Chapter 26

As soon as Little Fantuan’s foot was completely healed, he started to run with his father in the morning!

Han Cheng still got up at six o’clock. Not only did he wake up at six o’clock, but he also woke up his sleeping son.

Little Fantuan rubbed his eyes in a daze and said with a discontented face, “Dad, I was dreaming of eating chicken legs. What are you doing?”

Even Su Xiaoxiao was confused and looked at him with sleepy eyes: “Let the child sleep more. Only by eating and sleeping more can the child grow.”

Han Cheng stood tall and straight like a small white poplar. He was unmoved by the wind and rain: “Nine hours of sleep at night, one hour of nap at noon. Ten hours of sleep is more than enough. My father is a soldier, and I have been joining the soldiers for their morning exercise ever since I was five years old. Fantuan is also the son of a soldier, and he must do morning exercises with his father. He can start by jogging for 15 minutes.”

Su Xiaoxiao: “…” Han Cheng, do you have no soldiers under you to train? Why do you want to torment your son?

Well, if Fantuan gets up at six o’clock for morning exercise and can grow into a 1.85-meter white poplar like him, then morning exercise should be done in the morning.

However, Su Xiaoxiao still said something fair: “Fantuan went to bed at 9 o’clock, and I read him a story at 9:30 to put him to sleep. How about, starting tomorrow, you wake him up for morning exercise? It just so happens that, I wake up at 6:30 to cook breakfast, and the two of you can eat breakfast on time after your morning exercise.”

Han Cheng shook his head and disagreed: “6:30 is too late, we still have to buy vegetables at 6:30. There is not enough time.”

“Mom!” Fantuan screamed and threw himself into Su Xiaoxiao’s arms to play coquettish.

Su Xiaoxiao touched the little Fantuan’s head and decided to save the baby: “But if you wake up Fantuan at six o’clock, you will wake me up, and Xiao Doubao will also wake up. I sleep until seven o’clock at home. It’s almost winter, and half past six is already very early.”

Han Cheng: “……”

How can he not know that she was protecting her son? Recently, she woke up at 6 o’clock.

Han Cheng remained unmoved: “Fantuan has grown up, and he will sleep with Doubao in the future. If he sleeps outside, he won’t wake Doubao up.”

“No!” Fantuan shook his head and held Su Xiaoxiao’s neck, seriously disagreeing, “I want to listen to my mother’s story, I want to sleep with my mom!”

Han Cheng directly lifted his son to the ground and said, “You have run out of time to talk nonsense, stand at attention, and walk in unison!”

Little Fantuan subconsciously held his head up and saluted. He looked at Su Xiaoxiao with tears in his eyes and said, “Mom…”

Su Xiaoxiao: “… go.” Take your son, who has just turned five, up for military training at six o’clock. Han Cheng, you’re awesome.

All right, he doesn’t feel sorry for his son, so why is she feeling bad about it?

The bright little Fantuan knew that his mother could not save him this time, so he could only follow behind his father with snot and tears.

Life is so difficult.

To cooperate with his son, Han Cheng slowed down his pace a lot more than before. To wait for Su Xiaoxiao to adapt, he hasn’t done morning exercises these days. Han Cheng also kept the habit of morning exercises from the age of five until now. Unless it is windy, rainy, or there are special circumstances, he will generally adhere to it.

A child’s energy is very strong. He can run around every day, let alone for 15 minutes, even for an hour. Han Cheng simply wants Fantuan to develop a good habit of doing morning exercises, not to make him a soldier. This boy is too smart. If he is scared from the beginning and has a rebellious mentality, he will find various reasons to escape, which will eventually backfire.
Little Fantuan cried and ran around the sea with his father, little by little, with his short legs. Little Fantuan saw the sea at six o’clock in the morning for the first time. Soon after the sun had just jumped out of the sea, a big yellow-orange hung on the glittering sea level.

“Wow, Dad, what a big salted egg yolk! It must be delicious if you let Mom cook it!”

