Chapter 106 (1/2)

Translated by Jouissance of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

The next day, Shen Fu woke up bright and early. After he ate breakfast, he started to prepare his things to take his two sons out.

Lin ShuYi rolled over on the bed and woke up blearily, eyes still misty.

Shen Fu went up and kissed Lin SuYi’s forehead. “Sleep for a while longer. I’ll call you when I’m done.”

Lin ShuYi made a noise of acknowledgement and continued sleeping. He really was exhausted and just couldn’t muster the energy.

Most of what they had to bring was TaoTao’s. His diapers, his compartmented milk powder box, warm water in a thermos cup, the necessary cool drinking water in his milk bottle, teething biscuits…

Shen Yan suddenly appeared behind him, asking, “You’re going out?”

Shen Fu nodded without looking at him. “Yup, I’m taking them out.”

Shen Yan walked closer, watching Shen Fu continuously adding things to his bag, and smiled. “You know what you’re like now?”

“Hm? What?”

“A full-time male nanny.”

Shen Fu: …

Shen Yan laughed again. “However, I quite envy you.”

Shen Fu finally turned his head, looking at his brother. “Actually, you guys can go and adopt one, too.” Shen Yan nodded and then he heard Shen Fu continue. “However, there’ no way they’ll be as good as my kids.”

Shen Yan: …

Just as Shen Fu finished packing up, Lin ShuYi finally got up to ready himself for the day. After everyone was on the car, Shen Yan arrived fashionably late and opened the car door. “I don’t have anything better to do, so I guess I’ll come with you.”

Then he sat into the car.

Shen Fu: …

This guy had a rare holiday that didn’t clash with Jiang Cheng’s, so why is he so insistent on joining them as a third wheel. However, noticing the curve to Shen Yan’s lips, Shen Fu didn’t say anything and switched on the engine.

The place they were heading to was a bit far. It was a farming and culture park with a focus on amusement. Apparently, it hadn’t been open for long, but received high ratings across the board. Culture based tourist attractions like this were usually in rural areas, taking up an immense area of land and having a wide variety of attractions to see, to play, to try out with your own hands, to taste, all scattered across the venue. There were things like DIY pottery, amusement park rides loved by children, many different kinds of foods to try out, and even gardens of fruits that you could pick, fresh and delicious.

It took over two hours to arrive by car. By the time they arrived, it was already ten in the morning. There were already quite a lot of people inside the culture park by then. As soon as the five got out of the car, they purchased tickets and headed inside. XiaoYu darted to the front of their group, looking around as he walked, curious about everything.

Shen Fu actually very rarely came to places like this, never mind Shen Yan.

TaoTao refused to let anyone carry him this time, unsteadily following after XiaoYu. Wherever his brother went, he would follow. Though XiaoYu was curious, he didn’t leave TaoTao behind. The two lead the group with occasionally unsteady steps, the three adults behind them, amused.

There were different attractions in all directions from the front gate. It was up to them to choose if they wanted food or fun. Thus, they decided to visit all the attractions, starting from the front gate. Then XiaoYu and TaoTao got stuck to the park rides.

TaoTao really liked the little train you could sit in and would dart around. He went on that alone a full three times. When Lin ShuYi said he couldn’t continue, he was reluctant to leave, but didn’t cry or throw a tantrum. He just patted the nose of the train and bid it goodbye.

Lin ShuYi couldn’t help but laugh at this.

There were plenty of fun things to do in the park. The three adults combined didn’t manage to match up to XiaoYu’s ride experience, enthusiastically trying every single ride he could before heading off in satisfaction to the food area.

Lin ShuYi was so hungry he had practically deflated at this point.

The food area contained delicacies from all over. This time, it was Lin ShuYi whose eyes lit up.

Possibly because this culture park had been doing well ever since it opened, the food area was extremely popular as well. Little booths were set up all across the area, selling all kinds of treats placed in a variety of pretty little plates and bowls. The portions were all pretty small, not allowing you to get too full and making it easy for one person to try all sorts of things.

There was a huge variety of snacks too: walnut soybean curd with taro balls (芋圆豆花), which was more suited to a southern palette; salty chilli soybean curd (咸辣豆花), a northern specialty; takoyaki, crispy rice crust (焦香米锅巴), sesame oil hot and spicy noodles (麻酱热干面), sweet spicy pies (酱香小饼)…

There was so many kinds that Lin ShuYi didn’t have the first clue as to what he should get. He hadn’t tried most of these things, so he didn’t know what was good.

In the end, it was Shen Yan who gave them a solution. “Line up where there are the most people.”

In the end, they managed to buy their food.

TaoTao drank from his bottle as he stared with wide eyes at everything Lin ShuYi brought back. Then, he suddenly set his bottle down and pointed at the round takoyaki. “Candy~ Candy~”

XiaoYu was smiling so wide his eyes curved. “This is salty; it’s not candy.”

TaoTao didn’t know what salty was, he only knew that this round thing looked delicious.

Lin ShuYi had never tried this either and didn’t know if it was ok to give to TaoTao to eat. He tried it first. There was a crunch to the outer skin before it gave away to a tender inside. It seemed to be meat, juicy and heavy, absolutely heavenly.

He used a spoon to crush the little ball and then blew on it to cool it down before feeding TaoTao. TaoTao closed his eyes in satisfaction, smiling as he ate.

After finishing the little octopus balls, he fed TaoTao some of the sweet soybean curd with taro balls. TaoTao was finally full, finishing the last of his milk and running off to play energetically.

Time flew when they were having fun. In the end, it was six in the evening by the time they finished picking fruits. The sun had yet to fully set, but if they didn’t go home soon, the sky would be completely dark before long.