kingnovel Chapter 1552 Playing Baseball with a Beautiful Woman
Chapter 1552 Playing Baseball with a Beautiful Woman
“Okay, that’s more like a boy. Our goal, father and son, is that star in the sky.” As he spoke, Hiroshi pointed to the sky. Mingxu had just returned with Xiaobai and looked at the sky: “Now, it’s already dawn, and there are no stars left.”
"..." Hiroshi's expression immediately turned somewhat awkward.
“Yeah, Dad, it’s daytime!” Shin-chan chimed in.
Hiroshi was somewhat embarrassed and angry: "Boys shouldn't be so picky!"
He then coughed twice and looked at Shin-chan: "Okay. Keep practicing, Shin-chan!"
"Okay! Watch me!" Shin-chan then picked up the ball again and started throwing it back and forth with Hiroshi. The two ran around the yard, doing all sorts of exercises. Mingxu quickly washed up, fed Shiro, and then looked at Misae with some confusion, asking, "Mom, what's going on with them?"
As Misae hung the dried quilt on the line, she sighed helplessly: "What else could it be? Your dad has a baseball game with a client tomorrow, and he's cramming at the last minute. I don't know what got into him. Usually, getting him to get up five minutes earlier is like a death sentence, but today he was up at 5:30 and making a fuss." She stood on tiptoe to straighten the quilt, and sunlight shone through the sparse clouds onto the quilt, making tiny dust particles dance in the beams of light.
A muffled thud suddenly came from the yard, followed by Shin-chan's exaggerated scream. Mingxu peeked out and saw Shin-chan lying on his back on the grass, his baseball glove tossed aside, and Hiroshi frantically trying to pull him up.
I told you to aim before you throw! How did you manage to hit Dad's knee like that?! Hiroshi rubbed his leg, the veins on his forehead bulging.
Shin-chan sat up, rubbing the back of his head, and suddenly pointed at Hiroshi's feet, giggling: "Dad, your socks are on backwards!" Hiroshi looked down and saw that the patterns on the two socks were indeed crooked and facing different directions. His face turned red, and he hurriedly turned away to adjust the socks.
Little White ran over with the frisbee Mingxu had thrown it in its mouth, placed the frisbee at Mingxu's feet, and wagged its tail like a little motor. Mingxu bent down and stroked its fluffy head. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Little Sunflower had climbed onto the wooden platform at some point, and was standing up while gripping the glass door, babbling and stretching its chubby little hands into the yard.
"Xiao Kui, be careful!" Mingxu quickly ran over to help his sister.
Misae came out of the bathroom carrying a basin of freshly washed clothes and slammed it down on the floor. "Instead of messing around here, you should help me hang up the clothes. The neighbor lady is coming to borrow some soy sauce later. If she sees you two acting like this, she'll start gossiping behind my back."
Hiroshi immediately stood at attention, like a schoolboy who had done something wrong: "Yes, ma'am!"
He reached for the clothes hanger in Misae's hand, but she slapped his hand away: "Forget it, you should control your son! Besides, the yard is only so big! Don't exercise here!"
However, as soon as she finished speaking, Shin-chan threw a ball that hit Hiroshi's third leg. Hiroshi's face turned red, and he rolled on the ground clutching his leg.
Seeing Hiroshi's expression, Misae hurried over to check on him, complaining as she looked, "Idiots! You two really shouldn't be practicing in such a small place!"
"Please don't say that~" Hiroshi finally calmed down, and after making sure that everything was alright, he waved his hand at Misae: "Sigh~ I still can't practice properly with Shin-chan."
As he pondered, Hiroshi suddenly thought of a place and took his family to Kasukabe Stadium, where there was a special place to play baseball.
Misae and the others had come here before.
Seeing Hiroshi hit the baseball, Shin-chan clapped and cheered, "Wow~ Daddy's amazing!"
Seeing Hiroshi showing off, Misae smiled and looked at the two little ones: "Asahi, Shin, do you want to go cheer for Daddy tomorrow?"
"Huh? Good luck?" Hiroshi was taken aback, and his hands stopped moving.
"Okay~ I want to go, I want to go!" Xiaoxin nodded decisively, and Mingxu also nodded. Anyway, it was the weekend, so it didn't matter.
