On the way home from school, Yu Zhiyi counted his fingers.
Seeing her walking slowly with her head lowered and almost hitting the electric pole in front of her, Shi Yi took a quick step forward, covering her forehead with his palm, "Look at the road!"
"What are you muttering? Don't cry if you crash and fall!" He fiercely taught the little girl a lesson.
Yu Zhi was not afraid at all, raised her face and replied, "Brother, my birthday is coming soon."
He hummed and said the time without hesitation: "Five more days."
The little girl opened her eyes wide, revealing admiration, "Brother is amazing!"
"stupid."
He even prepared gifts in advance, and the time did not need to be calculated at all.
Before arriving home, Shi Yi reached out and grabbed her ponytail, "The homework assigned by the math teacher today is a bit difficult, if you can't, come to me and I will teach you."
She tilted her head, "Is today's math problem difficult?"
"Um… "
"Then I'll go directly to your home to do my homework!" She happily made a decision, "Brother wait a minute, I'll go back and tell my grandma."
As soon as Yu Zhi stepped into the courtyard door, she found that today was different. She walked towards the door suspiciously and saw that the door was open and there were new appliances in the room.
"grandmother?"
The door was open, but no one answered her.
She withdrew from her own house, turned to her uncle's house next door, and heard lively conversations inside.
Yu Zhiyi quietly stuck out his head at the door and saw a few strange and familiar people.
Eyes wide open in disbelief.
Suddenly, a five- or six-year-old girl ran out chasing the toy car, Yu Zhi jumped a step, and everyone inside found her.
"One by one?" Ruan Qing stood up and hurriedly walked towards her daughter outside the door.
Yu Zhi opened her mouth and called out a strange voice, "Mom."
When Yu Zhi was three and a half years old, his father Yu Kai and his mother Ruan Qing went out to work. It has been more than seven years now, and they have only come here twice. For Yu Zhiyi, they were really familiar and unfamiliar people.
These two are the blood relatives who brought her into the world. Even though they have rarely seen each other for so many years, she still yearns for the love of her parents.
Shi Yi waited at the door for a while, then walked in.
He saw the scene of the mother and daughter hugging in front of the Ruan family's uncle's door from a distance, so he stood quietly in the same place and did not come forward to disturb him.
"One by one, come and see the gift that mom bought for you." Ruan Qing happily took her eldest daughter home to unpack the gift, but unexpectedly Yu Zhiyi pulled her hand back.
"My brother is waiting for me outside. I have to go and tell my brother first."
"Brother?" Ruan Qing didn't respond at first hearing her name.
As soon as Yu Zhi didn't get her mother's doubts, she nodded at her and ran out.
Caught off guard, he fell into someone's arms and looked up to see Shi Yi.
"Brother! My parents are back!" She made no secret of her excited tone and joyful eyes.
Shi Yi touched her head, "I see, you go back to accompany your parents first, come over when you are free. If you are not free, I will teach you at school tomorrow."
"Hmm!" She nodded happily.
Shi Yi can fully understand her mood at the moment, after all, children want to be loved by their parents.
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The Yu family's husband and wife have earned some money by working outside these years. When they came back this time, they changed a few sets of new furniture for the home, and added a refrigerator and a washing machine.
Ruan Qing was holding her five-year-old daughter by one hand, and Yu Zhiyi realized that the little girl with the mushroom head and short bangs just now was her younger sister, Yu Xinyan.
The last time I saw my sister was three years ago, when she was only two years old, she looked very different from what she looks like now, so I didn't recognize her at first.
Ruan Qing happily took out all the gifts, winter padded jackets, spring coats, summer skirts, everything, "One by one, these are all bought for you by your mother, do you like it?"
"like!"
As long as it's a gift from her mother, she likes it.
Yu Xinyan took out a box of fruit candies from her bag and asked her mother to tear it up for her. Ruan Qing put away the whole box and didn't give it to her, "This is a candy for my sister, you can't eat it."
Yu Xinyan, who couldn't eat candy, was very unhappy and jumped up to grab it.
Ruan Qing didn't give it, but handed the fruit candy to Yu Zhiyi, "One-by-one, this is an imported fruit candy. Mom specially picked it for you. There are many flavors."
As soon as Yu Zhi accepted the candy, the corners of his mouth curved into a smile.
Seeing that the candy was in her sister's hands, Yu Xinyan immediately changed her target, "Sister, give me a candy."
She was soft-hearted and was about to take it from the box, but was stopped by Ruan Qing.
"It's okay, there are a lot of candies here that can be shared with my sister." She was understanding and generous.
But I heard Ruan Qing reply: "Yanyan is going to change her teeth, so she can't eat candy."
Yu Xinyan liked to eat candy when she was a child, Ruan Qing has been controlling it, and now she has begun to replace her teeth when she is less than six years old. She is a little worried and directly prohibits her youngest daughter from eating candy.
"You keep it well, and don't steal it for your sister." Ruan Qing instructed carefully.
Yu Zhiyi looked down at the candy in her hand, and the smile on her face gradually faded.
Mom and Dad brought her clothes, snacks, and some study stationery. She took all the clothes back to the room, arranged them and hung them on the shelf, and put the stationery in place.
