night.

As soon as Zhuang Mingcheng returned from the troupe, he went to the inner room to play with his son and daughter.

"Egg, my egg, call me Papa, call me Papa."

Wow~

"Alright, alright, if you don't want to call it, then don't. You'll learn in a few months."

Zhuang Mingcheng gently pinched his son's nose and put him in his wife's arms, then picked up his daughter.

"Qingqing, call me Papa, Papa..."

Qingqing's eyes darted around. She looked at Zhuang Mingcheng, then opened her small mouth, trying to call out.

After trying for a while, she kept her mouth open and didn't give up, meowing.

Zhuang Mingcheng: "???"

Lu Fangfang, who was sewing clothes nearby, was also stunned.

After a while, the two of them looked at Xiaohua.

"Meow~"

Little Flower shook her head, then let out a rather innocent cry.

"Ahem, that must have been Xiaohua calling. Qingqing, call me Mommy, Mommy..."

"Meow~"

Lu Fangfang: "..."

Now she could see clearly that the meow did indeed come from her daughter's mouth.

The couple had complicated expressions on their faces, but Xiaohua seemed to have discovered something interesting.

It stood up, leaped onto the heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed), and walked over to Qingqing.

"Meow~"

Xiao Hua looked down and called out to Qing Qing.

Qingqing opened her mouth and tried to meow.

"Meow~"

"Meow~"

"Meow~"

"Meow~"

When Xiaohua called out, Qingqing followed suit.

The man and the snow leopard grew increasingly excited, their meows almost breaking the silence of the house.

In the outer room, Xiuxiu walked in curiously, carrying a book.

She was stunned when she saw Qingqing meowing.

"Meow~"

Xiao Hua, no longer holding back, tilted her head back and shouted excitedly.

Lu Fangfang grabbed Xiaohua's head.

"Meow~"

Zhuang Mingcheng quickly covered his daughter's mouth.

The two looked at each other, finding it both funny and exasperating.

"Sister...Sister, brother-in-law, how come Qingqing has learned Xiaohua's voice?"

"Maybe it's because she's been staying here too long. Sigh, I didn't expect Qingqing to call me 'Dad' or 'Mom' first, but she can meow now. Oh well, at least she's learned a foreign language."

Zhuang Mingcheng sighed and picked up his daughter, then kissed her.

He's been busy with troupe affairs all year, so he only gets to spend more time with his daughter and son in the evenings. No wonder Qingqing learned to meow first.

"Foreign languages? How can you even say that?"

Lu Fangfang rolled her eyes at her husband. This wasn't a foreign language anymore; it was animal language, specifically the language of the snow leopard, a less common animal language.

She rubbed Xiaohua's big head, then looked at the egg in her arms.

"Egg, you haven't learned a foreign language, have you?"

"Ah...ah..."

Egg hugged Little Flower's tail tightly and wouldn't let go.

Seeing this, Lu Fangfang felt somewhat helpless; it seemed her son hadn't learned from Xiaohua.

"Fangfang, why does it sound like a donkey braying to me..."

"Pah, pah, pah, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Lu Fangfang spat at him, saying that this was utter nonsense.

"Squeak~"

The door to the inner room was pushed open, and a large donkey's head poked its head in.

It looked at everyone curiously, as if it were searching for something.

After a while, it twitched its long ears, grinned, and cried out again, "Oh...ah..."

"Ah...ah..."

"Oh...ah..."

"Ah...ah..."

The little wild donkey's eyes lit up, and it didn't care about anything else.

Squeezing into the house, it walked to the heated brick bed, tilted its donkey head, and stared excitedly at the eggs.

Zhuang Mingcheng: "..."

Lu Fangfang: "..."

"Oh no, sister, the little wild donkey often takes Egg and Green to play on the grassland. Egg must have heard it for a long time and learned it."

Xiuxiu suppressed a laugh and quickly explained.

Actually, the sound of the egg is different from that of the little wild donkey, it's just... the melody is somewhat similar.

"Oh...ah..."

Beside them, the little wild donkey was very excited. It snorted and continued braying at the eggs.

"Go away, go away! What are you yelling about in the middle of the night? Get out of here."

Lu Fangfang, her face dark, forcefully pushed the donkey's head away.

Well, before the daughter and son in the family have learned to speak human language, they have already learned two foreign languages ​​that are not commonly spoken.

"Oh...ah..."

The little wild donkey turned back and brayed at Egg again before wagging its little tail and happily walking away.

Lu Fangfang glanced at Zhuang Mingcheng.

Zhuang Mingcheng also looked at her.

The two quickly hugged their daughter and son and started teaching their father and mother together.

Unfortunately, the two little ones seemed to have lost interest and started babbling again. The two parents sighed and decided that they should spend more time with their children in the future.

After dinner, Zhuang Mingcheng discussed the New Year's celebrations with his wife again.

With just over a month until Chinese New Year, he had been thinking of taking a year off to take his wife and child back home, but with the weather so cold and the child so young, he decided to wait a little longer.

"Let's go back next year. When the kids are older, we can go back again."

She's been married for almost two years and hasn't met her father-in-law yet, which isn't good. Lu Fangfang is thinking of taking her son and daughter to Beijing next year.

She also wanted to visit Beijing during that era; she was sure it would be very lively.

"I've prepared the New Year's gifts for both families, and I'll mail them out in a couple of days. Before the New Year, we'll call Grandpa again so he can hear Dandan and Qingqing's voices..."

As Lu Fangfang spoke, she couldn't help but look down at her daughter in her arms.

If the old man were to hear his grandchildren meowing or braying...

Across from them, Zhuang Mingcheng had also thought of this idea. The two exchanged a glance and couldn't help but laugh.

"By the way, how's it going with your inquiry about Xiuxiu?"

“I’ve already talked to Lao Sun in the troupe. After the New Year, Xiuxiu will first learn veterinary medicine from him and become an apprentice.”

After hearing this, Lu Fangfang felt relieved.

After the New Year, Xiuxiu will be sixteen, and it's time to start thinking about her future job.

Since Xiuxiu wanted to study veterinary medicine, she wanted Xiuxiu to study it first. After the sports competition, Xiuxiu would only be twenty-five or twenty-six years old and could still try the college entrance examination.

Hmm...

Lu Fangfang calculated her age; she was not yet thirty at the time, so it was worth a try.

However, considering the size of the farm, she felt it wasn't really necessary.

Holding Qingqing, she was thinking about the New Year when she felt a warmth in her hand.

Looking down, I saw that my daughter had peed again.

She quickly called to Zhuang Mingcheng and started changing her daughter's diaper.