Dad is here

Chapter 60

On Sunday morning, Xu Luofeng cooked a bowl of quick-frozen wontons for Mu Xiaotao. Mu Xiaotao was obviously not very interested, she only ate half of it and said she couldn't eat any more.

Seeing that the sun was shining outside, Xu Luofeng asked her if she wanted to go out to play, but Mu Xiaotao lay on the sofa and shook her head.Xu Luofeng saw that her face was a little gloomy and she was not energetic, so her heart skipped a beat, and she went over and touched her forehead, it was indeed a little hot.

He suddenly felt that one head became two bigger.When Mu Xiaotao went to the bathroom in the morning, he noticed that she had a bit of diarrhea, and there was clear water under her nose. Now it seemed that she was really sick.

Xu Luofeng recalled what happened the day before, probably because he dressed Mu Xiaotao too little, and even led her around, causing her to catch a cold.And she didn't have a good meal the day before. She ate pizza at noon and takeaway at night. No wonder she got sick from eating.

Although Mu Xiaotao was not feeling well, she was still thinking about Xu Luofeng's promise the night before.She clamored for her father to call her mother, but Xu Luofeng couldn't push it, so he could only pick up the phone in front of her.

He called out the number, and suddenly flinched a little. Looking at Mu Xiaotao's expectant eyes, he didn't have the courage to press it.After all, Mu Xiaotao's voice is hoarse now, and she still has a little cough. Mu Fengying can easily tell that she is not in good health.

He still hasn't figured out how to explain to Mu Fengying that Xiaotao is here with him, and if she finds out that Xiaotao fell ill because of his lack of care, it's no wonder that Mu Fengying didn't scold him to death.

Xu Luofeng didn't want to wait for her to get more angry after she came back, and even less willing to talk to him.

So, he pretended to dial his office phone, but after a long time when no one answered, he regretfully said to Mu Xiaotao, "Mom didn't answer."

Mu Xiaotao was extremely disappointed, her head drooped and her little shoulders slumped.

Xu Luofeng temporarily decided to take Mu Xiaotao to the hospital for treatment.Unexpectedly, while he was tidying up his things, Mu Fengying's phone call unexpectedly came.

Xu Luofeng was caught off guard, and stared at the phone screen for a while before answering the phone. He tried his best to speak calmly, pretending to be calm and breezy: "Yingying..."

"Xu Luofeng!" She said in an extremely angry tone, "Is Xiaotao here with you?! Why are you like this! How can you take Xiaotao away without even saying a word! I am her legal guardian! You are like this I can sue you!"

Mu Fengying kept talking nonsense. She was very busy the day before, and finally found out that it was too late when she was free, so she didn't call Mu Yang.When she got up on Sunday morning, she guessed that Xiaotao had already woken up, so she wanted to talk to her daughter, but after calling Mu Yang, he actually said that Mu Xiaotao had come to Xu Luofeng for the weekend.

Hearing her angry voice, Xu Luofeng was not angry. He knew that Mu Yang was still hiding Feng Yunxiu's injury from the fall, and the old man didn't know that Mu Fengying and Xu Luofeng had a conflict, so he must have used Xu Luofeng as a shield.

Xu Luofeng said in a calm tone: "First, I am Xiaotao's father and one of her guardians. It is only natural for me to take care of her when you are on a business trip; second, no matter what happens in the future, you also said that I am still her father, and I can take care of her at any time. Pick her up to stay for a few days; third, I have called and texted you, but you have ignored me, if you don’t believe me, you can go to the phone records.”

Ow!He always has such a cold and noble tone!It's so annoying!too nasty!It's so annoying!

Mu Fengying was so angry that she almost jumped, she held back her temper, and said forcefully: "Okay, I won't argue with you for now, you give the phone to Xiaotao first, I want to talk to her."

Mu Xiaotao had been waiting by Xu Luofeng's side for a long time, and when she heard her father call "Yingying" into the phone, she became excited like a chicken blood.

