As the due date approached, Zhan Aiping stopped going to work and stayed at home to wait for the birth of her baby. Every day, with a heavy belly, it was inconvenient for her to do anything, so she just walked in the yard.
After moving into the new home, she felt a little uncomfortable at first. The surrounding environment had become different. Some of the vegetables and fruits she planted were still alive, but some were lifeless and had long been half-dead.
Zhan Aiping sat in the yard for a while. Although it was already November, the surroundings were still full of green. Outside the camp, there was still gurgling water and big buffaloes were bellowing as they crossed the ridges.
It was getting late, and red clouds were burning on the horizon. The rolling fire clouds dyed the sky red.
Gu Sheng came back, his head was full of sweat, obviously he ran back in a hurry, it was like this every day, he couldn't wait to get around her, Zhan Aiping smiled and greeted him, Gu Sheng wiped the sweat off his face, "Wife, wait a minute."
He quickly showered, changed his clothes, and went to cook for her.
Zhan Aiping sat beside him and looked at him, and said softly, "Cook more."
She was about to give birth, and her appetite had increased in the past few days. She felt the babies were sinking, and the fetal movements became less frequent, coming in waves. Before Gu Sheng came back, these little guys were probably sleeping.
"Okay." Gu Sheng responded: "Wife, how do you feel today? Does our child have the urge to come out?"
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "They want to eat the food cooked by Dad."
"Can I make you some soup?"
"It's all right. Cook more. I want something sour, something spicy, and I want to drink hot and sour soup."
Gu Sheng said: "You should take it easy and eat something light."
Zhan Aiping: "You deprive pregnant women of advice and opinions."
"What I want most now is hot and sour vermicelli. I want to eat hot and sour vermicelli..."
Gu Sheng said helplessly: "Okay, okay, I'll cook it for you later. Eat less, or you'll feel like vomiting if you eat too much."
Zhan Aiping loves sour and spicy food and can't stop eating once she starts. After eating too much, she says she feels uncomfortable, which makes Gu Sheng very anxious.
"Look at you, a doctor, you don't even control your food. Your taste changes every day. Sometimes you want to eat this, sometimes you want to eat that."
Zhan Aiping gently stroked her belly: "It's not me who wants to eat, it's your daughter who wants to eat."
"I want to eat fish again. Tomorrow our family will have fish. Your son wants to eat fish, and your daughter wants to eat hot and sour noodles."
Gu Sheng said: "I think you just want to eat, you greedy cat, and you still rely on the child."
"I want to eat tofu."
"Okay, okay, what do you want to eat? Write it down, write it down, and I'll make it for you tomorrow."
Zhan Aiping refused: "I want to eat it now, but I may not want to eat it tomorrow."
Gu Sheng suggested: "I'll draw it for you later, to satisfy your craving?"
"What a bad idea! Let's cook the meal."
Gu Sheng cooked a table full of dishes. Zhan Aiping had a good appetite and happily picked up the chopsticks to pick up the dishes. Gu Sheng sat aside and didn't have much appetite, but occasionally picked up a few dishes from Zhan Aiping with his chopsticks.
Zhan Aiping asked: "Have you been unable to eat recently?"
"You eat." Gu Sheng looked at her belly worriedly. Zhan Aiping was pregnant at that time, and although her belly was not exaggeratedly big, she was thin, and this unproportionate belly looked particularly abrupt.
Seeing her walking with her belly in her arms, Gu Sheng was very worried. "I'm scared just looking at your belly. Are you exhausted? I'm worried every day that you'll bump into something or fall..."
Zhan Aiping asked, "Am I that careless?"
"Don't be so stubborn. I can't wait to watch over you and protect you at home every day. You'd better stay at home and wait for me to come back." Gu Sheng casually took a few mouthfuls of rice. No matter how delicious the food was, he couldn't eat it with relish. He couldn't muster up an appetite. "I haven't been eating well or sleeping well recently. When will these two little guys come out? Stop torturing their father."
Zhan Aiping sipped her soup: "You are obviously torturing me."
"Thank you for your hard work, Pingping. When the kids come out, we'll spank them together."
Zhan Aiping drank her soup gently and gracefully. She said calmly, "It's not fashionable to hit children nowadays."
"The women's director is watching in the yard."
"The director can't catch up with me." Gu Sheng said: "I will not be too lazy to beat children in the future. If they make mistakes, I will not give them food."
Zhan Aiping said slowly: "Not giving them food is a form of torture for prisoners."
