Christina took her son and several others including Crystal to a sizeable square. As Christmas was approaching, all the major businesses decorated their shops for the celebration of great festivity. The flickering lights on the Santa Claus statue and Christmas trees lightened a festive atmosphere.
The children were very interested in these shiny and colorful wrapped gifts. Small was no longer pining for hugs and threw himself into the piles of gifts.
He grinned and grabbed a little stuffed toy shark with great excitement and cheers. Holding it, he turned to the group of people and shouted, "Mommy!" He then picked up an inflatable tumbler, raised it high above his head, and turned around once again, "Mommy!"
Everyone laughed. "Small calls everything mommy."
Christina was resigned. "He just wants to get everything."
Geoffrey hastened forward to play with Small and got a few carts to help him load the gifts he had chosen. Geoffrey was determined to realize Small's dream of hoarding treasures.
Christina held her eldest son. Big would rather lie in her arms than participate Small and Geoffrey in their fun. She had to take a strap and carry her son on her chest. Fortunately, she had a vigorous constitution and wouldn't be tired after a long harrowing trek.
Big didn't know how to act in a lovable and coy manner, but he really wanted to.
He turned around and raised his head at his mother with big black eyes blinking like grapes. Big's clear eyes were sparkling, which implied that he was very happy.
It was Christina's weird temper that, as Small was a cute little troublemaker and spoiled by everyone, she would never indulge him but scold him instead if need be. On the contrary, Big was always a quite boy, which softened her heart.
Christina headed towards the men's clothing area. May turned back and said to Geoffrey and Small, "Is it okay to just leave them playing in the child's area? What about bringing them over?"
"Let him play there. If he follows but turns out to be dissatisfied, he'll cry."
Waving her hand, Christina felt very assured and confident in them. She carefully scanned and selected a few sets of men's clothes, but neither seemed to look very outstanding. She pinched Big's fine and tender face and said to herself, "If I buy your father a Santa Claus suit, will he wear it or not?"
Crystal also wholeheartedly chose clothes for her man.
May was a little more sensible and always felt that it wasn't good to leave the two children there. From time to time she turned around to make sure they were there. "Christina, are you really at ease to just leave your youngest son behind, and carry the other in your arms? It isn't quite good for you to be biased like this..."
Christina raised her eyebrows. "It's not that I'm biased. He likes to play there. If you force him away, he will definitely burst out crying. You have never seen how difficult to deal with Small if he cries."
She rushed straight to the clothing store and bought a three-meter-tall puppet costume that was designed to be an inflatable panda.
"This panda suit is Patrick's Christmas present," she was very satisfied with her choice.
Crystal and May were reluctant to comment. It was unimaginable for Patrick to dress in a panda puppet suit.
Christina also didn't have the nerve to forget the old man at home. She strolled all the way through several floors and visited a few high-end tea shops. However, it turned out that the quality of the tea was just so-so. Thinking that she would be given cold shoulder if the tea was bad, she simply bought him a jade toad to decorate his table.
"Oh, isn't it weird to send him a jade toad? Why don't you just buy that tea brick?"
"Old Master is hard to satisfy. The tea isn't good enough. He will blame me for being tasteless."
It was fine when she and Patrick got married at the beginning. Senior Mr. Hopkins didn't mind anything back then. Now, as they became more familiar with each other, he was pickier than before.
"But Patrick is starting to consider gifts less important now."
People bought a lot of things, which were packed in bags big or small. Christina even purchased a very strange pajama as well as a scary white headgear. She said it was also for Patrick.
"Are we buying too many?" May asked. She was the most restrained person and most of her shopping was for Henry.
Crystal also bought many household necessities for daily use, together with some holiday gifts. As for Christina, she didn't even know how many things she had obtained, so she asked the shopping center to send everything back to the Hopkins family residence once and for all.
After shopping for three hours, Christina felt her lower limbs sore and exhausted. She ordered some dishes in a restaurant serving local cuisine, at the same time was going to bring Geoffrey and Small over for a meal.
However, a small figure hurriedly pushed open the glass door of the restaurant. It was Geoffrey who trotted towards them with an anxious and helpless expression. His eyes were still full of tears as if he was about to cry.
Even Geoffrey was crying. What had happened?
"Aunt, Aunt Hopkins!" Geoffrey shouted in a panicked voice from afar.
Crystal and May immediately rose up to their feet. Christina, on the other hand, leisurely unburdened Big off her chest and said slowly, "Calm down. What's going on?"
"Aunt Hopkins, Small was taken away by a fat woman, a human trafficker!" Geoffrey was so agitated in tears from the corner of her eyes.
"Ah!"
This made May also so scared that she stammered nervously. "How, how could this be happening in broad daylight! These human traffickers are too rampant. Which direction, where did they go?"
Geoffrey held and pulled Christina's hand tightly, trying to take her to chase after Small.
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