By the time Mimi was almost a year old, the financial constraints gradually created a series of problems.

When Mimi was still there, Qi Min and Anton focused on how to take care of her healthy growth, and when she finally grew from a defenseless baby to a toddler who began to imitate adult words, their worries were slightly dissipated.

For Qi Min, her original hope was that she could return to her previous state of life. Now that Mimi can carry it on her back instead of having to travel in a stroller, she and Anton can take her girl out on weekends — just buy a child seat and go to school

But Anton had little interest in it. When Qi Min proposed to go hiking on the weekend, Anton said with some surprise: "Do you still need to hire a temporary nanny on the weekend?" We don't have enough money. ”

"There's no need to hire a temporary babysitter, Mimi is so old that she can take it with her." Qi Min explained.

"With Mimi? Do you carry her? Anton couldn't help frowning.

"I'll carry it, no problem." Qi Min agreed without hesitation. Because Anton takes Mimi to work on weekdays, and it is also appropriate for her to carry her daughter when she goes out to play on the weekend.

"Forget it. With your move, you don't drop Mimi yet. Anton jokingly taunted her, but without paying attention, he shook his hand and dropped a spoonful of egg custard fed to Mimi on the girl's chest scarf.

Qi Min pointed at the egg custard on Ermimi's neck with his chin, which means that it is not obvious who is handicapped?

Anton hurriedly wiped the egg custard with a tissue, but the girl grabbed the corner of the tissue and stuffed it into her mouth, laughing while stuffing it.

The way she laughed was very funny, and Qi Min was also amused, and reached over to tease her daughter with chopsticks. Mimi went to grab the chopsticks again, and after the fat hand touched the sauce on the chopsticks, she wiped it on her body.

Anton felt that he couldn't do this job: "Hey, can you not help?" ”

"What's wrong with me?" Qi Min spread his hands, "I didn't want to help." ”

"You're so embarrassed." Anton pulled the chopsticks out of her hand, grabbed Mimi's collar and took off her scarf and threw it to Qi Min, "Go and throw this in the washing machine and bring a clean one." ”

"But the scarf isn't dirty yet." Qi Min muttered, threw the bib into the laundry basket placed outside the bathroom door opposite, and then had to stand up and walk to the cabinet in the living room to take out a clean bib and throw it to Anton.

After Anton caught it, he unfolded it and took a look, but this one was actually not cleaned...... But forget it, Mimi's clothes are never completely clean when they are worn. Or surround the girl and continue to feed the egg custard.

Qi Min returned to the table to eat his fried noodles, and suddenly remembered that the topic just now had not been discussed: "Hey, can we go hiking on the weekend?" ”

"I can't." Anton simply answered in the negative.

"Why?" Qi Min explained the benefits of mountain climbing from a different angle, "Mimi has never left the area around the five kilometers. I see that the weather forecast is good for this weekend, which is suitable for taking friends out to play. ”

"The sun is good, for those Yankees, it's going to take Mimi in the air." Anton also gave reasonable reasons for refusal.

"You can wear sunscreen and a hat – isn't that normal?" Qi Min proposes a solution.

"We would be very tired when we were hiking, and we couldn't take care of Mimi. And carrying Mimi on her back the whole time isn't much fun for her, right? Anton looked at her helplessly, "But if the weekend is good, we can take Mimi to the park so that she can sit in the stroller while she is in the sun." ”

Qi Min inserted the chopsticks into the bowl and covered his eyes with his hands in some pain.

They had been going to the park for five weeks in a row, and Qi Min could figure out with his toes that this weekend would be like this: nothing more than pushing a stroller into the park, finding a flat lawn to lay a mat when the sun was not dazzling, and carrying Mimi out of the stroller to play—in fact, it was equivalent to sitting there and watching the girl entertain herself—and then carrying her back to the stroller when the sun was strong and pushing her down the stone path......

She felt that she was still very young, but this life gave her the feeling that she was entering middle age.

"Don't put chopsticks in the bowl." Anton corrected her behavior.

Qi Min let go of his hand, pulled the chopsticks out of the noodles, and laid them flat on the bowl, but he still muttered in his mouth: "You are a feudal superstition." ”

"It's table manners." Anton shrugged, "You should be careful in front of the children, don't teach Mimi badly." ”

"What can Mimi learn? She doesn't even know how to use chopsticks. Don't make chopsticks, Mimi can't even hold chopsticks steadily. Qi Min tilted his head indifferently and handed his chopsticks to Mimi, "Come, Mimi, take this-"

As a result, Mimi happily grasped the chopsticks and inserted them into the bowl with unmistakable accuracy.

Anton glanced at Qi Min indescribably, and Qi Min looked away.

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But there is no drama in weekend mountaineering anyway, and not only is there no drama this weekend, but you can't go out to play next weekend, next weekend, next weekend. On the one hand, they really can't afford to find a temporary nanny on the weekends, and on the other hand, Mimi needs someone to take care of them when she learns to speak and walk, so they should of course try to accompany their daughter in person during this critical period.

Therefore, Qi Min is looking forward to the arrival of Christmas deep down after a year of working in the laboratory and coaxing the children when she comes back from a night of working in the laboratory, and she can't even go out to surf on weekends for a year, so that she can take a winter vacation and return to China to be the good daughter of her own parents.

Although Qi Min also has to go home every winter vacation when there is no Mimi, she rarely talks to Anton about her affairs in China. One of the important reasons is that Anton has no other relatives, so it will always seem a little unkind to talk about his parents and relatives in front of him.

It is also for this reason that when Qi Min mentioned to Anton that she was going home during the winter vacation, she always emphasized that she was going to deal with the "transactional work" in China, just to maintain normal social relationships and solve things like her status as an international student. She bored what she was going to do back home, and even vaguely revealed that it was some semi-forced work that had to be done, and felt that this was the only way to make Anton feel balanced.

Now this gives Qi Min a good chance. Because Anton felt that she had to be busy doing a lot of boring things when she returned to China, she could return to China this winter vacation as a matter of course — even though Anton usually busier Chinese fast food restaurants during the winter holidays, and Mimi needed more of her parents to accompany her...... But no one can deprive her of the right to go out and play, no one!

When Qi Min said goodbye to Anton and Mimi at the airport, he still felt a little guilty in his heart. However, the thought that she would soon be able to return to China and live a life of eating, sleeping, and eating like rice under the care of her own parents, still felt guilty but generally happily boarded the plane.

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