, he had gotten black out drunk last night and probably hadn’t been able to notify his father.

Lin Yanchen glanced at the caller’s name and comforted him: “I sent a text message to your father, saying you were busy working last night and couldn’t go home.”

Chu Xun asked, “How did you unlock my cell phone?”

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Lin Yanchen was not ashamed to say: “Fingerprint ah.”

After finishing the chat on the phone call, Chu Xun said to Lin Yanchen, “Did you hear what my dad said?”

Lin Yanchen was still sitting under the bed and hadn’t climbed back up. He looked up at Chu Xun. He sat cross legged and his face was innocent: “I heard…”

Chu Xun: “Today you are in charge of taking care of Jiu Jiu.”

Lin Yanchen didn’t particularly like his baby. He only liked Chu Xun the most in the entire world. Even if Jiu Jiu was born from him and Chu Xun, the most love he could get was love by relation to Chu Xun. His position in his heart was not much different from that of Da Tou, but because of his blood relationship it was a little higher.

He sometimes thought of Jiu Jiu, but if he saw Chu Xun, his mind would be full of just Chu Xun and the two of them in their own little world.

Lin Yanchen asked, “Will you be with me?”

Chu Xun said: “I won’t be going. Today, Zhan Hongyu will be shooting a print advertisement for us. I am going to supervise the work. You go take care of our kid… I’ll tell my dad to do it with you. Properly get along with Jiu Jiu.”

Lin Yanchen made an “Oh” sound. He agreed, but did not look very happy.

Chu Xun was a little disappointed: “Lin Yanchen, do you dislike Jiu Jiu? You’re really being very irresponsible to be like this, really not letting people be at ease.”

Lin Yanchen immediately became nervous: “I’m sorry, I, I will definitely take care of our child properly. But I have never taken care of any children, I don’t know what’s good and what’s bad…”

He thought about it, but he still couldn’t help it. With some jealousy, he grumbled, “Sometimes I feel that Jiu Jiu is more important than me in your heart.”

Chu Xun laughed: “How old are you, competing with your own son? You made me needlessly worry, Jiu Jiu is very weak and has many illnesses. He even has to use an inhaler every day. I also do not feel reassured leaving the kid with you, later I must have my father or mother with you.”

Younger men were the worst on this point. They were like big boys. For the most part, Lin Yanchen didn’t accompany him when he got pregnant or when he had the baby, so didn’t have the conscientiousness of being a father yet.

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Lin Yanchen obediently went to Chu Xun’s house. He also brought gifts, a painting and a jade bracelet.

When Teacher Chu heard the bell, he went to open the door. When he saw Lin Yanchen, his face soured. But thinking of Chu Xun and Jiu Jiu, he endured a little. He tried to sound gentler: “You came? Chu Xun is not at home.”

Lin Yanchen said very politely: “I met with Chu Xun. He had me come. He said to let me take care of Jiu Jiu.”

Teacher Chu: “…”

Lin Yanchen trembled: “This is a gift for uncle and aunt.”

“Come in,” said Teacher Chu, stepping aside to let him in.

Lin Yanchen crossed past Teacher Chu and saw that in the living room, playing with Chu Xiaopang was Jiu Jiu.

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Jiu Jiu could now shakily stand up and persist for a second or two. Chu Xiaopang watched him stand up and immediately lie down. Jiu Jiu struggled to climb onto his back. He used all his strength, clutching the dog’s fur. He tugged at a big handful, even just looking at it, it hurt, but Chu Xiaopang was not angry at all. He stood up and carried Jiu Jiu away.

But the “package” he was carrying was not stable, and after a few steps, Jiu Jiu slipped down, and with a thud fell onto the carpet.

When he fell, Jiu Jiu didn’t cry, he laughed happily.

Chu Xiaopang was also happy, howling like “aowu aowu”. He crazily wagged his tail, using his head to gently bump Jiu jiu. Then Jiu Jiu got up again and climbed onto his back.

He fell again, and climbed up again; he climbed up again, andfell again.

Back and forth.

Never tiring of it.

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Lin Yanchen watched for a while: my son can play rather well ah… He takes after me when I was young…