Although living in East Hampton, far from the heart of New York City, Virginia and Joanna's lives are not as monotonous as those of many housewives.

Virginia still maintains her job as an actress and often goes out to film, and Eric has no objection to this.

The three little guys, Hawaii, Kevin and Emma, are taken care of by Joanna alone most of the time. After living in East Hampton for a long time, Joanna has also found her own circle, often taking the little ones to some neighborhood gatherings. Joanna also became interested in education while searching for a kindergarten for Emma, who was just over three years old, and after donating a sum of money with Eric's support, Joanna is now a trustee of East Hampton High School and is currently actively planning to build a public library in East Hampton.

Although Eric is a bit incompetent as a father, he has always maintained close contact with women and children because of the increasing convenience of remote communication.

But many things were still beyond Eric's expectations.

Like now.

It was already the afternoon of the next day, in order to spend more time with women and children, Eric turned off the first public press conference of the Victoria's Secret show held at the Victoria's Secret flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the morning, and only talked about some details on the phone with Emily Brighton, Edward Lazek and others on the phone after the press conference, and Katzenberg also called at noon, and the two talked about some things about the upcoming broadcast of "Survivor" tonight.

Right now, at four o'clock in the afternoon, in the warm early autumn sunshine, there is nothing but a large pile of toys of all kinds on the spacious manor lawn. It was just Eric and the two little ones. Virginia took Eva out with her. Joanna goes to pick up Emma from kindergarten as usual, and the maids may all realize that this is 'family time' for Eric and the children, and they all disappear without a trace.

Eric hugged little Kevin, who was leaning on his arms and munching on his teether with relish, but his eyes looked at Miss Hawaii Williams, who was lying on a small table not far away, looking intently through a children's book.

Half a year, just half a year!

Eric sighed silently in his heart: I haven't seen me for half a year, how did my cute baby daughter who likes to listen to bedtime stories become a little freak.

Even more hateful. The women hid it from him, and he didn't know until yesterday that his baby girl had become like this.

Looking at his daughter's action of flipping through the book, Eric really wanted to say out loud: Daughter, can we do something that a one-and-a-half-year-old child should do?

As a father, Eric certainly wants his children to be smarter than the average person, and even to be able to become geniuses.

However, he also knows that if a person is too talented, it is often not a good thing. Just like yesterday, although the daughter can clearly remember him after half a year, and can still call her father skillfully. But Eric felt that in his daughter's tone, this title was more like a symbol. Just like books, toys, cats, birds, and houses, the word dad seems to have become a simple noun in the daughter's consciousness.

It's a terrible feeling.

After thinking about it, Eric walked to his daughter with his son in his arms and squatted down, glanced at the book in front of Hawaii, and asked without words, "Xia Xia, what book are you reading?"

The little girl glanced up at Eric, then lowered her head again, and said in a tender tone, "Daddy, I'm just a child, don't you have to pretend to me, right?"

Eric nearly fell on the spot.

You know you're a kid!

"Okay, Xia Xia, don't read books, let's play with Kevin for a while, how about the seesaw?"

Hawaii turned his head to look at the seesaw and quickly said, "Don't." ”

Eric patiently followed the temptation: "Then what do you want to play, don't read all the time, your eyes will break after a long time, and then you will have to wear glasses that are difficult to see." ”

Hawaii tilted his little head and hesitated, picked up the children's book in his hand and handed it to Eric: "Daddy read it to me." ”

"Forehead ......"

Eric took the book, sat down on the lawn very simply, continued to hug his son, and said to his wide-eyed daughter, "Now, can we do something else besides reading and listening to books?"

Hawaii stared fixedly at the corner of the book exposed under Eric for a few seconds, as if he felt that his little arms and legs could not snatch the children's book back from his father, and he pouted, dropping a sentence of 'Daddy is so hateful', and ran towards the villa.

Eric stared helplessly at the small figure of his daughter leaving, so he had to pick up his son and follow.

In the evening, when the women returned, Eric went to the kitchen to help Joanna prepare dinner and talk about his daughter.

"Hehe, maybe Xia Xia also has the genes of Pandora, so she will be a genius like you," Joanna was not worried at all, but joked.

Eric wanted to tell Joanna that he wasn't a genius at all, he just hung up: "Joan, I think we should pay attention to this issue, compared to his peers, Xia Xia's performance is too extraordinary, which is not a good thing." Don't you feel it, Xia Xia's thinking has become a little symbolic, I feel that she calls me Dad, which is not much different from calling the name of a tree, this situation continues to develop, Xia Xia tends to become very indifferent when she grows up, you definitely don't want this kind of thing to happen, right?"

Joanna added the little mushroom to the soup pot and glared at Eric lightly: "That's because I have too little time with Xia Xia, and I don't feel that Xia Xia has any tendency to be cold when she calls my mother." ”

"Uh, well, it's really my fault, but ......"

Joanna covered the pot, leaned over and kissed Eric on the cheek, and said with a smile: "Xia Xia's situation is indeed a little special, but I specifically consulted a professor of education at Columbia University, and he gave me a lot of advice, I will bring Xia Xia up well, don't worry." ”

Eric relieved himself slightly, and then asked curiously, "Did you ask...... Why did Xia Xia become what she is now?"

Joanna nodded and said with a smile: "It must be your father's genes, Xia Xia's IQ is very high." In addition, the Columbia University professor I consulted said that it may be because I used to read to Xia Xia a lot, and our daughter was too smart and was stimulated by too much information for a long time, which caused her current situation. ”

Eric nodded and said, "I don't think you should read bedtime stories to Xia Xia in the future." ”

"I don't read it anymore, according to the advice given to me by the professor, I only need to pay attention to Xia Xia in contact with the information that is appropriate for her age group, and the situation will gradually get better," Joanna said this, and then asked: "You don't attend the press conference of the Victoria's Secret show today, is it really okay, I heard Emily say, this is the first public press conference?"

"I don't need any fame halo now, leaving more exposure to those models is actually more in the interests of Firefly and Victoria's Secret. ”

"Hehe, I don't know about that, but tonight ABC has a new show that you hand-picked, it seems to be called "Survivor", and I have some expectations. ”

Eric laughed, "You won't be disappointed. (To be continued.) )