It must be said that the soundproofing at home is quite good. After carrying the child upstairs, Xia Yitong could not hear any sound from downstairs. Lu Yinbing was so crazy that not only did she wake up the child, but she also had a headache.
The confinement nanny was a smart person. Seeing Xia Yitong sitting on the edge of the bed and not getting up, she knew that she had no intention of going downstairs. She didn't say anything, but just waited for the two children and poured a glass of water for the hostess of the house.
Xia Yitong took it and said thank you, then said: "I'll watch over here, go downstairs and disinfect the bottle first, it's probably on the table."
"Yes, ma'am."
Xia Yitong felt awkward for a moment, said nothing, and watched the other party leave.
Mrs…
There was a discussion between her and Lu Yinbing about this title. They felt that calling her Miss or Ms. was not appropriate. After discussing for a while, Lu Yinbing asked her to choose between Madam and Mrs. If she chose one, Lu Yinbing would choose the other. Xia Yitong thought Mrs. sounded younger, so she chose this and left Mrs. to Lu Yinbing.
However, from yesterday to today, the confinement nanny called her "Madam" seventy or eighty times, and never called Lu Yinbing a single word. If they had to find someone to deal with, nine out of ten people would choose Xia Yitong first.
Xia Yitong sighed. Being too friendly to others is also a burden.
Xia Yitong turned her head and looked at the cradle, thinking: I wonder which of the two babies will look more like in the future? More like her, more easy-going, more like Lu Yinbing, more noble, either way is fine, even half and half is fine.
In short, the children they raise will definitely be better than them.
The two daughters, who were immersed in their sleep, clenched their plump little fists and began to suck their thumbs with their mouths. However, they were not in the womb now, and because of the obstruction of clothes, their hands could only reach into the air, as if they wanted to grab something.
It was summer now, so there was no need to worry about the baby catching a cold. So Xia Yitong didn't tuck the baby's hands into the quilt so quickly. Instead, she stood in front of the cradle, looked inside through the sleeves, and then put a finger in. The warm baby's five fingers firmly grasped her index finger. This was a completely subconscious action, and most babies would do this, but Xia Yitong felt a trace of the blood relationship between mother and daughter from it.
She thought of many things, even thinking of herself as a baby in a cradle, and herself outside as her mother. The blurred memories of her childhood became clear at this moment. The first time she called "Mom" with slurred words, the first time she learned to walk, the first time she ran, the first time she went to school... What she remembered and what she didn't remember would be filled in in the future when she played another role in her life.
She hooked the baby's soft palm with her fingers, pressed the hand to the side of her body, tucked the quilt in, and sat there in a daze.
The result of thinking too deeply was that her vision darkened. She rolled her eyes and almost thought it was dark. The warm touch on her eyelids told her that there was a pair of hands blocking her eyes, and the owner of those hands was Lu Yinbing.
“… finished with your work?” Xia Yitong subconsciously wanted to use the word “crazy”, but in order to prevent Lu Yinbing from doing anything excessive to her under such circumstances, she changed her words in time without revealing any clues.
"It's over." Lu Yinbing said, "Those people are all saying one thing and thinking another. I won't make fun of them if they confess, right?"
“…Yes.” Xia Yitong verbally agreed, but in her heart she was complaining: Even if others don’t admit it, you can still ridicule it with mysterious confidence. If they admit it, you will be so excited that you may not come down for three days.
Lu Yinbing: "Especially Laiying, I think she can learn from us and find a surrogate mother. She won't have to delay her work, and she won't have to work so hard to keep having babies at night. It will be hard for her and her husband, don't you think?"
Xia Yitong swallowed her saliva and coughed violently. Just as Lu Yinbing was about to show concern for her, she took a few sips of the water she had not finished drinking, moistened her throat, and tried to appear as calm as possible: "What did Sister Laiying say?"
Lu Yinbing walked around Xia Yitong's back, wrapped her arms around her neck, half leaned over, and put most of her weight on Xia Yitong's back. This posture made her feel comfortable. "Laiying didn't agree. She said that her family has everything and there's no need to work so hard." Lu Yinbing said this with certainty, "I don't think so."
