The moment the child's name was decided, something flashed through Lu Yinbing's mind, as if something was not right.
What is it
She tried very hard to recall with her almost shabby memory, but some distant memories could not be recalled by recalling them. So she decisively turned to the other half who knew her best in the world for help.
"Did I ever tell you what I was going to name my baby?"
Xia Yitong: “Ah?”
In her memory, it seems that there is no such thing. But Lu Yinbing had talked to her so much, and there must be at least a thousand topics about children. It is impossible for Xia Yitong to remember them all, so it is inevitable that there are omissions. The key is that Lu Yinbing mentioned it, and she also felt that it might really be true.
The child's name...
Xia Yitong looked thoughtful, but found nothing for a long time. Sometimes the more you want to find something, the harder it is to find it. Often when you are not paying attention, the thing will surface on its own.
Lu Yinbing said, "Forget it, let's just call it that for now. They won't understand it anyway."
Xia Yitong: “…”
The sleeping children who didn’t understand: “…”
Seeing that it was past four in the afternoon, Lu Yinbing went out and called her father.
Lu Yunzhang said on the other end of the phone: "Everything is ready, shall I send someone to pick you and the child up?"
What Lu Yunzhang said was a full-moon banquet. The Lu family is also a prominent family in Beijing. Naturally, they have to hold a banquet to celebrate the arrival of the third-generation new member. Most of the guests invited are celebrities and wealthy businessmen. Lu Yinbing will definitely attend, and the child's mother, Xia Yitong, will also attend, but not as the daughter-in-law of the Lu family, but as the good girlfriends promoted by the media. Again, it's not the right time, and the boundary between good sisters and lovers is often not clear. The two will appear together with the child tonight. That's what I said, believe it or not.
Lu Yinbing said, "No need. I have a lot of friends here. Any one of them can take us there. What time do you want to arrive?"
Lu Yunzhang: "Let's go now, your mother misses the child."
Lu Yinbing: "Which child?"
Lu Yunzhang: "Her granddaughter."
Lu Yinbing blurted out, "Why doesn't she miss me?"
Lu Yunzhang: “…”
Lu Yinbing: “…”
The father and daughter were awkward over the phone, and it was Lu Yunzhang who broke the silence first: "Well, your mother and I will go to greet the guests, you should come earlier, ok."
Lu Yinbing: “…Okay.”
After hanging up the phone, Lu Yinbing sighed and said to herself. Did she just lose her mind? Is jealousy addictive
Lu Yinbing returned to the room and called Xia Yitong: "Let's go?"
"OK."
After a brief question and answer, without any communication, the two of them took out a child from the cradle respectively, Xia Yitong held the second baby, and Lu Yinbing held the first baby. They looked at the children in each other's arms and raised their eyebrows at the same time.
A group of more than 20 people drove towards the restaurant they had booked. More than a dozen luxury cars were lined up in a row, which was a bright sight even in this international metropolis. Pedestrians on the road looked sideways, wondering where the group was going.
The car was handed over to a special parking attendant, and a group of beauties with outstanding looks came in one after another. The two who were holding children first were bathed in cameras from head to toe as soon as they entered.
The two had properly protected the child's face long before the reporters raised their cameras.
Yes, this full moon banquet was not a private banquet, but reporters were allowed to enter. To be more precise, these reporters were invited by Lu Yinbing, and the studio contacted major media outlets.
"On xx next month, our CEO Lu will celebrate the baby's full moon. Everyone come, everyone come. You can bring your cameras."
The reporters were ecstatic, but also felt a little uneasy. They couldn't be blamed. The media that often dealt with Lu Yinbing knew that although Lu Yinbing disdained to play those tricks, she was very powerful and had a lot of tricks. Was there a trap waiting for them
Go? Or not
Finally, they unanimously decided: Go! A true reporter dared to face the bleak life and dared to accept Lu Yinbing's invitation.
But after the decision was made, I was stunned.
child
Where did the child come from
When the studio invited them, Lu Yinbing's movements were still kept secret, and all the reporters began to brainstorm! They associated a "child" with all kinds of ridiculous or very ridiculous stories.
