Chapter 95 – Best Little Child in the World (1)
Qin Ke woke up, and is lying on the side of a narrow single bed.
His eyes are on the yellowing edge of the wallpaper. The transparent tape stuck to the corners cannot hold down the white dust that has fallen off, and the wall is mottled through the gaps.
This is not Xicheng Shangyuan, nor does it look like a hotel room.
He slowly sat up, and realized that the furniture around him had a sense of familiarity.
Until his eyes swept over the dressing mirror inlaid on the closet door, he saw a little boy of about six or seven years old in the mirror.
Qin Ke frowned, and the little boy in the mirror frowned in return, and a surprise belonging to an adult flowed between his clear and childish eyebrows.
“……”
Qin Ke remembered, this is his home in the first grade.
So ……
He was born again?
The phone in the living room rang at this time.
Qin Ke was still a bit confused, got out of bed and opened the door, followed the direction of the ringing, and saw the white landline that should have been abandoned by the times.
He picked up the microphone and heard Qin Nirong say on the other end: “I bought a train ticket for the morning after tomorrow, and I have to go and do something later. You can cook your own noodles for dinner.”
Qin Ke asked, “Where did you buy the train ticket to?”
Qin Nirong said strangely, “Did you take a nap? Mom got a new job, and we’re moving out of town.”
After putting the microphone back to its original place, the memories from long ago gradually revived in the mind.
Now Qin Ke, six years old, is celebrating the winter vacation of his first grade. In a couple of days, he and his mother will get on a train to leave Yan City, and begin his several years of turbulent life.
“…… tsk.”
The six-year-old Qin Ke is very speechless, recalling last night’s scene, clearly remembering that he came back from work late at night, he and Song Yunran had a “who’s the father” physical communication.
The process is very pleasant, both sides are also very happy, but before going to bed, Song Yunran began to mutter that he saw a new limited edition sports car, the color is particularly cool. Qin Ke has seen the pictures, and only felt that the color of the paint is too much like forgiveness green, and politely suggested that he take a look again.
Could it be that after he fell asleep, Mr. Xiao Song was depressed because his boyfriend didn’t like his car and climbed up in the middle of the night to drown his sorrows in wine?
Qin Ke went over it in his head, in addition to the cooking wine at home, there was only medical alcohol left for sterilization.
He rubbed his brow a few times and thought, “Not really.
Song Yunran wasn’t really stupid, he shouldn’t have drunk medical alcohol.
For the next two minutes, Qin Ke wandered around the house.
After thinking about it, he still couldn’t rest assured and decided to go check on Song Yunran.
At least first, to determine whether he was the only one who had been reborn this time.
?
Qin Ke did not go to the Song family’s villa, where security is strict, he certainly can not enter.
At 4:00 pm, he finally arrived at the kindergarten where Song Yunran was studying after a long journey on the subway and bus.
Private kindergartens don’t have summer or winter vacations, and now that it’s close to the end of the school day, there’s a long line of cars lined up outside the garden gate.
Qin Ke had not yet gotten used to his six-year-old body, and he always felt short when he walked through the crowd, but once he thought that Song Yunran was only a small child now, he found a subtle sense of balance in his heart.
When he came to the front gate, he craned his neck to see the notice posted on the wall, and realized that in order to avoid crowding at the end of the school day, the kindergarten will open all the gates at 4:30 every day, and the children in each class will have a corresponding entrance and exit gate.
Qin Ke was a bit depressed, he only knew that Song Yunran should be in the senior kindergarten class now, but he didn’t know exactly which class it was.
With the idea that he had come here, he chose the west gate based on his intuition.
As a result, just on the way to the west gate, a faint cry came out from the bushes by the roadside: “Help–”
Qin Ke followed the sound and judged that the sound was coming from between the bushes and the fence.
“……”
He thought that it couldn’t be such a coincidence while poking through the bushes.
A face as tender as a freshly baked bun burst into his vision.
The little boy’s eyes were round, his eyelashes curled up like a doll, and his good-looking face was red as a tomato from struggling so hard, matching the color of the fluffy down jacket he was wearing perfectly.
The face of little Mr. Xiao Song instantly appeared in Qin Ke’s mind.
The one in front of me has not changed much except for the proportional reduction.
