Post 80's Mother's Daily Routine

Chapter 36- 40

Chapter 36

Zhao Linan loves to eat meat, and when he has meat, he basically doesn't like to touch vegetables. In the past, children were cramped and never dared to be picky eaters. Until they tested Xu Tao's bottom line, the children gradually began to open dyeing rooms when they got sunlight.

Originally, Xu Tao used to eat what he gave, but now the child is not afraid of Xu Tao at all, nor is he afraid of Zhao Weiguo, and the problem of picky eaters has gradually been exposed.

"Mom, Xiao Nan doesn't like to eat vegetables." Zhao Linan looked at the green vegetables in the bowl, the child frowned, and his expression was particularly disgusting.

You see, now I dare to say that I don't like to eat it.

"No, you like it." Xu Tao looked at the child seriously and replied.

The problem of picky eating must be cured. The child is only three years old. How can I eat meat every day? The nutrition of vegetables must be balanced.

"..." Zhao Linan looked at Xu Tao, looked at the green vegetables, and turned the green vegetables with his chopsticks in his little hand, and turned towards his father Zhao Weiguo: "Dad..." The

child is going to give the green vegetables to his father!

"I have it in my own bowl, you don't have to be so filial!" Zhao Weiguo still knew the tricks of the kid very well, and the child only called someone, and he replied with a sentence.

Zhao Linan immediately bowed his head in disappointment, and fell into despair with the green vegetables in between.

Xu Tao also silently watched the child want to recruit.

"Brother Stone." Zhao Linan was silent for a moment, then the chopsticks immediately turned and stretched out at a speed that no one expected.

Before Shishi could react, there was a chopstick of vegetables in the bowl, and Shishi's expression was also a little depressed.

Xu Tao couldn't help but be amazed, looking at Zhao Linan's sullen eyes, and also gained a new understanding of the child's sudden reaction speed, which is dubbed one of the three rapid speeds. The speed is really fast, not to mention the sensitivity. said.

"Eat vegetables, if you dare to give them to stones, be careful I'll beat you." Xu Tao bared his teeth and threatened the child, and gave Zhao Linan another chopstick of vegetables.

As long as Zhao Linan is willing to eat a bite of small green vegetables, Xu Tao will not be so worried, this child has an excellent appetite, and it is impossible to just look at the vegetables and not touch them.

"Mom." Zhao Linan pursed his lips aggrieved.

Xu Tao raised her chin to the child and threatened, "Do you want to eat it?"

Xu Tao also never thought that one day she would turn into a fierce mother in order to force her child to eat vegetables.

Too worried, Xu Tao couldn't believe this kid's resistance to green vegetables.

"Mom, Xiao Nan will eat later." Zhao Linan saw that Xu Tao was really strict, and helplessly pushed the green vegetables in the bowl to the side, ready to use the delay policy.

"..." Xu Tao closed her eyes and took a deep breath, feeling that her patience was beginning to be provoked. After a while, she calmed down and smiled and spoke to the child: "If you don't eat green vegetables today, then from tomorrow, mother will never buy meat again. Let you eat green vegetables every day."

She couldn't believe it, and couldn't cure the child.

Zhao Linan suddenly looked up at Xu Tao in shock, then pursed his lips and closed his eyes, and stuffed the green vegetables in the bowl into his mouth.

The child stuffed all the vegetables into his mouth in one breath, and his face was bulging when he ate it. Before he could swallow it, he said to Xu Tao, "Mom, I ate it."

So you must not buy meat!

"Dear, Xiao Nan is awesome. Mom will reward you for eating more vegetables." Xu Tao nodded in relief and gave the child another chopstick.

"..." Mom, she has changed!

The child looked at Xu Tao, and the expression on his face was also cracked. He bit the green vegetables in despair, and then pouted his mouth and hurriedly drank two sips of chicken soup to soothe his fragile little heart.

Zhao Weiguo watched Xu Tao and Zhao Linan eat and fight, but he didn't say much. He was also a carnivore, but he wouldn't be like Zhao Linan, who only loves meat. As an adult, he doesn't know what he doesn't like. Totally disgusting, I still have to eat the green vegetables that should be eaten.

Shitou ate potatoes and chicken nuggets while eating, and looked at Zhao Linan enviously.

He has never been a picky eater and loves meat, but he can't eat meat every day, and his three meals a day are just average. If he can get a little meaty food for a week, it's already a good life.

"Brother, Auntie is for your own good. Eat more vegetables to grow taller." Shitou opened his mouth to appease Zhao Linan.

"Alright then!" Zhao Linan reluctantly replied, eating green vegetables in a bitter and grieving way.

After Shitou finished dinner at Zhao's house, the child was panicked by the meal. While watching the chicks with Zhao Linan in the yard, his father, Sun Tonghai, came over.

Fan Qiumei gave birth to a second child. In addition, she had to work after she was pregnant. When she had a stomachache, she gave birth smoothly after being sent to the hospital. After giving birth, she wanted to save some hospital expenses and went home overnight.

"It's over, it's too fast!" Xu Tao looked at Sun Tonghai in astonishment.

No wonder many mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law in later generations despise young wives and daughters-in-law for being hypocritical. Compared with this, the women at the moment are indeed fierce. Shishi said that he was sent to the hospital with stomach pains before eating.

"The second child went relatively smoothly, it was born in less than half an hour." Sun Tonghai replied with a smile.

Less than half an hour! It's very fierce, isn't it?

"Boys and girls!" Xu Tao couldn't help asking in surprise.

"Boy, six pounds and eight taels!" Sun Tonghai was overjoyed.

He has two sons!

"Congratulations!"

"Thank you! My stone has caused you trouble today." Sun Tonghai said politely to Zhao Weiguo with a smile on his face.

"Everyone is a neighbor, so you're welcome." Zhao Weiguo replied.

"My wife came home after giving birth, and she was anxious when she didn't see Shishi. She thought that something had happened to him, and was so panicked that she almost went to Lin's house to beat someone. I'll take him home first, and I'll give you red eggs to eat tomorrow when I'm free. "Sun Tonghai said in a low voice, then grabbed the stone and hurried home.

Xu Tao and Zhao Weiguo heard from Sun Tonghai and knew why Fan Qiumei was so anxious. After all, the Lin family was really insane. The husband and wife looked at each other and said nothing. They closed the courtyard door and went back to the small living room.

When Xu Tao walked back, she couldn't help but wonder: "It's amazing! She gave birth in less than half an hour!" In later generations, she only heard people say how painful, how hard it is to have a child, and how hard it is to give birth. My feet have been hurting for more than ten hours. Now, compared with Fan Qiumei, I feel that those are all weak.

"It's really amazing." Zhao Weiguo also nodded.

To know that his ex-wife died of a bloody collapse, Zhao Weiguo also thought that it was extremely dangerous for a woman to give birth to a child. When Xu Tao said that she might not be pregnant, Zhao Weiguo was even a little fortunate, fortunate that Xu Tao did not need to experience the danger of childbirth.

When his ex-wife gave birth, he was not at home, but the death of his ex-wife made Zhao Weiguo feel a little guilty and a little psychological.

The cost and burden of a woman dying for him to give birth to children has kept him a little breathless.

At night, Xu Tao and Zhao Weiguo coaxed Zhao Linan to fall asleep as usual. After the matter was over, Zhao Weiguo surrounded Xu Tao in silence for a long time.

"You're weird today." Xu Tao felt that something was wrong with Zhao Weiguo and asked directly.

Xu Tao is not the kind of person who hides her thoughts. She usually solves any problems on the same day, otherwise she will be so worried that she won't be able to sleep.

"Well, I just think of Xiao Nan's biological mother." Zhao Weiguo did not hide it, but replied in a frank tone.

He has an ex-wife, and with his ex-wife gave birth to a son Zhao Linan, this is not a shameful thing.

"That's it!" Xu Tao was a little surprised. She and Zhao Weiguo never mentioned his ex-wife. Zhao Weiguo remembered that it should also be related to the birth of a child by Fan Qiumei next door.

His ex-wife Liu Qingqing died of hemorrhage when he was giving birth to Zhao Linan!

"What do you think of her?" Xu Tao asked with jealousy that she didn't even notice.

This man will never think of his ex-wife, or love his ex-wife Liu Qingqing deeply, right? !

"I think of her, but I can't remember exactly what she looks like." Zhao Weiguo replied with a tone of surprise and guilt.

His marriage to his ex-wife was also a marriage arranged by his parents. It is normal for his parents to have a matchmaker in these days, including Xu Tao. Before he left the army, he had no intention of getting married. He was a soldier and was away from home all the year round. , and even occasionally have missions, often facing great danger.

Because of this, he didn't think much about his marriage. He was not impressed with Liu Qingqing, and the time they spent with each other was actually very short. , I just remember that there are very few words, and she is not as beautiful as Xu Tao.

Of course, that kind of beauty is not just beautiful in terms of appearance. Xu Tao and Liu Qingqing are two types of looks. It is not possible to compare who is more beautiful or who is uglier, but Xu Tao is full of confident temperament. It is something that Liu Qingqing does not have.

Therefore, in Zhao Weiguo's opinion, Xu Tao is more beautiful than Liu Qingqing. He likes Xu Tao, and also likes his personality except for his appearance.

"Xiao Nan's mouth should be like hers, she should look pretty good." Xu Tao replied silently.

Zhao Linan is similar to Zhao Weiguo, except that his mouth is different from Zhao Weiguo's. Zhao Linan's lips are more delicate, so he is not as tough as Zhao Weiguo's appearance.

"Yeah." Zhao Weiguo responded, hugging Xu Tao's slender waist: "But Xiaonan's personality is like you."

Zhao Weiguo can't remember Liu Qingqing's appearance, nor can he remember his son Zhao Linan's previous character, he and his son are familiar with each other. It started after Xu Tao brought the child to Yangcheng. Zhao Linan was influenced by Xu Tao, and the child's temperament was actually exactly the same as Xu Tao.

"Where do you look like me?" Xu Tao didn't think so.

"I've learned ten percent from you." Zhao Weiguo couldn't help but chuckle.

"..." Xu Tao said that she was speechless.

"Zhao Weiguo, let's take Xiaonan to take a family photo!" Xu Tao suggested after a while. She hadn't thought about taking pictures before.

Most of the photos now are in the form of film, which Xu Tao quite dislikes, but when Zhao Weiguo said that he couldn't remember what his ex-wife looked like, Xu Tao suddenly felt that they should also take some photos as souvenirs.

People's memories are easy to be blurred, and time passes quickly. If you don't take pictures, you can only rely on memory for future memories of the present, which is too general.

Taking pictures and adding memories can make the memories clearer.

"Okay." Zhao Weiguo naturally agreed.

He couldn't remember what his ex-wife looked like, and he agreed with Xu Tao's proposal.

"You find a time to get off work earlier, we will take Xiaonan to take pictures, and we will also send one back to your hometown." Zhao's mother, Song Xiaoyan, loves Zhao Linan very much, and she should have missed her child for so long.

"Okay."

Xu Tao and Zhao Weiguo discussed finding a time to take photos. Two days later, Zhao Weiguo left work early. The family of three were all dressed up and took Zhao Linan to go out to the photo studio to take pictures.

Zhao Weiguo was very serious about taking pictures and put on a military uniform on purpose.

Since he was discharged from the army, Zhao Weiguo has put away his military uniform. It's not that he doesn't want to wear it. He also wants to wear it all the time, but he is reluctant. In the future, he can't be like before, and new military uniforms will be issued every year.

Because he knew that this would be his last military uniform, he was reluctant to put it away. He usually put it away carefully. If it wasn't for taking pictures today, Zhao Weiguo would not even be reluctant to put on the military uniform.

"You look so handsome in a military uniform!" Xu Tao looked at Zhao Weiguo in surprise.

This was the first time she saw Zhao Weiguo wearing a military uniform. She always knew that Zhao Weiguo was very good-looking. Otherwise, she would not have let a woman next door fall in love at first sight, nor would she have easily accepted her identity as a husband.

But in the past, Xu Tao only knew that Zhao Weiguo looked upright and good-looking, but now he can feel the handsomeness of the man very clearly.

When he puts on the military uniform, the confidence and handsomeness of a soldier exudes from the inside out, which is really different from the usual him. He really should be a soldier by nature, which is a pity!

"Dad looks good, so does Xiao Nan." Zhao Linan was wearing a suit that Xu Tao bought, something like a small suit, very cute.

The child originally liked the clothes on his body very much. After wearing it, he ran out of the yard to show it off. After being praised and envied by a group of friends, he ran back.

