House Dad's Literary Life

Chapter 251 – Serious And Interesting Education

The next night before going to sleep, Mo Fei walked into the bedroom with a small card in hand and casually closed the door behind her.

Yang Yi felt embarrassed to talk to her daughter about these things, and even listening to them felt awkward. So, he decided not to come to the master bedroom today, which meant that the little one could only be wronged and wouldn’t be able to listen to a bedtime story.

Xixi had already been tossing and turning on the bed for a while, like the monkey that was causing trouble in the Heavenly Palace. However, at this moment, she was lying on the quilt with her arms and legs spread out, panting heavily. When she heard some movement, she quickly sat up, her messy hair covering half of her little face!

Mo Fei didn’t allow Xixi to step on the quilt as it would mess up the bedding. So, the little girl felt a little guilty and covered her smiling face with her hands, and giggled to cover it up.

However, this time Mo Fei didn’t blame her. Instead, she lifted the blanket and climbed in, sitting at the head of the bed. The little girl quickly crawled in and snuggled in her mother’s arms and playfully acted spoiled. Then she looked around in confusion and asked, “Huh, where’s Papa?”

Usually, her father would come at this time to tell Xixi a story!

“Tonight, before going to sleep, instead of telling a story, would it be okay if Mama will tell Xixi something else?” Mo Fei gently combed the little girl’s messy hair and said softly.

“Okay!” Xixi nodded obediently. The little girl was drawn to the stack of small cards in her mother’s hands, with colorful drawings on them. She asked curiously, “Mama, what’s this?”

“These are what Mama wants to tell you today. How a little girl should protect herself,” Mo Fei said softly. “It’s important for Xixi to listen carefully!”

“Okay!” The little girl rolled over and sat up, leaning against her mother’s arm.

“Come on, let’s look at the first card.” Mo Fei opened the first card.

The card depicted a plush doll that Xixi has liked the most during this period. However, it looked much more exquisitely crafted, with well-defined limbs. After all, it was drawn by Yang Yi. The flat three points were marked out with colored pencils.

“I like this!” Xixi said, her eyes shining.

“Xixi, Mama is telling you this very seriously! Don’t mind anything else for now, look here, here, and here.” Mo Fei pointed at those points and said, “Xixi, you must pay attention. These three places are absolutely not to be touched!”

“Why?” Xixi asked in confusion.

“Because these are Xixi’s most precious things! It’s more precious than your big bear baby, more precious than your plush doll. You wouldn’t want to give your big bear baby or plush doll to someone else to play with, right?” Mo Fei gave an example to explain.

“Yeah, Xixi doesn’t want others to play with my big bear baby! It might get damaged!” Xixi pouted, her thoughts slightly shifted.

But that was exactly the desired outcome!

“Yes, these places are even more precious than your big bear baby. Xixi, you can’t let others touch them either. You need to protect them, okay?”

Mo Fei flipped over the second small card. The second drawing depicted a little girl with twin ponytails, drawn in a very childish style. Her long dress trailed on the ground and within the diagonal shadow of the long skirt, a faint pink underwear could be seen.

“Similarly, in these places, Mama and Papa usually make Xixi wear clothes. Cute tops, dresses, shirts, pants—these clothes cover all the important areas, and anything that is covered should not be touched by others!” Mo Fei pointed at the second small card with a serious expression.

Xixi didn’t quite fully understand, but seeing her mother being so serious, she nodded in confusion and said, “I’ll remember.”

Mo Fei took out the third card, which depicted a Garfield cat with a strange smile, but the composition was even more strange. It used circles and squares to create an illusion of four upper limbs and four lower limbs.

Not to mention the first time she saw it, now Mo Fei couldn’t help but laugh upon seeing this smirking Garfield. There was no Leonardo Da Vinci in this world, so there was no classic painting like the “Vitruvian Man”. Mo Fei didn’t know what Yang Yi was paying tribute to with this drawing, but just the cat itself and those poorly hand-drawn mosaics were quite amusing!1

“Oh, it looks like Xiao Guai!” Xixi blinked her big eyes and said to her mother in surprise, “The face is big, and the eyes are big too, but Xiao Guai doesn’t have so many hands!”

“Well, about this card! Mama mainly wants to tell Xixi that if someone shows you the places Mama mentioned earlier, you must never look. If Mama and Papa are around, you should immediately find them and tell them. If Mama and Papa are not around, you must shout for help loudly!” Mo Fei pointed to the little girl in the bottom right corner of the card, a detail that could easily be overlooked.

The little girl had a speech bubble above her head with the words “Help me” written on it.

“Oh!” Xixi nodded as if she understood but didn’t really understand.

It was okay if the little girl didn’t understand it now. She has a good memory. As long as she remembered these concepts, she would be able to remember them when she encountered similar situation in the future! Moreover, this method of using patterns to describe things could stimulate a child’s memory even more.

Next, there were things on the two small card that were difficult to talk about, but after a pause, Mo Fei still flipped them open. It was very important!

The first small card depicted two gourd dolls. The large male gourd doll was holding the small gourd doll princess, and a long spear was poking into the gourd doll princess’s chest. It was very vivid…

“Xixi, no matter what, you mustn’t let anyone poke anything on your body!” Mo Fei said sternly.

“Poke?” Xixi didn’t understand the word.

“This is a poke!” Mo Fei lightly poked Xixi’s chest, tummy, and legs with her finger. She didn’t apply any force, but it still tickled Xixi, causing her to curl up and burst into giggles.

“Mama, please stop!” The little girl grabbed her mother’s finger, laughing so hard that she was out of breath.

“Yes, you must remember to say ‘no’ and run far away.” Mo Fei struck while the iron was hot.

“Mmm!” The little girl nodded quickly.

“And you mustn’t put anything that someone gives you into your mouth, like lollipops, carrots, or cucumbers, anything!” Mo Fei opened the next card. Yang Yi really drew three different cartoon characters on it—a little person, a little bunny, and a little bear—and each was nibbling on the examples Mo Fei gave.

“Can’t I eat lollipops either?” Xixi asked with confusion and puzzlement.

“No, Xixi can only eat what Papa and Mama buy for you or what Papa and Mama allow you to eat,” Mo Fei rubbed the little girl’s head and said softly. “If you want to eat something, you can tell Papa, and he will buy it for you. But you mustn’t eat anything given by others. No matter what others try to give you, you must not open your mouth!

Xixi remembered, but for now, she was still thinking about lollipops. The little girl said innocently, “Papa will make lots and lots of delicious food for me, so Xixi won’t eat what others give me.”

“Yes, that’s right!” Mo Fei nodded with relief and then opened a new card.