Zhang Tan did not take Xiaobai back to his bedroom, but slept on Xiaobai's bed.
"Old man, you are holding the doll, hahahaha~~~"
Xiao Bai gave Zhang Tan a little beauty doll. Seeing the old man holding the doll looked so funny, he laughed so hard.
"It's soft. It's really comfortable to hold. It makes it easier to sleep." Zhang Tan said without any embarrassment at all. He held the doll sideways in his arms like a baby and swayed it around as if it was being coaxed to sleep.
, this made Xiaobai laugh.
"Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore, or you won't be able to sleep tonight."
Zhang Tan lay down and asked Xiaobai to lie down quickly and stop jumping and rolling on the bed.
Upon hearing this, Xiaobai rolled a few times on the quilt, rolled to Zhang Tan's side, propped up his upper body with both hands, and asked Zhang Tan curiously: "Old man, are you the only one who knows your mother?"
"You want to know?"
"Yeah, yeah, tell me."
"She and I met in Huangjiacun, in your mother's shop."
"Oh - in my mom's shop -"
Xiaobai suddenly realized that her baby mother was Tang Yu.
Zhang Tan did meet Bai Yuxin in Tang Yu's bar.
"Do you know each other?" Xiaobai asked, very interested in the affairs of his parents.
Zhang Tan tried his best to recall: "My friends and I went to your mother's shop, and then we saw your mother. Wow, I thought at the time, your mother is so beautiful..."
Zhang Tan's words were half true and half false, trying to leave a good memory for Xiaobai.
Xiaobai's eyes lit up when he heard this, and his face was filled with excitement. His Bagua antenna had already been fully opened, and it was beeping non-stop, trying to collect all the information.
The more she listened, the more energetic she became. She kept asking questions and asking for every detail. Zhang Tan was so confused that he couldn't handle it if he didn't take it seriously.
Xiaobai is already over 7 years old and is no longer fooled. She can tell the truth from falsehood in many things and is no longer the naive little kid she used to be.
"Then, why did you separate from your mother?" Xiaobai asked anxiously.
In the front is the beauty of acquaintance and falling in love, and in the back is the separation of the two.
Xiaobai knew these things. After all, she had lived alone with her mother for a period of time, and she only met Old Man Zhang a few years ago.
She knew all this, and it was impossible for Zhang Tan to make it up for her.
Xiaobai waited anxiously for the answer.
"My father was going to university in Peking, but my mother didn't want me to go, so we quarreled and broke up. At that time, we were both too young and energetic. We didn't really understand love. If we didn't understand it, we wouldn't know how to cherish it. We thought we were free and easy.
, in fact, it was childish and immature, which ended up hurting the other party and causing irreparable regrets..."
As Zhang Tan spoke, he noticed that Xiaobai's eyes were sparkling and filled with tears.
Zhang Tan held her in his arms and continued to tell the story of him and Bai Yuxin softly.
"Mom has Xiaobai in her belly!" Xiaobai said, her tone a bit harsh. She was obviously dissatisfied with Zhang Tan and felt that her father knew that her mother was broken and she still abandoned them.
Zhang Tan: "I'm sorry, Xiaobai, this is all dad's fault. Dad didn't know that mom was pregnant with you. If he had known, no matter what, I would definitely find you..."
"Oh~"
After hearing Zhang Tan's explanation, Xiaobai reluctantly believed it.
Because from the bottom of her heart, she didn't believe that her old man had abandoned her and her mother on purpose.
"Mom must be very sad, she often cries." Xiaobai said, with tears in his eyes.
She lived with Bai Yuxin from birth to two years old. Although her memory is vague, she vaguely remembers some of it because it was so unforgettable.
However, she no longer remembers those things that were too sad and painful, or in other words, she doesn't want to remember them.
Nowadays, all that remains in her heart are the beautiful memories of her mother.
"Mom will teach me how to speak my hometown dialect, ho ho ho, old man, mom, call me chicken, shovel shovel, haha, my mother always said that Xiaobai, Xiaobaikuo is miserable, hehehe——"
Recalling these beautiful memories makes Xiaobai feel sweet.
Zhang Tan was a little surprised and asked, "Did Mom teach you to speak of old man?"
Xiaobai nodded: "Teach me, my mother said that the first thing Xiaobai said was old man, haha~~"
Zhang Tan: "..."
Suddenly, Xiaobai sighed, extremely melancholy, "It would be great if mom was here. It would be great for us to live together, but it's a pity-"
Zhang Tan didn't know what to say, so he could only comfort him: "Mom will be very happy if she sees that I have found you, especially when she sees that you have grown so big, happy, smart and cute, she will be even more pleased."
Xiaobai nodded heavily and said with a smile: "It's not easy for Xiaobai to grow up. I thought I would die, hahaha~"
"Huh? Why do you think so?" Zhang Tan asked.
Xiaobai shook her head and said that she didn't know why she thought so, but she seemed to remember that she almost died of illness several times.
"I almost starved to death, hahaha. Grandma, aunt, and uncle all said it was true. They would definitely not lie to me. Oh, I don't remember. Did I have a dream? I don't remember.
I don’t remember.”
Zhang Tan thought of something, and hugged Xiaobai tighter with distress.
"It's all my fault that I found you too late and made you suffer so much. It would have been better if I had found you earlier."
When Zhang Tan met Xiaobai, Xiaobai was already three years old and almost four years old. They met when they were more than four years old.
Before that, Xiaobai went through a difficult time. He was not able to spend it with Xiaobai, which became his biggest regret.
"It's okay, old man. My grandma, uncle and aunt and I are very happy. They tease me every day."
"In the future, dad will always be with you and grow up with you. However, I hope you grow up slowly, a little slower, not so fast." Zhang Tan said.
He felt huge guilt towards Xiaobai and wanted to make up for it, but since he met Xiaobai, he discovered that time flies and Xiaobai has transformed from the little carrot head he was back then to the big kid he is now.
It seems that in just a blink of an eye, Xiaobai has grown up secretly.
He wanted to spend more time with Xiaobai and make Xiaobai's childhood full of laughter, warmth, joy and happiness.
He wanted to give Xiaobai a better childhood.
"Hahaha--"
Xiaobai smiled and smiled, and suddenly raised his head and asked Zhang Tan: "Do you like Xiaobai to call you old man, or daddy?"
Zhang Tan: "Anything is fine, but sometimes it's better to call me daddy."
"Oh~~Dad~"
Xiaobai suddenly shouted in a low voice.
Zhang sighed and was stunned.
"Didn't hear you clearly? Say it again."
"Haha, I don't, you heard me!"
"I really didn't hear it. Say it again and let me know which one sounds better, the old man or the father."
Xiaobai was laughing and joking. He was embarrassed to call him dad again, so it was more natural to call him "old man".
"Old man, will you always like Xiaobai?"
"Of course, I will love you forever."
"Then do you like Xiwawa or Xiaobai?"
"..."
"Speak!"
"I like you and I also like Xiwawa. You are both good children."
