Cub's Dad Chapter 33

 Chapter 33

Seeing the shower of flower petals on the screen, Xie Yishu's first reaction was that the other party had entered the wrong amount for the reward, or mistakenly thought that "Blossoming Flowers" was the same as "Single Flower," which only cost one interstellar credit.

Looking at the user's profile, it was a new user, so either situation was possible.

Worried that the other party might be anxious, Xie Yishu directly sent a private message.

【She Yu: Hello.】

【She Yu: Did you enter the wrong amount just now? I'm not sure if the platform can refund it, but I can return half of what I received to you.】

【She Yu: Just send me a payment code.】

The other party did not reply for a long time.

Xie Yishu guessed that they might be too anxious and had directly contacted customer service.

So he sent two more private messages.

【She Yu: I have some other matters to attend to, so I'll be logging off now.】

【She Yu: I'll be online before tomorrow's livestream. Once I see the payment code, I'll refund the money to you directly. Don't worry, I won't run off with your money.】 After sending these messages, Xie Yishu waited for a while longer.

Seeing that the messages still showed as "unread," Xie Yishu decided not to wait any longer. He packed up his materials, took his light brain, and walked out of the small room.

At this time, Xie Yishu was unaware that the platform's homepage had a recommendation slot based on the daily rewards received by each streamer, nor did he know that his livestream room had caused a sensation on an anonymous forum once it appeared there.

A post titled 【Are New Streamers Nowadays Desperate for Fame? With Pictures, Come Quickly】 was rapidly gaining replies, jumping to the top of the forum's homepage. In less than ten minutes, it became the hottest post of the night.

Xie Yishu was unaware of these happenings on StarNet.

He pushed open the door of the small room and saw the father and son sitting at the dining table.

The father and son were both engrossed in their studies, with Gu Yanzhi reading a book on auto repair and Bo Zai leaning over the dining table, working on arithmetic problems.

Seeing Xie Yishu come out, Bo Zai dropped his pencil and ran over, burying his chubby face in Xie Yishu's leg, and called out pitifully, "Little Dad."

He couldn't compete with Dad!

"What's wrong?" Xie Yishu squatted down and saw that the little chubby boy's eyes were red. He looked so small, pitiful, and chubby, it was heart-wrenching!

"Bo Zai, Bo Zai is doing arithmetic problems with five-digit numbers divided by three-digit numbers." The little chubby boy couldn't tell Mom that Dad had taken his number one spot on the leaderboard, so he could only express his sadness, "Ten thousand divided by one hundred equals one hundred, it's too hard!"

His little treasury compared to Dad's big treasury was like a tiny grain of rice encountering a whole granary full of rice.

Catching up to Dad was too difficult!!

Xie Yishu was taken aback: "Bo Zai, you're already learning to divide five-digit numbers by three-digit numbers?"

When he was Bo Zai's age, he probably only knew how to play with mud.

Xie Yishu felt a bit sentimental.

Bo Zai's chubby face turned red.

He only knew that ten thousand divided by one hundred equals one hundred; he couldn't do the rest yet.

"It's not that..." The little chubby boy felt a bit ashamed.

Gu Yanzhi stepped in to explain, "It's a pattern recognition problem, the kind where you figure out how many zeros are left when dividing several zeros by several zeros."

Xie Yishu understood and reached out to pinch Bo Zai's chubby cheek, smiling, "That's still very impressive, much better than I was at your age."

When he was young, the Mutong Orphanage had financial difficulties, and despite Mama Zhang and the others trying their best, they couldn't afford to send them to kindergarten. The donated books were few, and they had to read the same book over and over.

Although Mama Zhang and the others tried to find time to teach them literacy and arithmetic, their early education was still delayed compared to other children their age. This led to him and Ning Buzhuo being looked down upon when they first started elementary school because they couldn't keep up with the pace.

In the past five years, although Gu Yanzhi hadn't lived well himself, he always gave Bo Zai the best.

Most of the books on the bookshelf belonged to Bo Zai.

The ones related to auto repair were carefully preserved, intended to be sold on second-hand platforms later. The books Bo Zai read, however, were marked with pencil and crayon, showing that Gu Yanzhi didn't restrict his son's natural curiosity.

"I bought him several books from this series on numbers and arithmetic," Gu Yanzhi said, putting away the book on the dining table. He thought for a moment and added his own supplement to Aunt Qiu's wisdom, "After all, 'no matter how poor, we can't skimp on education.'"

Xie Yishu wholeheartedly agreed.

He bent down to pick up the little chubby boy, "Tomorrow, I'll teach you the patterns in those problems. But for now, let's go take a bath."

Children needed to go to bed early, and Xie Yishu also needed to sleep early. He had taken half a day off today and couldn't take another day off tomorrow.

Gu Yanzhi also needed to sleep early. Although he was used to staying up late and wouldn't be able to fall asleep at this hour, just lying in bed with Xie Yishu was good enough.

All three of them were preparing to go to bed early, but they quickly discovered a problem.