"Then let's do this." Gu Sheng turned his wrist: "If the children make mistakes, let them eat in the cafeteria. I will also get the most unpalatable white radish for them to eat. I will cook delicious dishes for you and let them watch you eat..."
Chief of Staff Gu knows very well which dishes in the cafeteria are the most unpalatable.
Zhan Aiping laughed: "Hey - what a cruel father, could you please stop deliberately making me laugh while I'm drinking soup?"
"Our children are steadfast and unyielding. How could they be defeated by a mere canteen meal?"
"They will never bow down for a bite of food, right, little ones?" Zhan Aiping asked casually with her head down, but the baby in her belly seemed to respond, touching her belly with its little arms and legs, as if agreeing with what its mother said.
"Look, Gu Sheng, come and feel it. Are you two children raising your hands and feet to agree with your mother?"
"Really?" Gu Sheng couldn't help laughing. He moved the chair away, walked to Zhan Aiping, half squatted, and gently placed his hand on Zhan Aiping's bulging belly. Zhan Aiping's belly was not thick, so she could clearly feel the child's movements. Their little hands and feet waved and they high-fived their father.
Gu Sheng poked them one by one, and a gentle smile appeared on his handsome face unconsciously: "Come out quickly, pick a good day, pick a good time, Daddy has shown you the almanac..."
Zhan Aiping was speechless and choked: "Comrade Gu, you must remember deeply that you are a party member."
"Don't do these weird things. You're corrupting the kids through your belly."
Zhan Aiping asked, "Where did you find this old almanac?"
"Captain Jiang gave it to me."
Zhan Aiping: "... You have a regiment commander and a chief of staff. Can you do anything serious when you are together all day?"
"Don't worry, we will be serious when it's time to be serious." Gu Sheng patted Zhan Aiping's belly to comfort the two little guys, stood up, and kissed Zhan Aiping on the face.
Gu Sheng sat down and continued to talk to the child: "Come out quickly, come out quickly, and make sure to pick a good time, when Dad is here, so that Dad can accompany your mother..."
Zhan Aiping: "Hurry up and drink some water and take a rest, don't recite sutras to the two children."
"If your children listen to you chanting too much, they will become noisy and talk like a machine gun, which will annoy you to death."
Gu Sheng smiled and said, "Then it's not like me, but like you. Aren't you the one who has been good at talking since childhood, Zhan Dapingping?"
Zhan Aiping finished her meal and asked Gu Sheng to carry her to bed to rest. Gu Sheng held her without complaint. Zhan Aiping felt very comfortable in his arms. She had been alone at home for a long time and she was very attached to Gu Sheng. She liked being held like this by him. "Just hold me and walk around the house."
"I'm training outside, and you're going to train me when I get home." Gu Sheng hugged her: "You're getting lazier and lazier."
Zhan Aiping said: "Hold me higher, I want to sit on your arms, you can't let me lie down."
"That's a lot of requests." Gu Sheng sighed, "When Captain Jiang asks me for advice, I will tell him this: my wife likes to be held around."
"Don't talk nonsense, it's embarrassing, why don't you two get together and do something serious."
"Hiss—" Zhan Aiping suddenly felt something was wrong, and Gu Sheng asked anxiously: "What's wrong? Is she going to give birth?"
Zhan Aiping: "Maybe he ate too much."
Gu Sheng: “…”
After being suspicious for several times, the couple felt that the baby might be born, but it didn't happen. Zhan Aiping was admitted to the military hospital, and Gu Sheng asked Gu Xiaomei to help keep an eye on his sister-in-law.
Gu Xiangyi promised her brother: "Don't worry, I'll be there to protect my sister-in-law."
Zhan Aiping was placed in an empty ward: "Usually, we medical staff rest on this bed. Sister-in-law, just sit here and take a rest."
Gu Xiangyi was even more excited than his brother. He came to check on Zhan Aiping every now and then. Zhan Aiping was very calm: "I think I'm going to give birth in the next two days."
"Hurry up and give birth, sister-in-law. I have reserved pig's trotters for you."
Zhan Aiping: "So sick of it."
"You're so picky, sister-in-law. When you give birth, I'll take a vacation and take care of you during your confinement. Don't worry, I've learned this from someone recently, and I'll definitely take care of you until you're plump and white."
Zhan Aiping said, "I'm afraid that you'll be overwhelmed by the crying of the two children, so let your brother worry about it. He has saved up his annual leave and has already told his superiors that he will be taking a vacation in the next two days. So he is looking forward to the babies coming out soon. He wants to stay by my side to accompany me during the confinement period."
