Chapter 53 Playing
When it comes to taking children out for fun, if it’s Shanghai, the first thing that comes to mind is Disney, and in the capital, it’s Universal Studios.

Chen Mo and Xu Hongdou brought Lingling and went to the Universal Studios in the capital with them.

When the three of them arrived at the entrance of Universal Studios, they saw many people queuing to enter, some with children, some as couples, and some with friends.

As soon as they entered Universal Studios, he couldn't wait to pull Xu Hongdou and run.

"Aunt, let's go see the Minions."

There are seven themed story parks in Universal Studios: Harry Potter, Transformers, Kung Fu Panda, Jurassic, Minions, Hollywood and Water World.

Children have basically no resistance to such places.

"Okay, slow down." Xu Hongdou was pulled by Lingling to jog.

"Then let's go see the Minions first?" Xu Hongdou turned around and said to Chen Mo.

"Okay, Lingling has the final say today." Chen Mo smiled and nodded, following the two of them slowly.

The three of them came to the Minions Park. Although it was not the peak season, there were still many people there on weekends, and there were always long queues for each attraction.

Chen Mo had obviously done his homework in advance, and seeing this, he decisively used his money ability to buy Yousutong.

"Aunt, let's go there first." Lingling pointed to the place with a sign that read "Minions Make Trouble."

"Okay, play one by one, don't be in a hurry." Xu Hongdou said.

Chen Mo naturally had no objection.

"Minions Fall Out" simulates a roller coaster in a movie theater. In line with the plot on the screen, the seats below will experience various vibration changes, coupled with stereo sound effects, which is equivalent to an immersive VR experience.

After coming out, the three of them went to watch the "Sing" stage musical performance, and then Xu Hongdou accompanied Lingling to play the cute roller coaster and the super cute spinning whirlpool.

The super cute spinning whirlpool and cute roller coaster are both for children, so Chen Mo did not go to play on them.

After playing in the Minions Park, the three went to other parks.

In fact, the project types in each park are similar, the only difference is the theme.

Just like there is a Decepticon roller coaster in the Transformers area, but compared to the cute Minions roller coaster, the Transformers roller coaster is obviously more thrilling, with 360° rotation, weightlessness and upside down.

Xu Hongdou didn't even dare to play with it herself, let alone with the bell.

Chen Mo himself was not very interested in this kind of thing, but he said that if Lingling wanted to play, he could go up with her.

Unexpectedly, Lingling also shook her head like Xu Hongdou.

In the end, the two of them went to play the "Bumblebee Twister" together, a relatively gentle spinning cup project.

Then they went to the Transformers base. Xu Hongdou and Lingdang lined up to go on stage to take a photo with the internet celebrity Megatron, while Chen Mo helped them take photos below the stage.

Among the three, they stayed in the Transformers park for the shortest time. It can be seen that Xu Hongdou and Lingdang are indeed not very interested in Transformers.

It’s hard for girls to understand that mechas are the romance of men.

Kung Fu Panda is an enclosed indoor park, based on the movie Kung Fu Panda, presenting a real peaceful valley.

Although it is all indoors, there is a shining starry sky when you look up, and a tranquil landscape painting in the distance. There are small buildings made of bamboo and wood, and colorful lanterns hanging from the eaves. There are bamboo forests and streams everywhere, which fully recreates the movie.

This is the kind of place that people who like the Kung Fu Panda movie series will really like and feel nostalgic about, but people who don't like it will find it boring.

At noon, the three of them went to the popular "Three Broomsticks Restaurant" and ordered some grilled chicken, hamburgers, French fries and so on. The children liked them all and Lingling enjoyed the meal very much.

In the afternoon, the three of them went to watch the stunt show at Waterworld, Harry Potter's Frog Choir, Hollywood's Untrainable Costumes, and the parade floats. Characters from various movies were on floats in their respective movie styles, greeting and interacting with the audience.

Because he didn't get a front seat, Chen Mo held the bell and watched the whole time.

"Can you see it?" Chen Mo asked Xu Hongdou.

"It's okay." Xu Hongdou said.

"If you can't see, I can do it next to you." Chen Mo gestured to the side.

"Huh?" Xu Hongdou looked to the side.

A big brother carried his wife on his shoulders, and his wife held a child in her arms.

It is really a man's shoulders that carry the whole world.

"Thank you, that's not necessary." Xu Hongdou refused decisively.

