On the fourth day, Fu Yunruo finally succumbed to Wenwen’s persistent urge, so she packed her things and took the child back to the flower garden. When Uncle Guo saw they were back, he looked happy for a moment, but his happy face soon changed by a displeased frown: “Why are you back so soon? You don’t need to hurry. I can take care of this place alone.”
“Wenwen has just been seriously ill. You should take care of him.”
Fu Yunruo replied helplessly: “Wenwen is clamoring to go back, so I have no choice…” She quickly added: “But I have taken him to the follow-up examination. His illness is almost healed, only he still occasionally coughs. It’s enough for him to drink some pear stewed with rock sugar to moisture his throat.”
Too much medicine was not good for a young child. After confirming that Wenwen no longer needed to take prescribed medicines, Auntie Mei especially stewed some pears with rock sugar to stop his cough.
Wenwen, who was strapped on Fu Yunruo’s back, tried to stick out his head toward Uncle Guo. With a pair of big black eyes, he yelled at the old man: “‘Pa! Miss!”
Uncle Guo finally couldn’t maintain a stern face anymore. His smile bloomed like a flower: “Good boy!”
Facing Wenwen’s cute attack, Uncle Guo stopped saying anything else for the time being. He waved his hand, motioning to Fu Yunruo to put Wenwen down before walking out of the flower shed.
Fu Yunruo unstrapped her son and placed him on his playground inside the flower shed. She then lovingly pinched his tender and chubby cheek: “Little smartass!”
Wenwen broke into a pure and innocent smile: “Mom!”
“Mommy’s here!” Fu Yunruo answered.
Uncle Guo quickly came back, bringing a bunch of new toys for Wenwen. Saying that he could take care of the child alone, he drove Fu Yunruo off to do her own tasks.
Fu Yunruo didn’t feel relieved to let Wenwen out of her sight. She trusted Uncle Guo, but the child’s sudden illness had left her a lingering fear.
When Fu Yunruo was still entangled, Wenwen waved his chubby little hand and yelled, “Go!”
He then picked a toy car and began to play by himself, ignoring his mother.
Fu Yunruo: “…” Was this really her sticky little baby? In just a few days, he no longer needed his mother.
Having no other choice, Fu Yunruo went to her small flower room. She quickly posted an update, informing her followers that her livestream broadcast would start in fifteen minutes. Fu Yunruo used the fifteen minutes to check on the flower room and prepared her usual livestream equipment. During her absence, Uncle Guo had meticulously taken care of the orchids in the flower room. Each of them was in the best condition: fresh and vibrant.
After fifteen minutes, Fu Yunruo finally started her livestream broadcast.
[Finally here!]
[Yunyun is back!]
[I can’t believe it, Yunyun finally resumes broadcasting…]
The moment the livestream started, the number of viewers quickly jumped up, and the pace didn’t slow down until it broke the 100,000 marks.
During this time, her rich ‘number one fan’ also logged in.
Fu Yunruo was very surprised. She had prepared herself to see her viewer count be cut by more than half. However, looking at the current trend, it seemed that the situation was not as bad as she had imagined.
The endless barrage of comments swarmed the screen; some of them overlapped. Fu Yunruo was still dumbfounded when the long digit rich fan also sent his greeting. Due to his status, his comments were circled by a golden light, which made them very conspicuous among other comments.
After skimmed over the comments, Fu Yunruo began to reply: “Hello everyone, Yunyun here. It’s been a long time. Sorry for keeping you waiting…Thank you for your concern. The baby is fine. These four days, his fever hasn’t come back. He is almost recovered now, save for a bit cough…”
Fu Yunruo carefully informed her fans about Wenwen’s recovery and then once again thanked them for their concern. After that, Fu Yunruo couldn’t help herself and added: “Actually, I plan to wait until baby to fully recover before resuming this channel. As a result, the baby has been clamoring to go back since yesterday and even urged me to resume livestreaming. I have no choice but to follow his demand.”
[Our youngest child understands us!]
[Wooohooo, my baby is so caring. Mama loves you!]
[Baby is very sensible, but Yunyun cannot neglect him!]
