Chapter 57: The Clingy Childhood Sweetheart 1
【This world’s difficulty is very low. You and the protagonist can cultivate your grudge from a young age. By the way, you’re only three years old now.】
Shu He was gently put down by a pair of hands.
At the same time, the system also told him the basic plot of the world. Shu He’s chubby face was dizzy as he listened, a little unable to sort out the current situation.
“Baby, this is Jiang Qi. You call him ‘brother.’ Can you go play in the room with Brother Jiang Qi?”
Perhaps because his body had become smaller.
Shu He’s head was groggy at this moment, and he was a little sleepy. He sat on the fluffy carpet, and with effort, he lifted his head and said “Oh” to Shu’s mother, who was speaking to him in a soft voice.
His voice was young and tender, and he looked very obedient.
Shu’s mother had the nanny take the child to the toy room. The little boy named Jiang Qi stood out from behind his mother. He looked at Shu He, but found that Shu He was rushing to the room on his short legs, not paying any attention to him at all, and not calling him “brother” as the adult had said.
Jiang Qi was inexplicably a little unhappy.
He followed into the toy room. The nanny carefully put away the sharp things around them, and then coaxed Shu He, saying that she would go and cut some fruit for him and Jiang Qi, and that he should get along with Jiang Qi.
Shu He lifted his face and said “Okay,” looking very obedient. The nanny lovingly rubbed his little dark hair, and before long, she closed the door and left.
The room was suddenly quiet.
Jiang Qi walked in front of Shu He.
Shu He sat on the blanket, and in front of him was a pile of building blocks that were even taller than him. He reached out his small hand, randomly grabbed a building block, and turned his head to throw it at Jiang Qi.
Jiang Qi caught it in his arms, and then sat down next to him, his little bean-like head against his, and said the first sentence since they had met. “Baby, I’ll play with building blocks with you.”
He had thought that Shu He had thrown the building block at him because he wanted to play with him.
Shu He looked at him strangely, and with his chubby face, he grabbed a handful of building blocks and threw them at him. Jiang Qi put a few building blocks together and continued to press his head against his and said, “That’s right. That’s how you put them together, baby.”
Shu He’s childish voice babbled, “Don’t call me ‘baby’!”
A very fierce baby. Jiang Qi belatedly realized that the little boy in front of him didn’t seem to want to play with him. He was stunned and entered a blind spot.
In the past, it was always Jiang Qi who didn’t like to play with other children.
His parents would always say he was introverted and reclusive, and that he should be more open, and that other children his age were all playing house, and he was the only one who stayed at home all day and didn’t go out.
Like a living fossil.
This was the first time he had taken the initiative to want to be friends with someone, but he was rejected.
Jiang Qi frowned like a little adult.
He held the building block, and after a long time, he managed to say, “I don’t know your name.”
“I’m not playing with you. You don’t need to know my name.” Shu He turned his back, having already decided on his mission policy for this world.
Now he unilaterally considered Jiang Qi to be his mortal enemy!
The little lotus baby held a large pile of building blocks by himself and wouldn’t let Jiang Qi touch them. Jiang Qi stood up with a grunt and went around to the baby, and asked him how he could be friends with him.
The baby said “awoo awoo” that he hated him very much and that they could never be friends in this life. When Jiang Qi heard this, he couldn’t help it. He had never encountered any setbacks at such a young age, and the first time he failed to make a friend brought him great trauma. He grabbed the building block in Shu He’s hand and asked him if he had done something wrong to provoke him.
The building block was a large pile.
When someone grabbed it, it all fell out of Shu He’s arms. Jiang Qi slipped a little, and his hands and feet frantically fell on Shu He. Shu He let out a “waa” and fell on the fluffy carpet, and cried out weakly.
“Wuwuwuwuwuwu.”
He had become a child, and his emotions were also affected by his body’s hormones. He cried until his face was red, and his tears fell like beans, not for free.
Jiang Qi propped himself up above his head, his mind buzzing as he watched Shu He cry.
At this time, it was the height of summer. The exquisitely carved little dumpling’s cries were young and tender, and the baby fat on his cheeks was as cute as a sweet, sticky little cake. Jiang Qi loved to eat cake, but he had never seen a cake cry so sadly.
“What’s wrong, what’s wrong?!”
The nanny heard the cries and rushed over in a panic. When she saw Shu He on the ground, her heart almost flew out. She quickly picked up the child to see if he was injured.
