70s: Raising a Baby

"So early!" Ye Jinzhi was still packing her things when she felt someone hugging her from behind.

"I knew you were coming today, so I came back early." Yuan Shaochen buried his head in Ye Jinzhi's neck and kept rubbing it with his head.

"Haha, it's itchy, it's so itchy." Yuan Shaochen's hair was in a bun, which made her itchy and she couldn't help but want to hide away.

How could Yuan Shaochen do what she wished and hold her tightly in her arms without letting go, like a puppy that just wanted to be petted.

Ye Jinzhi patted his head, but he didn't realize that he was smiling sweetly. He said not to touch her, but his body was very honest. He stopped what he was doing and hugged him back.

"I sleep alone every day, and you don't come to accompany me." The tone was like a resentful woman accusing her lover of not coming home.

"Sorry, I'm not here." Ye Jinzhi coaxed him willingly.

"Oh, it's finally here. If you don't come, I will go back to catch you."

The two of them kept this posture unchanged, absorbing each other's warmth, and the air was filled with a sweet smell.

The children's things had been almost packed a long time ago, so they only had to place the things in their schoolbags.

"I'm fine."

All the brothers have recovered early, but the youngest, Ayan, carries the most things and is the slowest to grind.

At the back, several children were in Azhao and Ayan's room. Ye Jinzhi thoughtfully laid a carpet for them on the floor. She had already expected that the children would not make chairs and beds honestly.

"Ayan, are you okay?" They sat on the carpet and looked at Ayan like a little spinning top, unable to stop.

"No, brother, wait for me a little longer." Ayan kept taking out toys from his schoolbag and placing them in a position he was satisfied with.

"How many things did you bring?" Ah Hao was impatient. How could he hold so many things in such a small schoolbag.

Ayan pursed his lips and looked serious. When he heard his brother's question, he shook his head seriously.

"I don't know either."

"You, you don't know that you can-" You were all amused by his words.

Ah Zhao, who was closest to A Yan, took his schoolbag and took a look at it. He really had everything.

"Why did you bring this?" He took out a few hay baubles from his schoolbag. Theirs had long since disappeared, but Ayan still preserved them so well.

Ayan turned his head and saw his brother taking out his little dragonfly. He was so anxious that he didn't care about the things in his hands and wanted to grab them before they were put away.

"Don't move, Xiao Qing will be in pain." Although he was walking very quickly, when he finally arrived in front of A Zhao, A Yan carefully took the little dragonfly from his hand, and kept exhaling from his small mouth, deeply afraid of it. pain.

"You, you call this dragonfly Xiaoqing?" Azhao seemed to have heard some funny question and couldn't help laughing.

"Yes," Ayan didn't think it was anything. When he heard his brother's question, he took out many gadgets from his schoolbag, "There is also this one. His name is Xiao Hei, and his name is Xiao Bai."

Almost every toy he has has a name. He is very precious. If he sees a dirty place, he will use a handkerchief to wipe it clean.

"You play with them every day." Ah Xu suddenly thought of something.

Ayan didn't think there was any problem and nodded generously, "My brother has to go to school, my mother has to go to work, and my uncle also has to work, so Ayan took Heisang to play with them."

Several children were silent. They didn't expect that when they were in school, their brother would be bored at home alone, with no one to play with him.

"Are Ayan happy at home?" Axu asked cautiously.

But when Ayan heard this, he slowly lowered his head, played with the toys, and whispered.

"My brother has to go to school, Ayan can't disturb his schooling."

Ye Jinzhi and Yuan Shaochen, who were just about to ask the children to go downstairs for dinner, heard this conversation as soon as they reached the door, and their eyes suddenly turned red.

She was too busy every day. When she came home, her children would all be home. She never knew what Ayan would do alone when everyone was not at home.

When Ayan was naughty in the past, she thought he was ignorant, but she didn't know that he was too sensible. She knew that everyone was busy and couldn't accompany him.

"I don't know. I thought, I thought he was happy every day." Ye Jinzhi's tears couldn't stop falling. She was really incompetent. She was not a good and responsible mother.

Yuan Shaochen was behind her and naturally heard the conversation, feeling very complicated in his heart.

Holding his arms around his wife's shoulders, the two looked at each other in silence.

"I originally wanted to take him to a nursery, but the environment there was too bad. I thought Ayan would receive a better education at home, so I didn't-" Ye Jinzhi suddenly became speechless. .

