A foreign city, dear you

Not long after Lanshan entered kindergarten, Ye Lian tried to let him sleep in separate beds.

After more than half a year, Lanshan finally got used to sleeping alone.

But at noon, he was still wearing lotus leaves. If Ye Lian didn't take him with him, he wouldn't take a nap obediently.

Even when she goes to bed at night, Lanshan will sometimes stick to her and make terms with her: "Mom, can you sleep with me one more night? Can you stay with me one night a week?"

Ye Lian would shake her head and say: Shanshan is a little man now, and he has to sleep alone to grow into a man.

When Lan Shan saw this, he would take a step back: "Mom, can you stay with me for one more night? Just one night? The last night?"

Seeing her son's pleading eyes, Ye Lian would often soften her heart and agree to him.

Lanshan would be particularly happy. He would hug his mother while sleeping, face to face with her, and put his fleshy little hands on her cheek, full of attachment to her.

Ye Lian would hold Lanshan in her arms and feel that her little body was fleshy and soft. She was moved by this little man's attachment and inspired the tender motherly love in her heart. She would pat Lanshan's back, sing a lullaby in Lanshan's ear, and slowly coax him to sleep.

Lanshan slowly fell asleep under his mother's gentle patting and humming, although he didn't want to fall asleep and wanted to feel her mother's company more.

Lan Shan fell asleep, but Ye Lian couldn't.

She knew that Cao Xueqian was waiting for her in another room, and he wouldn't sleep until she went there.

After Ye Lian estimated that Lanshan was asleep, she carefully took her hands out from under Lanshan, tucked him in, and then tiptoed out of Lanshan's room.

Fortunately, Lanshan always slept until dawn and would not notice Ye Lian leaving. Otherwise, I would definitely say that my mother is untrustworthy and a big liar.

……

After Ye Lian cleared the table, she took Lan Shan's hand and walked into Lan Shan's room.

The floor of Lanshan's room is full of toys and piles of building blocks. There are toys on the bed too.

Beside his pillow, there is also a Transformer.

During this time, Lanshan was fascinated by Transformers. He can perform several interesting transformations: into a giant; into a car, into a motorcycle... Ye Lian could only admire him because she couldn't transform into any of them.

"Mom, look at my Transformers. Is it cool?" Lan Shan held up his beloved Transformers.

"Cool, so cool!" Ye Lian praised fiercely, and then added: "Shanshan is awesome, she can really change. Mom will buy you Transformers in the future, okay? But now you have to go to bed."

Lanshan perked up when he heard this: "Then let's go buy Transformers in the morning, okay?"

"Morning? Isn't the morning already over?" Ye Lian was a little confused.

"I haven't gone there. It will be morning when I wake up later." Lanshan explained.

Ye Lian realized: This little guy can't tell the difference between morning and afternoon again. He couldn't tell the difference before.

"Then what time is it now?" Ye Lian asked.

"It's bedtime now." Lanshan replied, but the answer was wrong.

"It's noon now." Ye Lian taught Lan Shan.

"Why is it called noon?" Lan Shan tilted his head.

"After lunch, it's noon. When you go to bed at noon, it's afternoon." Ye Lian explained patiently.

"Then when is lunch?" Lan Shan asked again.

"We just had lunch, which was between [-] noon and [-] p.m."

"Oh." Lanshan nodded.

It’s not easy, I finally understand a little bit.

Ye Lian lay down on the bed and was about to close her eyes.

Lanshan turned over again and asked: "Mom, then after afternoon, is it morning?"

Okay, I still don’t understand!

"Afternoon is night, and evening is morning."

"When evening passes, it's morning? Then after afternoon, it's morning."

"It's morning after night."

"Didn't you say that after night it's morning?"

"Morning is morning."

"Oh, then tonight is the afternoon?"

"Oh, you kid, why can't you explain?" Ye Lian couldn't laugh or cry.

This child, who is fluent in other aspects, can't tell the time, morning, noon and evening, morning and afternoon.

Ye Lian struggled to explain, feeling that she was getting confused, so she could only give up temporarily.

*

In the afternoon, when Ye Lian was chatting with Cao Xueqian, she mentioned that Lanshan couldn't tell the time, morning, noon and evening, and morning and afternoon.

"Isn't it weird?" Ye Lian asked Cao Xueqian, thinking that such a simple time sequence should be clear.

"What's so weird about this? It's normal."

"normal?"

"I couldn't distinguish many things when I was a child. Shanshan just followed his father."

"No, were you so stupid when you were a child?"

"I can't tell left from right, red from green, height from short, how much..."

"That's nonsense, doesn't that make you an idiot?"

"As time goes by, I will become enlightened, so why don't I get a wife now? She is still such a beautiful wife, and she gave me a silly son. It's normal to be a little silly, not silly at all. That’s the problem.”

"Oh, you."

Cao Xueqian then sneered.

Ye Lian knew he was talking nonsense. However, children’s mental growth can only be left to time.