When cousin Lin Shuang's parents passed away, she was adopted by Lin Man's parents and became the family's darling.
Lin Man, on the other hand, became the sandwiched punching bag,...
Chapter 412: Taking the Children to the Hospital (Page 1/2)
Huo Yining and Huo Yian crowded to the bedside, both vying to see their younger brother. Seeing the two brothers crowding around, Xiao Ya simply picked up her grandson along with the blanket.
"An'an, Ningning, come and take a look."
Huo Yining squeezed over first, and Lin Man was worried that her youngest son couldn't see it, so she picked him up.
Huo Yining looked at the baby in the blanket and said, "Grandma, why is my brother's face so red? Why is his forehead so dirty and yellow?"
"Ningning, there's vernix caseosa on your little brother's head, it will fall off in the future. Newborn babies have a little red skin."
Huo Yining nodded obediently, and then asked curiously: "Grandma, did I have this on my head when I was a child?"
Xiao Ya patiently explained to her grandson: "No, you were bigger when you were born, and there was no vernix caseosa on your forehead."
Huo Yining nodded, seemingly understanding, and continued to ask, "Does my brother have this on his head?"
Xiao Ya smiled and shook her head and replied, "There was no vernix on An An's head when she was born."
Seeing Huo Yining staring at the baby, Lin Man couldn't help but interrupt, "Ningning, this vernix caseosa will fall off soon."
Huo Yining blinked, "Oh, I see."
At this time, Huo Qinghuan also came over and glanced at the quilt. He couldn't help but mutter in his heart: Why is this little nephew so small, like a red-skinned mouse.
Didn't my second sister-in-law eat when she was pregnant? However, when she thought of this, she felt a little funny.
In comparison, Huo Yining is still better looking when he is born, and An An is also not bad.
It seems that what the son's mother said is true. The eldest sister-in-law is good-looking, so her two sons are so good-looking.
When he turns 30 and looks for a partner, he must find the most beautiful one.
Huo Qinghuan thought to himself that he would find the most beautiful woman to be his wife in the future, so that he could give birth to a more beautiful next generation. Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing.
"Uncle, why are you laughing so happily?" Huo Yining asked curiously.
"It's okay, uncle just thinks your brother is so cute." Huo Qinghuan quickly covered up.
"Yeah, I think my younger brother is cute too." Huo Yining said with a smile.
"What are you little guys looking at here?" At this time, Huo Junshan walked in, and his two grandsons also came and asked with a smile.
"Grandpa, you're here, we're here to see my brother!" Huo Yining said excitedly.
"Oh, really? Let me see my lovely grandson." Huo Junshan walked to his daughter-in-law, looked at the baby in the cradle, and a relieved smile appeared on his face.
"Grandpa, look, my brother is blowing bubbles." Huo Yining said, pointing at the baby.
"Yes, he's spitting out bubbles of milk." Old Master Huo touched the baby's face and said with emotion: "Time flies so fast. Ningning and Anan are grown up now and can take care of their little brother."
"Grandpa, when my younger brother grows up, I will take him to play with me." Huo Yining said seriously.
"Okay, when your little brother grows up, you can play together." Huo Junshan said with a smile, "By the way, have you chosen a name for the child?"
Song Jingjing smiled and said, "Grandpa has already named the child Huo Yichen. Yi means comfortable and Chen means morning."
"Oh?" Huo Junshan asked in surprise, "What a nice name! Qingyan said before that if he had a son, he would name him Huo Siming. But since the child's grandfather has already chosen such a nice name, let's call him Huo Yichen."
As he spoke, Huo Junshan reached out and took the child from Xiao Ya's hands.
Since the little guy was born not long ago, he was too small and his body was very soft, so Huo Junshan didn't dare to hold him tightly. He could only gently put his hands under the child to support his small body.
Xiao Ya looked at Huo Junshan's cautious look and couldn't help but feel a little amused. She quickly reminded him, "You have to hold on tighter. Don't let Xiao Ping'an fall."
After she finished speaking, she couldn't help laughing out loud, feeling that the usually steady man in front of her was so nervous and clumsy at this moment.
Huo Junshan nodded and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I know what's going on."
At this moment, Huo Qinghuan saw his father holding his nephew and smiling so happily, and couldn't help but jokingly said, "Dad, didn't you always want a granddaughter? Are you a little disappointed now?"
Hearing this, Huo Junshan couldn't help but laugh and scolded, "You little bastard, what nonsense are you talking about? How can I be disappointed? Just wait for your eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law to have another child. We'll have a granddaughter eventually."
However, at this moment, Huo Yining suddenly interrupted and said, "Grandpa, my uncle said that when he grows up, he wants to marry and have a daughter. My brother and I also want to have a daughter."
Hearing this, Huo Qinghuan was stunned. He quickly covered Huo Yining's mouth and said, "Ningning, don't talk nonsense."
Tang Lihong, who was standing aside, was thinking, if her daughter Jingjing gave birth to a son, wouldn’t Xiao Ya and Huo Junshan be very happy?
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That's right. Their eldest daughter-in-law gave birth to two sons, and the one her daughter gave birth to is their third grandson. She really doesn't like him that much. It would be better if her daughter gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, so that she could have a son in the Huo family.
