The Silent Cherry And Plum Blossoms

"Children need to be treated with care, kisses, hugs, attention, and encouragement. They need confirmed love and safety. If they are deprived of these, there will be hidden holes in their hearts."

Here's a line from Baby Annie's prose.After An Zhi was by Yan Qi's side, she would often think of this sentence.Many times she feels that what she does is not good enough, and many things are not explained clearly, and she is afraid that the explanation is too clear and it will scare the children, but it is not good not to say it.

Raising children is still extremely stressful for her, and probably always will be.Fortunately, Ann is good.When her pair of round and bright eyes looked at Yan Qi, Yan Qi felt his restless heart was soothed.

When they got home, Grandma Liu smiled at them. She was a kind, simple, and smiling old lady, and she called An Zhi as soon as she opened her mouth: "The baby is back? Are you tired?" She reached out to help her carry her schoolbag.

An Zhi smiled shyly, and gave Yan Qi a small look of "Look, isn't it a bit gross".

Yan Qi chuckled, and said to Grandma Liu, "It's okay, Auntie, just let her do it by herself."

For dinner, I had cheese tamagoyaki, garlic greens, braised fish, and lotus root pork ribs soup.

Grandma Liu is really good at cooking, and she even learned some dishes that children will like online.Anzhi likes to eat this tamagoyaki very much.Yan Qi felt that the dishes were light and delicious, and he got used to the combination of meat and vegetables.Also very satisfying to eat.

Yan Qi had to go back to Taili after dinner with An Zhi.She has passed the internship period, but she is still a new employee who can be used by anyone. At first, the colleagues in the station only thought that she was a local from a well-off family, good-looking, and drove a good car. They thought she was here to hang out. She was in the establishment position, but later saw that she was generous and decent, hardworking and studious, and she also gave birth to the mentality of making friends, and the relationship with her colleagues was quite harmonious.

She is still working as a director, and sometimes she also has to work as a part-time photographer. Even when she is busy, she has to go out with her colleagues to solicit sponsorship and entertainment. Naturally, she has to work overtime.

Yan Qi still told Anzhi when he went out: "I'll go back to Taiwan, you do your homework at home, and you can watch an episode of Doraemon after finishing it."

"I have finished my homework at school, and I have practiced calligraphy and previewed."

"Well, that's good." Yan Qi turned to ask Grandma Liu to accompany her.The old man smiled heartily to reassure her.

In fact, there is nothing to worry about, but Yan Qi just feels guilty, she knelt down and said to An Zhi when she went out, "I will come back at about eight o'clock, you go to bed first when you are sleepy after taking a bath, don't wait for me."

An Zhi showed sweet dimples, nodded, and said to her: "Then you should be careful when driving."

"Okay." Yan Qi raised the corners of his lips. An Zhi was different from her elder brother's twins. He probably grew up in a small town in the south. He spoke in a soft voice and liked to use redundancies.

"Then I'm going out?" Yan Qi took the car keys.

An Zhi had already waved his little hand at her.

Yan Qi saw a study before, saying that 90.00% of professional women would feel guilty about their children when they went to work after giving birth.

She didn't understand before that although children are important, isn't career more important?

Today she finally understood.I feel so guilty that I can't leave the house and can't concentrate at work.

At 08:30, she got home on time.The lights on the first floor were bright, and there was An Zhi's soft laughter.

Enter the door, pass the living room, and enter the dining room.There was a strong smell of milk, and An Zhi, who was wearing a baby skirt pajamas, said excitedly when he saw her: "Auntie! Look at grandma making nougat."

They have already wrapped the candy in sugar paper, and Grandma Liu carefully wrapped it in a small transparent bag with a bow on it.Anzhi is helping.

Grandma Liu said with a smile, "Make some candies for the baby to bring to school for the students to eat tomorrow."

Yan Qi: "...it's pretty good."

Come on, she didn't worry for nothing, the kid adjusted well.

She said, "Come back quickly, I'm already back."

"Hey, okay, see you tomorrow, baby."

"See you tomorrow, grandma, be careful on the road." An Zhi, who was still saying "calling the baby nasty" just now, is now used to this address.

Grandma Liu patted her head, said a few more words, and then went out to go home.

Feelings are good...

Yan Qi secretly slandered.She took a sip of water, sat at the table, looked at the exquisite nougat candies, and Anzhi put the other loose ones on the plate one by one.

The heating was turned on in the room, Yan Qi took off his coat and stretched his long legs, feeling a little tired today.

Suddenly, Xiao Anzhi came over with a candy in her hand.

"I won't eat." Yan Qi shook her head, her tone was a little tired.

"Eat it tomorrow morning."

Yan Qi's heart moved, he glanced at Anzhi, "You found out this morning?"