She had never felt so powerless. She didn't even know what they wanted, she just wanted them to be sensible.

Several children inside were also silent. They never knew that their brother was like this when they were not at home.

"Then A-yan wants to go to kindergarten?" A-Zhao asked carefully with the corners of his eyes a little red.

Ayan raised his head and asked, "Ayan, do you want to go to school too?" He knew about the kindergarten and his mother took him there, but he didn't like it there.

"Ayan, do you think so? There are many children in the kindergarten. Ayan can make many good friends. There are people there to play with Ayan every day."

Ayan was a little excited after hearing this, but soon hesitated, "Will it be dirty there?"

His mother took him to see it last time, but the children there were unhygienic and sat directly on the floor without wiping their noses, which made him fear the kindergarten.

Several children were stunned. They looked at each other. They didn't know this. They had never been to kindergarten before, and they didn't know it was different from school.

Seeing that his brothers were silent, Ayan turned his head and said dullly: "Ayan is not going, Ayan is at home."

Several children looked at each other at a loss, not knowing what to do.

"Then let's go check it out first. If it's very dirty, we won't go. If Ayan thinks it's fun, then we'll go."

"But, is it okay?" Ayan actually wanted to play with the children outside, but she was a little worried.

"Of course," seeing Ayan agree, Azhao patted his chest and said it was no problem, "I'll tell mom later."

Anyway, their mother promised them not to go to school this week, and there was still plenty of time to take Ayan to see it.

"Okay." Ayan hugged the toy and grinned.

"Okay," the brothers all felt that their younger brother had suffered so many grievances and they had to take good care of him. "Let's help you clean it up together."

Unexpectedly, Ayan refused and hugged the schoolbag tightly, "No, I want to put it away myself."

"Then hurry up."

The sad atmosphere just now gradually faded away as A-yan slowly packed away the toys. They didn't know what A-yan was insisting on.

outside the door.

Ye Jinzhi gathered his emotions and said, "Can you see it?" He pointed at his eyes.

Yuan Shaochen wiped the corners of her eyes with his rough thumb and shook his head: "I can't tell."

"Tuk-tuk——"

Upon hearing the sound, several children turned around in unison and saw their parents standing outside.

"Mother."

"dad."

Only Ayan was still there, continuing his great work of placing toys, concentrating and completely immersed in his own world.

"It's time to eat." Ye Jinzhi reminded.

"Ah, finally it's time to eat."

"Ayan has eaten."

Several people stood up slowly, their feet no longer feeling.

Just as he was about to walk out the door, he found that Ayan was still there with no intention of coming out.

"Oh." I don't know if he heard it or not, Ayan responded and tried his best to move his hands.

Ye Jinzhi had no choice but to go in and pull him out, but he may still remember the conversation just now, and Ye Jinzhi saw that he was a little soft-hearted.

"Let's eat first and then put the food on the table, okay?"

Ayan then came back to his senses and heard what his mother said. , turned around and looked at the door, everyone was waiting for him.

"good."

Ye Jinzhi smiled and picked him up, "Let's go!"

"A grandma is here to help us cook. Let's try to see if grandma's cooking is delicious when we eat later."

"Um."

When he got downstairs, Ye Jinzhi saw that everyone was already seated in the living room, so he waited for them to come down.

"Aunt Li, sit down and eat together."

At the beginning, I was afraid that there would be too many guests, so the table was deliberately made very large. Just like this, it was barely enough for about ten people to sit.

"No, no." Aunt Li waved her hand and refused, "Miss, how can the master serve the servants when he is eating?"

Aunt Li has also stayed at the Ye family for a long time. She is very stubborn about certain rules. No matter how everyone tries to persuade her, she just refuses and even runs to the kitchen in the end.

Ye Jinzhi had no choice but to eat first and continue talking to her in the evening.

"How's it going? Is it delicious?"

In fact, you don’t need to ask. Just by looking at the appearance and taste of these dishes, you can tell that they won’t be any worse.

"It's delicious." Several children stuffed their mouths full and kept nodding.

"How about comparing with Aunt Jiang?"

A few children hesitated, "They are all delicious."

Ye Jinzhi chuckled and did not embarrass them.

After the meal, several children collapsed on the sofa in the living room, holding their bellies.

"Mother."

Ye Jinzhi was discussing with Yuan Shaochen whether they should invite anyone over tomorrow as they had just moved here.

