If she were given another chance, Lu Yinbing would definitely not show the children on this sunny morning how great her storytelling skills as an excellent actor are.
When Lu Yinbing was having a meal, Lu Xia and Xia Lu came over with storybooks. When she came out of the study, there was a child squatting at the door, holding a storybook for her. Even when she stopped to talk to the aunt at home, she found her legs were extremely heavy when she moved again. The two children hugged one of her legs and said in unison: "Mommy~"
Lu Yinbing felt that their cute voices were like magic sounds piercing her ears. She trembled all over and crouched down, wanting to escape: "Mom is sitting on the sofa, let her tell you."
Lu Xia held her back and stopped her from leaving, biting her rosy lips: "But mom can't tell."
Xia Lu: “Yeah!”
Xia Yitong, who was very favored before Lu Yinbing, was not only not disappointed, but also wanted to laugh. If she couldn't speak, then she didn't speak. She cast a sympathetic look at Lu Yinbing and said, "I'll go upstairs and wait for you."
Lu Yinbing said dissatisfiedly: "Hey."
The two children had already grabbed her arms, one on each side, and were pulling her towards the sofa. They actually had different opinions, and the argument made Lu Yinbing very confused.
"It's about Cinderella."
"No, tell me about Thumbelina."
"Cinderella!"
"Thumbelina!"
Lu Yinbing interrupted them and said, "Let's talk about Sleeping Beauty."
Seeing that their mommy was angry, the two children stopped arguing and said "hmm" in a baby voice.
Lu Yinbing cleared his throat, put his arm around one of his daughters, and spoke slowly: "Once upon a time, there was a kingdom where the king and queen were very sorry that they had no children. One day, they were walking by a pond, and a goldfish jumped out of the water and said, 'You two will have a lovely daughter soon.' Sure enough, not long after, the queen gave birth to a very beautiful little princess, as beautiful as you..."
The two children stared at Lu Yinbing with their bright eyes.
"… Just after the eleventh witch gave her blessing, the witch who was not invited came and cursed the princess angrily," Lu Yinbing's voice became sharp and thin, "'The king's daughter will be stabbed by a spindle and die when she is fifteen!'"
"Mummy, what is a spindle?"
"The spindle is..." Lu Yinbing took the phone, typed spindle into the search box, then looked at the picture and explained it again before continuing the story. "Fortunately, there is one last witch who has not given her blessing, but this witch's magic is not as high as the other one, so she can't cancel the other's curse. She can only prevent the princess from dying immediately after being pricked by the spindle, but wake up after a hundred years of sleep."
"The king and the queen collected all the spindles in the palace, but it was of no use. When the princess was fifteen years old, she accidentally entered a small house in the palace where there was an old lady weaving. She asked the old lady what she was doing and the old lady replied, 'I'm weaving.' The princess was very curious and went up to pick up the spindle and wanted to learn how to weave. Do you remember what the witch said? As soon as the princess touched the spindle, she fell down. She did not die, she fell asleep." Lu Yinbing kissed each of the two children on their little cheeks before they looked sad.
Xia Yitong stood at the stairs at some point, observing Lu Yinbing telling a story in a soft voice. Xia Lu grabbed Lu Yinbing's long hair, and Lu Yinbing glared at her.
"The princess fell asleep, and her parents fell asleep too. The horses in the stable stopped eating grass, the dogs stopped barking, and the pigeons on the roof and the flies and mosquitoes on the wall all fell asleep. Huh... Huh... They started snoring... How happy they are."
The two children were waiting for what to come, and Xia Yitong was also waiting for what to come.
Lu Yinbing spread his hands: "Nothing."
Xia Yitong: “…”
What a lazy person.
The two children pouted at the same time.
Lu Yinbing said, "Go upstairs and go to bed. What time is it? We'll talk tomorrow."
The two children had tears in their eyes and were about to cry.
Lu Yinbing: "Mommy is sleepy, you see I am about to snore."
Lu Xia looked at her with an accusing eye, and Xia Lu screamed, tears streaming down her face.
Lu Yinbing: "Wow, am I still being so shameless? It's time to go upstairs and sleep. Aunt Liu!"
Aunt Liu trotted over, took the hands of the two children, and walked upstairs to the baby room. The two children used all their strength to sit on the ground and refused to move. Those who should complain complained, and those who should cry continued to cry.
