Chapter 761: Alechino's Visit
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Shao Yun was lying on the sofa, not knowing how long he had slept. Suddenly, a slight force pushed his shoulder, pulling him back to reality from the edge of his dream.
He opened his eyes drowsily, and his vision gradually focused, only to see Alechino standing in front of him with an unfriendly look on his face!
She pointed at the blanket covering Shao Yun and said unhappily, "Who prepared this blanket for you?"
Shao Yun looked at the blanket covering his body, bewildered.
"I don't know. When I woke up, this thing was draped over me. What happened?"
Alechino did not answer, but reached out and lifted the small blanket covering Shao Yun.
She muttered to herself, "This is weird. Isn't this my blanket? Who covered him with it?"
Shao Yun stretched lazily, completely forgetting that Krewei had covered him with a blanket.
"What time is it now?" Shao Yun yawned.
Alechino stared at the blanket in his hand, his mind not at all on Shao Yun's problem.
She answered absentmindedly, "I don't know, it's dark outside anyway."
When Shao Yun heard that it was getting dark, he suddenly became alert and jumped up from the sofa immediately.
"It's so late? I have to go home quickly!"
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Shao Yun quickly left the Buffati Mansion and headed straight for the cottage in the suburbs.
When he finally got back to where he lived, it was already late.
Shao Yun originally thought that Ying had fallen asleep a long time ago. After all, it was so late, so Ying would definitely stay up late waiting for him.
However, what he never expected was that the moment he pushed open the door, he saw Ying sitting on the sofa with eyes wide open, staring at him.
At this moment, Ying looked like a young wife who caught her husband fooling around outside. Her face was full of anger and she looked very angry.
Shao Yun's heart tightened when he saw this. He hurried to Ying's side, sat down carefully, and asked softly, "Ying, what's wrong?"
Ying stared at Shao Yun, trying to find out some clues from his face.
After a while, she couldn't hold back her anger and said to Shao Yun angrily, "Why did you come back so late?"
Although Shao Yun was somewhat surprised by Ying's questioning, he felt that he had done nothing wrong, so he straightened up and answered confidently:
"Oh, you're asking that. I went to ask Alecino for some parenting advice."
Hearing the words "parenting experience", Ying's gaze subconsciously turned to Yuan Shang who was standing beside her.
Yuanshang was standing there like a stick, motionless, looking a little embarrassed.
With Yuanshang here, what kind of parenting experience did you learn, Shao Yun? It can't be the parenting experience from other women, right? You playboy!
"Learn parenting experience? What does that mean? Explain it to me clearly!" Ying said angrily, her voice unconsciously rising several degrees.
Seeing this, Shao Yun quickly explained: "It means exactly what it says. Although Yuan Shang is really good at taking care of children, I can't just be responsible for entertaining the children. If the children cry, let Yuan Shang comfort them."
Yuanshang really wanted to say, it is my honor to coax your child, but he is not a fool. The situation now is that the husband is coaxing his wife, and he is an outsider, so he cannot interrupt!
Otherwise, Shao Yun said directly: If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb. Then I will be finished, right? How will His Royal Highness see me in the future? Isn't my career over?
Therefore, Yuanshang looked at his nose with his eyes, and looked at his heart with his nose, and became a silent man.
After listening to Shao Yun's explanation, Ying's anger immediately dissipated a lot. It turned out that Shao Yun was just learning parenting experience.
"Hmm? So that's what you think..." Ying's tone obviously softened, and she scratched her head embarrassedly.
Shao Yun heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Ying's anger subside, and quickly agreed, "Of course I am the child's father!"
"I can't leave all the child-rearing work to Fuchigami. I have to take on the responsibility of being a father as well."
Ying is now completely relieved, she realizes that it was all just her imagination.
She couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed about her reaction just now. How could she suspect that he was out fooling around? How weird!
"So that's how it is... It seems I misunderstood you..." Ying said softly, with a hint of apology in her tone.
When Shao Yun heard Ying talk about misunderstandings, he immediately became interested and asked curiously, "Then why do you think I didn't go home in the middle of the night?"
Ying was speechless when Shao Yun asked this.
In fact, she herself didn't know why she got angry for no reason.
After all, I am pregnant, so I sometimes get suspicious and think about all sorts of things.
Ying lied casually: "I thought you went to eat people."
When Shao Yun heard this, he suddenly felt powerless.
He lamented in his heart that his image in Ying's heart might have completely collapsed, and he was almost becoming the real version of Beauty and the Beast.
No, that beast doesn’t eat humans!
"Ying, I really didn't leave a good impression in your eyes?"
Ying stuck out her tongue mischievously, then held her bulging belly with one hand and slowly walked towards the bedroom.
"Lulululul, I'm going back to sleep..." She said with a smile as she walked, feeling guilty and not daring to look at Shao Yun's complicated eyes.
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The days that followed were as calm as water, without any waves.
Shao Yun, Ying, Paimeng and Shen He lead a regular life every day, getting up, eating, resting, going out for a walk... and repeating this cycle over and over again.
However, this tranquility was broken one morning half a month later.
At that time, Shao Yun was sitting at the dining table, enjoying breakfast leisurely, with Ying, Paimeng and Shen He beside him.
