After filling in the soil, Mengmeng lifted her little foot and stepped on the mud around the Jujube Tree excitedly, “Honey, from now on, this is our child’s, it’s we who gave it a second life, we must take good care of it and raise it into an adult, spit spit spit, I mean raise it into a tree!”
“I’m not interested,” Gu Zhihan frowned, feeling it was utterly childish.
With that time to be a tree daddy, he’d rather learn a few more vocabulary words.
“What do you mean ‘not interested’?” Mengmeng hadn’t caught on yet.
With patience wearing thin, Gu Zhihan added, “I’m not interested in becoming a Jujube Tree’s daddy…”
“But children without fathers, can be discriminated against and laughed at,” Mengmeng pouted, saying this to him earnestly.
She certainly didn’t want her “baby” to be ridiculed or discriminated against.
Gu Zhihan couldn’t help but look at her.
After a long while, he let out a few words, “Are you, by chance, not too bright in the head?”
A “single-parent” tree—who would discriminate against it?
“It would be a good idea to consult a neurologist,” said Gu Zhihan, and after that statement, he no longer looked at Mengmeng or at the tree and walked by her.
Standing there, Mengmeng scratched her head, a bit puzzled.
Then, she turned to Gu’s mother, who was trying to suppress a laugh, “Godmother, do you know what neurology is?”
“Well… neurology is the field that deals with… people who have neurological diseases,” Gu’s mother’s faint voice drifted over.
In short, he was indirectly calling her mentally ill.
Mengmeng finally got it.
Just when Gu’s mother thought Mengmeng would get angry, unexpectedly, she talked to herself, “I never knew that insulting people could be so novel these days, it seems Mengmeng has to work harder to keep up with the times and the ever-updating lexicon of insults!”
Gu’s mother almost fell over upon hearing this… she was flabbergasted.
“But…” Mengmeng looked at Gu Zhihan’s retreating figure and shouted, “If you don’t want to be its daddy, then I’ll go find it a step-dad!”
Gu Zhihan’s steps halted for a moment, he turned around, and gave her a cold glance, “Do you want to familiarize yourself with orthopedics next?”
Let the record show, he was not jealous.
It was just a matter of male dignity!
Because no man could tolerate his fiancee going out to find someone else, especially when she did it so openly, so assertively, right in front of him!
“Do you want to break my leg?” This time Mengmeng understood.
“Exactly, that’s right…” Gu Zhihan didn’t deny it and looked pleased with the fearful expression on Mengmeng’s face.
Then, he turned his head back and continued walking forward, but not before adding one more thing, “I’ll take care of this tree in the future.”
Considering her feelings.
“So, you’re agreeing to be its dad?” Mengmeng nearly jumped for joy and quickly said to the little tree.
“Wow wow wow, Tree baby, did you hear that? You have a dad now!”
“From now on, both mom and dad will take good care of you! Mua!”
Mengmeng’s mom, just returning from work and seeing her daughter hugging, kissing, laughing, and jumping around a tree, couldn’t help but frown and quickly turned to Gu’s mother, “Hanhan’s mom, I think this girl must be having some sort of fit, do you have any tranquilizers or something, to give her an injection?”
It had to be said, ever since Mengmeng had that tree, she really had been acting more and more hysterical.
It was as if she genuinely saw herself as the Tree’s mom, not to mention the cooing and fussing over it, but what’s more important is that she often poured her breakfast milk onto it.
And even more crucially… worried about it not getting enough nutrients, she would also steal Gu Zhihan’s breakfast milk to pour on the tree.
Gu Zhihan was brave enough to voice his anger about it, but to little effect.