Chapter 79: Closeness and Distance

The third cub raised his head, closed the dictionary very obediently, and walked toward Lin Zhao unhurriedly.

It was hard to believe that such steadiness could be seen in such a small milky group.

*Emmm*.

"Mother?" The little guy, short and stout, called Mother in a milky voice, his black-and-white eyes carrying faint confusion.

Lin Zhao opened the cloth bag, handed the tin car and tin frog to him, and smiled: "The gift your father and I made up for you, take a look."

The first cub took the dictionary from his younger brother's hand, helping the third cub free his hands.

"Mm, thank you Mother~"

The third cub took the car, his black eyes shining brightly, grabbing the car with his fleshy hands, looking at it curiously.

"Like it?" Lin Zhao picked up her son.

The twins' eyes were envious.

"Brother, I don't want to be a big friend anymore, I also want Mother to hug me," the second cub whispered to his brother.

The words had just fallen.

His legs suddenly hung in the air.

The little child was startled, eyes wide, discovering it was his father who picked him up, raising a big smile.

"Heh!"

Gu Chenghuai put the second cub on his neck; he was tall, standing there like a crane among chickens, with an eye-catching presence.

It was conceivable how high it would be sitting on his neck.

"Hahahaha..." The second cub laughed out loud, then an excited voice rang out, "Father, I'm so high, I must be the tallest in the whole brigade now, right?"

"... Right." Gu Chenghuai didn't understand his strange competitive spirit.

After answering the second cub, he picked up his brother and placed him on the back seat of the bicycle, rubbing his head.

His waist strength and arm strength were amazing, and his center of gravity was very stable.

Hanging a cub on his neck didn't affect him grabbing the bicycle head with one hand and holding the eldest with the other.

"Father, you are so powerful." The second cub's little voice was full of admiration; the words on the grudge book were all eliminated.

He struggled to turn his head, saying to his brother: "Brother, Father carries me first, carry you another day."

Gu Chenghuai: "..."

Upside down.

The first cub pursed his lips and smiled, not forgetting to ask his father's opinion, "Father, can I?"

Gu Chenghuai could only say what, he had just been warned by his wife to try to balance the water bowl as much as possible.

"Mm." He nodded.

Lin Zhao finished kissing the youngest son, put down the third cub, lifted her skirt slightly, half-squatted, and showed him how to play with the little toy. "This is a tin car, it can slide on the ground."

The third cub squatted beside Mother, wearing a black round-neck short-sleeved shirt, black little shorts on the bottom, grandma-style cloth shoes on his feet, white tender and fleshy arms and legs, so obedient, so obedient.

Meeting Lin Zhao's gaze, he nodded, indicating he understood.

Lin Zhao continued to demonstrate how to play with the tin frog. "This is a tin frog, there's a spring here, turn it, then let go..."

The frog suddenly jumped up, making a *ka-da ka-da* sound, as if it were a real frog.

The third cub's eyes were shockingly bright.

Chasing the tin frog like a penguin cub, grabbing it in his hand, flipping it 360 degrees to look at it.

The ping-pong game paused, the moment Yuanbao turned his head, seeing the frog jumping on the ground, his eyes lit up, and he ran over.

"Third cub, what are you holding?" He asked politely, full of novelty.

"Tin car, tin frog." The third cub held them up one by one, saying milkily.

Ye Tie Niu and other children also gathered around, looking expectantly.

"I saw your frog can jump, can you let it jump again?" Yuanbao asked politely.

"Mm." The third cub replied, squatted down, pulled the spring, and put the frog on the ground.

The tin frog jumped up again.

"Wow, so powerful!!" Ye Tie Niu held his face, exclaiming.

Yuanbao said: "It can jump by itself!"

Da Zhuang cheered along: "Do city children all play this? City people are really good."

Tie Chui shook his head like a big pendulum, correcting their wrong perception, "Not at all!"

"The first and second cubs said, city children don't eat meat every day, not every family has a bicycle, not every family has endless candy, they just live better than the village, eat more meat than the village, nothing much."

Yuanbao's black and thin little face was stunned. "This is nothing much? But the city eats more meat than the village, I still want to be a city person."

