Chapter 1290: Chapter 1290: First Lady’s Academic Journey (Part 9)
The result of randomly squirting people is having your own water gun confiscated.
And it was taken away by her most doting dad.
Tang Li was soaked head to toe, her collar drenched, and in the middle of winter, she nearly turned into an ice sculpture on the spot. Any thoughts of a ’long-awaited reunion’ were tossed aside as she rushed upstairs for a hot shower and a change of clothes.
When she came out wearing the bathrobe that Song Baiyan had hung in the bathroom, she found Song Xiaohua standing in front of the Imperial Consort’s Couch, her little hands on the round table, her big eyes staring intently in her direction.
As for Song Baiyan, he wasn’t in the room.
Tang Li went to the walk-in closet.
When she came out again, she was dressed in her own loungewear.
Returning to the bathroom to blow dry her hair, just as she took off the hair drying towel, a small figure sneaked in.
In the buzzing sound of the hairdryer, Song Xiaohua walked to the sink, almost glued to Tang Li’s heels, not forgetting to greet her: "Hello!"
Tang Li: "..."
Tang Li couldn’t feel the "hi" at all.
Looking down at her daughter who appeared quite the cheeky little soldier, her feelings were mixed.
After three months apart, Song Xiaohua already showed signs of growing wayward.
Tang Li turned off the hairdryer and asked the little one, "Where’s your dad?"
Song Xiaohua’s answer was, ’He’s gone.’
Even though today is Christmas Eve, Song Baiyan doesn’t get the day off.
Tang Li tied her 70%-dry hair with an elastic band, picked up Song Xiaohua to see Xiao Minglan, and brought along two small gifts.
The little one behaved exceptionally well as Tang Li carried her.
Her little hands suddenly cupped Tang Li’s face, leaning down to sniff: "Fragrant!"
What overnight grudge could exist between mother and daughter?
Hearing Song Xiaohua’s baby-voiced compliments, Tang Li’s heart softened, and she grew a bit competitive: "So, do you think dad smells better, or mom does?"
The little girl directly ignored her.
Tang Li: ... Made a fool of herself.
Tang Li handed gifts to Xiao Minglan and Aunt Min, and Song Jingtian also returned to Tan Palace from school.
The little guy glanced at Tang Li, looking somewhat displeased.
However, when Tang Li took out a gift box from the suitcase, saying it was specially bought for him, the little guy stopped pouting and curiously asked while trying to act aloof, "Such a big box, it better not be Legos? I’m too old for that."
"Not Legos, it’s three bottles of children’s calcium tablets." Tang Li opened the package: "Just enough for one course, local Norwegian kids take these, and it’s said eating them for a few years can make you grow to 1.9 meters tall."
Song Jingtian, who’s 1.46 meters tall: "......"
Tang Li also bought a gift for Song Xiaohua.
A set of mountain goblin figurines.
Mountain goblins are mythical figures in Norway.
The little girl stared at the long-nosed, ugly figurines for a long time. After Tang Li left for a few minutes and returned to the nursery, she found the figurines on the carpet disappeared, while Song Xiaohua was sitting atop her little yellow duck potty, with a Fire Rabbit beside it playing nursery rhymes.
Tang Li searched around but didn’t find the figurines.
Asking Song Xiaohua, she looked back at Tang Li with a serious expression.
Tang Li: "..."
Anyway, they weren’t worth much.
Just assuming the little girl loved them too much and hid them, Tang Li, being an open-minded mother, naturally respected her child’s privacy.
The next day was Christmas.
Considering there were two kids at home, Tang Li asked the house staff to purchase a Christmas tree.
As for the forty-eight gifts on the tree, she ordered them through a courier app, asking a delivery guy to buy a bunch of toys and study supplies from the mall and deliver them to the security office of Tan Palace.
While Tang Li was wrapping gifts, a sanitary incident occurred in Tan Palace.
——The toilet in the nursery got clogged.
Being clogged was secondary.
The main issue was the victim.
At the time, the nanny was using the toilet.
Seated on the toilet, she casually pressed the flush button.
And then...she had a half-bath.
Using organic fertilizer she herself produced.
After receiving the news, Tang Li immediately put down the gifts and rushed to the scene, encountering the stench as she entered the door.
Even though deodorant was sprayed, it couldn’t fend off that strong aroma.
The nanny had returned to her room to shower, and the house staff were cleaning the bathroom.
Turning around, Tang Li saw her daughter Song Xiaohua behaving as if she couldn’t smell anything as she fiddled with the toilet plunger nearby.
Having an overflow accident at her own place, not accepting it would be normal, Tang Li comforted the little one, "It’s not a big deal, let the maintenance personnel unclog it, and it’ll smell nice again tomorrow!"
"Daddy unclog!" the little girl replied immediately.
Tang Li: "..."
Song Xiaohua truly lived up to being a filial daughter, always thinking of her dear dad.
Tang Li noticed the maintenance personnel had entered, so she tried to coax her daughter out: "Alright, let the master take a look first, then we’ll call your dad to do it later."
Song Xiaohua wasn’t fooled, firmly blocking the bathroom door: "Daddy must see!"
She stood with the air of a warrior holding fort against 10,000 enemies.
Five minutes later, His Excellency, who was reviewing local documents in his downstairs office, received a task assigned by his daughter.
Watching Song Baiyan fiddling in the bathroom firsthand, Tang Li realized how crucial it is to specialize. Known for being skilled in everything except pregnancy, His Excellency, rolling up his cashmere sweater sleeves, donned waterproof gloves, stood bewildered before the toilet. Tang Li quietly slipped away.
——She feared if she didn’t leave, Song Baiyan would ask her for help.
However, His Excellency’s ability to study and solve problems is very strong.
In the end, he did fix the toilet.
Of course, getting splashed with toilet water was also a fact.
As for the culprit of the clogged toilet being several mountain goblin figurines, it became a secret between father and daughter, a detail never shared with the donor, Miss Tang.
Due to research projects, Tang Li flew back to Norway after Christmas.
As the Lunar New Year approached, Tang Li flew back for a visit.
She spent the New Year with her husband and daughter before heading back to Oslo.
Seeing her daughter-in-law coming and going in such a rush, Xiao Minglan expressed her thoughts at the dining table to Song Baiyan one day: "Running back and forth between two places like this, each time not staying for many days, having to deal with jet lag, I’m already feeling exhausted; not to mention Xiaohua, she’s almost forgetting who this mom is."
The solution Song Baiyan proposed was——
Next year, let Xiaohua go to Orus with her mom for a few months.
Xiao Minglan: "..."
Then looking at Song Xiaohua sitting in the high chair being fed apple puree by the nanny, Xiao Minglan couldn’t bear the thought of this precious little doll being out of her sight.
Nowadays, every night before bed, she has to snuggle with Xiaohua.
If Xiaohua goes to Norway, what if she misses grandma?
Weighing it all, it seemed better for Tang Li to fly back.
Since then, the old lady never brought up any issues related to Tang Li’s study abroad.
However, the fact that the First Lady hasn’t appeared publicly for a long time has caused some voices to emerge in Country S, as a certain senator directly criticized the current President’s wife on his social account.
"If all she does is stay in Tan Palace tending to children, I think what we need is not a First Lady, but a nanny."
[Tang Li’s Son’s Fans Global Support Club] reposted and commented on the post——
"If our senator only knows how to lash out at a woman online, I think what we need to spend millions maintaining every year is not the Parliament Building, but a vegetable market."
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Good night!
Second update pending, muah!
