Peach and Plum Do Not Speak

Chapter 23:

“Children need to be treated with care, kisses, hugs, attention, encouragement. Love and safety need to be confirmed. To be deprived of these, can’t help but hide a hole in the heart.”

Here’s a quote from Annie’s Baby Prose. When An Zhi was by Yan Xi’s side, she often thought of this sentence. Many times she felt that she did not do well enough, and did not explain many things clearly. She was afraid that the explanation would be too clear and the children would be afraid, but it would be bad not to say it.

Raising children is still a very stressful thing for her, and probably always will be. Fortunately, An Zhijiao. When her round and bright eyes looked at Yan Xi, Yan Xi felt that her uneasy heart was comforted.

When they got home, Grandma Liu smiled at them. She was a kind and simple old lady who loved to laugh. As soon as she opened her mouth, she called An Zhi: “Baby is back? Are you tired?” She reached out to help her with her schoolbag.

An Zhi smiled shyly, and gave Yanxi a small look, “Look, is it a little nauseous?”

Yan Xi smiled and said to Grandma Liu, “It’s okay, Auntie, you let her come by herself.”

For dinner, we had cheese tamarind, garlic vegetables, braised fish, and lotus root pork ribs soup.

Grandma Liu is really good at cooking, and she also learned some dishes online that children will like. Anzhi likes to eat this tamagoyaki very much. Said that the dishes are light and delicious, and the combination of meat and vegetables has been adapted. Also very satisfied.

Yan Xi had to go back to the stage after eating 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, her colleagues in Taili only regarded her as a local from a well-off family, with a good appearance and a good car. She was in the position of the establishment, but later I saw that she was a generous and decent person, hard-working and eager to learn, and also gave birth to the mentality of making friends, and the relationship between colleagues was quite harmonious.

She is still a director, and sometimes she also has a part-time job as a photographer. Even when she is busy, she has to go out to sponsor and socialize with her colleagues. Naturally, she works overtime.

Yan Xi still instructed An Zhi when he went out: “I’ll go back to the stage, you can do your homework at home, and you can watch an episode of Doraemon after you finish it.”

“My homework is all done at school, and I’ve practiced calligraphy and previewed it.”

“Well, that’s good.” Yan Xi turned to Grandma Liu to accompany her. The old man laughed heartily to reassure her.

In fact, there is nothing to worry about, but Yan Xi just felt guilty. She squatted down and said to An Zhi, “I’ll be back at about eight o’clock. If you’re sleepy after taking a bath, you don’t have to wait for me.”

An Zhi showed her sweet dimples, nodded, and said to her, “Then you have to be careful when driving.”

“Okay.” Yan Xi raised the corners of his lips, An Zhi was different from her eldest brother’s twins, who probably grew up in a small town in the south, spoke in a soft and soft voice, and liked to use overlapping words.

“Then I’m going out?” Yan Xi took the car keys.

An Zhi has already waved her little hand.

Yan Xi had seen a study before, saying that 90% of professional women feel guilty about their children when they go 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 get out of the house and I can’t concentrate at work.

At half past eight, she came home on time. The lights on the first floor were bright, and there was An Zhi’s chuckle.

Enter the door, pass the living room, and enter the dining room. There was a fragrant milk smell, and An Zhi, who was wearing a doll’s dress and pajamas, saw her excitedly: “Auntie! Look, grandma made nougat.”

They had already wrapped the candy in candy wrap, and Grandma Liu carefully wrapped it in a small transparent bag with a bow on it. An Zhi is helping.

Grandma Liu said with a smile, “Make some candy for the baby to bring to school tomorrow for the classmates to eat.”

Yan Xi: “…very good.”

Come on, she was worried for nothing, the child is adapting well.

She said, “Go 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 “baby numb” just now, is used to this name.

Grandma Liu patted her head and said a few more words before going home.

