"Achoo!" Clark sneezed. Who was thinking of me?
Shaking his head, he looked down at the lion who was biting hard on his arm with a helpless look on his face.
"Dude, have you had enough fun yet?" The lion tugged at Clark's motionless arm, tossing his head hard. With a slight pull, Clark pulled his arm out of the lion's mouth, looked at the slobber on it and, as the lion stepped back, pinned the lion to the ground with a slight push of one hand, wiped the slobber on the male's mane and let go of the poor lion.
The male lion ran away, several lionesses following close behind the male, looking at Clark in fear. Clark hemmed and hastily took out his camera and 'clicked' to take the picture.
Under the night sky, the lions looked back in horror as if they had seen something terrible.
An interesting photograph. Clark nodded in satisfaction, put the camera away and turned to go back to his tent. ...
As Christmas passed, the year came to a head. And as the year turned old and new, Mike took Gwen for a half month of fun in New York, looking at schools on the way. After being picked by Gwen, a new school was decided upon.
After helping Gwen with the transfer process, she was only waiting for the new school term to start before she could go to her new school.
It was only a week before the new school year started. Gwen was doing well in her studies and for the sake of a good learning environment, Mike planned to stay in New York for a long time and cancelled his plans to go back to the farm.
As for the farm, selling it was out of the question, after all, there were so many good memories, so he was going to leave it to Bob to run.
Having decided to live in New York for a long time, he decided, after some thought, to simply live somewhere else, preferably somewhere closer to Gwen's new school. The school was located in Queens. When he thought about it, he seemed to have a few properties located in Queens.
"I'll go through the property certificates later and pick a suitable place when the time comes." Mike muttered in a small voice.
"Dad?" Gwen held her spoon and asked curiously,
"What are you thinking about?"
Mike smoothly picked up a piece of crispy fried tenderloin and placed it in Gwen's plate, saying, "I was thinking about where we're moving to."
"Move?" Gwen peeled the meat into her own mouth and chewed on it while looking at Mike with wide eyes.
"Yeah, it's closer to your new school." Gwen cocked her head and said, "The new school I picked is such a trouble, why don't I just pick a new one!"
"No trouble!" Mike said with a big wave of his hand, "Just buy the furniture and you can live in it!" Gwen nodded and held her spoon to zap the meatballs on her plate.
Instantly, the extremely elastic meatballs popped out of the plate, and bounced twice on the table as if mocking Gwen.
Gwen "..."
Mike: "Hahahaha!" Unable to stop himself from laughing, he coughed lightly as Gwen looked at him in exasperation and said, "Just be gentle."
Suddenly, a bell rang. Mike looked over and raised an eyebrow.
Charles? The boy hadn't contacted him for a long time. Slowly picking up the phone, before Mike could say anything, Charles complained
"Dad, why are you so slow to answer the phone this time? You've always answered in seconds before!"
"Oh, at dinner."
"Dinner? Dinner with who?" Charles asked curiously.
"With Gwen."
"Gwen?" At that, Charles immediately sat up straighter, a fire of gossip flickering in his eyes.
"Well, my daughter."
"Oh so it's a daughter, a daughter!" Charles exclaimed and jumped right up. "What?!! When did you have a daughter? How come I didn't know?"
"Didn't I tell you?" Mike was a little puzzled.
Charles' heart sank and he said, "Dad, you've changed! You've forgotten about me."
Mike said impatiently, "You're such a big man, why are you still crying, is there anything wrong?
Charles"... "
The next moment, to his dismay, Mike actually hung up the phone.
Charles gritted his teeth and called again. The call was answered and he said angrily, "Dad, how can you do this to me! "
"How can I do this to you?" Mike said in an uncharacteristic voice, saying, "What's the matter?"
Charles pressed his sour heart and said, "Dad, I need your help."
"A favour?"
"Yes!" Charles murmured, "I want to open up a subterranean space under the school."
"You're asking me to dig a hole?"
"Uh, I know dad you should have a way." There was a curt note in Charles' voice.
Mike thought about it for a moment and said, "In a couple of days, I haven't had time lately."
"Hmm?" Charles was alert, "What are you going to do?"
"I'm planning to move to New York to live here permanently, I'm moving."
"It's not because of this daughter of yours, is it?"
"Sort of." Mike looked at Gwen dotingly and said, "New York is a better place to study and I want to move closer to their school."
Charles: "..." How come you didn't have that intention when the three of us were in school?
Mike heard no sound on the other side and said, "I'll call you when things are done."
"Wait!" Charles said urgently, "I want to go home for dinner!"
"You'll come back when I'm done." Mike hung up the phone coldly. Such a big man, still eating and eating all day long!
"Gwen, what do you want to eat tonight?" Mike asked pleasantly to Gwen. Gwen blinked and said, "Dad, was that brother who just called?"
Mike nodded and said to Gwen, "This brother will be here in a couple of days, but you have to keep it a secret and not tell anyone that he is your brother, okay?" Gwen nodded without any hesitation before she said confusedly,
"Why?" "Because, he's on a dangerous mission, and his identity needs to be kept secret until he succeeds."
Secret agent! Gwen's eyes lit up and she nodded heavily, saying, "I see, it's our secret!"
Mike smiled and rubbed Gwen's head.
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