Chapter 57 "Wait for Me"
Lin Zhao was amused by the little expressions of the four boys.
The second child stretched out his arms, pretending to grab the children, and teased his sister, "You dare to look down on me, you are finished, eat my claws!"
He bared his teeth and approached his sister.
The four cubs panicked and rushed into Lin Zhao's arms, calling out repeatedly, "Mother, mother, save the cubs, save the cubs."
He was shouting "Save the cub", with an overly bright smile on his face, his crystal eyes curved into crescents, and he was having a lot of fun.
The second child dared to scold his sister but he didn't dare to scold his mother. He didn't dare to get too close and went to wash his face and hands tactfully.
"Mom, you got up so late. My brother and I are back from playing around."
Before Lin Zhao could say anything, the eldest son looked at his younger brother seriously, his tone full of disapproval, "Second son, mother works hard to earn money, and finally has a day off."
Knowing that Erzai had several pieces of dirty clothes that had not been washed, he acted like a big brother and said, "Erzai, let's go wash the clothes this afternoon."
Speak with confidence.
Every move you make becomes more confident!
Lin Zhao gave a thumbs up.
The eldest boy blushed quietly, and the little man in his heart jumped up and down, unable to calm down for a long time.
"Okay." Erzai agreed immediately.
Then he looked at Lin Zhao and said, "Mom, do you have clothes to wash? I'll help you wash them."
He raised his arms, showing off his nonexistent muscles, and smiled like the sun. "Now I can eat a full meal every day, and I have a lot of strength. I can help mom with any work."
The second child couldn't take all the limelight, so the eldest child hurried to show off, "Mom, I can do it too, I can wash it clean."
"I washed it clean too!" Erzai said loudly.
The eldest boy frowned, puffed up his cheeks, and said righteously: "I am the older brother, I wash more cleanly."
Lin Zhao covered her face.
Son, this question seems to have nothing to do with being a brother or not.
She thought Erzai would refute his brother harshly.
result.
Erzai's face turned darker at a speed visible to the naked eye.
But he looked at Lin Zhao with resentment.
"Mom, why didn't you give birth to me first? I want to be a brother too."
After realizing that this statement was ambiguous, he added: "I want to be my brother's brother."
Lin Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "You are telling me a tongue twister. You are still my brother's brother. You want to be a brother. Don't the third and fourth sons call you brother? You are not satisfied with having two brothers and sisters. Don't be greedy, kid."
The second kid felt aggrieved.
He stretched out his hand and made the sign of three, "But my brother has three brothers and sisters, and I only have two."
He looked at Lin Zhao expectantly.
Um?
Why are you staring at her like that? !
A question mark appeared above Lin Zhao’s head.
“?!”
Seeing that his mother didn't respond, Erzai sighed resignedly and asked politely, "Mom, can you give me another brother?"
"..."
ha?
What an unreasonable request! !
Lin Zhao's eyes were calm. She gently pinched Erzai's little mouth and manually closed his mouth. "How can you say such cold words with such a warm mouth?"
"No?" Erzai pulled down his mother's hand and asked persistently, with a strange color in his eyes, as if they would instantly dim after being rejected.
Lin Zhao raised her lips, and before the child could laugh, she uttered three gentle yet firm words: "No!"
"But why?" Erzai hung his head like an eggplant hit by frost.
"Is it so easy to give birth to a child? Having the four of you is enough for your father and I." Lin Zhao felt that children's ideas came one after another, and sometimes they could give people a headache.
She continued, "Besides, even if I have another child, your brother will have one more brother or sister than you."
"...Okay. Then I don't want it." Erzai thought so too and changed his mind.
Lin Zhao shook her head. She really didn't understand what the little guy was thinking about all day long.
The eldest child suddenly said, "I don't want Mom to have any more brothers or sisters."