Although the rental had two bedrooms and a living room, there was only one bed.

And it was a small bed, just 1.5 meters wide.

Normally, it was fine for Gu Yanzhi and Bo Zai to sleep together, but now there was an additional Xie Yishu.

Two grown men and a little chubby boy made it a bit cramped.

Gu Yanzhi pressed his thin lips together, realizing he hadn't thought things through. Before Xie Yishu could speak, he said, "You and Bo Zai take the bed, I'll sleep in the living room."

"You and Bo Zai take the bed, I'll sleep on the sofa," Xie Yishu countered, unwilling to let Gu Yanzhi sleep on the sofa. Gu Yanzhi worked so hard repairing cars every day and needed a good rest. "Bo Zai is used to sleeping with you; he won't be comfortable sleeping with me."

Gu Yanzhi was about to insist when another voice, equally unwilling to let Xie Yishu sleep on the sofa, spoke up first: "Little Dad, you have to get up early for kindergarten tomorrow. It's hard work, you can't sleep on the sofa!"

The little chubby boy, feeling heartbroken at the thought of Mom sleeping alone in the living room, blurted out before his little brain could catch up: "How about Bo Zai sleeps on the sofa!"

Rather than letting Mom sleep on the sofa, he would rather take her place!

Bo Zai secretly clenched his chubby fists, and the next second, he noticed that both Dad and Mom's gazes were fixed on him.

Dad's gaze carried approval, while Mom's seemed thoughtful.

"Dad... Little Dad..." The chubby little boy felt a bit panicked.

Had he said something wrong? Why were both Mom and Dad looking at him?

That night.

Bo Zai looked at the double small sofa that had been moved next to the bed, lost in thought.

Actually, he really wanted to sleep with Mom.

It wasn't that he didn't feel sorry for Dad, but even if Dad slept in the living room, he could call the driver uncle a bit later and have him take him back to his old place, where he could sleep alone in a big bed without really needing to sleep in the living room.

According to the little script he had thought up, after he said, "How about Bo Zai sleeps on the sofa," Dad should have taken over and said it would be better for him to sleep on the sofa. Then he and Dad would persuade Mom, letting Mom sleep with him while Dad slept alone.

But why had it turned into Mom and Dad sleeping together intimately while he slept on the small sofa next to them?

The little playwright looked at the now crowded bedroom with the added sofa, tilting his little head in confusion.

Xie Yishu, seeing Bo Zai's contemplative little back, whispered to Gu Yanzhi, "Bo Zai doesn't seem to want to sleep on the sofa. How about I sleep in the living room instead?" The small sofa was too small for him; he would have to sleep on the long sofa in the living room that couldn't be moved in.

Gu Yanzhi glanced at the chubby little boy and whispered, "Let's let him endure it for one night. Tomorrow, I'll check the second-hand market. If there's a suitable, good-quality small bed, I'll buy one for him."

Gu Yanzhi thought for a moment, "He's already five years old; it's time he learned to sleep on his own."

Xie Yishu looked at Bo Zai's pitiful little back, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded.

Bo Zai's little ears twitched, realizing that he was destined to sleep on the small sofa tonight. Resigned to his fate, he tiptoed on his chubby feet, huffed and puffed as he climbed onto the bed, crawled across it, and snuggled into the small blanket already laid out on the double sofa. He turned his head and waved to Mom and Dad, "Come sleep."

Xie Yishu chuckled and got into bed as well.

Bo Zai propped himself up, leaned over, and affectionately nuzzled into Xie Yishu's embrace, "Goodnight, Little Dad."

"Goodnight, Bo Zai."

Bo Zai returned to his little blanket, and Xie Yishu tucked him in. Seeing that Gu Yanzhi had also gotten into bed, he turned off the light.

As soon as he lay down, he fell into a warm embrace.

Xie Yishu turned around and, out of habit from the past, reflexively reached up to stroke Gu Yanzhi's hair, smoothing it down a couple of times, and softly said, "Goodnight."

Gu Yanzhi just held him without speaking. Xie Yishu knew he was still a bit uneasy, so he let him hold on. After a long time, long enough that Xie Yishu was almost asleep, he finally heard a low response, "Goodnight."

Moonlight filtered in through the gaps in the curtains.

The little chubby boy didn't have trouble sleeping in a new place and was already sleeping soundly. Gu Yanzhi quietly watched the person in his arms, silently tracing his features with his eyes over and over again. After a while, he placed a gentle kiss on the side of his neck.

His Xiao Shu was in his arms.

Bo Zai, having gone to bed early, woke up early as well.

At five years old, he was no longer a baby who didn't understand anything, so he could go to the bathroom by himself. He tiptoed from the sofa to the edge of the bed, then turned his back to the bed and stretched his short legs to reach his little slippers on the floor.

After using the bathroom, Bo Zai intended to return to the small sofa for a bit more sleep. Climbing back onto the bed, he was surprised to find that there was now an empty spot!