As a result, when the child came back happy, he saw Zhao Weiguo wearing a military uniform, and immediately felt that the clothes on his body were not fragrant.

"Mom!" Zhao Linan pouted at Xu Tao anxiously.

The child thinks that his mother is very powerful, she can become whatever he wants, and she can satisfy him.

"Don't make it difficult for mother." Xu Tao squatted down to comfort the child with a wry smile.

If she wants a military uniform, where is she going to get a whole three-year-old uniform! It's not like this year, you can buy anything you want on a treasure.

"Dad!" Zhao Linan turned to look for Zhao Weiguo again.

"Why are boys so stinky, aren't you dressed nicely?" Zhao Weiguo pinched his son's cheeks.

"Dad's good-looking." Zhao Linan looked at Zhao Weiguo's military uniform reluctantly, and his little hands were still stroking the military uniform. That pious appearance was really cute.

"If you like military uniforms, then you can become a soldier in the future! Then you can wear military uniforms every day." Xu Tao abducted the child.

"Well, Xiao Nan is a soldier." As soon as Zhao Linan heard that he could wear it every day, the child nodded firmly.

"The little guy won't really go to be a soldier in the future!" Xu Tao sighed, and always felt that a word that he had inadvertently turned the child from the road of President Ba to Brother Bing's road.

"The child is only hot for three minutes." Zhao Weiguo chuckled, bent down and stretched out his hand to pick up the child: "Let's go, let's go take a picture."

"Oh! Go take a picture." Zhao Linan was immediately happy again, and was hugged by Zhao Weiguo and walked out .

"Uncle is so handsome!" Shitou and the children in the alleys were playing outside, and when he saw Zhao Weiguo coming out in a military uniform, he straightened his eyes from the side.

Boys seem to have a natural yearning for soldiers, especially children of this era, their worship of soldiers is particularly strong, and the sense of responsibility and mission of soldiers in this era is also particularly profound.

"Yeah! So handsome!" A group of children in the alley immediately followed Zhao Weiguo, their eyes lit up.

Seeing Zhao Weiguo being surrounded by children, Xu Tao laughed unconsciously.

After finally leaving Laoba Alley, the family of three came to the photo studio. During this period, the cost of taking pictures is not cheap, and the photo film will be exposed again, so when taking pictures, they are very careful, and the photo studio master is also very cautious. A photo, after all, film cannot be wasted.

"Come here, hey, yes."

"Smile, don't be too serious, the two of you can get closer."

"Children, come here, look at Uncle's side."

"Yes, keep it like this, eggplant!

" The master held the camera with his reading glasses, and reminded him while taking pictures. Xu Tao felt like a wooden man.

After the filming was finally finished, Xu Tao had already stopped thinking about taking pictures. She always felt that the pictures she took should be extra stiff. Zhao Weiguo seemed to be the same.

A few days later, when Xu Tao got the photo, she also confirmed her hunch. She and Zhao Weiguo both took pictures unnaturally, but the child was grinning.

"Look at you, you're laughing so stupidly." Xu Tao returned home and took a look at the photo, pointing at the kid and Zhao Linan above to complain.

"Not stupid, Mom, I look good." Zhao Linan puffed up his cheeks unwillingly after seeing Xu Tao pointing at him and saying that it was him who was stupid.

"It's not stupid, stupid." Xu Tao teased him deliberately.

"Ah! Mom." Zhao Linan immediately clambered up to Xu Tao's lap: "Xiao Nan is not stupid!"

"Okay, Xiao Nan is the best looking."

Now that the child is narcissistic, Xu Tao is not happy when he says that he is not good-looking. Every day, he asks Xu Tao to compliment him. Hearing her say that she is awesome, the child is proud of his small chest.

"It's time for you to feed your chick. Also, you didn't turn over the soil for the shit that the chick pooped today." Xu Tao put the child down and reminded the child by the way.

"..." The fun of raising chickens has disappeared. The child can still watch the chickens happily for a few days. When the chickens poop, he will bury them in soil.

Now the child is lazy: "Mom, the chicken is so troublesome." Frowning and complaining, the child hangs on Xu Tao's lap.

"You said you want to raise chickens, you can't give up halfway." Xu Tao reminded the child in a serious tone.

Xu Tao can be accustomed to children and even spoil them, but in terms of responsibility, Xu Tao will never allow children to give up when they say they give up. Pampering can easily destroy children, and she will not blindly spoil children regardless of right and wrong.

Chapter 37
Zhao Linan immediately acted coquettishly at Xu Tao: "Mom!"

"Is Xiao Nan disobedient?" Xu Tao looked down at the child, not planning to back down on this kind of thing.

"..." Zhao Linan felt a little dizzy, but he still didn't want to feed the chickens.

Xu Tao also knew that this was just a small matter, but she did not soften her heart because of it. She squatted down and stretched out her hand to pull the awkward child closer, cupping the child's cheeks with both hands, and asked him seriously: "Xiao Nan, mother asked you , is the chick you want to buy?"

"Yes." Zhao Linan didn't dare to look at Xu Tao with a guilty conscience.

"Then have you promised your mother to feed the chickens yourself?" Xu Tao continued to ask.

"Yes." Zhao Linan pouted in grievance: "But chicks are annoying, I don't like chicks anymore." So can you not be a shit shovel officer for chicks every day? The child blinked and explained, not feeling that he was wrong.

"Then mom doesn't like Xiao Nan anymore. Mom doesn't like children who don't talk." Xu Tao loosened Zhao Linan's face and stood up.

Zhao Linan immediately grabbed Xu Tao's sleeves with both hands. Hearing that Xu Tao said he didn't like him, the child was so anxious that he almost cried: "Mom, I want to like

him." He looked at the chicks wandering in the yard with the children: "When Xiao Nan feeds the chickens and takes good care of the chickens, mother likes Xiao Nan."

"..." Zhao Linan stood pitifully and looked at Xu Tao. Trying to judge the seriousness in her words.

Xu Tao also looked at the child quietly, the mother and son looked at each other, and neither let anyone else.

"Humph!" In the end, Zhao Linan was defeated, and the child snorted angrily at Xu Tao, turned around and stepped on his short legs to feed the chickens and act as a shovel officer for the chickens.

Xu Tao hooked her lips and looked at the child's angry back, turned around and continued to look at the photo with a smile, while poking the child who was smiling brightly in the photo with her index finger.

"Little devil." Muttering softly, Xu Tao put away the photos, ready to buy a photo album to store photos when she has time.

Most of the photos now are not plastic, so they must be stored carefully, otherwise they will be easily damaged.

Although Zhao Linan reluctantly continued to be the chicken shovel officer, the child was still very reliable. He fed the chickens and buried the chicken feces. After doing these things, the child immediately rushed into the small living room. Talk to Xu Tao who is writing a novel.

"Mom, feed me, you like me!" As he spoke, the child stretched out his hands towards Xu Tao.

As soon as Xu Tao saw the child's dirty and unwashed hands, her head was buzzing with pain. Seeing that her little claws were about to reach out to grab her skirt, she reached out and quickly grabbed the child's wrist, her body flexibly avoiding it. .

"Mom!" Zhao Linan blinked.

Xu Tao took a deep breath and said helplessly: "Xiao Nan, mother knows that you love deeply, but you don't have to bring chicken shit to touch mother, okay?"

Xu Tao, who is a bit clean, said he couldn't bear the heavy and flavorful love of the kid. live there!

"Mom." Zhao Linan puffed up his cheeks: "I like me!" The child kept jumping a few times while talking, so anxious that he could not wait to jump on Xu Tao.

"I seriously suspect that you are deliberately disgusting mother, but there is no evidence." Raising her hand to squeeze the child's nose, Xu Tao helplessly grabbed Zhao Linan with one hand and took him to the sink in the yard: "Wash your hands, wash more often. Wash it a few times."

"Mom, you don't love me anymore." Zhao Linan lowered his head and started to wash his hands, feeling that he was rejected.

The child who looked like a resentful woman was very sad. She pouted her mouth and washed her hands and rubbed her hands.

"After feeding the chicks, wash your hands immediately, okay?" Xu Tao couldn't help but reached out and pinched the child's ears as a warning.

If this little devil dares to smear chicken shit on her, she can make his ass bloom and let her experience a complete childhood happiness.

"Humph." Zhao Linan hummed at Xu Tao.

"Aren't you happy?"

"Mom dislikes me." Zhao Linan complained sadly.

"Mom didn't despise you. Mom just despised children who didn't like to wash their hands and don't pay attention to hygiene." Xu Tao replied to Zhao Linan with a smile.

In fact, she knew that Zhao Linan loved cleanliness. Every time the child came back from playing in the alley, he would take the initiative to wash his hands.

"Oh." Zhao Linan snorted, walked to the towel rack, stretched out his chubby hand and wiped it off on the towel, and then turned back: "It's clean!"

"Well, my Xiaonan is a clean child again. "Xu Tao smiled and held the child's face, leaned in for a kiss, and successfully soothed the awkward child, and a single kiss resolved the child's dissatisfaction.

"Okay, let's go and play by yourself!" Xu Tao saw that the child was happy, so she sent the child to play.

Since Zhao Linan was at home, Xu Tao couldn't sit down and write a manuscript with peace of mind.

After Zhao Linan got Xu Tao's permission, he happily walked to the small living room and went out to play with a new box of glass bead checkers bought by Xu Tao.

In the alley of Old Eighth Alley, Zhao Linan was holding a glass bead checkers box, looked at Shitou and asked, "Brother Shitou, what's the matter with you?" Zhao Linan usually came out with toys, and everyone would be very happy.

As soon as he came out today, he saw a group of friends headed by Shi Shi who were sitting under the eaves in a daze, and Shi Shi was dozing off against the wall.

"Oh, I'm so sleepy, my brother is so annoying." Shitou blinked sleepily, since his brother was born, Shitou has been worried, and he can't even be interested in toy cars these days.

"I really want to lose him." Stone continued to complain, and he couldn't help himself.

Shitou never imagined that his younger brother would cry so much, cry when he was pulled, cry when he was hungry, cry anytime and anywhere, and his whole body was still soft and yellow, not cute at all.

"Brother can't be thrown away." The children persuaded Shishi to stop him from this terrible thought.

Zhao Linan also nodded in agreement.

"I know." This is what bothers Stone the most.

"Wow-wow--" Just as the children were talking, the children's crying sounded again from the Shishi family.

"I'm crying again! Ah! It's so annoying!" Shi Shi immediately covered his ears with his collapsed hands and shook his head, trying to shake the baby's magical sound through his ears.

"Well, your brother is crying." He Hua stretched her neck to look at Shi Shi's house, and then whispered.

"Definitely!" Shitou supported his chin with one hand and said, who could have his younger brother cry in this alley.

His younger brother may have cried. He cried every day, for a long time, during the day and at night. He cried so much that he couldn't sleep. He was so pitiful.

"Little brother is still young, so he won't cry when he grows up." He Hua is a girl, and the little girl doll is very understanding, and gently pats Shitou's legs to comfort him as he talks.

Shitou waved his hand and was worried, he didn't even want to mention his younger brother, he leaned against the wall and continued to doze off.

After Fan Qiumei gave birth to her child, she didn't rest well these days, her husband Sun Tonghai couldn't sleep, and her son Shitou couldn't sleep either, because the younger son cried almost day and night.

The Lin family is separated from it by a wall. The sound insulation of the house is not good these days. The Lin family's house is still an old building with tattered windows. Almost every neighbor next door can hear anything about it.

Fan Qiumei's youngest son cried every day, and Mrs. Lin's forbearance collapsed directly.

Boom-boom-

Old Mrs. Lin with a dark face, holding a thick wood matchstick, grabbing a large aluminum iron basin, moving a stool, standing on the edge of the courtyard wall, banging bang, The sound is particularly loud.

"Cry, cry, cry all day long. It's really noisy. If you can't do it, you can just throw it in the toilet and drown to save trouble." Mrs. Lin stood in her yard, and after knocking on the aluminum basin He cursed loudly.

Fan Qiumei is lying in the bedroom. She is currently in confinement period. When she hears her son crying, she also has a headache. The younger son is obviously much more difficult to take care of than Shishi. When Shishi was a child, he basically ate and slept. She thought that children should be well cared for, but Cheng Xiang wanted the new born son to cry every day.

Although the baby was very small, the cry was like a magic voice piercing the ears, which was very tormenting. Fan Qiumei was almost irritated by the baby's crying.

