70s: Raising a Baby

Three years later.

A group of sweaty teenagers with basketballs in their hands walked out of the school gate.

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

"No." Ah Zhao was wearing a sleeveless jersey, because he sweated too much from playing just now and was exposed to the sun all the time, so he casually lifted a corner to wipe his sweat.

Gu Chen didn't hear the answer he wanted, regretted it, and let out a long sigh.

"When will Aunt Ye come back? It will be almost a month this time."

Ah Zhao frowned, his mother had been gone for a long time this time, and he didn't answer the call yesterday when he was not at home. When he received it today, he had to ask carefully, so as not to cause any trouble.

"Let's go." Arriving at the junction of the two courtyards, Ah Zhao casually waved his hands to the back. Now that his mother is on a business trip, 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 team followed A Zhao and Cheng An back to the government compound.

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

As soon as Ah Zhao left, they didn't have much fun playing at night, and they lost the feeling they had before.

Ah Zhao didn't stop when he heard the shouts from behind, but stretched out his hand above his head, and waved it casually a few times.

Cheng An followed beside him, and naturally saw his hand gesture, "Aren't you going to play tonight?"

Every night after dinner, they would tacitly take the ball and go to the basketball court to play a few games. Sometimes they played against people from their own compound, and sometimes they played mixed games with people from the two compounds.

A Zhao shook his head, he still has something to do today, and there are a few brats at home, the skin is loose after living here for so long, and he just plays when he comes home every day.

At that time, if mother came back suddenly and found that they didn't write or practice, they would all have to suffer.

"Then will you still practice tomorrow morning?" Cheng An asked unnaturally.

Ah Zhao didn't notice, and changed his schoolbag to another arm, "Go, why not?"

Although his father has only been back two or three times in the past three years, he has never missed two letters every month. His father has clearly arranged their training plan. If his father suddenly returns one day and finds them lazy good fruit for them to eat.

When Cheng An heard the answer he wanted, he nodded in satisfaction and stopped talking, but his mood improved a lot.

Ah Zhao didn't notice the changes in the people around him, it was a little strange to hear him ask such a question, and turned to look at him, "You don't practice anymore?"

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

In fact, they have known each other for a long time, but they have never had much contact, except for one time when Ayan ran out of kindergarten, but they just met and nodded to each other.

The real relationship has improved in the past three years. In the past three years, his mother has often traveled on business. His mother is worried that their children will stay at home, so she sends them to Grandpa Zhou’s house every time they travel. Get up slowly, and everyone slowly plays together.

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

Cheng An was taken aback for a moment, but he soon returned to normal. He raised his eyes, and A Hao smiled, "Why, you want to invite me to your house for dinner again?"

Unexpectedly, 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 often at home due to 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 asked Grandpa Zhou for his advice, and often asked him to come for dinner.

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

"Brother, you're back." It was Ayan who spoke, seeing Azhao say hello, he continued to lower his head to eat the cut fruit in front of him.

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

Originally, A Yan was still young, so he could go to primary school one year later, but Niu Niu was old and clinging to A Yan, so Ye Jinzhi simply let the two of them go to primary school together.

"Where are Axu and Ahao?" Azhao found that there were only the two of them in the living room.

Walking up to Ayan, he grabbed Ayan's fork and forked a few mouthfuls of fruit into his mouth.

A Yan was not angry when the fork was taken away, he shook his head, "I don't know, brother A Xu and the others haven't come back yet."

"Have you finished your homework?" Azhao picked up the toys they were playing on the table and glanced at them.

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

Seeing his brother frowning, Ayan didn't dare to continue playing, took Niu Niu's hand and ran upstairs, "Brother, let's do it now." He slipped upstairs without looking back.

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

"Brother." The twin brothers outside the door were stunned, watching the elder brother standing inside and not daring to move.

"Where did you go?" Looking at the skateboards they held in their hands, Ah Zhao frowned, "Come back so late."

"Hey, brother, let's go upstairs first." A Hao saw that A Zhao didn't move, so he pulled A Xu and rushed upstairs.

In the past three years, there was one more person they were most afraid of——Azhao. Since his father was not at home, his elder brother automatically took on the responsibility of being an elder brother, and he was more strict with them than his mother.

And my brother will not be soft-hearted, unlike my mother, who may get away with being coquettish a few times, and will not care about them, but my brother is not soft-hearted at all.

Originally, Ah Zhao went to high school this semester, and school ended later than them, and they could play a little longer when his brother was not back, but who would have thought that they played too much today.

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

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

"My God! I forgot it's Friday."

"If we don't wait a while, we won't go out."

"." When Ah Zhao passed by their room, he heard a voice coming from inside, and couldn't help but snort coldly.

They slept in separate rooms here, after all, Grandpa Zhou's house did not have a bed as big as theirs.

A Zhao shared a room alone, A Xu and A Hao shared a room, and A Yan shared a room with Niu Niu.

