Qiao Wanqing chatted with Gu Yanqing on WeChat for a while, then found it boring too. Feeling thoroughly sick of the world, she tossed her phone aside and saw Koukou leading over a toy dog.
His dad had just bought him that musical pull-string dog. Pulling different parts of its body triggered different functions. It could talk, sing, and interact with babies, supposedly helping promote their language development.
Whether it could really help or not, Koukou genuinely liked it. He dragged it around everywhere, and whenever he pulled it along, it would sing. It was quite fun.
Koukou walked it around for a while, then stopped to pat its head. The little dog immediately stopped singing, and the once-noisy living room fell silent in an instant.
Qiao Wanqing heard Koukou plop down on the floor without much ceremony. As he played with the little dog, he hummed the song it had just sung: "Two Tigers love to dance, Little Rabbit, Little Rabbit, Be Good pull, pull... Two Tigers..."
He could not remember the lyrics and only knew those two incomplete lines, but he kept singing them over and over unconsciously.
Qiao Wanqing:!!!
This was the first time she had ever heard Koukou sing!
No matter how they had taught him before, he had never sung. She did not know whether he could not sing or simply did not want to.
"Koukou, come here, come to Mommy." Qiao Wanqing called him over in delight.
Koukou put down his little toy and ran over quickly. Afraid he would bump into her belly, Qiao Wanqing hurriedly held out her hands to stop him from throwing himself into her arms. Then she picked him up and sat him on her lap, asking, "What were you singing just now?"
"?" Koukou forgot what he had