Tanya insisted on leaving a large portion of the birthday cake for Karenin.
Dolly told her daughter that her uncle didn't have a sweet tooth.
The little girl's eyes were wide open, and she couldn't believe it.
"There is no one who doesn't like sweets!"
She secretly handed the cake to Anna, and whispered, "Did uncle make a mistake?"
Before Anna could figure it out, the little girl tiptoed and whispered in her ear: "If he made a mistake, can you punish him next time?"
"Because," she stood still, twisting the folds of the skirt with her small hands.
"Because it's my birthday."
"Birthdays can get any forgiveness, can't they?" Tanya bit her lips, she was not sure if her words would be recognized. But she thought Uncle Karenin was a good man, and he respected her very much. She didn't despise him just because she was a child, he is really a kind and weird person!
Anna finally understood what Tanya was thinking. She knew she had misunderstood, so she should continue to let her misunderstand, or explain to her patiently. Among these two choices, Anna decided to accept Tanya's kindness.
"He will eat it. Of course he will, because you are so cute." Anna stroked Tanya's soft hair, and then kissed her little hand.
"Tanya has a heart of gold."
Tanya is still young, so she doesn't quite understand Anna's metaphor, but she is subconsciously worried, "Mom said you can't swallow gold."
Anna listened and laughed. She changed the metaphor.
"Tanya is like a little angel, beautiful and cute."
Tanya understood, and she happily accepted the compliment.
In the evening, after Karenin and Skiva came back from the outside together, Anna told Karenin what happened during the day. She took out the cake and said, "You can have one bite, and I'll help you eat the rest."
Karenin is not a sweet person, and this kind of cake is not his favorite. Anna hopes that Karenin can feel Tanya's heart, but she doesn't intend to really force Karenin to swallow something he doesn't like, so she came up with the above suggestion.
But Karenin refused.
"I'll finish it," he said. Then I sat down, and after looking at the cake for a while, I ate it slowly.
Anna sat beside her with her hands on the table, looking at her husband with a smile.
"I'm getting a little jealous of Tanya," she joked.
"You didn't." Karenin poked at her.
Anna didn't care either, resting her chin on her left hand, admiring the man eating the cake intently under the light, and asking, "Is it impossible for a man to refuse a woman?"
Karenin paused for a moment and replied, "Mostly."
Anna was happy, and she moved a little closer and asked, "Well, among those who are not, is there anyone named Alexey Alexandrovich Karenin?"
Karenin didn't answer right away, nor did he blush. He gently scratched a bit of the cake with his clean right thumb, and then wiped it on the corner of the mouth of the woman who was completely unaware of the danger and was still close to him.
The smell of cream made Anna stunned for a moment, and before she could react, a kiss was already on her lips.
"Is it delicious?" The hoarse voice sounded with a faint smile.
Anna blushed completely.
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The next morning, Anna looked in the mirror for the fifth time, but not to see her face or her hair, but to see her teeth.
She raised her hand and touched the spot lightly.
A pain.
She took a deep breath, and now she couldn't lie to herself anymore.
When Karenin came out of the bathroom, he saw Anna sitting by the dressing table, heard his footsteps, turned his head, and looked serious.
"I have to go see my teeth."
When Karenin heard this, he paused, and then walked over at a faster pace.
He stood in front of Anna.
Raise your hands. Holding Anna's chin with her left hand, she gently slid her cheek with her right hand.
"Let me see," he said.
Anna was a little embarrassed, turned her face slightly, and muttered softly.
"You're not a dentist."
Karenin didn't seem to want to give up, and said, "Although not, but I have somewhat understood it."
"Why do you want to know this? Your teeth are very good, and you don't like sweets." Anna almost complained a little. She found that although this body was not similar to her original body, her teeth were also not very good. She suspected it was her own sweet tooth. Not to mention, she ate cake during the day yesterday, and "ate" a lot at night.
Karenin glanced at her and smiled.
"For my nephew."
Anna choked a little, but she was relieved when she saw Karenin smiling. She tilted her head slightly and opened her mouth to show Karenin her aching teeth.
Karenin looked over her teeth with his hand, and slowly stroked her cheek with his right hand. Although it was summer, Karenin's hands were not the type that sweated easily.
The clean scent left on the skin after the soap was lathered drifted through Anna's nose because of the close contact.
Although she raised her head, it was completely different from kissing. In front of her lover, at the beginning, she always worried about whether she would look stupid with her mouth wide open, but after Karenin's eyes were focused and not joking, Anna calmed down.
Her head was gently moved so that it fell under the most suitable light, so that she could see the condition of the entire mouth clearly.
Karenin's long eyelashes seemed to be swaying in front of Anna's eyes, making her heart itchy, and she wanted to touch them. But the next sharp pain made her give up this idea, and subconsciously made a pained expression.
Karenin dropped his hands.
"Not good," he said. "Go to the dentist."
He pulled Anna up and handed her his hat for going out.
"Are you going with me?" Anna asked.
Karenin nodded. He doesn't have anything particularly important right now. As for the official documents that were originally scheduled to be processed, he can move them back a little.
"The official document..." Anna wanted to ask, but she didn't say it. She smiled and accepted the concern from her husband, and she believed that she could always handle it well.
