Shanshan agreed with Yuan Long’s idea and murmured, “Grandpa spoils Dudu so much, Aunt Lian too, they can’t bear to see the little guy suffer even a little bit. And my aunt and uncle also spoil him, they dote on Dudu so much, giving him whatever he wants. I’m afraid if this continues, the little fatty will become a little spoiled brat.”
Yuan Long pursed his lips and said, “Dudu can’t live with Grandpa all the time, otherwise, he’ll really be spoiled, but the old folks love their children and we can’t say much. But when you and I go to the army later, it’ll just be the three of us, and then we can manage him more. We can also help him lose weight.”
Talking about following the army, Yuan Long had always been thinking about it. After all, he had been looking forward to the mother and son going to the army all the time.
His big hand rubbed on her back’s butterfly bones, and he couldn’t help but ask, “Baby, when are you going to follow me to the army? You’ve already succeeded in losing weight, haven’t you?”
Shanshan really hadn’t thought about this issue. After all, in her mind, she still had twenty pounds of fat to lose, far from reaching the point of successful weight loss, so she hadn’t considered when to go with the army.
Now that he asked, she couldn’t come up with an answer.
Yuan Long could tell from her expression that she hadn’t thought about this issue yet. In fact, in his opinion, she didn’t need to lose weight anymore. Her current figure was fine, and he didn’t know how skinny she would become if she stayed in Huan Yu for a long time. So he tentatively suggested, “How about you come with me this time? I really miss you and Dudu when I’m over there alone. I want you to come over as soon as possible, so we can be together as a family of three every day.”
Shanshan actually wanted the three of them to live together as well, but she hesitated a bit. “But what about my weight loss? I still need to continue losing weight.”
Yuan Long analyzed for her, “Actually, you can continue to train yourself. You already know how to arrange your diet. Now you have a coach in Huan Yu who looks after you and helps you lose weight. Can’t you continue to lose weight by yourself? It’s just that without a coach, you’ll need self-discipline. You have to persevere in losing weight without someone watching and helping you.”
In fact, Yuan Long was right. After losing weight for so long, she already knew all the weight loss exercises and had a thorough understanding of weight loss diets. Even without Yan Shao, she could continue to lose weight by herself. But as he said, without someone watching her, she wasn’t sure if she had the willpower to continue training herself, and she was also afraid that she wouldn’t be able to control her mouth.
Shanshan couldn’t make up her mind for a while. “Let me think about it.”
Yuan Long didn’t urge her. He kissed her forehead gently. “Okay, take your time to think. It’s okay if you don’t want to go now. It’s just a matter of waiting a few more months.”
Although Yuan Long didn’t urge her, Shanshan kept this matter in mind. She felt a little guilty because, because of her, Yuan Long had been alone in the army, and Dudu couldn’t be with his father either. The little guy actually wanted to live with his father, and he had to video call his father every day.
Perhaps Dudu also wanted to go with his dad.
Thinking of this, Shanshan secretly asked Dudu for his opinion, “Do you want to go with Dad to the army now?”
Dudu hesitated for a moment, then nodded without any hesitation, “Yes, Mom, can we move in with Dad?”
“But if we go to live with Dad, you won’t see Grandpa often, and you won’t see Aunt Lian, your aunt and uncle either. Do you still want to go?”
Dudu hesitated when he heard this, biting his chubby fingers and struggling. After a while, he said in a childish voice, “I want to go with Dad! Grandpa, Aunt Lian, and my aunt and uncle have someone to accompany them, but Dad is alone, there’s no one with him. I want to accompany Dad.”
Shanshan was shocked by Dudu’s words. She didn’t expect such mature words to come out of the little guy’s mouth. Such sensible words were something she might not even be able to say.
Comparing herself to her chubby son, Shanshan felt even more guilty. As a wife, she was not as considerate to Yuan Long as her son was, let alone caring. Even her chubby son knew how lonely his dad was, but how could she, as a mother, be worse than her son?
At this moment, under the stimulus of her sensible chubby son, Shanshan finally made a decision: she would lose weight by herself in the future, and this time she would go with her chubby son to follow Yuan Long back to the army.
Thinking about it and doing it, after finishing her training one day, Shanshan bid farewell to Yan Shao, “Coach, I won’t come here to lose weight anymore in the future. Thank you for your help over the past few months.”
Yan Shao paused, silently looking at her for a few seconds before asking, “Didn’t you want to lose weight to ninety pounds? Aren’t you still one hundred and ten pounds now? Don’t tell me you don’t want to lose the last twenty pounds anymore?”
