Li Ji tilted his head and looked at her for a long time, as if he was thinking; after a while, he gave up when he realized that there was really nothing to eat.
Zhong Yuxiu pursed her lips, feeling like she had wronged her son, "Be good, there will be food later."
"Mom." The little guy was innocent and naive, and Zhong Yuxiu couldn't help but soften her heart, "What a little troublemaker."
Perhaps mothers are always soft-hearted when facing their children; blood ties are truly a magical thing. Mothers will not be soft-hearted when facing other children, but it will be a completely different story when facing their own children.
I put my son on the mattress and said, "Go play with your brothers."
Little Li Ji turned his head to look at his two younger brothers, unmoved; on the contrary, the two fat little boys, Li Ming and Li Zhen, pounced on their eldest brother as soon as he came, and treated him with a combination of tiger pounces and bear hugs.
Li Ji was stunned, thrown onto the blankets like an idiot. Li Mingli laughed and pressed on him. Li Ji came to his senses and screamed, but he couldn't move his brothers. He whimpered and tried his best, but it was useless. Finally, he kicked his brothers' calves, and the two little guys cried loudly in pain.
Zhong Yuxiu was startled. Her heart-wrenching cry was so scary. The children had never cried like this before.
"What's wrong? Did your brother kick you and hurt you?"
Li Mingli was really stupid and could only cry.
Zhong Yuxiu squatted down and rubbed the places where they were kicked one by one, which probably touched their sore spots; she sighed softly and coaxed them resignedly.
When Gu Lingguo and Fang Guozhong returned with a basin of hot water, they saw this scene. In the midst of chaos and turmoil, the leader Zhong Yuxiu, who they thought was very powerful, was trying to appease this and that, but in the end, he couldn't appease anyone.
"Comrade Zhong, why are they crying? Are they not full?"
"It's not that they didn't eat enough, it's that they accidentally kicked the tendons in their legs while playing crazily. Rubbing them will make it better, but the pain has already passed, and they can't stop crying for a while." Children can't speak clearly, and the only way they can express their emotions is.
Gu Lingguo nodded, "Then let me help you hold one?"
"No, just let them be like this, it's all right." Zhong Yuxiu refused bluntly, then held her two crying sons and tried to comfort them for a while. Seeing her eldest son looking a little confused, she sighed silently and pulled him over, intending to hold him and comfort him. Unexpectedly, the two sons, who had been kicked and hurt, actually rebelled against their eldest brother and kept pushing him away.
Li Ji was so aggrieved that tears came out. He didn't cry when his brothers cried; now he felt so aggrieved that he wanted to cry.
Zhong Yuxiu patted her two sons on the forehead and said, "Why are you crying? It doesn't hurt anymore. Your eldest brother didn't do it on purpose. You fell on him. You don't know how heavy you are. You should have some self-awareness."
The corners of Gu Lingguo and Fang Guozhong's mouths twitched, and their expressions were surprisingly the same.
What does such a young child know? He can just play however he wants.
"Comrade Zhong, I'll take Liji out for a walk. I'll have to trouble you to take care of the other two." Gu Lingguo took the initiative to hold the little baby Liji.
Zhong Yuxiu was eager to do so, but she was afraid that her eldest son would really cry and make a fuss, which would then be like the triple devil's sound.
"That's it for now. You guys play with Li Ji for a while to attract his attention. I'll coax these two little devils into submission first."
Gu Lingguo naturally had no worries and did not respond.
Fang Guozhong couldn't help, so he wrung out a hot towel and handed it to Zhong Yuxiu, "Comrade Zhong, wipe their faces."
"Okay, thank you."
Zhong Yuxiu took the towel and wiped their faces while coaxing them. Their faces were clean. The two crying little babies stopped crying and sobbed continuously. Their mother had to coax them until they calmed down.
The sons who stopped crying were still good babies, like angels. Zhong Yuxiu breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground, not caring whether the ground was dirty or not.
She reached out and poked her youngest son's forehead. "Look at what you've done. You're the one who suffers in the end. I'm your mother."
Gu Lingguo and Fang Guozhong breathed a sigh of relief, as if a huge weight had been lifted from their hearts. They had all watched their children grow up, and even if they hadn't taken much care of them, they still had feelings for them. It could be said that Gu Lingguo and Fang Guozhong probably didn't spend as much time with their sons as the three Liji brothers did.
They serve in the army away from home all year round, and they are relieved that their wives are taking care of them at home. They go back home once or twice a year, and sometimes not even once a year. Naturally, they cannot take care of the affairs at home. Not to mention their sons, they even ask their wives to take care of the elderly.
They focused on their work in the army and worked hard to climb to their current positions. They have no regrets; the only regret is that they don't spend much time with their families and cannot fulfill their filial duties to their parents.
After scolding her two sons for a few words, Zhong Yuxiu looked up at the two people beside her and said, "Comrade Gu, Comrade Fang, please take the basin away and bring some supplementary food. I guess the children are not full."
"Okay, let's go now."
Gu Lingguo and Fang Guozhong looked at each other, one holding the basin while the other followed behind, and they walked out of the main hall one after the other. When they got outside, they exhaled a breath of foul air and felt that their ears were completely quiet.
"Gu Lingguo, does your child also cry like this?"
"That's about right." Gu Lingguo said casually, then glanced at him. "Doesn't your child cry?"
Fang Guozhong shook his head. "I don't know. I don't go home often, and each time I go, I only stay for two or three days. My children are so close to me, how could they cry or act like a spoiled child in front of me?"
Gu Lingguo said, "Then you really have to thank your sister-in-law. It shows that she has taught the child well. When I go home, I sometimes hear my son crying. My parents protect and comfort him, but I don't know if he will grow up as a child."
The old man must be very worried about having two grandchildren even though his son is not around.
This is normal. In that era, sons and grandsons were the apple of the old people's eyes. Very few families did not favor sons over daughters. The vast majority of the older generation had feudal remnants and believed that sons were the ones who could carry on the family line. Little did they know that if people in later generations were so fond of sons, people would probably ask you, "Do you have a throne to inherit in your family?"
"Indeed." Fang Guozhong scratched his head and took the words to heart.
Gu Lingguo smiled and said, "Liji and the others are relatively easy to lead. This is the only time in all these years that I've seen them cry so hard."
"Well, my ears can't bear it if it happens again." The little baby has no scruples when crying, and wails at the top of his voice. It is really uncomfortable with the devil's sound piercing his ears.
Gu Lingguo just smiled without saying anything. The two of them walked out of the three courtyards one after the other and went to the kitchen. Feng Zheng saw them coming back and turned around to cook again. He was a stubborn person and liked to concentrate on his work. He would not even say hello when someone came.
This is how they treated Zhong Yuxiu, Yan Rushan and Old Yan, not to mention Gu Lingguo and the other one.
Gu Lingguo was used to it and spoke first, "Dasha, do you have any supplementary food for the children? They're not full. Comrade Zhong asked us to bring another portion over."
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