"Then I'll take the leave too. My brother will take care of you during your confinement, and I'll eat with you and help take care of my nephew. I'm about to get the leave approved."
"Little babies, hurry up and come out. Don't let your aunt start her vacation and you still haven't come out yet."
"Sister-in-law, you are giving birth at the perfect time. The weather is good, there is less rain, and the temperature is just right, not too cold or too hot. It will be comfortable for you to have your confinement."
Zhan Aiping nodded. There is no winter here. On the contrary, the winter month is the most comfortable time. It is neither cold nor hot. You can wear a skirt during the day and a thin coat at night. It is still a bit cold at night and you have to cover yourself with a quilt.
"Little baby, come out quickly, your aunt wants to see you."
Zhan Aiping said helplessly: "Please don't push him. His father pushes him every day. His uncle also called me and said that he would ask for leave to come visit and look after my child as soon as he was born. He wanted to see his two little nephews."
"Zhan Xiaoer, ask him to come over here."
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "When I give birth to a child, you all need to take leave."
Gu Xiangyi said: "Of course, if Commander Gu wasn't busy with work, he would have flown over."
"He told me that as soon as my sister-in-law gave birth, she sent him a photo of the child."
Zhan Aiping stayed in the military hospital for two days. On the third day, the two children finally gave her face and decided to come out. Zhan Aiping had delivered countless babies for others, so when it was her turn now, she was not panicked and was pushed to the delivery room by the nurses.
Gu Sheng rushed into the hospital and sat outside the delivery room with Gu Xiangyi and his sister, waiting. The brother and sister were both waiting anxiously. Gu Sheng wanted to go in to take a look, but before he could, he was kicked out.
Gu Xiangyi wanted to go in and help, but her hands were shaking badly.
"Brother, brother, my sister-in-law is about to give birth, about to give birth, about to give birth!"
"The children's clothes, blankets, quilts... everything they need is ready. I'll go back and count to see if there's anything missing."
"Brother, are there enough eggs?"
"elder brother… "
Gu Sheng's mind was in a mess, and he was uneasy. He looked down at the time on his watch and asked, "How long has your sister-in-law been in there? Why hasn't she said a word..."
"It's not that easy to have a baby. This is your first child, and not just your second. It will take some time."
Zhan Aiping was not in a hurry in the delivery room. The midwife beside her encouraged her: "Don't worry, just relax."
Zhan Aiping said: "I'm not in a hurry, I just want to eat an egg."
Zhan Aiping ate something and gave birth to two babies smoothly. She was still energetic. The nurse held the two babies in her hands and said, "Congratulations, they are twins, a boy and a girl. The eldest is a brother, weighing 5.6 jin, and the younger sister is a little thinner, weighing 4.8 jin."
Zhan Aiping looked at the two children and smiled. She was very excited as she had finally gotten rid of these two big burdens.
As soon as she saw Gu Sheng and his sister, Zhan Aiping took the initiative to greet them: "Gu Sheng, I'm hungry, I want to eat the food you cook."
Gu Laowu, who had just become a father, was stunned: "... Are you hungry?"
Gu Xiangyi: "Sister-in-law, you can't eat anything randomly, take a rest and drink some millet soup later."
Zhan Aiping: "I just want to satisfy my craving. I am so hungry now that I don't have the strength to eat an elephant alive in one breath."
Gu Sheng touched her face and said, "Stop bragging. Regain your energy and have a good rest."
Although Zhan Aiping looked energetic, her complexion was not good. She looked as if she had been fished out of the water. All the color had disappeared from her pretty face, and her hair was stuck to her temples.
Gu Sheng was not in a hurry to see the child. He looked at her intently. He didn't dare to touch her for fear of hurting her.
The girl he likes is always stubborn. She won’t tell him when she’s in pain, for fear that he will worry.
"Don't try to be tough if you're tired."
It was already nine o'clock in the evening when the child was born. Gu Sheng stayed in the hospital ward, staying by the side of the mother and her two children. Gu Xiangyi was also standing by, looking at the two babies curiously.
Two little babies, a boy and a girl, and two little wrinkly monkeys.
Gu Sheng looked at his son and then at his daughter, feeling a surge of joy and satisfaction. The two little ones finally came out smoothly.
The two little guys in the cradle are like two lumps of red meat, with little arms and legs, tiny fists, and tiny feet. The fingers that make up the fists are even smaller, which is incredible.
