While I was tidying up, Li Qiu came in from outside carrying a desktop electric fan.
"Are the two children too hot when they sleep?" Li Qiuqiu said, "It's been hot these past few years, and children tend to sweat when they sleep. Don't wake them up from the heat. I brought the electric fan from our room, plugged it in, and let the two children cool down a bit."
"Thank you, aunt." Yun Qiao finished speaking and was about to say something when he heard a knock on the door.
The gate to the yard was closed, and through the gate, I couldn't see who was knocking on the door.
"I'll open the door."
Li Qiu adjusted the direction of the electric fan, stood up and went to open the door.
Yun Qiao nodded and saw Li Qiu walking to the gate of the yard through the window glass in the room.
The door opened, and standing outside was Qin Lili holding a parasol.
Seeing that it was Qin Lili, Li Qiu was surprised: "Lili, why are you here?"
Qin Lili smiled and asked, "Aunt Li, I heard from my mother that Yun Qiao brought the children back to visit relatives?"
Li Qiqiu nodded: "Yes, I just arrived this morning. You are really well-informed."
Qin Lili smiled and said, "It's fate. One day the child said she missed her grandma and kept pestering me to come over to her house to play. I had no choice but to send her over and let her play at her grandma's house for a few days. It just so happened that as soon as I got home, I heard my mom say that Yun Qiao was back."
"Come in quickly. It's very sunny outside and you're getting too hot." Li Qiu quickly led Qin Lili into the house.
Qin Lili was holding a net bag in her hand, and in the bag was a bunch of bananas. It was a very big bunch, with at least a dozen bananas.
Bananas are a southern fruit. These days, transportation is difficult, so shipping things from the south to the north is absolutely a rarity and a luxury.
Seeing this, Yun Qiao couldn't help but say, "Lili, you came all right, why did you buy such expensive things? You and Jincheng have two children to raise, life is already not easy."
Yes, Qin Lili gave birth to another child in the past few years and is now a mother of two children.
"No matter how hard life gets, we can still afford to eat bananas." Qin Lili put the net bag on the table in the living room and said with a smile, "I just passed by the grocery store at the intersection and saw these bananas on the counter. They looked particularly fresh, so I bought some for the children to try."
Yun Qiao thanked her, and Qin Lili waved her hand and said, "We've been friends for many years, why are you being so polite to me?"
"Where are the two children?" she asked.
"Taking a nap." Yun Qiao replied.
"Let me see. I haven't seen the two children in several years. I almost forgot what they look like." Qin Lili complained: "You have been very busy this year and rarely wrote to me."
"I'm sorry," Yun Qiao apologized. "At first, I was busy with the college entrance exams, and then I went to university. My studies were so busy that I can't remember some things."
"It's okay, I forgive you." Qin Lili followed Yun Qiao and walked into her room.
After entering the room, she tiptoed to the bedside, bent down to look at the two children lying on the bed taking a nap, and said softly, "The two children have grown up. Especially Yanyan. When she came to Shanghai a few years ago, she was still a little girl. Now she looks like a grown woman with long legs."
"I'll be seven soon," Yun Qiao said. "It's time to start elementary school."
"Time flies." Qin Lili sighed, and after chatting for a while, she asked about Yun Qiao's college life.
Yun Qiao said it was very good.
The two of them talked about some important things that happened in their lives and talked for a long time until Qin Lili glanced at the clock on the wall and said, "No, I have to go. I have to go to work this afternoon."
Only then did I reluctantly end the topic.
Yun Qiao stood up and walked her to the door. Qin Lili waved at Yun Qiao, indicating that she only needed to walk her here and not go any further.
"It's sunny outside, don't go out. I'll come pick up the kids in a few days, and we can talk then."
"good."
When Qin Lili left, she closed the gate to the yard.
The temperature was hot in the afternoon, the sun was scorching the earth, it was like a steamer outside, and no one went out to play.
No one came to visit the Ye family anymore. After waking up from their nap, the two children wanted to go out and play, but they were wilted by the sun. Fortunately, they had just arrived in Shanghai and were full of energy. Although they were not stuck at home, they did not feel bored because they had Ye Yunqing and Ye Kangning to play with them.
Time passed quickly and it was evening. Ye Yuanzhang was usually busy until eight or nine o'clock in the evening before he could go home. On the day Yun Qiao and the others came to Shanghai, Ye Yuanzhang specially finished his work early and returned home before the sun went down.
He was a considerate husband, and some things could be handled without Li Qiqiu's special intervention. On the way home, when he passed by the state-owned restaurant, he stopped by and ordered food in advance so that the restaurant could prepare it in advance and save him the trouble of waiting for the food when he ordered it.
This was the first meal Ye Yuanzhang had invited his niece Yun Qiao to after his repeated duties, and Ye Yuanzhang looked up to her.
After being sent down to the countryside for many years, Ye Yuanzhang felt the warmth and coldness of human nature. In his eyes, although Yun Qiao was not his biological niece, she was better than his own niece.
He has so many relatives and friends, and no one can do a better job than Yun Qiao.
In order to thank Yun Qiao for taking care of him over the years, Ye Yuanzhang ordered a table full of delicious dishes, determined to treat her well and make her happy every day during her stay in Shanghai.
The private rooms in the hotel were not soundproof, and they were worried that the walls might have ears, so during the meal Ye Yuanzhang kept his mouth shut and didn't say much. Everyone just ate happily, devouring the food with big mouthfuls.
After dinner, Ye Yuanzhang suggested that he and Yun Qiao take a walk nearby.
Yun Qiao knew that Ye Yuanzhang wanted to tell her something, so she happily agreed: "Okay, I just had dinner, so it's a good time to take a walk to digest the food."
The children had no objection, so the group walked slowly along the street.
After the movement, the tense atmosphere in the city vanished. In the past, the streets would become exceptionally deserted at night, with few people strolling around except for those hurrying home. But now, after dinner, people would go out for a stroll in groups of three or four, and Yun Qiao and her group wouldn't seem out of place at all.
The children were curious about everything they saw and ran fast. Soon they were in the front. Li Qiu was worried about the children's safety and followed them closely.
Before they knew it, Yun Qiao and Ye Yuanzhang were the last ones left.
Of course, this was also an unspoken agreement between the two.
During the leisurely walk, Ye Yuanzhang asked Yun Qiao about his studies, life, He Tingjun, and how Qin Lin and Feng Juan were doing. Yun Qiao answered them one by one.
When the two of them reached the gate of a nearby factory, Ye Yuanzhang suddenly stopped, turned to look at Yun Qiao, and asked, "Do you remember this place?"
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