Fan Qiumei sighed helplessly, picked up her son and opened the diaper made of cotton cloth wrapped around the child's body, and found that the child had pulled a diaper. His diapers were also kept in the yard. Her husband, Sun Tonghai, was busy at work and didn't have time to wash them, or maybe he didn't want to wash them.

Fan Qiumei suddenly became angry and collapsed, and the child was crying again. Fortunately, the weather was still hot, so she was not afraid that the child would catch a cold. Fan Qiumei took a piece of her own clothes to cushion the child's buttocks, and came out to go to the door and call the stone home to help him watch. Brother, I was hurriedly washing and drying a bunch of diapers.

After all, children's diapers these days are made of old clothes, and they have to be changed and washed many times.

Fan Qiumei had just walked to the yard when she suddenly heard a violent beating sound from the Lin family next door, the sound was so loud that she was scared half of her life.

"Wow—" The little son in the room was also frightened by the sudden sound, and the sound disappeared after crying.

Fan Qiumei finally calmed down herself, and couldn't help but panic, but she heard old lady Lin's loud abuse.

Fan Qiumei couldn't hold back, and she started to curse back at the wall, holding her son's diaper in her hand, and threw it into the yard next door: "You damn old woman, wait for me, you scare me. Son, I want you to look good."

Boom-boom-

Old Mrs. Lin looked at the diaper that was thrown over, and continued to tap the washbasin in her hands to demonstrate. , Mrs. Lin can sit in the yard and knock all day, making the next door noisy.

"Stone." Fan Qiumei walked to the gate of the courtyard with a throbbing forehead, and called out to her eldest son, "Stone."

"Brother Stone, your mother called you!" The little friend reminded Shito.

Shitou opened his eyes sleepily and walked to the door: "Mom, what's wrong?"

"Your brother pooped, and he didn't wash a pile of diapers. You go home and help your mother watch your brother, and mother wants to wash the diapers. "Fan Qiumei called the stone back with a calm face, her face full of helplessness.

"Oh!" Shishi said, and went home to take care of his younger brother in distress.

Fan Qiumei began to wash diapers in the yard, feeling extremely aggrieved.

In the past, her mother told her that a person could not marry a person without a mother-in-law. She thought naively, thinking that without a mother-in-law, it would save the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and she could be the master of the house as soon as she entered the house.

When she gave birth to the stone, her mother's elder brother was not married yet, so she asked her mother to serve her confinement.

But when she gave birth to her second child, her mother-in-law's sister-in-law happened to be in confinement. Her mother couldn't take care of her. She had to do everything by herself. Sun Tonghai was a man, and he was not very good at taking care of people. He didn't have any diapers. Washed once.

She also knows that she is currently in confinement period, and she can't be tired, but confinement confinement can support her body, and that must be under conditions permitting. If the diapers are not washed now, the child will be naked.

Fan Qiumei scrubbed the diaper aggrievedly, and regretted that she didn't listen to her mother at the beginning. If she married a family with a mother-in-law, she wouldn't have to do everything by herself now, alas!

...

Xu Tao was sitting in the small living room at home writing a novel. She also heard the general noise next door, but didn't pay much attention to it.

Because they lived opposite, Fan Qiumei's child was crying, but the two houses were not only separated by an alley but also separated by two yards. Although they could occasionally hear a little child crying, they were not particularly irritable.

Moreover, Xu Tao felt that even if the child cried a lot, this old lady of the Lin family was really disgusting, not to mention, she also scolded such vicious words.

Xu Tao shook her head speechlessly, and sat in the living room to continue writing the novel.

The novel "Fate Come So Close", Xu Tao originally planned to finish it in about three months, but the publishing house read the magazine's release, and the response to the novel's serialization was also good, so I asked Xu Tao to lengthen the novel's plot, so that After the serialization of "Fate Come So Close" ended, it was divided into two volumes and published.

When Xu Tao heard that it was going to be published, she lengthened the original short story appropriately, and wrote a bit of abusive scenes to whet the appetite of the readers. After all, the heroine is tortured these days. There aren't that many shitty plots.

Xu Tao abused it very well, and she was happy to write it herself.

When Zhao Weiguo came back from get off work, Xu Tao also wrote all the updates for today, and was arranging the manuscript, waiting to transcribe it and mail it to the publishing house.

"You seem to be in a good mood today." Zhao Weiguo raised his eyebrows and asked when he saw Xu Tao's raised mouth.

"Well, it's okay." Xu Tao nodded and smiled, then took out the photo and shook it in front of Zhao Weiguo: "The photos are all washed, do you want to take a look?

" Yellow envelope bag, pour the photo out.

That day, their family of three took more than a dozen photos, individual photos, a group photo of Xu Tao and Zhao Weiguo, and a lot of group photos of a family of three.

The technology of photo studios has not yet reached the standard these days. Whether the photos taken are good-looking or not, the skills of the photographers are very important, and the beauty of the people who take pictures must also pass the test.

"This one is good." Zhao Weiguo said after seeing all the photos, holding one of the family portraits.

Xu Taocuo glanced aside, and found that Zhao Linan had the funniest laugh, and it happened to be Xu Tao and Zhao Weiguo who were more natural.

"I like this one too." Xu Tao nodded: "I asked the master of the photo studio to help me to add a few more photos today, and I should be able to get them tomorrow.

" ." Zhao Weiguo said again with a separate photo of Xu Tao, looking at Xu Tao who was wearing a long dress and smiling.

"I think this photo of you alone looks good." Xu Tao likes Zhao Weiguo's personal photo.

The photo of this man wearing a military uniform alone is really handsome, and the family portrait is also handsome, but the atmosphere is different, making Zhao Weiguo wearing a military uniform much softer.

As for his single photo, the whole person shows a fierce aura, just like an unsheathed sword, which is very handsome.

"Do you like this one?" Zhao Weiguo put his arms around Xu Tao's waist gently, and the couple leaned against each other warmly.

"Well, I like it." Xu Tao nodded and admitted.

Zhao Weiguo was content to hug the woman's slender waist and chuckled: "I'll shoot more from now on." After speaking, he asked for dinner, "What's for dinner?"

"I bought a fish at noon and kept it in a water basin. Now, what do you want to eat?"

"Braised!"

"Okay, then you clean up the fish." Xu Tao nodded.

When Zhao Weiguo got the order, he went to the kitchen to take out the fish raised in the water basin. He tapped the fish head with a firewood stick to knock it unconscious. He took the large kitchen knife that Xu Tao was holding, and was about to open the fish. When he broke his stomach, he saw Zhao Linan hurriedly running back from the outside.

"Dad, Mom, it's not good!" Zhao Linan rushed in front of Zhao Weiguo and Xu Tao, and Xiaozui kept shouting.

"What's wrong?" Xu Tao held the child's shoulders and asked Zhao Linan to stop.

Zhao Linan gasped, but looked at the large sharp kitchen knife in Zhao Weiguo's hand, and asked with a small mouth, "Dad, what are you doing?"

"Kill the fish! What's wrong?" Zhao Weiguo looked at the child suspiciously.

His son of Zhao Weiguo would not be frightened by him killing fish with a kitchen knife! so timid?

"Oh!" Zhao Linan relaxed. Seeing the child's relaxed sigh

, Xu Tao asked, "What did you just say?"

It's easy to get distracted, so ask your child patiently.

She was also curious, what would be the big deal that could make the child cry in such a hurry.

"Wow, Mom, Brother Stone is crying, Mother Stone is crying too. Dad Stone is very angry and said that he is going to chop off the mother of the big cock. Now he is sharpening his knife!" .

Neither Xu Tao nor Zhao Weiguo understood the specific things the child said.

What stone cry, Shi Shi's mother also cry, what happened to Fan Qiumei's family? Xu Tao and Zhao Weiguo looked at each other, and some of them could see each other's doubts.

Xu Tao and Zhao Linan got along a lot, and it was only from the child's long explanation that he suddenly understood the general meaning.

"Let's go to the opposite side first!" Xu Tao and Zhao Weiguo said.

"Well, I'll take a look." Zhao Weiguo put down the knife, threw the fish into the basin, and washed his hands quickly.

Xu Tao also hugged Zhao Linan, and the child would shrink into Xu Tao's arms in fear: "Is Big Rooster's mother that fierce mother-in-law ?

"

..." Xu Tao's eyes widened in shock, and Zhao Weiguo also heard what Xu Tao asked Zhao Linan, so he went out without wiping his hands.

Xu Tao followed Zhao Linan and walked out, and saw Sun Tonghai holding a kitchen knife, walking out of his house with a gloomy face, standing at the door of Lin's house and starting to kick the door frantically.

Bang bang bang -

Sun Tonghai kicked the Lin family several times.

"Open the door, open the door for me, I'm going to cut you mean old woman today, I have sharpened my knife, open the door for me if you have the ability, see if I dare to cut you to death!" He kicked the door of Lin's house a few times and cursed.

"If I hack you to death, I will go to jail by myself. You open the door! You dare to scare my newborn son. The child is terrified. Why are you hiding at home now, are you still afraid of death?"

"Dad, Woohoo... I'm afraid!" Shitou stood behind him and cried, sobbing.

"Sun Tonghai..." Fan Qiumei stood behind the stone and wiped away her tears. The woman who was still in confinement couldn't cry and looked very bad.

"Stone, in the future you will take your brother and follow your mother to your grandmother's house. Be good, don't cry." Sun Tonghai heard the cries of his wife and children behind him. I'll let you all suffer."

When he came back from work today, he knew that the wife and child of the confinement child had been bullied by the next door, and the youngest son was usually crying and troubled, but the old woman next door held a big aluminum pot in the afternoon. Knock, directly scared the child, it is normal for children to cry, and some children are really difficult to raise when they are young.

But the old woman next door was particularly vicious. When she knocked in the afternoon, the child who was crying was stunned. She didn't cry and didn't make any noise. She opened her mouth and cried without making a sound. This made Sun Tonghai's emotions immediately collapse.

Fan Qiumei also found out when he returned to the room after washing the child's diapers. Shitou was with his brother in the room, and the younger brother didn't cry. Shitou even told Fan Qiumei strangely that his brother finally stopped crying and was very good.

Fan Qiumei also found it strange, so she stepped forward to tease the child. The child usually makes noises when he is not crying, but now she was teasing him, but the child did not make any sound, as if his throat was blocked by something. like.

Fan Qiumei panicked immediately. She coaxed the child for a long time and the child didn't respond. He simply took off the old clothes and slapped the child's butt twice, but the child still didn't respond, and his heart was half cold.

When Sun Tonghai came home from get off work, Fan Qiumei was at a loss, so he told the child's situation and the afternoon's affairs, and Sun Tonghai was immediately aggrieved.

As a fatherless man, he was not very sensible when he was young, so he lived a normal life. Now he works in a factory every month, and earning a little salary is only enough for daily expenses. Although he is not careful enough, he does not know how to take care of confinement months. The wife of a child, but she will not watch her wife and children being bullied like this.

What's more, just a few days after his youngest son was born? It is not normal for children to cry and cry. The vicious old woman next door even knocked loudly with the washbasin, scaring the child.

The more Sun Tonghai thought about it, the more angry he became. Standing in his own yard, he scolded the Lin family. The two scolded each other fiercely. At the back, Sun Tonghai simply went to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife to sharpen, and was going to chop up the old lady Lin next door.

When Mrs. Lin heard that Sun Tonghai was sharpening her knife and was going to hack her to death, she was immediately frightened and blocked her own door.

This old woman is usually rude, unreasonable, mean, and vicious, but she is still very afraid of death.

Sun Tonghai was obviously so angry that she lost her mind, and she wasn't stupid, so naturally she didn't dare to provoke at this time, so she could only hide in the room and keep silent.

"Aren't you still in confinement? Why did you come out?" Xu Tao originally hugged Zhao Linan, fearing that the outside would be chaotic and the child would have an accident.

Seeing that the Lin family was hiding at home with the door closed, Fan Qiumei and Shitou were leaning against each other and almost threw themselves out crying, so Xu Tao put down Zhao Linan and stepped forward to ask.

"Woooo..." Fan Qiumei couldn't stop crying when she saw Xu Tao come out and other neighbors came out.

"My little tree was crying a little. The old lady Lin knocked on the aluminum pot in the afternoon and scared the child. The child can't make a sound now. Tong Hai was worried that the child was not good, so he quarreled with the Lin family and said that he would cut it down. That old lady." Fan Qiumei said, also very at a loss.

