Guagua: "Don't tell mom. You can tell me. I won't tell mom."

Zhou Chengning still didn't say anything, "No, Guagua talks the most, if I tell you, I'll be telling mom."

Guagua justified himself, "No! When mom made the Oh-Oh cake for dad, I didn't tell him."

I don’t know why adults always like to keep little secrets.

Zhou Chengning: "Guagua, are you ashamed to say that? If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me. Guagua can't tell mom that dad prepared a gift for mom."

Guagua: "Dad is not prepared."

Zhou Chengning could only change the words, "Mom's birthday is in a month. Dad will remind Guagua then."

Guagua: "Mom, don't you want to make me an Ooh cake, so you don't tell me my birthday?"

Zhou Chengning thought about what his daughter said, "Guagua, our family is better off than many people. There are many children in the village who don't have food to eat. Can you see any child whose belly is rounder than yours?"

Guagua was not convinced, "Tiezhu's belly is rounder than mine!"

Zhou Chengning: "Tiezhu is the fattest boy in the village. He eats all the time. Can you compete with him?"

Guagua: “Huh.”

Zhou Chengning: "Don't hum when you can't respond, it's rude. Anyway, don't mention your birthday to mom. If you want to eat egg cake, ask mom for it on your birthday."

"I won't give it to dad." Gua Gua said and ran out of the inner room.

Zhou Chengning wondered if he had said too much... No, the child had no sympathy for his mother at all. What could he expect when he grew up?

Xu Xiangjuan returned home at two in the afternoon and saw Guagua squatting outside the yard gate pulling weeds. "Why didn't Guagua go play with Miaomiao today?"

Don't you usually run around on your days off? Why are you squatting at the door pulling weeds today?

Guagua's tone lacked its usual liveliness. "I've already looked for Miaomiao and went home."

Xu Xiangjuan: "Why don't you go home? Come into the yard quickly. If someone doesn't know, they will think we kicked the children out to sleep on the street."

"Yeah, yeah." Niu Niu responded.

Niu Niu can already make some simple sounds like “oh”, “ah”, “um” and “ya”, and has been actively speaking recently, although no one can understand what he is saying except his mother Xu Xiangjuan.

Oh, actually Xu Xiangjuan herself didn’t understand, but Niu Niu was interested in talking, so she cooperated and pretended to understand.

Guagua was led back to the yard. Guagua went to his own small room. Xu Xiangjuan went back to the inner room. "Aning, what happened to Guagua?"

"I don't know what's wrong with her." Zhou Chengning had put the letter away and was sitting on the edge of the bed.

Seeing the same expressions on her husband and daughter's faces, Xu Xiangjuan realized that this must be a conflict between father and daughter.

After putting Niu Niu in the crib and giving him a small toy, Xu Xiangjuan sat next to Zhou Chengning and asked, "Did you scold Gua Gua?"

Zhou Chengning: "How dare I scold her?"

Xu Xiangjuan: "How about apologizing to Guagua?"

Zhou Chengning suddenly felt aggrieved. It wasn't his fault, so why should he apologize?

Zhou Chengning didn't reply. Xu Xiangjuan knew that he didn't want to apologize. "It must be Guagua's fault, but think about it, Aning. Guagua is small and has a small mind. As a father, you shouldn't bother with a child."

Zhou Chengning was still stubborn, "Juan, there are some issues of principle that you can't apologize for. Apologizing will only make Guagua get more aggressive."

Xu Xiangjuan: "What's wrong with Guagua? Is it a matter of principle?"

When asked the reason, Zhou Chengning kept silent again.

Aning is much easier to coax than Guagua, so Xu Xiangjuan prefers to let Aning apologize. Besides, Guagua is only four years old after his birthday this year. Apologizing to such a young child is much better than apologizing to a child in junior high or high school, right?

Children forget things quickly, so they won't remember what happened later. Xu Xiangjuan stood in front of Zhou Chengning and said, "Aning, look at me."

