No matter whether he is a man or a child, the method of educating a real child is really special.
After Xiaojie was formally adopted by Yu Weilan, he changed his name to Su Junjie. Everyone still called him Xiaojie, except Su Nianqin. He always called him "Su Junjie" with his full name. Legally speaking, he was Xiaojie's elder brother.
After three years of treatment, Xiaojie has become almost the same as a normal child since he was two years old. However, he is still active, introverted, and has poor walking balance.
Xiaojie is particularly attached to Sang Wuyan. In Yu Xiaolu's words, "Both brothers in our Su family are obsessed with Sang Wuyan."
Almost all children have a problem, they don't like to eat vegetables. So Sang Wuyan and Aunt Zhang chopped the vegetables and put them in the meat to make vegetable balls, and then gave them to Xiaojie to eat with rice.
When Xiaojie was eating, he always used uneven force with his chopsticks and would accidentally knock over the bowl. So she calmed down and fed him mouthful by mouthful, saying, "Xiaojie, open your mouth. Oh, good boy."
Su Nianqin is just the opposite of the child. He doesn't like meat, especially fish with bones. He likes vegetables, and he likes bitter things the most. In City A, bitter vegetables include bitter bamboo shoots in spring and bitter melon in summer.
Later, for him, Sang Wuyan learned how to cook bitter melon with white oil from Aunt Zhang, and he loved it very much. Sang Wuyan had absolutely no interest in this kind of thing, but Su Nianqin was the eldest in the family, so she would give in to him in everything.
However, things were different when Xiaojie arrived. The whole family had to accommodate him and put Su Nianqin's taste aside.
At dinner, he frowned, ate two bites and wanted to put down his chopsticks.
Sang Wuyan said, "You are an adult now, just make do with it." Then she ignored him and continued to feed Xiaojie.
“Xiaojie, open your mouth.
"Hey, good boy."
"Another bite."
She coaxed Xiao Jie to eat half a bowl of rice. When she turned around to pick up some food, she saw Su Nianqin sitting there, not moving her chopsticks at all.
"You don't want to eat?" Sang Wuyan asked.
He moved his chair and stood up, "I can't eat anymore."
Sang Wuyan was puzzled. These dishes were almost all cooked by Aunt Zhang before she left, and they were not made by her. Why could she suddenly not eat them
"I want more meatballs." Xiao Jie pulled Sang Wuyan's sleeve.
As expected, Su Nianqin didn't eat the rest of the meal. She sat there alone, watching the TV, constantly changing channels with the remote control. The TV was playing very loudly, almost drowning out Sang Wuyan's voice coaxing Xiaojie.
"You really don't want to eat anymore?"
"I'm full of anger."
"You are already thirty years old, why are you arguing with a child?" Sang Wuyan lowered her head and hugged his head from behind the sofa.
Su Nianqin raised his face and wanted to kiss her.
Sang Wuyan stood up and moved away, "The child is still watching."
He immediately became annoyed, "Tell Yu Weilan to take her son back. She doesn't support him herself, but sends him here every day."
Sang Wuyan laughed dumbly, "You are my brother."
At night, after Xiaojie had taken a shower and went to sleep, Sang Wuyan finally had time to ask him, "Are you hungry? I'll cook noodles for you."
“I don’t eat noodles.”
"So what do you want to eat?"
"Meatballs."
"Meatballs?" Sang Wuyan was suspicious. Didn't he not eat this
"The meatballs are mixed in with the rice, and then you say 'Nianqin, open your mouth'." He answered without blushing or beating his heart.
Sang Wuyan was stunned for a moment, then she blushed and chuckled. This man was so awkward even when he was just being coquettish.
The next day, Sang Wuyan and Yu Xiaolu went to the supermarket to buy groceries, leaving Su Nianqin alone to look after the child.
Su Nianqin continued to sit on the sofa and listen to the news, ignoring him.