The situation of the young child is not right. During the confinement period, the husband loses his senses and becomes extremely angry. The stone is still young and has never seen a child who has never seen a storm, so he will just cry.

"You go back to the house first, don't cry, you can't cry when you are confinement, your eyes will be blinded." Yu Li also came over and helped Fan Qiumei, ready to persuade people to go back to the house.

After only a few days of confinement, I saw the wind shed tears. Later, when I got old, I was designated to have confinement disease.

"My Tonghai..." Fan Qiumei was worried about her man.

"It's okay, there are several men here! Don't worry." Xu Tao replied.

The trouble was so serious that all the neighbors at home came out, Zhao Weiguo was there, so were the other neighbors, and Yu Li's man He Xin was also there.

What's more, the Lin family didn't open the door, Sun Tonghai wouldn't break the door if he lost control, and a kitchen knife couldn't split a door.

"Yeah." Fan Qiumei nodded and went home.

Xu Tao and Yu Li sent Fan Qiumei to the room together. The two also looked at the condition of her youngest son, who was indeed a little shy.

"It must have scared the soul." Yu Li said after touching the child.

Some crying children are afraid of noise and quiet. When the children are afraid, they will cry, and they will be quiet when they are scared. This situation is indeed not very good.

No wonder Sun Tonghai was so dazed that he wanted to chop people, how happy he was to have a son, and he was so frightened that if he didn't see it well, what would happen in the future.

Xu Tao and Yu Li looked at each other, a little helpless.

"What can I do!" Fan Qiumei couldn't help crying while holding the child.

"Go back and ask the old man at home what to do in this situation? Although the old method is not reliable, it sometimes works." Yu Li persuaded Fan Qiumei.

"Yes, I'll ask my mother tomorrow to see if she can do anything." Fan Qiumei nodded in agreement immediately.

These days, people don't take this aspect of superstition on the bright side, but the children are frightened, and there are many ways to call the soul.

Chapter 38
Xu Tao stood aside and was speechless when she heard the conversation between Yu Li and Fan Qiumei. At this time, she still considered asking the old man for feudal methods? Shouldn't the child be taken to the hospital?

Xu Tao was silent for a while, and after seeing that Fan Qiumei seemed to really listen to Yu Li's words, she sighed: "I think it's better to take the child to the hospital quickly and see what the doctor has to say."

Fan Qiumei heard Xu Tao's consolation and endured it. She couldn't stop raising her hand to wipe her tears: "I don't have money, I don't have money to take my child to the hospital. If we had money, we would have gone there long ago." If it weren't for the embarrassment of the conditions, how could she have been discharged from the hospital overnight after giving birth, and even went home. Don't dare to spend the night in the hospital.

"..." Xu Tao blinked, not seeming to have thought of this situation.

Xu Tao knows that these days are difficult to live in. There are many families who break a penny into two petals. At present, the average salary of most people is only over forty a month, and Sun Tonghai's monthly salary seems to be only sixty. The 60 yuan is still due to seniority, and the 60 yuan is obviously not enough for the daily expenses of a family of three.

"The factory where my family works in Tonghai has not been doing well in the past few months, and I barely get a salary of 40 yuan a month. When I go home after giving birth, my pockets are cleaner than my face." Fan Qiumei choked, Speaking of his own situation is also very broken.

"If it weren't for the lack of money, Stone would have been sent to school long ago. He's almost eight years old, and he still plays at the alley every day. Woohoo, why is my life so hard!" Fan Qiumei said and was very sad.

She herself did not expect that life would be so restrained, and the children could not afford to pay for school fees, so she gave birth to a second child.

Xu Tao listened to Fan Qiumei's words with a heavy heart, and only then did she realize that there were not many families in this alley that had a good life. For example, Xu Tao and his wife, both of whom had jobs and earned a lot of money, were really rare.

Xu Tao and Zhao Weiguo, one is in transportation. Transportation is a more popular industry these days. Zhao Weiguo's salary to Xu Tao in the past two months adds up to a small thousand, not including his extra income from long-distance travel to the Shanghai market. Xu Tao wrote and serialized the book by herself, and there are hundreds of them every month.

"We'll find a way to raise some money for you first, and you can take the child to the hospital for a look. The child is important now." Xu Tao was silent for a while and then spoke to appease Fan Qiumei.

But he didn't directly say how much money he helped to raise. Xu Tao also knew the intention of not revealing the wealth. Although everyone was a neighbor, he should not be too arrogant.

Yu Li stood aside and heard Xu Tao say that she was helping to collect money, and her expression was a little helpless.

There are very few people living well in the alley. Although Yu Li's family is stronger than Fan Qiumei, it is not that strong. The couple still have to send more than half of their money home to support the elderly. He Xin's father a few days ago When their legs fell, the burden on their husband and wife was even heavier, and there was almost no money left in their hands.

Her own family is stretched thin, where can she have the kindness to spare money to help other people's families.

"Lao He and I haven't been paid this month's salaries." Yu Li said with an unnatural expression: "He Xin's father broke his leg a few days ago, and we all have some money to send back to our hometown. It 's over."

Yu Li and her husband He Xin are both from other provinces, and the husband and wife have little education, so they can only work in a nearby paper mill. Just living.

"..." Xu Tao listened to what Yu Li said, and was a little passive again.

She couldn't bear Fan Qiumei's situation, but she knew that borrowing money would be a bottomless pit, so she hesitated.

Fan Qiumei was not surprised after hearing what Yu Li said, and the conditions of Yu Li's family were not good, but she just looked at Xu Tao with hope and expectation.

The conditions of the Zhao family are good, and Zhao Weiguo can also make money. Xu Tao wrote a book about making money, but she did not publicize it. People in the alley thought that Xu Tao had no job, but the conditions of the Zhao family were obvious to all. The people who lived in this alley, It's not bad to have occasional meat and fishy at home for a month.

The Zhao family could buy meat and kill chickens every three days. Fan Qiumei was confinement at home, and she couldn't drink a sip of chicken soup. The only thing she ate was an old hen, which was sent by her mother's mother. Mom also packed a big bowl to take home, and she couldn't eat a few bites of meat in total.

She eats a lot during confinement, but the Zhao family can often buy fruit to eat. Zhao Linan is also very generous in sharing various snacks for children in the alley. If life is tense, how can you buy toys and snacks for children so generously .

So everyone knows more or less that the Zhao family is in good condition, at least the entire Old Eighty Lane should live the most comfortable life.

"I'll discuss with Xiao Nan's father later to see if I can lend you some money." Xu Tao was stared at by the two women and replied helplessly.

"Thank you." Fan Qiumei immediately cried and wiped away her tears.

"Don't thank you in a hurry, our family is living a normal life, and the salary expenses are not much left over each month." Xu Tao replied, not wanting to give Fan Qiumei too much hope.

She didn't want to inexplicably burden such a huge expectation, and she was a little tangled and hesitant in her heart.

Borrowing money must be borrowed. This child's situation is like this, and Xu Tao can't bear it. After all, it is a small life, but how much to borrow needs to be carefully considered.

She and Fan Qiumei are neighbors. They have only known each other for a few months, and they don't get along very much. Occasionally, they talk politely, and when it comes to financial interests, many things will become complicated.

There are many things that make mistakes in borrowing money, Xu Tao naturally has to be more cautious.

Fan Qiumei nodded and said nothing more. It was good intentions for people to lend some money. She couldn't force it if she didn't want to borrow money. Looking down at her son Xiaoshu, Fan Qiumei couldn't help feeling sad.

Xu Tao and Yu Li came out together after appeasing Fan Qiumei. After stepping out of the hospital, they found that the door of Lin's house was still open. inside.

Sun Tonghai was also sitting at the threshold of the Lin family, a dignified man, this would be both sad and pitiful, wiping his tears, making people sigh.

If it wasn't for life, if he had some money on him, he would not be so angry that he would work hard with Mrs. Lin.

Xu Tao glanced shyly and walked to Zhao Weiguo's side.

Zhao Linan's child was clinging to his father's leg. After seeing Xu Tao, the child approached Xu Tao's side and grabbed Xu Tao's hand with his little hand.

Stone had stopped crying. The child stood quietly in the alley with his head lowered. He was the king of children at the age of seven or eight, but he was very quiet at the moment, as if he had grown up and sensible in an instant.

Xu Tao looked at the neighbors around, and everyone was trying to comfort Sun Tonghai. They all understood his grievance, but they could only persuade him to calm down and be patient.

Sun Tonghai was very angry before, but now he has calmed down from crying. Everyone talks about the child and his wife. The door of Lin's house is tightly closed, and it is impossible to try his best. He also has a wife and children, so he stood up and said Stepping back home, Shi Shi followed behind and ran back.

"Let's go home too!" When Sun Tonghai returned home, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhao Weiguo also took Xu Tao's shoulders.

"Well." Xu Tao was still in a bad mood, and for the first time, she had the idea of ​​making more money.

A penny beats the hero, Sun Tonghai's emotional breakdown, Fan Qiumei's crying, and the sudden growth of the stone are all caused by money, but if you have some money in your hand, it will not become like this.

Zhao Weiguo and Xu Tao brought Zhao Linan home, and Zhao Linan was also a little dejected: "Mom, brother Shitou is so sad."

"Well, yes! You can comfort him tomorrow." Xu Tao touched the child's head and looked at him With Zhao Weiguo, he also talked about the situation of Sun Tonghai's family.

"They don't have any money, so they don't plan to send the children to the hospital. They are still thinking of finding some superstitious methods of old remedies, such as calling souls. I think it's very unreliable." Xu Tao said with a full tone. Is not agree.

"The child is frightened, and it is useless to see the doctor." Zhao Weiguo replied, but he also felt that the child should be sent to the hospital: "How much do you want to lend to them?"

Help must be helped. After all, she was still a child. Zhao Weiguo also understood Xu Tao's character and was kind and soft-hearted, so he directly asked her about borrowing money.

"I'm also a little unsure of how much to borrow." Xu Tao was worried.

She spends a lot of money, and she has no experience of living in hardships. Zhao Weiguo pays her money on time every month. She also makes money by writing novels herself. Xu Tao naturally does not have much money concept.

"It's almost enough to get 30 yuan!" Zhao Weiguo was very clear about the value of money these days.

"Okay." Xu Tao heard the words and had no opinion.

Thirty yuan, Sun Tonghai's half-month salary, can also solve their urgent needs, and it is enough for them to take the child to the hospital to check the specific situation.

"I'm going to kill the fish." After the commotion, it was already dark, and the family of three usually had dinner early, so today was delayed.

"I'll take 30 yuan and send it to the other side."

Xu Tao turned back to the room, took out a box from the drawer of the cabinet and opened it. There was some loose money in the box, and she reached out and ordered three big unity.

"Mom, Xiao Nan together." When Zhao Linan saw Xu Tao come out, the child came over and grabbed Xu Tao's hand.

Xu Tao didn't stop either, and took the child out to Sun Tonghai's house. When Sun Tonghai returned home, he sat in the main room and blamed himself, still silent.

Fan Qiumei cried and prepared to cook. Shitou stood quietly at the door of the bedroom to accompany his younger brother, his expression was a little decadent. Obviously, the family hadn't pulled away from what happened.

"Sister Qiumei, this is 30 yuan. Take the money and take the child to the hospital first!" Xu Tao put the money on the small table in the living room.

"Thank you, thank you." Fan Qiumei thanked her with a choked sob. She was in the kitchen and her hands were still wet. Seeing Xu Tao put down thirty yuan, she immediately wiped her apron with her hands excitedly.

"Then I'll go home and cook first, it's not too early." Xu Tao didn't say much, and after putting down the money, he took Zhao Linan and turned to go home.

"Auntie!" Xu Tao took Zhao Linan out of the yard and was about to step into the gate of his house when a stone's voice called from behind him.

Because Shi Shi was playing in the alley, the children were dark, and there were no street lights in the alley, only the dim light in Zhao's living room, Xu Tao led Zhao Linan back against the light.

Stone stood below, looking up at Xu Tao. Unlike the daring little monkey before, the child stood upright at the moment, bowed gratefully towards Xu Tao, and when he got up, the child solemnly and earnestly opened his mouth to thank: "Auntie, thank you!"

Shitou had never understood it before. He was foolishly happy in the alley, and went home for dinner at the hour. Although three meals a day were not rich, as long as he was not hungry, children did not have too many concepts of rich and poor. , But today, looking at the collapsed father and the crying mother, he suddenly realized a lot of things.

Their family is too poor, and their family is too weak!

"It's a small matter, go home quickly!" Xu Tao smiled at Shitou.

