Li Shuxian wiped his sweat, his face extremely serious, and followed Bai Shiqing into the house.

Bai Jiaojiao stood at the door without going in: "Sis, I'm going straight to the pigsty, okay? You can tell your brother-in-law."

Bai Shiqing waved to Bai Jiaojiao and then closed the door.

"What exactly happened? Do we have to talk about it behind closed doors?"

Li Shuxian paced anxiously around Bai Shiqing, bending over to meet her gaze: "Speak up. Don't scare me."

"Oh dear, my belly is a bit bigger than that of a typical five-month pregnant woman."

"What's wrong? Is there a problem? Is there a tumor inside?" Li Shuxian's eyes widened, his imagination had never been so vivid.

"Can't you listen to me? What do you mean by tumor? Can't you speak properly!" Bai Shiqing pinched Li Shuxian: "The doctor said I'm carrying twins, and they're baby twins. Jiaojiao said they're called dragon and phoenix twins."

"......"

"Li Shuxian?"

"......"

"Hey, Li Shuxian?" Bai Shiqing pinched Li Shuxian's still face. Li Shuxian's reaction was even more confused and at a loss than when she found out.

"Two?" Li Shu asked to confirm.

"Um."

"Flower stick?"

"Um."

"Twins?"

"Um."

"mine?"

Bai Shiqing rolled her eyes and slapped his arm: "Whose is it if not yours?"

"Really?! Bai Shiqing! You're amazing! Bai Shiqing! My good wife! Hua Bang! Hahahaha!"

Li Shuxian was so excited that he didn't know what to do. He wanted to pick up Bai Shiqing and spin her around, but he pulled his hand back before he could even touch her. He was so timid that he could only slap his own thigh to express his excitement.

"Are you crazy?" Bai Shiqing couldn't help but laugh.

"I'm going crazy," Li Shuxian said, barely able to breathe. He had to gesture with his hand to his chest to indicate that he was panting, his heart pounding as if it were about to jump out of his chest. "I've only ever heard of people like this before, I've never actually seen one. You actually want to give me a pair of children."

Li Shuxian was overjoyed. He restrained himself, carefully hugged Bai Shiqing, and rested his head on her shoulder: "Wife, you are so good."

"Alright, alright, you go to work now, I'll tidy up and cook something."

"What are you cooking? Just wait for my mom to come back and cook. You behave yourself, come on, sit on the kang (heated brick bed)... ouch..."

Li Shuxian was stepped on by Bai Shiqing, and his overreaction led Bai Shiqing to diagnose him as having truly gone mad.

“It’s not like I can’t move,” Bai Shiqing urged Li Shuxian to go to work. “When my parents come back, I still need to think about how to tell them.”

"Just like you told me earlier, you deliberately kept quiet, made them guess, made them worry, and then suddenly revealed this good news."

The elderly couple's heart function doubled.

Bai Shiqing said, "I didn't mean to not say anything. You were the one who kept babbling on and on, not letting me speak. You interrupted me halfway through what I was saying, okay?"

"Yes, yes, it's all my fault." Li Shuxian now obeys Bai Shiqing's every command and doesn't even argue with her anymore.

When the elderly couple comes back at noon, they will definitely ask about Bai Shiqing's prenatal checkup today.

Bai Shiqing was too embarrassed to tease them, but Li Shuxian said with a serious expression, "There is indeed something wrong. Shiqing's belly is big, and it's not because of our family's nourishment."

"What do you mean? Was the examination inadequate? Is there something that shouldn't be growing inside?"

Li's mother and Li Shuxian are indeed related by blood; their subconscious reactions are exactly the same.

"Mom, he's just teasing you. We went to get that thing done today, and the doctor showed me. He said I'm carrying twins, so my belly is definitely bigger than other babies."

"Two?" All eyes of the family turned to Bai Shiqing. Bai Shiqing was rarely embarrassed, but now she lowered her head under the eager gazes of her family.

Li Shuxian, however, raised his head and puffed out his chest: "They're twins! What do you think, Mom? Isn't Shiqing amazing?"

"That's amazing! Oh my, my daughter-in-law is really... Twins are such a good omen, she's so blessed."

Li's mother was so excited that she became incoherent.

Li Shiqing was excited, but he remained reserved and told Li Shuxian to take good care of Bai Shiqing.

"Mom, it's just that there are a lot of things to prepare for two children. I definitely won't be able to manage everything by myself after they're born, so I'll have to trouble you."

“What do you mean by trouble? This is all my duty,” Li’s mother said, pointing to her four sons. “Each one of them has to come and help. Don’t worry, even if you have two more children, I won’t let you get tired.”

Li's mother held Bai Shiqing's hand tightly, reluctant to let go.

After leaving the Li family, Bai Jiaojiao went for a stroll in the pigsty to see how Da Hua and Xiao Hua were doing.

All the adult boars were slaughtered during the New Year, and Li Xiulian stole two of the fifteen piglets, leaving thirteen. Over the course of winter, the pigsty was completely transformed.

Li Xiulian was caught stealing pigs by Zheng Xu. Out of consideration for the villagers, Zheng Xu did not report it to the police, but he did report it to the commune. Li Xiulian and Li Lide were then paraded around in several brigades of Hushan Commune with wooden signs hanging on their heads.

Now, the reputation of this father and daughter is as bad as it gets. Li Xiulian is working in the pigsty, taking over the job of sweeping pig manure that Yu Wenli used to do, and she also has to ferment the pig manure. She smells terrible.

Her mother-in-law doesn't care about her anymore, and her own family is angry with her. No one even brings her a change of clothes. Now that it's spring, she's taken the cotton out of her cotton-padded jacket and is wearing it without it.

Li Xiulian didn't want to see Bai Jiaojiao; seeing Bai Jiaojiao would remind her of Bai Shiqing.

She never imagined she would end up in this situation, with Bai Shiqing's sister coming over every day to laugh at her.

Bai Jiaojiao used to come to the pigsty only sporadically, but since the pigs went missing, she's been coming to the pigsty more often every day.

In reality, Bai Jiaojiao just wanted to pay more attention, and since it was the changing season and pigs were prone to illness, she became more diligent.

But in Li Xiulian's eyes, Bai Jiaojiao was just there to make a fool of her and annoy her!

"You dislike her too, right? Anyone who gets involved with her is doomed."

Yu Wenli didn't miss the vicious look in Li Xiulian's eyes as she looked at Bai Jiaojiao. He took advantage of Lao Xu's nap at noon to start a conversation with Li Xiulian.

Li Xiulian glanced at Yu Wenli; the current Yu Wenli was completely different from when he first came to the countryside.

Her previous impression of Yu Wenli was that he was a cultured, polite, and well-off educated youth.

Yu Wenli is now struggling to survive, and he is not even as good as the men in the village. He doesn't look like a city dweller at all.

He said it was Bai Jiaojiao who caused it, and Li Xiulian even agreed somewhat: "Neither of those sisters is a good person; they both kick someone when they're down."

Now that no one is paying attention to Li Xiulian, she finally has someone to listen to her, and she immediately starts talking.