Lu Yinbing's head hurt from the noise, and then he saw Xia Yitong standing at the stairs: "Why are kids nowadays like this? They are not allowed to serialize a story? They are so spoiled. Don't they know where "One Thousand and One Nights" came from?"
Xia Yitong looked at her helplessly, then pulled out Xia Lu, who was clinging to the ground the most fiercely, and carried her horizontally in her arms up the stairs. When Lu Xia saw her sister being carried away, she pursed her lips and looked at Lu Yinbing.
Lu Yinbing followed suit and carried her up, still feeling angry: Xia Yitong actually used this position to hold a child? Isn't this position only suitable for her? !
The children were sent back to their room. Xia Lu grabbed Lu Yinbing's sleeve tightly and wouldn't let her go. She finally persuaded the two children by saying that whoever behaved well that night would continue the lesson the next day.
"Goodnight kids."
"Goodnight mommy."
The lights were dimmed and the door to the children's room was closed.
Go back to the master bedroom and close the door.
"Tell me, you..." Xia Yitong shook her head. She really didn't know whether Lu Yinbing did it intentionally or unintentionally. She had to tell a story halfway, which kept people in suspense. Even an adult like her who was familiar with fairy tales wanted to hear her finish it in that voice, let alone two children who were obsessed with the story.
"Give me a drink of... cough, cough, water." Lu Yinbing choked and coughed.
Xia Yitong stopped accusing her and quickly poured Lu Yinbing a glass of water when she coughed.
Lu Yinbing frowned and looked at her, looking aggrieved.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Xia Yitong put his arm around her shoulders and sat down on the edge of the bed. Why did she feel aggrieved
Lu Yinbing poked Xia Yitong's heart again and again, his resentful eyes were like a hook, making Xia Yitong feel guilty.
"You have no conscience. You forgot about me after you had the children. I talked all morning and my throat hurts. I already have a slight cold, and you still want me to tell them stories all night." Lu Yinbing said.
"Do you have a fever?" Xia Yitong quickly reached out to touch her forehead.
Lu Yinbing patted her hand and snorted, "None of your business."
Xia Yitong stared at her for two seconds. Lu Yinbing's style was very wrong now. Once her style was wrong, she couldn't treat it according to common sense. She had to be even weirder than her style.
Xia Yitong retracted his original plan, and gently touched her chest with his hand, rubbing it gently, his voice as soft as sticky rice sticking to the teeth.
Ci: "Then what do you want me to do?"
Lu Yinbing was neither ticklish nor non-ticklish, but she couldn't stand the combination of blowing air near her ears and touching them randomly. She immediately stopped being ticklish and laughed, "Are you annoying?"
Xia Yitong also laughed: "Don't I have to ask you if I'm annoying or not?"
Lu Yinbing snorted again.
Xia Yitong pushed further and got closer to her: "Am I annoying?"
Lu Yinbing was reluctant but still willing: "Don't come over here."
Xia Yitong hugged her, lowered his head and gave her a loud kiss on the lips, repeatedly asking: "Are you annoying? Are you annoying? Are you annoying? Are you annoying? Hmm?"
This time, Lu Yinbing felt itchy all over his body, and he couldn't help but hold down her naughty hands, and took the initiative to press her under him: "Don't bother me, don't bother me, okay?"
"No, you're not serious, you're just perfunctory."
"Hey, your temper has been getting worse lately."
"I've been with you lately."
"Watch this!"
"I'll dodge!"
“I didn’t dodge, hahaha.”
The two of them played and fought, rolling around on the bed, wrinkling the sheets, and finally sat up with their hair disheveled, smiling at each other. Lu Yinbing went to the bedside to get his phone: "I'm going to take a picture of you and post it online, so that everyone can see what kind of crazy Xia, the actress they love so much, is like in private."
Xia Yitong: "My name is Xue Yao. I feel like my hair is going to be thinner soon. I don't know why."
Lu Yinbing: "Hahahaha, I won't post anymore. I saw them shopping in the mall a few days ago, holding hands. Xue's mother smiled so sweetly that her wig almost fell off."
Xia Yitong said righteously: "Don't always say bad things about Xue Ma, it's not good."
Lu Yinbing looked at her.
Xia Yitong blinked: "It's okay to say a little occasionally."
The two of them burst into laughter again.
