Chapter Twenty-Eight: Growth
Time is a mischievous thief who steals the time from adults and gives it to their children. So as the children grew up, the parents grew old.
Although Wen Dad and Wen Niang have not grown old now, Wen Anan has grown up a lot. In the blink of an eye, it has entered the hot summer.
In ancient times, due to low productivity, many things had to be solved by manpower, which led to even the seven or eight-year-old children in the family becoming an important labor force. So in the summer, when the farm is busy, Wen Qing'an will give the children some holidays and let them go home to help the adults do farm work.
Compared with the day-long toiling of the people in the village, the Wen family is a leisurely appearance. Because Wen Qing'an is a person, not only does he not have the pressure of paying taxes, but he can even pay half less grain tax for the land under his name.
So even if Wen Qing'an's family doesn't farm, he also has some land under his name. However, the real owners of these fields are indeed the families in the village who are friends with them. After they sent the land to Wen Qing'an's name, they could pay less than half of the grain tax. However, in order to thank Wen Qing'an for his help, they specially sent half of the grain to the Wen family as a thank you. Although this approach is a bit opportunistic, it is a matter of killing two birds with one stone.
Because of the holiday, Wen Qing'an rested at home for most of the summer and had more time to spend with his family.
After breakfast, because the house is too hot, the family will move the deck chairs, mats, low tables, and small benches to the courtyard under the big tree and come to the yard to enjoy the shade.
Wen brought a small basket from the house, in which were some peaches, apricots, and a large watermelon, and the handle of the basket was tied with a rope so that the melons and fruits could be chilled in the well and served by everyone later.
After everything was done, Wen took his daughter to the big tree, and then placed Wen An on the mat on the ground. My daughter is now nine months old, and she usually crawls around whenever she has time. Sometimes they are afraid that their daughter will fall or be injured, so they will confine her in a small bed or a carrier, An An will wave her hands and kick her legs dishonestly, plus they find that their daughter never crawls to dangerous or dirty places, and over time, they will go with her.
When Wen put him down, Wen An'an immediately crawled around on the mat. As an eight- or nine-month-old baby, she couldn't do anything, but it suffocated her. Although she used to be an otaku, it was on the premise of having the Internet and books, but since she crossed over, she has lived a life like a pig every day, and no one on the stall can stand it.
Wen Qingan was originally reading a book on a recliner, but when he saw his daughter crawling back and forth on the mat under his feet, he had the idea of teasing again. So he put the book on the low table next to him, and made it to the mat himself. Then when Wen An'an's butt was facing him, he grabbed her little feet while her daughter was not paying attention.
Wen An'an was climbing back and forth happily, when she suddenly felt that her feet were being pulled, she didn't care much at first, she just thought that the ground was uneven and she was tripped by something, but when she just wanted to lift her feet and continue to climb forward, she couldn't walk.
Wen Anan turned her head to look behind her suspiciously, and when she saw her father looking at her, a sense of powerlessness arose.
Ever since she was barely able to sit up, Wen Qing'an had been teasing herself back and forth on the bed like a child seeing a toy. Since then, this father seems to have found another joy in life, as long as the father and daughter stay together, Father Wen always teases her, and plays with her in the name of beauty, but Wen Anan has always felt that he is playing with this father.
Wen Anan secretly rolled his eyes, turned around slowly, and then crawled in the direction of his father, muttering and complaining.
Wen Qing'an saw that his daughter was wearing a red belly pocket, crawling here like a doll in a New Year's painting, and he felt that his eyes were full of joy.
Wen Anan was also stunned when he heard the word 'sticker' coming out of his mouth. Before she could figure out what was going on, she felt that her body was light, and when she came back to her senses, she was already in Daddy Wen's arms.
Wen Qing'an looked at Wen An'an's eyes with a look of surprise, and said excitedly: "Girl, what did you just say?" Say it again."
Wen Shi, who was embroidering on the side, and Wen Anze and Wen Anhao, who were writing, saw that Wen Qing'an was so abnormal, and they all put down what they were doing and came here one after another.
Seeing his father-in-law like this, Wen was afraid that he would scare his daughter, so he stretched out his hand to hug Wen An'an, but as soon as he made a move, he was dodged by Wen Qing'an. Then I heard his voice tremble and say, "Lady, just now I heard our An An call me father."
This sentence is no less than dropping an explosive in the Wen family, and the other three mothers who blew it up also screamed with joy. His Chinese An Hao was even more exaggerated, jumped and ran to Wen An'an, stretched his face in front of her and said novelly: "Sister, come quickly, call brother, brother-brother"
When Wen Qing'an saw that his youngest son was coming to make trouble, he immediately stretched out his hand to block him, and complained: "I haven't heard enough of it, what are you doing here?" You have to listen to the queue to go, "yes, this old man and his son are calculating, and the one who loses must be his son."