Feeling his mother's gaze on him, he pursed his lips lightly and spoke clearly: "Lu Baozhen's biological mother turned into a mound of dirt after giving birth to Lu Baozhen. Grandma said that giving birth to a child is a very dangerous thing. I don't want my mother to be in danger."
Children over five years old have their hearts and eyes full of their mothers, and they regard their mothers' health as more important than anything else.
Lin Zhao's heart softened.
She touched the eldest cub's little head with a gentle look in her eyes.
Erzai shook his head quickly, frightened by his brother's words, and hugged Lin Zhao with panic in his eyes.
"I don't want my mother to be in danger! No, I don't want any brothers or sisters."
The twins looked at Er Guoguo blankly, their little faces showing innocence.
Don't know what they did wrong?
Lin Zhao turned her head and saw the facial expressions of the third and fourth cubs. They were infants less than two years old. They were holding a small cloth ball tied with several short red strings. Their mouths were slightly open, and they were blinking their long and curled eyelashes. Their eyes were full of confusion.
The little elf understood what his second brother said and was thinking about something.
After a few breaths.
The fourth cub held the cloth ball in his right hand, with the soft flesh on his elbow curled up into cute folds. He raised his left arm and touched his head.
Seeing this, Sanzai touched his sister's head with a serious face, and then touched his own head.
"What is this for?" Lin Zhao asked with a smile. Is it some strange ritual among the children?
The fourth child took back his hand and held the cloth ball with both hands instead. He tilted his head back and said in a baby voice, "Brother is not happy, please comfort me."
Lin Zhao understood, "You're trying to comfort yourself?"
"Yeah." The fourth cub responded heavily.
The third cub also nodded, but the calm little fellow nodded only slightly.
Lin Zhao's heart almost melted by the cuteness, and she also touched the little brother and sister's heads and said softly, "Mom will comfort them too."
The twins, boy and girl, smiled with curved eyebrows and eyes full of stars.
The second child squeezed over, put his head in his mother's hand, and nudged it hard, acting like a spoiled child, "Big friends also need their mother's care."
The eldest boy also moved a few steps toward Lin Zhao. He said nothing, just stared at her with his pair of dark eyes.
"Okay, okay, coax them." Lin Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and touched the heads of the eldest and second cubs.
What's the comparison? Children have a strange desire to win.
However, the joy of raising cubs reaches its peak at this moment.
The twins grinned.
After coaxing the four cubs, Lin Zhao took off the black rubber band and sat there combing her hair. Her hair was neither long nor short, draped over her shoulders and braided in front of her body, just reaching her chest.
The eldest boy sat on a small stool, propped up his chin and watched his mother braid his hair.
The restless second cub snatched his sister's small cloth ball, causing the twins to chase after him. Seeing their little master running, Amber jumped and chased after him, and the children giggled, their voices like silver bells, accompanied by a few barkings of puppies, and even the grass on the top of the courtyard wall was filled with joy.
Dahuang lay under the eaves, his eyes following the twins, as if he could rush over at the first moment if any accident occurred.
Lin Zhao braided her hair and put on a new hairband.
The hairband is dotted with red dots, which would make people with dark skin look tacky when worn. However, her skin is fair, and the red color makes her look even whiter, making her look as beautiful as a 17 or 18-year-old high school student.
"Mom, you look pretty." The eldest boy's eyes sparkled, "Mom, I like you to dress beautifully."
Lin Zhao pretended to be distressed, "Being beautiful has a price. People always say that I am a spendthrift."
The eldest boy frowned, anger showing on his face, "Mom is not a spendthrift, Mom works so hard every day."
"Mother can't sleep in. She is so sleepy every day. She cooks delicious meals for us, makes clothes for me and my second son, makes bags for my third and fourth son, and also worries about building the house. Mother is the best mother."
He grabbed Lin Zhao's skirt, his eyes serious, "Mom, don't listen to their nonsense. Grandma said that people who like to gossip about others are jealous."
