After locking her car, Chen Hong walked to the first-grade area to wait. The parents who arrived early greeted her.

"Yu Yang's mom, why are you picking him up again today? Where's Yu Yang's dad?"

"Yu Yang's mom, why did you drive to pick up the child today? Where's Yang Yang's dad?"

Chen Hong: Why do you all keep an eye on Yu Yang's father?

"He went back to the army. He has few holidays and can't stay at home for more than a few days."

Unexpectedly, after only twenty-odd days of picking up the children, everyone already knew him.

The two old ladies laughed heartily: "It's all because the young man is so handsome, so alluring."

Not only do young women and wives love to look at him, but we older ladies also enjoy chatting with him.

Besides, Xiao Zhou is a soldier. Standing on our side, his posture is ramrod straight, he exudes such spirit and energy that even the female teachers turned to look at him.

"Hahaha," the older parents, both men and women, laughed. The younger mothers blushed and laughed shyly as well.

Someone else asked Chen Hong, "Yu Yang's mother, judging from Yu Yang's father's accent, he sounds like he's from Beijing. Is he serving in the Jinan Military Region?"

Chen Hong: Chinese people really know how to gossip when they get together!

However, there's nothing wrong with saying this: "Yu Yang's father is a soldier in Beijing, while my daughter and I live in Jinan. He can only come to Jinan to reunite with us when he's on leave."

An old man comforted her, saying, "He looks quite young, so let him just tough it out!"

Once you've served a certain number of years in the military, you should be able to bring your child with you to your unit. Being a military wife isn't easy, Yu Yang's mother. If you need anything, just let us know.

The children are all classmates, so we parents need to help each other too!

Chen Hong: "Thank you, sir. I won't stand on ceremony with everyone. I'll ask for help in the group if I need anything."

If there's anything I can do to help, please don't hesitate to post a message in the group. I'll definitely help if I can.

"Okay, that's a good idea. Our classmates all live in several nearby neighborhoods, so we can create a separate QQ group. If anything comes up, just let us know. After all, a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative, right?"

"Great idea! Let's bring in all the parents of the children in our class so we can help each other out in the future."

"After a while, when spring arrives and the flowers bloom, we can take the children to a fruit orchard to pick strawberries, apricots, and cherries."

The old ladies agreed: "That's great! In a month, when the wild vegetables in the suburbs come out, we can take the children to pick them on Sundays."

It's free, and we can eat pesticide-free wild vegetables. It's just a bit of a hassle for you young people, letting us older folks hitch a ride.

We old folks don't drive, so in previous years when we went to the suburbs in the spring, we either rode bicycles or took the bus, which was quite inconvenient.

Chen Hong and four or five other young mothers nodded in agreement, while seven or eight other mothers said somewhat shyly:

“It’s not that we’re unwilling, but none of us have a car at home. We usually go out on foot or by electric bike.”

"If the distance is short, we can give one person a ride; if the distance is far, we can't go that far ourselves."

They talked and chatted, and ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and the children were all dismissed from school.

Everyone took their children home to do their homework and to cook dinner for their families.

At 8 p.m., Yu Yang was practicing guitar when a parent from the class committee sent an invitation to a parent mutual aid group, inviting everyone to join.

Chen Hong accepted the invitation and entered the group. She saw that there were already more than fifty parents in the group, so she changed her nickname to "Yu Yang's Mom".

She swiped the screen and couldn't help but smile. There weren't many parents in the group at first; instead, the most were grandpas and grandmas.

Chen Hong sighed with emotion, realizing that it seemed the people who most wanted to form groups were the elderly, as they needed group life the most and also needed the most help.

The next day, when Chen Hong entered the group, wow! There were a full 183 people in the group.

Chen Hong scrolled through the member names: Grandpa XX, Grandma XX, Maternal Grandma XX, Maternal Grandpa XX, and even Uncle XX, Aunt XX, Aunt XX, and other unofficial members who had joined the group.

She couldn't help but wonder why all sorts of relatives had joined the group. What if someone started posting ads in the group next?

Just as I was thinking of this, sure enough, someone claiming to be Aunt XX posted an advertisement in the group: their XX Insurance Company will be holding a product promotion meeting on XX month XX day at XX Building, XX Street, and everyone who attends will receive a free gift worth 120 yuan.

I hope everyone will not miss this opportunity, after all, it's a free gift, so why not take it?

Just three hours after the advertisement was posted, many grandparents and great-grandparents in the group couldn't sit still and started asking for more details.

When Chen Hong realized that the group was going to turn sour, she quickly contacted the group owner and asked him to pay attention to the bad atmosphere in the group and not to let the elderly people lose their retirement money after he had created the mutual help group with good intentions.

Those who initiated this will definitely end up in a mess. Some people are greedy for small gains but suffer big losses; instead of reflecting on their own problems, they cause trouble for others.

Some elderly people are not clear-headed, and if something happens to them, they can be held responsible even if it has nothing to do with them.

After being lectured by Chen Hong, the group admin took it seriously and immediately sent a message in the group, prohibiting anyone from posting advertisements in the group, and promptly removed Aunt XX from the QQ group.

The group admin also thoughtfully reminded the elderly members to watch their wallets and not to try to gain something for nothing.

The group chat quieted down immediately, but only for less than ten minutes before someone popped up again, saying that there was nothing wrong with going to listen, that they could still take the gifts, but would definitely not buy any products, and that they wouldn't lose out.

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