mtl008 Chapter 429
Chapter 429
On the child's first birthday, Zhong Ruyi made a cake for him, which made Chen Miaomiao so happy that she jumped for joy. Although she couldn't utter a complete sentence yet, she showed her love for the cake through her actions.
She couldn't hold the cake and could only watch helplessly, but her hands were tightly holding Zhong Ruyi's legs, and her cheek was rubbing against her neck when she squatted down.
"Can the child eat this?" Chen's mother was traumatized by the previous incident of allergic reaction to mangoes. Now she always asks questions when she sees her child eating something.
Zhong Ruyi nodded, "She can eat, just don't let her eat too much, or she won't eat at night."
So the children who came to celebrate Miaomiao's first birthday today each got a piece. As the host, Chen Miaomiao got the smallest piece, but she just wanted to have something to eat and didn't care about the size at all.
In other words, she is young and easy to fool now. If she were older and could see things more clearly, she would probably make a fuss.
Apart from the gifts given by adults, the gift given by Kang Kang among the children is the one that Miao Miao likes the most.
It was a palm-sized kitten that Kang Kang begged Zhong Laosan to buy for him when he saw it in town.
Upon learning that his son wanted to give it to his sister as a first birthday gift, Zhong Laosan bought it readily.
However, gifts should be thoughtful. Kang Kang gave all the New Year's money he received over the years to his father, and only asked his father to make up for the remaining shortfall.
Children simply cannot resist such cute and adorable things, and Miaomiao is no exception. After receiving her favorite kitten, she will hold it in her arms all day and night, and even want to sleep with it at night.
Zhong Ruyi strictly forbade her to do so. She said with a straight face, "The kitten hasn't had a bath yet. Give it a bath tomorrow and then hold it to sleep! Let it sleep at the foot of the bed tonight."
What she cares more about is the fact that cats and dogs were not vaccinated in ancient times. She is worried that the bacteria and viruses on cats and dogs will be transmitted to children. Even if she needs to sleep, she must bathe her children frequently to stay healthy and hygienic.
Chen Miaomiao didn't understand, she only knew that her mother wouldn't let her do that. She looked at her father and saw that he also had a serious face. She could only put the kitten in a small nest made of old clothes beside the bed.
When sleeping at night, the little guy was very restless. He kept lying on Chen Dongzhi who was sleeping on the outside and tried to look over him to see the kitten outside the bed curtain.
After being stopped by Chen Dongzhi several times, he felt sleepy and lay down to sleep.
In the middle of the night, Chen Dongzhi turned over and put his hand on Zhong Ruyi.
He suddenly felt as if something was missing. He opened his eyes suddenly and found that Miaomiao, who was sleeping between them, was gone!
It was such a cold day that Chen Dongzhi was frightened to the point of breaking out in a cold sweat. When he opened the bed curtain, he saw Chen Miaomiao lying next to the cat's bed!
The cold light from outside the window shone down. Chen Miaomiao was wearing a thin undershirt. She put one hand on the cat's body and the other hand on her side. But it was obvious that the ground was cold, so she curled up.
Chen Dongzhi was so angry that he almost laughed. Didn't he allow the cat to sleep on the bed so he had to get out of bed and sleep with it?
The noise naturally woke up Zhong Ruyi. She looked at Chen Dongzhi with some surprise as he picked Miaomiao up from the ground, and asked in a low voice, "Why did you fall asleep on the ground? Is your sleeping posture so bad?"
She didn't see Chen Miaomiao's hand on the cat. When she woke up, she only saw the man picked up the child from the ground.
After Chen Miaomiao was carried back to the warm bed, the color of her lips, which had turned pale due to the cool air on the ground, gradually brightened up, and her hands and feet also stretched out.
At this time, Chen Dongzhi whispered that he had just seen the child sleeping with the cat, "I thought he was honest, but it turns out he is more cunning than anyone else!"
Zhong Ruyi was shocked and angry. She looked at her daughter's rosy cheeks as she slept and couldn't help but hold her little hand. She wanted to slap her gently twice, but she was frightened by the slightly cool temperature of her hands and quickly covered them with her hands.
The next morning, as expected, Chen Miaomiao began to have a runny nose and cough a few times.
But she still held the little kitten in her arms and refused to let go. She held it while eating, bathing, and sleeping.
Zhong Ruyi got angry and ordered her to send the cat away if she didn't eat well.
Because she had a cold, Chen Dongzhi took her to see a doctor again, who prescribed some medicine. He hardened his heart and made her drink two bowls of medicine a day to let her know that it was wrong to sleep on the ground in such cold weather.
After a few days of taking the bitter medicine, Chen's mother couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to help plead for mercy. She didn't know what was wrong with the couple? Why did they suddenly treat their granddaughter so coldly? How could the child bear this?
Xiaoman also had some complaints. Every time his niece came to him after taking the medicine, her eyelashes were wet with tears. She looked so pitiful! Children should be taken good care of when they are sick. Why are his brother and sister-in-law so fierce?
The two of them did not tell Chen's mother Xiaoman about the child sleeping on the floor, so they felt upset when they heard their dissatisfied accusations.
"...Mom, you can spoil your child, but you must never overindulge him. Did you know that Miaomiao climbed out of bed and slept on the floor for half the night in order to sleep with the cat a few days ago?"
what?
Mother Chen was shocked.
Xiaoman didn't say anything, but looked at her innocent niece with an accusing look: How dare you be so bold? In this December, if you get up early in the morning, you can see the frost hanging on the branches on the grass. How dare you sleep on the ground? It seems that you should drink bitter medicine!
Mother Chen said awkwardly, "You didn't tell me. Miaomiao's behavior was indeed unkind, but she is also a loving child. What does a child know? She acted like this because she felt pity for the kitten sleeping on the ground. You should just talk to her and stop being so mean."
Do you want to hear what you are saying?
It was obvious that the expressions of her son and daughter-in-law made Chen's mother realize that what she said was biased, so she stopped talking.
Chen Miaomiao didn't understand what the adults were saying to each other, and she just kept holding the cat and playing with the tiger-head doll.
Because the child might think it was unfair that people slept on the bed while cats slept on the floor, Chen Dongzhi made a small bed for the cat and put some old clothes on it, which was enough to keep it warm.
Sure enough, in the second half of the night Miaomiao no longer sneaked out of bed to look for the cat, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
As the New Year is approaching, lights and decorations are hung everywhere. The couple took their children to the town to buy New Year's goods.
When passing by a stall selling candy figures, Chen Dongzhi bought a tiger candy figure for his daughter and coaxed her into kissing him twice on the face.
After buying New Year's goods, Zhong Ruyi went to a restaurant to distribute this year's bonuses. As many foreign merchants came to Liuyun Town in the past two years, the business of restaurants and hotels in the town had been better, so Zhong Ruyi readily gave an extra month's salary in the past two years, as well as ten kilograms of pork, twenty kilograms of rice, and two old hens.
There is a small courtyard in the town. Someone was hired to clean it before the New Year. When February Xiaoman, Shitou and others are going to Guangning County to take the children's exam, this courtyard will be used as a place for them to stay and they will rush over when the time comes.
Xiaoman, Shitou, Xiaohe, Li Yang, Li Zhi and others are together this time. They are all of age, and the teacher also said that they can give it a try this year.
So they agreed to travel together, so that they would not have no one to talk to when they encountered problems in an unfamiliar place.