"I'm still young and can't make any money. Let Dad make money for Mom first." When he said this, the eldest son secretly pouted, with an expression of dissatisfaction that his father got the better deal.
Gu Chenghuai, who had just got on the train, sneezed and rubbed his nose with his bony fingers. Thinking of his wife at home, a smile flashed across his black eyes, which were as cold as the cold moon.
He looked out the car window and saw trees, low houses, large tracts of wasteland covered with weeds...all receding quickly.
The train starts moving.
--wait for me.
Having said that.
After the eldest son complained about his father who couldn't protect his mother, he continued without leaving any room for error: "When I grow up, I will make a lot of money and give it to mother. You can spend it however you want."
Erzai also said loudly: "I want to make a lot of money too."
The kid even thought about how to make money. "When I grow up, I want to drive a truck and go to the city to buy thermoses, brown sugar, big red dates, cloth..." He counted the goods he wanted to import with his fingers.
Then he said, "I also need to find Tiechui, Tieniu and Yuanbao, and have them drive with me. If we buy more, we can earn more."
Lin Zhao looked at him in surprise.
Can we say that he is worthy of being the future transportation giant!
Five and a half years old and thinking so far ahead!
"How did you come up with that?"
The second child gave his mother a proud look, looking quite majestic, with his hands behind his back, and an imposing manner of three meters and a half.
“That’s even a question.”
"My grandfather said that there are good things in the city, and the brigade is in need of everything. If anyone has a car, they can buy a carload of good things and sell them in various brigades, and they will definitely make a sack of money."
"When the time comes..." He paused skillfully and added excitedly: "Mom, you can enjoy the great fortune with your good second son!"
And there is also——
After his grandparents lie on the mound, he will make a coffin out of mahogany.
Erzai heard about the mahogany coffin from an old man in the village. The old man said that every old man wanted one.
His grandparents must want it too!
Father Gu & Mother Gu: "..."
No, they don't want to.
"Where does the car come from?" Seeing that Erzai was too proud, Lin Zhao gave him a difficult question, and as a result, the kid didn't have time to mention the matter of the mahogany coffin.
Hearing his mother's question, Erzai was not at all flustered. He tapped the ground with his right toe regularly and said confidently, "I'm so smart, I can definitely get a car. It's no problem."
"...Then I wish you success." Lin Zhao was speechless. With this momentum, nothing could be impossible.
Seeing that the eldest son also had something to say, he turned to ask his eldest son: "What do you want to do in the future, eldest son?"
The eldest boy's eyelashes trembled slightly, as if he was nervous, but he still bravely met her eyes and said, "I want to fly a big plane."
"Is it okay?" He looked expectant, wanting to get his mother's affirmation.
"Of course you can." Lin Zhao responded immediately with an encouraging look in her eyes. "Your ideal is great, Da Zi. I support you. Maybe in the future our whole family will be able to ride on the plane you fly. It would be great if that day really comes."
The eldest child's tense face broke into a happy smile, "I will try my best to let mom sit on the plane I drive as soon as possible."
"good."
The second child hugged his brother's arm and shook it hard, "Brother, I'm still here, I'm still here."
"Stupid, you also mean the whole family that mother talked about." said the eldest son.
"Stupid!" A crisp child's voice sounded from the side.
It turned out to be the usually quiet third child.
"Well, you dare to be so disrespectful and call your brother stupid? Let me show you how I'm going to teach you a lesson." Erzai waved his non-existent sleeves and pretended to tickle the kid.
The third cub was not like the fourth cub. When he saw his second brother posing... he was about to jump into his mother's arms and ask for a hug. He looked at his second brother calmly.
The second child's playful spirit was instantly dampened.
After taking his hand back, his face was full of self-doubt.
“…!?”
The second cub is fearless and he is the older brother, so why doesn’t he dare to scratch the third cub? It doesn’t make sense.
Lin Zhao burst out laughing.
