Zhong Yuxiu smiled helplessly. She had said it many times before: the children simply didn't like their father. What could she do? She could only bring it up privately with her husband. However, based on her experience, it was useless. With these four children, the father despised his sons. The sons, reading his expression, always felt their father disliked them.
"Come here and dress your sons. It's going to be quite cold today. Put on extra clothes for them so they don't catch a cold."
"I'll get clothes for them." He went to the next room and got the children's clothes, three sets, from head to toe, from hats to shoes.
The couple worked together to put clothes on them. Wang Daya and Gong Zhaodi saw that the door was open, so they walked over. Standing at the door, they knocked and asked, "Comrade Zhong, Comrade Yan, are you guys up?"
"Yes." Zhong Yuxiu responded.
"Can we come in?" Wang Daya asked.
"Come in."
Wang Daya and Gong Zhaodi entered the room one after another. Instead of going inside, they stood outside the beaded curtain and said, "Comrade Zhong, give us the child."
"Wait a moment." Zhong Yuxiu looked up at Yan Rushan, "Carry it out to Comrade Wang and the others."
Yan Rushan looked at his sons and asked, "Are they willing?"
Zhong Yuxiu looked down at her sons, smiled, and patted their heads. She spoke softly to them, "My dears, come follow Daddy, okay? Mommy needs to get dressed. Once she's dressed, I'll come out and play with you, okay?"
Twice in a row, the jealousy in Yan Rushan's eyes was almost overflowing.
"Wife, they don't understand, just carry them out."
"Nonsense, they understand, right, sons?" She lowered her head again and asked them softly, "If you understand what mom is saying, just nod your heads."
The three little dumplings nodded.
The case was solved. Although the boys were young, they understood.
"Look, my sons can understand." Proud and proud, a child who is just over one year old can understand what adults say, which means he is very smart.
Yan Rushan remained noncommittal. "It's better if you understand." He lowered his eyelids and looked at his sons. "Mom needs to get dressed. Dad will take you outside to wait."
"No."
Li Ji’s first objection was that he didn’t want to go with him.
Li Zhen and Li Ming naturally followed in their elder brother's footsteps. If their elder brother said no, it meant no.
Zhong Yuxiu chuckled, squatted down, and spoke to them, "Children, Mommy is hungry. Can you put on your clothes and go eat?"
"Okay." Li Ji nodded again, and Li Zhen and Li Ming followed suit.
"Then you guys go out with Dad first and wait for Mom outside for a while. Mom will come out after she's done packing."
Li Ji tilted his head and looked at her, as if thinking; Li Ming Li Zhen looked at her and shouted, "Mom, I want it."
"Okay, mom will change clothes and go out to hug you, but mom has to return the clothes first. Look, you are waiting outside. You know whether mom will leave or not. How can you not wake up like this?" Zhong Yuxiu pointed to the bead curtain outside.
Li Ji followed her hand and turned to the bead curtain. After a while, he looked at his two younger brothers before nodding.
"good."
Zhong Yuxiu's smile deepened. She came forward and kissed them on the forehead, praising them generously. "You are really my good children. Go quickly. I will be out with you in a while."
"Uh-huh."
The three boys turned to look at their father.
Yan Rushan looked at them and smiled slightly. It was the first time he saw his sons so cooperative. They looked particularly pleasing to the eye at this moment. He picked them up one by one and sent them to Wang Daya and Gong Zhaodi outside the pearl curtain. He held the last one.
After everyone had gone out, Zhong Yuxiu quickly changed her clothes and combed her hair. Today she simply tied her hair up with a hairpin, and paired it with a woolen coat and tight black trousers. She exuded a scholarly air when she went out.
Yan Rushan stared in amazement. His wife's hairstyle and accessories were always changing, and a small change could create a different look.
"My dears, you are so good." As soon as I came out, I gave the children a kiss as a token of my appreciation.
Wang Daya and Gong Zhaodi looked at them with a smile as they got closer. The children reached out for a hug when they saw their mother and did not have much attachment to Wang Daya and Gong Zhaodi.
"Mother."
"Mom, hold me."
"I want my mother."
The three boys reached out their hands at the same time, and Yan Rushan quickly hugged them tightly. "Don't move. How can Mommy hold all three of you? Be obedient. You can sit next to Mommy during meals, but you can't twist Mommy to hold you now. Otherwise, you won't be able to go to work with Mommy today."
The dumplings looked at Yan Rushan in confusion, as if wondering why.
"Because you have no choice but to follow your father to work."
"dad?"
"Yes, Daddy goes to work, and Mommy has to go to work too. If you behave yourself, you can go with Mommy. If you don't behave, you can only go with Daddy."
After being threatened, the three little kids burst into tears without any discussion; the children's faces changed instantly without any warning.
Yan Rushan patted the little boy in his arms and said, "Why are you crying? If you cry again, you will have to stay at home today."
The three boys stopped crying and looked at their mother together.
Zhong Yuxiu spread her hands and said, "Dad has spoken. If you don't obey, you can't go with Mom. Mom also has to give Dad face and can't speak for you."
The boys pouted and looked at one and then the other with a wronged look; in the end they stopped crying and did not ask to be held.
Very sensible.
Yan Rushan felt that this was what a good son should be like. What good would a disobedient son do? He might as well throw him away.
"Comrade Wang, Comrade Gong, is breakfast ready?"
"Everything is ready and has been brought to the front hall. You and Comrade Zhong can go to work after you eat." No time wasted.
"Okay, let's have breakfast first. Let's go."
Yan Rushan held Li Ming in his arms and walked side by side with Yuxiu; Wang Daya and Gong Zhaodi followed behind with their children in their arms. The three little fat boys stared at their mother and refused to take their eyes off her. When they arrived at the main hall in the front yard, the couple first washed their faces and brushed their teeth with hot water, and then sat at the table to have breakfast with the old man.
The three children would not leave when eating and would stay next to their mother; even if they just had to cover themselves with a layer of bedding, they would still stay next to her. However, the weather is getting colder and colder, which is not good for their health. Yan Guofeng didn't want to see this, but the children were too persistent, so he had to do it in the end.
Zhong Yuxiu quickly finished her breakfast and put down her bowl and chopsticks; she picked up the children and placed them on the chairs, and only then did Yan Guofeng feel relieved.
"Grandpa, just eat your own food and don't worry about them. I'll feed them. Time is a bit tight. After Comrade Wang and Comrade Gong finish their meal, please prepare some clothes for the children. Later, Grandpa and the children will come with me to the research institute. You can relax today and don't have to look after them. You can go out and play or walk around if you want."
Wang Daya and Gong Zhaodi were both stunned. Then, Gong Zhaodi asked, "Comrade Zhong, don't you want us to go with you?"
"No, you can make your own arrangements."
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