I almost touched the moon

Chapter 357: Your skiing skills don’t need your dad to teach you

In the afternoon, the sun shines on the snow surface of the Zugspitze. Since it is the weekend, there are many tourists on the beginner ski slopes. Compared with the sparsely populated black slopes, the slopes can almost be described as "overcrowded".

[This is killing me.] Wen Song took a photo and sent it to Qiu Xuanyan, complaining, [The last time I came to the Greenway was when I was 6 years old! Oh my god, it’s been more than years! I’m actually coming to the Greenway again. I’m afraid I’ll be stabbed to death by the snow poles of those novices.]

Qiu Xuanyan looked at the photo she sent and replied with a laughing emoticon, [Why are you teaching Astrid how to ski? Where is Cheng Che? Shouldn't he be the one doing this? ]

[If Cheng Che was here, she would never learn to ski. Every time she fell, Cheng Che would be scared to death and immediately pick her up. Then when Astrid cried, he would say, "Okay, we won't learn anymore."]

As soon as she finished speaking, the little girl in a pink ski suit and two pink skis fell on the snow track. She threw away her skis angrily and ran to Wen Song crying, "Mama, Ich will nicht Skifahren lernen, ich hasse Skifahren."

(Mom, I don’t want to learn skiing. I hate skiing.)

"Ok." Wen Song nodded, asked the ski instructor to leave for a rest, squatted down, wiped the snow off Astrid's body, and said with a smile: "Honey, I'm glad you're here, but I'm afraid you'll have to wait until next time."

(Baby, if I remember correctly, you said you wanted to be a world champion skier like dad.)

Astrid shook her hand off and cried, "But skiing is too hard! I don't want to learn! Mom, I keep falling, I hate it!"

Wen Song ignored her and stood aside, yawned, and put on headphones to listen to music. After a while, Astrid ran to her, pulled her clothes, and whispered, "Mama?"

"Are you done crying?" Wen Song glanced at her. "If you are, I will ask the coach to come back and continue teaching you."

"I don't want to be a world champion in skiing, so do I not need to learn skiing?" Astrid suddenly had an idea and said to Wen Song, "You said you would never force me."

"Of course, I won't force you." Wen Song nodded and said, "If you really hate skiing, of course you don't have to learn it. I'll take you away now. But you know, my dad and I both like skiing, so if you don't know how to ski, at least until you have the ability to go out and play independently, when we go skiing, you can only stay at home or watch from the side."

Seeing that Astrid didn't speak, Wen Song yawned and said, "Baby, Mommy is sleepy. If you don't want to study, let's go home. I want to go back and hold Cece to sleep."

After hearing what she said, Astrid wanted to cry but had no tears. She raised her little face, looked at Wen Song pitifully and said, "I don't like Coach Christina. Can I let Dad teach me?"

"You don't need your dad to teach you how to ski." Wen Song smiled and pinched her face. "Honey, if you don't want the coach to teach you, then I'll teach you."

"Then..." Astrid almost gasped and took two steps back in fear, "Let Coach Christina teach me... But mom, can't dad come with me?"

Wen Song nodded and said, "Of course, when you stop crying because of falling, I will let Dad accompany you."

Astrid had no choice but to go back to the slopes to learn. Perhaps it was her genes that gave her a great talent for skiing. In just one afternoon, she not only mastered walking on flat ground, turning and straight skiing, but also learned the standard half-plow turn.

After the end, Wen Song changed her ski clothes and praised her: "My Astrid is really the smartest child in the world. It took mom two days to learn the plow turn, and dad seemed to have spent a long time too. You learned it in just four hours. Honey, you are really great. If you want to be a ski athlete, you will definitely be better than dad. What reward do you want? Mommy will take you to buy it, okay?"

"I want Lego." Astrid said with a smile, "Mom, I want the biggest Star Wars one. Will you build it with me?"

"Okay, baby, mommy will buy it for you right now, and then we can build it together." Wen Song took her hand and said, "But you have to promise me that you won't cry in front of daddy on purpose when you go back. If you do that, mommy won't play Lego with you."

"I won't cry." Astrid raised her head and said, "I am the strongest little girl."

However, things did not go as planned. As soon as Astrid returned home and saw Cheng Che, she shouted, "Papa——" and hugged Cheng Che's legs and cried loudly.

Cheng Che saw his precious daughter crying so hard that he quickly picked her up and held her in his arms, coaxing her anxiously, "Was it so easy for Papa to cry? Why did you fail? Oh, Papa, she's still crying. Erz?hl Papa was passed away."

(What happened, Daddy's little princess? Why are you crying? Oh no, Daddy's heart is broken. Tell Daddy what happened?)

Wen Song saw this and said to Astrid with a gloomy face: "Astrid, you broke your promise to me. So I won't play Lego with you, and neither will Papa."

(You broke your promise to me, so I won't play Lego with you anymore, and neither will Dad.)

When Cheng Che heard what Wen Song said, and saw Astrid still sobbing in his arms, he felt a little embarrassed for a moment. He walked to Wen Song with Astrid in his arms and asked, "What's wrong, baby? Aren't you going skiing this afternoon? It doesn't matter if you can't learn it. It doesn't matter if there are three people skiing at home. It's not a big deal, don't be angry."

Wen Song was speechless, and said to Cheng Che coldly: "You ask her, I'm going to go back to my room to take a shower and sleep. If she distorts the facts, I will make her stand in the corner, and if you dare to stop her, you have to stand with her."

Astrid didn't quite understand their Chinese conversation. She blinked her big eyes and looked at Wen Song. Seeing her cold expression, she didn't dare to speak. She turned back to Cheng Che's arms and started crying.

Wen Song was a little annoyed by her crying. He sighed silently and said to Cheng Che, "I'm going back to my room."

After saying that, he turned and entered the elevator. Cheng Che was about to comfort her, but he saw Astrid, who had cried so much that her clothes were soaked. He patted her on the back and said, "Okay, stop crying, little princess. Tell daddy what happened."

Astrid sniffed and told Cheng Che what happened in the afternoon while crying. At the end, she added, "Mom is always mean to me. She doesn't like me at all. She only likes Cece."

"Baby, you can't say that." Cheng Che wiped Astrid's tears, looked at her seriously and said, "Mom loves you very much, and because she loves you, she hopes that you will be a strong and brave child. Baby, you like skiing, right?"

Astrid nodded and whispered, "I like it, but skiing is hard and it hurts when you fall."

Cheng Che took the ointment with some heartache and rubbed it on the bruise on her leg. As he rubbed it, he said, "Dad knows that skiing is hard, but if you want to achieve your goal, you must spend time and effort. This is what mom and dad did when they learned to ski. Moreover, when mom was your age, she learned to ski alone. No one was with her. So mom is really brave, right?"

"Yeah," Astrid nodded, "Grandma told me that Mom does everything by herself. Dad, how does Mom do it?"

"Dad also finds it amazing, because it's hard for Dad to imagine that when Mom was still a little girl, she could do so many things by herself." Cheng Che touched Astrid's head and said, "Baby, you are very lucky now. You have a dad and a mom. We all love you very much. Mom is not strict with you. She just hopes that you will not have any regrets and will not be sad, okay? Baby, do you still want to ski?"

"I want to." Astrid nodded, "But I don't want to go with my mom. She's so fierce."

Cheng Che smiled, kissed Astrid's little face and said, "Okay, then Daddy will go with you next time. Now be a good girl and play with Cece. Daddy is going to comfort Mommy. Astrid didn't do what she promised Mommy today. She must be very sad. Maybe she is crying secretly too."