Shitou nodded and then turned around and ran home. Xu Tao and Zhao Linan stood there, watching Shitou return home, before they stepped into the house.

Zhao Weiguo had already handled the fish in the yard, and the fish scales had been scraped clean. When Xu Tao came back, he took over and got into the kitchen to start cooking.

At the dinner table, Xu Tao gave Zhao Linan green vegetables to eat. After Xu Tao's training, although the children would not take the initiative to eat green vegetables, but Xu Tao Jia gave them to children, and the children would obediently eat them.

"I will get the photos tomorrow. When you mail them home, you can also send 100 yuan to your family. I also want to send 100 yuan to my mother's family. Is that ok?" Xu Taojia finished Qingcai and Zhao Weiguo suggested .

She had neglected a lot of things before, she only closed the door to live a peaceful life, writing novels to make money, Zhao Weiguo went to get off work every day, came home on time, and wrote letters from her hometown. Once Mother Xu felt unwell, everything else was basically commonplace.

The same is true in Zhao Wei's country. Zhao's mother and Zhao's father asked them to take care of themselves, and they didn't say anything else. They only asked them if they were in Yangcheng and if Zhao Linan was okay.

"It's up to you to decide." Zhao Weiguo naturally wouldn't have an opinion.

His money and salary are with Xu Tao, and Xu Tao also makes money, so it is reasonable to send some money back to her parents' family.

"Yeah." Xu Tao nodded and looked at Zhao Linan. The child didn't have enough energy to eat today: "Eat, why are you in a daze."

"Mom, what happened to Brother Stone's brother?" The child didn't understand, although he watched the whole process Probably, but don't know exactly what happened.

The child was a little worried just because Brother Stone also cried.

"His brother is not feeling well." Xu Tao carefully held the braised fish with chopsticks for the child: "Eat the fish, put it in your mouth and eat slowly, be careful of the fish bones."

"Okay." The child swallowed the food in his mouth, Start eating with braised fish.

"I don't know if the child will be alright. When I first went to see it, I didn't look very energetic." Xu Tao looked back at the child and talked to Zhao Weiguo with some emotion.

"It must have been frightening, and it may be fine in a few days." Zhao Weiguo answered with a normal attitude.

Newborn babies are relatively fragile, and it is not unusual for many children to be frightened.

"I hope so." After all, a child of that age was only a few days old when he was suddenly frightened. Children in this period are prone to accidents.

This is indeed the case. Sun Tonghai and his wife took the 30 yuan that Xu Tao borrowed and went to the hospital. After the doctor knew that the child was frightened, he suggested that the couple take the child home and take care of it for a while. Surprised, the doctor's examination couldn't find out why, but only explained that after taking it home, it needs to be taken care of, and maybe it will return to normal.

But on the night that Sun Tonghai and his wife brought their child home, the little baby developed a high fever and burned in a daze all night, which made the couple anxious all night.

There are no elders in Sun Tonghai's family, but there are many family members of Fan Qiumei.

Her daughter was bullied during her confinement period. When Fan's mother learned the news, she ran to see her daughter with her two sons. Fan's mother was very aggressive and broke into Lin's house with her two sons. Mrs. Lin was afraid and took a knife from Sun Tonghai. In the beginning, the door of Lin's house was never opened.

Fan's mother didn't let the Lin family go. She stood in the yard and yelled at the Lin family. Everyone knew how to scold her. She even let her two sons go over the wall to the Lin family and smashed a lot of things in the Lin family.

The old lady Lin was so anxious that she screamed, but she didn't dare to stop it. The two sons of the Lin family, including the grandson Lin Xiaoqiang, were also cowardly. It was smashed, tableware and stove were all spared.

Lin Fang wanted to stop her, but it was useless for her to be a woman. She was stared at by Fan Qiumei's two brothers, so she also took a break and hid aside.

The Lin family was smashed, and many people in the alley knew that Fan's mother didn't even want to be sneaky, and she let out her anger in an upright manner. The old lady of the Lin family was aggrieved, crying that the pot was smashed. No one sympathized with the Lin family.

"It really deserves it." Xu Tao also heard the movement of the Lin family at home, and Fan Qiumei's two older brothers slammed it hard.

Sure enough, wicked people have to be harassed by wicked people. In the past, Mrs. Lin, who was mean to Fan Qiumei's own mother, immediately weakened her fighting power. Xu Tao felt relieved about this.

...

After such a commotion in the old eight alleys, the originally harmonious alleys have become quiet. In the past, Shishi often brought a group of children to laugh and play under the sun, but now there is no more. Shishi seems to be a different person. Start sensible help at home.

Zhou Haizhi is young, but because of family reasons, the children will not only play in the alleys at first, but also walk outside to pick up garbage for life. The children leave the house early every morning and only come home after dark. Regardless of this, I heard that I am happy to be able to save some food every day.

Xu Tao knew about the changes in the alleys, but she didn't care. Life would always change, and the life of their family of three was still warm, so Xu Tao naturally wouldn't try to change anything.

It was still very hot in Yangcheng in November, but it rained occasionally. After dinner, it started to rain outside. Xu Tao and Zhao Weiguo both saved the time to water the vegetables and lay down together in the room after dinner. Coax Zhao Linan to sleep.

Zhao Linan actually knew that every time his parents waited for him to fall asleep, he would quietly go to the next door to sleep. He woke up several times in the middle of the night and wanted to pee. It was his father Zhao Weiguo who came to take him to pee.

After he woke up several times in the middle of the night, Zhao Weiguo began to control him to drink water after dinner. Gradually, Zhao Linan rarely got up at night, and he was dissatisfied with his parents' cruel behavior of letting him sleep alone. current habit.

Anyway, before going to bed, his mother was with him!

After Xu Tao finished telling the story in her head, she went to the bookstore to buy a few short story books, which were quite characteristic of this era. Today, Xu Tao read a small story to the children.

The story is quite interesting, even with some suspense of this period, Xu Tao was also quite fascinated by reading it, and also felt that it was quite artistic in this quiet rainy night.

"It seems that someone is knocking on the door." Zhao Weiguo was sitting next to him, reading a military book, listening to Xu Tao reading a story next to him.

Just when Xu Tao talked about the key part, Zhao Linan listened attentively, Zhao Weiguo who was reading a book suddenly opened his mouth and said something.

"Oh! Stop talking nonsense and scaring people." Xu Tao's eyes widened in horror.

"Mom! Wow, there's a ghost!" Zhao Linan immediately panicked and got closer to Xu Tao. Both mother and son glared at Zhao Weiguo timidly, thinking that the man was deliberately frightening their mother and son.

"..." Zhao Weiguo couldn't help raising the corners of his lips, looked at the big and small who were huddled together, and sighed: "It's really someone knocking on the door, I'll go take a look." Closing the book, Zhao Weiguo crawled out of bed stand up.

Only then did Xu Tao realize that Zhao Weiguo was not joking, and she pricked up her ears and vaguely heard someone knocking on the courtyard door.

Zhao Weiguo's tall figure walked out of the room and ran lightly to open the courtyard door. He saw a small Zhou Haizhi clutching a garbage bag in his hand. follow him.

"Uncle...I, can I sleep at your house for one night?" Zhou Haizhi saw that it was Zhao Weiguo who came to open the door. The child was so cold that his teeth were chattering, and at the same time he asked Zhao Weiguo at a loss.

After plucking up the courage to speak, Zhou Haizhi lowered his head.

Zhao Weiguo looked at the child, frowned, reached out and bent over to pick up the child and slammed the door shut.

Xu Tao also paid attention to the situation outside. She got up and stood by the window. When she saw that Zhao Weiguo came in with Zhou Haizhi in his arms, and Zhou Haizhi in Zhao Weiguo's arms was like a chicken in soup, she was a little surprised and shocked.

"Xiaozhi, what's wrong with you? It's still raining." Xu Tao anxiously walked to the living room with a dry towel.

Zhao Weiguo carried Zhou Haizhi in before putting it down. Zhou Haizhi was soaked all over, and he was so small that the child was so cold that his teeth were fighting.

"Auntie!" Zhou Haizhi lowered his head: "My door is locked, I, I have no place to sleep, it's raining and it's cold outside, I just want to come to your living room to hide from the rain." If it doesn't rain, the door is locked , he can also find a corner in the alley to sleep.

But it's raining today and it's cold outside! He had nowhere to lie down and was so tired and hungry.

Chapter 039 Fever
Xu Tao felt distressed when she saw Zhou Haizhi, how could Zhou Yu and the Hu family ignore a five-year-old child so well.

"Zhao Weiguo, go and burn some hot water to give him a bath first." Xu Tao wiped Zhou Haizhi's hair with a towel, and didn't mind the child's dark face after picking up garbage for a day.

Xu Tao looked at Xiaozhi's skinny, wet body, and she was obviously at a loss, but she still gave her a flattering smile, and her heart was blocked.

If possible, I even want to blow up the Hu family.

"Yeah." Zhao Weiguo responded and turned to go to the kitchen.

Zhao Linan in the room was wearing pajamas, and was about to be coaxed to fall asleep. When he heard a knock on the door and saw it was Zhou Haizhi, the child came to his senses and ran out on his little slippers: "Brother Xiaozhi, what's the matter with you? "Zhao Linan asked Zhou Haizhi with concern.

"I..."

"Don't worry about it." Xu Tao rubbed Zhao Linan's head, and she squatted down and continued to wipe Zhou Haizhi's hair.

"Auntie, I'm dirty." Zhou Haizhi ran outside for a day and picked up rubbish for a day. The child knew that he was dirty and smelled.

"It's okay." Xu Tao smiled and shook her head: "Have you not been home recently?"

Xu Tao didn't know the specific situation of Zhou Haizhi. After all, he was just a neighbor in the alley, and the surrounding neighbors actually knew about Zhou Haizhi. This child is very pitiful, but Xu Tao takes care of Zhao Linan every day and writes at home, so he doesn't care too much about things in the alleys.

Zhou Haizhi shook his head timidly.

"Mom sometimes locks the door and sometimes doesn't." It might be raining today, so I locked the door in a bad mood.

His mother hated rain, and she would scold him and beat him when it rained.

"Then what do you do when the door is locked?" Xu Tao looked at the child, her heart was going crazy, she never thought that Zhou Yu would ignore the child to such an extent, and this stubborn child was struggling to survive on his own. , the five-year-old child has nowhere to go outside in the middle of the night.

Now the outside is not like future generations. There are surveillance cameras everywhere, and street lights everywhere. After eight o'clock in the evening, the alleys outside are pitch-dark. She, an adult, is afraid to walk alone at night. Wouldn't a five-year-old child be afraid?

"There is a big rock in front of my house, so I sleep against the rock and treat it as a big brother of the rock." Zhou Haizhi said, the child does not feel hard or afraid, and the simple-minded can still enjoy the hardship.

However, Xu Tao listened to the child's answer and wanted to cry, and could even imagine the picture of how the child was sleeping under the stone, and her heart trembled. After a while, Xu Tao restrained her emotions and asked, "Have you eaten yet? Are you hungry?"

She didn't want to ask any more questions. The more she asked, the more she understood, the more she couldn't help wanting to go to the Hu's house and beat people to see if the five-year-olds didn't go home and whether they slept soundly and soundly. .

And what the Hu family did, there were old people in Laoba Alley who couldn't see it before, and they mentioned a few words to Zhou Yu.

They also say that the children belong to their family, they can raise them as they want, and they can raise them as they like, and no one can control them.

Zhou Yu is also a person who has read books. I heard people say that she graduated from junior high school, but she doesn't know what to think. Her parents' Zhou family can't stand her abuse of her nephew. She mentioned that she wanted to take Xiaozhi back to raise her. But Zhou Yu was still reluctant, saying that Xiaozhi was born to her, and there was no reason to leave a burden to her parents' family.

It sounded nice, but she insisted on keeping Zhou Haizhi, and she was unwilling to take care of Zhou Haizhi.

Zhou Haizhi's body was still shaking at the moment, his clothes were wet, and his stomach was hungry. Xu Tao asked in a soft voice, which made him relax a lot, and then shook his head gently.

"Wait a minute, go take a bath with Uncle Zhao, and Auntie will cook noodles for you." Xu Tao stroked the child's hair, stood up and led the child to the kitchen.

"Auntie, don't bother." Zhou Haizhi was embarrassed.

He only knocked on the door when he was really cold from the rain. The big rock he usually sleeps on can't block the rain, so he thought that he could come to Aunt Xu Tao's living room to sleep without the bed and the rain. Just fine.