They both closed their eyes tightly, breathing lightly and shallowly, with a scent of milk on their bodies. Zhan Aiping had just fed the two children. Newborn babies cannot eat too much, and they were full after a while.
Under the light, Gu Sheng pinched the child's hand and said, "Wife, our child's hands are so small."
Zhan Aiping comforted him: "Do you think your child is ugly? Didn't you expect our child to be so ugly? Don't worry, all newborn babies look like this. Look, our child's eyes are quite big. Look at her double eyelids. Our daughter's eyes look like yours."
Gu Sheng was very satisfied: "I don't think our children are ugly. Look, our son and daughter both look like you, little monkey. Our daughter is very smart at first glance."
Zhan Aiping: "... I suspect you are wearing a special filter with a magnification of 800 times."
"What?"
Zhan Aiping said, "I said that my daughter looks like you and my son looks like me. These two children are growing up very well. I have always said that our fifth sister is pretty, so my daughter must be pretty too."
"My son looks like me, so he must be handsome too."
Gu Sheng got a little irritable when he heard about the fifth sister: "Oh, my daughter's eyes are like mine, and her nose is like yours, not straight enough."
Zhan Aiping was angry: "What's wrong with my nose? It's blinding your dog eyes."
Gu Sheng pointed at his nose bridge and said, "Look at my nose bridge, it's straight and high, can you compare with it?"
"Fortunately, my son's nose bridge is like mine. He will be a handsome boy in the future."
Zhan Aiping: “!”
"Then my eyes are prettier than yours, and my eyes are bigger than yours, look, look."
Gu Sheng said: "I'll get a mirror, and we can compare together."
"Okay, okay, let's compete."
Gu Xiangyi said at the side: "Stop arguing, why do I feel that my nephew looks like his aunt? I think my niece's mouth looks like mine, and my nephew's eyes look like mine."
Gu Sheng and Zhan Aiping looked at each other, and Gu Sheng said mercilessly: "Go away, it's none of your business."
Gu Xiangyi: “…”
"Brother, now that my nephew and niece are here, you should teach my nephew in public, teach him by example, and teach him how to love his sister."
Gu Sheng: "His sister looks like his mother."
Zhan Aiping: "What's wrong with being like me?"
"Just stop riding on her brother's head and acting wild in the future."
Zhan Aiping: "I will ride on your head and act wildly."
Gu Xiangyi: "Then I can only watch quietly from the sidelines."
Gu Sheng: "Maternity mother, please lie down and don't get excited."
"You two can take your time to argue about it. I'll call mom and dad." Gu Xiangyi closed the door of the ward and left the room to the family of four.
After Gu Xiangyi left, Gu Sheng finally couldn't help himself and lowered his head to kiss Zhan Aiping on the face several times. Zhan Aiping smiled and pushed his face away: "Please also ask some of the pregnant women's family members not to get too excited."
"How can I not be excited? My wife gave birth to a child for me."
Zhan Aiping snorted: "So which one is more important, the child or me?"
"Of course you are important. I feel bad for you because of your big belly."
"You are the only one who can talk." Zhan Aiping smiled: "Talk more, I love to listen."
"It's late, my dear, you should get some sleep. I'll watch over you. When the children wake up, I'll hold them and feed them."
Zhan Aiping nodded and closed her eyes. She thought it would be difficult for her to fall asleep, but she fell asleep right away.
Zhan Aiping stayed in the military hospital for two days and then went home. Gu Sheng and Gu Xiangyi, brother and sister, took leave one after another to stay by her side and take care of the two children. Gu Sheng took more than a month off to accompany her during her confinement.
"Our child really knows how to pick the time. He picked the time when daddy is on vacation."
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "You must have been talking about it every day."
Gu Sheng said: "That's what I said."
Gu Sheng did not read so many medical books in vain. He wrote most of a notebook on how to take care of mothers and newborn babies. During the day, Zhan Aiping fed the baby and he stayed by her side at night, letting Zhan Aiping lie down and feed the baby while she went to sleep. He stood by the baby, watching over her and burping her.
Zhan Aiping was resting in bed. Gu Sheng took good care of her and wiped her body with his own hands. He never asked anyone else to do it for him. He took care of Zhan Aiping comfortably and happily. Zhan Aiping leaned on the pillow, looked at his handsome face, and couldn't help but said, "After the confinement period, don't let me get fat while you lose weight. Look at you. You didn't sleep well at night. You look a lot weaker."
Gu Sheng said: "Are you weak? I'll show you how powerful I am then."
"Let me feel it to see if there is any stubble."
