With Gu Jingming's occasional interruptions, Ruan Ruan felt that her peaceful life with Huo Haocheng had been somewhat disrupted.
Every time he returned after dropping Gu Jingming off, he would complain with a wronged tone, "Wife, does this book have to be read by Gu Jingming?"
"Is there a problem with Xiaoming coming to study?" She knew what he meant, but she thought it was really interesting that Xiaoming was coming to study.
"What's the problem?! It's a huge problem! Listen to him reading! He can't even read all the words! Honey, I can read too, really!!!" The thought of his little one being forced to listen to Gu Jingming's halting stories made Huo Haocheng worry. What if the baby started learning like him after birth? The more he thought about it, the more he felt it wouldn't do; he couldn't let him continue studying.
"Honey, look at me. You know I'm a great student, always first in my class. Didn't you say when you were little that you wished you could study with me? Now I'll read to your little one! I'll make your childhood dream come true, okay?"
He looked at her expectantly, as if he would cry in front of her if she didn't agree the next second.
"...Don't you think listening to Xiaoming read is very...very enjoyable?" She originally wanted to say it was funny, but after thinking about it, she realized that saying it that way would make Xiaoming sound like a joke, so she changed the word, but the meaning was the same.
Every day when Xiaoming came to study, she would ask him "why" like a child. Every time she saw him stuttering as he explained the meaning, or staring blankly at her with his foolish eyes, she could tell from his stupid look that he was saying, "Sister, please let me go." At these times, she was very curious about how he learned to understand math. Why could he accurately grasp the meaning of the question, no matter how difficult the math problem, and start solving it? Isn't understanding language arts the same?
"Honey, I really can't be happy about what he said. What I'm worried about is that if we keep listening to this, our baby's grades will be just like his after he's born."
For a top student like Huo Haocheng, it was really hard to understand why Gu Jingming could be so extreme. Moreover, Teacher Shen taught Chinese, and he had known Gu Jinghe for so many years, and he had never heard of him having any particular weakness in any subject.
If Gu Jinghe knew this, he would definitely say that it wasn't that he didn't want to specialize in certain subjects, but that he couldn't. His scores in each subject were quite even, and he was always lucky in exams, just barely passing the passing grade.
"It's not that serious. Don't worry so much. I only let Xiaoming come to school to tease him and improve his reading comprehension. Since you think it's not going to work, then forget it. Tell him not to come tomorrow. They have exams coming up soon anyway, so let him study hard."
The baby is only two months old, still an embryo, so it doesn't matter whether he goes to school or not. We shouldn't let such a small thing cause unpleasantness between husband and wife.
"Really, honey, you agree? Then I'll tell my uncle tomorrow morning!" He was afraid she would change her mind. If Gu Jingming came tomorrow and cried to her again, his wife would soften and the whole thing would fall through.
If it weren't so late, he would have gone to the Gu family right now to tell them.
"Okay, whatever you say. Alright, it's getting late, let's go to sleep."
She was already sleepy when Gu Jingming left, but she kept going to wait for Huo Haocheng to come back. Now she really couldn't hold on any longer. She decided to talk about it after she woke up tomorrow.
He immediately shrank back and pulled the blanket over himself.
The next morning during training, Huo Haocheng went to see Commander Gu and asked him to tell Gu Jingming that he no longer needed to go to his sister's school to study. He also had exams coming up soon and should focus on his studies. The child was still too young to understand, and it wouldn't be too late to come when the child was older and on vacation.
Hearing him say that, Commander Gu also thought it made sense and said that he would tell Gu Jingming when he returned that evening.
Then he asked how the investigation into Gu Jingxi's case was going.
Commander Gu said that too much time had passed, and he had someone check with the hospital where Teacher Shen gave birth back then. The doctors and nurses who delivered her child no longer work at the hospital, but he did find out that there were indeed two other people at the hospital who gave birth at the same time as Teacher Shen.
However, finding the current addresses of those two families is proving difficult.
They all knew that finding the person now was like looking for a needle in a haystack, but since they had a clue, they didn't want to give up.
Without Gu Jingming as his storyteller, Huo Haocheng has an extra task besides training and caring for his wife every day: telling stories.
As the weather gets hotter and the nights get darker, Huo Haocheng would take his wife for a walk around the family compound every day after dinner, which was part of her daily exercise routine.
During this time, accompanied by Huo Haocheng, Ruan Ruan rode her bicycle to her grandmother's house to retrieve the wedding dress she had made for Huo Yue. After checking it and finding no problems, she sent back the wedding gifts that Huo Haoshen and the others had given her.
Although they cannot be there in person, they still send their blessings.
As time passed, the family dormitories and school, built with overtime work, were completed.
Huo Haocheng had just returned home when Zheng Xuyang and Chen Liang arrived one after the other.
Huo Haocheng had just entered the house when he heard someone calling him. He turned around and saw Chen Liang and Zheng Xuyang standing behind him, looking at him.
"Why are you here?"
"Huo Haocheng, are you hard of hearing and heard us calling you, or is it just a coincidence that you really didn't hear us calling you? We've been calling and calling ever since we saw your back at the entrance of the residential compound, but you haven't answered once. Do you think our voices weren't loud enough, or are you trying to show that you don't like us?"
They were so angry. When Chen Liang and Zheng Xuyang left, they were thinking that if they ran into Huo Haocheng at this time, they could ask him to tell his wife that as the boss, she should definitely participate in the topping-out ceremony of the family building tomorrow. However, they never expected that although they did run into Huo Haocheng, he didn't even give them a glance. No matter how they called or chased after him, he just didn't hear them and completely ignored them.
There was nothing they could do; they actually managed to follow him to his house.
"...? Did you call me just now? I'm sorry, I really didn't hear you. You know, my time after get off work belongs to my wife, so of course I go home to see her as soon as I get off work. As for the rest, I'm sorry, I really didn't pay much attention."
Honestly, he was just focused on getting back to his wife as soon as possible. So, not only did he not hear them calling him on the way, but he also only smiled back at the aunties who greeted him without saying a word to them.
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