An An tilted her head and argued with her mother: "Brother Huzi hit the kids, so An An hit him. He is a bully. An An is helping the kids."

Sheng An Ning smiled and pinched An An's little face: "The children are still young now. They snatch toys and bully classmates. They are naughty, but not necessarily bad kids. After the aunts educate them, they will correct themselves."

An An is quite talkative. She didn't really understand what her mother said. She just expressed her own opinions: "It's wrong to snatch things. An An is helping the children. Daddy said it's okay to help children. Daddy said that we have to be brave to protect mom and our home. Daddy also said that when daddy is not at home, we have to protect mom. So, An An is very brave and not afraid of them."

Sheng An Ning was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Zhou Shixun to teach these things to little kids. An An immediately led her off topic: "What else did Dad say?"

An An shook his little head and thought about it, then turned to look at his two brothers.

Momo stood up and added, "Dad said that we can't let mom work too hard. We have to listen to mom, not make her angry, and protect her. We can't let bad people bully her. Zhouzhou and I are men. We have to learn skills and protect mom and sister when the time comes."

Sheng Anning smiled and touched Mo Mo's little face: "You all did a great job."

While I was moved, I also missed Zhou Shixun. He had been gone for three months, and apart from a phone call I managed to make when I first arrived, he had only sent me two letters.

An An led the topic off track, and Sheng An Ning was distracted and forgot what they were talking about.

Zhou Hongyun was listening at the side, and she didn't think An An did anything wrong. Seeing Sheng An Ning distracted, she quickly shouted for dinner: "Hurry up and wash your hands and eat. Tonight we will have wontons and fried cakes, which are An An's favorite."

An An happily took Zhou Hongyun's hand and went to wash hands.

After this incident, Sheng An Ning was too busy to go to the nursery to pick up the child, so she did not meet Hu Zi's mother.

Once we get busy, time flies by so fast that it’s already the end of May.

Mu Xiaowan had nothing to do, so she discussed with Sheng Anning about taking the children to the park and the amusement park on Children's Day, and taking them to ride bumper cars.

Sheng An Ning had no objection. She had been very busy recently. Sometimes when she came back from the laboratory, the children were all asleep. When she left in the morning, she would just hug the children in a hurry.

Neither of them spent enough time with the children: "Okay, we'll go to the amusement park first, and then we can go to the zoo."

Mu Xiaowan was very happy: "It's a deal then. I'll pay for everything, you can't compete with me. After the fun, I'll treat them to a Western meal."

Sheng An Ning didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "They are so young, why go to a western restaurant? It's a waste of money."

There are only a few western-style restaurants in Beijing, and they are only visited by people of status and some second-generation rich kids. Ordinary people can't afford them. Sheng Anning has never been there. She thinks that the food in western-style restaurants nowadays must be local, after all, the import business is not that developed yet.

The ingredients are all local, so the taste is not that authentic.

She had no interest anymore.

Mu Xiaowan didn't care: "I have money, we just want to go and have some fun. I've eaten so many delicious foods, but I've never eaten Western food. I was afraid of showing my shyness before. I heard that Western food has many rules. What if I get embarrassed? I recently read a novel that talked about some rules for eating Western food. I took a look and it's not that difficult. It's just a knife in the right hand and a fork in the left hand. Just cut the meat like we do surgery. Don't make any noise when cutting the meat."

"These are all minor issues. Let's just say it's settled. We'll go together when the time comes."

Sheng An Ning couldn't argue with her, so she could only nod: "Okay, we'll go together then."

The two had a good discussion and agreed to keep it a secret from the three little ones and give them a surprise when the time comes, but the plan was far slower than the changes.

On the morning of June 1st, Sheng Anning and Mu Xiaowan changed the three children into new clothes, and told them mysteriously that they were going to take them to a good place.

An An was wearing a pink dress, with two pigtails on her head and pink bows tied on them. She would occasionally reach out and touch the bows on her pigtails: "Mom, mom, where are we going? Does An An's dress look good?"

Sheng An Ning smiled and nodded: "It looks good, our An An is as beautiful as a little princess. Let's go now, okay?"

As soon as he stood up, he heard someone knocking on the door, and Zhou Hongyun hurried out to see.

Then, Zhou Hongyun shouted in surprise: "An Ning, come and see who is here. Oh, it's really a distinguished guest. No wonder the magpie was chirping so early in the morning."

Sheng An Ning listened to Zhou Hongyun's exaggerated and excited tone, and came out of the house with some curiosity. She saw Sheng Cheng'an carrying large and small bags of things in his hands, looking at Sheng An Ning with a smile, looking exhausted.

"elder brother?"

Sheng An Ning still couldn't believe it and shouted: "You are really back? Didn't you say June?"

She didn't even believe that Sheng Chengan would come back in June. Now seeing him standing in front of her, she felt a bit like she was dreaming.

Sheng Chengan put down her things and clapped her hands at the three little ones behind her: "Three little darlings, do you still remember your uncle? Come, let your uncle hug you."

As for his sister who was full of surprise and doubt, he didn't have time to deal with her.

The three little guys were still a little overwhelmed. Sheng Chengan had been gone for more than a year, so how could they remember that they had such an uncle?

They stared at Sheng Chengan with eyes wide open and expressions of surprise.

Sheng Chengan walked around Sheng Anning, squatted over and hugged the three children in his arms, laughing: "Why, you don't even recognize your uncle? Didn't mom tell you that you have an uncle?"

Maybe it was because of their blood relationship, the three children were not opposed to being held by him. An An even blinked his eyes and asked curiously, "Is it Uncle Duoduo?"

Sheng Chengan sighed and said, "That's your little uncle, I'm your big uncle. If you say you miss your uncle, your uncle has brought you a lot of gifts."

Sheng An Ning turned around speechlessly, watching Sheng Cheng'an talking to the three children childishly. She sighed and patted Sheng Cheng'an on the shoulder: "What do you mean? Do you still have me as your sister in your eyes? You just greeted the three children and ignored me?"

Sheng Chengan didn't look up: "I just took a look, isn't he fine? He even looks fatter, it seems that Zhou's food is good."

After saying that, he went to happily tease the three children.

Sheng An Ning didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She went over and twisted Sheng Cheng'an's ear: "When did you come back? Where's Pei Nuo? Why didn't I see Pei Nuo? If you ignore me again, I will really try hard..."