She raised her head and kept tugging on Xu Luofeng's clothes, jumping around his legs and shouting: "Father, father! Is it mom? Is it mom?"

Xu Luofeng comforted her: "Be good, it's mom."

Before handing over the phone to Mu Xiaotao, he finally softened his voice on the phone, the aloof aura he had before was gone, and there was even a bit of humility in his tone: "Yingying, Xiaotao...seems to be sick."

Mu Fengying was dumbfounded: "Ah? What's going on?!"

Mu Fengying and Mu Xiaotao talked for a while, and Xu Luofeng discovered that Mu Xiaotao learned to report good news and not bad news at a young age.She kept saying good things about Xu Luofeng, saying that her father took her to the supermarket, her father took her to eat pizza, her father braided her hair, her father helped her take a bath... She chattered non-stop, and He never mentioned Feng Yunxiu's injury, and wondered if Mu Yang had taught her.

In the end, Mu Xiaotao reluctantly said goodbye to Mu Fengying, and returned the phone to Xu Luofeng.

Mu Fengying said to him: "Xiaotao is not in good health, you send her to my parents. My parents are very experienced in taking care of Xiaotao since childhood."

She just spoke very bluntly, but it seemed to have a special meaning in Xu Luofeng's ears. He nodded and said, "I know they are very experienced."

Mu Fengying didn't notice the weirdness in his tone, and said, "Xiaotao doesn't need to go to the hospital right away because of her current situation. When she goes to the hospital, the doctor just hangs her with water. It's really not good."

Xu Luofeng frowned: "What if it gets worse?"

Mu Fengying said patiently: "That's why parents should pay attention to observe her face and mental state, as well as the shape of her stool, whether she is sweating or not, and how her appetite is. Remember to take her temperature every few hours." She smiled. Laughing, "Do you think it's easy to be a parent? If a child runs to the hospital as soon as he has symptoms, the doctor will be busy. If her body temperature is not high, you should first help her cool down physically, uh...do you know about physical cooling? If you don’t know, just Baidu.”

Xu Luofeng was silent, Mu Fengying felt that what she said to him was useless, and sighed: "Forget it, forget it, don't worry about it, hurry up and send Xiaotao to my parents..."

Xu Luofeng said suddenly: "When are you coming back?"

"Huh?" She didn't react, and subconsciously replied, "Probably next Thursday or next Friday."

"Next Saturday will be New Year's Eve."

"I know, but I really can't get away these few days." Speaking of this, Mu Fengying suddenly came to her senses, and said in a blunt tone, "This should be none of your business!"

Xu Luofeng raised his eyebrows, thinking why not?You will come back in four or five days, and I will have to take care of Mu Xiaotao alone for four or five days. Just thinking about it is a little scary.

But he wouldn't talk to Mu Fengying about this, Xu Luofeng perfunctorily said that he would send Xiaotao to his grandfather's house, and ended the call with Mu Fengying.

He turned on the computer to find out what physical cooling was, and after reading it, he temporarily gave up the idea of ​​taking Mu Xiaotao to the hospital.He wiped his daughter's body, put a cold towel on his forehead, fed her a large glass of water, played with her for a while, and started preparing lunch.

Xu Luofeng looked at the quick-frozen stock in his refrigerator, and made a microwave-egg fried rice for Mu Xiaotao, and a tomato soup with soup packets, but after the food was served, Mu Xiaotao only took a bite of the fried rice and lost interest.

She pushed the bowl and chopsticks and said, "I don't want to eat this."

Xu Luofeng said softly: "This is delicious, Xiaotao, try it."

“Not tasty at all!”

"Don't Xiaotao usually like to eat fried rice with eggs?"

"I like to eat egg fried rice made by my mother!"

Xu Luofeng's complexion was a little gloomy: "Xiao Tao, don't be picky eaters."

