Chapter 114 Chapter 114 (More) Brother

Miao Ying only took one look at the child's face before falling asleep. Wen Gong wrapped the child up and handed it to Li Hongying, who had been watching over him. "Congratulations, it's a little boy."

Li Hongying had been crying so hard that she couldn't speak. She opened the door holding the child. Lingzhi and Xiaolin, who were at the door, rushed over, took a look at the child, and ran into the house.

"You've arrived just in time. Hurry and change the sheets." Wen Gong found a new mattress. Huo Xing picked up Miao Ying, and Lingzhi and Xiaolin quickly changed the mattress. They moved to the bedside and saw Miao Ying asleep. Xiaolin was nervous for a moment: "What's wrong, brother?"

"Asleep." Huo Xing's voice was hoarse, and he could only see Miao Ying in his eyes.

Li Hongying brought the child to Huo Xing's side and said, "You hug your child too."

Huo Xing then took the child. He held the child in a very stiff position, his arms were stiff and he dared not move. A tear fell from his eyes and dripped onto the child's face. The child had just come into this world, and the first thing he felt was the weight of his father's tears.

This is the child born by Miao Ying, the child that Miao Ying gave birth to at the cost of her life, the child he and Miao Ying had.

Soon the child started crying, so loudly that Miao Ying woke him up. He opened his eyes, took a look at him, and then said, "Find him some milk."

Li Hongying realized then that they had prepared everything except food for the child. However, it was too late to prepare it at the last minute. There was still some rice oil on the porridge they cooked for Miao Ying in the afternoon. They could only give this to the child temporarily and then go to see if there were any women in the village who were breastfeeding.

Lingzhi hurried to the kitchen and saw someone outside the door. It was too dark at night to see clearly. When he walked to the door, he saw that it was Fu Lingyou, who was holding an animal in his hand.

He hugged Lingzhi and kissed his heart: "I came to take a look and give the children some food."

Lingzhi laughed and said, "We are worried about this. I am just about to go get some rice and oil for the children."

"This milk needs to be processed. Do you know how?" Fu Lingyou led the sheep over. "It can only be given to the child after it is processed."

Lingzhi quickly let him go: "I'll go feed the child first."

The dairy sheep that Fu Lingyou brought finally made them all feel relieved. Li Hongying also held the child for Fu Lingyou to see. The little baby finally stopped crying after eating some rice oil. After Fu Lingyou had seen the child, she put the child back on the bed and placed it next to Miao Ying.

They changed shifts. Lingzhi looked at Miao Ying and asked Huo Xing to go out and get some food. Li Hongying gave Huo Xing another task: "First, send Wen Gong off properly tomorrow, and then go to the Miao family to announce the good news. Xiaolin, dye the eggs red with me tomorrow, and we'll deliver them door to door."

"Okay." Huo Xing simply ate two bites of the cake. The house was in a mess today, and Fu Lingyou could only eat simple meals. He himself didn't think it was a big deal, but his grandmother felt really bad for him.

"It's okay, grandma." Fu Lingyou said with a smile, "I've been at the farm these days too. I've been so busy that I haven't had a proper meal."

Speaking of Zhuangzi's affairs, Fu Lingyou looked at Huo Xing: "Lingyao said that he has picked up several people and is now on his way back."

Huo Xing nodded: "I will go find them when they arrive."

After finishing his meal in a hurry, Huo Xing went to the room to change Lingzhi out. He stood motionless by the bed, looking at Miao Ying and the child from time to time.

There were two faces, one big and one small. Huo Xing couldn't tell what the children looked like before, thinking that all children looked the same. But now, he felt that the child looked exactly like Miao Ying.

These two people will be the apple of his eye from now on.

It was already late at night when Miao Ying woke up. As soon as he opened his eyes, Huo Xing sat up straight and the child started crying loudly.

"Are you awake?" Huo Xing touched Miao Ying's face. "Are you okay?"

Miao Ying nodded and glanced sideways at the crying child. The child, who had never cried much, couldn't stop crying. Both the big and the small were crying. Huo Xing wiped Miao Ying's tears. Li Hongying pushed the door open and brought in a bowl of goat milk: "I thought you must be hungry."

Miao Ying wiped away her tears. Seeing this, Li Hongying gave Huo Xing the goat milk. "Are you awake? Are you hungry? Mother is warming up some porridge for you. Master Wen said you can't eat a lot these two days. Just drink some porridge. You'll be able to eat well in two days."

Miao Ying nodded: "I'll eat. I'm hungry."

Huo Xing had already held the child in his arms and was feeding him with a small spoon, looking quite skilled.

Miao Ying held a bowl of porridge and ate and drank with the child, then asked Huo Xing: "Where does the milk come from?"

He glanced at his breasts and luckily, he didn't need to breastfeed.

"Master Fu brought the sheep here and milked them." Huo Xing had big hands, and the child seemed to feel very safe in his arms. His other hand was also feeding the child steadily.

He moved closer to Huo Xing and asked, "Huo Xing, who does he look like?"

Huo Xing glanced at him and said, "Looks like you. Everyone in my family says he looks like you."

"Yeah, young man should be like me. You are big and strong and not good-looking." Miao Ying yawned after finishing his porridge.

Huo Xing finished feeding the child and was about to put him to bed, but Miao Ying quickly said, "No, no, you have to burp him."

It was Huo Xing’s first time feeding a baby and he had no idea how to burp the baby, so he could only watch Miao Ying.