Just the day before the banquet, they intercepted Lu Yinbing who was returning to China at the airport. Lu Yinbing confessed to the fact about the child and gave a red envelope to each reporter present, but still did not say who the father of the child was, or whether there was no father at all.
Today is the day to finally reveal the mystery.
The reporters were eagerly waiting at the door for a whole afternoon before the protagonist of the banquet finally arrived: Lu Yinbing and her two children, and another person holding a child, was... Xia Yitong.
The reporters did not seem too surprised. Only one thought came to their minds: It is true!
Wherever there is Lu Yinbing, there is Xia Yitong, and wherever there is Xia Yitong, there is Lu Yinbing. This has been a consensus for the past two years. They knew that Lu Yinbing probably wouldn't have much patience, so they took advantage of this moment to snap a bunch of photos. The group of people in the entertainment industry following behind them were completely ignored and served as background boards.
Lu Yinbing walked towards the banquet venue at a steady pace. Her mother was already waiting there. A group of people surrounded Lu Yinbing, Xia Yitong and the two little princesses and took them to the hotel room, surrounding them tightly.
This room is where the two of them will stay from now on. Except when Lu Yunzhang brings his close friends in, there will always be someone guarding here to prevent the media from seeing it.
As soon as she entered the room, before even putting the child down, Liu Xinmin took the child from Lu Yinbing's arms, calling him "good baby" and "good grandson" all the time, and her perfectly maintained face was full of wrinkles with a smile.
Lu Yinbing shook her empty hands and said, "Mom, please look at me."
Liu Xinmin said without even raising her head: "I'm busy and don't have time."
Lu Yinbing: "Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom."
Liu Xinmin: "You're making so much noise, you woke up my dear grandson, I'll beat you up."
This threat reminded Lu Yinbing of the desperate experience not long ago. She dared not to howl. She could only look at Xia Yitong pitifully and whispered, "My mother forgot her own daughter after having a granddaughter."
Xia Yitong just smiled.
The hotel specially prepared cribs for children. After Liu Xinmin put this one in the crib, she turned around and picked up the one in Xia Yitong's hand. She didn't interfere with either of them. Her eyes were full of light and she was very happy.
If the children were not still young and could not be kissed too much, Liu Xinmin would have kissed the two children to the point of suffocation. Now, she only dared to touch their little hands and feet, and then smell the milky scent on their bodies.
The two children had been held enough. If they were held for too long, they might be woken up. Liu Xinmin put the two children together, walked a little further away, and began to ask Lu Yinbing: "How are they?"
"What?"
"Taking care of children, are you used to it?"
Lu Yinbing was silent.
Xia Yitong: "It's OK, I'm still figuring it out."
As soon as Liu Xinmin saw Lu Yinbing's cowardly look, she knew that things might not go smoothly with her, so she snorted, "What difficulties are there? Your mother is an experienced person after all, so she can give you some guidance."
Lu Yinbing said nothing.
How could Xia Yitong not know that she was feeling awkward again? He nudged her arm with his elbow, meaning that why should she save face in front of her biological mother? She had lost all her dignity when she was a child because she had to change her pee and poop.
Lu Yinbing looked at her mother, revealing genuine confusion and resentment, and asked, "Why does the second child cry when he sees me?"
Liu Xinmin: “???”
At the critical moment, Xia Yitong stepped forward to explain: "It's like this, mom. Erbao doesn't seem to get along with Yinbing. She starts crying as soon as she opens her eyes and sees her. Especially this afternoon, we accidentally woke her up while talking, and then she kept crying. No matter how we coaxed her, it was useless. When Yinbing held her, she cried even harder than before. If a friend hadn't coaxed her later, I don't know how long she would have cried."
Liu Xinmin's expression suddenly became strange and she looked at Lu Yinbing.
Xia Yitong: "Mom?"
Lu Yinbing: "Why are you looking at me?"
Liu Xinmin didn't know what she was thinking about, and her eyes instantly turned into disgust.
Lu Yinbing: “???”