She lifted his clothes. It was a patch of milky white, with no marks from the building blocks. The nanny touched his head again. Shu He was crying so hard he was almost out of breath. Now that he was comforted, he soon fell asleep.
Jiang Qi sat on the ground, at a loss.
Shu’s mother and Jiang’s mother came over when they heard the noise. He was pulled up by Jiang’s mother like a little chicken, and she scolded him, asking if he had bullied someone.
Jiang Qi: “I didn’t…”
Jiang Qi had a record.
He was a bad child, at least that’s what his parents said. Last year, to make Jiang Qi more open and not so introverted, Jiang’s father and mother had stuffed him into a pile of children during the New Year and told him to make friends.
In the end, who knew what conflict they had had? It ended with Jiang Qi hitting someone and refusing to apologize. Jiang’s mother had a terrible headache. She had been worried when Jiang Qi had gone into the room with him just now. Sure enough, there was another conflict, and Jiang Qi wouldn’t even admit it!
Jiang Qi was being scolded, but his head was lifted to look at Shu He, who was sleeping in someone’s arms. He couldn’t hear the adults’ voices and was thinking to himself about where he had provoked Shu He just now. Could it be that he hadn’t greeted him when he had entered the room?
As he thought, he didn’t know how the conversation ended. Jiang’s mother wanted to take him away. Jiang Qi stood still and stubbornly asked the question he cared about. “When are we coming back?”
Jiang’s mother: “You’re coming back! To bully him again?”
Jiang Qi frowned. “I didn’t.”
Jiang’s mother took it as him not admitting it and dragged him out. Shu’s mother saw them off at the door, glanced at the rebellious and unhappy Jiang Qi, and after thinking for a moment, she still reminded, “Hey, you can’t educate a child like this.”
Jiang’s mother: “You don’t know him. He’s been like this since he was little. No one is willing to play with him!”
“Children, they’re lively,” Shu’s mother said. “You’re moving over recently, right? Why don’t you let the two children get to know each other?”
Moving?
Jiang Qi looked up. Jiang’s mother said a few more words and stuffed him into the car. “What your Auntie Shu said also makes sense. Tell me the truth. Did you bully him or not?”
Jiang Qi was pressed against the car window.
He looked at the passing scenery outside, remembered the location, and said impatiently, “No.”
“Then why did Little He cry?”
Jiang Qi thought for a long time, and frowned like a little adult, very solemnly. “Maybe it’s because I called him ‘baby.’ He doesn’t let me call him that.”
Jiang’s mother: “?”
You children, I really don’t understand.
Children were very hard to understand.
Shu He was also dazed.
He didn’t know why, but he was always sleepy and had to sleep for a long time every day. He was also very easy to cry. When he woke up in his room and didn’t see his parents, the feeling of being wronged and scared would come up, and the tip of his nose would be sour.
Shu He cupped his face and buried himself in the bed.
He said with a grunt, “…When I was little, I would always cry when I woke up and didn’t see my parents’ tails.”
“I’m all grown up now.”
The three-year-old cub was depressed, not understanding why he had suddenly become so fragile. The system was too busy to answer. It had taken a lot of pictures for Shu He. This world had a lot of places to take pictures.
This set of photos could also be made into a collection.
The name was The Diary of Raising Little Hehua.
Shu He’s face was buried in the bed, and he was a little out of breath. He moved away and lay on it, using his small head to think about his big career.
【The protagonist in this world has a feud in a rich family. He looks like an only child and the only heir, but in fact, his father has illegitimate children outside. When they grow up, these illegitimate children will come out and fight with him for the family assets.】
【There are also a lot of melodramatic plots, and you, Little He, are his mortal enemy. According to the normal route, the Shu family will be taken down by the Dragon King Jiang Qi in the end. This time, you will cultivate your grudge from a young age, and the mission will definitely be successful.】
This was the basic information the system had given.
Being a mortal enemy was still very easy. Shu He was very confident. The next time he met the protagonist should be in kindergarten. Before that…
Shu He had never thought that Jiang Qi would come to find him.
And alone.
That day, the sky was clear and the sun was hot.
Jiang Qi looked at his little genius children’s phone watch. He had been waiting to move with his parents, looking forward to it every day, to move near Little He’s house.
But it had been three days, and they still hadn’t moved.