"Stand him up, let him lie on your shoulder, and then pat his back gently with your hands like this." He made a hollow palm gesture and patted Huo Xing's hands, "Just like that."

Huo Xing picked up the child a little awkwardly, as if he was holding a bomb, and then imitated Miao Ying's actions and patted the child gently.

Hearing the child burp, both of them breathed a sigh of relief: "Alright, alright, put him down to sleep."

Miao Ying was still badly injured after all, and he fell asleep after watching the child for a while. Huo Xing didn't dare to get on the bed, but lay on the edge of the bed, watching the two of them.

Usually their yard is always quiet, but it is different tonight. There are always bursts of children crying, either because they are hungry or have wet their diapers and need to have their diapers changed.

Huo Xing almost stayed up all night without sleeping, and Li Hongying also got up several times at night to heat milk for the baby.

Miao Ying slept soundly, and even after they woke up several times, she didn't wake up. Li Hongying watched Huo Xing expertly feeding and holding the baby, and sighed, "You learn very quickly."

Huo Xing hummed, remembering when he brought Huo Xiaobao back home. He had just left him to his mother and grandmother, not knowing how hard they had worked. "Mom, you worked so hard to take care of Xiaobao."

Li Hongying laughed: "We were young then. If you ask me to endure it like this again now, I won't be able to endure it anymore."

After the child fell asleep again, Huo Xing urged Li Hongying to go to bed so that he could take care of the child himself.

The next day, Huo Xing sent Wen Gong away, gave him the medical fee and wedding money, and sent him to the village entrance. He also found a village errand boy, gave him a few coins, and asked him to take a message to Miao's parents, saying that Miao Ying had given birth safely.

After receiving the news, Miao's parents rushed over in the afternoon. Liu Qiong almost put down her things and went into the room. Seeing Miao Ying sleeping soundly on the bed, her mother, who almost never cried, couldn't stop crying.

Miao Ying heard the sobbing, slowly opened his eyes, and saw his mother: "Mom, you are here? Why are you crying?"

"Are you awake? Are you okay?" Liu Qiong wiped her tears and looked Miao Ying up and down.

Miao Ying simply sat up and moved aside to let Liu Qiong look at the child: "Mom, does he look like me?"

Liu Qiong leaned closer to look at the child. He didn't look thin. He was sleeping soundly, his mouth still sucking subconsciously. His eyebrows and eyes looked very similar to Miao Ying.

"Like, like you." Liu Qiong didn't touch the child, but just looked at Miao Ying. "Does it hurt?"

Miao Ying shook his head: "I don't feel anything at all. Mom, please report the child to Dad. Stay here for one night. The road is not easy to walk at night."

Liu Qiong nodded, carefully picked up the child, and walked to the door: "His father, come and see the child."

Miao Dahai couldn't hold back any longer. If he hadn't been restrained by etiquette, he would have gone into the room to see the child. Seeing the child now, he quickly came over and said, "Oh, he looks so good, just like Xiaoying."

He looked at her for a long time, then reluctantly asked Liu Qiong to take the child back: "Hurry, send the child back, don't let him catch a cold."

They came in a hurry and left in a hurry. They said Miao Dong had gone out to collect pigs, and Zheng Cai'er was the only one at home taking care of the children, so they had to go back to help. So they didn't even eat, but just ate a bowl of fermented rice and eggs, and then hurried back.

On the third day after the child was born, Li Hongying and Xiaolin dyed red eggs and delivered them to every household in the village to let everyone know that his family had a new baby.

Miao Ying's days were all about eating and sleeping. Li Hongying and his grandmother wished he would stay in bed all day, so he could only get out of bed and walk around when Li Hongying and her grandmother went to rest.

He was not allowed to hold the child, so all he could do all day was watch Huo Xing feed the child, burp him, change his diaper, and then pout at Huo Xing.

"It's okay. Mom said that in ten days, you can hug the baby gently." Huo Xing watched him put his hands on the child. However, after only ten days, the child was very different from when he was just born. The skin seemed to have grown and was no longer wrinkled. It was also slowly turning white. The whole body was full of milk, and it was more and more obvious that the child looked like Miao Ying.

In fact, Miao Ying could have gotten out of bed the day after giving birth, but his family members wouldn't let him, so he could only lie there cocooning. Fortunately, he had a child to watch over him, otherwise he would have been bored to death.

Their child is very well-behaved. These days, except for crying when eating, drinking, defecating or urinating, he is very quiet at other times. The grandmother said that this is the easiest child she has ever raised.

"Maybe it's because he's a young man, so he's so quiet." Huo Xing went to meet someone from the escort agency today, so Li Hongying stayed in the room with Miao Ying.

"Like me, quiet." Miao Ying sat on the bed and poked the child's arm again. "He hasn't woken up yet. He must have slept for an hour, right?"

Grandmother Lingzhi and Xiaolin were there too. They were also sitting by the bed, holding small clothes they had made for the child. The child was growing bigger day by day, so more clothes had to be prepared.

The grandmother did not do any needlework, but just watched the children.

Lingzhi said: "Didn't he cry just now?"

"I feel like it's been a long time." Miao Ying poked his stomach again, "Could he have fainted from hunger?"

"Brother, he really just ate." Xiaolin was doing carpentry work. Miao Ying could see that it was a rattle, and it was almost taking shape.

"We are so lucky. All our toys are made by our uncle."

After Miao Ying finished speaking, he remembered something. We haven't named the child yet, and we don't even have a nickname.