MTL - 70s: Raising a Baby-Chapter 195

   Chapter 195

Three years later.

   A group of teenagers, sweating profusely and holding basketballs in their hands, walked out of the school gate.

   "Azhao, are you going back today?" Gu Chen stretched out his hand to hook Ah Zhao's shoulder, but Ah Zhao slapped it down.

   "No." Ah Zhao was wearing a sleeveless jersey. Because he sweated too much just playing, and was exposed to the sun all the time, he casually wiped off a corner of his sweat.

  Gu Chen didn't hear the answer he wanted. He felt a little regretful and sighed.

   "When will Auntie Ye come back, it's almost a month now."

  A Zhao frowned. It's been a long time since his mother left this time. He called back yesterday and he wasn't at home and didn't receive it. When he received it today, he had to ask carefully if there was any trouble.

   "Let's go." When they came to the intersection of the two courtyards, Ah Zhao waved to the back casually. Now their mother is on a business trip and they are staying at Grandpa Zhou's house.

   A group of people tacitly divided into two teams, one team followed Gu Chen back to the military compound, and the other followed Ah Zhao and Cheng An back to the government compound.

   Suddenly remembered something, Gu Chen stopped and shouted at Ah Zhao's back, "Do you want to play at night?"

  As soon as Ah Zhao left, they didn't have much fun playing ball at night, and they didn't feel like they used to.

  A Zhao didn't stop when she heard the shouts behind her, instead she stretched out a hand and raised it above her head, waving it a few times at will.

  Cheng An followed, and naturally he saw his gesture, "Don't play tonight?"

   After having dinner every night, they would tacitly take the ball and go to the basketball court to play a few games, sometimes with people from their own compound, and sometimes with a mix of people from the two compounds.

  A Zhao shook his head, he still has something to do today, and there are a few stinky boys in the family. After living here for so long, his skin has loosened, and every day he comes home he just plays.

   If mom comes back suddenly and finds that they haven’t written or practiced the qin, they will all suffer.

   "Then are you still practicing tomorrow morning?" Cheng An asked unnaturally.

  A Zhao didn't notice it, so he changed his schoolbag to the back of his arm, "Go, why don't you go?"

Although his dad has only come back two or three times in the past three years, he has never lost two letters a month. His dad has arranged their training plan clearly. If one day his dad comes back suddenly and finds that they are lazy, he doesn't. good fruit for them to eat.

   Cheng An heard the answer he wanted, nodded with satisfaction, and stopped talking, but his mood was much better.

  Azhao didn't notice the change in the people beside him. It was a little strange to hear him ask that. He turned to look at him, "Are you not practicing anymore?"

   "Practice, why not practice." Cheng An raised his head.

   They've known each other for a long time, but they haven't gotten to know each other very much, except once Ayan ran out of kindergarten, but they just met each other and nodded.

The real relationship has only gotten better in the past three years. In the past three years, my mother often traveled on business. She didn't worry about their children staying at home, so she sent them to Grandpa Zhou's house every time on business trips. Slowly, everyone started to play together slowly.

   "Let's go first, is there anyone in your family?" A Zhao suddenly remembered.

  Cheng An was stunned for a moment, but soon returned to normal, raised his eyes, and A Hao had a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Why, you want to invite me to your house for dinner again?"

   Who knew that Ah Zhao nodded and glanced at him, "Are you coming?"

   He also heard from Grandpa Zhou that he knew that Cheng An's parents were not at home very much because of the nature of their work, and he usually stayed at home alone with a nanny to take care of his life.

  Since then, Ah Zhao has asked Grandpa Zhou for his opinion, and he has often asked him to come to dinner.

   "Wait a minute, go back to take a bath." Cheng An was not polite, anyway, he often went there.

   "Brother, you're back." It was A Yan who spoke, and when he saw A Zhao greeted him, he continued to bow his head and eat the cut fruit in front of him.

   "Brother Ah Zhao." Niu Niu was also sitting beside him.

   Originally like Ayan, he was still young, so he could go to primary school a year later, but Niuniu was old and clinging to Ayan again, so Ye Jinzhi simply let them both go to primary school together.

   "Where are Ah Xu and Ah Hao?" Ah Zhao found that there were only the two of them in the living room.

   went to Ayan's side, grabbed Ayan's fork and forked a few mouthfuls of fruit into his mouth.

  Ayan didn't get angry when his fork was taken away, he shook his head, "I don't know, brother Axu they haven't come back yet."

   "Have you done your homework?" Ah Zhao picked up the toys they were playing with on the table and glanced at them.