"No trouble." Xu Tao replied with a smile.

Zhao Linan saw that Xu Tao was holding Zhou Haizhi's brother. The child was wearing small trousers and slipping to the other side of Xu Tao. The little hand held Xu Tao's other hand possessively, and then the child smirked at Zhou Haizhi.

Zhou Haizhi looked at Zhao Linan, the child's eyes were full of envy, and then lowered his head.

In fact, all the children in the alley envied Zhao Linan. No matter whether their parents loved or not, they all felt that Zhao Linan was the happiest.

"The hot water will have to wait for a while." Zhao Weiguo set the cauldron on fire, and the cauldron was also filled with water.

The current life is inconvenient, and there is no water heater, so I still have to wait for the water to heat up in a hurry. Zhao Weiguo also stuffed a few large pieces of firewood into the earthen stove, and soon the water in the pot is hot.

"I'll take the child to take a bath." Zhao Weiguo put the hot water in a bucket, carried the hot water, and beckoned Zhou Haizhi to go to the toilet to take a bath.

"Dad, I'll go too." Zhao Linan, a child likes to join in the fun, and likes to take a bath with Zhao Weiguo. Although the child has taken a bath before, the child still wants to go with him.

Xu Tao reached out and grabbed the child, preventing the child from joining in the fun. She reached out and pinched the child's nose: "Don't make trouble."

"Mom, Xiaonan didn't make trouble." She retorted with a puffed cheek, as if Xu Tao had wronged him. expression.

"If you go, you will cause trouble." Xu Tao replied angrily, and then asked the child: "Are you hungry? Mom wants to cook noodles for your brother Xiaozhi, do you want to eat it?"

"Yes." Although Zhao Linan had a good dinner The belly is round, but Xu Tao asked, and the child immediately asked for it.

"Okay!" Xu Tao was also willing to take care of the child, so she cooked a little more while cooking the noodles.

"Mom, what happened to brother Xiaozhi?" Although Zhao Linan was naive, the child was still puzzled, so when Xu Tao was cooking the noodles, Zhao Linan lowered his voice and raised his head to ask.

After Xu Tao glanced at the noodles in the pot, she bowed her head and squatted down to face the child. When she was talking about serious things, she liked to face Zhao Linan and say, "Brother Xiaozhi's mother treats him badly, he has no place today. Sleep, so after eating the noodles later, you can sleep with brother Xiaozhi, okay?"

Zhou Haizhi said that he wanted to come to the living room to hide from the rain, but the child was only five years old. Can Xu Tao be cold-hearted? She can't! Anyway, as a normal adult, she couldn't ignore Zhou Haizhi, a poor five-year-old child.

"Well, brother Xiaozhi sleeps with me! Good!" Zhao Linan grinned.

Anyway, the child also feels that every day his parents coax him to fall asleep, he wakes up in the morning and is very unhappy alone. If he sleeps with brother Xiaozhi, he should be very happy.

"Besides, my mother will bring a set of your clothes for my brother to wear. Xiaozhi's clothes are all wet and he has no clothes to wear, is that okay?" Xu Tao continued to ask the child's opinion.

She wants to wear Zhao Linan's clothes for Xiaozhi. They are about the same height. Even Xiaozhi looks thinner than Xiaonan. The clothes should fit just right. Opinion.

In this kind of matter, Xu Tao has always been open-minded and will not take children's clothes at will. Although she can directly call the shots, she can't bear Zhao Linan to be unhappy, and Zhao Linan has always been generous, so children should not mind.

"Got it! Mom! Anyone without pigs and puppies is fine." Zhao Linan was still reluctant to wear the clothes he liked.

The clothes for the little pig and the puppy were chosen by the child when Xu Tao brought the child to buy it.

"Okay, my Xiaonan is awesome." Xu Tao kissed the child's cheek in praise.

Zhao Linan immediately blushed and kissed Xu Tao. After Xu Tao and Zhao Linan discussed it, they went to the room to arrange a set of Zhao Linan's clothes and sent them to the toilet.

"Zhao Weiguo, I brought a set of Xiao Nan's clothes over. After taking a shower, let Xiao Zhi put them on."

"Okay." Zhao Weiguo opened the toilet door and took the clothes from Xu Tao's hand.

Xu Tao came back after delivering the clothes, and the noodles with vegetables and eggs cooked in the pot were ready to serve. Xu Tao took two large soup bowls and put them on the table outside.

Zhao Weiguo came back with Zhou Haizhi after taking a bath. Zhou Haizhi was very good. He basically didn't need Zhao Weiguo's help when taking a bath, but the child was young, so Zhao Weiguo helped him a lot. Zhou Haizhi was a little afraid of Zhao Weiguo at first. Always feared and worshipped.

Zhao Weiguo doesn't know how to smile. Although he is not too serious, he impresses the children in the alley with dignity.

"After washing, come and eat noodles." Xu Tao looked at Zhao Weiguo carrying a bucket, and Zhou Haizhi came back wearing Zhao Linan's clothes, which fit well, and greeted the child with a smile.

Zhou Haizhi sat at the table very cautiously. This was not the first time he came to Zhao's house for dinner. On Zhao Linan's birthday, he also came to have dinner. From that day on, the Hu family did not give food for three days. Later, he had no choice but to start going out to pick up garbage and sell it for money.

Thinking of this, Zhou Haizhi couldn't help but feel a little sore.

"Thank you Auntie." After thanking, the child started eating noodles with chopsticks.

The child must be really hungry, and Zhou Haizhi was also a little anxious.

Zhao Linan was full for dinner, but he wasn't very hungry, but the child also held a small bowl, took a sip of noodles, and asked Zhou Haizhi with a smile, "Is brother Xiaozhi delicious?"

Xu Tao felt amused when she heard the child's question. Children are naive and ignorant, and they can understand the meaning. Otherwise, occasionally what children say, they really need to be translated.

"Delicious." Xiaozhi also understood what Zhao Linan meant, so he nodded and replied.

"Well, my mother makes the best noodles." The child was very happy that the noodles cooked by his mother were praised.

"Xiaozhi eat more, Auntie cooks more." Xu Tao also sat beside, watching the two children eat noodles, Zhou Haizhi ate fast, and the small bowl quickly bottomed out, so Xu Tao filled Xiaozhi again A small bowl.

Zhao Linan ate half of it, but the child didn't eat much. He just grabbed the chopsticks and looked at Xu Tao: "Mom, Xiao Nan can't eat any more."

Xu Tao has enough oil and water to cook three meals a day, and she goes to bed early at night, so she basically has no preparations for the night. Zhao Linan also eats three meals regularly. The child is usually sleeping at this time, and she can guess that the child can't eat much. I started to doze off while grasping the chopsticks.

"Then don't eat it." Although he didn't want the child to waste it, half of the noodles in the child's bowl were left.

But Xu Tao also didn't want the child to eat a little late-night snack, and if she couldn't eat it, she would be scolded and wasted. In the evening, it was unnecessary to eat until the end.

"Are you sleepy? Do you want to go to bed first?" Xu Tao wiped the child's mouth and asked softly.

"Well, I'm going to bed, Mom." Zhao Linan coquettishly stretched out two chubby arms towards Xu Tao.

Xu Tao couldn't help the child, so she reached out and carried the child into the room, while Zhao Weiguo continued to sit in the living room and accompany Zhou Haizhi to eat noodles.

"Don't worry, eat slowly." When Zhao Weiguo saw Xu Tao taking Zhao Linan back to the room, Zhou Haizhi immediately reminded him that he was in a hurry to eat noodles.

Zhou Haizhi buried his face in the bowl. Hearing Zhao Weiguo's words, he turned his eyes to Zhao Weiguo, and then said softly, "Thank you, Uncle Zhao."

Zhao Weiguo nodded and let Zhou Haizhi continue to eat noodles.

Not long after Xu Tao took Zhao Linan back to the room, the child fell asleep. The biological clock was on time, and he fell asleep quickly.

When Xu Tao came out again, Zhou Haizhi was full, and the child was about to clean up the dishes to wash, but was stopped by Zhao Weiguo.

"Xiaozhi, Uncle Zhao can wash the tableware and chopsticks, so you can go to bed." Xu Tao called Zhou Haizhi and dragged Zhou Haizhi into Zhao Linan's room.

"Auntie, do I sleep with Xiao Nan?" Zhou Haizhi entered the room and saw Zhao Linan who was already asleep: "Actually, I can go outside..."

Xu Tao didn't give the child a chance to finish, and reached out to pick up the child and put it in his arms. Sit on the edge of the bed, and then reach out to take off some of the shoes on the child's feet that don't fit well.

"Go to bed now! It's late, darling." Xu Tao didn't say much, just comforted the child, asked Zhou Haizhi to lie down, and covered him with a small blanket by the way.

It has been a long time since Zhou Haizhi was lying on such a comfortable bed. He lay obediently and looked at Xu Tao who was standing next to him. He only thought that Aunt Xu Tao was exceptionally beautiful, and the pillows on the bed still smelled. Everything seemed different. The same as real.

It seems that I am dreaming, and there will be such a soft bed in my dream!

"Sleep with your eyes closed." Xu Tao smiled at the child, then turned off the lights and closed the door to leave.

Zhou Haizhi was lying on the bed, looking at the extinguished lights, and looked sideways at the younger brother Xiao Nan, who was already asleep, his little hands stroked the soft blanket, and unknowingly followed suit.

Zhao Weiguo washed the dishes, tidy up the kitchen, and went back to the room.

"All asleep?"

"Well, all asleep." Xu Tao lay on the bed and nodded when she saw Zhao Weiguo coming back.

Not long after she turned off the light, Zhou Haizhi also fell asleep, and the two children slept soundly with their heads side by side.

When Zhou Haizhi and Zhao Linan were next to each other, the obvious thinness and malnutrition became more prominent, making Zhao Linan look as chubby and soft as a little bun.

"You have time to get up in the middle of the night. Zhou Haizhi is exposed to the rain, which may cause a high fever." Zhou Haizhi himself was malnourished and weak, and he did not know how long it had been in the rain. Although Xu Tao gave Xiaozhi a bowl of ginger soup, the Still a little worried.

"Yeah." Zhao Weiguo nodded indifferently.

"It's getting late, go to sleep!" Zhao Weiguo turned off the light and lay on the bed, hugging Xu Tao.

Xu Tao's back was against Zhao Weiguo's chest. The two of them were very used to this sleeping position. Xu Tao was really tired, so she closed her eyes and went to sleep after yawning.

Because of the dripping rain, the dryness of the night subsided a little, and people slept soundly.

At two in the middle of the night, Xu Tao fell into a deep sleep, but Zhao Weiguo woke her up.

"What are you doing!" Xu Tao was sleeping comfortably, but when he was woken up, he shouted at Zhao Weiguo with some dissatisfaction, and raised his hand to push the man's face away.

Zhao Weiguo sighed helplessly: "Zhou Haizhi and Xiao Nan both have a fever."

"Huh? It's a fever!" Xu Tao opened her peach blossom eyes, sleepy, but her consciousness gradually began to return: "Xiao Nan also has a fever?"

Zhao Linan has a good physique , After coming to Yangcheng, Xu Tao took good care of her. Since the high fever on the train, the child has been healthy and healthy, like a little tiger.

"It should be infected by Xiaozhi. Xiaozhi burns badly, and Xiaonan is better." Zhao Weiguo explained.

It's normal for two children to sleep together and be a little sick.

"Then what? Is it still raining outside?" Xu Tao got up and asked anxiously.

"It's raining. We have to take the child to a nearby clinic." The hospital is a bit far away, but there are still small clinics near Shuiyin Road. During this period, small clinics are also very common. Most people have headaches and fever first. Go to the small clinic.

"Okay." Xu Tao naturally had no objection, got up and quickly changed into pajamas.

"Zhou Haizhi burned extremely badly." Xu Tao went to the next room and felt the temperature of the two children's foreheads. Zhou Haizhi was obviously hotter.

"Well, you hold Xiaozhi, he is thinner and lighter." Zhao Weiguo hugged Xiaozhi before and knew Zhao Linan's weight. Zhou Haizhi didn't look at Zhao Linan's two years old, but he was not as heavy as Zhao Linan.

It's not that Zhao Linan is fat, the child is actually just right, but Zhou Haizhi is too thin. Zhao Weiguo, who bathed Zhou Haizhi, knows very well that Zhou Haizhi is only a few taels thin, and his bones are clearly defined.

"Okay." Xu Tao agreed and hugged Zhou Haizhi.