Xiaojie was very active and would not sit quietly on the bench opposite him, so he moved the small bench and started to climb the stairs to the second floor. After climbing two steps, he slipped and fell to the ground.
Su Nianqin came over after hearing the voice and tilted her head, "Su Junjie?"
The child hummed twice, which was a sign that he was about to cry. His illness made him naturally not fond of crying, but later he found that if he cried he would get more attention from Sang Wuyan and others, so he began to use this trick.
"Is it bleeding?" Su Nianqin asked condescendingly.
"No." He said in a crying voice.
"Are you broken?" Su Nianqin asked indifferently, not caring at all that he was an adult and Xiaojie was a five-year-old child.
Xiao Jie didn't know what Su Nianqin meant by the word "fracture".
"Can your hands and feet move?" Su Nianqin explained impatiently.
"Yeah." He felt so wronged that tears were streaming down his face.
"That's enough, don't cry." Su Nianqin didn't hug him, but turned back to her original position to continue doing her own things, and ordered, "Get up by yourself, and you'd better not cry."
"Why can't I cry?" Xiao Jie pouted and tried hard to hold back his tears. He knew that what Su Nianqin said should not be disobeyed.
"You are a man, and men protect the weak. How can you cry whenever you want?"
"I'm a child."
"Child? If they can walk and talk, they are no longer considered children." Su Nianqin expressed her own opinion, "Su Junjie, remember that you are a man. The responsibility of a man in the Su family is to protect all the weak in the family."
"Then can I protect Sister Wu Yan?"
"She can't. She is under my jurisdiction, you have to find someone else." Su Nianqin raised his eyebrows and announced.
"Oh—" Xiaojie said with a frown, seeming to understand.
Then Sang Wuyan discovered that every time Su Nianqin and Xiaojie were alone together, Xiaojie would change a little. Once, she and Xiaolu were excitedly discussing the discount at the department store, and Xiaojie was sitting there alone reading his comic strip. After a while, he looked up, looked at the two of them, and said with emotion: "Alas, women—"
Another time, Sang Wuyan wanted to give Xiaojie a bath on a whim, but he refused to let Sang Wuyan into the bathroom and hid behind the door, refusing to obey. "You are a woman, I am a man, how can you watch me take a bath?"
In the distance, Su Nianqin nodded with satisfaction.
Although he said so, he still clung to Sang Wuyan like a sticky candy. Whenever he saw Sang Wuyan, he would not want to leave, and would cry every time he saw her.
She had never liked children, but somehow, Xiaojie was an exception. Although he was five years old, he was still like a two or three year old in every aspect. He was not as obedient as before and was getting more and more naughty.
There is a fish pond in the corner of the yard. The pond is very shallow, only about one foot deep, and there are dozens of koi and crucian carp in the water. After being raised for a long time, the small fish are not afraid of people at all. Sometimes when they hear people talking, they think they are going to be fed and huddle together.
Su Nianqin likes fish.
He always fed them. Sometimes he would gently put his hand into the water. Instead of being afraid, the little fish would think it was new food, and would gather around him to bite his fingers, which felt itchy and always made him laugh.
Sang Wuyan knew that Su Nianqin treasured those fish very much.
Then one afternoon, Xiao Jie went to play in the yard by himself. Wu Yan came to find him, and was dumbfounded when he came out. All the fish were scooped up by Xiao Jie with a colander and spread out on the ground. It was unknown how long they had been there, and they were motionless.
"Su Junjie!" Sang Wuyan was annoyed.
"Ah." He answered, looking up, and continued to fish out the little fish that were trying to escape from the water.
She just felt angry at the time, so she pulled him up and slapped his butt twice.
The child burst into tears.
Sang Wuyan immediately regretted it and hugged him again, "Don't cry, don't cry, Xiaojie."