Adults’ procrastination was really… Jiang Qi was a little anxious, and as he was anxious, a bold idea came to him.
He had remembered the route last time, and he also had a watch that could see a map.
His house and Little He’s house were not very far apart. It would take about an hour to walk. Assuming that there were no traffickers on the road who would take him for a fool and waste his time, if he set off in the afternoon, he could arrive at Little He’s house at five o’clock.
When Little He saw him, would he throw building blocks at him again?
Jiang Qi thought all the way.
From Little He’s reaction, he thought of their first meeting.
He didn’t think he was reclusive, nor did he think he was introverted. It was clearly that the other children were too stupid, and he couldn’t play with them.
But Little He looked so smart.
When they first met, Little He was nestled in his mother’s arms, and a pair of round eyes looked at him over her shoulder, his cheeks puffed out, very cute.
His heart was hit, and his thoughts became dazed.
Jiang Qi felt that this was his destined friend.
He didn’t have many friends. One was enough.
He wanted to be friends with him.
In the future, he would also be open and no longer introverted and reclusive.
He thought all the way, and it seemed that the hour-long journey was not so hard to endure. Jiang Qi was so hot from the sun that his thoughts became stagnant. After a long, long time, he finally saw a familiar scene.
He ran with all his might, but he couldn’t even reach the doorbell when he jumped up. Jiang Qi thought indignantly that when he was a little older, he would break this hateful doorbell.
“Baby!”
“Little He!”
“Oh my god! How did you get here?! Where are your parents?!”
The nanny’s soul almost flew out when she opened the door. Jiang Qi belatedly stood up straight, showing a calm and reserved appearance. “I’m here to find Little He.”
The nanny: “…”
The nanny: “Wait for me a bit…”
Jiang Qi sat in the living room.
The nanny went to make a call, and after she was done, she came out to understand the situation with Jiang Qi. When she learned that Jiang Qi had come to find him alone, she was so scared she almost fainted, and she trembled as she continued to make calls.
Shu He had just woken up at this time.
He was dressing himself, his little head struggling to get out of his clothes, and then he leaned close to the mirror and ruffled his hair, and pushed his chubby little face as if he were curious. It was at this time that Jiang Qi was brought in by the nanny. When Shu He touched his little face and turned back, their eyes met.
“This child…” The nanny explained to Shu He, her expression very difficult. The more Shu He listened, the more confused he became. Alone? Walked for an hour?
Jiang Qi said reservedly, “Hello, hello, Little He.”
Shu He: “…”
The nanny left.
Leaving the two little beans in the room, staring at each other.
After a while, Shu He really couldn’t hold it in and went over to Jiang Qi and asked him, “Why did you walk for an hour?”
Jiang Qi keenly heard the admiration in his tone and followed along. “Ah, it’s a small matter, nothing.”
Shu He: “I’m asking why you walked so far.”
Jiang Qi: “…”
Oh.
He hadn’t thought that much at the time. He had just walked for an hour. He only knew, “I miss you a little. I want to clear up the misunderstanding. Don’t hate me.”
Shu He wrinkled his nose.
He turned his head away and sat on the carpet. Jiang Qi went over to him and called him “Little He baby” in a small voice.
“Don’t call me that.”
Jiang Qi asked dryly, “Then why do you hate me? I’m very smart…”
Shu He just shook his head, his small face straight as he refused to communicate with him. Jiang Qi talked by himself for a while, and then was silent for a long time. By the time Shu He reacted, he saw Jiang Qi lean over and bite him.
His cheek was held in his mouth.
This childish little boy was biting him like a dog. The force was not heavy, but Shu He was still scared to tears.
“…Waa wuwuwuwuwu.”
The nanny rushed over again and held the crying Little He baby in her arms. Jiang Qi climbed up, his mind like a paste, not even knowing why he had done it. He seemed to have mistaken the baby’s face for a fragrant little cake. “…I’m sorry, Little He. Your face is so round, I don’t know why I just…”
The nanny had a headache.
Jiang’s child, she really didn’t know how to manage him. Jiang Qi touched his teeth with his tongue, and looked up in a daze. There was a distinct tooth mark on Shu He’s pale cheek.
The baby was going to hate him even more…
—
“You mean, you walked here from home by yourself?”
“Mm…”
“You mean, you remembered an hour’s journey?”