When his father comes back, Erzai will probably know where the uncomfortable feeling he has at the moment comes from.
The third child looks more and more like Gu Chenghuai. He has an aura that makes people afraid to act rashly.
Especially his eyes, dark and calm, almost exactly the same as Gu Chenghuai's.
Even Gu's father said that sometimes when he saw the third child, he always felt as if he was seeing his own third child when he was a child.
The third child in his family is also mature beyond his years. He acts like a little adult when he is just over five years old. He refuses to let anyone hold him and never lets anyone interfere with things he is capable of doing.
Among the four cubs, the third one looks most like his father.
They look alike and have similar personalities.
"Are you hungry? Have you two eaten since you got up?" Lin Zhao asked the eldest and second sons.
"I shared an apple with Erzai, and a fried dough twist with Tiechui. I'm not hungry." replied Dazai.
"I'm glad you're not hungry." Lin Zhao said, "I noticed that you two shared your food with Tiechui, but didn't share with Laimei and the others?"
"Yes." Erzai used his fingers to indicate, his face full of pain, "I gave them this much."
He sighed sadly, "Oh, there are so many people in our Gu family. That half a fried dough twist is not enough for me to eat. I have to share it. Oh, it's bitter, too bitter!"
Lin Zhao's cheeks hurt from trying to hold back her laughter. "Tell me, where are you suffering?"
"Hey, I'm not miserable. I'm learning from the team leader." Erzai said with a smile, "The team leader said this when the harvest was not good. It's miserable, too miserable! I worked hard for a whole year and only got this little food. It's miserable."
"Why haven't I heard of it?"
The second child smiled even more, "Mom doesn't go to the fields, so of course she doesn't know."
He half covered his mouth and said mysteriously: "Grandpa Captain didn't say it in front of everyone. He said it when he was alone."
"And you heard it?" Lin Zhao laughed.
"Yeah." Erzai spoke out without saying anything, which scared the captain so much that he jumped to his feet.
"It's hard, but it will get better," Lin Zhao said.
"...Will it be okay?" Erzai looked at her seriously.
"Yes, you always like to listen to your grandparents talk about the past. You have heard about how their lives were when they were young. Compared to now, aren't they much better?" Lin Zhao intentionally or unintentionally guided her son to think for himself.
Erzai hesitated for a moment, then nodded vigorously.
Then I became confused again.
"My grandfather said..."
He imitated Gu's father's tone, "Life is getting better and better."
Then the tone of his speech returned to normal.
"The captain said again that it's bitter, too bitter. Who is right?" Erzai scratched his stubbled hair.
"What do you think?" Lin Zhao asked back.
The eldest son interrupted, "Both are right. My grandfather believes that as long as we are not bullied and do not work like slaves for the landlords, things will get better and better. Grandpa, the team leader, feels sorry for the crops in the fields and the farmers who work hard for a year but the crops they produce are not enough to fill everyone's stomachs, so he says it's hard."
He looked at Lin Zhao, "Isn't that right, mother?"
"Yes, that's a very good answer. You two are both children who can think, that's great." Lin Zhao praised.
The two children were very happy.
"Mom, you said it would get better. When will it get better? Tell me quickly. I want to tell Tiechui and the others and make them happy." Erzai rubbed his hands excitedly.
"..." Is your mother a prophet?
but.
The book says that in twenty or thirty years at most, this land and this country will undergo earth-shaking changes.
"Ten years, maybe until you're about to go to college." Lin Zhao was afraid that saying twenty or thirty years would make her kids feel that life was hopeless, so she simply said ten years.
He is not wrong. When the college entrance examination is resumed in ten years, life will get better for many people.
"Ten years, I..." Erzai counted on his fingers and soon figured it out, his eyes shining, "I will be the same age as my uncle, and I will definitely be a college student by then."
"As a college student, I'm sure you can make a ton of money."
(End of this chapter)
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