Zhao Xianmin laughed and said, "Your Uncle Fang is a straight man, don't look at him often beating and scolding you, don't you hope you can become talents?" ”

"Yes, I didn't understand it when I was young, but I understood it when I grew up."

"Your Uncle Fang is the harshest on you, do you hate him?"

"Nope. I hated it when I ate the board, but then I didn't. Zhang Xiaogang looked up at Zhao Xianmin. If it weren't for Uncle Fang's board, I wouldn't be what I am now. ”

"If only you understood."

"Here, change your foot, I'll give you a good rub."

"Enough, your hands are heavy, and your skin is going to be broken." Zhao Xianmin smiled and said, "Go and get the album." Seeing you grow up, sometimes I can't believe that when I brought you back, you were all thin and small, as if you had grown so big in the blink of an eye. ”

The album is placed at the bottom of the closet, and there are several copies.

The first album was full of black and white photographs. In those days, taking pictures was a luxury, so each child could only find one on their birthday or the anniversary of entering the kindergarten. In addition, every year after the Spring Festival, Fang Changshan will come to the photographer in person to take a family photo.

It's just that many of the people on the family portrait are gone.

Not all terminally ill orphans are as lucky as Zhang Xiaogang, some die not long after entering the kindergarten, some only live for a few years, and less than half of them are adults. On each family photo, the heads of the orphans who have passed away are erased, and Zhang Xiaogang can't even remember their faces.

In the next few albums, there are more and more color photos.

It's just that there are still very few photos belonging to Zhang Xiaogang. In order to raise dozens of orphans, Fang Changshan and Zhao Xianmin lived very frugally, a summer short-sleeved shirt could be worn for more than ten years, and they couldn't wait to split a penny in half to spend, so they rarely spent money to take photos of their children.

"Look at this one." Zhao Xianmin took out a photo. "This is what your uncle took you to the photo studio after you joined the work."

"You sewed this white shirt for me."

"Yes, I heard that you got a job, and your Uncle Fang asked me to sew it out overnight, and some places haven't been sewn yet. You lean to the left to block the gap in your sleeve. You've been a hobby since you were a child, and although you wear clothes for a long time, you're always clean, unlike those guys. ”

"I don't remember, you often say I'm a mud monkey."

"That's when you get into fights with your classmates a lot."

"Really? I don't like to mess around. ”

"Don't admit it now?" Zhao Xianmin laughed, "In the first semester of the second year of junior high school, you had a fight with your classmates, and the teacher called your Uncle Fang to the school, saying that if you were with your classmates again, he would let you drop out." For this matter, your Uncle Fang let you eat a board and punished you for kneeling for one night. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Zhang Xiaogang pretended to be very similar.

He will never forget that incident, because the classmate he beat was Xia Hongyu's neighbor, saying that he was with Xia Hongyu all day long because he was a toad who wanted to eat swan meat. Just for this sentence, Zhang Xiaogang knocked out the guy's three big teeth, and the wound on his face was almost disfigured after five stitches.

"Although it was very hard at the time, but now that I think about it, you children are naughty and naughty, and it is worth it to see you grow up, have your own career, and build your own family. Your Uncle Fang is under Jiuquan, and he will also be proud of you. ”

"Zhao Ma ......"

"Xiaohou, you're not too young, when will you bring a girlfriend back?"

Zhang Xiaogang smiled reluctantly, he didn't know how to answer.

At this point, a photo slipped out of the album. Zhang Xiaogang was quick to grasp the photo and didn't let it fall into the basin.

Seeing the two people in the photo, Zhang Xiaogang trembled slightly.

"This is the Spring Festival when you were sixteen years old, Xiao Xia came to pay New Year's greetings, we are taking a family photo, and your Uncle Fang specially asked you to take a group photo."

Zhang Xiaogang closed his eyes, it was seventeen years ago.

"If you want, you can keep it."

"Zhao Ma ......"

"Xiao Xia is a good boy, it's just a pity." Zhao Xianmin sighed and said, "I know you can't let go, but it's been a few years, you should think about yourself." Mother Zhao is from here, and she loves you very much next summer, and she definitely doesn't want to see you live like this. ”

"I know the way, it's just ......"

"You're not a child anymore, you're a man who stands up to the sky. Mother Zhao muttered to you, it is also for your good, I hope you will establish your own family as soon as possible. For so many years, I have relied on your Uncle Fang for my life, and no one can hold on without it. Mother Zhao has no other wishes, she just hopes to see you get married and see you become a father. You asked your Uncle Fang why you want to adopt so many children. One day, when you become a father, you will understand. In this world, there is nothing greater than the love of parents for their children. ”

Zhang Xiaogang nodded vigorously and said, "Mother Zhao, when I finish this busy time, I will find a girlfriend, and then marry her and have a large group of children." When the time comes, bring them to see you, let them call you grandma, and let them be naughty around you. ”

"Good, good, good, that's good."

"Mother Zhao, it's not early, I'll help you go to sleep."

"No need, your mother Zhao is not old enough to need help. You should also rest early, and come back to see us more often if you have time. ”

"I'm going to catch a plane early tomorrow morning, so I'm not going to spend the night here."

