70s: Raising a Baby

"Have you thought about it?" Ye Jinzhi didn't know what he heard, his expression was serious.

I just heard a voice from the person on the other end of the phone, "I've thought about it."

Ye Jinzhi paused and felt a little headache.

"You have to know that this is not a good idea. Besides, you also know his condition. He will probably be like this for the rest of his life. Do you think you can accept it?"

"Can you promise that you won't be like them?"

"Can you guarantee that this wasn't impulsive on your part?"

A series of questions silenced the person on the other end of the phone.

Ye Jinzhi probably also realized that his attitude was not very good, so he tried to suppress his temper and took a deep breath.

"So you haven't come back because of this?" The tone was slightly gentler.

"Well, I am, I am."

It was just that he was so pitiful that he thought of them before. Ye Jinzhi helped him supplement from behind.

But she also relented, and both sides were silent for a long time. After a long time, she thought Ye Jinzhi still disagreed.

But I didn’t expect, “Do they know?”

The fourth person on the other end of the phone shook his head subconsciously, and then realized that she couldn't see it, and said again: "I haven't told them yet."

I told myself this first. Ye Jinzhi had a headache when he read the document, but now he was caught off guard by another piece of news.

"Then you ask their opinions first. You can also think about it carefully tonight and call back tomorrow morning."

After hanging up the phone, Ye Jinzhi looked at the dense documents and suddenly couldn't see anything in his head, so he simply put them down.

He stood up, walked to the record player, picked a piece of tape, and put it in.

After a while, soothing music sounded in his ears. Ye Jinzhi stood by the window, staring outside in trance, not knowing what he was thinking in his mind.

He didn't even hear when Yuan Shaochen opened the door and came in. He felt a warmth on his back and a familiar smell passed into his nose.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

When Yuan Shaochen had just brought several children upstairs, he heard the movement in the study room and came over after seeing all the children lying down.

"Alas~" Ye Jinzhi sighed, not knowing what to say.

Yuan Shaochen didn't force her. He turned around, kissed Ye Jinzhi's frowning brow with his cool lips, and whispered, "Don't frown, be happy."

The frown that had been frowning was also at this moment, slowly relaxed by the tenderness of the lover, but the anxiety in my heart was still there.

After a long time, the two of them kept leaning against Yuan Shaochen's chest with Ye Jinzhi's back, feeling his heartbeat, and resting most of their body weight on Yuan Shaochen's body.

But for Yuan Shaochen, these were just a drop in the bucket. He put his chin on the top of Ye Jinzhi's head and lowered his head for a kiss from time to time.

"What time is it? Is the child asleep?" Ye Jinzhi suddenly realized that it was too quiet.

Yuan Shaochen took her hands, put them in his rough hands and kept stroking them, not forgetting to answer her questions.

"Asleep, it's almost ten o'clock now."

Ye Jinzhi nodded unconsciously, thinking about things in his mind, feeling his head was in chaos.

It wasn't until Ye Jinzhi was lying on the bed, held in Yuan Shaochen's arms, that her thoughts slowly cleared up and she started to speak. She didn't know where to start.

"I just received a call from the fourth child. He said he wanted to adopt a child."

"What kind of child?" Yuan Shaochen's curiosity was aroused. As far as he knew, their personalities were not like those who would like to cause such big trouble for themselves.

"You know him too. You may be more familiar with him than we are." Ye Jinzhi reminded him that if it weren't for Yuan Shaochen, none of them would have known this child.

When Yuan Shaochen heard that he recognized him, he pondered for a moment, "That child with autism?" His face was full of disbelief.

Ye Jinzhi nodded slowly. At first, he was shocked when he heard it was the child. He thought it was impossible and unbelievable.

At the beginning, they all knew how attentive and loving the couple was to the child, but they never imagined that it would become what it is today.

But in fact, if you think about it deeply, it is also very realistic. When there is a child like this, it is okay if they don't want a child, but if they have another child, they will inevitably ignore it. After all, people's hearts are biased.

One is healthy and lively, and the other has a problem, which is difficult to cure and almost impossible to cure. As parents, it is inevitable that there will be deviations.

"Didn't he go to Haishi? How could he meet them?" Yuan Shaochen was puzzled.

Ye Jinzhi shook her head. She didn't know. She only knew that the child's parents later had another child.