In the middle of the night, Xu Tao walked in front with an umbrella and Zhou Haizhi in his arms, Zhao Weiguo walked behind with an umbrella and Zhao Linan in his arms, and took a flashlight to show Xu Tao the way.

Zhou Haizhi was in a daze, the child could only feel someone hugging him, his ears were full of wheezing and the tick-tock sound of rain hitting the umbrella.

"Auntie..." Zhou Haizhi squinted and called out, he could smell the familiar and reassuring smell on Xu Tao.

"Well, I'm here, Xiaozhi, don't be afraid!" Zhou Haizhi's voice was very low, but Xu Tao still heard it, and soothed the child softly.

The small clinic on Shuiyin Road was opened by a middle-aged uncle, specializing in some simple headaches, and the doctor lives upstairs in the small clinic. Zhao Weiguo and Xu Tao walked all the way for about ten minutes to arrive, and Zhao Weiguo was downstairs. A knock on the door woke the doctor up.

The doctor seems to be very used to being disturbed in the middle of the night. After all, there are many children in the old alley of Shuiyin Road, and many children are sent in a hurry in the middle of the night, so the clinic has prepared a lot of antipyretics and antipyretic needles.

He quickly took the temperature of both Zhou Haizhi and Zhao Linan. Zhou Haizhi had a severe fever, with a high fever of 39 degrees.

Zhao Linan was fine, but he was sick, and Xu Tao usually took good care of the child, so Zhao Linan's body temperature was just a little higher than usual.

"This one has a severe fever and needs to be given an anti-fever injection. Don't give this injection. I'll prescribe some medicine for you to feed him," the doctor said.

Zhou Haizhi leaned against Xu Tao's arms, burnt into a daze, and then had an injection. The always strong and well-behaved child was lying in Xu Tao's arms, humming, and calling out to his mother in a very shallow voice.

Xu Tao couldn't help but feel sad while hugging Zhou Haizhi. The child obviously longed for her mother's love, but it was a pity that Zhou Yu failed to be a good mother or take good care of the child.

In the small clinic, Zhou Haizhi was given a fever-reducing injection, Zhao Linan was given fever-reducing medicine, and the couple took the children home again.

The rain was a bit heavier when we went back than when we came. When we got home, Zhao Weiguo and Xu Tao were both wet.

"Quickly change your clothes." Zhao Weiguo is strong and strong, but his legs have been injured, and it will hurt in rainy weather. Today, he carried the child to and from the clinic. After returning home, Zhao Weiguo's condition is not very good.

Xu Tao got drenched in the rain, and when she got home, she was busy cooking ginger soup and drinking it. She had to keep an eye on Zhou Haizhi and Zhao Linan at all times.

"Your leg hurts?" After Xu Tao finished drinking the ginger soup, she went back to see the child and saw Zhao Weiguo sitting on the bed and pressing his leg.

Xu Tao also remembered that Zhao Weiguo was discharged from the army because of a leg injury. Zhao Weiguo usually lives a normal life, and his energy is always strong at night. When this man is a man, Xu Tao is gradually forgetting that Zhao Weiguo still has a leg injury. .

"Does it hurt so bad?" Xu Tao walked over and asked with concern.

"It's okay." Zhao Weiguo smiled at Xu Tao.

He could bear the pain in his leg, but this was the first rainy day after his leg injury, and it was the first time he felt the pain in his leg, and Zhao Weiguo himself was a little unresponsive.

When he was discharged from the army, he had read the injury appraisal report. He had not had any pain in his legs in the past few months, and his normal walking was the same as before. He even had some doubts that there was something wrong with the army appraisal report. At this moment, the pain in his leg, Zhao Weiguo suddenly realized that he was relieved, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Lie down and sleep for a while, aren't you sleepy?" Zhao Weiguo stretched out his hand and pulled Xu Tao to sit down.

"It's almost dawn, you should go to sleep! You have to rest well during the day while driving. If you don't sleep well, driving is prone to accidents." Xu Tao let Zhao Weiguo sleep.

She was a little tired and could make up for sleep during the day. After tossing around in the middle of the night, she ate a large bowl of ginger soup, and she had no sleepiness for the time being.

"Sleep together." Zhao Weiguo pulled Xu Tao onto the bed, hugging her waist.

Xu Tao leaned against Zhao Weiguo, but didn't get up, and even lay down with him when he couldn't sleep.

Zhao Weiguo didn't sleep either, his legs throbbing from time to time, so he tried his best to distract himself, pinching Xu Tao's slender waist with his big palms, rubbing against the woman's soft neck, and kissing slowly on it.

"Don't make trouble." Xu Tao tickled her neck.

Zhao Weiguo did not become more presumptuous. Xu Taojiaojiao protested, and he stopped eating tofu.

"Zhao Weiguo, I kind of want to adopt Zhou Haizhi, he is so pitiful." Xu Tao leaned against Zhao Weiguo and spoke in an uncomfortable tone.

"Then adopt." Zhao Weiguo replied.

"You don't mind? Adopting a child will be a lot of trouble." Xu Tao didn't expect Zhao Weiguo to answer her easily.

From Zhao Weiguo's tone, Xu Tao could even feel that Zhao Weiguo was really frank, and he didn't hesitate at all when he spoke.

"I know, I believe you have considered this too." Xu Tao is quite measured in everything she does. If she hadn't considered the possibility and had this idea, she wouldn't have said it.

Now that she has considered everything, Zhao Weiguo will naturally have no opinion. That child is indeed quite pitiful. For the first time, Zhao Weiguo saw that a child can be skinny and skinny. He is obviously two years older than Zhao Linan, but he is not as healthy as Xiao Nan.

"Actually, given the economic situation of the two of us, adopting Zhou Haizhi is not a big problem, but..." Xu Tao was still a little helpless.

Adopting a child, after all, is not a small animal, and even if it is a small animal, Xu Tao has to think twice, she can't make a simple decision at will, and hurt Xiaozhi later.

Zhou Haizhi was too bitter. If she gave him a little light and finally put it out, it would undoubtedly be more cruel.

"Forget it, maybe we are willing to adopt Zhou Haizhi, and Xiaozhi's mother may not agree with the Hu family!" Xu Tao didn't wait for Zhao Weiguo to answer, and then spoke again.

"Yeah." Zhao Weiguo nodded.

In fact, there are many examples of children adopting or adopting children in the countryside, and in their hometown in rural areas of Vancouver. However, most of the adoptions in rural areas are due to special circumstances, and almost all of them are adopted by children who are young and do not remember anything. The child is cut off from the family of origin.

But Zhou Haizhi's situation is indeed special. No matter how people say they have a stepfather and a biological mother, even if they want to adopt, it is not easy to adopt.

"Go to sleep, I'll accompany you." Xu Tao turned around and leaned herself into Zhao Weiguo's arms.

It was raining outside, and the room was much cooler, leaning against Zhao Weiguo, the temperature was just comfortable, and Xu Tao couldn't help but dig into his arms.

"Go to sleep too!" Zhao Weiguo gently placed a kiss on Xu Tao's forehead.

"Okay." Xu Tao closed her eyes and yawned in reply.

This time, when they lay down, neither Zhao Weiguo nor Xu Tao got up again. The husband and wife both slept for a while. At dawn, the pattering rain outside finally stopped, and the sun rose at five or six o'clock.

Xu Tao got up to cook porridge as usual, and Zhao Weiguo also got up.

"Brother Xiaozhi!" Zhao Linan woke up. The child woke up almost alone. When he woke up today, he found brother Xiaozhi lying next to him, and the child giggled.

Zhou Haizhi was actually awake long ago. He didn't bother to see Zhao Linan sleeping. He vaguely heard the sound of cooking in the kitchen outside. He knew that it was Aunt Xu Tao and Uncle Zhao Weiguo who got up.

He also wanted to get up, but he was too greedy for a warm and comfortable bed, so he kept lying down with his eyes open. He told himself to lie down for a while, and then he lay down until brother Zhao Linan woke up.

"Are you awake?" Xiaozhi asked with pursed lips.

"Mmmm." Zhao Linan nodded, and the child sat up from the bed: "Mom." The child usually goes out to find his parents when he wakes up.

Seeing Zhou Haizhi here today, the child happily played with his brother on the bed for a while, then shouted at Xu Tao at the top of his voice.
Chapter 040
Xu Tao heard the child's shouting in the kitchen, and helplessly washed her hands and turned to go to the room.

In the room, Zhao Linan and Zhou Haizhi were both sitting on the bed. The two children woke up, their fever subsided, and they looked in good spirits.

As soon as Zhao Linan saw Xu Tao coming in, he grinned, "Mom."

"Auntie." Xiaozhi called out a little shyly.

Xu Tao walked over and reached out and touched the foreheads of the two children. She felt that the body temperature was normal, and then she said, "Get up, wash your face and have breakfast!"

"Yeah." Pointy red is not good enough.

Zhao Linan took it slow, and asked Xu Tao while getting out of bed: "Mom, what are you eating!"

"Drink porridge."

"Hmm!" Zhao Linan nodded, not knowing what he meant or whether he was right Breakfast is satisfactory or not.

Xu Tao ignored him, the child couldn't guess, helped Zhao Linan change his pajamas, and took the two children to wash and eat breakfast.

The two children were afraid of the heat, so they drank the porridge slowly, but Zhao Weiguo was full and ready to go to work.

"You didn't sleep much last night, do you want to take a day off today?" Xu Tao was a little worried about Zhao Weiguo's state.

The two children had a high fever. She and Zhao Weiguo struggled all night. Zhao Weiguo still had leg pains in the middle of the night, which basically meant that he had no rest.

Zhao Weiguo is also running transportation. Although there is little traffic on the road now, the roads are also full of potholes, which requires a lot of effort.

"No." Zhao Weiguo shook his head.

As a soldier for more than ten years, it's not that he didn't stay up all night without staying up all night.

"Then you drive carefully, don't be careless." Xu Tao urged.

"Okay." Zhao Weiguo nodded, and the tall figure strode out of the house.

After Zhao Weiguo left, Xu Tao went back to the small dining table to accompany the two children to eat, and after eating, he watched the two children take some medicine.

"Auntie, I'm done." Zhou Haizhi took the medicine after breakfast. The child felt very embarrassed and was about to leave, but saw that the clothes he wore yesterday were washed and dried in the yard.

He is still wearing Xiaonan's younger brother's clothes!

"Auntie, can I put on brother Xiao Nan's clothes? I, I, I will return the clothes when I get home." Zhou Haizhi's face flushed as he spoke.

"Xiaozhi, it's okay, don't worry, you don't need to return the clothes." Xu Tao spoke to Zhou Haizhi gently, Zhao Linan this little monkey has a lot of clothes, and Xu Tao is willing to spend money for the child: "Auntie tell you, the day after tomorrow. You have to go home, you know? You can't run around outside, if the door is locked and there is nowhere to go, just come to Auntie's house!"

Xu Tao thought about it a lot last night, and was thinking about whether to try and ask Zhou Yu was about adopting Zhou Xiaozhi, but she gave up her thoughts later.

Adoption is not that easy. What Zhou Yu thought, none of them knew. She didn't even want to leave Zhou Haizhi to her parents' house, so how could she adopt the child? She didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble for herself. , and also do not really want to deal with Zhou Yu.

She felt that it was enough to give Zhou Haizhi as much help as she could. Besides, there was no way of knowing what Zhou Haizhi thought, and he might not be willing to be adopted!

The dog does not dislike the poor family, and the child does not dislike the mother ugly.

Although Zhou Yu was not good to Zhou Haizhi, she was always Zhou Haizhi's mother. Zhou Haizhi lived a hard life, but the child seemed to be very dependent on his mother. After all, blood relationship is a magical thing. One more child to take care of.

"Okay, thank you auntie." Zhou Haizhi looked at Xu Tao and nodded obediently.

After Zhou Haizhi left, Xu Tao was still a little uncomfortable, but she also knew that she was powerless.

After Zhao Linan and Zhou Haizhi waved their hands, they approached Xu Tao's legs and looked up at Xu Tao.

"Mom, is brother Xiaozhi's mother a stepmother?" The child is very puzzled, why is brother Xiaozhi's mother so bad, obviously his mother is very good, aren't all mothers good? After pondering for a long time, the child still couldn't figure it out, so he asked Xu Tao.

"Huh?" Xu Tao took the book and the manuscript of the novel, and was about to write the novel. Hearing Zhao Linan's question, he looked down and saw the curious expression on the child's face.