Feeling good…

Yan Xi secretly slandered. She poured water and took a sip, sitting at the table, watching the delicate nougat candies, An Zhi put the other scattered pieces on the plate one by one.

The heater was on in the room, Yan Xi 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 don’t eat.” Yan Xi shook her head, her tone was a bit lazy.

“Eat tomorrow morning.”

Yan Xi’s mind moved, and he glanced at Anzhi, “Did you find out this morning?”

“Well,” An Zhi’s delicate eyebrows wrinkled: “You’ll be dizzy in the morning. I asked Grandma Liu, and she said it would be fine to eat some candy.”

Yan Xi 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 put An Zhi on her knees.

There are peanuts in the nougat, the milky fragrance is strong, the peanuts are crisp and fragrant, and An Zhi also has the same smell.

“You helped grandma make candy, didn’t you?”

“Yeah, yes, I helped stir it, have a good time.” Xiao Anzhi was lying in her arms, like a soft nougat.

“Well…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.”

Yan Xi asked her to say everything, but she didn’t say anything, just smiled.

An Zhi was in her arms, and her round eyes flashed at her: “Are you tired today?”

Yan Xi smiled and narrowed her eyes, her tiredness was relieved by her childish words, she relaxed, and lowered her head to rub the top of her hair: “Well… a little tired.”

I remembered that they were watching fireworks together on New Year’s Eve. At that time, Yan Xi held her as a doll for warmth, but now An Zhi is sitting on her lap obediently, and he also lets himself be held as a doll.

“How was school today? Better than kindergarten?”

Um! When it comes to school safety, she is 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 words on the Chinese books, math is not worth mentioning, and English is not difficult.

Although her grandfather did not teach liberal arts, he listened to her some English nursery rhymes since she was very young. When staying at the Yan family’s old house, Xiao Yutong, who had lived in the UK for a while, would also take her when teaching the twins pronunciation.

But…

She pouted suddenly and bowed her head.

“When I was doing gymnastics 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 whole school…the shortest…” She didn’t need to complain too much.

Yan Xinao made up for the scene where the little An Zhi was stunned on the spot while the elementary school students were doing exercises. She pursed her lips and smirked, but the gleaming smile in her eyes was about to overflow.

An Zhi puffed out her cheeks unwillingly and stared at her annoyed.

“Cough, um…” Yan Xi cleared her throat, put away her smile, turned serious, and put her down. I got up and found a marker.

Walking out of the restaurant, she came to the door of the entrance, and asked An Zhi to stand tall. She drew a stroke on the wall. Take a ruler.

An Zhi stared at her nervously.

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

An Zhi was like a little bunny with pricked ears.

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

Yan Xi pondered silently: Indeed… a little short…

When An Zhi saw that she didn’t speak for a long time, there was something she didn’t understand, and her eyes turned red with “woo woo woo”.

“Hey…” Yan Xi hugged her and coaxed: “It’s alright, it’s alright, our birthday hasn’t come yet, in fact, it’s 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 wish? It will come true,”

“I was about the same height as you when I was six years old…” Yan Xi lied without blinking.

“Come on, look at me now,” Yan Xi 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 brush to see Yan Xi’s. With a red nose, she asked pitifully, “Really?”

“Really.” Yan Xi recalled the heights of Tao Zhenzhen and Chen Muqi, thinking that An Zhi would not be short in the future, and nodded to her to assure her.

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

Is there really a way to grow that tall?

What does it feel like to be that tall?

An Zhi dwarf raised his neck to look at the line on the wall, then turned to look at Yan Xi.

Yan Xi laughed, walked over, lifted her up, held her above her head, and turned around.

“Wow wow wow…” An Zhi was lifted up, dizzy, scared, and fun.

“Dizzy… I’m afraid!”

“Wow wow wow…”

Yan Xi held her in his arms and laughed, and An Zhi also giggled. Yan Xi 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 Xi and her forehead touched each other and smiled, with the most gentle and bright fireworks in the world.