After dinner, the children went to find the coach and asked to start training right away, as their older brothers would be back by the time they finished.
The couple were in the study when Zhang Hongmei told him about the phone call she made to Carlos that day.
“Annie will be coming this year. I wonder what the pretty little girl looks like now?”
"You'll see it in a few months, won't you?"
"Yes, we'll be able to meet in a few months."
"By the way, Brother Zhang, I brought over some daggers and knives from Carlos. I'll keep them for the kids. He also wants to give Zhenye and the others guns. Can we give them the guns you have stored in your ring?"
"Okay, you can go to the trouble of dividing it into five parts. Keep one part for yourself and give the rest to the four of them."
"Brother Zhang, I don't want to bother. You can divide it yourself. Once you've divided it, I'll help them get the money."
"Okay, I'll split it now."
Zhang Hongmei knew Carlos was coming, so she thought she should design a few games during this time and write the scripts when she went to the retirement home.
The couple were each busy with their own things, and neither bothered the other.
About half an hour later, he said, "Honey, I've divided them up. You can give them to them now."
Zhang Hongmei immediately helped her four sons get through this difficult time.
"I'll have to prepare their food, clothing, shelter, and transportation in the future."
"Honey, don't you think they should prepare it themselves? Otherwise, what if they always rely on you in the future?"
“That makes sense. Okay, I don’t care anymore, but you still have to give them a glass of water every day, and you have to tell them that they must not give a single drop to outsiders.”
"Yes, I will give instructions, and your four sons are more cautious than you."
"The more cautious, the better. Brother Zhang, I think I've leveled up again. I was thinking of practicing with Tai Chi, and I didn't expect it to actually work. Also, I took a bath with the spiritual spring water today. You five should try it tonight. I think that's how I leveled up."
"Okay, that's settled then, but it'll be a bit late, they don't necessarily have to play until later."
"Okay, I got it. Why aren't they back yet? They said they'd be back by eight."
Zhang Hongmei reached out and discovered them at the doorway.
"Brother Zhang, I can feel the location of our main gate now."
Zhang Shouyi hugged his wife and said, "Then you have indeed advanced to a higher level, which I cannot see now."
"I can see the flowers on the roadside across from the main gate, but not any further away."
"Alright, the five of us have to work hard today too."
Four children came in, followed by bodyguards; they were there to deliver gifts.
After being put into their respective rooms, the seven of them finished their daily routine training. Knowing that Zhenye and the others were coming back, they didn't even bother to take a shower or change their clothes. The eleven of them gathered in the training room.
Zhenye and his three brothers already knew what their mother had given them, and they were all things they had longed for. They were very excited, but looking at their younger brothers, they were not anxious. Instead, they chatted with them.
Children have their own way of thinking, and Zhang Hongmei found it quite interesting.
Liu Qiang kept pestering San'er to tell him about the wolf hunt. Zhenye and Liu Jingsong sat together and chatted quietly.
Although Jinsong was five years older than Zhenye, he talked a lot with Zhenye, including about his troubles.
"Brother, you're setting too high a standard for yourself. You can't be so tense. Yes, you should be strict with yourself, but you can't exceed your own capabilities."
Brother, do only what you are capable of.
"Zhenye, am I particularly useless?"
"Brother, why do you say that?"
"I'm not as good as you guys, because I know the gap between us is huge, but I'm not even as good as a child."
"Big brother, there's something wrong with your mindset. Why do you want to be better than others? Is it because of Mom and Dad's demands? Or other people's? Grandpa's and Great-Grandpa's demands?"
Liu Jingsong shook his head. "Nothing."
"Brother, if you continue to have this competitive mentality, you'll change, you'll become distant from all of us brothers. You'll become increasingly insecure, brother, do you want that?"
"Zhenye, I'm really not jealous of you. You're all my brothers."
"Yes. You may not be jealous now, but what about later? Ping An and the others are all grown up and will become more and more outstanding in the future. Will you be jealous then?"
"Big brother, why do you have to be better than your younger brothers?"
"Because I'm the eldest brother."
"Heh, does being the eldest brother necessarily mean you have to be outstanding?"
Liu Jingsong fell silent. He kept his head down, not letting Zhenye see his expression.
"Big brother, don't let yourself become ugly, don't let your younger brothers become distant from you."
"Zhenye, do you also think I'm not good enough?"
"Brother, I'm disappointed in you." Zhenye said, stood up, and left.
After listening to their conversation, Zhang Hongmei frowned. How did Jinsong become like this?
Continuing to observe Jinsong, we saw that he was still sitting there with his head down.
He is now filled with resentment, but who knows his fear? Before, he was the only child in the family, and everyone treated him well. But since his younger brothers were born, he has felt a lot of pressure.
If I'm not good enough, will I be unable to stay in this family?
Does this mean I'm not valued?
I don't want to be this tired. I understand what Zhenye is saying. But whenever I see that even the youngest person, Liu Qiang, is more outstanding than me, I can't shake off that sense of defeat.
She didn't want her aunt to be disappointed in her, and the last thing she wanted was to be sent back to Liujiatun.
So I kept telling myself that I must work hard, I must strive for improvement, and I must make everyone praise me.
He said Zhenye and the others were excellent, of course he would say that, but he didn't think he was wrong at all.
Of course, when he said he was jealous of his younger brothers, Liu Jinsong laughed self-deprecatingly, "How could I not be jealous?"
First of all, the four of them are people I look up to. Sometimes I wonder why I am not my aunt and uncle's child.
The remaining younger brothers all have the love of their parents, but what do I have?
How can one not be envious or jealous?
Zhang Hongmei frowned. She realized that she could know Jinsong's thoughts. Could this be the second level of her ability?
How did this child turn out like this?
Zhang Shouyi noticed his wife's furrowed brows and put his arm around her. "What's wrong?"
After thinking it over, Zhang Hongmei decided to tell Jinsong what he was thinking. It wasn't that she wanted anything in return, but she wanted her family to know that if the child ever changed, she couldn't let him do anything to hurt his family.
After listening, Zhang Shouyi frowned and said, "Wife, that's how people are. You've been asking too much of him. Pay more attention to him in the future, so he doesn't go astray."
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