Shanshan waved her hand, “Of course not, I will continue to lose weight. But from now on, I will lose weight by myself. I will try to lose the last twenty pounds in the next month.”
Yan Shao didn’t say anything. This time, he was silent for a long time, so long that even Shanshan felt strange, then he spoke again, “Is it because… Dudu’s dad?”
Shanshan didn’t hide it either and nodded, “Yes, I’m going with him to the army this time.”
Yan Shao nodded faintly, “Oh.”
Shanshan had nothing more to say, so she waved to say goodbye to him. “Goodbye, Coach.”
After saying that, she suddenly felt bold and added, “Coach Yan, before I leave, I want to give you a sincere reminder. You’re fussy, venomous, perverted, and deserve a beating. It’s only me with a good temper who can tolerate you. You’d better change, otherwise, you might lose your clients in the future. And with your personality, you’ll probably never find a girlfriend in your life, let alone a boyfriend. It seems like you’ll end up being alone, how pitiful.”
After saying that, she felt triumphant in her heart. She finally vented out the words that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time. Anyway, she wouldn’t have to tolerate him anymore from tomorrow onwards. She wasn’t afraid of offending him!
Yan Shao gritted his teeth, “Shanshan, are you looking to die?”
Shanshan rolled her eyes at him, “What? Do you want to beat me up? Aren’t you afraid that my husband will beat you up again like last time? Do you want me to ask my husband to come and let you experience it again?”
Yan Shao: “Shanshan!”
Shanshan gave him the middle finger and decided to leave.
Running away after hitting, that’s the best strategy.
Yan Shao watched her open the door to leave, and suddenly felt an impulse. Before he could even react, words blurted out of his mouth, “Shanshan, don’t you recognize me anymore?”
Shanshan paused in her movement of opening the door, turned around in disbelief, and looked at him, “What do you mean? I already know you, don’t I?”
Yan Shao looked at her and said word by word, “My original name is Yan… Shao… An.”
Yan Shao An? Why does this name sound so familiar?
Shanshan turned it over in her mind, and suddenly, her eyes widened in disbelief. She looked at him and said, “You are Yan Shao An? The fat guy from high school who was my classmate?” Yan Shao gritted his teeth. This dead girl used to call him a fat guy. It was his three-year nightmare in high school. Because he wanted to turn things around in front of her, he worked hard to lose weight during his four years abroad, finally becoming what he looked like now.
Shanshan covered her mouth, looking him up and down in astonishment, but she couldn’t see any trace of the fat boy Yan Shao An from back then on him. But his name and his relationship with Jiang Er made it very likely that he was the Yan Shao An from back then. Most importantly, now that she thought about it, the current Yan Shao was exactly the same as the Yan Shao An back then—sarcastic and asking for a beating.
No wonder she couldn’t think of a man named Yan Shao among Jiang Er’s childhood friends. It turned out his appearance had changed.
But wasn’t he a super fat guy? How did he become like this?
As if sensing her doubts, Yan Shao maintained a cold expression and said, “You can change from a fat guy to a skinny guy, can’t I lose weight too?”
Shanshan thought about it and realized it made sense. It seemed that this person had become what he was by losing weight.
Wait a minute, Shanshan suddenly widened her eyes and accused him, “Then didn’t you recognize me a long time ago? Why didn’t you say anything?”
Yan Shao couldn’t answer, so he just raised his chin with a “none of your business” expression.
Shanshan, feeling annoyed, pointed at him, “Okay, say, why are you so sarcastic and perverted towards me? It turns out you’ve been holding a grudge all along! No wonder you’ve never dared to tell me your identity! ”
Yan Shao choked, not knowing what to say to her accusations. In fact, he was sarcastic to her because he couldn’t help but want to see her jump in anger. As for why he hadn’t told her his identity until now, even he himself couldn’t explain the reason.
So, what’s the point of explaining? What’s the point?
Yan Shao waved his hand as if sweeping away trash, “Get lost, Shanshan. From tomorrow on, I won’t have to see you anymore, and my ears will finally be at peace.”
“I don’t want to see you either!” Shanshan was so angry that she wanted to kick him to death. She gave him a big middle finger and turned away.
The door slammed shut, and Yan Shao’s smile disappeared.
Goodbye, Shanshan.
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On Sunday evening, Yuan Long drove back to the army with Shanshan, Dudu, and Er Bao, officially starting Shanshan’s life as a military spouse.
The next day happened to be Monday. Yuan Long woke Dudu up from his sleep, “Dudu, wake up, Dad will take you to kindergarten.”
