novelraw Chapter 8: 08
Chapter 8: 08
Chapter 8
Cheng LiQi said to Wu Lin on the phone, "Wu sister, I've decided what gift I want to give to Shen ChuQi."
Wu Lin helped wipe her hands clean and asked, "What gift do you want to give?"
"I want to make a Spiderman birthday cake for him. Shen ChuQi loves Spiderman the most."
Shen XiWen was rubbing hand cream when she overheard Cheng LiQi's words. She looked up and happened to meet Cheng LiQi's eyes.
The little girl's eyes were smiling, seeming to contain some slyness, just like when Shao ChengZe was up to some mischief. The bloodline inheritance was unmistakable.
However, Shen XiWen also doubted she had seen wrong, after all, she had a guilty conscience.
Her phone vibrated, and she threw the hand cream into her bag, casually answering the call without looking at the screen. She was startled when she heard the voice.
Li PeiFeng asked, "You're at Dewang Building?"
Shen XiWen nodded and smiled at Cheng LiQi, then picked up her bag and walked outside with the phone, "Yes, I'm temporarily guest starring in a role here today, filming a scene. What's up?"
"I'm here too, with Shen ChuQi."
Shen XiWen's breath tightened.
Li PeiFeng rarely spoke nicely as he explained, "Shen ChuQi said he's grown up and wants to be an actor, kept clamoring for me to bring him to see a TV filming location. A friend of mine is the producer of this drama, so he brought me in. I only knew you were here after arriving. If you don't feel good about it, I can take him away now."
"No." Shen XiWen hurriedly said.
"You don't want me to take him away, so do you want to see him?" Li PeiFeng pushed step by step.
Shen XiWen's tone was flustered, "Can I see him?"
Li PeiFeng's voice turned cold, "I've never stopped you from seeing him. You just need to think through the consequences of seeing him in front of you. You only have one identity, his mother. If you want to see him in another identity, it's better not to see him. Just continue as if you don't have this son, go your starry path, and I'll find him a stepmother. We won't hinder each other."
"We'll be here until noon, call me if you make up your mind."
Li PeiFeng threw out a bunch of cold words, then immediately hung up first, it was throw caution to the wind. If she still didn't turn back, he might as well go register on a matchmaking site today and get married off in three days, bleh. Li PeiFeng slapped himself, what get married, he was just too pissed off.
Cheng LiQi came back from the bathroom and pulled Shen ChuQi to a corner, whispering with him.
Wu Lin didn't leave the two kids, chatting with others while keeping an eye on them. Their faces were equally serious, as if something big had happened. She apologized to her chatting partner before walking over to ask if something was going on.
Cheng LiQi gestured for Dad Shao to bend down.
Shao ChengZe bent down as told.
"Dad Shao, we found Shen ChuQi's mom, I saw her in the bathroom just now."
Shao ChengZe didn't want to discourage them, but it was better than them being hugely disappointed later. "We can't determine that's Shen ChuQi's mom just based on a mole by her eye corner."
"No, Dad Shao. When I mentioned Shen ChuQi, she looked at me. The sister we saw at the mall is her, she smiled at me back then too." Cheng LiQi spoke reasonably.
Shao ChengZe didn't expect her to be so observant. He couldn't refute a kid's thinking either. "So what's your next plan?"
Cheng LiQi thought for a moment, "Shen ChuQi, pretend to be sick. Whenever I'm sick, my mom gets super anxious. If she's your mom, she'll definitely be anxious too."
Shen ChuQi felt it was a good idea.
Shao ChengZe felt it was not a good idea, and reminded Li PeiFeng in time what might happen later.
Li PeiFeng just laughed, "Little LiQi is a clever imp. I need to make Shen ChuQi try harder. He must marry into my Li family in the future, you try harder too, make Little LiQi take away 'Shao' sooner and call you Dad directly. Then we can become in-laws."
Seeing he was still in the mood to joke, Shao ChengZe understood. Li PeiFeng had come prepared today to bring his son to find his mother.
All Shao ChengZe knew was that when Li PeiFeng graduated with his master's degree, he not only brought home a diploma for his parents, but also a 4-month-old baby boy named Shen ChuQi.
At that time it had caused great waves, because Li PeiFeng made no attempt to hide it at all. He brought Shen ChuQi everywhere, and no one could find out who the child's mother was, even after going through all the girls Li PeiFeng had dated. Yet not one had the surname Shen. Some said the child possibly wasn't his, if he was his own, why didn't he have Li as a surname? But soon they were proven wrong, because as Shen ChuQi grew older, he looked more and more like Li PeiFeng. Anyone could see Li PeiFeng was his father, so his parents couldn't not recognize their own grandson.
Shen XiWen was afraid he would keep repressing it and cry himself sick, so she rolled down the car window to ask Li PeiFeng for help. Li PeiFeng clearly had no intention of helping her. Afraid he would also shed some tears if he got in the car, that would be too damn embarrassing. He pretended not to see her plea, turning his face coldly away.