Gu Sheng smiled as he leaned closer to her, his chin rolled against her cheek. Zhan Aiping hugged his face and said, "It's really prickly. It hurts my hand. I didn't shave it cleanly."
"If you're tired, just lie down next to me and take a nap."
"You can sleep, you can sleep. Our family of four will all sleep on the bed. Fortunately, the bed is big enough."
Gu Sheng lay down beside Zhan Aiping: "Then I'll sleep for a while, you take care of the two kids." "I know. You're becoming more and more nagging, Dad Gu." It was only a few days, and Zhan Aiping felt that he had become a more and more qualified little dad. Gu Sheng closed his eyes and fell asleep beside him.
Zhan Aiping looked at the sleeping faces of the two babies and finally her eyes fell on Gu Sheng's face. She looked at him intently, remembering that this guy boasted about his straight nose. She stared at him for a long time and found that Gu Sheng's nose and eyes were both good-looking. His nose was indeed straight and tall, especially when viewed from the side, the raised nose bone was very beautiful.
Zhan Aiping couldn't help but kiss him on the face.
Who knew that at this moment Gu Sheng opened his eyes and said, "I caught you kissing me secretly."
Zhan Aiping pinched his face and kissed him again without any hesitation: "Some people have kissed me countless times secretly, but what's the difference between me and them?"
Gu Sheng said: "Then let me compete with you to see who has done it more times?"
Zhan Aiping snorted and laughed: "I'm not that stupid. I'm not comparing this with you. You should have a good rest first. After you rest, silly dad will think about the names of our two children."
Gu Sheng narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "Take your time to think of names for the children. At worst, we can just call the eldest, the second, brother, or sister."
"I gave both children nicknames when I gave birth."
"Really? Then why didn't you say anything?"
"Pregnancy makes a woman stupid for three years. I forgot about it after the birth, but now I suddenly remembered it." Zhan Aiping poked him on the face and said, "I'll tell you my name now."
"My brother's nickname is Guo Bao Rou, and my sister's nickname is Xiao Tang Yuan. Their nicknames are You You and Yuan Yuan."
Pot-fried dumplings (with meat) and small glutinous rice balls.
Gu Sheng smiled: "Were you hungry when you gave birth?"
"Yes, let the little pot-baked pork honor dad in the future." Zhan Aiping continued: "Pot-baked pork sounds very solid, just like you."
Gu Sheng: "Little glutinous rice balls sound very thick, like mom's thick cotton-padded jacket, thick glutinous rice skin, just like you."
Zhan Aiping: "… Why do you have to compete with me in everything, Gu Sheng? Let me tell you, when I was a kid, I secretly called you sweet and sour pork, and you really looked delicious."
"You're as delicious as the sweet and sour pork my mom cooks." Apart from sweet and sour pork, her mom doesn't know how to cook any other kind of meat.
Gu Sheng: "I used to think you were like a candied haws, red and sweet. It was so cold, and your face was red from the cold."
"The small candied haws give birth to a small glutinous rice dumpling, both are quite sweet."
As she was talking, Zhan Aiping felt a little hungry: "The little Tanghulu gave birth to a little sweet and sour pork."
"The small candied haws and the big pot-stuffed pork gave birth to a small pot-stuffed pork and a small glutinous rice ball." Gu Sheng yawned. He was also a little hungry.
Why do I get hungrier the more I talk
Zhan Aiping: "Stop speaking tongue twisters, didn't you say you wanted to go to bed?"
Gu Sheng got up: "I'll go cook something, I'm a little hungry."
Zhan Aiping: “…”
On the third day after Zhan Aiping gave birth, Zhan Mingzhao appeared at the gate of the courtyard with four chickens in his hands. Gu Xiangyi was stunned to see him, because Zhan Mingzhao not only had four chickens in his hands, he also carried a fertilizer bag filled with various mountain products, snacks and supplements.
"You, you took four chickens?" Gu Xiangyi counted them and found that two of them were black chickens.
Zhan Mingzhao said: "Give it to my sister to nourish her body."
"If I could get it, I could get six more chickens."
"I also brought pig's trotters, and Gu Xiaoliu came to help."
Gu Xiangyi was stunned for a moment: "Zhan Xiaoer, you really amaze me, didn't you become a cultural soldier? Where did you get all these things? No, how come you are so dark."
Gu Xiangyi discovered that this familiar Zhan Xiaoer had become darker and more handsome, and exuded an exceptionally charming aura from his whole body, making people unable to help but stare at his face and develop a pleasant liking for him.