Lin Man chatted with Song Jingjing for a few words and was about to take the children back when Huo Junshan suddenly said, "Xiao Man, Qinghuan will come back with me later. He has to go to school tomorrow."
When Huo Qinghuan heard that he and his father were going to take the bus back, he directly refused, "Dad, Grandpa will be back in the afternoon. We will go back together after lunch."
Lin Man nodded in agreement, "Dad, why don't we go back together this afternoon? Let's go back and cook now, and then let Uncle Zhang take us back after dinner."
Huo Junshan thought about it and decided that since he had nothing to do in the afternoon, he might as well go back to the courtyard with them, have dinner, and then go back with his father.
"Okay then, let's go back to the courtyard together."
Huo Junshan brought the child back to his wife Xiao Ya, "Wife, hold Chenchen tightly. I'm going to take the children back to the courtyard first."
When they returned to the courtyard, Lin Man threw the child to Huo Qinghuan and her father-in-law, and went to the kitchen to busy herself.
I stewed a chicken in the morning and haven’t eaten it yet, so I can just stir-fry two dishes at noon.
During the meal, Huo Li asked Huo Junshan, "Do you want to hold a third-day baptism banquet for Xiao Ping'an?"
"Xiao Song said it's too cold to hold the ceremony and will wait until the full moon."
"The full moon is on the fifth day of the first lunar month, so why not just bring Xiao Song and the child back home? The child needs a full moon banquet, and we can't hold it at the Song family!"
"Xiao Song said she wanted to hold a wedding in the courtyard, and then she would go back to her parents' home. She would bring the child back when he was six months old."
Huo Li didn't expect Song Jingjing to make such an arrangement, so he asked again, "Will she come back for the New Year?"
"Xiao Ya told her that we will still celebrate the New Year in the courtyard this year. She said she would come back to celebrate the New Year on the 30th, and then go back to her parents' home to pay New Year's greetings on the second day. She will come back here on the fifth day to hold the wedding banquet, and some relatives from her parents' home will also come."
"Since you've all agreed, let's do it this way! The cost of the banquet will be deducted from the Qingyan allowance."
Lin Man didn't say anything. If Song Jingjing wanted to hold a full-moon banquet, then let them do it. She would just help out a little at most.
I wonder if grandpa would ask Qingci to go out and buy groceries if he knew she had space. Anyway, she would rather take care of the children than be a chef.
There are so many dishes to prepare for a wedding banquet, and it’s not just one table, so Lin Man naturally doesn’t want to be the chef.
The kitchen is full of smoke and fire, and your skin will become worse if you stay there for a long time. Fortunately, she takes care of her skin morning and night, otherwise she would really become a yellow-faced woman.
After lunch and cleaning up, Huo Li took his family back home.
Xiao Ya was not at home these days, and Huo Junshan and his son Huo Qinghuan felt that their home was deserted, so they went straight to live with Grandpa Huo.
Huo Qinghuan slept on the sofa, Huo Junshan slept with his father, and Lin Man saw that her father-in-law also came to live with her, so she prepared one or two extra snacks every day.
Huo Qingci would drink a couple of glasses of wine with his father and grandfather every night. That night, Huo Junshan looked at the wine in his glass and suddenly sighed, "This wine tastes a bit too sweet, not as good as rice wine."
Huo Li glanced at him and said, "It's good to have something for you to drink. This is brewed by Xiao Man herself."
Huo Junshan chuckled, "I brewed it myself. I thought someone sent it to me."
Huo Qinghuan rolled his eyes and said to Huo Junshan, "Dad, the grapes planted in our courtyard have all borne fruit this year. There are so many fruits that we can't eat them all, so my sister-in-law made them into wine."
"Is that so? Then I'll try it next year and use a little less rock sugar. Your mother likes to drink rice wine, so next year I'll buy some glutinous rice and steam a jar of rice wine."
Huo Qingci suddenly interrupted, "Buying glutinous rice is simple, but the problem is that I don't have time to make wine. Dad, if you have a day off, you can make it yourself at home."
"Okay, if you buy the glutinous rice and bring it back, I can start steaming it and making rice wine while I'm resting. Maybe we can drink fresh rice wine during the Chinese New Year."
Huo Li continued, "But now that the weather is cold, the rice wine will take longer to ferment, so it won't be ready soon."
"It's okay, Dad. Even if we can't drink it during the New Year, we should be able to taste the newly brewed rice wine during the Lantern Festival, right?"
"Well, that's good. Then Qingci, go buy some glutinous rice tomorrow, and then come back to make rice wine when I'm free."
"Dad, I want purer rice wine. One hundred kilograms of glutinous rice should be able to make twenty kilograms of rice wine. Qingci is going to buy several kilograms of glutinous rice. Where can I buy so much glutinous rice at once?"
"Don't worry about that. Qingci will buy the glutinous rice back. This time I want to see if the rice wine you brew is different from the one Qingci brewed."
Huo Junshan chuckled, "Dad, as a researcher like me, I will never make mistakes when brewing wine. I will strictly follow the proportions of how long to steam the glutinous rice and how much yeast to add."
Seeing that his son was full of confidence, Huo Li naturally didn't want to continue to discourage him. He just waited for the New Year to drink the rice wine brewed by his son.