Ayan originally thought that he could escape. Anyway, his mother was not at home, and no one cared about them. He worked hard in the first few days of this month, and then slack off. If Niuniu kept urging him, he might not even do his homework. .

   Seeing his brother frowning, Ayan didn't dare to play any more, he took Niuniu's hand and ran upstairs, "Brother, let's do it now." He slipped upstairs without looking back.

  A Zhao was almost amused by his actions. He was thinking of going upstairs to take a shower and change his clothes when he heard movement at the door.

   "Brother." The twin brother outside the door was stunned, looking at the older brother standing inside and didn't dare to move.

   "Where did you go?" Looking at the skateboards they were holding, Ah Zhao frowned, "Come back so late."

   "Hey, brother, let's go upstairs first." Seeing that A Zhao didn't move, Ah Hao dragged A Xu and rushed upstairs.

   In the past three years, there is one more person they are most afraid of - Ah Zhao, since my father is not at home, my elder brother has automatically assumed the responsibility of being an elder brother, taking care of them more strictly than my mother.

   And my brother is not soft-hearted. Unlike my mother, they may be fooled by acting like a spoiled child.

   Originally, Ah Zhao went to high school this semester, and they ended school later than them. They could still play a while longer when brother didn't come back, but who would have thought that they had overplayed today.

   "It's all your fault. If my brother really wants to beat us later, it will be miserable."

   "Who knew my brother came back so early today, I thought he would come back at the same time as before."

   "Heaven! I forgot it's Friday."

   "Let's not go out later."

  "." When Ah Zhao passed by their room, he heard the sound from inside and couldn't help snorting coldly.

   They slept in separate rooms here. After all, Grandpa Zhou's house didn't have a bed as big as theirs.

  A Zhao shared a room, A Xu and A Hao shared a room, and A Yan and Niuniu shared a room.

   "Dong dong, dong dong, come out." Ah Zhao knocked on the door outside, and it was impossible to pretend that he couldn't even hear himself inside, so he had to open the door with a heart.

   "Brother." Ah Hao smirked at Ah Zhao.

  A Zhao glanced at it, full of disgust, "Have you done your homework?"

   "Such a simple homework is over." This is the truth, even though they don't usually study much, but they have already mastered more than their classmates' knowledge, but their mother doesn't let them skip grades.

   But they don't care, they are happier, play more time, and play hard every day when others are studying hard.

   "Then go and practice calligraphy, and fill in what you didn't write before, and I'll check it later." Ah Zhao felt that he was both a father and a mother, obviously it was not like this before, and I don't know when it started.

   "Oh, I see." At first, he thought he could get through, but Ah Hao lowered his head.

   "When your parents come back and find out that you didn't write it, it will be miserable." Ah Zhao saw that he was reluctant, and reminded him that he would fool around and write a few times.

   After being reminded by Ah Zhao, Ah Hao remembered it again. There was a time when my mother was on a business trip without supervision, and my father came back suddenly.

Yuan Shaochen came back and wanted to give them a surprise, so he didn't tell them, who knew that Ye Jinzhi was not at home on a business trip at the time, which caused Yuan Shaochen to be in a bad mood at the time, and several children were caught by him, not only was he punished They squat and run under the sun.

   also asked them to double-write, and they had to be serious and not perfunctory, and if he found out, he would add two more.

   They didn't dare to forget it for a long time. The first thing to do every day is to practice calligraphy, but Dad didn't come back for a long time, and they forgot again.

   "Brother, let's go now." The two rushed out directly, they owed a lot.

   As soon as Ah Zhao walked to the door of Ah Yan and the others, he saw two people coming out.

   "Brother, we're done, let's practice the piano now."

  A Zhao just wanted to follow him when he suddenly turned around. He remembered that he had just invited Cheng An over and should be downstairs now.

   "Why are you so slow."

   Sure enough, Cheng An was already sitting on the sofa, maybe he had waited too long, and he was already a little impatient.

   "Sorry for the delay."

   While the two were talking, there was a knock at the door, "Dong dong, dong dong."

   "Uncle Yan." Secretary Yan stood at the door, holding a lot of things in his hand, and several oversized cardboard boxes at his feet.

   "Azhao, Mr. Zhou won't come back for dinner if he has something to do at night. Mr. told you not to wait for him, and these are for you."

   "When will Grandpa Zhou come back?" Ah Zhao took a large bag of things, but she didn't know what it was, it was so heavy.