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Seryozha was handed over to Tao Li to take care of, but the little guy didn't cry, but fluttered his limbs to express that he wanted to return to his mother's arms.
Anna touched his fingers and arms, kissed him on the cheek, and told him to be good.
Seryozha still looked unhappy.
He wrinkled his cheeks, whimpered and acted like a baby, trying to change his mother's decision to leave him alone. But unfortunately, that didn't work.
Anna sighed to Karenin in the carriage.
"When he grows up, he won't be so clingy to me!"
"All children are like this." She said quietly, as if she was already an old mother who raised several children.
Karenin looked at his wife's youthful face with a kind of pleasure in his heart, but his expression remained calm.
In the following, Karenin observed that Anna's words became more and more, and he lowered his eyes slightly and smiled a little—she didn't make some intimate physical contact as usual.
Before meeting Anna, Karenin was always clear about the boundaries between people. He thought it most comfortable to keep some decent distance between them, if not necessary. But after marriage, the line is always rubbed and rubbed. It was as if two villains were engaged in some kind of tug-of-war.
The serious Karenin villain always tells the pink and soft Anna seriously: "I think we need to make certain rules between us."
"Ah, of course." That's what little Anna said.
Karenin then judged the creature to be harmless and able to communicate. So he opened the first city gate, allowing this creature completely different from himself to enter.
Then, the soft creature began to visit his castle with great enthusiasm. She told him that his castle was very beautiful.
"It's flattering, but not annoying." The villain Karenin was even more satisfied with this soft creature. So for the first time, he generously invited the other party into his inner room, and he introduced to her those things about him.
There
The villain Karenin was stunned, and he didn't immediately agree.
There is a place that he doesn't want to show to others, it only belongs to him. But that soft thing didn't give up, and got close to him in various ways, touched the back of his hand with her soft fingers, whispered and pleaded to him with that sweet voice, and finally just when he was hesitating , she simply took his hand and led him into that place naturally like a master. And when Karenin reacted, he realized that the originally cold room seemed to be filled with the fragrance of spring flowers, the shade of trees in summer, and the fruits of autumn, just like the fire in winter.
It turned out that the room for two people was like this.
No, not just anyone, but…
Only her, yes, only because of her.
Karenin raised his hand, clasped the hand that was still unconsciously fiddling with the cushion underneath, patted it lightly a few times, and then covered the entire palm on it.
He said, "Are you afraid?"
Although it was a question sentence, Anna saw that Karenin's blue eyes were already determined. She blinked, then nodded.
"A little bit." She said, under the sight of the other party, she licked the corner of her mouth embarrassingly.
"a lot of."
"I don't like it," she admitted.
"I don't think anyone would like it." Karenin patted her fingers again.
Anna laughed, she knew it was Karenin's comfort. Although, she knew that she seemed to be treated like a child.
Her eyes became bright again, a little naughty.
"Do you take me for Seryozha, my dear Alexei?"
"We'd better not let something like this happen to Seryozha." Karenin said calmly, "Based on this lesson, I think we should control Seryozha's intake of sugar."
"He is so pitiful, he may be a little sweet tooth like me." Anna pretended to be worried about Seryozha's future sugar control life. Because Karenin may be a strict father, he does not have the hypothetical desire to talk about the children's future education, and seems to be quite patient.
"You don't think a sweet tooth would detract from his masculinity later on, do you, Alexey?"
"I don't think so," Karenin denied.
He raised his eyes slightly, and thought for a while: "I hope that Seryozha can become a person with a sense of responsibility. And a person with a sense of responsibility has nothing to do with his appearance and living habits. Of course he can like Sweets, it's just that I hope he can be restrained. 'Restrained' is not a bad word, not only in dietary preferences, but also in all aspects of life."
Anna was once again satisfied with Karenin's unique thoughts in this era.
"You're so kind!" she said with some joy, and leaned against him again affectionately. "You will be a good father."
"If you ever doubted this, I have to say frankly that you are right." Karenin said in a deep voice.
Anna looked up at him in surprise.
Karenin looked down at her with a rather happy expression.
"In my few imaginations, I know I'm going to teach him good handwriting, good conversation, basic social movements, and get him the best teacher. That's a lot, but I forget that before that , he still has a period," Karenin paused, as if recalling Seryozha's size in the air, "there was a time when he was so small."
"Obviously, he can't learn anything yet."
"This is when he has to rely on us." Anna said with a smile.
"Yes. I can't ask a baby to follow the rules, and I can't make him maintain proper manners at all times. It takes a little time to adjust a father's caring model for his children. After all," he lowered his voice, "I am the first time Be a father."
"Me too. I'm a mother for the first time." Anna put her hand on the back of Karenin's hand, she laughed, then twisted her expression a little, and then laughed again.
"Look, Alexey, we've been pretty good parents."
"No matter what, we're always turning around and talking about him."
Seeing his wife's confident expression, Karenin also felt relieved. Although he is fearless at work, in life, in the changes brought about by this marriage, he is not as calm as he imagined. Like, from being a qualified husband, to becoming a husband who loves and respects his wife, and from being a husband to being a father. In the future, there will be more changes that will accompany them, even if it is not in their own imagination, but as long as they are with her, life will always be accompanied by happiness.