"Juan, you don't have to say..." It took Zhou Chengning a while to say the last word.

Xu Xiangjuan closed her eyes and pressed her mouth against Zhou Chengning's. After some time, she left. "Guagua is just a child, but he's not a bad person. As adults, we should be more tolerant."

Zhou Chengning hesitated, "But..."

"But what?" Xu Xiangjuan kissed him again.

Zhou Chengning blushed, "Let's sleep in the same bed at night."

Xu Xiangjuan: "...Okay, let's sleep in the same bed. You apologize to Guagua yourself. I don't care what you two say."

We can't just educate the older ones, the younger ones have to be educated as well. I've told you several times not to make any requests to your father, and you'll definitely do it again this time.

Xu Xiangjuan left the father and daughter to communicate. Zhou Chengning stood up and took only a few steps before turning back, hugging her and kissing her twice, as if to gain strength. Only after he had enough strength did he go outside.

Xu Xiangjuan had a headache, "Gua Gua is in her own little room, don't look for her blindly."

Zhou Chengning went to look for Guagua, and Xu Xiangjuan started talking to Niu Niu, "No one is worry-free, they are all making things difficult for me, including you."

“Ohhhh.”

Xu Xiangjuan: "Niuniu, you understand. Your father and sister don't understand at all."

It was ten minutes later that the father and daughter returned to the inner room. The father held his daughter's hand, and it seemed that they had reconciled.

Guagua: "Mom, I don't want a cake for my birthday."

Xu Xiangjuan vaguely knew that the father and daughter were arguing over the egg cake. "Why don't you want it? Didn't you pester mom a while ago to eat egg cake?"

In fact, you don’t have to wait until your birthday to eat it, you can eat it at any other time. It’s just that Gua Gua thinks that egg cake can only be eaten on birthdays, so she doesn’t bother, she can just relax and save a few eggs.

Guagua: "Except for Tiezhu, no other child in the village has a rounder belly than me."

Xu Xiangjuan: "How can your belly be considered round? All children are like this."

Guagua said frustratedly, "It's just round."

Xu Xiangjuan: "Okay, then mom won't make egg cakes for you, Niu Niu won't make egg cakes either, and Niu Niu doesn't eat egg cakes."

After hearing what his mother said, Gua Gua looked like he had lost all hope in life.

Xu Xiangjuan laughed and said, "Okay, I'll make it for you. You can eat whatever you want when the time comes."

Guagua was happy then, "Thank you, Mom!"

...

"Juan, when are you going to sleep?" Zhou Chengning lay on his side and looked at his lover who had his back to him.

Xu Xiangjuan was playing with Niu Niu. "I will sleep when Niu Niu wants to sleep."

Zhou Chengning asked again, "Is Niu Niu sleepy?"

Very energetic. Even adults are tired when little kids are energetic. "Not sleepy yet."

Niu Niu was indeed not sleepy yet. He was having a great time and laughing from time to time.

Zhou Chengning had no choice but to wait and wait, and even talked to Guagua who was still awake. He talked so much that Guagua fell asleep, but Niu Niu was still playing.

During the day, I went out with my mother to eat vegetarian food. Although I couldn't eat, wasn't it tiring? Shouldn't I go to bed early at night?

"Juan, come in quickly." Zhou Chengning said impatiently after his lover finally put Niu Niu into the crib.

Xu Xiangjuan sighed silently in her heart, turned off the lights and crawled into her man's bed.

Zhou Chengning remembered what happened in the past six months. Not much time had passed yet, and he didn't dare to do anything rash. He just kissed in the dark.

"Juan, help me." Zhou Chengning breathed heavily.

"……good."

She's all ready for her man to give her this... Okay, fine, no problem.

...

As May approached and the weather got warmer, Hao Man put on a long skirt.

There are almost no women wearing skirts walking on the street here, and Guagua has never seen a skirt.

