「The next day.」

The sun had just risen. Lin Feng was already up and had prepared breakfast.

"Honey, time to get up!"

"Honey, can I sleep a little longer?"

"It's the first day of school. Are you sure you want to sleep in?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yuxi's eyes snapped open. "Oh, right! It's the first day of school."

Zhang Yuxi emerged from the en-suite master bathroom after freshening up. Lin Feng then needed the bathroom to take the babies to the toilet.

"You go ahead and eat. I'll eat with the babies later."

While eating, Zhang Yuxi said, "Honey, I'll bring groceries back after class."

"Mhm."

"Bro, I'm heading out."

"Big bro, I'm leaving."

"Brother Lin Feng, I'm leaving too."

"Honey, I'm off!"

Lin Feng, who was busy tending to the babies, managed to call out, "Goodbye!"

After the babies finished breakfast, Lin Feng started preparing the ingredients for lunch. Once that was done, he played with them for a while. Looking through the window, Lin Feng noticed many parents walking into the residential complex with their one- or two-year-old toddlers. It just so happened to be the time when people left for work.

Could a daycare have opened in the neighborhood?

After playing with the babies for a bit, he began making their supplementary meals. The babies were highly active and burned a lot of energy, so they were growing like weeds. Lin Feng had always fostered good eating habits in them. Now, when it was time to eat, they were all very well-behaved. Besides San Bao, who ate a little slower, they all finished their food before leaving the table. He washed their little faces, wiped their little hands, and they pitter-pattered away to play, leaving only San Bao at the table, eating at a leisurely pace.

Lin Feng checked the time, cooking lunch while keeping an eye on the babies.

CLICK.

Zhang Yuxi was the first to arrive home. "I'm back."

With a great rush, the four babies scrambled over, surrounding her and calling for their mommy. Zhang Yuxi squatted down, and with one long sweep of her arms, she hugged all four of them at once.

"Did you miss Mommy?"

This is pure bliss!

Er Bao wrapped his arms around her, burying his little face in her chest. "Er Bao missed Mommy so, so much!"

Si Bao hurried to add, "Si Bao missed you so, so, so much too!"

Da Bao followed with his own confession, "Mommy, I love you!"

San Bao just held onto Zhang Yuxi's arm without saying a word.

After washing her hands, Zhang Yuxi walked into the kitchen with her little entourage trailing behind her.

"Honey, do you need any help?"

"Nope, lunch will be ready in ten minutes. You should call them and ask where they are. We don't want them getting lost on their first day."

Chen Miaomiao and Meng Liang arrived next. Their faces showed no sign of happiness on the first day of school. Lin Jie looked the same when he returned. It turned out they all had to undergo military training.

Lin Feng laughed. "Military training is normal. You're all men, what's there to be afraid of?"

Si Bao clutched Lin Jie's leg and asked curiously, "Afraid of what?"

Lin Jie put on a pained expression. "We have to do military training. The instructor is super strict, and he even hits people." He deliberately exaggerated, collapsing onto the sofa and pretending to be upset. He just wanted to test the little ones, who loved a spectacle, to see how they would react.

Si Bao was stunned. "Hit people? Hit you?"

Lin Jie nodded. "It's gonna hurt a lot."

Hearing this, Si Bao grew anxious and ran to find Lin Feng. "Daddy, Daddy! Someone's going to hit... hit him..."

Lin Feng was busy and just asked, "Who?"

Si Bao, in his panic, forgot what to call Lin Jie and froze for a moment.

Er Bao came over. "It's gonna hurt a lot! Daddy, go hit him!"

Da Bao brought over his toy superman. "Hit him."

Lin Jie continued to feign sadness, but San Bao remained indifferent. Er Bao walked over and hugged Lin Jie. "Don't cry. Be good."

Da Bao suggested, "Hit him back."

Lin Jie looked pitiful. "But I can't win... What do I do?"