The second cub sitting on his father's neck joined the chat.

"Then work hard, study well, go to high school, go to university, become a worker in the future, we can all become city people."

Chang Sheng was older, knowing more than children who didn't go to school.

He said: "Schools are all closed, no one is going to school, the school teachers were all smashed in the head. We can't become workers."

"!!"

The second cub was stunned, hurriedly looking at Lin Zhao, full of nervousness, "Mother, can we not go to school?"

"Can go, classes will resume, wait patiently." Lin Zhao gave him a firm answer.

A group of children understood half-understandably.

The second cub bloomed, clapping his hands happily, "As long as we can go, I want to go to school with Brother, learn good skills, to become a powerful person, to support Mother, to make Mother always happy."

*Oh wu*, what a little sweet bean.

"You are Mother's little pride now," Lin Zhao was healed by her obedient son every day.

"Can I ask the two little prides to go back to the room to get things with Mother, your father is going to borrow a bicycle, there are too many people in our family, one isn't enough."

Gu Chenghuai put down the second cub with one hand.

At the same time, the first cub slid off the bicycle.

"Okay, I like doing things for Mother!" The first cub said.

"Zhao Zhao, take the things out and put them aside, wait until I come back to talk," Gu Chenghuai parked the bike against the wall, exhorted, and strode away to borrow the bicycle.

Lin Zhao led the twins home, asking the two cubs, "Where is the fourth cub, why didn't I see her?"

"The little sticky essence is in the backyard!" The second cub said casually.

"Giving your sister a nickname again, you bad brother." Lin Zhao pinched the little child's cheek, criticizing him.

The second cub instantly turned red, hurriedly saying: "... Mother I was wrong, I won't say it anymore."

He didn't want to be a bad brother.

"Not just your sister, can't give other children nicknames either, bad children are like that, know it?" Lin Zhao took the opportunity to teach the two cubs.

Children are blank paper, growing into what they are depends on adults, she didn't know much about teaching children, but letting her own children... not bully other children because of their good family background, this she could still do.

"Mm mm mm." The second cub nodded earnestly. "Mother I know, I won't give nicknames randomly anymore."

He could even infer other things. "Mother, I will tell Yuanbao and the others too!"

"Good cub." Lin Zhao praised casually.

The two cubs grinned, turning into little bees, diligently moving things.

That's right, moving.

Rarely returning home to visit relatives, Gu Chenghuai prepared a lot of good things for his wife's family.

Very large animal skins, twenty-year-old wild ginseng, fabric, cigarettes and alcohol, and meat and sugar.

"These are all prepared by your father?" Lin Zhao looked through the things.

"Yes." The first cub's clear and soft child's voice echoed, "Father said, as a son-in-law, one can't be stingy with the maiden home."

"Marrying a wife is really expensive!" The second cub furrowed his little brows, full of worry.

He looked up at Lin Zhao, his appearance earnest. "Mother, can I not marry a wife in the future?"

The money he earned had to be given to Mother, and raising another wife, he was too tired!

Lin Zhao still remembered, when they were going to build a house, the second cub asked where his wife would live.

It hadn't been long, and he didn't want it again!

Children are really changeable.

"Depends on you, your father and I don't care." Lin Zhao didn't force the cubs to get married.

Compared to the endings of the four cubs in the original book, in this life, as long as they grow up happily, that's enough.

The second cub hadn't realized what his mother's words meant, but he could feel he was loved by Mother, the child hugged Mother's waist, twisting his body, sticky and sticky.

"Mother is so good!"

"Alright, time to move things." Lin Zhao patted her son's little head.

The mother and the two sons had just moved the things out of the room.

The fourth cub came out from the backyard slowly with her grandmother.

Seeing Lin Zhao, she smiled happily, shaking and running over.

"Mother~"

The little milky group wore the little pink dress her father bought, cloth shoes on her feet, thin and soft hair tied into little bunches, wearing hair clips, skin pink and white, round and fleshy, cute enough to make people's hearts melt.

"Fourth cub changed to a new hairstyle, who tied it, it's quite cute." Lin Zhao picked up her daughter, kissing the cub's little face.

