To play around with the kids, wearing a skirt is not so convenient, so I just wore this outfit.
Ning Yun Chu did not want to change. She said, “Even if the weather is cold, I can still wear a skirt. Wearing a winter skirt is the same.”
“You should go and change your clothes too. Go to your son’s room and see if Mo Mo is up yet.”
Zhan Yi Chen did not insist again on his wife wearing a skirt for him to see. He was only making a suggestion.
Thinking that the whole weekend would involve looking after the children and playing with them, wearing a skirt really was not that practical.
He said, “When there is no school, he gets up before dawn. But on school days, no matter how much you call him, he refuses to get up.”
“The weather will get cold soon. Then the bed will feel the warmest, and Mo Mo will want to stay in bed even more when it is time for school.”
“Little children are all like that.”
Zhan Yi Chen spoke with a slightly sour tone, “Wife, I feel like you love our son more now. You do not love me as much anymore.”
Ning Yun Chu immediately rolled her eyes at him.
“You are such a grown man, yet you are still fighting for favour with your own son. He is your son, your own flesh and blood. How can you feel good about competing with him for attention?”
“Yes, yes, you step aside. Zhan Mo ranks first in my heart. Is that not normal? Most mothers put their children first.”
Zhan Yi Chen said in an acidic voice, “See, you admitted it. You put Zhan Mo in first place. He took my spot, and you still will not let me complain a little.”
Even though he was competing with his son for favour, Zhan Yi Chen still went to change his clothes. Then he went to his son’s children’s room and found that the boy had already got up long ago. He was sitting at the building block table, putting together Lego pieces.
Yes, last night he had given the little guy two new bags of Lego bricks. The child had been working on them all evening and still had not finished. They were the kind with very small pieces.
Zhan Mo was only three years old. Building with Lego was still a bit difficult for him.
But the little guy loved it. Give him two bags of Lego, and he could play with them all day long.
When he saw his father come in, Le Le looked up at him. When his dad came closer, he said, “Daddy, my Lego is not finished yet.”
Zhan Yi Chen walked over and looked. The little boy had spread out the instruction booklet on the table, sorted the pieces into piles by type, and had already completed more than half.
“You have already done more than half. That is really good.”
Zhan Yi Chen sat down beside his son. After looking at what the boy had built, he praised him, “Our Le Le is so clever.”
“What time did you get up?”
Zhan Mo said, “I got up as soon as I woke up. I do not know what time it was. Daddy, what time is it now?”
“It is not early anymore. It is already past nine. Do you not feel hungry?”
“I made milk powder for myself and drank it. I do not feel hungry yet.”
Zhan Mo, who was so focused on building Lego, really did not feel hungry.
Perhaps because he had drunk two hundred millilitres of milk powder.
He was just over three years old, but he still liked drinking milk powder, so his parents had not weaned him off it and let him keep drinking.
Most of the time, Mummy made the milk for him. Daddy liked to make him do things himself, saying that children of the Zhan family should learn to be independent and know how to do everything.
So Zhan Mo made milk powder for himself.
“Mm, then you will not go hungry. Stop building for now, or pack it up and take it to build together with your big brother.”
