Mei Xiaoyuan and Mei Zhixi have been living in kindergarten for 2 months.
Although the ways of getting along are different, the children are all trying to adapt to life with their peers.
Next week is the parent-child cooking competition, and each child needs to bring a parent to participate in the competition.
The best cook among the parents is undoubtedly Lin Youxi, who is a chef.
According to the previous agreement with the children, Xia Yuan should bring Mei Xiaoyuan, and Lin Youxi should bring Mei Zhixi to participate in the cooking competition.
Mei Fang, as a spectator, cheered for the wives.
In order to prepare for the parent-child cooking competition, Xia Yuan, who has never been active in cooking, now starts preparing meals for her family every morning.
"Get up, get up!"
"Ah... Is Mother Yuan cooking again today?"
Mei Xiaoyuan held his chin with his hand, looking unhappy.
"What's wrong, Xiao Yuanbao... Don't you like the food that Yuan's mother cooks?"
Xia Yuan, who was originally very excited, looked a little disappointed when he heard his daughter say this, and even his smile lost its tension.
Seeing that her expression was written all over her face, Mei Xiaoyuan quickly explained and comforted her:
"Mother Yuan's cooking is delicious too!"
Little Yuanbao muttered, "But I haven't eaten the food cooked by Xi's mother for a long time..."
Lin Youxi also comforted him, "Little Yuanbao, you should understand Mother Yuan. She wants to practice more. After all, when the cooking competition comes, she will show off her skills with you."
ah…
Indeed, that’s right!
Mei Xiaoyuan's little head was thinking about something.
In the evening, Mei Fang took her daughters out of the bath.
"There's story time tonight. Who wants to listen to daddy tell a story?"
"Me, me!" Mei Xiaoyuan raised her hand excitedly.
"I want one too." Mei Zhixi also raised her hands and hugged Mei Fang's legs.
"Let's go to bed and talk together!"
"Go!"
Mei Xiaoyuan and Mei Zhixi snuggled in Mei Fang's arms, listening to Mei Fang telling them stories in a vivid manner.
Mei Fang had experience in telling stories to his wives since he was a child, so telling stories to his daughters was a simple and common thing.
"Later, the little crocodile swam and swam, and finally swam up on its own—"
Mei Fang was immersed in his own fairy tale world. When he came to his senses, he found that Mei Zhixi on his right had fallen asleep on his chest. However, little Yuanbao was still staring at him with his big eyes.
"My younger sister is asleep, but my older sister is still full of energy..."
Mei Fang touched Mei Xiaoyuan's head and said, "How about it? Do you want to hear a new story?"
"No, no..."
Mei Xiaoyuan's eyes rolled around, and then he whispered to Mei Fang:
"Dad, I want to ask you something."
"What do you want to ask?"
"That is... Is Xi's mother really my mother?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because, both Mother Xi and Little Xixi are named Xi, and my name is the same as Mother Yuan's, both contain the character Yuan. Why is that?"
"Well... because... because..."
When naming the children, this problem would arise if they had the same name, which was something Mei Fang had expected.
Therefore, Mei Fang had already prepared a set of excuses.
If you explain it directly and clearly, even if the child doesn't understand, there will still be some sense of closeness and distance created.
Therefore, a more balanced explanation is needed here.
Mei Fang explained, "Because Xi's mother is a little older than Yuan's mother, the daughters should be the other way around. Since the elder sister was born first, she is Xiao Yuanbao."
"Is that really the case?"
"It's not like this... or something like that."
"Meng Meng told me that we all came out of our mother's belly."
Mei Xiaoyuan thought for a moment, "I have two mothers, and I can't be half from Mother Yuan's belly and half from Mother Xi's belly. So I wonder... maybe I was born from Mother Yuan's belly, so I'm called Little Yuanbao and Mei Xiaoyuan."
Ah this...
Are children nowadays so precocious
Mei Fang began to feel like an old guy.
But he still has to maintain his father's gentleness in front of his daughter.
"Well... But no matter what, Mother Xi and Mother Yuan are both your mothers, and they love you to the same extent."
Mei Xiaoyuan thought for a moment and said, "Can I switch with Xiao Xixi?"