"Dong dong, dong dong, come out." Ah Zhao knocked on the door outside, and it was impossible for someone inside to pretend not to hear, so he had to open the door with a heart.

"Brother." Ah Hao smirked at A Zhao.

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

"Such a simple homework should be fine." This is the truth. Even though they don't usually study much, what they have mastered has surpassed the knowledge of their classmates. It's just that their mother doesn't let them skip a grade.

But they don't care, they are happier and have more time to play. Every day when others are studying hard, they are playing hard.

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

"Oh, I see." Ah Hao, who thought he could get away with it, drooped his head.

"It will be miserable when parents come back and find that you haven't written it." Ah Zhao saw that he was reluctant, afraid that he would fool around and write casually, reminded.

After being reminded by Ah Zhao, Ah Hao remembered again that there was a time before when his mother went on a business trip and no one supervised him, and his father came back suddenly.

Yuan Shaochen wanted to give them a surprise when he came back, so he didn't tell them. Who knew that Ye Jinzhi was not at home on a business trip, which caused Yuan Shaochen to be in a bad mood at the time. They squatted and ran in the sun.

He also asked them to double write, and they must be serious and not perfunctory. If he finds out, he will add two more.

For a long time since then, they have not dared to forget. The first thing to do when doing homework every day is to practice calligraphy, but Dad has not come back for a long time, and they forgot again.

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

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

"Brother, we are done, now go to practice the piano."

Just as Ah Zhao wanted to follow, he suddenly turned around. He remembered that he had just invited Cheng An over, and he should be downstairs now.

"Why are you so slow?"

Sure enough, Cheng An was already sitting on the sofa, maybe he was getting impatient after waiting for too long.

"Sorry for the delay."

While the two were talking, there was a knock on the door, "Boom, boom."

"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 in the evening. Mr. told you not to wait for him, and these are brought to you."

"When will Grandpa Zhou come back?" Azhao took a big bag of things, but he didn't know what it was, it was so heavy.

"I don't know yet. These boxes and these bags were delivered by Ms. Ye's company, so I won't go in and take care of myself." Secretary Yan put down her things, gave a few instructions and hurried away .

"By the way," Secretary Yan thought of something again, "Don't miss Miss Ye's call at night."

"Understood, Uncle Yan, please take care of Grandpa Zhou." Ah Zhao was a little worried, as Grandpa Zhou had a cold a while ago.

Because they have lived here frequently in the past three years, they are very aware of Zhou Guocheng's health. It has been a long time since he has worked so late.

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

Ah Zhao couldn't carry so many things by himself, "Come and help me." I don't know what it is.

"Is there anything going to happen recently?" Ah Zhao was a little surprised, he saw Secretary Yan's face was very tired.

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

"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow." There was a series of shouts from the door.

"Hei Sang, what are you biting in your mouth?" Azhao bent down to carry the box on the ground in, and saw that Hei Sang had something in his mouth.

"Ah, ah, ah." Hei Sang spat out the letter at A Zhao's feet, motioning him to read it.

"What, the 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."

"Aren't you going to open it?" 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.

"Dongdong, Dongdong, brother, I'm coming in." Ayan sneaked in with Niu Niu.

"Are you a thief?" Ah Hao was not so polite to his two younger brothers.

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

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

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

"Brother Ah Hao, do you want to go?"

Ah Hao was a little hesitant, he wanted to know what kind of toy it was, but he hadn't finished practicing his calligraphy, so he looked at A Xu next to him.

"I won't go, you can go and see for yourself." Axu has passed 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'll tell my mother at night, hum." He spoke fiercely, but after the next few words, people had already rushed to the door.

"You, brat, let's see how I deal with you then." A Hao looked at the door closed by A Yan, and wanted to stuff the brush in his hand into his mouth angrily.

"You have time to quarrel and finish writing. If you slow down like this, they will pick out all the fun things." Seeing that he was about to throw the pen in anger, Axu reminded.

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

night.

"Dinglingling——" the phone rang.

When the brothers who were guarding the phone heard the voice, they rushed over to be the first to answer it, regardless of the things in their hands.

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

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

"Father?" Ayan was taken aback.

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

Axu, who was at the side, watched them scrambling back and forth, and was speechless for a while, so he directly clicked a button to play it.

"Dad, when are you coming back?" The children quickly realized.

"Dad, we have received your letter."

"Where's mother?" Yuan Shaochen waited for them to finish talking before opening his mouth.

"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."

Because Yuan Shaochen had limited time to make calls, and because he was calling at home at the beginning, 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 here for the time being. Have you obediently listened to grandpa and brother?"

"Azhao, remember to take Niu Niu to review on weekends."

Compared with the time spent on the phone with Yuan Shaochen, the children and Ye Jinzhi had been on the phone for a long time, and if it wasn't for Ye Jinzhi's business, they might not be willing to hang up for a while.