"All the other kids are already looking for their moms, but Zhouzhou hasn’t even noticed me yet. What do you think that kid is talking to him about?" Ye Wanwan asked Shen Yi.
Shen Yi was silent for a while, then said gruffly, "Perhaps it’s just kids’ talk?"
As for what the kids’ talk was about, Shen Yi himself couldn’t quite pinpoint it.
It wasn’t until it was Zhouzhou’s class’s turn to leave that the class teacher and the other two teachers led the twenty children from their class from inside the school to the outside, with the child in front of Zhouzhou still babbling away.
Finally, when they got out of the school gate, that child was still talking, while the other children were now very excited, incessantly shouting for their dads and moms.
Zhouzhou and the kid in front of him seemed to have completely forgotten about their parents and kept talking.
At this point, Ye Wanwan was genuinely very curious about what the child was saying to Zhouzhou that made him forget his own parents.
"Xu Kaiyang, your uncle is here to pick you up. Come over here," Li Xin called out from the front after checking the pickup permits and motioned for the child to come over.
However, after waiting a while without seeing the child come over, Li Xin looked back and realized the child was still talking to another kid, seemingly not having heard his own voice.
Li Xin called out again, "Xu Kaiyang!"
This time, the child who had been talking to Zhouzhou finally reacted, hurriedly running towards Li Xin, only to run halfway and then turn back to Zhouzhou to say, "See you tomorrow!"
"See you tomorrow," Zhouzhou replied, and only then did he catch sight of his own dad and mom in the crowd, immediately showing a joyful smile.
When it was Zhouzhou’s turn, Ye Wanwan hurriedly handed over the pickup permit to Teacher Li, "Hello, Teacher Li."
Teacher Li smiled at Ye Wanwan, checked the permit, and then called out, "Shen Wenzhou."
Hearing his name, Zhouzhou trotted over to Ye Wanwan and was then scooped up into a hug by her.
There were still little ones who hadn’t been picked up by their parents, so Ye Wanwan didn’t feel it right to linger there and quickly carried Zhouzhou out. Once they were in a less crowded area, Ye Wanwan finally put Zhouzhou down.
But the place was still bustling, and hot too, so Ye Wanwan and Shen Yi holding Zhouzhou walked back to the car.
On the way home, Ye Wanwan softly asked, "Did Zhouzhou have fun at kindergarten today?"
Zhouzhou looked at his mom, nodding his head sweetly and cleverly, "Fun."
But after saying that, Zhouzhou kept staring at Ye Wanwan, seeming to have something on his mind he was hesitating to say. Ye Wanwan found this a bit strange and asked, "Does Zhouzhou have something he wants to tell mom?"
Zhouzhou quickly shook his head.
Ye Wanwan narrowed her eyes, a skeptical look on her face, "Are you sure there isn’t anything you want to tell mom?"
This time, however, Zhouzhou didn’t shake his head; yet he didn’t speak either, appearing unsure of how to say it.
Ye Wanwan was somewhat surprised; this was the first time she had seen Zhouzhou . She looked up to exchange glances with Shen Yi, who was evidently also surprised and now very curious about what Zhouzhou wanted to tell them.
So Ye Wanwan directly hugged Zhouzhou into her arms and asked patiently once more, "What is it that Zhouzhou really wants to tell mom?"
Zhouzhou looked at his mom, pursing his lips, still not saying a word.