"I just saw the little fishes looking suffocated in the water with their heads tilted up, so I picked them up to dry them in the sun for a while and then put them back," Xiao Jie explained with tears in his eyes.
Sang Wuyan touched his head and picked him up.
The child buried himself in her arms, wiped away his tears and said sadly: "Sister, I love you so much, how could you bear to hit me just now?"
"… "
After a while, Sang Wuyan said to Xiaojie, "When Nianqin comes back, you must apologize to him. Otherwise, if he gets angry, no one in this house can stop him. He might even beat me up."
As soon as Su Nianqin arrived home, Xiaojie ran up to him and told him everything that happened in the afternoon. He looked very aggrieved, but unfortunately he didn't dare to cry in front of Su Nianqin, so he held back his tears.
After Su Nianqin heard this, she was not really annoyed. She just said casually: "Just die, don't do such stupid things in the future."
After hearing what Su Nianqin said, the child's nerves, which had been tense for the entire afternoon, finally relaxed. He hugged Su Nianqin's legs and started crying again.
Su Nianqin frowned and picked up Xiaojie. "Didn't I tell you that you are a man and you are not allowed to cry?"
Xiao Jie immediately held back his tears, then sobbed and said, "Xiao Jie, be obedient and stop crying."
Seeing his aggrieved look, Sang Wuyan suddenly found it funny and peeled a candy for him to eat. He had the candy in his mouth, his nose was snotting and his saliva was dripping. Suddenly he remembered something, hugged Su Nianqin's neck, pouted his lips and kissed him hard on the face, "Thank you, brother."
After this kiss, the sugar water, snot, saliva and tears in his mouth all went onto Su Nianqin's cheeks.
Su Nianqin's face instantly changed from black to green, then from green to white, and finally back to black. He said with a stern face, "Little thing!" But he didn't look angry at all.
After Xiaojie ran away, Su Nianqin took the wet towel handed to her by Sang Wuyan and wiped her face, while asking, "Did you hit him just now?"
"I slapped him twice in a fit of anger."
"Don't hit children when you are angry in the future. Just talk to them reason. If you really want to hit them, wait until you calm down, otherwise you won't know how hard to hit them." He said softly.
Sang Wuyan nodded and smiled. She had always thought that he didn't like this child very much, but it turned out that was not the case at all.
When they were sleeping, Sang Wuyan lay in his arms and asked, "Do you think it's better for us to have a daughter or a son?"
"all good."
"Do you prefer a daughter or a son?"
"Daughter," he said without hesitation.
"Why?"
"What's so good about my son? He's just like Xiaojie. When he grows up, he just knows how to fight with me for his mother every day."
"My daughter won't fight?"
"If it were a daughter, I would give her the best things in the world." When he said this, his eyes were shining and his expression was gentle and happy.
"I guess you'll spoil her to the point of her being lawless, and no one will dare to want her."
"That's perfect. Just stay with me and don't marry anyone. I will support her for the rest of her life."
Not long after this incident, Sang Wuyan felt something was wrong with her body. At that time, Su Nianqin was on a business trip in Hong Kong. She went to the Women's and Children's Hospital alone for a check-up, and she felt a little strange after getting the results.
She thought about having a child, but she always felt like she hadn't grown up yet, so how could she raise a child
Li Lulu said: "You are a very nice person. You are a loving person, but why are you so unloving to your children?"
Whether it was Xiaojie or someone else, most of the children she met were several years old and had the ability to do things independently, which was different from the babies in Sang Wuyan's concept. She had never been interested in babies, always thinking that they were drooling, snotty soft-bodied animals.
When Xu Qian's child was less than six months old, she didn't even dare to hug him.
After she married Su Nianqin, she always reminded him to use contraception at first. Later, she forgot this procedure several times and didn't get pregnant. Gradually, she became bolder and more confident, and seemed to ignore the issue of contraception. Until today, she got the test results.