Mu Xiaotao was very unhappy, but she didn't cry. Perhaps Xu Luofeng's stern tone played a role. The little guy sat at the dining table and reluctantly ate the fried rice. Xu Luofeng looked at her with satisfaction, but she didn't expect Mu Xiaotao to eat After a few spoonfuls, I suddenly felt nauseous, a little nauseous.

Xu Luofeng hurried over to pat her on the back, Mu Xiaotao tried hard to swallow for a long time but still couldn't swallow a mouthful of food, so she could only spit it all on the table, turned her head and said to Xu Luofeng aggrievedly: "Dad, I really I can't eat anymore..."

The little girl's face was yellow and her eyes were dull, so Xu Luofeng naturally wouldn't force her anymore.But she can't do without eating. He hugged Mu Xiaotao's small body and asked, "Xiaotao, you have to eat lunch. Then tell Dad, what do you want to eat?"

Mu Xiaotao frowned and thought about it, and finally said: "I want to eat fish porridge made by my mother!"

Xu Luofeng: "..."

Mu Fengying is very good at making porridge, so there are shrimp porridge, garden vegetable porridge, mushroom and polenta porridge, but Mu Xiaotao's favorite is a raw fish porridge, which she calls fish fish porridge.Every time Mu Fengying buys black fish with fewer fish bones, she will slice thin fish meat to make fish porridge for her daughter, and cook the rest of the fish into fish soup, which is very delicious.

Xu Luofeng ate fish porridge twice with his daughter's light, and it was indeed a lot of aftertaste, but... He looked at Mu Xiaotao's eager eyes, and said reluctantly: "Mom is not here now, I can't make fish porridge."

Mu Xiaotao asked suspiciously: "Can't Dad know how to do it?"

Xu Luofeng smiled: "Father can't, only mother can do it."

"That's not it!" Mu Xiaotao said unconvinced, "Grandpa and grandma both know how to do it!"

In desperation, Xu Luofeng called Cheng Xu's house. Cheng's mother was good at cooking, and Xu Luofeng used to go to Cheng Xu's house to have dinner when he was a child, and he had a deep understanding of this.

Doctor Cheng answered the call, and both he and his wife found out from Cheng Xu that Xu Luofeng suddenly had a daughter.Xu Luofeng took the opportunity to ask him about Mu Xiaotao's illness. After hearing the situation, Dr. Cheng felt that Mu Xiaotao was not serious. He suggested to observe mainly. If you feel worried, you can go to the pharmacy and buy her some children's cold medicine.

Xu Luofeng took a note of paper and wrote down the name of the medicine that Dr. Cheng said, and said, "Old Man Cheng, is Auntie there? I want to ask her something."

Dr. Cheng was very surprised: "What's the matter? You and I have agreed."

"You don't know, I want to ask her."

"What will she know that I don't know!"

"I want to ask her how to make fish porridge, do you know?"

"..." Doctor Cheng was silent for a while, then shouted, "Honey, come and answer Luo Feng's call!"

Xu Luofeng simply told Cheng's mother what happened, and Cheng's mother giggled when she heard it. After telling him in detail, Xu Luofeng just took a pen to write down on the paper, Cheng's mother sighed, and simply said: : "Come on, I'm going to buy a black fish, let's make it for your daughter at your house, and let me see the little guy by the way."

Xu Luofeng couldn't wait for it: "Okay, by the way, Auntie, I'd like to trouble you to buy me some children's medicine."

"no problem!"

Xu Luofeng hung up the phone happily, and said to Mu Xiaotao, "We'll have fish porridge in a while."

He simply cleaned the room and waited for Cheng's mother to arrive.Mu Xiaotao lay bored on the sofa, she was running a fever, her head was a little dizzy, and she looked listless.

After cleaning, Xu Luofeng went to her side. He picked up his daughter, let her head rest on his lap, and asked, "Xiao Tao, are you feeling bad?"

Mu Xiaotao nodded, and Xu Luofeng took out a thermometer to help her measure her temperature. It was 38.1 degrees. He fed her another half a glass of water, twisted a cold towel and put it on her forehead.