"oh?"
"Laiying is just being stubborn. Wasn't she delayed for more than a year because of the movie? Now she is actively trying to get pregnant but couldn't. We caught up and now the baby is one month old. Laiying knows that what I said makes sense and that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for her, but she didn't think of it before. Now that I have thought of it for her, she feels embarrassed and refuses to listen to me."
"Oh." Xia Yitong responded.
"Does what I said make sense?" Lu Yinbing noticed that her word "oh" was a little perfunctory.
Xia Yitong immediately nodded vigorously and said, "That makes a lot of sense."
"Good boy." Lu Yinbing was quite disappointed. "Laiying is really at a loss. A year and a half of time was wasted. Otherwise, we could raise her child together with ours. If we get pregnant again now, we will have to wait at least a year. Both of us can run, but her child is still spitting up milk and drooling in the cradle."
"Oh, yes." This time Xia Yitong responded very seriously.
"Come… "
Seeing that she was going to talk for a while, Xia Yitong interrupted her and said, "Look, Dabao's eyelashes are moving. Is he about to wake up?"
Lu Yinbing and Xia Yitong stared at each other.
Xia Yitong was silent for a moment, then said, "The one on the left is Dabao."
"Oh, I guess. I just drank milk and I might vomit."
Xia Yitong was silent again: "The one who just drank milk was Erbao."
"Isn't that it?"
"no."
"Then she was woken up by hunger." Lu Yinbing said.
After experiencing such embarrassment several times, Lu Yinbing no longer felt it was a big deal. Although not being able to tell her two twin daughters apart made people feel that she was somewhat derelict in her duty as a mother, Lu Yinbing swore in all her conscience that she tried very hard to tell them apart, but in her eyes, they looked exactly the same, even the hair that had not fully grown was leaning to the same side.
Xia Yitong helped her identify them, saying, "Look, Dabao's face is rounder than Erbao's."
Lu Yinbing looked left and right, up and down, and even saw double in her eyes. She couldn't tell which one was rounder, but the heads were all round. She hesitated and said, "This..."
Xia Yitong: "Dabao has less flesh on his hands than Erbao, so he is a little thinner."
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Both children are obviously very white and plump, and their arms are like lotus root nodes, white and tender, with a small dent when pressed.
Xia Yitong said patiently: "Dabao has more hair and less eyebrows, Erbao has less hair and more eyebrows."
Lu Yinbing's eyes lit up. After careful identification, she finally verified this feature. So from now on, can Lu Yinbing tell which is her eldest daughter and which is her youngest daughter
Facts tell us that it is impossible.
Within five minutes after Lu Yinbing's successful verification, she remembered that the one sleeping on the left was the eldest daughter, who had more hair and fewer eyebrows, and the one sleeping on the right was the youngest daughter, who had less hair and more eyebrows.
"I'm thirsty. I'll go get a glass of water." After coming back, Lu Yinbing and Xia Yitong stared at each other again. After a moment, he asked, "Who has more hair and fewer eyebrows?"
Xia Yitong smiled: "Guess."
Lu Yinbing's intuition told her that it was Dabao, but after deducing and calculating in her mind, the answer she got was Erbao. No matter how she deduced, she finally gave an answer: "Erbao."
Xia Yitong also gave her a perfunctory smile in return.
Xia Yitong said helplessly: "You were out for only two minutes, and I didn't change the children's positions. Even if you memorized them by rote, you would still remember who was who, right?"
"Don't I have a bad memory?" Lu Yinbing said righteously.
Xia Yitong had a mouthful of blood stuck in her throat, but she was too weak to refute. Lu Yinbing was right. She had a bad memory, especially short-term memory. This was an objective fact and she couldn't be blamed.
After Lu Yinbing finished speaking confidently, he also deeply realized his mistake and said in self-reflection, "Please rest assured, Chief, I will definitely separate the two of them as soon as possible."
