Upon hearing this, Tang Tang immediately responded obediently, shouting sweetly:
'Uncle Chunlei~'
'Hey, you're such a good boy.'
Li Chunlei was suddenly beaming with joy, and after fumbling for a long time, he finally found it in the pocket of his shirt.
He handed Tang Tang an unopened piece of chocolate.
Then he looked around curiously and asked with some confusion.
'Gu Chen, didn't your wife come today?'
'Well, she's quite busy at work, so I'll be the one taking care of the kids at home from now on.'
Gu Chen touched his nose and said so with a face full of innocence.
However, as soon as the words fell, the gossipy whispers of the surrounding parents increased even more.
Gu Chen also had a successful career and the glorious image of a single man raising a child.
It quickly changed to an image of a good-looking man who seemed like a gigolo.
This made him quite speechless, and he thought to himself that these women really have a lot on their minds.
Everyone is here to drop off their children, so who says that men can't be homemakers?
It's not like the sky is going to fall if the woman works outside the home and the man stays at home.
They're all obviously young and fashionable, but their thinking is so outdated, it's downright prejudiced.
Gu Chen didn't bother to explain any of this. After all, this isn't the same world as before he was reborn.
It would be another ten or so years before these people's attitudes really changed.
But that was fine. After the group of female parents gossiped amongst themselves for a while,
they stopped paying attention to Gu Chen, a womaniser who lives off his wife.
No one would bother to strike up a conversation with him, which was music to his ears.
Li Chunlei couldn't help but frown. Naturally, he felt extremely uncomfortable that his best friend was being discussed in such a way.
However, he was currently an intern teacher at a kindergarten, and it was not appropriate to start a conflict with these gossiping parents.
He then waved his hand as if to swat flies, and said to Gu Chen next to him:
'Brother, you don't need to care about them. I think in this world, as men, there are really very few people like you who care about their families, and Tantan is so smart and cute. I think this is definitely inseparable from the teaching of your parents.'
Gu Chen couldn't help but smile and kept shaking his head, only saying that it was all because his wife had taught him well.
He had only been taking care of the child for a few days, and such a big credit could not be attributed to him alone.
Li Chunlei saw that he really didn't care much about these idle remarks, and he was slightly relieved.
However, Gu Chen couldn't help but be curious, and asked his good friend in front of him.
'Don't just talk about me, why did you become a kindergarten teacher? This doesn't seem like your style.
Is it because we haven't seen each other for many years that you've changed?'
In fact, before he was reborn, Gu Chen had also heard some news about the other party.
But normally, that would have been ten years later.
At that time, Li Chunlei was already a small-time entrepreneur.
He had even made the front page of Haicheng's newspaper for building a factory back home and benefiting the local people, which was quite the feat.
At that time, Gu Chen was still an unknown labourer.
Feeling that the two of them were very different, he did not take the initiative to meet the other person.
However, after hearing his words, Li Chunlei couldn't help blushing, and then he leaned mysteriously towards Gu Chen.
Looking around nervously, as if afraid of being seen, he whispered:
'Brother, about our relationship, I won't beat around the bush with you.
In fact, I won't lie to you, the main reason I came to Xiaotaiyang Kindergarten this time is to chase after love.'
'Chasing after love?'
Gu Chen was a little surprised, but on second thought, this is really something his good friend could do.
'That's right, and it's true love! Otherwise, you'd think everyone was like you, with a child already.
I'm still single, my dear brother.'
Gu Chen was delighted to hear this, and then he also poked the other person with his arm, asking in a gossipy voice.
'Which one? Let me see, too. I can't believe my brother is so infatuated.
He even quit his business and came here to be a teacher and take care of children. Could it be that this person is a fairy from heaven?'
Li Chunlei coughed, then glanced sideways furtively, humming quietly.
'Just, just the one by the roadside, the one holding the hand of a girl with a little blue schoolbag...
Hey, don't stick your neck out and look, what if someone finds out?'
Gu Chen looked in the direction of the other person's gaze. This time, he was truly shocked, and shocked.
'She is pretty, you're not a bad judge of beauty, but she's married and you're secretly in love with her.
This is a bit too much excitement, isn't it?'
Li Chunlei was so angry that his nose was crooked. He pulled Gu Chen aside and couldn't help but argue.
'What married woman? She's a widow. Her husband just passed away last year, and now she's alone with her daughter.
You said that there is not even a man in this family, how difficult it is to live, I just want to help them.'
Gu Chen couldn't help but marvel after hearing this, although it still sounded like a pervert.
But this really seems like something this kid could do. After all, when he was in high school,
Li Chunlei never stopped peeping at the pretty young woman who was their English teacher.
Unexpectedly, after all these years, this guy's aesthetics have really not changed at all.
And from being infatuated with young women back then, he has now become a widower, which is a deepening of the symptoms.
But Gu Chen didn't say anything about it.
Compared to him and Wang Dachun, who came from a poor family, Li Chunlei's family has always been well-off.
In the era when it was not yet completely certain that the country would open up, his father was one of the first to go into business for himself.
He braved the ever-changing winds and managed to make a fortune, and never left the village after that.
When Li Chunlei was in high school, news of what happened to his family finally leaked out.
The family then fled almost overnight, leaving no trace behind.
It wasn't until many years later that Gu Chen read the other man's name in the newspaper again.
Li Chunlei, an old classmate from back then, was already a big boss with several companies under his name.
Although he is currently unkempt, he is rich and will only need to wait a little while.
It is only a matter of time before he becomes successful, even before Gu Chen is reborn.
Li Chunlei has always been the one who has done the best among their classmates.
If he really likes the young widow and is willing to marry her in the future, it may not be a bad thing for the woman.
Li Chunlei looked at her with a face of infatuation for a while, until she could no longer be seen as she walked away.
Only then did he reluctantly withdraw his gaze, before falling upon Gu Chen next to him.