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It was the day when the Kindergarten held parent-child activity.

Fei was very excited. She got up at 6:00 in the morning.

Yibo also got up early because he needed to do exercise in the morning. However, Zhan got up at 7:00 in the morning because he was still drowsy.

Fei and Zhan found out the clothes used for parent-child activities and put them on.

Yibo went downstairs after taking a shower. He wore a white T-shirt with a black casual jacket.

Although he didn’t wear a suit, he looked relaxed and fashionable.

However, when he went to the kitchen and saw that Fei and Zhan, who were having breakfast, were wearing the same parent-child clothes, he felt that he was different from them.

“Daddy, you look so handsome. But why don’t you wear the same clothes as ours?” Fei looked at him and asked, with disappointment in her eyes, “I don’t think we look like a real family if we don’t wear the same clothes.”

Yibo sat down and said to Zhan, “You should tell me to wear parent-child clothes. Do you want to make me a fool in front of my daughter?”

“No, I don’t.” Zhan felt sorry and said, “It was because…”

“Give me the same parent-child clothes.” Yibo asked him.

Zhan stopped eating porridge. He felt sorry and didn’t dare to see him. He said, “These are the parent-child clothes we bought before. I only bought them for Fei and me at the time, so there is none for you…”

Zhan didn’t dare to see him, because he felt Yibo was angry.

Yibo didn’t say anything again. He took a bowl of porridge and started having breakfast.

Zhan knew that Yibo was angry, but he didn’t know how to comfort him.

If Zhan encountered this situation, he would also be angry.

It wasn’t the weekend today, and Yibo just started his work in Chongqing. For the further development of Wang Group, he had a lot of pressure and a lot of work.

However, he handled all the important tasks first, put other tasks aside, and changed the schedule for the parent-child activity today.

He was glad because he could join the parent-child activity for Fei and made her feel happier.

However, he didn’t think that Zhan wouldn’t prepare the parent-child clothes for him. So he felt bad.

Zhan had been busy with the design of the Beach Hotel during this period. He also forgot to buy him parent-child clothes. This was indeed his fault.

“Fei, why didn’t you remind me to buy parent-child clothes for your dad?” Zhan asked Fei.

Fei said, “Dad never joined the parent-child activity with me before, so I also forgot it.”

She used to join the parent-child activity with her mom before, so she didn’t realize that they needed to buy new parent-child clothes for her dad this time.

“Besides, don’t you always prepare the clothes? How can you blame me for this?” Fei said and bit her spoon.

Dad never joined the parent-child activity with her, so she certainly couldn’t think that they should buy him new parent-child clothes.

Zhan didn’t know what to say, so he looked at Yibo secretly. Yibo was having breakfast, and he obviously looked angry.

Zhan whispered to Fei, “Your daddy is angry.”

Fei said, “I know.”

“Then you should comfort him. You are his baby, and he loves you so much. I think he will listen to you.” Zhan asked Fei to comfort Yibo.

He really felt that Yibo was angry, which made him feel a bit scared. So he didn’t dare to talk with him, and he had to ask Fei to comfort him.

Because Yibo wouldn’t be mad at Fei even though he was angry.

“Why me? Mom, he is your husband, you should comfort him as his wife.” Fei looked at Yibo secretly and said, “You are his wife, so I think you should comfort him.”

Fei finished breakfast and said, “Dad, mom, I am full, I will wait for you in the living room.”

And she slid off the chair flexibly and ran away.

Zhan looked at her and couldn’t say anything.

He didn’t dare to leave, so he had to stay here and pretend to keep having breakfast.

“How about peeling an egg for you?” Zhan took up an egg and then peeled it.

Yibo didn’t answer him and kept having breakfast. When Zhan wanted to put the egg onto his plate, he stood up and said, “I am full.”

“Don’t you want to eat an egg?” Zhan also stood up and stopped him from getting away.

“No, thanks.” Yibo looked at Zhan and said, “You are so thin, so you should eat more.”