He had already informed the kindergarten two days ago and arranged for Dudu to start attending from today, starting with the kindergarten class.
It was still early, far from the time Dudu usually woke up. Dudu shook his head drowsily and murmured, “Dad, I want to sleep, I don’t want to go to school.”
Yuan Long carried him to the bathroom to wash up, saying as he brushed Dudu’s teeth, “Children have to go to school. Going to school to learn knowledge will make you smarter. If you don’t go to school, you’ll become a fool.”
Dudu was still sleepy, and he thought it was more interesting not to go to school than to go to school. He resisted brushing his teeth, kicking his chubby legs and refusing to cooperate. “Dad, I’m very smart. I’m smart even if I don’t go to school. Why don’t you let Mom go to school? Mom is stupid, she needs to become smarter.”
Seeing that his Dad was not cooperating, Dudu had to change tactics. He hugged Yuan Long’s neck and coquettishly shook him, even kissing his dad’s face a few times, “Dad, I don’t want to go to school, I want to stay at home with Mom. Otherwise, Mom will be very lonely by herself.”
Shanshan immediately debunked him, “I’m not lonely at home, really.” Don’t think about using me as an excuse.
When Mom didn’t cooperate, Dudu had to come over and hug Mom’s legs, rubbing his chubby cheeks affectionately, expressing his gratitude to Mom.
Shanshan showed a kind smile on her face, but inside, she smirked. Hehehe, you’ll beg me to send you to kindergarten later.
Shanshan walked out of the bathroom, waved to Yuan Long, and deliberately spoke in a mysterious tone, loud enough for people to hear but like she was whispering, “Honey, come here for a moment, I have something to tell you.”
Yuan Long knew she was acting, so he played along and asked, “Why? What’s wrong?”
Shanshan raised her voice a bit more, “I’m telling you, don’t tell Dudu, okay? The food in the kindergarten is delicious. I heard there are desserts after meals. If Dudu goes there and can eat delicious food again, then we won’t be able to make him lose weight. So I think it’s better for Dudu to stay at home with me. I plan to let him eat cucumbers every day to lose weight. I won’t let him eat anything else. By then, he’ll be so hungry that he’ll cry, and he’ll become thin.”
Yuan Long pursed his lips, trying hard to hold back his laughter, and tapped Shanshan’s forehead playfully, while answering in a cooperative manner, “Yeah, I think you’re right. It seems we shouldn’t send Dudu to kindergarten.”
Seeing Mom and Dad whispering, Dudu, out of curiosity, tiptoed behind the door to eavesdrop. When he heard this, his eyes widened in disbelief. His mom was so mean, only giving him cucumbers to eat and letting him starve?
Dudu rubbed his little belly, imagining the scene of being hungry and crying while eating only cucumbers. Suddenly, he shuddered and felt as if the sky had darkened.
He didn’t want to eat just cucumbers. Cucumbers weren’t tasty at all. He wanted to eat meat, sweets, and snacks!
No, he wanted to go to kindergarten!
Dudu immediately ran back to the bathroom. When he heard Mom and Dad coming back, he pretended to have just finished brushing his teeth and washing his face, then ran out, hugged Yuan Long’s leg, and looked up at him with a very obedient smile, saying, “Dad, I think I should go to kindergarten. I’m not smart enough yet. I need to learn knowledge.”
Yuan Long: How do I resist laughing?
Shanshan pinched him on the waist, reminding him not to give it away, but grumbled, “Hey! Little chubby, weren’t you unwilling to go to kindergarten just now? How can a man go back on his word like this?”
Dudu replied nervously, “I’m only three years old, still a baby. It’s okay to change my mind occasionally.”
Shanshan also wanted to laugh but forced herself to hold it in, putting on a face that said, “I really don’t want you to go to kindergarten,” and said unhappily, “Mom is bored alone at home. Just stay with Mom.”
Mom just wants me to lose weight! Dudu became even more determined to go to kindergarten. He hugged Mom’s legs, swaying them back and forth, and said, “Mom, please, let me go to kindergarten and learn knowledge. I can’t become an uncultured person.”
Seeing the situation almost under control, Shanshan decided to relent, looking like she couldn’t stand his pleading, she said, “Alright, alright, go quickly.”
Afraid of being stopped by Mom again, Dudu immediately ran to the sofa, grabbed his little backpack, and pulled Yuan Long’s hand, urging, “Dad, let’s go to school!”
Yuan Long was led away by him, and he turned back to see Shanshan, who was laughing so hard she was clutching her stomach, and he gave her a thumbs up.
She really understands the kids.
He needed to learn more in the future.
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