Chapter 83

In the car, Chen Zhinian was sitting in a child safety seat in the back seat, while Song Shu and Chen Zonghao were talking in the front.

At this moment, the voice of the little man suddenly came from the back seat, "Wow, the wind of freedom has penetrated into my belly. They are going to make their home in my belly."

Song Shu, who was sitting in front of her, couldn't help but turn her head to look at her daughter when she heard her daughter's cute and interesting childish talk. It turned out that the car window was half open, and the wind blew in. The little girl opened her mouth wide and the wind blew into her stomach. She started to say, "How did the wind settle in your stomach?"

The little guy patted his round belly and burped, "Well, because I'm full."

Song Shu couldn't help but smile at Chen Zonghao after hearing this. Every time their daughter's childish words came out, they found them surprising and interesting, and listening to them made them feel that all the fatigue of the day had disappeared.

"Then can I ask dad to help you close the window? That way the wind won't get into your stomach." Song Shu said jokingly with a smile on her face.

"No need, Mommy. The wind is so pitiful. Just let it stay in my belly." The little guy shook his head.

Song Shu followed her words and said, "Oh, then what if there is no place for the cake in your stomach?"

"Well, then Daddy should close the window. Wind, please go away quickly and fill your belly with the cake." The little guy patted his belly and spoke seriously to the wind in his belly.

"Haha." Song Shu and Chen Zonghao finally couldn't help laughing out loud when they saw their daughter's cute look.

"Mom and Dad, what are you laughing at?"

"Laughing at our daughter is such a cute ghost."

"I'm not a ghost, oh, I'm Chen Zhinian."

"Okay, Chen Zhinian."

The cheerful voices of their family of three came from the car.

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When we arrived at an international high school in Hong Kong, it was time for the students to get out of school. And today was also Friday, the weekend. Besides the students, there were also many parents waiting.

Students in school uniforms walked together in twos and threes, all with happy expressions on their faces as they were having a holiday.

As soon as she got off the car, little Chen Zhinian ran to the school gate impatiently. Now that she had grown up a lot and had a lot of strength, Song Shu almost couldn't stop her.

Fortunately, Chen Zonghao picked her up and held her in his arms. He looked down at his daughter and said in a serious voice, "Don't run. There are too many people here. Your mother can't hold you back."

Chen Zhinian saw that his parents looked unhappy and knew that he had done something wrong. He nodded softly and said, "Mom, I know. Next time, Zhinian will not run around."

Song Shu took a tissue and wiped the sweat off her forehead, and said, "Okay, Mommy forgives you. Next time, Chinian must not run around. If she is kidnapped by bad people, she will never see Mommy, Daddy, and Sister Jiahui again."

The little boy hugged his father's neck and shook his head vigorously, "No, we can't be caught by bad guys."

"Well, if Chinen doesn't want to be caught, she can't run around." Song Shu wiped her sweat off and took Chen Zonghao's arm, "Okay, let's go see if your sister Hui has come out?"

"Dad, let's go quickly. Sister Jiahui won't be able to see us later." The little girl patted her father's arm and urged him anxiously.

"Okay, let's go."

Song Shu and her family of three walked towards the school gate and stood in a conspicuous place.

Little Chen Zhinian sat in her father's arms, stretching her neck to look towards the door, her big watery eyes staring at her brothers and sisters walking out of the school gate.

The students who made eye contact with her were all mesmerized by her cute and clever appearance, and couldn't help but look at her a few more times.

Chen Zhiniant was not shy either, and responded to every brother or sister who looked at her in a baby voice, "Hello, brother or sister, I'm waiting for my sister to finish school."

Some enthusiastic students stopped and couldn't help teasing her, "Oh little girl, what's your sister's name? I might know her."

But the little guy shook his head seriously and said, "I can't tell you. Mom said that we can't tell strangers about our home."

The students were amused by her, "Hahaha, kid, you are so smart, your mother is right."

"My mother is right." The little guy nodded seriously.

Song Shu stood aside and watched her daughter chatting with others freely like a social expert. She couldn't help but sigh that neither she nor Chen Zonghao were very outgoing people, but she didn't expect her daughter to be more cheerful and outgoing than them.

"Sister, it's Sister Jiahui." Chen Zhinian stretched his neck to look around and finally saw a familiar figure. He quickly patted his father's arm and struggled to get off him.

Chen Zonghao put Jiahui down when he saw that she was only a few steps away from them. As soon as the little girl stood on the ground, she excitedly leaned on her two short legs and quickly rushed to her sister, "Sister."

After a few years, Jiahui has grown from a little girl into a young girl. She has grown taller and reached Song Shu's shoulders, and the contours of her face have become clearer.

Seeing the little person running towards her with a surprised and happy expression on his face, she squatted down and hugged the little person running towards her, "Baby."

"Sister Jiahui." Chen Zhinian threw herself into her sister's arms, put her arms around her neck, and kissed her on the face skillfully, "Sister, I miss you."

Jiahui picked her up and kissed her chubby cheek, "I missed you, too."

