Chapter 1269: Side Story: Huo Yao, the Little Trickster! (2)
Huo Feng furrowed his brows, looking at Huo Yao with disbelief, "Are you talking to me?"
Huo Yao pointed directly at Huo Feng, "I’m staying with the dog, Auntie stays too, Dad, you go away!"
Huo Feng couldn’t help but grit his teeth, "You damn... are you really my son?"
"Dad! Buy me a dog!"
Huo Yao shouted, walking over to Huo Feng, grabbing his knee, "Yaoyao is too lonely, I want a dog!"
"You’re lonely?"
Huo Feng really couldn’t understand where this kid learned all these words from.
He hadn’t even started kindergarten, yet he spoke earlier than other kids and was more articulate!
With his little chubby hands on his hips, Huo Yao puffed up his chubby cheeks and said angrily, "Yaoyao is just lonely! No one to play with me! I want a dog! Hmph!"
"Ha!"
Huo Feng glanced at him coldly, "Your dad is lonely! Your dad sleeps alone every night, the bed is so cold!"
Huo Yao retorted defiantly, "Then you should get a dog! The dog can sleep with you!"
"Who’s letting that thing on the bed!"
Huo Feng’s furrowed brows tightened, waving dismissively, "Get lost, go play with your dog!"
"Hmph! If you don’t let me have a dog, I’ll just grab someone else’s dog to play with!"
Huo Yao yelled angrily at Huo Feng, "You bad dad! Ugly freak!"
For the nth time, Huo Feng resisted the urge to lash out at Huo Yao, "I’m the handsomest in the world!"
This kid... keeps calling him an ugly freak every day.
Huo Feng refused to believe it, that this kid could grow up to be as handsome as him!
Impossible!
"You’re terribly ugly!"
Huo Yao turned back, loudly retorting to Huo Feng.
Having finished his fight with Huo Feng, he angrily went to find his Little Teddy.
The little Teddy was indeed a very well-trained pet dog, it had been sitting obediently to the side, wagging its tail and watching the father-son quarrel.
"Lucky, let’s go play!"
This time, Huo Yao spoke to the Little Teddy in a totally innocent tone, nothing like how he spoke to Huo Feng earlier.
Huo Feng watched coldly from the side at this little drama king...
This little rascal had two faces!
He was his biological father, raised him with his own hands! He knew all about his bad temperament!
For the nth time after a fight with Huo Yao, Huo Feng for the nth time sent a complaint via WeChat to Pu Sangzhi.
He sent: [If you don’t come back soon, your son’s personality will go crooked! Now he’s completely disrespectful, has no respect for his father at all! You won’t let me hit him, and I can’t teach him! I’m angry!]
Due to the time difference, Pu Sangzhi still couldn’t reply to him promptly.
After sending the message, Huo Feng opened Pu Sangzhi’s WeChat Moments again to browse through her posts from the last couple of years.
Though there were very few...
Even though Huo Feng had already memorized them all...
Every time he missed her, Huo Feng would still repeatedly check her Moments to see her rare updates.
Miss her so much!
Miss her like a tidal wave...
Meanwhile, Huo Yao and his Little Teddy were playing very well with Kitty.
He threw the ball, Little Lucky fetched the ball.
Throwing and fetching the ball...
One human and one dog were having a lot of fun.
Suddenly, Huo Yao threw the small ball forcefully towards Huo Feng!
Huo Feng, lost in his thoughts while scrolling through Pu Sangzhi’s Moments, got hit squarely on the forehead!
With a pained "Ah!"...
By the time he reacted, the furry Lucky had already jumped on him!
"Hahaha~"
While Huo Feng was in a rage, Huo Yao was laughing so innocently and brightly, he couldn’t be happier!
This father-son rivalry, irreconcilable indeed!
...
The next day, Huo Yao couldn’t keep the dog, and had to return it to the 5-year-old boy of the Yang Family.
Huo Yao was really reluctant to part with Little Lucky.
After returning it in the morning, Aunt Xiaomai took him away, and the little guy’s eyes were filled with tears, his little mouth pouting in grievance.
Returning home, Aunt Xiaomai went into the kitchen as usual to cook lunch.
Huo Yao sat alone in the living room playing with toys, holding a small car, sliding it on the ground with a "vroom vroom".
The television was playing cartoons, Huo Yao was quite engrossed.
But as soon as he thought about being a kid without a dog, he couldn’t keep his spirits up.
Aunt Xiaomai spent over an hour making lunch, consisting of four dishes and one soup.
When she came out of the kitchen, she found Huo Yao leaning over the phone, poking it with his little finger, holding the phone with a very serious expression.
"Who are you calling?"
Grinning, Aunt Xiaomai tapped the adorable-looking Huo Yao and squatted down beside the coffee table.
With rosy lips, Huo Yao explained in a baby voice, "Want to call Aunt Xiaomai."
"You miss Aunt Xiaomai, huh?"
Aunt Xiaomai took out her phone, "Then I’ll call Aunt Xiaomai for you, so you can talk to her."
Huo Yao nodded, "Okay."
Aunt Xiaomai quickly called Minal.
At noon, Minal had just finished class when she received the call.
Aunt Xiaomai promptly turned on the speakerphone, and Minal’s clear voice came through, "Hello?"
"Aunt Xiaomai~"
Huo Yao greeted in a sweet baby voice.
"Ah, little darling, it’s you!"
Minal was delighted to hear Huo Yao’s voice and instinctively responded in a playful tone, "Little darling, are you missing Auntie?"
"Yeah!"
On this side, Huo Yao nodded emphatically, "Aunt Xiaomai, when can you come see Yaoyao? Yaoyao wants to play at your house!"
"Little darling, you can come whenever you want!"
Minal replied cheerfully, "Auntie doesn’t have class this afternoon, want me to come pick you up? Is your dad home?"
"Dad’s not home!"
Huo Yao pouted, "No one to play with Yaoyao, no one, not even a dog! Auntie is so busy, Yaoyao is all alone! So lonely!"
"Haha, where did you learn so many words?"
Minal was amazed by Huo Yao’s vocabulary.
Truth be told, at two and a half years old, speaking so fluently, Minal felt Huo Yao was quite an impressive child.
"Aunt Xiaomai, Yaoyao is so lonely, especially at night, very lonely!" Huo Yao continued with his nonsensical babbling.
In fact, he learned all this from Huo Feng.
At home, Huo Yao always heard Huo Feng talking like this...
So lonely...
Very lonely...
Cold nights alone...
Huo Feng had been muttering this for two years!
As his son, Huo Yao, even if he didn’t want to learn, had already heard it enough to deeply imprint in his mind!
"Haha, you’re so funny, darling~"
Minal’s laughter rang out clearly, "Then wait for me, darling, I’ll come pick you up soon. It should be within an hour from my place to yours, okay?"
"Okay~" Huo Yao nodded obediently.
"Have you eaten yet? If not, eat first, Auntie will be there soon," Minal said.
"Okay~" Huo Yao agreed obediently.
After chatting a bit more, the call ended.
Aunt Xiaomai put away the phone, looking at Huo Yao with a curious smile, "If your dad knew you learned to talk like him, he would be so angry! You, always making your dad so mad!"
But as a member of this household, Aunt Xiaomai found it amusing to watch this father-son pair quarrel.
Whenever they argued, Aunt Xiaomai felt like grabbing some sunflower seeds and watching with joy; it was even better than watching TV dramas!
However...
At this moment, little Huo Yao’s mind was filled with more than just simple longing for Minal...
He had already planned...
If Dad didn’t buy him a dog, he would... rob someone else’s!