"Want to watch a cartoon? Princess Jasmine." he asked.

Mu Xiaotao shook her head.

"Well... Daddy will play with fishing toys with you, okay?"

Mu Xiaotao shook her head again.

"Then let's paint together?"

Keep shaking your head.

"Want some fruit?"

Mu Xiaotao leaned into his arms and said sullenly, "I don't want to eat."

Xu Luofeng was at a loss: "Then you take a rest, Dad will accompany you."

Xu Luofeng's house had a high floor, and the TV was not turned on in the living room, so there was almost no sound.Mu Xiaotao lay in Xu Luofeng's arms, gradually feeling sleepy.

There was a rustling sound in her ears suddenly. Mu Xiaotao opened her eyes, turned her head curiously, and found that it was Xu Luofeng who was making the paper.There is always a stack of A4 papers under his coffee table, some white and other colors. Mu Xiaotao has never seen Xu Luofeng use these papers. She secretly took a few red and yellow papers to draw on. go talk to her.

She turned her head to stare at the movements in Xu Luofeng's hands. He slowly folded a piece of light green paper. The paper was not very thin, but it was quite firm when folded. After a while, he folded out a frog.

"Little frog!" Mu Xiaotao's drowsiness was completely awakened, she got up, Xu Luofeng handed the paper frog to her hand, and said, "Here you are."

"Thank you, Dad." Mu Xiaotao played with the frog for a while. Seeing that she couldn't play, Xu Luofeng took the frog and put it on the coffee table, pressed his finger on its tail, and when he let go, the frog jumped forward.

"Wow..." Mu Xiaotao found it very interesting, and followed Xu Luofeng's example to press the frog's tail. The paper frog jumped up, and she clapped her hands happily, "Dad, Daddy, the little frog can jump!"

"Hmm." Seeing that she liked it, Xu Luofeng smiled softly.

Mu Xiaotao took out another piece of paper and handed it to him: "Father, can you make me another frog?"

"Okay." Xu Luofeng took the paper, cut it to size and folded it again.

From childhood to adulthood, he has folded countless frogs. In his limited memory of childhood, these paper frogs are his best friends. When he was locked in the house of his grandparents, they were the only ones who kept him company.

"Father is great!" Seeing that Xu Luofeng had folded a bigger frog, Mu Xiaotao admired it very much. She clamored to learn it, but Xu Luofeng didn't mind the trouble, and began to teach her by hand.

When Mu Xiaotao folded the first green paper frog with Xu Luofeng's help, she was very happy and asked her father to compete with her father on who could jump the farthest frog. Mu Xiaotao danced happily there.

After the two of them played for a while, Mu Xiaotao got a little tired, so she climbed onto Xu Luofeng again, playing with the frog over and over again.Xu Luofeng looked down at her innocent eyes, and said, "Xiao Tao, dad will tell you a story about a little frog, okay?"

Mu Xiaotao said absently, "Okay."

Xu Luofeng said: "A long time ago, there was a little boy who lived in the forest with his grandparents. The grandparents said that there were many monsters in the forest, so the little boy was not allowed to go out to play. The little boy was locked at home every day. He is very lonely and wants to play with the children, but he can’t go out, so he can only lie by the window every day, secretly watching other children in the forest play games. Every year on his birthday, he always Make a wish, I hope I can grow up quickly and leave the forest."

Mu Xiaotao asked, "Is he going to find his parents?"

Xu Luofeng shook his head: "No, it's not."

"What about his parents?"

"Well... I don't know. They probably work out of town. Anyway, the little boy is not with them."

"Just like Dad!" Mu Xiaotao asked, "Did they come back later? Did they come back to see the little boy?"

"No, they didn't come back, this story is not about the little boy's parents."

"..." Mu Xiaotao blinked her eyes, and didn't pursue the question any further, she just said, "What happened next?"