"Oh." Chen Mo felt a little regretful and still wanted to show off.

We had dinner at the Luoxia Restaurant.

Because Xu Hongmi will not be free until later tonight, and Chen Mo and the other two have been playing for the whole afternoon and are already hungry, they must eat something in advance. They can't let Lingling go hungry.

Chen Mo looked at the menu and didn't order anything with a strange-sounding name like "Happy Dragon Egg".

Xu Hongdou likes spicy food, so Chen Mo ordered a dish of sea cucumber and mapo tofu, and a dish of braised prawns for Lingling, and finally a seafood rice and a lava chocolate cake.

"If Nanxing were here, this dish would be a must-order." Xu Hongdou also saw the sign of "Happy Dragon Egg".

"Haha, you can ask her to come along next time. The restaurants here have no shortage of novel dish names." Chen Mo said with a smile.

"Yeah." Xu Hongdou also felt that she would like to have the chance to do it with Chen Nanxing in the future.

"It is said that you can see the sunset here, so it is called Luoxia Restaurant," Xu Hongdou introduced.

Today's restaurants were all chosen by Xu Hongdou. Apparently she had done some research on Universal Studios before coming.

Under Xu Hongdou's arrangement, the three of them had a different meal time from the crowd.

After all, U-Pass can only help them reduce the waiting time for entertainment activities, but it cannot help them speed up the serving time in restaurants.

"It seems that you are well prepared. You know all this." Chen Mo said with a smile.

"Of course, I also made a strategy in advance." Xu Hongdou raised her eyebrows.

"We wasted a lot of time taking detours, and we haven't had time to try many of the activities recommended online," Xu Hongdou said with a hint of regret.

Chen Mo also looked at some Universal Studios travel guides online, which taught people how to efficiently enjoy all the attractions in one day, and there were also special route maps.

But in fact, no matter how efficient you are, it is basically impossible to play all the projects in one day.

One is that there are too many people and you have to queue, and the other is that this place is really big and there is so much to do.

This is originally a large-scale comprehensive resort that integrates leisure, entertainment, shopping, catering, accommodation, and recreation.

Even if you keep walking around for 24 hours a day, it would be difficult to finish the shopping.

"Our main purpose today is to bring Lingling out to play, so naturally, Lingling can do whatever she likes." Chen Mo said.

"Besides, guides are made by adults for adults to see."

"Some activities that we adults find fun may not be liked by children."

"Some activities that we thought were boring turned out to be very exciting for the children."

"Really, Lingling, did you have fun today?" Chen Mo asked Lingling with a smile.

"Happy!" Lingling nodded vigorously. The smile on her face hadn't faded all day.

"Look." Chen Mo looked at Xu Hongdou.

Xu Hongdou also looked at Lingling, touched Lingling's head, smiled and nodded, saying, "That's right."

"Adults care about efficiency, while children just need pure love and happiness." Chen Mo said with a smile.

"And don't feel sorry. If you still want to play, I can come with you next week."

Xu Hongdou just looked at Chen Mo and hadn't said anything yet when Lingling spoke expectantly, "Are you coming again next week? Auntie, remember to bring me along."

"Lingdang, you will be going back to Shanghai tomorrow and you still have to go to school." Xu Hongdou said with a smile.

"Aunt, do you want to come here secretly without bringing Lingling?" Lingling became unhappy when she heard that she had no fun and had to go to school.

"No, my aunt is not coming either. Uncle was just joking." Xu Hongdou explained to Lingdang, and then "complained" to Chen Mo:

"Don't joke around, Lingling took it seriously."

Chen Mo raised his eyebrows and was about to say that he was not joking when Xu Hongdou gave him a warning look.

Chen Mo understood the threat in Xu Hongdou's eyes: If Ling Ling takes it seriously and refuses to go back to Shanghai, you'll be dead.

Chen Mo could only shrug and shut up.

"Lingling, eat quickly, there will be a light show later." Xu Hongdou said to Lingling.

"After watching the light show, uncle will buy you an ice cream." Chen Mo also said.

"Yeah." When Lingling heard that there was still food and fun to be had, she nodded happily and started eating.

Children's emotions come and go quickly. The things they were worried about just now are forgotten in the blink of an eye.

Finally, the three of them watched the light show of "Castle Night Magic Celebration" in the Harry Potter theme park and prepared to go back.

