"Second Uncle is right, Third Grandfather. I'll go to the village office at daybreak that day. Anyone who wants to adopt should wait until the matter is clear before going to the village office to raise the matter. Is that okay with you?"
The old captain nodded, then shook his head, sighed, and walked out with his hands behind his back. He was old now, and now he couldn't understand why there were beasts who were willing to throw away their own bloodline.
When Zhang Dad saw him leave, he winked at his wife, stayed for a while, chatted with his old brothers about other topics, and then left the crowd.
In the old house, Zhang's mother waited for him to appear and hurried over to him, "Why did you let me come back first?"
"You're just standing there watching the fun, aren't you worried that someone might ask you to help take care of a child later?" Father Zhang frowned. "It's just like in the city. Someone's planning to send a child to our family."
Zhang's mother raised her voice and asked, "What?"
Father Zhang quickly covered his wife's mouth and looked back, "Keep your voice down. Otherwise, how do you think the child happened to be at the door of the old house?"
"You threw it?"
Father Zhang rolled his eyes at her in anger. "Can you speak? What do you mean I threw it away? It's not our child. I guess someone brought it to our eldest son's door and he moved it."
"Nonsense! My son has a kind heart. He would never do such a thing."
Father Zhang looked at her gloomily, "So you mean I'm cruel? I remember you told me to hold the baby away, otherwise we'd have to raise someone else's child."
Thinking about the years when children were abandoned at their doorstep, Zhang's mother realized that it was she who asked her husband to hurry up, and smiled embarrassedly.
"That's not what I meant. Xiaowu told me last night that he has to go up the mountain to train the kids today. I guess he doesn't have time to pay attention to the outside world, so he might get up and leave now."
Father Zhang shook his head in amusement. "You know, you're training a child? It's about exercising a child, but it sounds like you're training a puppy. How weird."
As he spoke, he laughed out loud, "Xiaowu said tonight that our little grandson can already shoot pheasants and rabbits. He's only five years old. Hahahaha..."
"Keep your voice down! You just reminded me." Zhang's mother said as she pulled her husband inside. She lowered her voice and asked quietly, "Did Wuyi tell you to buy more meat for you to eat later?"
What a show-off! Zhang Dad was unhappy. He snorted, "Of course not. Liu Yiyi told me a long time ago. When he came down the mountain, he said he would be able to kill a big guy soon and turn it into wine for me to save."
Old children, old children, this is really true. Zhang's father and mother walked towards the kitchen to show off to each other. Even when they are old, they still need companionship.
At this moment, just as Zhang's mother said, Zhang Guoqing's family of five had already gotten up and began to wash quietly, while listening to the corner outside.
Zhou Jiao frowned, "What happened?"
Zhang Guoqing had no intention of hiding it from her, so he briefly told her what he had done, and unsurprisingly, he received a look of approval from his wife.
Like him, Zhou Jiao deeply hated being schemed against. The child was innocent, so did that mean her son deserved to be schemed against? She lowered her head and gave the children a few instructions.
It's nothing more than asking the children to occasionally tell others that there are families like theirs in Beijing who don't have children and want to adopt orphans of martyrs or welfare institutions. The procedures are also very complicated. In addition to verifying the reasons, they also need to be approved.
If someone deliberately abandoned a baby, they would be arrested and sent to jail if they were caught. No matter how serious the situation was, she didn't want to have her vacation ruined by such a nasty incident.
"Are you sure you don't want to take action?"
Zhou Jiao shook her head. "It's too troublesome. If they get involved, there will be all sorts of rumors about people not helping others in need and all sorts of other messed-up things. I don't want to damage their reputation."
Zhang Guoqing smiled. At least he wasn't soft-hearted the moment he saw the child. If someone came to him for help, he'd be happy to do some charity behind the scenes. Different causes naturally led to different outcomes.
That day, the family took advantage of the dawn and quietly left through the back door, forgetting about the incident down the mountain.
Without the twins appearing at the same time, Zhang Guoqing successfully let his two younger sons experience the dangers of the mountains. Of course, the little guys finally saw that wolves are different from dogs.
Zhou Jiao took her two sons to practice horse stance and boxing in front of the wooden nest. She looked up absent-mindedly from time to time into the depths. It was not until the sun slowly rose that she saw a familiar figure appear.
Seeing her youngest son's eyes sparkling and his face flushed with excitement, she knew that he was safe again. She thought of her eldest son in the same way.
"Has he never been afraid?"
Zhang Guoqing laughed heartily upon hearing this. "If I hadn't planned to change it to June 1st, he wouldn't have wanted to leave."
Zhou Jiao glanced at her youngest son, who ran over to show off to his two brothers, and shook her head regretfully. She thought Wuyi was most like her, with a scholarly air.
"Liuyi, you should go now. It's fun. I'll do horse stance and practice boxing first. Dad promised me that when I'm older, I won't need him to hold me. I can hunt by myself."
"Where's the meat?"
"Huh?" Wuyi scratched his head when Liuyi asked him this, and looked at Zhang Guoqing, "Dad said I'm too small and don't have much flesh. We're here to exercise, not to gain some flesh."
Liuyi rolled his eyes at him repeatedly, and only stopped when Ping'an patted his forehead. "How stupid! In our family, except for grandpa, everyone is only provided with four ounces of meat a month."
"You're the stupid one. Dad said we'll take brother to play with the big guys this afternoon. Don't hold brother. He can run fast, and Dad can carry a lot of things back."
Liuyi nodded nonchalantly, indicating that he understood, and began to run towards Zhang Guoqing with his calves, holding the water bottle.
"Son, are you ready?"
"Dad, please sit down and rest for a while."
Zhang Guoqing was moved and hugged his son. "Jiaojiao, look at how filial and sensible my son is."
Zhou Jiao shook her head in amusement. She should cook more good food for him to nourish him, otherwise this silly father would probably be exhausted without even noticing.
Zhang Guoqing's arrangement was reasonable. When he brought Liu Yi back again, the family had lunch and rested for a while. It happened that the twins were having a nap. As for Zhou Jiao, she could accompany her sons to rest and read books or stew something, while he could take his eldest son and run a longer distance.
During this busy farming season, he was not worried that any old hunters would be able to get leave to go into the mountains. Even if someone went up the mountain, his wife would be extremely vigilant for the sake of her son and would not hesitate to take ruthless action.
Compared to the twins, it is much easier to take Ping An with him. The father and son can cooperate more easily. He can guide the son while hunting, and the harvest is really extraordinary.
So when Zhou Jiao waited for the father and son to return, she was almost dumbfounded. If Daqing Mountain was damaged by them, how could there still be animals?
For a moment, Zhou Jiao felt guilty and thought that it was really necessary for her mother-in-law to worship the mountain god every year. She considered going back and asking Zhang's mother to offer more offerings in the future.
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