Xu Tao herself is Zhao Linan's stepmother. She is a little sensitive to the word stepmother. Of course, she doesn't mind, but she is just wondering, wondering how the child Zhao Linan understands the word stepmother.

"Not a stepmother." Xu Tao replied to the child amusingly.

"Then why is she as bad as her stepmother?" Zhao Linan pouted.

Xu Tao picked up the child in a funny way and pinched his nose: "How do you know the stepmother?"

"Mom, you told the story of Cinderella, the stepmother in it is very bad!" Zhao Linan put his arms around Xu Tao's neck, the child Self-indulgent indignation.

After Xu Tao heard the child's explanation, the little panic in her heart disappeared. Xu Tao knew that she was a stepmother, and it was impossible to keep the child from knowing it forever, but she was a little selfish and wanted the child to know later, or If the child is a little older, he is still too young!

"Xiao Nan's memory is really good." Xu Tao praised and put the child down: "Go play by yourself! Mom is going to work."

Xiao Nan shook his head: "No one is playing! Brother Shitou doesn't play, and brother Xiaozhi doesn't play. , Sister He Hua is also at home..." The child said with his fingers broken, his tone a little lost.

Xu Tao also knew the situation in the alley recently, and was a little helpless, but there was nothing she could do.

"Then Xiao Nan will read the storybook by himself, and then go to the mother to play when you're bored?" Xu Tao showed the picture to the child.

Fortunately, she was willing to buy things for the child, and the child could also pass the time at this time.

"Yeah." Zhao Linan didn't make a fuss. He read the enlightenment books by himself, and occasionally played with little frogs and glass beads. Anyway, he could pass the time happily by himself.

After Xu Tao finished writing the number of words she set for herself every day in the small living room, she sorted out the pen and manuscript. She glanced at her watch, seeing that it was almost noon.

"Xiao Nan, stop playing, mom will take you out." Xu Tao called Zhao Linan.

She was going to take Zhao Linan out to the photo studio to get the photos that had been washed, and then go to the vegetable market to have a look.

When Xiao Nan saw that Xu Tao called him out after he was busy, the little guy was very happy, and even went to change a pair of small shoes he liked.

"Beautiful." Xu Tao laughed at him helplessly.

Zhao Linan was still very happy when he was laughed at. Holding Xu Tao's hand, he walked out leisurely. The weather was hot and Xu Tao didn't want to bask in the sun, so he took up an umbrella. Although the current umbrella does not have UV protection, it does Can block direct sun exposure.

Xu Tao felt that it was normal to use an umbrella to block the sun when it wasn't raining. In later generations, both men and women would use an umbrella if they were afraid of the sun, but now people don't have that concept.

"Mom, many people are looking at us." Zhao Linan was very puzzled by the people around him who were pointing jokes.

Xu Tao sighed in her heart, but she still didn't change her mentality because of other people's pointing, after all, the sun is really vicious.

"Mom, it's not raining, why do you need an umbrella?" Zhao Linan also heard the whispers of the people around him and asked Xu Tao.

"Block the sun!" Xu Tao replied.

"Oh!" Zhao Linan was immediately persuaded that the child wasn't smart enough to fully understand why he had to wear an umbrella to block the sun when it wasn't raining, but the child always answered Xu Tao, and he would not continue to ask whether he understood or not.

Xu Tao calmly held her umbrella, walked to the photo studio to take photos, and took Zhao Linan to the vegetable market after she came out.

"Mom." Zhao Linan was wearing new small sandals, and the child was extremely happy.

But after walking to the vegetable market, Zhao Linan's smile froze.

The vegetable market in this era is not clean, there are vegetable leaves and water stains everywhere, and the environment is also a bit messy. Children walk halfway, and their eyes are fixed on their little feet for a while, and their short legs are reluctant to move.

"What's wrong?" Xu Tao looked at the child and asked without stopping.

"Mom, hug. The shoes will get dirty." Zhao Linan raised his feet and stretched out his chubby hand towards Xu Tao.

"If it's dirty, it's dirty, just go home and wash it." Xu Tao was helpless.

The little boy is still so smug, which is not good, and she saw the child's narcissism before going out, and she knew it in her heart, but she didn't expect the child to be so narcissistic, and she was so reluctant to protect her shoes that she was reluctant to get dirty.

"No." Zhao Linan pouted and shook his head.

His piggy shoes can't get dirty!

"But mom can't hold you either, you're too fat." Xu Tao spread her hands and teased the child.

Zhao Linan is not fat, but if she hugs her for a long time, she will be very tired, especially on a hot day, but she smells all kinds of smells in the market and looks at the clutter around her, she is really afraid that children will bump into it. , then sighed and bent over to pick up the child.

"Mom, Xiao Nan is not fat." Zhao Linan was picked up by Xu Tao, the child was very happy, and he talked in Xu Tao's ear.

"Yes, yes, our Xiaonan is not fat at all." Xu Tao replied, carrying Zhao Linan to the place selling fish and shrimp.

"Mom, dragon." Zhao Linan was held in Xu Tao's arms, and before he walked to the fishmonger's stall, the child pointed at the eel energetically and said it was a dragon.

Xu Tao couldn't help but burst out laughing, what kind of genius baby is she holding!

The fishmonger next to him also smiled: "This child is really interesting, this is not a dragon, this is an eel, a pure wild eel."

"Stupid child." Xu Tao patted the child's head, then looked at the eel, Some were frightened by the appearance of those eels.

There are a lot of eels in the fishmongers' baskets, all of which are particularly fat and thick. Now the pesticides and fertilizers have not been fully popularized, these wild products are still very common in the fields, small rivers, and small streams. Small fish and small shrimps are even bigger, so the wild eels are very large.

Xu Tao loves to eat eels, but she is also a little afraid of these eels. The eels are really scary and slippery, but thinking of the taste of eel silk, Xu Tao thought that she had to buy some to try.

Wild eel, after leaving this year, I will not be able to eat such pure game if I want to eat it in the future. After all, various breeds are too common in later generations.

"Boss, how did you sell this yellow eel?"

"Three cents a pound, do you want it? I'll pick two big ones for you." The yellow eel has an earthy smell and is not popular these days, and everyone is relatively more enthusiastic Pay for meat.

"Then you weigh me three." The weight of this one is a pound, three is a lot.

"Good!" The

fishmonger replied, grabbed two straws from the side, stretched out his hand and grabbed the eel, stuffed the straw into the eel's mouth and skewered it out. The place.

Everything was handled rudely and neatly.

"Thank you boss." Xu Tao took a deep breath, and after seeing the three constantly moving eels handed over by the boss, he regretted buying them.

But after buying everything, Xu Tao comforted herself and reached out to take the eel carefully.

The three eels totaled more than three kilograms. Xu Tao paid the money and went to a nearby supply and marketing cooperative to buy some condiments before taking the eels all the way home.

"Mom, is this eel delicious?" After Zhao Linan left the market, the child was willing to leave by himself.

Xu Tao was carrying three large eels with her hands so far away that she was afraid that the eels would touch her body. She really didn't want to experience the taste of touching the eels.

"It's delicious." But when the child asked if it was delicious, Xu Tao naturally told the child that it was delicious, and did some popular science.

The shredded eel is a legendary dish. It is so delicious that it can really make you drool.

"Wow!" Zhao Linan immediately showed his expectation, and ran forward happily with an umbrella in his hand.

Xu Tao was carrying an eel in one hand, and a small cloth bag of rice in the other hand, which was quite heavy, so she couldn't take an umbrella, so she had to give the umbrella to Zhao Linan for help. The child was willing to help, but he was not tall enough. Not as tall as a current umbrella.

The big black umbrella was also quite heavy, so Zhao Linan couldn't hold it, so he dragged the umbrella away.

Xu Tao followed behind and told the child to slow down, but Zhao Linan dragged the umbrella and ran happily. The tip of the umbrella was dragged on the road, making a noise, which also made the child happier.

"Xiao Nan, run slowly, be careful of falling." Xu Tao reminded him from the back, watching the child run, his heart panicked, but Zhao Linan was so happy that he couldn't control it completely, and ran forward on his own.

"Hahaha, Mom, you can't catch up with me!"

Who wants to chase you, this little devil! Xu Tao couldn't be funny, she also stared at Zhao Linan, and then she saw a woman in decent clothes coming out of the house at the end of the alley. Zhao Linan took an umbrella and looked back at Xu Tao. He didn't pay attention, and the child hit the woman directly.

"Dead child, you don't look at the road when you walk!" Zhou Yu's voice was a little sharp, his hands covered his abdomen, and he shouted at Zhao Linan.

"..." Zhao Linan turned around, the child stood in a daze, and was stunned by Zhou Yuyi's voice.

"I'm sorry, he didn't pay attention just now, did he bump into you?" Xu Tao frowned, walked a few steps away, and immediately walked closer to apologize.

She knew Zhou Yu, and they knew each other by meeting and nodding. They had never had a conversation, and because of Zhou Haizhi, Xu Tao also subconsciously had a particularly bad impression of Zhou Yu.

"Mom." Zhao Linan saw Xu Tao approaching, and the child immediately dragged an umbrella and hid behind Xu Tao, looking at Zhou Yu fearfully.

"Bring the child out, don't know if you want to look at it? You bumped me." Zhou Yu looked at Xu Tao with a somewhat dissatisfied attitude, but still restrained.

She knew about Xu Tao. Ever since Xu Tao's family moved to Laoba Lane, Shuiyin Road, she had noticed Xu Tao. After all, she was a young, beautiful and confident woman. It was hard for her not to notice such a woman, let alone. Her man, Hu Jian, said a few days ago that the new woman in the alley was so beautiful.

Men can notice Xu Tao, not to mention that she is also a woman who loves beauty. Women are naturally hostile to beautiful women.

"I'm sorry, are you hurt?" Xu Tao asked politely.

"Be careful in the future." Zhou Yu curled his lips and looked at Xu Tao, and also glanced at the eel in Xu Tao's hand.

There are not many people who eat eel these days, and there are not many people who know how to make eel delicious. After all, eel is a waste of oil, and it has a strong earthy smell if it is not cooked properly.

"Okay." Xu Tao naturally nodded embarrassedly: "Xiao Nan, tell Auntie I'm sorry."

"Auntie I'm sorry." Zhao Linan stuck out a small head and apologized in fear.

Zhou Yu snorted coldly, glanced at Xu Tao and Zhao Linan, walked around the mother and son, and left, her small waist twisted quite vigorously.

Xu Tao looked at Zhou Yu's back for a while, and then looked at Zhao Linan: "Xiao Nan, do you know what was wrong just now?" The tone was severe.

"I know." Zhao Linan pursed his mouth and lowered his head.

"Do you still dare to be disobedient in the future?" Xu Tao asked in disbelief.

She was originally worried about the child, and was dragging a large umbrella in her hand. The little devil is only three years old, and the person is not as tall as an umbrella. If she runs with an umbrella, it is very dangerous to fall or bump.

Fortunately, I just bumped into someone just now. The child's chassis is stable, and he walks better than children of the same age. It is not so easy to fall, otherwise I really don't know what will happen.

"Xiao Nan is obedient, mother don't kill me." Zhao Linan blushed, tears welling up in his eyes.

Xu Tao looked at the child and couldn't do anything, but she didn't plan to just let him go: "I'll beat you when I get home, walk honestly, and can't run anymore, you know?"

"Okay." Zhao Linan shrugged and dragged his umbrella. All the way home.

As soon as Xu Tao got home, he put the rice and the eel away. The wild eel had a strong vitality and was still alive with a straw rope in its mouth. Xu Tao took a water basin to catch the water, threw the eel in, and took a lid. Cover the basin to prevent the eels from escaping.

As soon as Zhao Linan got home, he put the umbrella at the door of the living room, and the child slipped into the room. As if afraid of being beaten, he threw himself on the bed and wrapped himself in a blanket.

After Xu Tao settled the matter, she looked around for the child, only to find the child hiding on the bed.

"Zhao Linan." Xu Tao walked into the room and called him by his name in a stern tone.

The child hiding in the blanket trembled, holding onto the blanket and didn't dare to stand up. Xu Tao sighed silently and stepped forward and pulled the blanket down. The child was weak and wanted to hold onto the blanket, but Xu Tao successfully lifted it away. .

Losing the protection of the blanket, Zhao Linan's small face was exposed. Inside the blanket, the child looked at her with tears in her eyes, her mouth shriveled pitifully.

"I haven't beaten you yet, so why are you crying?" Xu Tao felt a lot of heartache when she saw the child's tears.