“I know you are angry.” Zhan didn’t let him go.

He put down the egg and then held the corner of Yibo’s clothes with his hands and said, “It’s my fault. I should remember to buy you the same parent-child clothes. But I have been busy these days, so I forgot. Please forgive me.”

“No way. It’s serious.” Yibo held Zhan’s hands and looked at him seriously, “We need to join the parent-child activity today, and the kindergarten requires us to wear parent-child clothes. Fei and you wear the same. However, as her dad, I don’t have the same clothes. I don’t think it is right.”

“If they know who I am, they will think that I do it on purpose, and I don’t want to join the activity at all. Certainly, I don’t care about it. However, it is important to Fei. If she hears something bad from others, she might be sad.”

“Zhan, you should know it is serious.”

Zhan didn’t know what to say again.

“Yes, I know it’s serious. But what should we do now? It is still early that the clothing stores have not opened yet. We all have white shirts and black pants, I think we can wear white shirts and black pants uniformly. What do you think?” This was the only way Zhan could figure out.

Yibo’s cell phone rang at that moment, and when he heard the words from the other end of the call, he knitted his brows slightly and said, “Okay, I’ll be right there.”

He hung up and was ready to leave. Zhan followed him and asked, “Where are you going?”

Yibo didn’t turn back. He was in a hurry and answered, “I have to deal with something urgent now.”

“Yibo, what about the activity? You have promised Fei and said that you will join the activity with her. This is the first time you join the parent-child activity with her. You can’t go back on your words because you are angry with me.” Zhan didn’t want to disappoint Fei.

Fei was so happy because her dad could join the activity together with her.

“It’s my fault. Please don’t be mad at Fei.” Zhan said to him.

Yibo signed when he saw that Zhan’s eyes turned red. He touched his eyes and said, “I certainly will join the activity with Fei. I just need to do something urgent now. And I will join the activity as soon as I finish it. OK?”

“Don’t cry. Fei would think that I am bullying you. Do you want to make her get me wrong?”

Zhan said quickly, “I don’t mean that.”

“Then show me a smile.” Yibo said to him with a smile.

And Zhan also smiled.

“That’s good. Don’t cry in front of Fei.” Yibo held his hands and said, “You should go to find Fei now.”

“How long will it take to handle your work?” Zhan was worried that he couldn’t join the activity on time.

Yibo checked the time on his watch and said, “Up to two hours. I will come as soon as possible. Don’t worry.”

“What happened on earth? Why do you need to handle it right now?” Zhan kept asking him.

“It’s really urgent, so I have to handle it right now.” Yibo had no choice, “I must go now…”

“Well, I got it. Please remember to join the activity as soon as possible.” Zhan took more into consideration the child’s feelings, “Or she will be sad.”

“I know.” Yibo nodded and then went to the living room together with Zhan.

Fei stood up from the sofa when she saw them and said, “Dad, mom, shall we go now?”

“Yes.” Zhan said.

“Let’s go, sweetheart.” Yibo held her in his arms and went out of the house.

After getting in the car, Yibo drove them to the kindergarten by himself.

They needed to gather at the kindergarten at 8 o’clock, and then took a bus to the suburban farm for the parent-child activity.

***

Zhan got off the car with Fei, but Yibo didn’t get off the car, Fei looked at Yibo in puzzlement and asked, “Dad, why don’t you go with us?”

“Dear, please go to the suburban farm with your mom by taking the bus first. I will go to buy parent-child clothes for us now. And I will go to the suburban farm to join the activity with you as soon as I buy the clothes. OK?” Yibo had to lie to her so that she wouldn’t feel disappointed or sad.

“Well, we will wait for you on the suburban farm.” Fei didn’t doubt him, “Dad, you must pay attention to safety when driving.”

“OK. And you also need to follow your mom’s order.” Yibo gave them a wave and then drove away.

After he left, Zhan went into the Kindergarten with Fei.