Yuan Shaochen pondered for a while, "No need, we don't have many acquaintances here, so everyone won't care about this."

Ye Jinzhi nodded, she listened to him, but "I brought some gifts, you can take them with you tomorrow and share some."

You always have to say hello. From now on, when we all live together, we will always bump into each other if we look up or down.

Yuan Shaochen nodded, "Okay, I'll bring it with me when I go tomorrow."

The two people were discussing in low voices here when they heard her calling.

"What's wrong?"

Ah Zhao pursed his lips and said, "Do we have a kindergarten here?"

"Let mom take you to the new school tomorrow. The schools here range from kindergarten to high school. They are together with the government compound next door."

Yuan Shaochen asked people about it when he first came here, so that in the future the children would not have to travel far to study.

"It's only two streets away from our place." Those who go to school here are either the second generation of military officers or the second generation of officials.

Ye Jinzhi originally thought that if Yuan Shaochen didn't know, she would take the child to ask tomorrow, but since he had figured it out, it would be much more convenient tomorrow.

"Ayan, can your mother take you to the kindergarten tomorrow?" Ye Jinzhi looked at Ayan, who was playing enthusiastically with the toys in his hands.

When he heard his mother ask him, he raised his head in confusion, not hearing clearly what his mother said.

Ye Jinzhi had no choice but touched his head and repeated it again.

But Ayan was not as happy as he imagined and turned to look at his brother.

"If Ayan likes it, if he doesn't like it we won't go, okay mom?" Azhao quickly added after receiving his brother's signal.

"Of course." Ye Jinzhi agreed readily.

Anyway, Ayan will go to elementary school in another year. If he really doesn't want to go, Ye Jinzhi doesn't want to force him.

Ye Jinzhi now only feels guilty for Ayan. If she hadn't heard the conversation between several children today, she might never have known about it.

"Yes." Seeing that his mother agreed, Ayan nodded happily.

At night, Ye Jinzhi was lying on the bed, flipping through a book in his hand.

"Still not sleeping yet?" Yuan Shaochen returned to the house after taking a shower and saw that it was almost twelve o'clock.

In the evening, the third child and the others had a lot of ideas, and a group of people played down there for a long time. If a few children hadn't been sleepy, they wouldn't have been willing to stop.

But because I was too involved in playing, I missed the time to go out.

There was a curfew here, and after nine o'clock in the evening, they were no longer allowed to come in and out at will. Ye Jinzhi simply let them stay in the guest room downstairs. Anyway, the bed downstairs was big enough, so it was okay for a few people to squeeze in.

Yuan Shaochen turned off the light, leaving only the bedside lamp, climbed onto the bed, hugged Ye Jinzhi, and took away the book in her hand.

Ye Jinzhi also leaned on his shoulder tacitly, "Qin Zheng and the others also live here, should we go say hello?"

"No, we are only familiar with them, not their families, so there is no need."

"Go to sleep." After a day of hard work, Ye Jinzhi was also tired. Not long after he got off the bus, he heard the sound of someone falling asleep.

Yuan Shaochen wanted to do some exercise, but when he turned over he heard the sound of her sleeping. He was helpless, so he had no choice but to hold back the desire in his heart and sleep with his arms around her waist.

Ye Jinzhi was confused when she got up in the morning. She hadn't lived in the army for a long time, and she was woken up by the wake-up call early in the morning.

"Would you like to sleep again?" Yuan Shaochen had just come out of the bathroom, fully dressed, when he saw Ye Jinzhi sitting on the bed. He was in a daze and had not yet reacted.

"Huh?" Yuan Shaochen sat on the bedside and kissed her several times on the face.

"No, you go quickly, don't be late." Ye Jinzhi had not yet recovered.

"Okay, if you still want to sleep, you can sleep a little longer." Several children also got up and waited for him outside.

Ye Jinzhi shook her head. She would have dinner later, but if she fell asleep now, she would be woken up later, so forget it. She couldn't bear to do it again.

"I'll take the kids and leave first."

"Dad." None of the four children were left downstairs. Since Ayan learned the lesson from last time, he doesn't dare to be late every day.

Although I haven't gotten used to it every day, I don't need anyone to remind me anymore. I get up as soon as I sleep.

"Let's go." Yuan Shaochen, with a string of carrot heads behind him, attracted the attention of a group of people as soon as he went out.