Sticking out his tongue at his father and making a grimace, Wen Anhao frowned and stood beside Wen Qing'an, waiting obediently for the follow-up development with Wen Anze.
However, after Wen Anhao's trouble, Wen walked out of the excitement just now, and then calmly sat opposite his father-in-law, and said with a smile: "Our An An is only more than nine months old, although some children speak early, but for ordinary children, it is still too early, maybe you heard it wrong."
When Wen Qing'an heard what the lady said, he was immediately unhappy, can their daughter be an ordinary person. Thinking of this, Wen Qing'an turned his head a little angrily, and did not reply to Wen's words, but continued to coax Wen Anan to speak.
If Wen An'an knew that she was given such high hopes by her father, she would probably have the heart to cry. There are still two little foxes in front of her who are black inside and a coal inside, counting on her? In her previous years, she didn't make any big waves in her twenties, let alone now. The most she can do in her life is to try not to grow crooked when the whole family is extremely spoiled.
But looking around, several people all looked at her expectantly, even if the mother who comforted Wen Qing'an just now looked at her with bright eyes, Wen An'an felt that her heart was soft.
Since becoming a baby, although she has the mind of an adult, she has grown up according to the trajectory of a baby, and has never been ahead of children of the same age because she has the memory of one more life, first, she is afraid that her seedlings will be harmful to the body, and second, she really wants to integrate into the family as a child, whether it is physical or emotional.
But now, Wen Anan thinks it's also a good choice to surprise his family once in a while. After deciding, Wen An'an opened his mouth and tried to speak for the first time. Maybe it's because the vocal cords and tongue haven't been used, and the coordination is not very good, obviously thinking of one word in my head, but the words come to the mouth: "stick"
This time, not only Wen Qing'an, but even Wen's, Wen Anze, and Wen Anhao heard it clearly, and Wen An'an shouted his father in a milky voice. Although it is not standard, it has become the most beautiful sound in their ears at the moment. Although everyone was happy, the reaction was different.
Hearing her daughter officially call out, Wen Qing'an was even more overjoyed, and sat there with Wen Anan in his arms and began to giggle.
Seeing that his daughter was really calling Wen Qing'an, Wen was jealous in his heart, and he didn't care about Wen Qing'an, who was still smirking in a daze, so he fished Wen An'an out of his arms, and came to Wen An'an with a gentle, sweet soft voice and said: "An'an, come, call Shengniang to listen."
For Wen's gentle smile, it is usually revealed the most when rectifying Wen Anze and Wen Anhao, Wen An'an usually has a psychological shadow when he sees it, where do you dare to disobey. So after Wen had taught him a few times, Wen An'an tried to shout: "nia"
Hearing Wen An'an also call himself, although he couldn't hear what it was, Wen still happily kissed Wen An'an on the cheek a few times, and then looked at Wen Qing'an a little provocatively.
Wen Anze and Wen Anhao, who were on the side, were even more reluctant when they saw their father and mother like this, and the two of them squatted in front of Wen and looked at Wen Anan sadly. Then, Wen Anhao seemed to think of something, ran to the house, and when he came back, he had a lot of gadgets in his hand.
Wen Anze glanced at the things in Wen Anhao's hand, just took Wen An'an's favorite cat mask, and then dangled back and forth in front of Wen An'an's eyes, seeing his sister's eyes moving back and forth with the movements in his hand, Wen Anze smiled and said: "An'an, if you want it, you can call it brother, brother-brother"
Wen Anhao was also nodding and shaking his head: "Brother, brother, come, An'an, call twice"
Anyway, they all shouted, and they didn't miss these two sentences. Wen An'an looked at the two brothers and shouted hard, and smiled sly, thinking that he was cunning: "Ah"
I thought my sister was also called my brother, both of them opened their eyes and looked forward to it, the ridiculously sweet sister actually called her own name, the two of them were originally like two balloons with enough air, but as soon as the word Wen An'an came out, the expectations of the two were poked, and they were deflated all of a sudden.
Wen Anan looked at the dejected appearance of the two elder brothers, and he couldn't tease them anymore, so he had to spit out his words in a milky voice: "Aa, cough, aa, cough"
Wen Anze and Wen Anhao almost jumped up from the ground with joy when they heard their sister screaming like this, the two looked at Wen Anan and smirked for a while, and then learned from Wen's family, and the two kissed Wen Anan loudly on the face a few times. Wen Anhao also stuffed all the things in his hand into Wen An'an's arms.
Wen Anan looked at the smiling and happy family, and felt sweet in his heart.
But it didn't take long for her to regret that she wanted to take a piece of tofu and kill her. For the first time, she felt that the favor of her family was sometimes quite 'scary', because for many days to come, she spent her time in pain in this voice of calling her father and mother and brother.