When they went into Kindergarten, a teacher said to the parents, “Please take your children to the playground to line up according to your class. We are about to set off.”

“Our class is there.” Fei rushed to the class with Zhan and said, “I see Yaxin.”

They joined the class and then lined up. Yaxin and his dad stood in front of them.

When Yaxin saw Fei, he immediately let go of Lixian’s hand and went towards Fei and said to her, “Fei, Uncle Zhan, We have been waiting for you for a long time. I was really afraid you wouldn’t join the activity.”

“You are such a fool. It is so funny in the parent-child activity, so I certainly will join it.” Fei lightly tapped his forehead.

And Yaxin touched his forehead and smiled, “That’s good.”

“I certainly will join it.” Fei said again.

“Don’t you dad join the activity together with you? Why doesn’t he come here?”

“It’s none of your business.” Fei said, “My dad will join the activity later.”

“Well.” Yaxin nodded and then said to Lixian, “Dad, could you come with me? I want to line up behind Fei, so that I can talk with her.”

Lixian had to follow him and lined up behind Fei and Zhan.

“Hi, Lixian.” Zhan greeted first. Although he was Yibo’s wife, he had to respect him because he was his higher-up.

Lixian nodded and said, “Why doesn’t Mr. Yibo join the activity with you?”

“He has something urgent, so he needs to handle it first. And he will join the activity in the suburban farm later.”

“Well.”

Then, under the leadership of the teachers, the parents and children of each class got on the bus one after another.

The car was driven smoothly all the way to a farm in the suburbs.

It lasted fifty minutes on the way. When they arrived at the farm, they had a rest. The parent-child activity would start at 9:30.

As the activity was about to begin, Fei felt a little nervous. She held Zhan’s hand and said, “Mom, will Dad come?”

“Yes, he will. He will keep his promise. He will do it because he has promised you. We should trust him.” Zhan was also a bit anxious, but he had to calm down and comfort Fei.

Fei trusted him and said, “OK, we should trust dad.”

At 9:20, the teachers wanted to select two group leaders among the children. One was a girl and the other one was a boy.

Fei raised her hand first and wanted to be a group leader.

And then the teachers asked her to be the group leader. Yaxin didn’t dare to raise his hand, but he felt very happy because Fei had been chosen as one of the group leaders.

Fei was the group leader for the girls. After lining up, the parent-child activity started at 9:30.

The first game was the tug of war. The children were put into two groups with an average number of children. After the teachers counted to three, they would start to pull the rope with all of their strength. Initially, the strength of these two groups is similar…

Finally, the Fei group lost in the first round.

But there were three rounds in total, so they had two chances later.

Zhan comforted Fei, “It’s fine, dear. We can do better later.”

Finally, the group of Fei only won one round, so they lost. The other group won, and every child in the group got a little red flag.

Fei was a bit disappointed. Zhan, Yaxin and Lixian comforted her.

It was normal to win or lose in games, and they had chances to get the red flag later in other games.

Fei forgot about it soon.

At this time, the teachers took them to visit the vegetable base of the farm, The teachers gave them a book and asked them to find out the vegetables according to the book, and then took pictures and sent the pictures to the WeChat group. If they finished the task, they could get two little red flags; otherwise, they could only get one little red flag.

And then Fei and Yaxin went to find out the vegetables, and Zhan and Lixian followed them.

The first one was wax gourd. They could recognize it easily. And then they needed to find eggplant, tomato and so on.

“Mom, I learned so many vegetables. And I like all of them.” Fei felt hungry when she saw tomatoes.

“Mom, I finally distinguish between Wangks and wheat.” Fei felt fulfilled.

“I also learned what green Chinese onion and garlic bolt are.” Yaxin also said.

“Look, these vegetables are planted by farmers with hard work, so we shouldn’t waste any grains and vegetables in the future.”

“OK, I won’t waste them in the future.”

They took 40 minutes to finish the task of finding out the vegetables according to the book and taking pictures.