Xia Yitong patted her shoulder while holding back his vomiting blood: "This is a difficult task."
It's true that Lu Yinbing was so focused that she really reduced the chances of misidentification to the lowest level. That afternoon, she only made mistakes twice out of five times, which was a little higher than the 50% chance of blind guessing. This was enough to prove that Lu Yinbing had put in a lot of effort. Lu Yinbing also said that if Xia Yitong hadn't deliberately tested her and the two children had switched places, she would have been confident that she could reduce the error rate to one-fifth.
With a four-fifths accuracy rate, Lu Yinbing was quite proud of himself.
"Baby, if your mommy can't tell you apart in the future, don't blame her. She has really tried her best." Xia Yitong sighed softly and whispered to the child.
Lu Yinbing: "What are you mumbling about?"
Xia Yitong said quickly: "Nothing."
Lu Yinbing was more perceptive than ever before: "Did you say bad things about me to the baby?"
Xia Yitong's heart skipped a beat, but her expression remained unchanged as she smiled and said, "No."
"Don't think I don't know. You must have told them that I can't tell them apart. I have tried my best. I tell you, I will be able to tell them apart sooner or later!" Lu Yinbing almost rushed over and pointed at Xia Yitong's nose to question her.
Xia Yitong thought to herself, do you have the ability to read minds? You can even guess this. But since Lu Yinbing had such great ambitions, she certainly encouraged him and clapped her hands excitedly, saying, "Great!"
Lu Yinbing: “Huh.”
Just then, one of the babies woke up. Xia Yitong said, "It's time to prepare the milk powder. Which one is awake now?"
Lu Yinbing said without hesitation: "Boss!"
Xia Yitong said sincerely: "That's amazing."
Lu Yinbing thought to herself that the second child had just been fed once, so how could it be easy to wake up? Although she couldn't tell the eldest and the second child apart, she still remembered the feeding time clearly. She didn't even need to look at the hair or eyebrows, just use common sense to judge, this is the power of wisdom.
There was hot water of suitable temperature downstairs. She only went back and forth and came back to feed the eldest baby with her own hands. The eldest baby closed his eyes, held the bottle with his two chubby hands, and sucked on the nipple in a naive manner.
Lu Yinbing stared at her movements, and suddenly an idea came to him. He excitedly shouted, "I know!"
Her shout was very loud, and both children woke up. The eldest opened his eyes, and looked at his mother who was so close to him with his big watery eyes. His pupils were so dark that not even a little light could get through. Lu Yinbing praised him in her heart: He is so young, but he is not easily surprised by praise or criticism, and he still has the demeanor of a great general.
The second child was a completely different character. In one word: crying! He cried loudly, and cried loudly. Tears as clear as water drops flowed all over his face, and his throat was torn apart. It was heartbreaking to hear, and even more pitiful. If you didn't know, you would think he was beaten and abused.
The heroic crying sounded all the way downstairs.
More than 20 godmothers hadn't left yet. They had to go out for a meal together to celebrate the full moon in the evening. Lu Yinbing went upstairs to accompany his wife and children. They were happy and relaxed. Lu Yinbing was so annoying here that several people wanted to hire someone to kill her. Fortunately, she evacuated in time and saved her life.
The people downstairs were all of similar age, and they had become familiar with each other after a while. Some of them were bolder and flirted with each other when they were together. Whether it would work or not was up to them, but they had the intention. There were groups of two or three downstairs, and some four or five people gathered together to chat and laugh.
Until a loud cry exploded on my scalp.
Laiying was the first to jump up and shouted angrily, "What's going on? Who is bullying my goddaughter?"
The remaining godmothers also stood up. They rushed upstairs and knocked on the door. Lu Yinbing opened it and looked embarrassed: "Why are you here?"
Laiying sneered: "If you don't come up, my goddaughter will be tortured to death by you."
The second child's crying became louder and louder. His face turned red and his voice sounded hoarse, but he was still crying. Xia Yitong held him and tried to comfort him, but it was of no use. He was so anxious that tears were about to fall out. He looked at Lu Yinbing as if asking for help.
