Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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A little after March, school started for Qi Qi, and Yan Qingchi had nothing to do, so he became responsible for taking him to school. Qi Qi was rarely picked up and dropped off by him and Jiang Mochen, so he was very curious. He took his hand and asked him, “Dad, aren’t you going to work?”
“I won’t be going for a while,” Yan Qingchi said warmly.
“Then when will you go?”
“Let’s wait until next year.”
Qi Qi stopped and looked at him, his eyes lit up with excitement, “Then dad can stay with me for a long, long time.”
Yan Qingchi smiled and squeezed his face, “Yes.”
Qi Qi happily opened his arms to him, “Hold me, daddy.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he realized something and put his hand down, “Oh, I forgot. Father said that I can’t let my father hug Qi Qi, so Qi Qi will hug his father.”
After he finished speaking, he opened his arms and hugged Yan Qingchi, rubbed his waist, and raised his head to smile at him.
Yan Qingchi was amused by his series of actions and rubbed his hair, “Qi Qi is so cute.”
The driver assigned by Jiang Mochen to Yan Qingchi was named Zhang Quan. He was about thirty years old and looked very capable. He had been in contact with Yan Qingchi and Qi Qi for a while. Qi Qi was thus not a stranger to him. When he saw him, he greeted him politely, “Good morning, uncle.”
“Good morning, Qi Qi.” Zhang Quan replied cooperatively.
Then he turned to look at Yan Qingchi, “Are you sending the young master to school today?”
“Yes.” Yan Qingchi said, “Thank you for your hard work.”
“It’s just my job, sir, you’re welcome.”
Yan Qingchi listened to him calling him sir and breathed a sigh of relief. After all, in the beginning, Zhang Quan directly called him Madam. Although Yan Qingchi and Jiang Mochen usually jokingly call each other Mr. and Mrs., this was a hobby between husbands. Now, he was still a little embarrassed to be called that by others, so he said on the spot, “Change the name, you call me that, I’m a little embarrassed.”
Zhang Quan said worriedly, “What should I call you if I don’t call you Madam? You can call me A Quan, but can I still call you A Chi?”
Yan Qingchi had no objection to him calling him that, but him having no opinion, did not mean that Jiang Mochen would have no opinion. Yan Qingchi knew without even thinking about it that Jiang Mochen would look very pretty if he heard Zhang Quan call him that. So he shook his head, “This won’t work.”
“Then what should I call you?” Zhang Quan asked him.
Yan Qingchi thought for a moment, and sometimes calling someone by his first name and surname would feel like a command, but if he just called him Qingchi, that’s what Jiang Mochen called him himself, and he would probably be jealous. Qingchi wouldn’t do, and Xiao Chi would also not do.
In the end, he could only call him sir. Zhang Quan had no objection to this title, so the two of them settled on it.
After delivering Qi Qi, Yan Qingchi asked Zhang Quan to return to the community. The two made an appointment to pick up Qi Qi in the afternoon, and Zhang Quan left.
Yan Qingchi had had nothing to do recently. When he returned home, he simply listened to music – cultivating the baby’s musical sentiments according to Mother Jiang’s instructions and painted at the same time.
The painting was very simple. It was a children’s story drawn for Qi Qi to read. Each page was drawn into four grids, and each story had about ten pages. Qi Qi was very impressed. Every time he finished reading, he would shake his hand and ask him what’s next? Yan Qingchi asked him to wait and said he would give it to him the next day.
Jiang Mochen felt it was a pity that he only painted it for Qi Qi, so he asked him if he wanted to publish it or post it online? Yan Qingchi didn’t think it was necessary. He didn’t draw these to make money. He was just bored and Qi Qi liked it. If Qi Qi didn’t like it one day, he might stop drawing. Besides, he didn’t have the energy to care about this.
“You don’t need to worry about it. You are not taking part in activities for a while. Although Guan Mei has brought others with her, she has a lot of time. She can just take care of it.”
Yan Qingchi was speechless for a while, “Tell me honestly, are you innocent or do you feel unwilling to leave these golden eggs at home without taking them out?”
Jiang Mochen rubbed his brow bones. It was undeniable that he did have such thoughts.
Yan Qingchi felt that he had really seen through the profiteer Jiang Mochen. He squinted his eyes. Jiang Mochen was very aware of current affairs. “Of course, it mainly depends on you. If you don’t want to, forget it.”
Yan Qingchi thought about his small treasury and said, “Forty-sixty split, I’m sixty and you’re forty.”
Jiang Mochen smiled, “There’s no point in having forty and sixty, you have hundred and I have zero.”
“That’s okay.” Yan Qingchi did not hesitate.
Guan Mei originally thought that she would not be exposed to anything related to Yan Qingchi this year – after all, the boss personally stated that Yan Qingchi would suspend activities for one year. Unexpectedly, not long after the Chinese New Year ended, she received a new task.
Guan Mei looked at the paintings on the computer and was secretly surprised, “I didn’t expect that he has such a talent.”
She sent Yan Qingchi a WeChat message, told her plan, and said directly, “So give the comic a name next.”
Yan Qingchi thought for a while and sent her two words: “To Mr. Q”
Guan Mei was confused and asked him, “What do you mean?”
“To Qi Qi,” Yan Qingchi said, “The paintings are all for Qi Qi. If he doesn’t like them, there won’t be any paintings, so let’s call it this.”
Of course Guan Mei knew who Qi Qi was, but she never expected that Yan Qingchi who looked young and flamboyant and as a person who could stand out in every show would turn out to be such a gentle father. She felt a little emotional for a moment, “You are really more responsible than most of the children’s biological fathers.”