Finally, looking at the jar of candy, she persuaded herself again, "Mom and Dad have given so many gifts, so you should be grateful to them!"
The adults arranged a reunion dinner at the uncle's house, and they all went to work at the uncle's house. Yu Zhi finished a simple homework, and just happened to be called to dinner.
Although her uncle's house is next door these years, she rarely comes here, and basically eats alone with her grandmother, or Shi Yi will keep her at Shi's house.
Because the uncle's family was polite to them because they received gifts, it really looked like a family that loved each other.
Yu Zhiyi was a little cautious, because the liveliness here was a little out of tune with her.
The five-year-old sister still doesn't like to eat, she has a toy in her hand, and she will only eat two bites if Ruan Qing feeds her.
Yu Zhiyi occasionally looked up at the way her mother was chasing her sister to feed, and then lowered her head silently.
Father Yu and Uncle Ruan were drinking wine. Occasionally, he caught a glimpse of the eldest daughter who only ate and didn't take any vegetables. He directly took a large piece of meat and put it in her bowl, "One by one, eat more meat, you are so thin."
Looking at the extra pieces of meat in the bowl, Yu Zhi was taken aback.
The meat is half fat and half lean, and it was stir-fried with chili peppers. She didn't have a full mouth yet, so she couldn't eat spicy food at all.
Fortunately, there was a grandmother sitting next to her to help her, took the meat, and said, "One by one, I have been angry recently, and I don't eat spicy food."
Father Yu nodded, "Then eat more vegetables."
She replied softly, "Okay."
In the end, she only ate a small bowl of white rice and drank some soup.
The adults drank, chatted, and ate slowly. She couldn't wait, so she went back alone.
Back in the room, she put two new beautiful signature pens in her schoolbag. Before leaving, she grabbed a handful of candy and stuffed it into her pocket, and carried a small schoolbag to Shi's house.
Shi Yi finished his homework at school and started playing game consoles at home.
Today, Ning Suya had something to delay and went home a little late, so she only started cooking at this time.
When Yu Zhi came knocking on the door, Shi Yi didn't hear it at all, it was Ning Suya who opened the door.
"One by one."
"I have some math questions to ask my brother."
"Brother is in the room, go in and find him."
She was very familiar with Shi's family, and she went into Shiyi's room and followed her own room. When pushing the door in, Shi Yi was still fighting fiercely in the game.
Yu Zhi stood silently in the back, waited for him to finish the fight, and then called out, "Brother."
Shi Yi, who was pressing his shoulder, turned his head suddenly and looked at her in surprise, "Why are you here?"
Yu Zhi pulled down his schoolbag and took out the math book from it.
There were two chairs in front of the desk. They found a familiar position, and the question book was placed in the middle.
"Your parents are back, don't you have to stay with them at home?"
"They're at my uncle's house, drinking."
"Oh." Drinking and chatting with parents is a long process, he understands.
"What about your little sister? You don't play with her either?"
"Sister... I don't know how to play with her."
My sister has a lot of toys, but she has never played with them. When she finished eating, her mother was chasing her sister to feed her, so she couldn't play together.
"Oh~" When Shi Yi heard this, his clever eyes rolled, "So, there is no common topic for different age groups, you can see that we can play together!"
Shi's fooling around, professional brainwashing.
But the little girl thought it made sense and nodded in agreement, "I like to play with my brother."
Shi Yi touched the little girl's head, feeling very relieved.
Yu Zhiyi suddenly remembered something, took out two new pens from the schoolbag and put them on the table, "Mom bought me a box of pens, I chose two colors you like and gave them to you."
Then, she grabbed a handful of candy from her pocket and handed it to him, "And candy."
These two things were among the gifts she got, the only ones that she could give, because she couldn't give clothes, and she didn't need snacks.
Before Shi Yi could be happy with the gift of the two pens, she was distracted by the candy in her hand, but not because she liked it.
"Yu Zhiyi! Did I tell you that you can't eat candy now?" He took away all the candy and didn't keep it for her.
She raised her chin with her fingers and ordered, "Open your mouth."
She opened her mouth obediently.
Shi Yi checked her teeth carefully. It was the age for her second bicuspids, so she shouldn't be careless.
He said solemnly: "You are not allowed to eat candy until you have finished changing your teeth, do you know that?"
Before Yu Zhiyi made a statement, Ning Suya suddenly knocked on the door and came in, "Have you eaten yet? Auntie will give you extra food."
Shi Yi hurriedly replied: "Mom, remember not to add spicy food to the dish for a while, because it hasn't gotten better recently."
Ning Suya smiled and waved the spatula in her hand, "Okay, just worry about it, you've been talking in my ear for a few days, can I not know?"
Ning Suya turned around and went to the kitchen.
Shi Yi retracted his gaze and was about to continue to instruct her, but found that the little girl's tears fell like golden beans.
Shi Yi suddenly panicked, "One by one, I didn't kill you, don't cry."
Yu Zhi shook her head, she was crying because Shi Yi forbade her to eat candy.
The smart Shi Yi only panicked when she shed tears, clumsily wiped away her tears, and coaxed while wiping: "Don't cry, when your teeth grow back, my brother will buy you candy."