Xue Yao, who was sitting on the bed reading a book with a pair of glasses on her nose, sneezed loudly, and her glasses flew off more than half. Su Han beside her asked nervously, "Did you catch a cold?"
Is it because they didn’t cover themselves with the quilt properly last night
Xue Yao shook her head and said, "It's okay. Those two bastards must have been criticizing me behind my back. I'll just get used to it."
After a brief thought, Su Han dug out a thick coat from the closet and coaxed Xue Yao to put it on despite her unhappy frown: "It's easy to catch a cold with the change of seasons, so it's better to be careful."
Xue Yao agreed with a frown.
Su Han couldn't help but squeeze Xue Yao's hand and smiled.
"What are you laughing at?" With the beauty beside him, moving her hands from time to time, Xue Yao had no time to read and closed the book and put it aside.
"You just frowned at me, did you notice?"
"What's so strange about frowning?" Xue Yao laughed, "Can't I frown?"
"That's not what I meant. I wish you would frown a little longer."
Xue Yao: “???”
Su Han was as happy as a 17 or 18-year-old young man who had just fallen in love: "You are showing more and more expressions to me now, haven't you noticed?"
Xue Yao: "... Yeah."
Su Han said: "I am very happy."
Xue Yao grinned, revealing her upper and lower gums: "I'm very happy too."
Su Han hesitated for a moment and said directly: "It's a bit ugly to smile like this."
Xue Yao pursed her lips, then tilted one corner of her mouth to smile, "How about this?"
Su Han grabbed both of her cheeks and pulled them away: "You are so mean, your eyes are full of bad water, where did you learn this from?"
"Well... when I was young. It wasn't like this, it was like this." Xue Yao gave a sinister smirk and made a murderous expression.
"Were you so immature when you were young?"
"yes."
"I really want to go and see it."
"Let's not talk about it," Xue Yao stretched, "It's good like this now." The past is the past after all. Apart from talking to Lu Yinbing, she has never told anyone about the past that was buried deep in her heart, including Su Han. She had to pester Lu Yinbing to ask about it. There was nothing to say. People should always look forward, and her Su Han was always in front, waiting for her to catch up and hold her hand.
Su Han was a very good and considerate lover. He accepted her for who she was and never asked her why she never mentioned her parents or her life before the age of 18. Adults know what to ask and what to forget with time.
When they turned off the lights and fell asleep in each other's arms, Xue Yao's heart was always filled with warmth and happiness. This should be the way it will always be throughout her life.
…
Lu Yinbing was originally so obsessed with her child's storytelling that she wanted to hide in her bedroom all day long. She did do so twice, but when she was about to go to the crew, she became reluctant to leave the little devil at home.
It was ten o'clock in the evening, and Lu Yinbing was still telling the children "Snow White". The two children couldn't help dozing off and fell asleep one after another in her arms. Lu Yinbing put away the storybook gently, and rubbed the children's soft hair with her palm.
"Go up?" Xia Yitong asked her opinion in a low voice.
Lu Yinbing nodded, and he and Xia Yitong each hugged one of them.
The children will definitely not wake up for tomorrow morning's flight. I won't see them for a few months. I wonder if she will cry if I don't see her when I wake up in the morning. And Xia Yitong, it feels like we have been together for many years. We have experienced big and small separations, and I am reluctant to let her go every time.
"Go to sleep." Xia Yitong urged her to go to bed early, just like every time they separated. "You have to get up early tomorrow."
"Um."
They exchanged a light kiss and fell asleep with their shoulders against each other.
Before daybreak, the sound of a suitcase's wheels moving could be heard from home. Xia Yitong put the suitcase at the door, walked into the slightly cold yard, and drove over from the garage.
The luggage was placed in the trunk, Lu Yinbing sat in the passenger seat, and the car turned flexibly and drove out of the big iron gate.
Lu Yinbing suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of the second floor, and a question suddenly occurred to his mind: I wonder if Lu Xia heard it this time
The two chatted casually.
"Laiying is going to give birth in a few days, right? Remember to inform me as soon as possible."
"Know."
"I picked the storybook I was going to read to the children at random. The ones I've read before have a red circle after the title. When the time comes, you can pick the one without a red circle first."
"Okay, I'm afraid that after they get used to listening to you, they will dislike me when they hear me again."
"Do they dare?" Lu Yinbing snorted.