“Mm… the little genius watch also helped me.”
In the living room, Shu’s mother had rushed back from the company after receiving the call. She was questioning this strange little boy in front of her, and for the countless time, she fell into silence.
She understood why Jiang’s mother always had that expression when she looked at Jiang Qi.
It was really hard to understand this child.
Shu’s mother wearily dialed a number. Jiang’s mother was anxious on the phone, saying she would talk about it next time, that Little Jiang was missing. She held her forehead and said weakly, “No need to look anymore.”
“Yes, he’s here.”
“…”
Half an hour later.
Shu’s house, living room, four adults were sitting opposite each other.
Jiang Qi was standing and being scolded, his face rebellious.
“Look at you!”
The more Jiang’s father and mother looked, the angrier they became, their fingers trembling as they pointed at him. “Were we enemies in our past lives? Did you come to collect a debt?”
Jiang Qi: “The book says to be scientific. People have no past or future lives. Don’t be superstitious, old dad.”
“…”
Jiang’s father and mother had the most unforgettable day. They scolded Jiang Qi for half an hour. Jiang Qi kept his head down and was not in a good mood. Only in the evening, when they planned to stay at the Jiang family’s house for the night, did he look up in surprise.
“I’ll sleep with Little He!”
Jiang’s father: “And then bite Little He’s face in the middle of the night, right? Don’t even think about it.”
Jiang Qi: “…”
He was dejected again. Shu He was eating a little cake and didn’t speak all along. He ate until his stomach was round. The nanny tried to take the cake from his hand, saying that he would be uncomfortable if he ate too much and that he shouldn’t eat anymore, baby.
Shu He bit his fingertips and said in a young and tender voice, “There’s still a little half left, it will be wasted…”
“I’ll eat it.” Jiang Qi was like a ghost, everywhere. Shu He turned his head to look at him, his chubby little face puffed out. “I’ve eaten it…”
“I’ll eat it too.”
Jiang Qi was even disgusted with using the same cup as someone else, but he took the little cake without any disgust and took a bite.
Sweet.
He thought carelessly, he had eaten the same cake as the baby. In the future, they would be the best of friends.
Not far away, Jiang’s father and mother, who were watching this scene: “…”
Jiang’s father, who had been severely criticized by Jiang Qi just for forgetting to use public chopsticks to pick up food, was hit by an arrow in the knee.
This annoying rebellious son!
At night, it was time to sleep.
Jiang Qi slept alone in the children’s room, and Shu He was next to him. In the middle of the night, Shu He heard a knock on the wall. He listened with concentration and heard Jiang Qi’s voice. “Baby.”
…
“My leg hurts a little.”
Jiang Qi said, “I think it’s because I walked too long today.”
Shu He pressed against the wall and said, “Then you’re weak. I can walk for three hours and not be tired.”
Jiang Qi: “?? ”
“Really? You’re so amazing.”
Shu He nodded proudly, not mentioning that he had been carried on his parents’ backs for three hours.
Jiang Qi believed him, and not only did he believe him, but he also thought that it was really not right for him to be tired after just one hour. He had to exercise well and strive to be like the baby.
A little while later, Jiang Qi was leaning against the wall and chatting with Shu He again. The two children, one saying “I hate you,” and the other saying “Don’t hate me. Can we be friends?”
As they chatted, Shu He fell asleep.
Jiang Qi was in a daze for a while, and then he climbed into bed. The next morning, Jiang’s father and mother took him away, and in two days, they prepared to move.
This time, the walking distance between him and Shu He was shortened from one hour to five minutes.
An epic improvement.
Before kindergarten started, Jiang Qi would go to the Shu family’s house to play with Shu He every day. Shu He would sometimes ignore him, and sometimes he couldn’t help but play with building blocks with him, head to head, and would softly say that his building was so beautiful.
Jiang Qi was naturally flying high, and he built a lot of things for Shu He with building blocks, including a small airplane and a small castle, and even personally gave him a little genius children’s phone watch.
“This is my number.”
Jiang Qi taught him how to save his contact information, and then he couldn’t help but press their phone watches together and smile.
“Baby, we’re friends.”
Shu He’s face was straight as he refused to admit it.
Jiang Qi pressed against him and said it didn’t matter, a one-sided friend was still a friend. The nanny came over to call the two children to eat. It was like this for many days.
Until kindergarten started.