A pregnant woman was walking towards the hospital entrance. Her belly was frighteningly large and her feet were terribly swollen. Usually, Sang Wuyan would stay away from such a situation. During the last few months of Xu Qian's pregnancy, she didn't dare to go to her. But this time, she actually just stared at her as she walked by.
After thinking about all sorts of things, she lost her mind and finally called Su Nianqin.
"He's in a meeting inside." Xiao Qin said after answering the phone.
"Oh. I'll call you later then."
Sang Wuyan was halfway there when she received a call back from Su Nianqin. She pulled the car over and answered the call.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
Now he was on a business trip, and she would not normally contact him outside of her rest time. So when she called him like this, there must be something going on, and he replied immediately.
"Nianqin." Sang Wuyan called him.
"Hmm? What?" He answered her with a raised corner of his mouth.
"The doctor said I'm pregnant," she said slowly.
There was a pause on the other end of the line, and then he asked, "Really?"
“Five weeks,” she said.
She heard him laugh, "I'll be right back." The joy in his voice could not be concealed.
"Don't you have something to do tomorrow?"
"I'm going to the airport right now and will be back. Where are you?"
"I'll drive home."
"Don't drive, stop there, I'll have someone call a car to pick you up."
In the evening, Su Nianqin came back exhausted and asked as soon as he entered the door: "Where are my wife and children?"
"You are still a little bean sprout." Sang Wuyan shook his head.
"Even if they are small bean sprouts, they are extraordinary small bean sprouts." He squatted down and put his ear to her belly. It was impossible to hear anything, but he did it anyway and listened for a long time.
He looked up at her and said with a smile: "We really have a child."
When he spoke, his eyes sparkled, his eyes seemed to glow softly, his eyebrows raised, and the corners of his mouth curved into the widest arc. That look was so adorable.
Su Nianqin's feelings touched her, and Sang Wuyan felt that all her previous hesitation and uneasiness were washed away.
He really likes children.
From that day on, Su Nianqin never emphasized the procedure of closing and opening the door again.
Sang Wuyan reported the situation to Zhao Meng.
Zhao Meng said: "He is beginning to feel secure about your marriage."
Sang Wuyan asked: "Why did you disappear so suddenly?"
Zhao Meng said: "Maybe it's because of the child."
Sang Wuyan murmured, "Child?"
Zhao Meng nodded. "Once the child appears, he will feel that he is not only a husband, but also a father. This dual sense of responsibility will stabilize your marriage and strengthen his sense of security and identity, so he no longer needs to use external things to recognize himself."
It turned out that a child was so important to him. Sang Wuyan also began to be cautious.
During that time, Su Nianqin's expression could be described as being in a spring breeze. Everyone in the company knew that the boss was going to be a father, and he was in a good mood.
"How does it feel to be a pregnant woman?" Cheng Yin asked.
"It's like I've transformed from a commoner's wife into an empress." Sang Wuyan was complacent.
"So exaggerated?"
“Of course.” Sang Wuyan looked like a smug villain again.
That kind of treatment is even more like that of the Queen. In the past, she had to look at Su Nianqin's face, but now the serfs have turned over and become masters. Su Nianqin almost turned down all social engagements and spent all her spare time on Sang Wuyan.
If she told him to go east, he would not go west.
She said she wanted to drink warm water, so the water Su Nianqin brought to her was definitely not hot enough for her hands or tongue, but just slightly higher than body temperature.
She said she wanted to hear the story of the Princess and the Pea, so he didn't dare to tell her the story of the Fisherman and the Goldfish.
"You are really tormenting me." Cheng Yin shook her head.
"Who told his child to torture me?"
When the child was eight months old, she went for a routine check-up. After Su Nianqin sent her to the car, she thought for a moment and went back to see the doctor. After she came back, she didn't say a word.
"Nianqin, what's wrong with you?"
“What if my child is born blind like me?”
"What did the doctor say?" Sang Wuyan's hands trembled.