"Auntie, is Shen ChuQi still crying?" Cheng LiQi had just finished calling her mom. Hugged in Dad Shao's arms, she could only see the back of Shen ChuQi's head.
Seeing Cheng LiQi, Shen XiWen felt like she saw a lifesaver. "Little niece, can you help auntie comfort Little Qi?"
Cheng LiQi climbed into the car and first introduced herself to Shen XiWen, "Auntie, I'm called Cheng LiQi, Shen ChuQi's deskmate, and also his good friend. You can call me Little LiQi, that's what my family calls me."
Shen XiWen's belly full of distress and unease was amused by Cheng LiQi's serious self-introduction.
"Hello Little LiQi, I'm..." Looking at the little person in her arms, Shen XiWen softly said, "I'm Shen ChuQi's mommy."
Cheng LiQi's red eyes swept out a big smile, "Auntie, just let Shen ChuQi cry, he is happy, he has been looking for you for a long time, often hiding in the quilt and crying alone at night, and now that he has found you, he is too happy, that's why he is crying like this."
Shen ChuQi finally raised his head to refute Cheng LiQi, "I did not... hide in the quilt and cry secretly, I am a man, I seldom cry, once I fell to the ground, my knees bled, and I did not cry."
He only looked at Cheng LiQi, but spoke to Shen Xi Wen, and after speaking he secretly glanced at Shen Xi Wen.
Seeing that he finally spoke, Shen Xi Wen quickly followed his words and said, "Which knee did little ChuQi hurt, does it hurt, let mom see, okay?"
Shen ChuQi reluctantly stretched out his left leg, rolled up his pants, and pointed to a small scar on his knee, showing it to Cheng LiQi, "There was a lot of blood at the time, it hurt a lot, but I didn't cry. Dad said this was the medal of honor for a brave man."
Shen Xi Wen gently blew the knee of Shen ChuQi, "Our little ChuQi is really brave."
Shen ChuQi's face turned red like an apple, he pointed to a small red mark on his arm and said, "This is where I got hurt when I climbed a tree to save little Bai who climbed up the tree and didn't dare to come down. I didn't cry either. Little Bai is my pet kitten."
Shen Xi Wen gently blew his arm again, "Our little ChuQi is so amazing."
Cheng LiQi was about to expose him, that was clearly where he got hurt learning Sun Wukong climbing trees, but she saw Shen Xi Wen's mobile phone on the seat next to her, the screen lit up, displaying three words that she happened to recognize.
Shao ChengZe, she thought, so Shao-Cheng-Ze was these three words, she silently remembered this name in her heart.
Shen Xi Wen's heart and eyes were full of Shen ChuQi, and she didn't notice the incoming muted call on her phone at all.
"Auntie, someone called your phone," she pointed at the phone, blinking her big eyes and looking at Shen Xi Wen, "It's Shao ChengZe."
When Shen ChuQi heard this name, he hurriedly got up from Shen Xi Wen's arms and craned his neck to look at the phone on the seat.
Seeing the appearance of these two little guys, Shen Xi Wen intuitively understood something. She said to Cheng LiQi, "Little LiQi, can you help auntie answer it? Auntie is holding little ChuQi and can't answer the phone."
"Can I really answer it?" Cheng LiQi confirmed with Shen Xi Wen again. Mom said don't take other people's phones casually, but she really wanted to answer this call.
"Of course you can, you're helping auntie."
Cheng LiQi nodded, picked up the phone, pressed answer, and put the phone to her ear, but she was in no hurry to speak.
As soon as the call was connected, Shao ChengZe spoke up. Thinking it was Shen Xi Wen on the other end, he said, "You don't have to go to Shao JingYun's appointment, and in the future if he asks you out to eat again, you can refuse, no need to give him any more face."
Cheng LiQi only had one feeling, his voice sounded so nice, but it was cold, he probably couldn't tell good bedtime stories. She was a little nervous, only noticing his voice, and didn't hear what he had just said. She said, "I didn't hear your words clearly, can you say it again?"
Shao ChengZe was taken aback, he looked at the number he had dialed, it was indeed Shen Xi Wen's, and he asked, "Who are you?"
"Are you Shao ChengZe?"
The little girl's voice was tender and milky, sounding like she had just cried.
Shao ChengZe's voice unusually softened a few degrees, and he replied to her, "I'm Shao ChengZe."
Cheng LiQi explained why she answered the call, "Auntie couldn't answer the phone, so I helped her answer it."
Shao ChengZe didn't have experience dealing with little girls, and just hmm'd to indicate he understood.
Then, Cheng LiQi asked the question she most wanted to know, "Are you on Earth? Or on Mars?"
Shao ChengZe: ......!