Zhan Mingzhao said: "I got tanned after coming here."
He went to the countryside as an educated youth at first, doing farm work every day, how could he not become darker? Not only did he become darker, but his pale and weak body also became thinner and stronger. Later, he was selected to drive a tractor, and although the work was much easier, he did not turn back.
Gu Xiangyi said: "He has become darker and more handsome."
The dark-hued Zhan Mingzhao has a different flavor.
Zhan Mingzhao: "You've become darker, not more beautiful."
"Can you speak? Let my sister Pingping take care of you. You are just like my fifth brother. A dog can't spit out ivory. You two are birds of a feather."
"Gu Xiaoliu, I won't argue with you. I want to go see my sister and my two little nephews." Zhan Mingzhao was extremely excited. He had little nephews, two little nephews.
Before going to see his sister, Zhan Mingzhao took a shower first. After all, there were still chicken feathers floating on his body and he felt embarrassed to see people.
When Zhan Mingzhao went to take a shower, Gu Xiangyi was washing clothes in the yard. Not long after, several sisters-in-law from the family compound came over and asked her, "Little sister of the Gu family, who was that man just now?"
"Whose little brother is this? He's so handsome."
"Yeah, he's really handsome, and he's holding four chickens in his hands."
"He even said hello to me, and his voice was quite nice."
Gu Xiangyi was speechless and choked: "That is my sister-in-law Pingping's younger brother, Zhan Mingzhao, the second son of the Zhan family."
"Oh..." Several sisters-in-law suddenly realized, "So he is Dr. Zhan's biological brother. No wonder, the two siblings look alike."
"Little sister Gu, is your sister-in-law's brother dating someone? Where does he work?"
Gu Xiangyi: "He's an art soldier who performs in plays."
"Really, really!" Several sisters-in-law were particularly excited: "Which art troupe? Can we see his performance?"
Gu Xiangyi: "I don't know either."
The sisters-in-law couldn't ask her much, so they left with regret. Gu Xiangyi sighed: "This Zhan Xiaoer, who carries a fertilizer bag and four chickens, can still attract so many sisters-in-law."
"Blue beauty is a disaster."
"Could it be that he cheated all these chickens?"
Gu Xiangyi felt that he was not capable of stealing chickens, but he certainly had the ability to cheat chickens.
Zhan Mingzhao took a shower and changed into clean and refreshing clothes. The chicken feathers on his body were gone. He was wearing a very literary white shirt and black trousers. The buttons were not buttoned to the top, revealing a section of his collarbone.
When Zhan Aiping saw her younger brother Zhan Mingzhao, she felt that he was extremely showy, the kind of artistic showy.
He then takes out his harmonica and plays a song on the guitar, and he becomes the most attractive man to girls.
Gu Sheng is the handsome and capable soldier, while Zhan Mingzhao is a show-off with a strange style. Her brother was obviously not like this before, but since he went to the countryside, he inexplicably took on a bit of exotic charm.
He was strangely attractive to women, like a friend of women. Zhan Aiping also felt that the more she looked at him, the more she liked him.
"Sister, you've become more beautiful again, more beautiful than the last time I saw you."
Zhan Aiping smiled: "You are really good at talking."
She thought to herself, brother, why are you still acting in dramas? After the reform and opening up, just become a salesman. You will definitely be a sales king.
"When I look at my two little nephews, they all say that the nephews look like their uncles, so they must look like me."
Zhan Aiping asked him to look after the two children. "Little Pot-Boiled Pork looks like me, while Tangyuan looks more like her father."
"Small pot-fried pork?"
Zhan Aiping: "Your eldest nephew."
Zhan Mingzhao: "Sounds a bit hungry."
"Sister, I think the sweet and sour pork looks like me." Zhan Mingzhao was very happy. He found that his eldest nephew looked very much like him.
Zhan Aiping said: "Why don't you say you look like me."
They are siblings and look alike.
It is a paradox that nephews resemble their uncles.
"As expected, the nephew is like his uncle. This little sweet and sour pork will be like his uncle in the future. Who doesn't like sweet and sour pork? Our little sweet and sour pork, is what uncle said right? Little sweet and sour pork, sweet and sour pork—"
Zhan Aiping suddenly had a bad feeling: "..."
"Guobaoyou--" Zhan Mingzhao recited a few more sentences, and he suddenly realized that his eldest nephew's name was very spicy.
"Pork in Sweet and Sour looks like me." Zhan Aiping pinched her child's face. She felt that her own child's Pork in Sweet and Sour would never grow up to be such a heartthrob.