Da Bao tilted his head, thought for a moment, and said, "Run?"

Lin Jie replied, "I can't run fast enough..."

Da Bao fell silent.

Meanwhile, Si Bao and the others got an answer from Lin Feng. "Daddy can't help with this one. You'll have to think of a solution yourselves."

They gathered around Lin Jie, chattering nonstop. Lin Jie listened with a serious expression, though in truth, he couldn't understand a single word. He could, however, guess the general gist of it.

Nearby, Chen Miaomiao asked Si Bao, "Don't you care about me? I'm going to get hit too."

Si Bao looked shocked, then said something completely unexpected. "You're so chubby!"

Chen Miaomiao was taken aback and didn't know how to respond. "What's wrong with being chubby?"

Si Bao added, "Being chubby makes you tough!"

Er Bao nodded. "Right! If you're chubby, you aren't afraid of getting hit!"

Da Bao chimed in, "It won't even hurt if you get hit!"

Hearing this, Chen Miaomiao looked completely exasperated. With a helpless tone, he said, "You all make excellent points. Thank you for the advice."

The little babies puffed up their chests, very proud of themselves. "You're welcome!"

Lin Feng called out, "Dinner's ready!"

Without the babies at the table, the adults could talk freely. Zhang Yuxi said, "You guys are so fair-skinned. Do you want to buy some sunscreen?"

They all shook their heads in unison. Real men applying sunscreen? How embarrassing!

Lin Feng asked them how their first day of school was and if there were any pretty girls in their classes.

Chen Miaomiao smiled. "There's a really beautiful girl in our class. A ton of guys fell for her the moment she walked in."

Meng Liang thought for a moment. "I didn't notice."

Lin Jie added, "I don't think there are any in my class. I don't really remember."

Lin Jie himself was handsome, and on the very first day, quite a few female classmates had already asked for his contact information.

After lunch, they had a forty-minute break and could take a nap. Lin Feng did the cooking while the three of them did the dishes. Afterward, they went to their room and messaged Yang Zheng.

Yang Zheng had missed the cutoff for Jingcheng University by a heartbreaking eight points. After a fierce internal struggle, he made his decision... to retake the year! This time, it was either Peking University or Jingcheng University. His parents supported his decision.

Yang Zheng began the intense review process of his third year of high school all over again. He now had a clear goal and the experience of having taken the gaokao once before. This time, he had plenty of time to fight for his dream.

The four good friends chatted for a while before the three at the apartment started whispering among themselves. In high school, they were too young and too busy with their studies to even think about dating. Now that they were in college, they could finally start dating!

After putting the babies down for their afternoon nap, Lin Feng went to the small store downstairs to buy a mosquito net. When he asked, he learned there really was a daycare in the complex. Parents would drop their babies off in the morning and pick them up after work. The cost was 7,000 a month, which included three meals a day for the babies.

Lin Feng got the address; it was right in the building below his. So, on his way back up, he decided to check it out.

Inside, the apartment was nicely decorated with soft mats covering the floor, cute wallpaper on the walls, and handmade paper cranes hanging from the ceiling. The two bedrooms were filled with small cots, the kind used for naps in kindergarten. When Lin Feng arrived, all the babies were sleeping soundly. He estimated there were over thirty of them in total, all between one and two years old. The living room was equipped with a slide and a ball pit.

Four middle-aged women were running the place. Two handled logistics, while the other two were dedicated to looking after the babies. They could only eat after all the babies had been fed. They had been operating for nearly three years; their own children were students at Jingcheng University. They planned to close the daycare once their children graduated. They had initially just come to Jingcheng to be with their kids, and thinking they had nothing else to do, they started the daycare to earn some extra money.

Lin Feng smiled and said, "My situation is a bit special..."

He wanted to enroll his babies in the daycare, but he also wanted to come along to help look after them. He would take them home at noon. Then, after their afternoon nap, he would bring them back to the daycare to play with the other children.

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