Han Cheng: “…” He is definitely raised by Su Xiaoxiao. Whose kid will think of eating anything when he sees it?

“Fantuan!”

A shout came from behind.
Eh, who is calling me?

Fantuan turned his head—

“Xiao Yu!”

Well, the great soldier Zhao Xian was also running in the morning with his five-year-old son.

Fantuan regained his balance: “Xiao Yu, hurry up!” After finishing speaking, he stopped and jumped up and down, saying, “Dad, it’s Uncle Zhao and Xiao Yu, let’s wait for them!”

Han Cheng stopped running and jogged directly in place.

Zhao Xianfeng caught up with him, panting, and stared at Fantuan for a long time. He couldn’t believe his eyes: “What happened? I haven’t seen him in a few days, and yet Fantuan appears to be a different person. Comrade Su Xiaoxiao is too good at raising children, right?”

Compared with his skinny appearance when he just got back, the little Fantuan now is completely transformed; with a small round face and two big and vivid eyes, he looks full of vigor and high spirits.

Su Xiaoxiao is good at raising children. She made the two brothers drink milk and malted milk every day. With her good craftsmanship, she knows how to balance meat, vegetables, eggs, and rice in the most nutritious way. She also adds fruit as a snack from time to time. Let alone Fantuan, himself, feels quite energetic, his work efficiency has improved a lot, and the feeling of drowsiness has also lessened.

Sure enough, if people are iron, then food is steel; you absolutely have to eat. If you have the conditions, you should not wrong your mouth. Only when you are in good health can you create greater value, which is also Su Xiaoxiao’s point of view.

With the participation of Zhao Xianfeng and Xiao Yu, little Fantuan no longer groaned but also ran ahead with his friend.

Zhao Xianfeng and Han Cheng ran side by side, looked at Fantuan’s galloping figure, and asked him, ” Is Fantuan’s leg completely healed? Is it fine for him to run like this?”

Han Cheng was not worried, he suffered from a slight sprain. Su Xiaoxiao rubbed medicine and wine on Fantuan for several days, every day. “He runs faster than you, don’t you think? If his foot hurts, he will not run.”

Zhao Xianfeng: “…” Well, he asked a stupid question.

“Han Cheng, your wife is really good. The female tiger in my family, who seldom praises others, praised your wife. My son always wants to go to your house to eat dinner. He makes me want to go to your house to have a meal and see what kind of food made my family praise her so much.”

“No. The children can go, but you can’t!” Han Cheng denied this. Before Han Cheng accelerated his pace to catch up with the two children who ran away, he said to Zhao Xianfeng: “I’m afraid you’ll come over every day to our house when you taste my wife’s dishes.”

“Hey, how can you be like this…” Zhao Xianfeng chased after him and said after he caught up with him. “Anyway, I drove to the village to assist you in giving face and then drove you back. Your comrade Su Xiaoxiao said she would invite me to dinner!”

“Wait until the 15th day of August, when our two families get together,” Han Cheng said.

Yang Mei and Zhou Yuhua have a good relationship. When she was still here, if everyone was free, they would occasionally get together during the New Year and holidays. Besides, he also hasn’t had the time to visit the old man.

“That’s what you said.” The year has passed so fast. It seems that August 15 is fast approaching.

With the participation of Zhao Xianfeng and his son, this run took more than 15 minutes. Han Cheng and his son returned home at nearly 6:40.

Su Xiaoxiao pulled the happy Fantuan to wipe his sweat, and asked, “Why did it take so long? Didn’t you say you would only run for 15 minutes first?” and Fantuan was still so happy.

“When I met Zhao Xianfeng and Xiao Yu, Fantuan didn’t want to come back.” Han Cheng also took a towel to wipe his sweat.

Su Xiaoxiao: “…” What kind of twist is this? Crying when going out, and returning home with a smile, I guessed the beginning, but not the end.