There were too many questions. Fu Yunruo chose the most frequently asked questions and answered: “It’s alright. Uncle Guo is taking care of him…I will pay attention and will definitely take good care of our youngest child…”
Oh, no. Fu Yunruo quickly reacted. She couldn’t just focus on Wenwen, but also had to give enough attention to other ‘children.’ She immediately changed her words: “I will take good care of our family’s children…”
When she mentioned this, the fans’ attention began to shift.
[Yunyun, let me take a look at my sixth child! I haven’t seen the sixth child for days. This big sister really missed it!]
[Yunyun, quickly show us our family’s children. It has been several days. They must have grown a lot, maybe even growing a leaf!]
[My seventh child…]
The screen was immediately filled with a barrage of requests from the fans who asked Fu Yunruo to show their son/daughter/little brother/little sister quickly.
The long digit username also sent a reminder: [Eleventh.]
Fu Yunruo answered one by one: “The children are well. Our eldest child has gotten taller…”
Fu Yunruo pointed the each of the orchids and explained patiently. From the tiny seeds to the current little seedlings, Fu Yunruo had witnessed their growth with her own eyes and was very familiar with their every change. It was her first time to be absent for days. Looking at the growing seeds again, she had the same feeling as the fans.
Although the orchids’ status in her heart was below her son’s, they were still very important to her.
This was Fu Yunruo’s first day resuming her livestream after days of absence. She originally intended to just make a quick announcement and chatted a bit with the remaining fans. However, as more and more viewers came in, Fu Yunruo unknowingly began to talk more. The fans listened with gusto and enthusiastically sent more requests, almost fighting on screen in order to ask for more screen time for their favorite orchid.
Today’s livestream broadcast seemed to make up for six days’ absence at once.
After the broadcast ended, Fu Yunruo took a look at the statistic. Today’s viewers were around 250,000, quite a reduction from her usual daily 300,000 viewers. But this was already much better than her previous assumption. Initially, Fu Yunruo had accepted the possibility that her number of viewers would reduce to the lower four digits. In the worst-case scenario, she would return to the position before she signed the contract.
Unexpectedly, today’s result was much better than she anticipated, and many familiar usernames were still here. It showed that her livestream was not bad, which earned her fans’ loyalty. In order to repay the fans’ favor, Fu Yunruo was determined to deliver even better content.
When Fu Yunruo walked out of the flower room, she saw Wenwen and Uncle Guo playing together. Fu Yunruo quickly walked to the playpen. When Wenwen saw his mother, he quickly threw away the building block in his hand and stood up, wanting to walk toward her. But the child’s legs were still not strong enough. Before he could take a step, his body lost balance. He swayed and immediately fell on his butt. Fortunately, Uncle Guo caught him in time. Otherwise, he would fall on the building blocks scattered around.
Fu Yunruo hurriedly went over and picked up her son. She sat on the playing mat, put the child on her legs, and rubbed his fat soft butt: “Is Baobao alright? It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt…”
Seeing her son’s dumbfounded face, Fu Yunruo almost couldn’t hold her laughter, but she put on a solemn face and gently comforted him: “Mommy’s will blow the pain. Pain, pain, go away~”
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The playpen was covered with a thick and soft blanket. Chi Wen didn’t feel any pain when he fell, but his self-esteem was hit hard. Not only he couldn’t walk, but he also couldn’t even stand steadily. Even though he had practiced so much!
How embarrassing!
“Baobao, don’t be sad. Drink more milk and eat more meals, and you will be able to walk soon!” Fu Yunruo gave hearty encouragement. Her Baobao had just learned to stand up by holding on to things, and he still couldn’t stand alone for long. Once he could stand steadily, he would soon be able to walk.
“Baobao is the best!”
Listening to Fu Yunruo’s cheers, Chi Wen felt better. Anyway, he was still a little baby. It was normal that he couldn’t walk yet.
“Mom!”
“Mommy’s here!”
Baby Wenwen lay in his mother’s arms. His two little feet were dangling in the air, swaying happily.
Uncle Guo saw that Fu Yunruo had finished her livestream. Since Wenwen had his mother to look after him, the old man stood up and went back to work, leaving the mother and son alone.
Chi Wen looked up at Fu Yunruo with his bright round eyes. He wondered how much her channel’s popularity had dropped after such a long, sudden absence.
Was she heartbroken to lose so many fans all of a sudden?