Fei was very happy when she got two little red flags.

The teachers asked them to play freely for ten minutes and then gather to prepare for the next game. It was a three-person leggings game.

Both Fei and Yaxin felt bored, because Fei had no dad and Yaxin had no mom when playing this game.

Zhan poured the water from the kettle into the lid, and then handed it to Fei, “Drink some water.”

Fei took over the lid with water and said, “Mom, I need to go.”

“Me too.” Yaxin always followed Fei no matter what she wanted to do.

Lixian and Zhan sat there.

Lixian looked at Zhan again.

Zhan knew that he had something to talk about with him, so he said, “Lixian, what’s wrong?”

“Will Mr. Yibo come here later?” Lixian asked him about it again and looked at him, “It will be good if he can come to join the activity. If he can’t join the activity on time, I think we can play the three-person leggings game together. Because every family needs three people for this game, we can help each other to play this game. Certainly, we just do it to make our children happy. I don’t want to make them disappointed.”

“I understand.” Zhan checked the time and he didn’t make sure whether Yibo would come to join the activity or not, so he answered, “Well, I also think we can help each other to play this game later, so that our children won’t be disappointed.”

***

When Fei came out of the toilet, she was surrounded by several children.

The children said, “Fei, didn’t you say that your dad would come to join this activity with you? Why doesn’t he come here today?”

“My dad has something to do for now, and he will come here later.”

“It’s almost noon, I don’t think he will come later.”

“I heard that you don’t have a dad at all.”

“Nonsense! I have a dad. Yaxin knows him.”

Yaxin nodded with agreement and said, “I saw her dad before, and he looked very handsome.”

“Yaxin, she must lie to you. She has no dad at all.”

“Yes, Fei, you told a lie. How can you have Yaxin lie, too?”

“We don’t lie to you. We just tell you the truth.”

“You are a liar!”

“No, we aren’t,”

“Fei, you have no dad, and Yaxin has no mom. How about asking your mom and his dad to play the three-person leggings game together?”

“You are so bad.”

Fei was so angry and she walked towards to push the child who was the most arrogant.

And then the child fell down on the ground and started to cry, “Fei hit me! Fei hit me!”

She yelled while crying, and soon attracted many people’s attention, Some children went to tell Zhan about it.

“What?” Zhan quickly stood up and followed the child to see what was happening.

Lixian also hurriedly followed them. When he reached the toilet, he saw a bit chubby girl sitting on the ground and cried loudly.

“Oh, my sweetheart. Have you been hurt??

One of the teachers got there and learned what had happened.

And then she said to Fei, “Fei, it’s impolite to push your classmate over. You should say sorry to Trisha Laurashij.”

“I admit that I did push her, but I don’t think I could push her over with my strength just now. She fell down on the ground on purpose, So I won’t apologize to her.” Fei said firmly.

“Ms., look, she is so impolite! She pushed Trisha over and even argued with you, How can she do that?” Trisha’s mother was very angry, so she blamed Fei.

The teacher was also unsatisfied when Fei said so. She said to Fei again, “Fei, it’s your fault because you push her first. So you must apologize to her.”

“She said that I had no father, and that I was a liar. But I have father.” Fei kept arguing with her.

“As expected, no father makes you ill-bred. Ms., as we all know, our family have donated so much money to the Kindergarten. I think you should dismiss a child like her, or she will have a bad impact on other children.” Trisha’s mother said proudly.

“Well, I don’t think you should talk so much like that.” Trisha’s father held Trisha in his arms.

After hearing that, Zhan walked forwards to protect Fei and said, “You can’t talk to my daughter like this. Please be polite to us.”

“Why? Your daughter pushed Trisha over first. Why should we be polite to you?” Triha’s mother argued with him.

“I have dad. My dad will come here later because he has promised me.” Fei said that again.

“Yes, I will come here because I have promised you.”

Among the crowds, Zhan heard a familiar voice. And then he saw Yibo walking under the sun when he looked back.