"Later...then there was a man who taught a little boy to origami a frog. The man said that the frog would become a good friend of the little boy, and they would never leave him. The little boy firmly remembered the man's words, and every day When he feels lonely, he can't help but fold the frog, and he will tell the frog what he thinks in his heart. He feels that the frog can replace his parents and accompany him..."

Mu Xiaotao interrupted: "Who is this person?"

Xu Luofeng recalled it carefully, shook his head and said, "I forgot."

Mu Xiaotao said again: "What happened next?"

Xu Luofeng lowered his head and smiled at her: "Afterwards, there were no more."

"there is none left?"

"Well, no more."

Mu Xiaotao didn't understand the story at all, so she asked unwillingly, "Did the frog become a prince?"

Xu Luofeng laughed: "No, the frog didn't become a prince."

"Has the little boy found his parents?"

"No, the little boy never went to see his parents."

This story didn't satisfy Mu Xiaotao, she pouted and said, "He's so pitiful."

"Poor?" Xu Luofeng looked at her in a daze, and after thinking for a while, said, "Actually, something happened later... The little boy grew up, and he finally walked out of the forest and met a beautiful girl. Girl, they got married and gave birth to a lovely baby. The boy no longer needs the company of the frog. Since then, he, his wife and the baby have lived a happy life together. Does Xiaotao still feel sorry for him? "

Mu Xiaotao was a little confused, but she understood the last two sentences.

"It's not pitiful." She lay on Xu Luofeng's lap, looked up at him, and said suddenly, "Dad, I suddenly want to talk to you."

"Huh?" Xu Luofeng smiled and hugged Mu Xiaotao, and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Mu Xiaotao blushed, leaned close to Xu Luofeng's ear, and whispered, "Dad, I love you."

Xu Luofeng was stunned.

Mu Xiaotao clung to him like a puddle of ooze, and said in a sweet voice, "Mom taught me."

Xu Luofeng fell into deep thought.

He hurt Mu Fengying, whether it was intentional or unintentional, he just hurt her.He was an asshole back then, no doubt about it.But after getting along with Mu Fengying these days, he found that Mu Fengying had never said anything bad about him in front of Mu Xiaotao.

This was unexpected by Xu Luofeng.

When he was a child, he heard a lot of quarrels between his parents. They never shy away from him, slandering each other with the sharpest and most vicious words.When Luo Yuqun took Xu Luofeng alone, he always spoke ill of Xu Pingchuan, saying that he was incompetent, poor, and of low quality, and even beat women.When Xu Pingchuan took Xu Luofeng with him, he would say that Luo Yuqun was dissolute, vulgar, gossipy, flirtatious...

Therefore, when Xu Luofeng learned of Mu Xiaotao's existence, he was so worried that he couldn't sleep at night. He guessed what Mu Fengying would say about him in front of Mu Xiaotao. ...

Xu Luofeng really didn't expect that Mu Fengying created an image of a silent and busy father in front of Mu Xiaotao.

The legendary father was working out of town, very busy, and had no time to come back to visit Xiaotao, but he loved her very much.

Not only that, Mu Fengying also asked her parents and relatives not to speak ill of Xu Luofeng in front of Mu Xiaotao, even if they didn't know who Xiaotao's father was, Mu Fengying just asked them to carry out a purpose. Love her.

After waiting for more than an hour, the doorbell rang. Xu Luofeng picked up Mu Xiaotao and went to open the door. He said, "The grandma who came is the mother of a good brother of my father, so Xiaotao wants to call grandma, you know?"

Mu Xiaotao nodded obediently.

After Xu Luofeng opened the door and saw who was coming, his whole body was petrified.

Mother Cheng was standing at the door carrying a large bag of vegetables, followed by Luo Yuqun with a frightened face.

Mu Xiaotao didn't know anything, she looked at the two women who were about the same age as her grandmother in front of her, remembered Xu Luofeng's words, and called out sweetly: "Grandma!"

Xu Luofeng's face turned dark all of a sudden, Cheng's mother was a little embarrassed, and Luo Yuqun was stunned.

(End of this chapter)