“That’s right,” Yan Qingchi had never been a humble character, “Qi Qi said, I am the best father.”
“Does Mr. Jiang know this?”
“He told him that he is the best father.”
Guan Mei was amused by his word game, “Okay, I don’t know what’s wrong with you, but I hear your voice is lively and your family relationship is quite harmonious, so I feel relieved.”
“So you were still worried about me before?”
“Mr. Jiang suddenly said that you would stop your activities for a year without giving any reason. I thought you two were going to get divorced.”
“Don’t worry, we shouldn’t get divorced in the short term.”
“What about the long term?” Guan Mei asked him.
Yan Qingchi thought for a while, “I guess we can’t live without each other.”
Guan Mei laughed, “Then I wish you a happy marriage.”
“Thank you.”
After finishing today’s update, Yan Qingchi put the drawing on Qi Qi’s table, then he looked at his watch and saw that it was already the time he had agreed with Zhang Quan, so he went out.
Zhang Quan had already driven the car downstairs to wait for him. Yan Qingchi got in the car and played with his mobile phone in the car for a while before arriving at Qi Qi’s school.
Wearing a mask and glasses, he stood outside the car waiting for Qi Qi to finish school. As a result, before he could wait for Qi Qi, he saw an uninvited guest – Zhou Yixing.
Although Yan Qingchi was a little surprised by his appearance, he took it for granted. After all, after Zhou Yixing learned about Zhou Qiang and Yuan Mingxu, he neither stopped him nor pretended not to know, but chose to appear in front of him as a hero to save the beauty. Although Yan Qingchi didn’t know what he was planning, he could guess that since he appeared once, he wouldn’t appear just once. Sure enough, the second time came.
“What a coincidence, why are you here too.”
Yan Qingchi saw that Zhou Yixing still followed the persona he showed when they first met – where he didn’t recognize Yan Qingchi as a star, nor did he recognize him as Jiang Mochen’s spouse, Yan Qingchi also cooperated with him, “I’m here to pick up the child from school.”
Zhou Yixing looked surprised, “Was that child your child that day? I thought he was your brother.”
Yan Qingchi smiled slightly and said nothing.
“I’m here to pick up my sister from school.” Zhou Yixing said, “My sister also goes to school here.”
Yan Qingchi nodded, it was normal, they were all in the same circle, and the schools they naturally chose should also be similar.
While they were talking, the school door opened, and students walked out one after another and got into their private cars.
Zhou Yixing’s sister came out earlier than Qi Qi. She looked nine or ten years old and had twin tails. She seemed a little unhappy, as if she wasn’t very happy to see Zhou Yixing.
Zhou Yixing received his sister and was not in a hurry to leave. He asked Yan Qingchi, “Has the matter from last time been settled? If it’s not convenient to talk here, I know a private restaurant that tastes pretty good. Do you want to go together?”
Yan Qingchi shook his head, “No, I’ll go home for dinner.”
“Okay.” He didn’t force it, said goodbye, and got in the car.
Not long after Zhou Yixing left, Qi Qi came out. When he saw Yan Qingchi, he rushed over like a firecracker. Yan Qingchi was afraid that he would hit his belly, so he reached out to stop him before he threw himself into his arms, and then gently took him into his arms.
Qi Qi happily hugged him and jumped slightly, then turned around as if remembering something, and waved behind him. Yan Qingchi followed his gesture and saw a little boy who looked about the same size as Qi Qi standing not far away.
The little boy was a little taller than Qi Qi. He was wearing a black children’s windbreaker, jeans, and boots. He looked very fashionable. He was carrying a black car schoolbag, and his left hand was holding a grapefruit yellow car-shaped luggage that reached his thigh. In his right hand, he held a round fish tank with a small green turtle in it.
When Qi Qi greeted him, he pursed his lips and walked over.
Qi Qi pulled Yan Qingchi’s clothes and looked up at him, “Dad, my deskmate ran away from home and has nowhere to go. Can we take him in?”
Yan Qingchi looked down at his little baby, “Running away from home?”
Qi Qi nodded and explained to him very considerately, “His father doesn’t want him anymore. He is not a good father. He was going to sleep at the train station. What if there are bad people at the train station? So we can’t let him go first. Is it okay to live in our house? Otherwise he will be very pitiful.”
Yan Qingchi saw the sadness in Qi Qi’s eyes and knew that Qi Qi was probably hurt by the so-called “don’t want him”, so he had no choice but to touch his head and say with a smile: “Okay, I’ll listen to Qi Qi, who let Qi Qi be daddy’s little baby.”
Hearing this, Qi Qi smiled happily, then turned to look at the little boy beside him, “Look, I said my dad would agree. My dad loves me the most.”
The little boy said “hmm” after hearing this, and nodded politely to Yan Qingchi, “Thank you, uncle.”
Yan Qingchi said warmly: “You’re welcome.”
The three of them got into the car together, with Qi Qi sitting in the middle. Yan Qingchi asked them both some questions and quickly figured out the whole story.
The thing was very simple. The little boy’s name was Bo Yan. He was half a year older than Qi Qi. He was in the same class as Qi Qi and was also Qi Qi’s deskmate. Bo Yan had a fight with his father, so he said he would run away from home. His father also had a bad temper and said directly, “You can leave, I don’t want you anymore.” Bo Yan thus pulled his suitcase and left with his pet turtle.
After Qi Qi heard about him, he asked him worriedly, “Then where are you staying today?”
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