Chen Mo also fulfilled his promise and went back to buy ice cream for Lingling.

"What flavor do you want the bell to be?" Chen Mo asked.

"Strawberry." Lingling raised her hand and said.

"Okay." Chen Mo responded with a smile, and asked Xu Hongdou, "Do you want one?" "Lingdang can't eat too much, Lingdang and I can just have one." Xu Hongdou shook her head and said.

Chen Mo nodded and prepared to buy two. He also felt like he hadn't eaten them for a long time.

"Aunt, Lingling can finish it by herself." Lingling pouted her little mouth, obviously hearing Xu Hongdou trying to "snatch food from the tiger's mouth."

"Lingling, you can't eat so many cold foods at night, otherwise you will have a stomachache." Xu Hongdou said to Lingling while supporting her knees.

"No, I won't have a stomachache." Lingling obviously didn't believe it.

"Then auntie will call your mother and ask if you can have ice cream." Xu Hongdou took out her trump card.

"Hmph, my aunt is stingy." Lingling turned her head away and didn't look at Xu Hongdou.

"Hey, you little heartless kid, I take you out to play and eat all day and don't let you eat more ice cream, so I'm stingy?"

"Then I won't buy it." Xu Hongdou also turned her head away as if she was angry.

One big and one small, one turned left, the other turned right, and they didn't look at each other.

Chen Mo was watching this scene and couldn't help laughing. Xu Hongdou's childish look was so adorable.

Seeing this, Lingling turned around and placed her hope on Chen Mo, blinking her cute big eyes and looking at Chen Mo expectantly.

She remembered that it was Chen Mo who said he would buy it for her.

Chen Mo first shook his head and gave Lingling an expression of "helplessness", then raised his chin and gestured to Xu Hongdou, letting Lingling know who had the final say here.

Lingling's face was conflicted. After a while of stalemate, she finally gave in. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to eat a single bite.

Given the choice between having ice cream available and being able to eat more, children will definitely choose to eat more.

But if it comes down to it, between having nothing to eat and eating less, children know how to choose.

Maybe Lingling also knew in her heart that her aunt was sometimes very similar to her mother and was always decisive about certain matters.

In fact, sometimes children’s “willful” behavior is cultivated by adults.

When faced with children’s quarrels and tantrums, adults repeatedly promise, compromise, and give in on seemingly “trivial” matters, which will make children think they have the secret to success:
If they are not allowed to buy toys, they will cry and refuse to leave the mall. If they are not allowed to play with mobile phones, they will go on a hunger strike and refuse to eat. If they are unhappy, they will run away from home, and so on.

To put it simply, it can be summed up in three words: "spoiled".

Therefore, we must nip small things in the bud. Children can be pampered, but they cannot be spoiled.

Xu Hongdou also secretly glanced at Lingling, and when she noticed that Lingling was looking at her, she immediately turned her head away.

"Aunt, I was just kidding. You're the best." Lingling hugged Xu Hongdou's legs and shook her, acting coquettishly.

Seeing Lingling's face pressed against Xu Hongdou's white thighs and acting coquettishly, Chen Mo wished he could take her place and tears almost flowed from the corners of his mouth.

Chen Mo really wanted to say to Lingling, "Uncle, let me give you my ice cream and we can switch seats."

But Chen Mo guaranteed that if he dared to say that, Xu Hongdou's leg would not be pressed against his face, but would kick him in the face.

But fortunately, it is a niece, not a nephew, Chen Mo was thankful.

Anyone who helps Tao Zhisuke can be killed!
"Alright, alright, stop shaking." Xu Hongdou pinched Lingling's little face.

"Hehe." Lingling smiled and flattered.

"You have good eyesight." Chen Mo praised.

Xu Hongdou rolled her eyes at Chen Mo.

However, Xu Hongdou was quite satisfied that Chen Mo did not directly ask him to buy another ice cream for Lingling.

Soon Chen Mo queued up and bought two ice creams, one cream and one strawberry.

"Here." Chen Mo handed the strawberry flavored one to Lingling.

"Thank you, uncle." Lingling reached out to take it.

"You're welcome."

Lingling didn't eat it right away after taking it. Instead, she handed the ice cream to Xu Hongdou: "Auntie, you eat first."

"You can eat it. I'll think it's enough soon and you can't eat anymore." Xu Hongdou said.