"Look at little Tangyuan. Little Tangyuan looks like my brother-in-law."
Zhan Aiping said: "Yeah, I also think that little Tangyuan looks like her father."
Zhan Mingzhao: "She will be like her mother in the future."
Zhan Aiping said indifferently: "I hope my children all look like me."
"Sister, congratulations, you're a mother now."
"Congratulations, too, on becoming an uncle."
Zhan Mingzhao took a long vacation to visit his relatives. To him, Zhan Bo's home was no longer his home. When he came out to visit his relatives, he could only go to his sister and brother-in-law's home. Zhan Mingzhao arrived at the family compound, and in less than a day, many people knew him.
Gu Sheng personally cooked for the whole family. Zhan Mingzhao ate the meal cooked by his brother-in-law and gave him a thumbs up, saying, "My sister made the right decision to marry you."
"Otherwise she'll have to eat in the cafeteria for the rest of her life."
Gu Sheng said: "It was your sister who taught me how to cook."
"Really?" Zhan Mingzhao: "You're not afraid of going to the hospital, Fifth Brother Gu."
Gu Sheng shook his head and said, "Your sister's cooking skills are very good now."
"Of course, you can't taste it. Now your sister only cooks for me."
Zhan Mingzhao curled his lips and said, "I'm not interested in eating the food my sister cooks."
Zhan Mingzhao and Gu Xiangyi both moved in. Gu Xiangyi lived in another bedroom, and Zhan Mingzhao squeezed into the study. There was also another narrow little room that could only fit a bamboo bed.
Gu Xiangyi said that she came to take care of her sister-in-law during her confinement. In fact, she didn't have much to do, as her brother took care of many things himself. She and Zhan Mingzhao helped to look after the children for a while and also got some food and drinks.
Gu Xiangyi and Zhan Mingzhao also felt embarrassed, so they helped clean the house, do some housework, and do the laundry.
Before Zhan Aiping gave birth, Qin Lanfang had originally planned to come and help. She and Qin Yanfang felt that Zhan Aiping was pregnant with two children, and her parents-in-law lived far away, so they were afraid that she would need help with the confinement period. However, her two younger brothers and sisters-in-law came, and Chief of Staff Gu even took care of his wife personally, so there was no need for Qin Lanfang to do anything.
Zhan Aiping cured her illness, and Qin Lanfang had always been thinking about it. She didn't come to help, but she did come to deliver fish soup twice.
Shen Liqing originally wanted to help Zhan Aiping during her confinement period. She herself hadn't gotten pregnant yet, so she could go and learn something. However, she didn't expect that there were so many people taking care of the confinement care in her home that she had no place to stay. So she just chatted with Zhan Aiping during the day to relieve her boredom and play with the two children.
"Little pot-fried pork, come and see auntie."
"Little Tangyuan, smile."
Zhu Jiaorong and her daughter got off the train and finally arrived at the destination after a bumpy mountain road. After such a long journey, Zhan Aija felt like she was about to fall apart.
As soon as she got off the car, she took a deep breath: "The air here is so comfortable."
We traveled all the way south and arrived here. We took off our cotton clothes and put on thin clothes. There was fresh green all around, so full of vitality, as if we were back in spring.
"Zhan Aiping gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Did she really give birth to Gu Sheng's children?"
After learning the news that Zhan Aiping was pregnant, Zhan Aijia refused to believe it because she could not imagine what Zhan Aiping looked like when she was pregnant, especially with Gu Sheng's child.
Zhan Aijia hoped that Zhan Aiping was lying, but now that the twins, a boy and a girl, were born, it was impossible that Zhan Aiping had stolen two children from somewhere.
Zhu Jiaorong: "Your sister is beautiful, so it's natural that the fifth son of the Gu family likes her. Just like your father said, your sister Pingping has a bad temper, but her appearance is impeccable."
"After marrying such a beautiful wife, which man can control himself?"
"No matter how sworn enemies they were in the past, no matter how much they hated each other, it couldn't compare to the fact that your sister is really beautiful."
"In this respect, you are not as good as your sister."
Zhan Aijia said: "Who made me not have a good-looking mother."
Zhu Jiaorong smiled and said, "Zhan Aiping is just like her mother. She is pretty, but she may not be liked by men."
"Men still like virtuous women, who can serve them comfortably. No matter how pretty the face is, it will get boring after looking at it for a long time."
Zhan Aijia said: "Mom, you are right. If Gu Sheng and Zhan Aiping get married, they will definitely quarrel every day at home."