Suddenly, there was a rhythmic knock on the door, dong dong dong, dong dong dong.
The four of them raised their heads at the same time and looked towards the door.
Shao Yun frowned and muttered, "Who is it? You come to disturb us so early in the morning."
He put down the cutlery in his hand, stood up and walked to the door, ready to find out what was going on.
When Shao Yun opened the door, his eyes widened instantly and an expression of astonishment appeared on his face.
The person standing outside the door was actually Alechino!
She was holding a can of milk powder in her hand and looking at Shao Yun.
Shao Yun stuttered and asked, "Ah...Alechino, why are you here?"
Alechino replied: "I heard that Miss Ying is going to give birth to a child, so I came here specially to give her a little gift to show my appreciation."
As she spoke, she handed the can of milk powder in her hand to Shao Yun.
Shao Yun took the can of milk powder and looked at it carefully. It was an ordinary can of milk powder and didn't look special.
He looked at Arlecino in confusion and asked, "Is this... milk powder?"
Alechino nodded and explained, "Yes, this is the milk powder I feed the babies in Hearth House. The quality is absolutely up to standard."
After all, for Alechino, anything that did not meet the quality standards would have been eliminated by her physically long ago.
Just then, Shen He noticed Alechino at the door.
Shen He keenly realized that this mysterious woman who suddenly visited was definitely not a good person!
"Dangerous man!"
Alechino looked expressionlessly at the Liyue girl in front of her who was full of hostility towards her and explained.
"Don't get excited, little girl. I'm not here to cause trouble."
Seeing this, Paimeng, who was standing by, hurriedly grabbed Shen He, fearing that she would really attack him in an impulse.
Paimon persuaded anxiously: "Shenhe, don't get excited! Although Alecino does look a little... uh... 'evil', she is actually a pretty good person!"
When Arlechino heard Paimon use "evil" to describe herself, she teased meaningfully, "Oh? Evil? I didn't expect that in your eyes, Paimon, I would be such a being."
After hearing what Alechino said, Paimon was suddenly speechless and didn't know how to respond.
"Uh...this..."
Seeing this, Alechino didn't want to dwell on this topic anymore.
After all, she wasn't here to argue with Paimon about whether she was evil or not.
"Um..." Alechino cleared his throat and continued, "Anyway, I came here today to discuss something with Shao Yun."
When Shao Yun heard what Alechino said, he knew in his heart that she would not come here for no reason, and it was even more impossible that she came here just to give him a gift.
So he turned around and said something to Ying, then walked out of the house with Alecino.
outside the house.
"Tell me, what's the matter?" Shao Yun looked at Alechino suspiciously and asked straight to the point.
Seeing this, Alechino didn't beat around the bush and said directly: "Do you remember half a month ago when you came to Hearth House to learn about parenting experience, you were so tired that you fell asleep?"
Shao Yun recalled it briefly and found that it was indeed the case.
He was so exhausted from taking care of the baby that he fell asleep. He never imagined that taking care of a baby would be so hard.
"I remember. What's wrong?" "Don't tell me you want me to pay tuition."
When Alechino heard that Shao Yun thought he was here to ask for tuition, he didn't know what to complain.
"How could I come to you for such a boring thing? Do you remember the blanket covering you? That's my blanket."
Shao Yun was shocked when he heard this, and quickly explained: "What do you mean? I didn't take it! I was sleeping like a hibernating bear at the time, and I didn't know anything about the blanket. You can't slander me!"
Of course, Alechino knew that it was definitely not Shao Yun who took the blanket.
"I know it's definitely not you who took it. The point is, that blanket isn't mine, exactly. It was given to me by my good friend, Krevy!"
When Shao Yun heard this, he asked curiously, "Krevy?"
Alechino nodded, and then began to talk about the reason why he came to find Shao Yun.
"Yes, the story begins a long time ago, about a child who no longer exists in Hearth House."
"Originally, I thought it was just a ghost story spread among children and didn't pay much attention to it. But half a month ago, the blanket covering you made me notice that this must be true!"
"As I investigated, I now understand the situation. The non-existent child is the soul of my only childhood friend, Krevy."
Shao Yun saw that Alechino understood everything, so why did he come to him?
"I won't ask you why you figured it out, but since you already know it, why do you need my help?"
Alechino explained: "Because some of Krevy's words have caused fear in some children."
"Some children started to do tricks out of fear. Do you really think those little tricks can fool my eyes?"
Shao Yun looked at the faint, yet somewhat evil smile on Alechino's lips, frowned, and speculated: "Don't tell me you want me to help you clean up the mess. I won't get involved in your family affairs."
Alechino shook his head, thinking, Shao Yun, what do you think of me? Those are my children! How can I rashly kill them?
"Of course not. If I act rashly, it will easily cause misunderstandings among the children."
"So, I hope you, an outsider, can help me monitor the children's movements from another perspective, so that things don't develop beyond my expectations."
"By the way, I also want to see what some of these restless kids can actually do."
"Besides, don't you want to learn how to understand children's hearts?"
After saying so much, only the last one met his needs, so Shao Yun agreed.
"Well, your conditions are very attractive to me... I hope I can learn some parenting experience from the children of your Hearth House."
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