"Zhao Xiaoxiu!"
As the father and daughter, carrying two large and small bags, boarded their bicycle and were about to leave the city, an excited, almost hysterical, child's voice came from behind them.
The father and daughter turned around at the same time and saw Yang Mei and her son walking towards them with four guards. Zhao Xiaoxiu's heart skipped a beat.
When Youyou saw Zhao Xiaoxiu, he immediately shook off his mother's hand and rushed over like a cannonball.
He excitedly called out, "Zhao Xiaoxiu! Zhao Xiaoxiu!"
Their voices were loud and clear, as if they were afraid others wouldn't know they knew each other.
Zhao Xiaoxiu had no choice but to step aside and avoid Youyou, who was rushing towards her.
"Hello, Aunt Yang Mei," Zhao Xiaoxiu greeted sweetly.
Yang Meichong and his daughter nodded slightly in response.
Youyou didn't get a hug from Zhao Xiaoxiu, so she turned around, took her hand, and asked happily, "..."
"What are you doing here? Where did you go? I couldn't find you anywhere. I wanted to hang out with you."
She then asked Zhao Xiaoxiu to give her the address, saying she would bring her tablet to visit her later so they could play together.
Zhao Xiaoxiu: "I'm staying at a villager's cowshed, so it's not convenient for me to invite you over."
Youyou was stunned for a moment, and the guards looked embarrassed.
One of them came up and tried to take Youyou away, but he turned away and dodged them, continuing to look at Zhao Xiaoxiu with great interest: "Then can I go to the cowshed with you, Uncle?"
After saying that last sentence, she glanced cautiously at Zhao Gang, and seeing his expressionless face, she leaned close to Zhao Xiaoxiu's ear and whispered, "Your dad is a bit fierce."
Zhao Xiaoxiu thought to herself, "Are you being polite?"
Zhao Gang looked down and asked, "Is this Xiaoxiu's friend?"
Zhao Xiaoxiu glanced at Youyou, who was jumping around, and nodded reluctantly: "Yeah." I guess so.
Unaware of her true feelings, Youyou heard the "hmm" and her tail practically wagged proudly. She grinned, revealing a set of white teeth, and her eyes lit up instantly.
Although Zhao Gang felt that his youngest child's friend was too incompetent, he believed that children should make more friends so that they could grow up healthily and have fun together.
So, under Zhao Xiaoxiu's shocked gaze, exclaiming "Are you out of your mind?", he took the initiative to say to Yang Mei:
"Could you invite your Youyou to the cowshed to play with my Xiaoxiu for an hour?"
Zhao Xiaoxiu tugged at Zhao Gang's trouser leg and whispered her refusal: "Dad, I don't want to."
My god, these are the people who are here to arrest you! Wake up!
Zhao Gang reached out and patted her head reassuringly, then continued to look at Yang Mei sincerely.
This was unexpected by Yang Mei.
She saw Zhao Gang's indifferent expression, which was almost cold, and thought he was a cold and aloof person. She didn't expect him to show such a sincere and gentle expression.
But she couldn't resist her son's strong desire to run to someone else's cowshed to play, and she really couldn't leave to take him there.
"Mommy, Mommy, Mommy~" Youyou pleaded with his eyes full of hope. Yang Mei glared at him in annoyance and instructed the two guards, "Take him there and bring him back to the base to find me in an hour."
A man and a woman, along with two guards, stepped forward and nodded in agreement.
These two people usually take care of Yang Mei's children, and they are already very skilled at it.
Youyou's face fell. These two guards were the most punctual. They would definitely call him to leave before an hour had passed, to ensure that his mother could see him an hour later.
but!
Zhao Xiaoxiu can play together!
Youyou's emotions were written all over his face. Seeing that Zhao Xiaoxiu had her own bicycle seat, he reached out to Zhao Gang, "Uncle, I want to sit in the front too, with Xiaoxiu."
Yang Mei left after giving her instructions, looking very busy and unable to stop for even a moment.
The guard in charge of Youyou borrowed a trailer motorcycle from the Taoyuan base, but Youyou insisted on squeezing onto a bicycle with them.
The two had no choice but to follow alongside on their motorcycles.
To be honest, the two of them always harbored suspicions about Zhao Gang, feeling that there was an inexplicable danger about him.
But seeing the two children huddled on the bicycle crossbar, sheltered between Zhao Gang's arms, he could only comfort himself, thinking that a man with children shouldn't be in danger.
The cowshed arrived quickly.
As soon as Zhao stopped his bicycle, Zhao Xiaoxiu nimbly jumped off the crossbar, as agile and nimble as a little monkey.
Youyou called out anxiously, "Zhao Xiaoxiu, wait for me!" She wanted to jump down too.
As a result, he only lifted his butt slightly before getting stuck on the horizontal bar.
Zhao Gang couldn't hide his disdain. He picked up the little guy and tossed him aside.
Youyou cried out in surprise, but the next second she found herself standing steadily on the side of the road and smiled again.
The two guards were terrified.
“You…” The female guard was about to step forward and talk to him when the male guard pulled her back.
Zhao Gang carried his bicycle into the cowshed and put it away. He came out, swept the wooden stakes at the entrance of the cowshed, and prepared two small water cups, one filled with clean filtered water he had obtained from the Hope Base exchange point.
Another glass, filled with cool boiled water from the river, was placed in front of Zhao Xiaoxiu and Youyou respectively.
After thinking about it, I realized that I was missing something to do with entertainment, so I put down the storybook that I had told Zhao Xiaoxiu about yesterday.
"Xiaoxiu is playing happily with her friends, while her father is gathering firewood in the stream behind them."
After Zhao Gang finished speaking, he grinned at Youyou, which startled the little guy.
Children also need their own space, and parents should consciously step back.
Zhao Gang chuckled to himself; he was a really good father!
"Would you like some water?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked.
Youyou shook his head; he was more interested in the cowshed in front of him.
Zhao Xiaoxiu beckoned with her finger, "Come on, I'll show you around. You probably haven't seen a place like this before."
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