"Daddy tied it." Ercai's voice was loud and clear.

Lin Zhao couldn't help but laugh, "Your daddy really is all-capable."

His hands can hold a gun, and they can also braid his daughter's hair.

The twins worshipped their daddy immensely; hearing their mother's words, they nodded vigorously to show their agreement.

Gu Chenghuai borrowed a bicycle and rode it to their front door.

In front of the ping-pong table, the older and younger children hadn't dispersed yet.

"Quiet San Zai, it's time to go." He looked at Quiet San Zai, whose little face was flushed red, his deep voice gentle and slow.

"Okay." A milky, soft voice rang out. Quiet San Zai put away his toys, trotted home, entered the room, put his little car and little frog... back into his exclusive lidded bamboo basket, and then walked out again, unhurriedly.

Gu Chenghuai had installed a toddler seat on the back of his bicycle, with a small blanket spread inside.

Not only was his hands-on ability strong, but his efficiency was also fast; there was no need for anyone to say much at all.

Lin Zhao felt it was super worry-free.

Just like this—

On the borrowed crossbar bicycle, Ercai sat on the front bar, Gu Da Cai sat on the back seat, Gu Chenghuai did the pedaling, and the handlebars were hung full of things.

Lin Zhao rode the ladies' bicycle, with the cute and tender little Sizai on the back seat; Quiet San Zai was tied to her chest with a cloth carrier, the kind where she could kiss his little face just by lowering her head.

It was Sizai's first time riding a bicycle; she happily dangled her little feet, her smile exceptionally soft and cute.

"Let's go!" Lin Zhao said.

Ercai clenched his little fist, raised his arm, and said excitedly, "Let's go!"

At this moment, Tie Chui stepped forward a few paces, looking longingly at his good brothers, his simple little face full of urgency: "Gu Da Cai, Ercai, when are you coming back? Can we still play together today?"

"We can! You just wait at home, we'll be back in a little while," Ercai said loudly.

"Mm!"

The bicycles moved forward, their speed quite fast.

Gu Chenghuai lowered his head to look at his son's round head, "Are you and Tie Chui the best of friends?"

"That's right!" Ercai turned his head to look at his daddy, his tone light and breezy, "We're going to be good brothers for a lifetime, our relationship is the very best."

Behind him, Gu Da Cai also said, "The kind that wears the same pair of pants."

Children love to imitate the way adults talk. Ever since they heard Lin Zhao say that the three of them were so close they could wear the same pair of pants, the twins started keeping these words on the tips of their tongues.

Gu Chenghuai smiled at the corners of his mouth and said unhurriedly, "I see you've temporarily handed over the ownership of the ping-pong ball to Tie Chui; why isn't it Bangbang, Ge, or Tie Dan? Aren't they your brothers too?"

"It's different." Don't look at Ercai as small; he has a scale in his heart.

He gave his own daddy a puzzled look.

He said, "Adults talk about closeness and distance, but children have their own closeness and distance too. In my heart, Tie Chui is closer than Bangbang Ge and the others."

"Closeness and distance?" Gu Chenghuai whispered, his deep, pitch-black eyes squinting at his son, "Who taught you that?"

"My mommy! What about it?" Ercai's handsome little eyebrows arched.

"... Your mommy is right."

Ercai's expression was smug.

He knew his daddy would say that.

Mommy is the boss!

Gu Da Cai covered his mouth and giggled.

Lin Zhao didn't hear the conversation between the father and his three sons; she pedaled her legs fast, wanting to reach her maiden home at the fastest speed possible.

Seeing this, Ercai wailed, "Daddy, hurry up, catch up to Mommy, hurry, hurry, hurry!"

Gu Chenghuai's expression was helpless.

With a temperament like this, he didn't know who he took after.

It was enough to give one a headache.

"Gu Da Cai, watch your legs, we're going to accelerate," he said to Gu Da Cai on the back seat.

"Mm, I'm lifting them up!"

Facing the wind, the two bicycles sped past.

Bicycles rarely came to the Dongfeng Brigade.

This time, two appeared, which drew everyone to lean in.

A sharp-eyed child saw Lin Zhao's face and shouted loudly to the Lin family children: "Dadan, Lin Er Dan, your aunt is going back to her maiden home!!"

