Before leaving for the shopping mall, Qi Min checked WeChat and email. After confirming that none of the department, the laboratory and researcher Zhou Xiaoshan sent her any urgent news, Qi Min sent a WeChat message to Ke Li: "I can't go to the laboratory today, please help me watch the ......"

This ellipsis represents Wang Xin, Chen Linyou, the more than 30 rats in the animal room, and all other people and things related to her laboratory. In fact, it is also a big responsibility, but Ke Li should probably get used to it. In the "Nimbus" computing center, researcher Zhou Xiaoshan's laboratory also has to take turns on duty on weekends.

Soon Ke Li replied with an [OK] emoji, so Qi Min led Anton and Mimi to the shopping plaza with confidence.

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I don't know if it's because I'm used to going in and out of various places every day, or if I deliberately want to be indifferent in front of Qi Min, Anton didn't take the initiative to speak much along the way. However, Mimi felt that everything was new, and asked back and forth.

Qi Min tried to speak Chinese to the little girl all the way, but the little girl's context had not been completely transformed, and even if she understood something, she still responded with English grammar with Chinese words.

It's devastating. And Anton watched expressionlessly from the sidelines, probably snickering in his heart. He knew that Qi Min couldn't cope with children, but who could blame him? She should, who let her be busy doing her broken experiments at the critical stage of Mimi's learning to speak.

In the end, Qi Min could only temporarily give up letting Mimi speak in Chinese grammar. She comforted herself in her heart: the language environment is imperceptible, and Mimi will naturally correct it when she really integrates into the environment. And now she takes Mimi to buy things, and the little girl seems to have no problem speaking Chinese with the grammatical structure of English.

The subway station leads directly to the second floor of the shopping plaza, and Qi Min saw that Mimi was limping when she walked, so he picked her up. But Anton reminded as if he had nothing to do with himself: "Let her go by herself." ”

"This will be people-" Qi Min just wanted to say that Mimi's walking posture would be laughed at, but suddenly realized that if he did this every time, Mimi would feel that he was flawed, and the psychological harm would be greater, "Okay." ”

She put Mimi down, and the little girl immediately ran towards a Chinese women's clothing store.

Don't look at Mimi's limping, she runs quite fast. Anton seemed to have made up his mind to see how Qi Min dealt with her, so he stood there and watched, but there was no way for Qi Min to chase her daughter by himself.

"Mimi, what are you doing here?" Qi Min ran over and grabbed the little girl's hand, and said in English that Mimi would definitely understand, "Let's go to the fourth floor." ”

"Mom, don't you see that the dress the first lady wears?" Mimi said, pointing to a modified cheongsam displayed on a plastic model.

The "first lady" mentioned by the little girl is obviously the lady of China's ****. Educated by Qi Min and Anton's identity, Mimi naturally considers herself Chinese - although most of her children were not born in China, even if she is not abandoned by her biological parents, she should be ABC.

"Ah...... yes. Qi Min took her little hand and tried to walk back, "Is the first lady's dress good-looking?" But it's too big for Mimi to wear. Let's go to the fourth floor and buy clothes that Mimi can wear, shall we? ”

However, Mimi still wanted to touch the skirt, and Qi Min was afraid that the shopping guide would see it and come to have unnecessary communication - God knows that she was most afraid of communicating with the shopping guide in public - so she immediately picked up Mimi and left.

Anton was still waiting at the elevator entrance, and when he saw that Qi Min had no choice but to make this move, he couldn't help but smile a little victoriously.

After that, it was also very difficult to buy clothes for Mimi.

Because Qi Min and Mimi spoke English to each other, and Mimi looked like a mixed-race child, the shopping guide didn't dare to interject rashly. And Mimi is not willing to just follow Qi Min's instructions to try on clothes, Qi Min used to be used to her at home no matter what she did, so the little girl would not listen to her honestly now.

This is also a helpless thing, children at this age are in the stage of savage growth, and they are like the period of primitive accumulation of capital, "they will die as soon as they are caught, and they will be chaotic as soon as they are released". Qi Min wanted to take the clothes to Mimi to try on, but the little girl unilaterally played hide and seek with her. Qi Min could see her running from behind one row of hangers to another, but he also took care of her face and didn't want to arrest her in public.

There was really no way, Qi Min put down his clothes, turned to look at Anton, who was sitting on a bench five meters away and had been watching them for a long time.

Before, Qi Min only knew rationally that it was not easy for Anton to take Mimi, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult in fact.

After receiving Qi Min's signal to admit defeat and ask for help, Anton stood up and walked over here.

Mimi is neither afraid of her mother nor her father, and still scurries between the hangers of the children's clothing store. However, Anton didn't care whether he lost face or not, he directly pulled the little girl out from behind the hanger, pulled down his face and said: "Listen to my mother's words and try on clothes, otherwise there will be no sugar to eat for a week." ”

Mimi immediately stopped, and turned her little head to Qi Min. This time, Qi Min expressed his absolute support for Anton with silence. So the little girl had to take the initiative to pick up the clothes that Qi Min put on the chair to try.

"Come, mom will help you try on clothes." Qi Min didn't expect it to be so simple.

However, this time Anton finally couldn't bear to let Qi Min and Mimi torture each other: "I'd better go." Come, Mimi, take your clothes and go with Daddy. ”

Seeing Anton take Mimi to the fitting room, Qi Min breathed a sigh of relief, changed back to Chinese and sighed: "It's really hard." ”

It's cool to scold. Now Qi Min not only can't say this kind of thing in front of Mimi, but he can't even say it in front of Anton, it's really terrible.

At this time, the eldest sister of the shopping guide was finally able to interject: "The little girl is very lively." ”

"I'm so sorry, she's running around with you......" Qi Min quickly apologized.

"No, no, we make children's clothes, and we see more children than this." The eldest sister of the shopping guide smiled, "Oh, no matter what, it's difficult to take care of children." ”

"Yes......" Qi Min sighed and said to himself, "Even language is a problem......

At this time, the eldest sister of the shopping guide suddenly said: "Girl, you are not her own mother, right?" ”

Qi Min was a little surprised how she could see it, these eyes were quite poisonous. Although it is normal for a quarter of the mixed race to have a biased appearance, it can still be seen from some stable genetic characteristics that Mimi cannot be the daughter of Qi Min and Anton. For example, Qi Min has black straight hair of the Han popular style, and Anton has black hair with slightly curly hair, but Mimi's hair color is obviously light or wavy, which must violate the laws of heredity if it is biological.

It's just that ordinary people can't think of this layer even if they observe it, so Qi Min and Anton claim that she is biological, both to outsiders and to Mimi, and she has never been dismantled before.

However, Qi Min was just about to praise the eldest sister of the shopping guide for her careful observation, but she heard the eldest sister say: "Alas, it is not easy to be a stepmother to a foreign girl. ”

What? Qi Min found that he seemed to have been misunderstood into some strange identity, and hurriedly explained: "What are you talking about, this is my daughter." ”