Qin Ke asked cautiously: “You are Song…”
Before he finished speaking, the little boy grabbed his cuff in horror: “Help me! I seem to be caught by a monster!”
“……”
It’s confirmed, this is Song Yunran, that’s right.
Qin Ke looked at him a few times, and helped him untie the hat that was caught by the wall decoration, feeling speechless for a while.
Song Yunran finally regained his freedom, with a dimple on his right cheek, “Thank you.”
Qin Ke was silent for a few seconds, and asked, “School will be over soon, what are you doing over the wall?”
“I won’t tell you.”
Song Yunran was quite vigilant. He squatted behind the bushes and patted the dirt on his body, then suddenly reached out and pulled Qin Ke down, “Don’t stand still, you will be found!”
Qin Ke was caught off guard and almost stepped into the bushes.
He was forced to squat beside Song Yunran, looked out through the gaps in the leaves, and looked at the passers-by who were heading towards the west gate one after another. He slowly came to his senses: “Are you skipping class, or are you running away from home?”
Song Yun suddenly paused, his big eyes showing a moment of panic.
But he quickly regained his composure, as if he had come up with something in his head, and asked in a low voice, “Are you running away from home too?”
Qin Ke: “???”
Song Yunran was still asking: “I haven’t seen you before, which class are you in? Why did you run away from home? Have you figured out where to go?”
The enthusiastic tone as if he had found a partner made Qin Ke feel absurd.
He had to interrupt and said, “It’s normal that you haven’t seen me. I’m older than you, not a kid in kindergarten.”
“Hey, how old are you?” Song Yunran asked.
“twenty……”
As soon as Qin Ke opened his mouth, he saw Song Yunran looking at him with a mentally retarded look. He took a deep breath and said, “Hey, I’m almost seven years old.”
To be exact, he was only six years and five months old.
But there is no way, being watched with contempt by the little one in front of him is too easy to arouse some inexplicable desire to win.
“Oh oh. I, I will be six years old soon!”
Song Yunran suddenly raised his voice, not knowing what he was proud of.
Qin Ke nodded numbly, and then heard him ask: “Then are you in elementary school?”
“……Um.”
“That’s amazing. You’re a primary school student.”
“Thank you, don’t say that in the future.”
It’s hard not to make people suspect that you are mocking me, Qin Ke added in his heart.
According to the convention, they should be reborn together.
But the child in front of him who spoke and behaved too naively was not like an adult could pretend to be.
But thinking of Song Yunran’s weird ideas instead, Qin Ke didn’t dare to take it lightly.
He thought for a while, and tentatively asked, “Mr. Song?”
Song Yunran blinked in confusion, as if he didn’t understand at all.
Could it be that he was the only one reborn this time?
Qin Ke’s mood sank in an instant. There was wind everywhere outside in winter, blowing into his neck like ice blades scraping his skin, bringing a bone-piercing chill.
He lowered his eyes and glanced at the pair of indoor slippers on Song Yunran’s feet out of the corner of his eye.
“Why did you run out without changing your shoes?” he asked.
Song Yunran bit his lower lip before saying, “You can’t wear those shoes, they will chirp if I run far.”
It probably refers to something similar to a location alarm.
Qin Ke thought for a while, then asked, “Why do you want to run away from home?”
With this question, the corners of Song Yunran’s mouth dropped immediately.
He grabbed a few leaves, tore them into pieces bit by bit, and held them tightly in the palm of his hand.
After a while, she said aggrievedly, “She said I was a bad boy.”
Qin Ke was slightly taken aback, but soon understood.
It turned out that Song Yunran met the perverted nanny during this period.
“Ah, I shouldn’t have said it.”
Song Yunran clenched his fists, feeling extremely annoyed, “If I tell others, I won’t be able to become a good boy again. Brother, can you keep it a secret for me?”
Qin Ke was silent for a few seconds before speaking slowly, “Okay.”
Song Yunran breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his immature face.
It seems that in his little head, as long as the “elementary student” brother whom he met for the first time in front of him can help him keep the secret, it doesn’t count as a violation of the contract made by the nanny.
Qin Ke couldn’t laugh at all: “You don’t want to go home, because you don’t want to see her?”
Song Yunran nodded.