Dadan and Lin Er Dan vaguely heard the word "aunt," dropped the things in their hands, and rushed over like the wind.

Hey, it really is Aunt!

And she's riding a bicycle!!

"Aunt, you're back!" Lin Dadan said excitedly.

Lin Lin Er Dan touched the bicycle wheel, his face full of excitement, "Aunt, did you buy this bicycle?"

Before Lin Zhao could answer, Ercai, who was sitting on the front bar of the other bicycle, lifted his feet, his voice crisp.

"That's right, the bicycle my mommy is riding is from our house, the ticket was sent back by my daddy."

"By the way, my mommy also bought a new watch, the ticket for that was also sent by my daddy."

The surrounding children let out a "wow," all looking at him with envy.

Ercai was very smug, his little head held high.

Only when he opened his mouth did Dadan and Lin Er Dan notice the handsome man in military uniform.

"Oh, Uncle is home to visit relatives, my grandpa mentioned you just two days ago."

Dadan called out "Uncle," exchanged a few polite words, patted his younger brother's back, and urged, "Lin Er Dan, what are you still standing there for? Go back and pass the message, tell Grandpa and Grandma that our aunt has brought Uncle and the four cubs back to her maiden home."

Lin Er Dan seemed to have just come to his senses, patted his forehead, and ran off in a flash, shouting as he ran: "Grandpa, Grandma, my aunt brought my uncle and the four cubs back!!"

Full of vitality.

The Lin family wasn't far from the village entrance; with one shout, he didn't call out Lin Father and Lin Mother, but he did call out Xibao.

Lin Xibao urgently put down the basket in her hand and ran out of the house.

At a glance, she saw the two bicycles.

"Auntie." She smiled like a little sun, making people feel good just looking at her.

"Yes!" Lin Zhao responded.

She held Sizai down with one hand, untied the cloth carrier, and put Quiet San Zai down.

"Dadan, come here." Lin Zhao beckoned to Dadan.

Dadan walked over obediently, his eyes scanning the bicycle, full of curiosity, "What's wrong?"

Lin Zhao handed the bicycle to him, "Nothing, learn how to ride a bike when you have nothing to do; there's no harm in learning. The ladies' bicycle has no front bar and is low, so it's quite easy to ride; you go and play with it."

"!!"

Learn, learn to ride a bicycle?

Dadan was dazed.

It was as if he had been hit by a giant pie falling from the sky.

His eyes were brighter than the sun, and he rubbed his hands excitedly, "Aunt, you're willing to let me?"

It's a new bike!

"Why wouldn't I be willing? Go learn." For an older child who is almost ten, who doesn't want to learn to ride a bicycle?

She also had such a simple and plain wish when she was little, but unfortunately, she didn't have the conditions.

Sure enough.

As soon as Lin Zhao's words fell, the older and younger children of the Dongfeng Brigade all looked at Dadan with immense envy.

Ah ah ah ah ah, why don't they have an aunt like this?!

Envious to death, woo woo woo.

Dadan solemnly took the bicycle and promised earnestly: "Aunt, I'll ask my daddy to help hold it, I definitely won't let the bicycle fall."

"Silly!" Lin Zhao's affectionate, laughing scolding slipped out.

"Ah?" Dadan was dumbfounded.

Was Aunt talking about him?

"How can a bicycle be more important than you? If it falls, let it fall. Learn with confidence, don't be timid." External things are never as important as people.

At this, the children gathered around began to sniffle.

Dadan and Lin Er Dan's aunt is really so good!

After saying that.

Lin Zhao led the four cubs into the house, with Gu Chenghuai pushing the bicycle closely behind.

Seeing the soft, cute little grandson and granddaughter, Lin Heling's face bloomed with a refined and gentle smile, and he beckoned to the two little ones.

"Come, let Grandpa see."

The twins weren't familiar with Grandpa and didn't go over.

Especially Sizai, who held onto Lin Zhao's leg tightly, revealing only those big, dark, bright eyes, peeking over secretly.

Lin Zhao's smile was warm, "Don't be afraid, that's Mommy's daddy."