Chapter 1576: A Child's World

Accompanying a woman on a shopping trip is undoubtedly one of the most terrifying things in the world.

For Zhao Fusheng, now he had a deep understanding of this.

After confirming that Zhao Fusheng had nothing else to do in the afternoon, Yu Feihong dragged him around the capital for an entire afternoon.

"I'm so miserable!"

Returning home, Zhao Fusheng, laden with bags, said to Fan Baobao with a helpless expression.

Fan Baobao burst out laughing: "Is it really that exaggerated? You've gone shopping with me and Mom before."

She also found it a bit strange—when she shopped with Zhao Fusheng, he never complained like this.

Could it be that it depends on the person?

"It's different."

Zhao Fusheng said bitterly: "When you and Mom go shopping, you basically leave after buying things. But Sister Feihong, she had no intention of stopping, you know? It's like..."

As he spoke, he held up one finger.

Fan Baobao frowned slightly, puzzled, not knowing what Zhao Fusheng meant.

"What do you mean? What does one finger represent?" Fan Baobao asked Zhao Fusheng in confusion.

Between husband and wife, there was naturally nothing to be embarrassed about.

Zhao Fusheng shrugged: "One finger means shopping all the way..."

"Haha!"

Fan Baobao couldn't hold it in any longer and burst into loud laughter.

While laughing, she patted Zhao Fusheng on the shoulder: "Shopping all the way, hahaha, shopping all the way, you're so funny..."

Zhao Fusheng looked at his wife almost speechlessly, and after a long while, when Fan Baobao finally stopped laughing, he glared at her: "Is it funny?"

"Cough, it's very funny!"

Fan Baobao blinked and nodded seriously.

Seeing that Zhao Fusheng was about to explode with glaring eyes, she quickly soothed him: "Come on, Sister Feihong was buying things for the kids, wasn't she? Look at all this stuff she bought; she must have chosen it carefully."

Zhao Fusheng was speechless.

He felt something was off, but couldn't put it into words.

Just then, Fan Beibei rushed over, enthusiastically dragging Zhao Fusheng to watch cartoons, and Fan Baobao had to go feed the baby, so Zhao Fusheng had to give up what he was thinking.

"Brother, cartoons are so boring."

Children's interests are always fleeting. At first, Fan Beibei watched with great interest, but after a while, she found it boring.

"You're already in elementary school, so of course you find this uninteresting."

Looking at the cringeworthy cartoon content on TV, Zhao Fusheng shook his head helplessly and said to Fan Beibei.

The little girl was now in second grade. Although she still liked cartoons, the early education type no longer interested her.

"Oh..."

Fan Beibei nodded, tilted her head in thought, then got up from beside Zhao Fusheng and skipped away.

Zhao Fusheng smiled and picked up the remote to change channels.

As for what Fan Beibei was up to, he didn't really care.

It wasn't that he wasn't worried, but at Fan Beibei's age, nothing she did seemed strange.

After all, children at this age always bring surprises.

Strictly speaking, even Zhao Fusheng had to admit that he couldn't understand the bizarre thought processes in the little girl's mind, because many of her actions seemed randomly chosen from a vast array of options.

She could squat motionless on the ground observing ants for over ten minutes, or play wildly in the playground for an entire morning without stopping.

Still as a statue, wild as a rabbit.

Well, children are all like this. They are carefree and do as they please, squandering their privilege of willfulness in the earliest days of life, because they know that even if they want the moon in the sky, their parents can only smile and say they'll pick it for them in a few days.

If a middle schooler said that, they'd be met with a double-team or single-parent beating.

But Fan Beibei was very well-behaved. Although she was now in second grade, she didn't have that bratty vibe, and it was said she was quite popular at school.

Zhao Fusheng secretly thought that this was probably because the girl was very good at bluffing.

You see, it was with this method that she had managed to fool both him and Fan Baobao.

After Fan Baobao finished feeding the baby and came out, she saw Zhao Fusheng sitting there watching a TV drama. She smiled and walked over, saying, "How come you're bored enough to watch this?"

She knew that Zhao Fusheng always scoffed at these kinds of family dramas; in his words, it was a waste of time.

"I was originally watching cartoons with Beibei, but the girl got bored and ran off."

Zhao Fusheng shook his head helplessly. "Did you go watch her feed the baby?"

"Mm."

Fan Baobao nodded. "She really likes our daughter. She kept asking me when Niuniu would grow up."

"Really? What does she want to do?"

Zhao Fusheng asked with interest.

He hadn't expected Fan Beibei to like his daughter so much. Wasn't she supposed to worry that the affection originally belonging to her would be taken away?

Generally speaking, that's how it went in TV dramas or novels.

Fan Baobao laughed. "She said that when Niuniu grows up, she can take Niuniu to the amusement park..."

Amusement park?

Zhao Fusheng blinked, looking bewildered, and then understood. That girl Fan Beibei was planning to use the excuse of taking their daughter out to play so she could also go out and have fun.

"By the way, Dad called and said Grandpa wants to decide the name." Fan Baobao mentioned casually.

Zhao Fusheng shook his head helplessly. "Whatever, it's just a name. I really don't understand what they're thinking."

In his eyes, this was really a trivial matter.

"You..."

Fan Baobao glanced at Zhao Fusheng helplessly, also at a loss for words.

But she could understand, because Zhao Fusheng had always been indifferent to such things.

"Otherwise, let's listen to Dad and just call her Zhao Xue."

Fan Baobao thought for a moment and said to Zhao Fusheng.

"Fine, listen to him, so the old man won't be unhappy." Zhao Fusheng simply couldn't be bothered to say anything more; as long as his dad was happy.

As for the daughter?

She was still young and had no right to express an opinion.

This was probably the only privilege of being a father!

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Fan Baobao had to take care of the baby, so her schedule was basically irregular. Zhao Fusheng had never known until now that after giving birth, what was more exhausting than childbirth was taking care of a baby just a few months old.

You couldn't imagine what demands or actions a child who didn't sleep or suddenly woke up at two in the morning would have.

Sometimes, seeing Fan Baobao's red eyes from staying up late, Zhao Fusheng really felt heartache.

Fortunately, Zhao's mother stayed here to help take care of the baby, which was a great help.

Zhao Fusheng considered hiring a postpartum caregiver, since the family could afford it, and it would allow Fan Baobao and his mother to rest. Unexpectedly, the two of them unanimously rejected his proposal.

"My mom will be here soon, and then the three of us can manage." Fan Baobao said.

Zhao's mother was even more direct: "What postpartum caregiver? Your mother-in-law and I, plus Baobao, the three of us can definitely manage. I'm not at ease leaving the child with an outsider."

Although Zhao Fusheng wanted to refute his mother's words and tell her that those postpartum caregivers were all specially trained, the problem was that he couldn't guarantee it himself.

On one hand, as his mother said, no matter how professionally trained a postpartum caregiver was, they were still an outsider. If something went wrong, no one could say for sure.

On the other hand, it went without saying who would be more devoted, a postpartum caregiver or the child's own mother.

With family matters not requiring his attention, Zhao Fusheng could naturally devote all his thoughts to his career.

Future Group was developing quite well. Since the end of last year, the group's various subsidiaries had begun to be responsible for their own profits and losses. Apart from appropriately giving some shares to the management, Zhao Fusheng had concentrated all company equity in his own hands.

Although he still trusted the people around him, Zhao Fusheng wasn't foolish enough to give away his equity to others for nothing.