Thinking of this, Chi Wen put his little hand on her cheek, “Live?” How about the livestream? Even if your popularity is dropped, it’s alright. You can gain more later.
Hearing her son’s inquiry, Fu Yunruo smiled happily: “Baobao, our fans haven’t dropped much. Many fans care about us; they all are concerned about Baobao…”
Hearing this, Chi Wen finally was relieved. The next moment, he felt very proud. As expected of his mother!
After enjoying Fu Yunruo’s gentle comfort and coaxing, Chi Wen turned over and crawled to a half-finished elaborate castle made from building blocks. His chubby hand waved in triumph as he said proudly: “Build!”
Fu Yunruo exclaimed in surprise: “Wow, is this Baobao’s castle? It’s beautiful! Baobao is so amazing! So awesome! Baobao is the smartest baby Mommy has ever seen…”
Chi Wen’s face bloomed in a full smile, fully exposing his four little baby teeth. “Pa!” He thoroughly enjoyed his mother’s rainbow fart, but in the end, he also brought out Granpa Guo’s name. Grandpa Guo helped him built the castle, and he wouldn’t take all the credit alone.
Fu Yunruo continued showering her son with barrages of rainbow farts. The small castle was made of building blocks, almost as high as Wenwen’s small body. It was a new toy bought by Uncle Guo for the child. The castle was more than half completed, and its structure could already be seen.
Fully satisfied, Chi Wen began to pick up the scattered building blocks and continued building the castle. Since his mother liked it so much, of course he had to show her the finished one. How could she only see the half-finished product?
...
Fu Yunruo watched her son with a smile, giving necessary helping hands from time to time. Suddenly, an idea struck her mind, and she quickly took out her mobile phone. After picking up an angle that would hide the child’s face, she began to record Wenwen’s video.
To thank the fans for their concern about Wenwen, Fu Yunruo decided to share a short video. Of course, she would make sure that the child’s face remained hidden from the public.
After recording, Fu Yunruo transferred the file to the computer, made a quick edit, and then uploaded it to her channel.
In the video, Wenwen sat with his back to the camera, building a castle seriously. After a while, it seemed that one block’s position was too high for his short body. He tilted his head slightly, as if thinking hard for a solution. Then he crawled away, pushing a small plastic stool nearby. With the help of the plastic stool, he stood up unsteadily while trying to raise up his short chubby hand. From behind, his dangling fat butt looked particularly conspicuous, very cute.
After putting the last building block, the child happily pointed: “Look!”
The video moved to the beautiful small castle he had just built, then it ended.
After the short 1 minute, 38 seconds video was uploaded, the comment area instantly became lively again.
[Ah, ah, ah, aaaah!!!!]
[Lovely little cutie, why are you becoming even cuter?]
[Our! Little! Baby! Is! The! Cutest!]
[My youngest child is so cute! Did baby make the castle for Mama?]
[Our youngest child is so cute and cool, smart and talented!]
[My baby, mmuah! Cheers for our youngest child!]
[Mmuah!]
Requests began to flood the comment area, asking Fu Yunruo to post more videos of the youngest child and also telling her to give an equal share of favors between the twelve ‘children.’ So far, Fu Yunruo had diligently posted various pictures and videos of the eldest to the eleventh child, but rarely shared anything about the youngest. If she left the youngest in the cold, they were going to be angry!
Fu Yunruo was happy and proud. Her Baobao was the world’s cutest baby, and no one could resist his cuteness!
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Fu Yunruo’s days returned to the previous routine. She would broadcast livestreams for three hours a day, and spend an additional hour dealing with backend tasks. The rest of her time was used to take care of Wenwen and the orchids.
Fu Yunruo often received questions via private messages or comments. Some fans wanted to grow orchids on their own, but didn’t know how to choose a suitable species. Some had problems with the orchids they were already growing and consulted her for solutions. There were also fellow orchids lovers who simply wanted to exchange experience in growing orchids.
Panda Live promoted her channel once again, which enabled her to slowly recover the lost popularity and gained even more. Due to her channel’s popularity, many businesses in related industries began to knock on her door, offering endorsement contracts in exchange for advertisements in her channel.
When her popularity first exploded, many businesses also came to her door, such as online flower shops, soil-selling businesses, and gardening stores. But they were all minor brands with untested quality. At least, Uncle Guo didn’t like any of them.