"Well," An Zhi's delicate eyebrows frowned: "You will faint in the morning. I asked Grandma Liu, and she said that eating some sugar will make you fine."

Yan Qi was silent for a few seconds, took the candy, peeled off the candy wrapper with his slender fingers, and put it in his mouth.Then he hugged Anzhi onto her lap.

There are peanuts in the nougat, the milky aroma is rich, the peanuts are crunchy, and Anzhi also has the same smell.

"You helped grandma make candy, didn't you?"

"Well, yes, I helped to stir it, it was fun." Xiao Anzhi lay in her arms, like a piece of soft nougat.

"Hmm...it's delicious, but..."

"I know, I can't eat too much sugar, and I can't eat it at night. I have to brush my teeth after eating."

Yan Qi asked her to say everything, so she stopped and smiled.

An Zhi was in her arms, and his round eyes blinked at her: "Are you tired today?"

Yan Qi smiled and narrowed her eyes slightly, the fatigue all over her body was relieved by her childish language, she relaxed, lowered her head and rubbed the top of her hair: "Well... I'm a little tired."

He remembered that they were watching fireworks together on New Year's Eve, when Yan Qi hugged her like a doll to keep warm, now An Zhi obediently sat on her lap, and let him hug him like a doll.

"How was school today? Better than kindergarten?"

Um!When it comes to school, she becomes serious, although it is much simpler than she imagined, this is the conclusion she came to after going through all the textbooks today.She can recognize most of the characters in the Chinese books, mathematics is not worth mentioning, and English is not difficult.

Although her grandfather did not teach liberal arts, he listened to some English nursery rhymes for her since she was very young.When staying in Yan's old house, Xiao Yutong, who had lived in England for a period of time, would take her with her when teaching the twins to pronounce.

but……

She pouted suddenly and lowered her head.

"When I was doing exercises between classes today..."

"Oh? You won't be okay."

An Zhi shook his head: "No, my deskmate said he would teach me, and the physical education teacher also said he would teach me, that is..."

She bit her lip and muttered, "I seem to be the shortest one...the shortest one in the whole school..." Her tone couldn't be more sad.

Yan Qi imagined the scene of elementary school students doing exercises, and then little An Zhi was stunned on the spot.She pursed her lips and suppressed a smile, but the smile in her eyes was about to overflow.

An Zhi puffed out his cheeks unwillingly, and stared at her in embarrassment.

"Cough, um..." Yan Qi cleared his throat, put away his smile, got serious, and she put her down.Got up and found a marker pen.

Walking out of the dining room, she came to the door of the entrance, asked An Zhi to stand taller, and she drew a stroke on the wall.Take a ruler and measure it.

An Zhi stared at her nervously.

Yan Qi glanced at the numbers on the ruler.Without speaking, he took out his mobile phone and searched the age, height and weight comparison table on Baidu.

An Zhi was like a nervous little rabbit with ears pricked up.

Yan Qi found the six-year-old column. The standard height of a six-year-old girl is 116cm, short is 112cm, short is 107.6cm, and Anzhi is less than 105cm.

Yan Qi pondered silently: Indeed... a bit short...

An Zhi saw that she hadn't spoken for a long time, and there was nothing she didn't understand, his eyes turned red with a "woo woo woo".

"Hey..." Yan Qi put his arms around her and coaxed her: "It's okay, it's okay, our birthday hasn't come yet, we're actually not yet 6 years old, and Tao Tao will grow taller soon..."

"Really?" An Zhi sobbed.

"Well, really, don't you believe me? Didn't we just make a New Year's resolution? It will come true,"

"When I was six years old, I was about the same height as you..." Yan Qi lied without blinking.

"Come on, look at me now," Yan Qi stood by the wall and drew a line on top of his head with a marker, "It's so tall now..."

An Zhi's eyes looked up from her own pen to Yan Qi's.Her nose was red, and she asked pitifully, "Really?"

"Really." Yan Qi recalled the heights of Tao Zhenzhen and Chen Muqi, thinking that An Zhi would not be short in the future, and nodded her assurance.

An Zhi lowered his head and thought for a while, then looked at the two strokes on the wall that could almost be far away.

Is there really a way to grow that tall?

What does it feel like to be that high?

An Zhi's little man looked up at the lines on the wall, then turned his head to look at Yan Qi.

Yan Qi laughed, walked over, lifted her up, lifted her to the top of her head, and turned around.

"Wow wow wow..." When An Zhi was lifted up, he was dizzy, scared and amused.

"Dizzy...scared!"

"Wow wow wow..."

Yan Qi hugged her in his arms and laughed, An Zhi also giggled.Yan Qi has a pair of eyes that are especially beautiful when he smiles, and An Zhi has a dimple that is especially cute when he smiles.Yan Qi and her forehead touched their foreheads and smiled at each other, with the most gentle and bright fireworks in the eyes.