"I don't know yet. These boxes and bags were sent by Miss Ye's company. I won't go in. Take care of myself." Secretary Yan put down his things, and left in a hurry after a few words. .

   "That's right," Secretary Yan thought again, "don't miss the call from Miss Ye at night."

   "Got it, Uncle Yan, please take care of Grandpa Zhou." A Zhao was a little worried, Grandpa Zhou had a cold some time ago.

  Because they have come to live frequently in the past three years, they are very aware of Zhou Guocheng's body. He has not worked so late for a long time.

   "Don't worry, I will take good care of Mr. Yan." Secretary Yan was in a hurry.

  A Zhao alone can't take so many things, "Come and help." I don't know what it is.

   "Is something going to happen recently?" Ah Zhao was a little strange, he looked at Secretary Yan's tired face.

   "I don't know." Cheng An shook his head. There was no one in his house and he didn't know anything.

   "Ow, ooh, ooh." A series of shouts came from the door.

   "Heisang, what are you biting in your mouth?" Ah Zhao bent over and carried the box on the ground in, and saw that Heisang was holding something in his mouth.

   "Ow, ooh." Heisang spat the letter at Ah Zhao's feet, motioning him to read it.

   "What, an envelope?" Cheng An carried the box over and glanced at it.

   When Ah Zhao heard the word "envelope", he immediately put down the box in his hand and picked up the envelope on the ground, "It should be a letter from my dad."

   "Don't open it and take a look?" Cheng An saw that he just picked it up and looked at it, without any intention of opening it.

   "I'll watch it later." I'll watch it when my mother calls in the evening, and they watch it together.

  Upstairs.

   "Dong dong, dong dong, brother, I'm in." Ayan dragged Niuniu and sneaked in.

   "You're a thief?" Ah Hao was less polite towards his two younger brothers.

  Fortunately, they were all used to Ah Hao's tone and didn't mind, they turned around and quietly closed the door.

   "I saw Uncle Yan brought a lot of things. Shall we go down and have a look?"

   "No." Ah Xu didn't even raise his head, he still had so many words to practice, so he didn't have time.

   "Brother Hao, do you want to go?"

   Ah Hao hesitated a little, he wanted to know what kind of toy it was, but he had not finished practicing his handwriting, so he looked at Ah Xu next to him.

   "I'm not going, you can go see it yourself." Axu has already surpassed him by two, he has to hurry up, he doesn't want to be here at night.

   "If you don't go down, you won't go down. Let's go down and tell you not to practice your calligraphy well. You deserve it. I will tell my mother at night, hum." His mouth was very strong, but the next few words had already run to the door.

   "You, stinky boy, let's see how I will deal with you." Ah Hao looked at the door closed by Ah Yan and wanted to put the brush in his hand into his mouth.

   "You have time to quarrel and finish writing all the words. If you slow down like this, they will take away all the fun stuff." Axu reminded him when he was so angry that he wanted to throw the pen.

   "Everything is shared by one person." Ah Hao didn't believe it, but he silently took the pen back and lowered his head to write.

night.

   "ding bell bell-" the phone rang.

   When the brothers who were standing beside the phone heard the voice, they didn't care about what they were holding, and rushed over to be the first to answer.

   "Hey, Mom, I miss you so much." A Yan, who was closest to the phone, grabbed it first, and as soon as he picked up the phone, he confessed to Ye Jinzhi.

   "Cough, it's me." A deep, deep voice came from the other end of the phone.

   "Dad?" A Yan was stunned.

   "What do you mean, it's not from mom?" Hao grabbed the phone, "Dad."

   next to Axu watched them scramble, was speechless for a while, just clicked a button and released it.

   "Dad, when are you coming back?" Several children responded quickly.

   "Dad, we got your letter."

   "Where's Mom?" Yuan Shaochen waited for them to finish before speaking.

   "Mom is on a business trip, it's been a long time."

   "Where's Grandpa Zhou?"

   "Grandpa Zhou hasn't come back yet."

  “.”

   "Goodbye Dad."

   Yuan Shaochen had limited time to make calls, and he had just started calling from the family, so he hung up after chatting with a few children.

   But not long after hanging up, Ye Jinzhi's call came.

   "Mom, Dad just called."

   "Mom when will you come back, I miss you so much."

   "I'm sorry that mom can't come back for the time being. Have you listened to grandpa and brother?"

   "Azhao, remember to take Niuniu to review it on the weekend."

  Compared with the time spent on the phone with the Yuan Shaochen, several children had been on the phone with Ye Jinzhi for a long time.

   (end of this chapter)