"Change what?"
Mei Xiaoyuan said softly, "I want... to let Xi's mother join me in the cooking competition."
…
Mei Fang was a little stunned after hearing this. Should we say that he suddenly felt a sense of surprise as if his child had grown up, or perhaps a sense of loss? In short, he had a very complicated emotion.
"Why, Xiao Yuanbao, do you want Xi's mother to compete with you? Is it because you think Xi's mother's cooking tastes better?"
Mei Xiaoyuan touched her face a little embarrassedly, then nodded.
"I, I told my friends that my mom's cooking is delicious and we can definitely win first place in the cooking competition."
"Ah...Is that so?"
Mei Fang thought for a moment, "Then you said this morning that the dishes cooked by Yuan's mother were also delicious. Were you trying to make Yuan's mother happy?"
"Because I don't want to make Mother Yuan feel disappointed..."
Mei Xiaoyuan felt a little aggrieved, "But I didn't brag to my friends, because Xi's mother is also my mother, so, that..."
In the small society of their peers, children will gradually develop a competitive mentality and a desire to win, which is perfectly normal.
The problem is how to make children look at their own thoughts correctly.
Mei Fang touched his daughter's face and said, "Dad knows that Xiao Yuanbao is not bragging. Xiao Yuanbao can also consider the feelings of his mother Yuan. This is also very well-behaved and sensible..."
"But, is winning first place in the cooking competition the most important thing for Xiao Yuanbao?"
Mei Xiaoyuan hummed and thought for a while, "Is it a bad idea to want to be first?"
“I can definitely understand the desire to take first place.”
Mei Fang said softly, "But, in order to prepare for the cooking competition, Mother Yuan gets up very early every day to prepare breakfast. She also tries to cook at home and improve her cooking skills as much as possible. These are things that Xiao Yuanbao doesn't know, but Dad sees them all."
"Mother Yuan actually knows that you really want to get first place, so she works so hard to improve her cooking skills."
"If, in order to get the first place, I have to let Xi's mother be my assistant and make Yuan's mother sad, then putting these two things together, which one do you think is more important, Xiao Yuanbao?"
"Then, then I still..."
Mei Xiaoyuan pursed her lips, then nodded seriously, "I don't want to make Mother Yuan sad, so it's better to work hard with Mother Yuan!"
"Yeah, Daddy is very happy to hear that from Xiao Yuanbao."
"Dad, I have a plan."
"Um?"
"Starting tomorrow, I will cook with Mother Yuan."
Mei Xiaoyuan said, "If I also improve my cooking skills, maybe I will have a chance to win first place."
"Hahaha, sure."
"Then daddy has to wake me up. I don't want to be a lazy bum."
"Of course."
The next morning, Mei Fang got up early, but Xia Yuan was no longer beside him.
Mei Fang came to the kitchen and looked at his wife's back as she was working hard to prepare breakfast. He couldn't help but move closer and hugged her from behind.
"Why did you wake up so early today?"
"Hmm... I can't sleep."
Xia Yuan muttered:
"Yesterday, I saw that Xiao Yuanbao really wanted to win first place. If only I had paid more attention to improving my cooking skills... How about I switch with Youxi? No... We already agreed that I'm Xiao Yuanbao's mother..."
Mei Fang rubbed Xia Yuan's belly and whispered softly in her ear:
"It's impossible to take care of everything. If you want to hold a parent-child singing competition or a performance competition, then wouldn't you be better than Youxi?"
"But, but I still don't want to disappoint my daughter."
Xia Yuan smiled and said, "As parents, who among us doesn't want to be the pride of our children?"
"Being able to work hard with my children is something that they should be very proud of."
Mei Fang kissed Xia Yuan gently on the cheek and said, "Of course, you are also your husband's pride."
"Then... Ah Fang is also my pride."
As Xia Yuan spoke, he turned sideways and threw himself into Mei Fang's arms, snuggling up to her and starting to get intimate with her.
"It's a mess, it's a mess!"
After eating today's breakfast, Mei Xiaoyuan became more determined to work hard in the cooking competition.
(End of this chapter)