Not long after she bought the little leather shoes, she was already thinking about buying a skirt for her mother.

Zhou Chengning also noticed the skirt. The small leather shoes might be due to his daughter's competitive spirit, but he really wanted to buy the skirt for his lover.

My love has never worn a skirt.

"Dad, I'm going to buy a skirt for you and your mom." Guagua reluctantly gave his three cents to his father.

Sister Xixi said that skirts are cheaper than leather shoes.

Zhou Chengning had thought of a reason. He went to visit his grandfather on his day off. In fact, he went to the city secretly. When he saw his daughter take out the money he had saved for a long time, he said, "Dad has money. You don't have to give it to me. Guagua can study with peace of mind. Don't tell mom about buying a skirt."

I asked Teacher Sun, who was familiar with the city. He said he wanted to buy a skirt for his wife, so Teacher Sun told me the approximate price of the skirt.

Teacher Sun’s wife also has a skirt, but she never wears it outside. She wears it when she sleeps at home. Because of his wife, Teacher Sun knows all about this.

Although I am not very familiar with it, I have no problem helping Zhou Chengning solve his doubts.

Teacher Sun said that she could buy a nice skirt for ten yuan, which made Zhou Chengning feel relieved.

Guagua's face was firm, "No!"

This is a secret between her and her father.

As a child who knows a lot of secrets, Guagua already knows what to say and what not to say.

Early in the morning on a day off.

"Why so early?" Xu Xiangjuan was still asleep.

She woke up as soon as she heard the sound of her partner getting up, and looked at Zhou Chengning who was getting dressed with sleepy eyes.

It was still dark in the inner room, so it must not be late. She had drawn a curtain on the window of their house, not a thick cloth, so she could see what the weather was like outside through the curtain.

"Juan, you continue to sleep. I'll go see grandpa early." Zhou Chengning pretended to be calm as he didn't expect to wake up his lover.

He didn't sleep much the whole night as he was thinking about today's plans. When he woke up in the morning and opened his eyes for a while, he felt the rooster was about to crow, so he immediately got dressed and got up.

Xu Xiangjuan turned over and prepared to go back to sleep. "Well...be careful when you ride your bike on the road, and keep the steamed buns warm for a while before eating."

"I understand." Zhou Chengning felt guilty, but luckily his usually smart lover was also groggy early in the morning and didn't notice anything.

Zhou Chengning was preparing to get on the bus from Hongshan Town today. He went to the kitchen to eat two steamed buns, put six more in his bag, and rode his bicycle to his grandfather's house.

He got off work early yesterday and said hello to his grandfather. He will park his bike here with his grandfather this morning.

It was not yet fully light, and Zhou Chengning rode his bike fast. He arrived in front of his grandfather's thatched cottage, parked his bike quickly, took out three steamed buns from his bag and handed them to his grandfather who had gotten up early and was sweeping the gravel in front of the thatched cottage. "Grandpa, I'm leaving first. Remember to heat up the steamed buns before eating. I'll be back around two or three in the afternoon."

Before Grandpa Zhou could react, in addition to the broom he was holding, there were three steamed buns in his hand.

Grandpa Zhou: "Are you rushing to grab food?"

Zhou Chengning ran with the bag in his arms and didn't hear what his grandfather said.

The departure time of Hongshan Town is the same as that of Dezao Town, both at 7 am, but the population of Hongshan Town is not as large as that of Dezao Town, so the bus is not crowded and there are many empty seats. When Zhou Chengning went there, he just found an empty seat and sat down.

I had 13 yuan in my pocket and was looking forward to buying a skirt for my lover.

Only after getting in the car did Zhou Chengning have time to think quietly. If she had any spare money after buying the skirt, she could buy a box of vanishing cream and give both of them as birthday gifts. She wondered if her lover would be happy.

As he thought about it, Zhou Chengning couldn't help but smile warmly.