As he spoke, he walked towards Song Shu and Chen Zonghao, his eyes still smiling, "Second Uncle and Second Aunt."

Song Shu saw her holding Chinian and took her schoolbag in her hand, "If you can't hold her, let your uncle hold her. Your sister is hot enough for me to hold now."

"It's okay, I can carry it." Jiahui was telling the truth. She usually ran around with an easel on her back almost every day, and she had built up her strength a long time ago.

"Mom, the baby is not heavy." When the little girl heard what they said, she quietly inhaled and tucked in her belly, trying to hide the evidence of her weight.

Song Shu and the others were amused by her cute look and pinched her little face, "Okay, the baby is not heavy, mom was wrong."

"Hehe." The little girl laughed when she heard her mother's words. Her round belly was exposed again. The little girl held her belly and said, "Oh, it came out again. It's saying it's hungry. What should mommy and daddy do?"

As the little man spoke, he looked at them with his big eyes.

Song Shu found her words cute and funny. The little guy was thinking about her cake now. "Snatch, okay, let's go have dinner."

"Great, let's go to dinner." The little guy clapped his hands happily.

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Sitting in the car, Chen Zonghao drove to the restaurant they usually went to.

From the 1980s to the 1990s, Hong Kong's economy was booming, and there were more cars on the road.

Song Shu sat on the passenger side and turned to the back seat. Chen Zhinian was holding her sister's arm and talking affectionately in the back seat. She joked, "Baby, didn't you just see your sister this morning? Why do you look like you haven't seen your sister for a long time?"

Chen Zhinian looked up at her mother and sighed like a little adult, "Mom, you don't understand. I think about my sister every second, one, two, three..."

The little man stretched out his fingers and counted until he had used up all ten of them. "I haven't seen you for ten hours. That's a very long time. So I miss you very much."

Song Shu held her forehead, not knowing how she could count to ten hours, but at least she could count. Her mother looked pleased, "Okay, baby is right."

Song Shu turned her head to look at Jiahui, "Your teacher mentioned that you will go to Huizhou in mainland China to sketch during the summer vacation. We will go with you then."

"No, it's too much of a bother for you, auntie. I can go there by myself, and I have a teacher with me." Jiahui quickly refused after hearing this.

She knew how busy her uncle and aunt were, so there was no way she could ask them to spare a week to accompany her to sketch.

Song Shu comforted her, "It's okay. We will go to the mainland to have a look and take a vacation. Your second uncle and I haven't had a vacation for a long time. It's a good time to take a break. I heard that Huizhou is very beautiful."

"Listen to your aunt." Chen Zonghao added after Song Shu finished speaking.

Jiahui felt warm at heart after hearing this. She knew that they were worried about her being too young to go sketching alone, so they said they wanted to stay at her house while she traveled. In fact, they just wanted to accompany her. Jiahui did not insist on refusing and nodded, "Okay."

As for the mainland, she hasn't been there for a long time. The last time she went there was seven or eight years ago. She went there with her uncle and aunt. She was still young at that time, but she still remembers the scene of her and her uncle and aunt peeling oranges together on the cruise ship.

She felt that she was a lucky child. Although her parents had left, her uncle and aunt had made up for the lack of parental love to a certain extent in the past few years.

It seemed that she had found her harbor when her aunt comforted her after she woke up that night and found her mother had left.

She hasn't thought much about her mother in the past few years. She also knows that she was helpless when her mother left. She doesn't hate her, but she doesn't have any deep feelings for her either.

She is now living a very contented life and has transformed from a shy and timid girl into a cheerful person, and a big part of the reason for this is because of the meticulous care and concern of her aunt over the years, which has made her feel rich and supported.

"Sister, ah, here's some candy for you."

The voice of the Chinen doll beside her interrupted her thoughts. The doll was sitting in a safety chair, holding a candy that she had opened in her hand, and was stretching his hand towards her.

Jiahui curled up her lips, lowered her head and ate the candy as she followed her movements, squinting her eyes and praising, "The candy is very sweet, thank you, Chinian."

Seeing his sister eat the candy, the little guy smiled and squinted his eyes, "Sister, can I sleep with you tonight? I want to listen to your stories."

Jiahui reached out and touched her little head, not rejecting her request, "Okay, sister and Jiahui will sleep together tonight."

"Wow, that's great. Sister, I want to listen to the story of the Big Bad Wolf tonight." The little guy clapped his hands happily.

"Jiahui, don't pay attention to her. You won't be able to sleep well with this chatterbox." Song Shu said.

"Aunt, it's okay. I don't have to go to school tomorrow." Jiahui replied. She actually liked the feeling of her sister sticking to her. She had a feeling of being needed, and looking at her sister's cute appearance could make her happy all day.

"Mom, I want to sleep with my sister, right, sister?"

"Yeah, sleeping with Chinen."

"It's up to you, but baby, don't bother your sister too much."

"Okay, Mom, I'll sing a song for you, under the bridge in front of the door..."

Childish voices and cheerful conversations intertwined in the car, and Chen Zonghao smiled as he listened to the sounds around him.