The Big Windmill International Kindergarten was recommended by Jiang’s mother. Jiang Qi was going to be in the middle class, and Shu’s mother was preparing to send Shu He to the small class.
Everything was ready, but on the day of school, something happened.
Jiang Qi refused to go to the middle class and insisted on going to the small class with Shu He. Jiang’s mother was at her wit’s end, saying that he had already been in the small class and couldn’t go again! Jiang Qi wouldn’t listen, and at this moment, he was displaying the stubbornness of a child to the extreme, and he wouldn’t even give in even when he was so angry he cried.
Shu He’s round eyes were wide, and he was biting a straw in his mouth, stunned.
Jiang Qi cried for two seconds and then stopped. He reservedly and quietly told Shu He that he hadn’t cried just now. Shu He sucked on his soy milk, his cheeks puffed out as he nodded vaguely, but he didn’t believe it at all.
He pursed a small dimple and deliberately said very badly, “Crying, crying, shame, shame. You’re so embarrassing.”
Jiang Qi: “…”
Jiang “Embarrassing” Qi did not admit that he had been so angry he cried. He turned his head and continued to fight with his parents. Finally, his parents gave in to his stubbornness and promised to negotiate with the school.
So when he entered the class, the kindergarten teacher who had been in charge of teaching Jiang Qi’s small class before watched as Jiang Qi stepped into the small class again, and slowly typed out a huge question mark.
To be honest, she had a headache.
Jiang Qi was not an easy child to manage.
He had a lot of his own ideas, and a very strong sense of self. He didn’t even play with other children, and he was always uninterested when the children played small games to cultivate a sense of community.
The day Jiang Qi graduated from the small class, it was no exaggeration to say that she had celebrated with her friends all night, saying that she would never have to teach this little bully again.
In the end, now, the little bully was back.
The kindergarten teacher: “…”
Jiang Qi had no awareness of how annoying he was. He wandered around and was satisfied to find that this place was the same as he remembered. So Jiang Qi went to take Shu He’s hand, wanting to take him to a corner and say that this was where he used to put his schoolbag, that was where they played games, and in front was the little book corner.
In the end, before these ideas could be put into practice, Jiang Qi looked up and found that Shu He had been snatched away by other children!
There were twelve people in the small class.
These twelve people, besides him and Shu He and the truly introverted child in the corner, were all surrounding Shu He.
The children all handed their snacks to Shu He, including lollipops, chocolates, and a half-eaten ice cream. Shu He was like a fluttering little flower, being pushed back and forth, holding a milk carton, his face full of confusion as he opened his mouth. “Don’t push, don’t push…”
It was useless.
The children were very noisy.
Like a group of untamed monkeys on Mount Emei, they were chattering. Shu He’s young and tender childish voice was buried among them, inconspicuous.
“Eat mine, eat mine!”
“Li Wang, don’t push me! I’m going to tell my parents!”
“This chocolate is delicious, very, very sweet. Can you be my friend…”
Shu He was dressed very beautifully today.
He was small, pink and jade-carved, with a yellow little shirt as the base, and a pair of denim overalls on the outside. His whole person looked soft and pale. The children all wanted to play with him, and they pushed and shoved, and you wouldn’t let me, and I wouldn’t let you, and they all wanted to be the first to talk to him, and for a moment, they lost their sense of proportion.
Jiang Qi’s eyes suddenly sharpened.
He rushed forward. Shu He was pushed and shoved and was unsteady, and his whole person fell backwards. In that instant, it was as if all the sounds had slowed down. He couldn’t hold onto the milk and closed his eyes in panic.
Thud.
His head hit something soft.
His body was also caught.
He heard Jiang Qi’s secret gasp in his ear. The children were so scared they cried. Shu He opened his eyes in a daze and turned back, and found that Jiang Qi had rushed over at some point and blocked him, his small hand on the anti-collision device on the corner of the table, and at this moment, he was pressing his lips together as if in pain, staring at him.
Shu He scrambled up.
Jiang Qi slowly moved his hand away.
There was a buffer on the corner of the table, so he wouldn’t be hit so hard he would bleed. But after all, the height was not low, and Jiang Qi was still afraid that Shu He would be hurt.
It was indeed quite painful.
He grimaced and gasped, and before he could speak, a small figure appeared in front of him. He looked up, and his line of sight was filled with the sight of Shu He’s tears falling.