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One day, I had a sore throat, and Lin Zhiyi said he would go out to buy medicine for me.
After a while, Xinbao quietly came to tattle: “Mom, Dad wants to poison you!”
“Really? What kind of poison?”
Xinbao brought over a bag and said, “Look, it says ‘Fat Sea’ on it. He bought you Fat Sea medicine to make you fat.”
“...” So that’s how it is. She took the literal meaning, thinking “Fat Sea” could make someone gain weight, which is indeed “poisonous” for a mom who constantly talks about losing weight. No problem!
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Lin Zhiyi was helping Xinbao with her homework, and Xinbao got scolded for looking around and not focusing while doing her problems.
Xinbao pouted and said, “I’m never going to be friends with Dad again!” Though she was upset, under Lin Zhiyi’s authority, she obediently continued with her homework.
After Xinbao finished her homework, Lin Zhiyi thought about whether he had been too harsh earlier, so he said to Xinbao, “It’s wrong of you to not focus on your homework, but it’s also wrong of me to scold you. You should still be my friend! After all, this is my first time being a dad.”
Xinbao said in surprise, “What? Haven’t you been a dad many times?”
I looked at Lin Zhiyi, “Hmm? Many times? How come I didn’t know?”
Lin Zhiyi cried out “Innocent” and explained to Xinbao, “I only have one baby, so this is my first time being a dad.”
Xinbao said, “You’re not a first-time dad! You’ve been a dad three hundred sixty-five times… no, thousands of times since I was in Mom’s belly, you started being a dad.”
Can it really be explained like this? It seems Xinbao’s line of reasoning is “being a monk for a day, ringing the bell for a day,” so being a dad for a day counts as being a dad once?
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One night after I returned from the gym, Lin Zhiyi called Xinbao to wash her hair.
Xinbao was absorbed in drawing and dragged her feet.
I said, “Xinbao, hurry up and wash your hair, or it will get smelly.”
“No problem! We’ll share the stink.” She said calmly.
“I washed my hair yesterday; my hair doesn’t smell.”
“You just came back from the gym and haven’t showered yet, right?”
Later, when we bathed together, Xinbao said, “This is sharing the fragrance.”
4
I usually write at night and wake up later than Lin Zhiyi, so he usually wakes Xinbao up and sends her to school.
As a result, Xinbao wore almost the same outfit for the week (counting the uniform she had to wear on Monday, it was two outfits).
This is what happens when a dad takes care of a child.
On holidays when I have time, I dress Xinbao.
Seeing her dressed nicely, I asked her, “Do you like the way Dad dresses you, or the way Mom dresses you?”
She said, “Dress myself.”
“...” Still a child who doesn’t follow the rules.
I asked, “Why?”
She replied, “Because I can raise a dog.”
She has indeed mentioned wanting to raise a dog, but everyone in the family is busy. Even Grandma is busy with the choir, square dancing, and fitness, so we temporarily can’t meet her need for a dog.
Maybe when Lin Zhiyi and I retire, we can fulfill her wish.
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One day, Lin Zhiyi drove me to work. While waiting for the green light at the crossroads, I turned to look at him in the driver’s seat. The morning sunlight shone through the car window, making his face seem to glow.
He clearly felt my gaze and asked, “Early in the morning, don’t stare at me with lust, okay?”
“I was just reflecting. When we were in college and attended evening study sessions together, you were ‘the one sitting next to me,’ now you are ‘the one in the car with me.’”
“At night, it’s ‘the one in bed with me.’”
“...”
When the green light lit up, he turned the car towards my company, and I was still staring at his profile.
I said, “During self-study classes, you sat to my right, and I secretly looked at your profile. I was captivated by your left profile back then. Now sitting in the passenger seat, I find your right profile pretty handsome too.”
“It’s as if you’ve been hugging just one side of my face all these years.”
“Haha... My two sides aren’t the same size. Taking photos of my left profile makes me look slimmer; people call it the ‘Golden Left Profile.’ But both sides of your face look good.”
“No wonder you’ve been staring at me for so long; there must be gold on my face.”
“...” If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t bother looking at you, okay?
Not only did I look, but I also took a photo to keep as a memory in my phone.
That evening when I got home from work, I showed Xinbao the side profile photo of Lin Zhiyi and asked her, “Xinbao, look, isn’t the side profile of Dad that Mom took handsome?”
She glanced at it and didn’t answer.
I secretly speculated that she used to say the handsomest man in the world was Dad. Did her answer change after starting elementary school?
After a while, she said, “The background is handsome.”
Alright, Lin Zhiyi’s charm lost to his car…
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