“Ningning, I brought some delicious Federal specialties.”
Wagner timely added this sentence, making the little child sway, and his heart instantly became firm: “Okay, I’ll add your number back now!”
Under the temptation of the local specialties, the friendship between the two children was finally restored.
The others nearby heard their conversation, then looked in silence at the two children hugging each other.
The children who participated in the winter camp on the first day were all picked up. There were not too many or too few, exactly twenty.
Twenty children followed the schedule and formed groups, each led by a teacher.
Ningning and Wagner joined a group, and in their group, there were other children from different planets. The children from other planets were also good-looking, except for one child who loved to cry.
After observing for a few seconds, Ningning reached a conclusion—
The boy cried even more than himself.
From being picked up to being on the spaceship for a while, tears were in the eyes of this child. Next to this crying child was another child with a serious face and somewhat explosive hair.
Ningning was a social expert; he didn’t need to speak a foreign language but bravely communicated with them in the Imperial language.
“Hello, I’m Ningning, and this is my good friend Wagner. Nice to meet you.”
Ningning spoke Imperial language fluently, but the two children showed different reactions—one looked confused, and the other raised his eyebrows, seemingly unable to understand the meaning.
Seeing the communication breakdown, Ningning didn’t give up.
He took out a box of cookies from his backpack and handed it to them voluntarily, saying, “Try it!”
The two children understood the gesture of sharing snacks.
The crying child hesitated and looked at Ningning, obviously wanting to reach out but not daring to.
Ningning, seeing this, directly handed the cookies to him.
As for the other child with explosive hair, he sneered at the cookie box and spat out a few words. These foreign words were completely unknown to Ningning.
Although Ningning couldn’t understand what the child with explosive hair was saying, he could understand the tone!
Unhappy, he retorted in Imperial language, “You’re a bit rude. I won’t play with you.”
The child with explosive hair crossed his arms and sneered again.
Seeing this, Ningning pulled a face and ignored this strange grumbler, turning his attention to playing with the little crybaby.
The little crybaby had a very small courage, extremely prone to tears.
Ningning gestured and chatted with him for a while. It’s unclear where the problem arose, but the little crybaby’s eyes turned red, and tears fell continuously.
Ningning looked dumbfounded.
In the end, it turned out that Ningning couldn’t comfort the little crybaby. He had to call his older brother, desperately seeking help, “Brother, there’s a kid here and Ningning doesn’t understand what he’s saying.”
The call reached his brother, who reluctantly took on the role of a temporary translator.
The crying kid held a cookie and spoke intermittently.
“He says he misses his mom, he wants to go home, he doesn’t want to stay here.”
“Also, he’s called Lele, three and a half years old, a kid from the B1 Planet.”
“His mom got a boyfriend, and he doesn’t like that boyfriend. His mom sent him here while she stayed with her boyfriend.”
As Lele spoke, he became sadder, and eventually, even Ningning didn’t know how to comfort him.
Except for Ningning, Huo Lin had little patience and sympathy for other kids. He ignored Lele’s crying and asked Ningning, “Ningning, are you adapting over there? If you don’t want to stay, I’ll come pick you up.”
Ningning shook his head without hesitation at the words.
Since he came, he wouldn’t leave on the first day.
The winter camp had a rule: if parents forcibly take back their kids midway, those kids couldn’t participate in future winter camps.
Ningning had just experienced separation not long ago and hadn’t yet felt much sorrow. After talking to his brother a few times, and with his brother’s reminder, he downloaded a translation app.
With the translation app, Ningning decisively let his brother go for training.
“Brother, I need to comfort the kid. I’ll talk to you later.”
Finally, encountering a more cry-prone and timid child, the enthusiastic little child was ready to comfort this timid child.
“Don’t cry. The duration of our winter camp is short. You’ll be able to go back soon.”
With the help of the translation app, Ningning finally communicated face to face with Lele, “Now we’re a team, and I’ll look out for you!”
Lele’s character was truly timid, but with the warm-hearted Ningning and Wagner’s constant persuasion, Lele wiped away his tears, put down the cookie box, and hugged Ningning instead.
After hugging Ningning, Lele, the little friend, also gave Wagner a hug.
If these three children were in a make-believe family scene, they would definitely be a family of three. The three little children interacted with each other, and the sight made the explosive-headed child snort.
So childish!
He really didn’t want to stay with this group of childish children in one group.
The spaceship flew all the way.
Their first destination was the mysterious and ancient Earth site!
They were about to go to the ancient Earth site, which also included the area not yet open to the public. In this area not yet open to the public, scientists had conducted a comprehensive study of the species on ancient Earth.
In addition to studying the species, there were detailed data and high-definition images of species that had not been studied yet, allowing children to get up close and personal and gain a deep understanding of this vast knowledge.
Time passed slowly.
On the first night before reaching the destination, each child had a small bed in the room.
Ningning liked to sleep with people. At this moment, without adults, he came to sleep with Wagner.
But Lele was really pitiful.
The child buried himself in the quilt, and tears streamed down his face. Ningning wanted to get out of bed and find Wagner, and when he looked at Wagner waiting for him on the opposite bed, the two children exchanged glances. Finally, they sighed like little adults and climbed onto Lele’s bed.
Ningning opened the quilt, lay down, and snuggled close to Lele.
Lele, seeing him, cried, his face turning red. His expression froze for a moment.
Then, Lele reached out and hugged Ningning, who was about the same height as him.
Seeing this, Wagner also reached out with his short arms and legs and hugged Lele from behind.
Lele was sandwiched between the two children and didn’t feel cramped at all. On the contrary, he let Wagner come closer.
Being sandwiched between the two children, Lele felt even safer.
Because of Lele’s fidgeting, Ningning, who wanted to comfort him, didn’t have time to feel sentimental about missing his dad.
“Wagner.”
Patting Lele’s back, Ningning softly called out to Wagner, “Let’s take turns patting his back; my hands are tired.”
Upon hearing this, Wagner quickly turned Lele’s face towards himself and started patting his back.
Three little ones slept on one bed, and you could imagine how cramped it was.
In the same room with the explosive-hair child, he had already heard their movements. The explosive-hair child covered himself tightly with the blanket, meticulous in every detail.
With his eyes closed, he silently decided that if Lele still cried, he would go down and make sure the crybaby stayed quiet!
If he disturbed him, the consequences would be severe.
This night.
The little child was quite tired from Lele’s occasional crying, and he didn’t sleep well. Far away, the old father also didn’t sleep well.
“Ling Qi, do you think I shouldn’t have agreed so easily to let Ningning go to that winter camp? He’s still young, and there’s no familiar adult around him. He must be scared at night.”
Zhan Xi looked at the ceiling, worried to the point of not being able to sleep. “I guess Ningning must be thinking of us too. Ling Qi, what should we do? I want to bring Ningning back.”
Ling Qi: “...”