Liu Xinmin: "She didn't inherit the good traits, but inherited all the bad traits. According to my experience, we can only wait for her to grow up. There will come a day when she won't cry when she sees Lu Yinbing, most likely after she turns one year old."
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Xia Yitong glanced at Lu Yinbing subtly, and said to Liu Xinmin: "What's your experience?"
Liu Xinmin was heartbroken, recalling the past. She looked at Lu Yinbing with such a look that she almost wanted to beat her up on the spot: "You don't know how difficult she was to raise when she was a child. She cried nine out of ten times when she saw me. I had to go to work, and her father was in the army. I was so exhausted every day. It's not an exaggeration to say that she was exhausted. She aged at least ten years a year."
Lu Yinbing: "You still say it's not an exaggeration, you are not ten years older."
Liu Xinmin: "Don't talk."
Lu Yinbing curled her lips indifferently.
Liu Xinmin said, "At first I thought it was because I was at work and the child could only see me at night that she was not close to me, so I took half a month off to stay at home with her. I bought her all kinds of toys, such as Lego, rattles, cars, dolls, etc. Later, it was the confinement nanny who played with her. She didn't want me at all and would lose her temper at the slightest provocation. She was like a little bomb, exploding wherever she went. After resting at home for three days, I went back to work. If I stayed at home any longer, I thought I might strangle her to death."
Lu Yinbing: “Wait, I have a headache.” If Erbao is a replica of herself back then, then will she still have a chance to survive in the next year
Liu Xinmin was still talking about what happened before Lu Yinbing was one year old. That was a scene that angered the heavens and the people. She was a real little devil in the world, and she was a bully at home. She was well-behaved to outsiders. Her uncles and aunts would smile when they saw her. She gained a lot of favorability with her iconic little face. She was the "other people's child" in the eyes of her relatives. However, as she grew up, although she still had a bad temper, she no longer had the previous hostility towards Liu Xinmin, but became closer to her...
"Anyway, everything turned out fine in the end, my dear." Liu Xinmin concluded gloatingly, "You don't have to worry too much."
Lu Yinbing pulled the corners of her mouth stiffly, not feeling relieved at all. According to her mother's analysis, it would take at least three or four years for the second baby to grow up and become sensible. Her hair wouldn't become like Xue Yao's during these four years, right
Xia Yitong patted Lu Yinbing's shoulder; "Don't worry, I'll take care of Lu Xia."
"Lu Xia?" Liu Xinmin caught the name, "Second baby's name?"
Xia Yitong nodded.
Liu Xinmin frowned and said, "So casual? What about the boss?"
Xia Yitong said: "Call me Xia Lu."
Liu Xinmin shook her head and said, "... What kind of name is this?"
Lu Yinbing was feeling depressed. When she heard her mother's denial, she looked up and said, "I took it. Is there a problem?"
Liu Xinmin: “No, I just want to ask about the basis for the naming?” Instead of using all kinds of names with profound meanings that they had looked up in major dictionaries, they used these two... two... Liu Xinmin didn’t know how to describe the names. Not that they sounded bad, but they felt too hasty. Will the two children hate them in the future
Lu Yinbing said, "The eldest is quiet and likes Xia Yitong, so I used her last name. The same reason applies to the second child. A first name is easier to pronounce, and isn't it normal for our children to have each other's last names? The single words Xia, Lu, etc. sound nice, so I simply didn't add them."
Liu Xinmin said without thinking: "Then why not call the eldest Lu Xia and the second Xia Lu? Children's names usually reflect the expectations of their parents. Since the second child has such a bad temper, you should think about letting her learn from the eldest and be quieter. Call her Xia Lu. And I remember you told me your last name and my first name, didn't you?"
Lu Yinbing: "It's not your last name and my first name, it's my last name and your first name, when did I ever say such cheesy words to you?"
Liu Xinmin: "It was several years ago when you said you wanted to name the child."
Lu Yinbing was stunned, and then a light bulb went off in her head. The string in her mind that had been disconnected for a long time finally connected. She knew what she had forgotten!
Five years ago, when Xia Yitong visited her on the set of the movie "Foster Mother" to experience life, the two talked about children for the first time, and it was decided at that time.