As the other child grew older, he turned out to be a very healthy boy. He was sweet and smiling and could call mom and dad. In contrast to his autistic brother, who couldn’t say anything and had to be taken care of, the desire to be a parent naturally grew. Off.

"How is the child doing now?" Yuan Shaochen was silent for a long time before he asked.

Ye Jinzhi stretched his neck and stretched out a hand from the quilt.

"He is said to be very thin, and the clothes he is wearing are the ones we sent him a few years ago. They don't fit at all, and he is extremely dirty. His parents almost ignore him, saying they only care about the little one."

It is difficult for Ye Jinzhi to understand that they are all his own flesh and blood. Even if he prefers, he cannot do this. How can he bear it? After talking about it, Ye Jinzhi became a little excited.

Yuan Shaochen didn't say anything, but stretched out his arm to constantly rub Ye Jinzhi's shoulders to comfort her.

In this world, the most difficult thing to guess is the human heart. You never know how far a person can go. When he is soft, he is really soft, but when he is ruthless, he is also really ruthless.

It is said that tiger poison cannot eat its seeds, but some people are worse than animals.

"The fourth child said that when he found out, the couple was negotiating the price with the trafficker and said they wanted to sell the child." Ye Jinzhi's voice gradually choked up. This was the hardest thing for her to imagine. After so many years, that The child seems to be two years older than Ayan, and should be seven years old now.

It's been seven years, how can they let go after seven years? Are their hearts made of stone?

"Selling to human traffickers?" Yuan Shaochen's voice gradually became louder and he couldn't believe it.

Ye Jinzhi was also in disbelief. At first, she thought she was just being unkind to the child, but it was far from this. She never imagined that someone could be so inferior to an animal.

Neither the couple slept well that night, and Ye Jinzhi felt heartbroken just thinking about that scene.

Early the next morning, Ye Jinzhi woke up when Yuan Shaochen got up.

"Sleep a little longer, I didn't sleep well last night." Yuan Shaochen turned around and found that she had also remembered.

Ye Jinzhi shook his head, "I can't sleep anymore. There are still documents in the study that I haven't read yet. I'll go take a look."

Yuan Shaochen knew that he couldn't stop her, so he didn't stop her and just poured her a glass of water.

"Don't worry, it'll be fine."

Ye Jinzhi was holding a glass of water, her eyes were dark, she didn't sleep well all night, she kept dreaming, dreaming that several children kept overlapping with the child. In the dream, she saw the couple discussing the price with the trafficker.

The child was held aside by his parents, listening to their parents discussing his price. He squatted aside and counted the ants on the ground, as if he could not hear their conversation.

But Ye Jinzhi knew that he could hear it, but he just didn't react. He knew everything in his heart.

Most children with autism are smarter than ordinary children. They are immersed in their own world and are indifferent to everything around them.

Here, after Ye Jinzhi and other Yuan Shaochen took several children downstairs, she stood by the window and watched them leave.

She saw several children playing around, chatting and laughing, and some children who had been doing morning exercises together came out one after another. After a while, their backs gradually disappeared from her sight.

For a long time, Ye Jinzhi moved his legs, which were numb from standing for too long, and drank the water in the cup.

Just go to the study room to deal with the files left yesterday, put aside the thoughts in your mind, only the content on the files.

I don’t know if it’s because I have to process things faster in the morning, or because I don’t have any random things in my mind.

When Yuan Shaochen took several children upstairs to take a bath, she was woken up and came to her senses. Before she knew it, there were only a few documents left behind yesterday.

Speeding up, she actually knew the contents of these files. She just checked again to see if there were any errors in some data and some grammatical errors.

This is a lesson she learned the hard way. In her previous life, she had let these things go to the people below to do them, and because of her trust in them, the company behind her had lost a lot of money.

From then on, whenever someone working on a big project wrote a plan, she would check it carefully again to ensure that there would be no mistakes.

Yuan Shaochen came back with a few children. He saw no one downstairs and guessed that they might still be in the study. He didn't bother her and took a shower with the children first.

"It hurts." In the bathroom, Ayan rubbed the skin hurt by his father.

"I'll be gentler." Yuan Shaochen sighed. He didn't know when this little boy would learn to take a bath by himself. He had to wash him first before he could wash himself, otherwise he would get wet all over.

