Chapter 873: Chapter 647: Seven Days (6000+) (Part 3)
"Uh-huh, in a few days."
"In a few days?"
Huang Huang pressed on relentlessly.
In fact, this question posed quite a dilemma for Yin Shixiu. He definitely didn’t want to lie to the children, yet he never wanted to see their disappointed expressions a second time.
But...
When could he come home?
Su Xiaomeng pursed her lips tightly, and she even stood up, wanting to help Yin Shixiu steer the conversation away from this question.
Nobody understood Yin Shixiu’s complicated feelings at this moment better than Su Xiaomeng.
But...
"Well, ten days."
"..."
"Ten days, no more than ten days, and Dad will be home."
Yin Shixiu looked seriously at Shuangshuang and Huang Huang, his eyes holding a father’s steady calmness and profound love.
Ten days...
Su Xiaomeng was surprised.
Clearly, she didn’t quite believe Yin Shixiu could return to Beijing in just ten days.
However, she thought that even though Yin Shixiu said so, Shuangshuang and Huang Huang, when counting up to ten, sometimes did it quite smoothly, but sometimes struggled.
She could only hope that at this moment, Shuangshuang and Huang Huang wouldn’t count correctly.
"Ten days..."
Huang Huang pondered, then spread his hands to look at his ten short fingers...
"That’s a lot..."
"Not a lot. Huang’er needs to be good at kindergarten and listen to the teacher. Ten days will pass quickly."
"I know!"
Shuangshuang suddenly chimed in.
Instantly, everyone looked at Shuangshuang, who said cheerfully,
"When Dad’s not here, every day feels so long... that’s why brother feels it’s a lot..."
After Shuangshuang said this, even Yin Shixiu was taken aback.
Even the little girl could speak with logic and could say so much in one go...
Yin Shixiu hurriedly laughed and said,
"Oh, is that so..."
He pursed his lips, thought for a moment, then looked back at Huang Huang,
"Then... seven days?"
"..."
"Seven days, Dad will come home. Okay, Huang’er?"
"Uh-huh, okay! Just seven days!"
Huang Huang quickly folded down two fingers to show eight, but agreed decisively.
Pointing it out, the little guy blushed and folded down another finger.
Sitting on the side of the big bed, Su Xiaomeng couldn’t sit still. She scooted over to the small bed, getting herself into the frame, and looked at Yin Shixiu,
"Don’t push yourself."
"I won’t."
Yin Shixiu said.
Shuangshuang and Huang Huang were almost leaning on the computer screen.
Their faces completely blocked the screen that Su Xiaomeng had worked hard to appear in.
The siblings seemed to have gone mad.
Chattering nonstop with Yin Shixiu, oblivious to the fact that it was already past eleven o’clock.
It was the first time Su Xiaomeng had seen Huang Huang with so much to say.
She really didn’t expect this little guy to have a "chatterbox" trait hidden in him as well.
However, the energy of children at this age is ultimately limited, especially Shuangshuang, who plays during the day and becomes more tired at night.
As expected, Shuangshuang was the first to fall asleep, slumping over and sleeping soundly.
Prince Huang had already changed positions several times, just refusing to get tired.
He chatted excessively with Yin Shixiu, and whenever Yin Shixiu posed a question, the father and son couldn’t stop their conversation,
Su Xiaomeng leaned against one side and fell asleep too.
From this angle, Yin Shixiu could see half of Su Xiaomeng’s figure.
Seeing her sleep so soundly, he lowered his voice to speak to Huang Huang,
"Huang’er, can you promise Dad something?"
"Okay."
Yin Shixiu hadn’t even said what it was yet, and Prince Huang had already agreed without any hesitation.
"Don’t tell anyone you’ve seen Dad, okay?"
Prince Huang was trying hard to process the words, and after hearing them, he didn’t respond.
"Dad is working, needs to be mysterious... Um..."
Yin Shixiu thought "mysterious" might be too difficult and profound for Huang Huang to understand, so he quickly changed his wording,
"Just don’t let others know where Dad is..."
Upon hearing this, Huang Huang seemed a bit upset.
No one knew what was on this child’s mind, but from his expression, it was clear the little guy was indeed unhappy.
"Huang Huang?"
"Dad... why..."
Huang Huang asked softly, and as he spoke, his lips pouted, ready to cry again.
"..."
Yin Shixiu felt even more at a loss than before.
"Dad is clearly at home... but not coming back..."
"Many people say Dad is gone... Sob sob... but clearly, Dad is... sob sob..."
"Why can’t we say it..."
"Dad is also lying to Huang Huang... sob sob..."
"What’s wrong? Why are you crying?"
Su Xiaomeng had barely slept for two minutes before she heard Prince Huang sobbing.
She reached out and pulled the little guy into her arms, sat up straight with the tablet, and looked at Yin Shixiu in confusion.
Yin Shixiu bit his lip, shrugged helplessly...
Communicating with children is always difficult.
When you think they’re too young to understand many things, they seem to grasp them all.
When you hope they’ll understand some things, they indeed find it hard to comprehend.
Prince Huang asked why, when they were clearly in their home in London, they had to say it was somewhere far away, that London wasn’t that far away...
Why, when Dad was clearly alive, people said he was gone and would never return...
At that time, Mom was so sad, and so were Grandpa, Grandma, and the other grandparents...
Huang Huang never forgot that it was because of these people’s sadness that he realized maybe Dad had really gone somewhere far away, never to return.
Adults said it was because Dad had died.
Why, after seeing Dad, couldn’t he say he saw Dad...
Why did Dad want to see Mom but not Huang Huang...
With a sensitive heart, Prince Huang felt this was not good at all.
"I was careless..."
Su Xiaomeng said somewhat frustratedly. If not for her changing Shuangshuang’s clothes and sheets and neglecting Prince Huang, letting him run to the balcony on his own...
"It’s not your fault, it’s mine."
Yin Shixiu quickly said.
"..."
"If Huang’er doesn’t want to lie, then... whatever."
Yin Shixiu said softly.
"Huang’er, it’s Dad’s fault. Say whatever you want, okay?"
Huang Huang wiped away his tears and said nothing else, just hugged the tablet and got under the covers.
Su Xiaomeng rubbed her head. She still had things she hadn’t finished saying to Yin Shixiu, but Prince Huang just took the whole tablet under the covers.
"Dad, let’s talk tomorrow, first sleep."
"..."
"..."
For a moment, Su Xiaomeng and Yin Shixiu were both at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Xiao Meng had no choice but to soothe the little one to sleep, then dial an international call to Yin Shixiu using her phone.
Yin Shixiu answered the call,
"Meng Meng..."
"Mm, don’t worry about Shuang’er and Huang’er, I’m good at soothing them."
"But I wasn’t soothing them."
"..."
"I said seven days, and that means seven days."
Yin Shixiu’s eagle-like eyes focused on the window, the sunset lighting up half of the sky. There’s already prey in the eagle’s sight.
