ebookland Chapter 140: Being a father again at the kindergarten gate
Chapter 140: Being a father again at the kindergarten gate
Zhang Yang was a little surprised when he saw this message. He had only met Meng Ling and her son once on the high-speed train. How could she trust him to help her pick up the child?
Besides, wouldn’t it be more convenient for her to find a daycare agency to pick up the child?
It was still early for him to come out of the hospital, so he did have time, but he still asked, "Sister Ling, is it appropriate for me to pick her up? Yingying and I just met once in the car."
Meng Ling did not answer him directly, but sent him the address of the kindergarten: Blue Bay Kindergarten, Class 2, Ren Xiaoying.
She also added a message: "Usually my assistant picks up the kids, but she's busy today and I forgot to arrange for someone to pick them up. If you're free, please pick them up for me.
She finishes school at 4:30, take her to the nearby Quandao Cafe and play with her for a while, I'll be there around 6."
She also transferred another 3,000 yuan. She didn't say what it was for, but it was obviously for her to run errands.
Sister Ling is really forcing me to buy something. I didn't even say I agreed, but she asked me to pick up the child?
She is really despicable. She gave me 3,000 yuan just for picking up the child. It is really unbearable for a woman to slap me in the face with money. I can only accept it!
He immediately replied: "I'm free, I'll pick you up right away. Does the kindergarten require a card to pick you up?"
Meng Ling replied: "Send a photo and I'll talk to the teacher."
Zhang Yang thought so too. It would be better to let the teacher recognize the children before picking them up. So he took a selfie on the roadside and sent it to Meng Ling.
Meng Ling looked at the young man in the photo, standing under the green shade of the trees on the roadside with a sunny smile on his face. No wonder her daughter liked him.
She replied: "This one is not clear, take a few more."
Zhang Yang checked it on his phone and felt that he had taken a clear picture, so he took several pictures from different angles and sent them to her.
After receiving a series of photos, Meng Ling looked at them carefully one by one, and then saved all the photos into her favorites with satisfaction.
She replied: "I sent it to the teacher. Yingying knows you. You can pick it up later."
Zhang Yang looked at the time and it was almost four o'clock, so he immediately took a taxi to the kindergarten.
Blue Bay Kindergarten is a large public kindergarten with a good environment and new equipment. There are five classes in each grade.
When they arrived at the kindergarten gate, there were too many parents and they had to queue up to pick up their children. Zhang Yang followed the information given by Sister Ling, found the sign for Class 2, and waited in line with other parents.
After waiting for a while, it was soon the turn of the children in their class to leave the kindergarten.
The woman standing in line behind Zhang Yang was a white-haired lady. She looked at Zhang Yang and said from behind, "Young man, which child is yours?"
Zhang Yang felt that her words were a little strange, but he still replied: "My nickname is Yingying, Ren Xiaoying."
The aunt said, "Oh," and said, "I've seen your daughter in photos. She's very cute."
Zhang Yang thought she might have misunderstood. He was just here to pick up the child on behalf of someone else. He quickly explained, "Yingying is..."
"Dad!" A childish voice interrupted him. Yingying ran towards him from the kindergarten gate and threw herself into his arms.
Seeing this, the aunt behind him said, "You are really good, young man. You are so young and your child is already in kindergarten."
Zhang Yang wanted to explain again, but he didn't know where to start. Yingying in his arms said, "Dad, why are you the one picking me up today?"
Zhang Yang could only answer her first: "Your mother is busy, so she asked me to pick you up."
Yingying pouted and said, "Mom is always busy, can you pick me up from now on?"
I just heard the aunt behind me say: "The little girl just clings to her father, so you should pick her up more often in the future."
Zhang Yang had no idea how to explain this. He simply didn't bother to explain. He just smiled and nodded to the aunt, then left the kindergarten with Yingying in his arms.
Zhang Yang squatted down and said to the little girl, "Yingying, mom told us to go to the coffee shop in front and wait for her. Let's go inside and I'll buy you something delicious, okay?"
Yingying glanced at the coffee shop and quickly turned her head away: "No, she always asks that girl to pick me up there. Then that girl plays with her phone there and doesn't care about me."
Zhang Yang guessed that the young lady she was talking about should be Meng Ling's assistant, who usually picked up Yingying.
Most girls nowadays don’t know how to take care of children. Of course, she would give Yingying some food and toys, coax her to be quiet, and then play with her mobile phone.
But we cannot ignore the little girl's emotions. That day at the high-speed rail station, Yingying obviously seemed a little annoyed with her mother's perfunctory attitude towards her, so she deliberately went to play with Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang asked patiently, "Where do you want to go, Yingying? If it's just around here, I can play with you for a while, and then we can go back and wait for mom."
Yingying pointed to the nearby shopping mall and said pitifully, "I want to go there to play on the carousel, but every time my mom said she would take me, she would go to work in the end."
The little girl is quite pitiful. Her mother can't even fulfill this request for her. It seems that her mother is really busy.
Zhang Yang looked at the time. Meng Ling would not arrive for another hour and a half. This amount of time should be enough for the little girl to play.
"Okay, then I'll take you to ride the carousel, but we have to get out after that."
Yingying clapped her hands and said, "Okay, okay, Yingying will be obedient. Daddy, take me out to play."
Zhang Yang wanted to say, then you are not allowed to call me dad from now on.
But looking at the happy smile on the little girl's face, maybe she really enjoys having a father, and he couldn't bear to say it out loud.
Forget it, I'm just going to take it this once, so let her scream.
He picked up Yingying and said, "Let's go, let's go play."
With his words, the little girl smiled sweetly in his arms.
The two entered the mall, and Zhang Yang found the carousel she mentioned on the fourth floor. The business was not good, especially at this time, there were no children.
Yingying looked at the carousel with anticipation in her eyes. It seemed that the little guy had wanted to play on it for a long time.
Zhang Yang felt that the girl's family conditions were good. Even if her mother was really busy, had she really never played this?
His question did not last long, and he soon got the answer.
When he carried Yingying onto the wooden horse, Yingying pulled at his collar again and begged, "I want Dad to play with me..."
Zhang Yang immediately understood that she didn't just want to play by herself, but wanted an adult to play with her.
The child was really smart. Looking at her big, twinkling eyes, Zhang Yang felt that he was melted by her cuteness and immediately agreed to her: "Okay, Dad will play with you."
For some reason, he also used the term "Dad" himself.
He bent his body, sat on the wooden horse, and then placed Yingying in front of him.
As the music started, the wooden horse began to move up and down, turning slowly.
Yingying in Zhang Yang's arms opened her arms and laughed happily, as if she was really riding a white horse.
In a far corner of the mall, a very beautiful woman in light yellow clothes was watching this scene from afar, wiping tears from the corners of her eyes from time to time.
She is none other than Yingying's mother Meng Ling. "Thank God for saying, Let there be light, I am Foke, and Fengyu Shenzhou for the reward!"