Uncle Guo’s knowledge of the orchid world ran very deep. He was very clear about the in and out of the industry for the past few decades. Therefore, Fu Yunruo didn’t dare to take partnership with the brands he didn’t approve of.
Fu Yunruo declined all the offers, stating that she didn’t do advertisements on her channel. Anyway, she was not short of money, and the most important thing for her was to be responsible to her audience.
Today, another brand came with an endorsement offer. Unlike before, this brand contacted her via the platform, and was also a highly reputable brand. When Fu Yunruo heard the name, she recognized it as the products they often used in this flower garden. She pondered for a moment, and then finally went to ask for Uncle Guo’s opinion.
“Uncle Guo, the person in charge of Gardening Home contacted me with an endorsement offer for their culture medium.”
The soil used in the flower garden was from the Gardening Home brand. Uncle Guo used it for his precious orchids, which indicated that their quality was the best. Fu Yunruo knew that she didn’t have to worry about this issue, but she still wanted to confirm with Uncle Guo.
When Uncle Guo heard Fu Yunruo’s words, he nodded without thinking. “Who is contacting you? Who is in charge of the contract? Tan family’s boy is a seasoned fox. Be careful, or you may get fooled by him.” Uncle Guo thought for a moment. “Forget it. I will have a few words with him first.”
“Eh?” Fu Yunruo was stunned. If she remembered correctly, the owner of the Gardening House was surnamed Tan. Was this Tan family’s boy Uncle Guo mentioned the young owner of the company?
Was this person still the Uncle Guo she knew?
Uncle Guo wore old clothes all day long and busied himself among the flowers and dirty soil every day. If Fu Yunruo didn’t forcefully buy him a few sets of new clothes, he would be content with the same clothes throughout the year.
Unexpectedly, Uncle Guo knew people who seemed to be out of this world.
“What?” Uncle Guo’s expression turned dark as he saw Fu Yunruo’s stunned face. Did she think that he was talking big?
“Nothing.” Fu Yunruo shut her shocked jaw and began to flatter: “Uncle Guo, you are very amazing! I can rest assured if you take care of the matter!”
Uncle Guo coldly snorted, “Wait here.”
Fu Yunruo nodded like a pecking chicken.
Uncle Guo took out his mobile phone, dialed a number, and immediately spoke in a very aggressive tone: “Old man Tan, I heard your company seeks our Yunruo to endorse your product? Let me say, I won’t spare you if you dare to let Yunruo suffer a loss!”
Fu Yunruo: “…” Was it really okay to say that?
It turned out that it was really okay.
It didn’t take long for Uncle Guo to hand her the phone number of the person in charge of negotiating the contract. Fu Yunruo sent the number to her Panda Live assistant, Tiantian. Two hours later, she received a phone call from the excited Tiantian. The contract she received from Gardening Home was actually on the same level as the first-line celebrities. Moreover, the terms were also very loose, which was almost unheard of.
Fu Yunruo hung up the phone and looked at Uncle Guo with admiration.
Uncle Guo was proud, but he tried to put on a nonchalant face: “I was also part of the industry before.”
Fu Yunruo was amazed. What luck did she get to meet such a big hidden boss and become his student!
Had the god finally chose to reward her after a full bout of suffering?
After her excitement calmed down, Fu Yunruo thought again. In fact, various signs showed that Uncle Guo’s identity was not ordinary!
There were so many precious orchids inside the flower shed, each worth millions. And one of his students was a well-known figure in the entertainment industry, so what about his other students? Were they perhaps also elites in the orchid world?
Uncle Guo had been raising orchids for decades, and his professional skills had reached the pinnacle. He was probably a legend in the domestic orchid world, so there was nothing strange for him to know a few bigwigs in related industries.
It was just that Uncle Guo’s usual behavior was too ordinary. He raised orchids by himself in a remote mountainous village, which made Fu Yunruo often thought that he was just an ordinary flower farmer…
What kind of luck was this, to actually learn under such a powerful figure?
Fu Yunruo made up her mind. She must work harder! Although Uncle Guo had never admitted her as his student, everything she knew about orchids was learned from Uncle Guo. She definitely couldn’t shame his name!