"Okay, be careful on the road."

Sending Zhao Xianmin back to the room, Zhang Xiaogang returned to the living room to clean up the basin and wipe the footbandana, walked through the house with a mop, and cleaned up the garbage in the yard before preparing to leave.

At this time, Chu Tianjiang was walking towards this side.

Chu Tianjiang is not an orphan, but he has other troubles.

Returning home with Wei Longzheng's reflex red dot sight, Chu Tianjiang took his godson to the aquarium and played until dinner outside in the evening before going home.

Of course, Xiao Fangfang accompanied the whole process.

Although Xiao Fangfang was not Chu Tianjiang's girlfriend, but was just someone sent to take care of him, Wu Guoxiong seemed to recognize Xiao Fangfang's position in this family.

While having dinner, Chu Tianjiang asked about the previous matter.

For the sake of safety, after Chu Tianjiang went to Diego Garcia, Xiao Fangfang took Wu Guoxiong back to Anhui and stayed in his hometown for a few days. Because he grew up in the city and had never been to the countryside, Wu Guoxiong had a lot of fun and met a few children in the village.

What Chu Tianjiang wants to know most is not whether Wu Guoxiong is having a good time, but how Xiao Fangfang's parents think about it.

You must know that Xiao Fangfang is not married and has no boyfriend, and suddenly bringing a six-year-old child home will definitely cause criticism.

To Chu Tianjiang's great surprise, Xiao Fangfang didn't take it seriously at all.

According to her, she told her parents that Wu Guoxiong was the godson of her boyfriend, and her boyfriend was a very capable military man. Of course, she also said something related to Wu Haiyuan, that is, Wu Haiyuan was her boyfriend's comrade-in-arms, saved her boyfriend's life, and sacrificed to save her boyfriend. It is precisely because of this that her boyfriend adopted Wu Haiyuan's son and took on the obligation of raising Wu Guoxiong.

Obviously, the "boyfriend" Xiao Fangfang said was Chu Tianjiang.

If it's just for work, it's okay for Xiao Fangfang to say this, but it's a bit irresponsible for her to say this to her parents.

Xiao Fangfang also mentioned that her parents would love to meet her boyfriend and ask her to bring him home next time.

After hinting a few times, Chu Tianjiang, even if he was a wooden person, could understand what Xiao Fangfang meant, that is, she had regarded work as life.

Is Xiao Fangfang acting, or is she emotional? Chu Tianjiang couldn't be sure.

At the dinner table, some of the words Wu Guoxiong said also made Chu Tianjiang very worried.

When I got home, it was almost ten o'clock. When Wu Guoxiong entered the dream, Chu Tianjiang slipped out. What happened at home last time made him feel uneasy. In addition, the experience in Diego Garcia and Tokyo made Chu Tianjiang feel that if he was forced to sleep in the same bed with Xiao Fangfang again, he would probably not be able to control it.

If you don't have a relationship, it's easy to say anything.

As long as that line is crossed, there must be accountability. Chu Tianjiang knew very well that Xiao Fangfang was not Janet, let alone Rumiko Hashimoto, and it was absolutely impossible to play it.

Xiao Fangfang has paid so much for this family, is it just for work?

If it was just for work, she wouldn't have to bother to take care of Wu Guoxiong and protect Wu Guoxiong, and Wu Guoxiong would obviously not be so close to her because of this.

Wu Guoxiong's recognition of Xiao Fangfang shows that Xiao Fangfang has done a lot of things outside of work.

Without real feelings, Xiao Fangfang will not take care of other people's sons like a mother, and she is someone else's godson.

Obviously, Xiao Fangfang was moved by her true feelings.

The question is, is it just because she adopted the son of her comrade-in-arms and showed her broad mind and great fatherly love?

If this is the case, there are not many men who meet this condition.

Chu Tianjiang was a little puzzled and a little contradictory.

Xiao Fangfang deserved more, but Chu Tianjiang couldn't give more. He can do anything for Wu Guoxiong, but he will not choose a lifelong partner for Wu Guoxiong.

Does anything not include choosing a lifelong partner?

You also have to consider Wu Guoxiong's feelings.

As the saying goes, there is no taboo in fairy tales. A six-year-old child who can say anything. If Wu Guoxiong proposes to want Chu Tianjiang and Xiao Fangfang to be together forever, what should he do? Chu Tianjiang would not refuse his godson's request, but he didn't want to make a lifelong event like this.

Chu Tianjiang was very conflicted, had a headache, and was even a little at a loss.

It is undeniable that Xiao Fangfang is a very beautiful woman, and from the perspective of taking care of Wu Guoxiong, she must be a responsible mother. It's just that Chu Tianjiang doesn't know her yet, it can be said that he doesn't know very much, and he obviously doesn't want to live with someone he doesn't understand for the rest of his life.

Thinking about these things, Chu Tianjiang walked on the street full of ebony.

Chu Tianjiang didn't care where he went, he just didn't want to go home, he didn't want to go back to face this difficult problem that he would inevitably face, and he had to make decisions with actions.