“…Or should I accompany you to find the teacher?”
Qin Ke is a little helpless. He is now imprisoned in the body of a six-year-old child and can only seek help from adults.
Song Yunran shook his head again: “I can’t tell other people.”
After finishing speaking, he sighed pitifully, “I’d better go back.”
With an IQ of five years and ten months, Song Yunran finally realized at this moment that running away from home would not solve the problem.
He stood up, said goodbye to Qin Ke, then turned around and prepared to go back through the gap in the wall.
Qin Ke looked at his little back, and suddenly stopped him: “Do you want to see Mom and Dad?”
“May I?!”
Song Yunran quickly turned her head, “But it’s so far to go to Ningdong, you have to take a car to get there.”
“It’s fine, I have a car with me too.” Qin Ke bent down to untie his shoelaces, “It’s too cold, you walk in my shoes.”
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Half an hour later, Song Yunran sat down on the seat, shaking his slightly larger sneakers, and using them to touch the back of Qin Ke’s feet in his indoor slippers.
“Brother, your family’s car is so big.” He said enviously.
Qin Ke calmly returned, “It’s okay.”
“It’s just a bit overcrowded.”
Song Yunran’s eyes were full of curiosity, looking around at the passengers on the bus, “Why don’t you change to a car that has seats, is it because you don’t like to sit?”
Before the words fell, several passengers standing in the aisle looked over in unison.
Qin Ke: “…… you stop talking first.”
Otherwise with my six-year-old force value, it is really difficult to protect you.
Song Yunran said obediently, “Oh”.
He actually does not like this excessively large car, too noisy, the chair is too hard, and not as comfortable as the car he usually sits in.
But once he thought of meeting his mom and dad soon, the joy in his heart washed away his discomfort.
Come on, you can bear it.
Song Yunran silently cheered for himself, and when he looked up again, his eyes swept over the heads of the two rows of passengers in front of him and saw the car TV hanging high above him.
An outdoor program was playing on the TV.
A few pretty aunts and uncles were setting up large toys on the lawn and directing a small dog to jump over the toys.
Song Yunran was so absorbed in the program that he didn’t notice the meaningful sights beside him.
Qin Ke quietly watched him, and then looked at the car TV after a while.
He recognized the guests who appeared in the program, all of them were popular actors and actresses in this era.
Qin Ke’s mind reeled, realizing that after the meeting, he had consistently neglected one detail.
Which world was it now?
The Song Yunran who appeared in front of him would grow up to be an actor or a President Xiao Song?
Qin Ke pondered for a moment and asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Song Yunran looked back and smiled a little shyly for some reason: “Will you laugh at me if I tell you?”
“No.”
“Then I’ll tell you secretly.” Song Yunran came to his ear and said happily, “I want to be a dog when I grow up!”
Qin Ke: “……?”
He raised his eyes to the car TV again and finally realized that just now Song Yunran had been watching the dog seriously?
Song Yunran’s tone was full of longing, “Dogs don’t have to learn the piano or go to kindergarten, and they are especially brave! Look at all the high toys, they dare to jump over them, much better than me.”
The unexpected answer made Qin Ke want to stop talking.
He had never imagined that one day he would need to explain to Song Yunran the biological principle of “different paths for humans and dogs”.
When Song Yunran saw that he was not moved, he could only sit back with regret.
In less than a minute of silence, he turned his face sideways, puffed out his cheeks and said, “Dogs are great, don’t look down on them.”
Qin Ke explained with difficulty, “I don’t look down on them, I also quite like dogs.”
“Really?”
Song Yunran’s eyes suddenly lit up. He really liked this good-looking brother who took him to Ningdong by car, and they also had the same hobbies!
Such a brother deserved a future as bright as his.
So Song Yunran stuck over again and invited, “Then when we grow up in the future, can we be dogs together?”
“…… Not good.”
Qin Ke decisively refused.
Author’s Note: Surname Qin, don’t be ignorant of praise!
T/N: I’m so sorry for not posting all these days🥲🥲. I’m a medical student and had exams last month so couldn’t upload
My first language isn’t English, and there may be some grammatical errors. But I try not to deviate from the author’s narrative. If there are any errors or nonsensical sentences, feel free to comment.