Fantuan changed into a clean dress and said, “Mom, Xiao Yu and I have an appointment and will run together tomorrow.”

Su Xiaoxiao smiled and shook her head: “Why are you addicted to running?”

Fantuan nodded: “Mom, the sun on the sea is so beautiful. It must be as delicious as salted egg yolk. Is it my turn to buy my favorite food today? I want to eat salted egg yolk today!”
Su Xiaoxiao reflected. It seemed that she had unintentionally cultivated her child into a foodie. This was not her intention.

“Did you forget the stone snail sent by Xiao Zhuzi last night? I’m not going to the market today to buy meat. We’ll have some green vegetables and salted fish at noon and stone snails at night.”

Fantuan curled his mouth. Although he was not very satisfied, whatever her mother eats, he will make it delicious anyway, so he reluctantly agreed: “OK, well, eat salted egg yolk tomorrow.”

“Can I leave the salted egg yolk for the Mid-Autumn Festival? I’ll make you salted egg yolk moon cakes.” Su Xiaoxiao discussed this with Fantuan.

Here, it is popular to eat five-nut mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Fantuan has not eaten salted egg yolk moon cakes yet, and it sounds like a good meal. He naturally nodded happily: “Yes, yes, everything my mom cooks is delicious!”

Han Cheng tidied up himself and went to the kitchen to bring out their breakfast. Today’s breakfast was boiled fish soup left over from last night; then, Su Xiaoxiao added an egg, a little kelp, and shrimp skin, and sprinkled some chopped green onion before serving. They were served with steamed sweet potatoes and taro, which is another delicious food that can make people swallow their tongue.

Hearing what Su Xiaoxiao said, Han Cheng told her about the Mid-Autumn Festival with Zhao Xianfeng.

Su Xiaoxiao has no objection: “When the time comes, would they eat in our house, or should we go to Zhao Xianfeng’s?”

Han Cheng drank the nutritious and delicious fish soup and felt that he would be energetic all day: “Go to Zhao Xianfeng and take the food ticket and meat ticket with you. Grandpa is old and it is not convenient for him to walk around, and I’ll introduce you to Grandpa by the way.”

Nowadays, everyone’s food is rationed. It is an unwritten rule to take food and meat tickets to their homes as guests. Everyone does this.

Su Xiaoxiao nodded: “Then I can make some other snacks besides moon cakes, and take them with me to enjoy the moon viewing.”

Han Cheng naturally has no problems. He has full confidence in Su Xiaoxiao’s craftsmanship. No matter what she does, it will be the most delicious food.

……
Han Cheng went to work, and Su Xiaoxiao continued to give Fantuan homework while doing housework. When Su Xiaoxiao was speaking, Xiao Doubao listened carefully. No one knows if he understood it.

When Fantuan was writing, Xiao Doubao made trouble again and wanted to rob Fantuan’s notebook and pen.

Paper and pens are very expensive things these days. Doubao is still small, and he doesn’t understand anything. Su Xiaoxiao is not willing to give him a new set of stationery for him to mess around with, so she could only give him a small stick, and teach him to write and draw on the ground.

Xiao Doubao listens to his mother’s words the most, and what his mother gives is the best. He doesn’t want to rob his brother’s notebook and pen. He just ran to see what his brother wrote, and then came back to draw it.

Su Xiaoxiao finished cleaning up the house and came out. He saw a bunch of skewed numbers written on the ground, which didn’t look like Fantuan’s handwriting. For those who just learned to write, Fantuan’s handwriting was neat, and the words on the ground were crooked and slanted, but if you look carefully, you can still see that they were Arabic numerals.

Su Xiaoxiao looked at Xiao Doubao, who came back from Fantuan and wrote characters on the ground, and a lightbulb lit up through Su Xiaoxiao’s head: “You wrote this, baby?”

Not likely, right? Doubao is less than two years old. Is his ability to imitate and remember so strong?

T/N: Sorry for the very late update! I got busy and didn’t have the time to translate. I will try to be more active!