Dad was tightly holding Mom, sleeping in the center of the bed, leaving an empty space on the side that could easily fit another person like him!

Oh, if he had known this, he would have slept with Mom and Dad last night!

But it wasn’t too late to find out now.

Bo Zai happily picked up his little blanket, turned around, and snuggled up to Xie Yishu, covering both himself and Mom with the blanket.

He closed his eyes again and drifted back into a sweet sleep, nestled against Mom.

Xie Yishu woke up from the heat.

Anyone would wake up from the heat if they were tightly hugged by a large heat source in front and closely snuggled by a small heat source in the back, with both a large and a small thick blanket covering them, even in this season.

Xie Yishu couldn't get up without disturbing the two "heat sources," so he had to gently push Gu Yanzhi to wake him up first.

Waking up Gu Yanzhi inevitably disturbed the small heat source behind him.

Bo Zai rubbed his eyes with his chubby little hands, waking up, and rolled into Xie Yishu's arms, happily saying, "Good morning, Little Dad!"

He stretched out his chubby arms to hug Mom, only to belatedly realize that Mom seemed to have sweated quite a bit. "Little Dad? What's wrong?"

When Xie Yishu came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, what he saw was the father and son sitting silently at the dining table, reflecting on themselves.

This scene was quite amusing to Xie Yishu, who chuckled, pulled out a chair, and sat down opposite them: "Actually, it was just a little bit hot..."

Gu Yanzhi said in a low voice, "I'll order a small bed on StarNet today."

He hadn't expected Bo Zai to wake up in the middle of the night.

Bo Zai, mimicking his dad, also lowered his chubby little face and mumbled, "Bo Zai will only sleep in the small bed from now on."

He didn't mean to make Mom too hot.

Xie Yishu was thoroughly amused by the father and son in front of him. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Actually, if it were winter now, sleeping like this would be very comfortable."

After all, with a big heater on one side and a small heater on the other, the bed would be warm and cozy, and there would be no need to turn on the heating.

It would even save on heating costs.

Bo Zai eagerly nodded his chubby little face: "Then when winter comes, Bo Zai will get back in bed and sleep with Little Dad."

In winter, he could be useful. Grandpa, Grandma, and Dad all said he was a little sun; he could warm Mom's bed.

The "big sun" glanced at the little chubby boy but said nothing.

They all had breakfast together.

After breakfast, Xie Yishu took Bo Zai to Yunshang Kindergarten. Gu Yanzhi saw them off onto the maglev bus and only turned back towards Kangle Community once the bus had departed.

He took out another key and opened the door to the apartment across the hall.

Aunt Qiu had changed her work hours; she now came to work every afternoon at three and left at nine in the evening.

She no longer did household chores but played the role of the "kind-hearted landlord" in front of Xie Yishu.

Aunt Qiu didn't need to come in the morning, so Gu Yanzhi wouldn't be disturbed while working. He opened the light screen, read some work-related emails, and replied to a few. Then he opened his light brain and entered Xie Yishu's livestream room.

Yesterday, he saw that Xie Yishu had recorded all his past livestreams, organized them, and uploaded them to the main page.

Gu Yanzhi planned to rewatch all the livestreams he had missed. Even if he couldn't see his face, just hearing his voice would be good enough.

As he thought about this, he tapped the screen and noticed three small red dots in the upper right corner.

He clicked on the red dots and discovered that Xiao Shu had sent him several private messages last night.

Reading the content of the messages, Gu Yanzhi could imagine his lover's earnest expression while typing them.

A smile flashed in Gu Yanzhi's eyes as he opened the chat window and replied to the messages.

Xie Yishu was becoming more and more proficient in his work as a caregiver. He could complete his preparation tasks within half an hour of arriving at work, and then it was just a matter of waiting for the children in their Little Mushroom class to arrive.

While Bo Zai was playing with toys, Xie Yishu opened the livestream platform to check if there were any replies from "7788219" from yesterday.

He opened the private message interface and saw two replies.

【7788219: No mistake.】

【7788219: You deserve it.】

Xie Yishu was stunned for a moment and hadn't yet decided how to respond when he received another private message.

The other party's tone was urgent.

【Crafting World Boss: Teacher She Yu, Teacher She Yu! Have you seen the forum?】 

Forum?

Xie Yishu was just about to ask which forum when the other party sent three more messages in quick succession.

【Crafting World Boss: I guess you might not have seen it yet. Teacher She Yu, you need to check the forum quickly!】

【Crafting World Boss: [Image][Image][Image]】

【Crafting World Boss: Look for these posts!】

Xie Yishu opened the images, and the first thing he saw were several bold headlines.

#Trending: Are New Streamers Nowadays Desperate for Fame? With Pictures, Come Quickly#

#Trending: Non-Holographic Streamers Daring to Make It to the Homepage? Can Afford to Top the Charts but Not a Holographic Room?#

#Trending: Let's Dig Into What This Unconventional New Streamer Has Been Livestreaming These Days. Teddy Bear Plushies? I'm Laughing My Head Off#

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