"What should we do if we really dare?" Xia Yitong asked deliberately.
"Then tell them to me. They can choose whether to listen or not. If they don't want to listen, then there will be nothing for them to hear."
“You can talk via video.”
"... I only have so much video time, and it's not enough to talk to you. I also have to tell them stories, but I won't." Lu Yinbing believed that he could never do such a thing.
"Go ahead."
"No."
"Really not?"
“More real than real gold.”
"Then I won't be jealous." Xia Yitong laughed.
"Eat well and film well." Xia Yitong could only send her to the outside of the security check passage. He also had to be on guard against reporters who might appear at any time, fans who would cause trouble if they disagreed with him, and passers-by. He didn't dare to say a few more words and just lowered the brim of his hat and left.
Another farewell.
Xia Yitong sat in the car, looking at the clear blue sky above her head through the front window. The phone in her bag rang. She picked it up and heard Lu Yinbing's pleasant voice: "I'm in the VIP lounge. There are only three people including me."
"I'm going to go home now to see if the kids are awake."
"be safe."
"You too." Xia Yitong raised a faint smile and drove away humming a song.
Laiying gave birth a week after Lu Yinbing went abroad to film. She had already stayed in the hospital for three days. As soon as her water broke, she was immediately sent to the delivery room. There were crowds of people outside the door, including Laiying's parents, her husband's parents, and Xia Yitong and other friends, who were anxiously waiting for news from inside. Her husband almost pulled a handful of her hair out. Xia Yitong hurriedly stopped them and said, "Brother-in-law, Sister Laiying doesn't like bald guys!"
Zhao Jun stopped pulling his hair and started scratching the wall. His fingers almost dug a big hole in the wall. Then a baby's cry came from the delivery room. The doctor pushed the door open and came out with a smile on his face: "Congratulations, mother and daughter are safe."
Xia Yitong immediately sent a message to Lu Yinbing: The baby is born, a girl like us, weighing 3696g, both the adult and the child are doing well.
Laiying was weak after giving birth, and she didn't say much. After looking at the baby, she fell asleep. However, she did say one sentence to Xia Yitong: "Tell Old Lu to give the baby a name. Don't give her names as thoughtless as your two children's."
Xia Yitong smiled and didn't argue.
However, she really felt that her child's name was well chosen, but the nickname was not easy to call, LuLuXiaXia, XiaoLuXiaXia. When she called him/her, it always felt like she was calling Lu Yinbing and herself, so she could only call him/her by his/her full name every day.
Laiying woke up again, and Lu Yinbing called her from an international distance, praising Laiying for being nice. The two chatted for a while, and Lu Yinbing said that she wanted to call her Zhao Lailai, or Zhao Ying, or at most Zhao Yingying. After Laiying looked down on her, she said that she would deprive her of the right to name the girl. Lu Yinbing said dejectedly that she would think about it again.
Xia Yitong laughed so hard that she gasped.
After a while, she said she was called Zhao Si'er. Anyway, Laiying would join the crew of "Women at Forty" after recovering from the birth, so it was particularly memorable. Laiying cursed, "You are Zhao Si'er, your whole family is Zhao Si'er!"
This time even her husband Zhao Jun couldn't stop laughing.
Lai Ying was in good spirits and kept chatting with Lu Yinbing on the phone. However, when she arrived at her house, she had not yet decided on a name for her daughter. In the end, she only confirmed one thing, which was that she was simply out of her mind to ask Lu Yinbing to name her, as a pregnancy would make a woman stupid for three years.
In the end, my parents and in-laws all came out to give the child a name, but none of them were satisfied with the names they picked, so they just gave the child a nickname, Yuanyuan, because the child had a very round face, which looked particularly festive.
When Xia Yitong told Lu Yinbing about this, Lu Yinbing slapped her thigh and said that she was at a loss. Why didn't her two children have two nicknames? Xia Yitong actually didn't understand whether it was a loss or not. Having two more names wouldn't make her any more money, but when Lu Yinbing said it was a loss, she agreed.
Laiying had been delaying the naming of her child until the baby was one month old. On the day of the full-month banquet, Laiying suddenly had an idea, "Since it's so hard to decide, why not give it a name from a character I like!"
She decided on a shocking name for this little girl: Zhao Min!
No one called her Yuanyuan by her nickname anymore, and from then on everyone changed her name to Princess.