"Go down and be quiet so as not to disturb mother." Yuan Shaochen reminded him when he saw him jumping out.

"Yeah." Ayan nodded, but the footsteps remained unchanged. It wasn't until he walked to the door and opened the door that the footsteps slowly slowed down.

The three brothers haven't finished washing yet, and Ayan doesn't stay upstairs. He holds one hand on the wall and carefully goes down the stairs.

The courtyard here is good everywhere, but the stairs are a bit steep, a little higher than ordinary stairs. Although it is only a little bit higher, it is almost the same in the eyes of adults, but the difference is quite big in the eyes of children.

Just like the staircase in the old courtyard, it was a little gentler than this staircase. Ayan could jump up and down there, but he didn't dare to do it here.

It was much faster for Yuan Shaochen to take a shower by himself. He just washed it a few times and applied soap. He only came out of the bathroom in about ten minutes.

"Ding-ding-ding-" the phone in the living room remembered.

Ayan happened to be sitting on the sofa with Heisang to play. Hearing the sound, he subconsciously raised his head and looked around.

Grandma Li was making breakfast in the kitchen. Just when she was about to stretch out her chubby hand to answer the phone, she saw her father changing his clothes and going downstairs. The chubby hand he had just stretched out retracted again.

"Dad, phone."

Yuan Shaochen also heard it and quickened his pace. The phone at home was connected. If no one answered downstairs for too long, it would automatically ring on the second floor.

"Hello." Yuan Shaochen picked up the phone and put it to his ear.

"Miss, ah, no." The person on the other end of the phone subconsciously thought it was Ye Jinzhi, but he quickly realized it.

"it's me."

"Brother Yuan, I, I have thought about it, and I still want to bring him back. The boss and the others also agreed." After the fourth child said this, he actually felt a little panicked and did not dare to say anything. He put the phone firmly to his ear and listened carefully. Listen, you can still hear the breathing over there.

Yuan Shaochen had already guessed their decision, so he was not surprised to hear it now.

"Now that it's been decided, don't let others catch you and find a way to bring it back." Yuan Shaochen didn't say much, but he didn't want to upset him because of this matter.

"I know, I know." The fourth child's voice came along the phone line, full of excitement.

Yuan Shaochen didn't say much. This kind of thing is not difficult for them at all. If they can't even do this well, then their more than ten years of learning have been in vain.

"Let me know when you get back and I'll contact the doctor for you." Yuan Shaochen said lightly before hanging up the phone.

Before the fourth child could react, the phone in his hand was hung up.

"How's it going? What did the lady say?" Xiaoqi and Xiaoba, who had been waiting nearby, asked hurriedly when they saw that he had hung up the phone.

The fourth child nodded, "Agreed."

"Then let's wait for the opportunity to bring the child back." Xiaoqi and Xiaoba began to come up with ideas.

But the fourth child's thoughts gradually drifted away. When he called back yesterday, the boss asked.

"Then what do you think about this child? Should we raise it together or what?"

In fact, he never thought about this issue. Whether he forgot or subconsciously didn't think about it, he just thought about how to bring the child back.

But they didn't think about how to take care of the child if they took him back. They all had things to do and couldn't stay at home to take care of him all the time.

His situation is also different from theirs. They have someone to teach them every day. Mr. Zhou and the others also hired a nanny to wash and cook for them.

They would have no problem hiring a nanny, but even if they didn't understand the child's situation, they heard a few words from the young lady and knew that what he needed was human company.

"Fourth brother, do you think we can pretend to be human traffickers and buy the child from them?"

I can't think of any other way now. The fourth child nodded, "Okay, let's do this."

On the other side, Ye Jinzhi finally processed the documents, and Yuan Shaochen also opened the door and came in at the right time.

"Mom." Several children have eaten and drank enough and are packing their schoolbags to go to school later.

Ye Jinzhi saw them packing their schoolbags and suddenly remembered, "Don't forget Ah Zhao's lunch box."

"Bring it." Ah Zhao opened his schoolbag and showed it to Ye Jinzhi. Yesterday, he told Grandma Li to pack an extra portion of fruit.

Ye Jinzhi nodded, then turned to Ayan, who had already put his schoolbag on his back, "Don't sneak out again. If you need anything, go to the teacher."

Ye Jinzhi was really frightened by him. If he came here a few more times like yesterday, she really couldn't bear it.