-Two, one with the surname Lu and the other with the surname Xia, one looks like you and the other looks like me.
-Like your last name Lu, like my last name Xia. You are mine, I am yours, doesn't it sound romantic
-How can you tell who a baby looks like right after birth
-Give them a name first, not a surname, and then give them a surname based on their appearance in the future.
She had made a stupid mistake by wanting to assign surnames based on their faces, forgetting that the twins looked the same and there was no way they could be divided by their faces. Fortunately, now they seemed to have different personalities, so it was natural to assign them this way.
Like Xia Yitong's eldest son, whose surname is Lu and whose given name is Xia; like his second daughter, whose surname is Xia and whose given name is Lu.
The beautiful expectations contained in the name sound good too
Lu Yinbing clapped his hands and said loudly, "Okay, then the first baby will be named Lu Xia and the second baby will be named Xia Lu. I hope they grow up healthy and happy, and then complement each other's personalities and support each other."
The two children's names were hastily changed again.
Liu Xinmin had no doubt that if these two children could understand what Lu Yinbing said, they would definitely jump up and kill their mother.
Xia Yitong covered Lu Yinbing's mouth with his palm and whispered, "Do you want to wake Xia Lu up?"
As soon as the name was changed, Xia Yitong called Erbao by his new name. Lu Yinbing covered her mouth in fear, and then she felt a strange feeling in her heart. Xia Lu, Xia Lu, after Erbao changed his name, she felt that it sounded much better.
This child has Xia Yitong's last name. Anything related to Xia Yitong always softens her heart. Lu Yinbing walked to the crib and looked at Xia Lu's face again. Her originally sparse hair seemed to be a symbol of baldness, but now it seemed to be very smooth. It seemed to have grown a lot in just two hours. Her eyebrows were naturally beautiful, and when she turned around, she was as pretty as Erbao.
Does a name have such great magic power? In Lu Yinbing's case, it does.
The only drawback was that she felt that the next time Xia Lu cried at her, she might be several times more heartbroken than she was now. That was a baby with the surname Xia. The thought of her despising her made Lu Yinbing feel so heartbroken that she couldn't breathe.
I feel like changing my child's name again...
Lu Yinbing restrained himself.
When I cry, I think that she looks like me. When I fall asleep, I think that her surname is Xia. Will this make me feel better
Xia Yitong savored the two names carefully: "It seems better than before." She looked at Dabao, whose last name was Lu, and felt the same way as Lu Yinbing. When she thought that this child had the same last name as Lu Yinbing, she wanted to hold the child tightly. Lu Xia, it sounded better than Xia Lu.
The two of them originally favored Dabao and Erbao respectively, but because of the change of names, the balance was tilted back, and everything was really treated equally.
Liu Xinmin didn't know that her casual suggestion had an irreversible impact on the future personalities of the two children, but that was a long time in the future. Now she saw that her daughter and son-in-law were satisfied with the name, and she was satisfied too.
Lu Xia, Xia Lu, it's not bad to hear, it's catchy, it's ok, after all, I participated in the decision-making and made crucial suggestions. Liu Xinmin thought so, Lao Lu is out socializing with others now, if he is not here, they will regret it when they find out that the three of them have decided on the name of the child, haha.
The three of them had their own thoughts, and at the subsequent formal banquet, everyone sent someone to take turns to look after the children. After Lu Yinbing made a big presence in front of the media, he returned home with his wife and children.
The important issue for the child now - the name was finally settled, which was originally a good thing, but Lu Yinbing fell into her old habit again because she treated them equally. In her eyes, the two children were equally beautiful now, and she couldn't tell which was which when they fell asleep.
Lu Yinbing scratched his ears and cheeks.
The one with more hair and fewer eyebrows is the eldest, Lu Xia, and the one with less hair and more eyebrows is the second, Xia Lu. After memorizing it for three to five days, Lu Yinbing finally remembered it, but it soon became useless because as the days passed, Lu Xia's eyebrows and Xia Lu's hair grew out...
Lu Yinbing wanted to cry but had no tears.
Who are these two?!