Misae looked at Hiroshi and said with a smile, "You should let the kids see you in the limelight once in a while."
"Ah, no need, that would be too awkward. There's no need to go refuel." Hiroshi shook his head repeatedly, seemingly not wanting them to go.
"What does it have to do with anything?" Misae looked at Hiroshi, a hint of doubt in her eyes.
"No need, really no need."
"Don't mention it."
"You're practicing so hard, of course you should keep it up, right?"
Looking at his family members' serious expressions, Hiroshi's lips twitched: "You really want to come?"
"Okay." They nodded decisively. Hiroshi gave them a heads-up beforehand: "Then, once you get there, no matter what you see, don't say anything."
"Mmm." They nodded again. Mingxu raised an eyebrow. Could it be that this was another business event?
However, everything was quickly found out the very next day.
Upon arriving at the scene, Misae frowned as she looked at Hiroshi and his opponents.
He rolled his eyes at the person opposite him who was introducing himself.
"Thank you all for inviting our Princess Cosmetics Baseball Club to participate in this competition. Thank you."
"Thank you." Hearing the voices of the group of girls opposite them, they immediately understood why Hiroshi was practicing so excitedly.
"No wonder you're so enthusiastic." Misae looked at Hiroshi, who also became a little embarrassed.
Mingxu shrugged. "I'm used to it."
The other party continued, "Our team is called the Beautiful Princess Team. We look forward to your guidance."
"Oh~ her name is Beautiful Princess~" Shin-chan looked excited, while Mingxu grabbed his collar and pulled him back, feeling utterly embarrassed. He also took the little sunflower from Misae's hands.
Misae glared at Hiroshi, annoyed. "I'm asking you! What's going on here? Why are they all young women?!"
"Ah! Well, they're a team made up of customers!" Hiroshi quickly explained.
"Stop lying to me!" Misae grabbed Hiroshi in an annoyed tone, showing him no mercy.
Kawaguchi quickly came over to explain, "Sister-in-law! I really didn't lie to you, their company is all female sales representatives!"
"Oh? Really? Then I misunderstood you." When Misae heard Kawaguchi say that and saw the people behind her nodding, she immediately smoothed out the wrinkles on Hiroshi's clothes and smiled somewhat awkwardly.
Hiroshi was also helpless; his wife was far too anxious.
Shin-chan leaned closer again: "Why is Dad competing with the girls? Why are you practicing so diligently?"
"That's right! If you're going to compete against girls, why practice so diligently? Honey~" Misae was provoked by Shin-chan again, and glared at Hiroshi with hostility.
"Uh, this, this..." Hiroshi stammered.
“Mom, that’s enough. If you keep doing this, Dad will lose face too. Besides the minister, everyone behind him is his subordinate.” Mingxu pulled Meiya aside and whispered.
"But... well, alright, you play well, we'll go over there and cheer you on." With that, Misae stood up somewhat helplessly, preparing to go back and settle the score with Hiroshi.
As for Shin-chan, after Mingxu punched him, Shin-chan quietly squatted down, drawing circles on the ground with his finger, looking pitiful.
Minister Hiroshi stood at the front, looking at his subordinates, and gave a pre-match pep talk: "Alright, everyone, let's do our best! We must win this match and show everyone at Princess Cosmetics our strength!"
Although our opponents are all girls, we can't let our guard down. Let's put in the same effort we put into working overtime to finish projects and make this friendly match our home ground! Kawaguchi, you're in charge of guarding first base. Don't get distracted and fall into the mud like you did during the last team building session.
Sato, you need to pick up your pitching speed; don't let it be so limp, like you haven't eaten.
And Tanaka, when you catch the ball, make sure you're aiming carefully before you strike, don't let it slip past and hit your own foot. Did everyone understand? Our only goal today is to win the game, and incidentally… ahem, to showcase our company's spirit!
"Alright! Let's do our best!" they said as they went to the field to do warm-up exercises.
Guangzhi nodded in agreement with the minister and went to the field as well. The minister sat there and began to give instructions, while Mingxu and the others sat next to the minister and watched the crowd on the field.
"Dad! Do your best!" Shin-chan shouted to Hiroshi.