Her main reason was that she didn't want Lingling to eat too much, not that she had to compete with the children for food.

"Then you try it first, auntie." Lingling didn't take her hand back.

Xu Hongdou smiled with relief. This time she did not refuse and leaned over to take a sip.

Lingling watched Xu Hongdou take a bite, then she started eating it herself.

Lingling licked it a few times and her eyes unconsciously turned to the ice cream in Chen Mo's hand.

"Uncle, what does that smell like?" Lingling asked innocently.

"Uncle, this tastes like cream." Chen Mo looked down at Lingling and said.

"Uncle, can I have a taste of the ice cream in your hand?"

"Of course." Chen Mo squatted down and gave his creamy ice cream to Lingling to taste.

"How is it? Which one tastes better?" Chen Mo looked at Lingling and took a bite, then asked with a smile.

"It seems that the ones with cream taste better." Lingling looked at the strawberry ice cream in her hand and said with a frown on her face.

"Really?" Chen Mo said with a smile.

Lingling still handed her ice cream to Chen Mo politely: "Uncle, you can have a taste of mine too."

Chen Mo was stunned for a moment when he heard this. It was not because he disliked Lingling for having eaten already, but because Xu Hongdou had also eaten this ice cream just now, right?

But this is the child's kindness, he can't refuse, right?

This will destroy the friendship with children. After all, in the children's world, friends are those who share with each other.

Friendship with children should not be mixed with too many "worldly" views from the adult world.

Yes, that's right.

Chen Mo convinced himself and was about to agree "reluctantly" when he heard a cough.

Chen Mo raised his head and looked at Xu Hongdou. The coughing sound came from Xu Hongdou.

Obviously Xu Hongdou also realized that she had already eaten the ice cream and was reminding Chen Mo.

Chen Mo wanted to pretend he didn't know, but under Xu Hongdou's gaze, he smiled sincerely and said, "No need, Lingling, eat it yourself."

At this moment, Chen Mo couldn't help but admire his own gentlemanly and pure heart, and his gentle and kind character.

"Uncle, don't you like strawberry flavor?" asked Lingling.

"No, uncle likes it too, but uncle wants Lingling to eat more." Chen Mo said.

"Then uncle, can I exchange my ice cream with you?" Lingling said.

"Huh?" Chen Mo was stunned for a moment, because he had tasted this ice cream just now.

After the two of them switched places, not only would Chen Mo have to eat what Xu Hongdou had eaten, but Xu Hongdou would also have to eat what Chen Mo had eaten. That would truly be an indirect kiss with both parties interacting.

"Lingling, this is the flavor you chose yourself. How can you want to change it just because the one your uncle has tastes better?" Xu Hongdou said with a slightly stern frown.

Eating saliva is just a small matter, but Xu Hongdou thinks Lingling's behavior is unacceptable.

You already have something you own, but you still want to eat someone else's. Others let you try it, and you think theirs tastes better, so you want to exchange the one you have already eaten with others.

"Oh, I'm sorry, uncle." Lingling heard that Xu Hongdou was a little angry, and said in a low voice.

"It's okay, it's okay. If Lingling wants to eat it, uncle can buy her another one of the same flavor tomorrow, okay?" Chen Mo said.

"Yeah." Lingling's eyes lit up and she nodded.

"Okay, the child is just a little greedy." Chen Mo looked at Xu Hongdou and said.

"Even greed has to be limited." Xu Hongdou said as she glanced at Ling Ling who was lowering her head.

"Lingling, you are just treating me like an outsider."

Chen Mo remembered that Lingling was very polite and courteous to him in the morning. Maybe it was after he held her in his arms to see the floats that she became familiar and casual.

"You probably think of me as your uncle, right? Lingling." Chen Mo joked

"Yeah." Lingling nodded.

Chen Mo smiled even more happily. He could get a niece for free with just an ice cream. It was definitely worth it.

Xu Hongdou rolled her eyes at Chen Mo. She was used to this guy always coming up with this.

But Xu Hongdou didn't realize that habit is a terrible thing.

The three of them left Universal Studios and walked towards the open-air parking lot where they had parked their car in the morning.

The parking lot is about seven or eight hundred meters away from the entrance of Universal Studios, so the three of them could eat their ice cream while walking and finish it on the way.

The dim street lights lengthened the shadows of the three people. The two adults were holding the child in the middle, making them look like a family of three.

(End of this chapter)