Lu Yinbing forced herself to remain calm and said, "It's okay, it's okay." Her mind raced as she suddenly rushed forward, separated the godmothers who were huddled together, and pulled out the confinement nanny who was trying to squeeze out, "It's up to you."
Yuesao: “…”
The confinement nanny took the baby from Xia Yitong. Professionalism is something else. She was skilled in holding the baby and coaxing him. She kept singing a song that was passed down from who knows which generation to coax the baby.
Yuesao: "Oh oh oh oh ~ good~"
Second child: "Wa ...
The confinement nanny becomes more gentle.
The second child cried even louder.
Become stronger when facing a strong opponent, and become even stronger when facing a weak opponent.
Just cry, just cry, crying is the way to overcome everything.
The nanny coaxed him for three to five minutes, but the second child was still crying. He almost fainted from crying, but he refused to give in and just wanted to cry. The culprit, Lu Yinbing, felt both guilty and distressed: "How about I do it?"
What if... it works
Lu Yinbing held on to such a chance and took the poor second child from the confinement nanny's arms. As a result, the second child looked at Lu Yinbing's face, and his crying suddenly stopped. He even blinked, and there seemed to be some emotion brewing on his tearful little face.
Lu Yinbing was stunned for a moment, then said in ecstasy: "As expected of my daughter..."
Before she could even utter the word "son", she felt her chest shake, and a cry more desperate than all the previous ones broke out, as if the one holding her was not her mother, but the most terrifying wolf grandmother in the world.
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Her self-esteem suffered an unprecedented blow.
Xia Yitong commanded: "Quick, take the child away from Lu Yinbing."
The confinement nanny was closest to Lu Yinbing, and she pulled the child out of Lu Yinbing's arms. The crying became a little weaker, but the child was still crying and refused to stop.
Laiying stepped forward and said, "Let me give it a try."
Lu Yinbing had a blank expression on his face.
Xia Yitong nodded.
Let's give it a try. There are twenty people behind her. If one of them catches the child's eye, she won't cry anymore.
Come hug me and cry.
Substitution.
I hugged my childhood friend and started crying.
Substitution.
My childhood friend hugged me and cried.
Change people again.
…
Just like that, it ended up in the arms of my good friend Si.
It was the first time that the fourth friend held Xia Yitong's baby. He was a little nervous. He wiped his hands vigorously on the expensive clothes and clumsily and carefully supported the child's delicate body with his hands.
Friend 4 made some unclear sounds, which she had just learned from the confinement nanny: "Oh oh oh ~ good boy ~"
The little girl who had cried so hard that no one could beat her just closed her mouth. Her black eyes innocently looked at the face above her. At this moment, Lu Yinbing actually hoped that she would continue to cry, even just for once.
But one second passed, and then two seconds passed.
The little one used her tiny hands to reach for her friend's face, making crisp gurgling sounds. In her open mouth, one could clearly see her gums, which had no teeth yet, and the tip of her tongue, which was pink and shiny.
Chuck.
She smiled.
Everyone was relieved and showed the same relieved smile. They looked at each other, put their index fingers to their lips, and made a gesture of silence. They communicated with their eyes not to disturb her.
No one dared to get too close, for fear of making her cry again. With the indulgence of Friend Four, the lotus-root-like arm had already rubbed against Friend Four's face. The plump, white skin was the child's extremely delicate skin, rubbing against Friend Four's face.
Friend Four looked very happy, and the others were naturally envious and jealous, but the kid had a very bad temper and was difficult for ordinary people to get along with, so no matter how envious they were, they could only envy him.
Everyone's attention was on the child, and no one noticed that someone quietly left the room.
Three minutes later, the little one fell asleep with his hands tightly clutching his friend's collar, and his saliva was all over his friend's hand.
That is also the saliva of happiness.
Xia Yitong took the second child from her friend's arms, put her in the cradle, and rocked her gently from side to side to make her sleep more soundly. She glanced around the room casually, and her pupils suddenly shrank. Where was Lu Yinbing