"More than that." Zhu Jiaorong smiled: "She can't sit well during this confinement period. Do you think twins are a good thing? Two children will make her very upset. Few men can take care of children. Two children need to be fed every few hours. If they don't eat and sleep well, they will become a yellow-faced woman."
Zhan Aijia: "Let's go and help."
"Of course we have to help. Don't openly provoke your sister. We have to serve her well." Zhu Jiaorong continued, "Women in confinement are the most vulnerable to grievances and the easiest to deceive. If I treat her well, she will inevitably be open-hearted to me. Then we can hint to her that Gu Sheng is not a good person."
"We are saying bad things about your sister in front of Gu Sheng. It's better to ruin their marriage and get a divorce as soon as possible."
Zhu Jiaorong couldn't stand her husband's favoritism towards Zhan Aiping. After having Gu Sheng as a son-in-law, Zhan Bo's heart became biased. Now he was obsessed with his good son-in-law and wanted to be with his daughter. After Zhan Aiping gave birth to a child, he planned to send her a lot of things to nourish her body.
"You're so hypocritical. I didn't eat so many delicious foods when I was in confinement after giving birth."
Zhan Aijia said: "Mom, Gu Sheng and my sister will get divorced sooner or later."
Zhu Jiaorong said: "You, if you come here, you can really find a good and promising partner here..."
Zhan Aijia said: "Okay, okay, don't worry."
Zhan Aijia was still thinking about Gu Sheng, but she guessed that Zhu Jiaorong would definitely not agree, so she kept it a secret from Zhu Jiaorong.
Zhu Jiaorong was hoping that she could find a young cadre with a bright future here and ruin Zhan Aiping's marriage at the same time. This was the purpose of Zhu Jiaorong's trip.
The two of them entered the family compound and found Gu Sheng's home. Zhu Jiaorong and her daughter did not see Gu Sheng and his wife, but met Zhan Mingzhao, Gu Xiangyi, Qin Lanfang and Shen Liqing.
Zhan Mingzhao frowned when he saw Zhu Jiaorong and her daughter: "You... why are you here?"
Gu Xiangyi was not very familiar with Zhu Jiaorong and her daughter: "This is..."
Zhu Jiaorong was stunned when she saw them, then she smiled gently: "I heard from your father that your sister gave birth, and I thought her parents-in-law were busy, so I, as her mother, came to take care of her during the confinement period."
Zhan Aijia: "I'll come and help too. My sister has just given birth to twins and she must be too busy."
Zhu Jiaorong and Zhan Aijia were in a state of confusion. When they saw Zhan Mingzhao, they couldn't recognize him at all. Could this dark, thin and handsome young man be Zhan Mingzhao? The weak and timid Zhan Mingzhao
Qin Lanfang and Shen Liqing didn't know Zhu Jiaorong and her daughter, and they looked at each other.
After hearing what Zhu Jiaorong said, Qin Lanfang and Shen Liqing were shocked, and two more people came to take care of the confinement period.
Zhan Mingzhao: "My sister didn't ask you to come over."
Zhu Jiaorong smiled and said, "Your father cares about your sister and asked me to come and see her."
Zhan Mingzhao: "Just take a look and leave. We don't need you to take care of the confinement period here."
"What are you talking about? I'm older and have experience." Zhu Jiaorong: "You young people have never raised a child, but I have raised three children. I know how to raise a child to be plump and white."
"You... what are you young people doing standing at the door?" Zhu Jiaorong and Zhan Aijia came over, not expecting so many people at the door.
Shen Liqing said: "We are all here to accompany you during your confinement period."
Qin Lanfang said: "Doctor Zhan is giving birth, we came to see and give a hand."
Zhu Jiaorong said: "Then why are you all standing at the door? Pingping doesn't need anyone to take care of her. Xiao Gu is busy. When I gave birth to Xiaokang, your father—"
Gu Xiangyi said: "My brother is in there taking care of my sister-in-law."
While the couple was being affectionate in the room, the four of them, who were accompanying the baby in confinement, were killing time outside.
The laundry is done, the housework is done, and there is nothing else to do.
After the couple had finished their time together, they went to chat with Zhan Aiping and the two babies.
Zhan Aijia was surprised: "Gu Sheng, I mean... my brother-in-law is in there?"
Zhu Jiaorong was also stunned.
Zhan Mingzhao said: "My brother-in-law is taking a leave to accompany my sister during her confinement."
"There are too many people here, Aunt Zhu, you two can just look after the children and go back."
(End of this chapter)