Chapter 229: Seeking Help
Around noon the next day, Ma Qijun came to see the child, changing his unruly demeanor from the day before.
Zhao handed the two children to his son-in-law and went to buy food happily, saying that he would cook three or five main dishes for lunch.
Ye Xiaomei packed up the diapers and folded the baby's clothes: "Our baby doesn't even have a name yet, you should think of one for her."
Ye Xiaomei picked up the piles of diapers that were filled with the scent of sunshine and took a deep breath. They smelled so good!
Ye Xiaomei looked at Ma Qijun in surprise. Why didn't he say anything?
It's okay to look at this, Ma Qijun was smiling like a fool, looking at the little baby in the crook of his left arm, then looking at the other one in the armpit on his right, his eyes looked like he was in heat.
"Ma Qijun." Ye Xiaomei was dissatisfied.
"Yes!" Ma Qijun suddenly came to his senses and answered seriously, but soon realized that something was wrong and looked at his son happily again.
"I talked to you but you ignored me." Ye Xiaomei pretended to be angry.
"How can I? Our children are so chubby that I don't know how to hold them."
Indeed, his fingers were standing up with excitement, and one could tell at a glance that he was extremely nervous.
"I said, our child needs to be named. Let's go back to the village and ask Village Chief Liang to write a letter to certify that the child should be registered."
Ye Xiaomei muttered, "She's so cute. She's almost finished packing the child's clothes."
"Erxuan is the eldest, so let's call him Chengshuang. You can choose the younger one." Does this mean that Ma Qijun doesn't want to use his brain?
In his eyes, it didn’t matter what the child was called. What was important was that he had just felt a collision of souls that transcended the physical body.
This may be the legendary connection between father and son.
Ye Xiaomei dragged her chin in thought, "Ma Chengshuang, that's a nice name too, but the younger one is more obedient than the older one. Every time when feeding, the older one can't grab the older one's attention. The younger one is more gentle. But, the older one of Shuangxuan is called Chengshuang, so the younger one can't be called Luodan, right?"
"Then call me Ma Ziqiang."
Ma Qijun blurted out, and the tearful look in his eyes never left the chubby little face in his arms.
"Ma Ziqiang is Ma Ziqiang." Ye Xiaomei muttered, thinking, weren't the names of these two kids given by you?
But she still took out her notebook and wrote it down. The eldest Shuangxuan was called Chengshuang and the youngest was called Ziqiang.
However, if you want to register your household registration, you have to go back to your registered place of residence, which means you have to go back to your hometown no matter what.
"Brother Ma, we..."
Before Ye Xiaomei finished her words, Ma Qijun said, "It's been 48 days. It's time to hold a full-month banquet. When we're done with these two days, we'll take the child home and hold the banquet."
Ye Xiaomei stopped what she was going to say. It was good to hold a banquet for the child, and it would be a good opportunity to register the child. But, he had official duties to attend to, so how long would it take for him to accompany her home?
Ye Xiaomei put the packed children's clothes and diapers in the box:
"You went to the police station last night and have only just returned. Is there any progress?"
I can go home after I finish my work, Ye Xiaomei thought. Although he will definitely return to his post after completing his mission, it will always make you feel at ease to have him by your side for one more day, right?
Ma Qijun put the child on the bed and carefully poked the child's pink little mouth with his finger.
The movement was clumsy and careful:
"It's going pretty smoothly. Now there's inside information saying that someone at the Medical University was bribed and might be using human bodies for experiments."
Ye Xiaomei was slightly startled, but soon recovered: "What's the result with Professor Qin?"
"No big deal."
Ye Xiaomei didn't think much about it and just regarded it as a man's cautiousness in his mission.
Ma Qijun carefully covered the child's belly. His gentle eyes revealed the sharpness of a dead man, and there was an imperceptible smirk on the corner of his mouth.
Have you ever been to Tang’s house to treat Tang Buci’s illness?
Feeling delighted, he went to Tang's residence after finishing the interrogation last night. Fortunately, this man had no criminal record, otherwise, he would have been arrested and sentenced to imprisonment.
Ye Xiaomei glanced at him in surprise, then fixed her gaze on the man's face.
"Brother Ma, are you too immersed in the role? Your smile makes you look like a gangster, just like a scoundrel."
Ye Xiaomei was so scared that her man actually laughed in a gangster-like way.
Ma Qijun quickly put away his facial expression and said seriously, "Really?" As he spoke, he moved his chin and the corners of his mouth silently.
This...what should I do if I can't control it?
After lunch, Zhao Mei muttered for a long time: "It's time for the baby to have a full-month banquet. It's already been more than half a month."
Ma Qijun sat at the table with his back straight and said only one sentence, "I will arrange it when I am done with my work, don't worry, Mom." This made Zhao Mei speechless.
As the party was coming to an end, Ma Qijun received a phone call and left. Before leaving, he promised that he would hand over the affairs in half a month at most and they could go back to their hometown together to hold a full-month banquet for their child.
The dining area was too narrow, so they had to eat at the table in the dumpling shop. Ye Xiaomei was cleaning up the dishes.
Unexpectedly, someone came.
Ye Xiaomei recognized the girl with yellow hair at first sight. Her attitude had completely changed. When she first arrived, she looked at Ye Xiaomei with a pitiful look in her eyes:
"Sister Xiaomei! I...I want to eat a bowl of dumplings."
Ye Xiaomei noticed that something was wrong with her.
Zhao Mei didn't think much about it and quickly called Xiao Ya: "It's time to make dumplings, turn on the coal stove."
Ye Xiaomei frowned and stared at the yellow-haired man. His hair was already damaged due to perming and dyeing, and now it looked like a madman with a straw.
Ye Xiaomei put away the dishes and put them in a basin to soak, then asked carefully:
"What's wrong with you?"
Ye Xiaomei didn't know their exact names, nor did she know what was popular in that era. They liked to give themselves nicknames.
For example, the blond guy called himself Jelly, and the guy with green hair called himself Qing Ping. Ye Xiaomei didn't take them seriously.
"Nothing, Sister Xiaomei, I just want to eat a bowl of glue."
Ye Xiaomei noticed that she was at a loss when she said this, her eyes were a little distracted, and she sat down at the table waiting.
Until Zhao Mei brought a bowl of dumplings to her, she started eating them bite by bite.
"Be careful of getting burned!" Zhao Mei also noticed it: "It's just out of the pot, don't burn yourself. Auntie will pour you a cup of tea, it's cool!"
Zhao Mei then gave him some cool tea: "If you're in a hurry to eat, just soak it in the cool tea. It won't be so hot then."
The more Ye Xiaomei looked at it, the more she felt something was wrong.
The yellow-haired jelly seemed to have not seen the boiled water. He stuffed the fruits into his mouth one by one, and tears fell as he stuffed them into his mouth.
"Sister Xiaomei!" The moment Jelly raised her face, tears fell down her eyes and flowed along the corners of her mouth into her mouth filled with glue.
"Oh, well... OK, you guys decide. I'll go check on the kid."
Zhao Mei was shocked. He must be thinking that something was wrong.
As soon as Zhao Mei left with an excuse, Guo Jian grabbed Ye Xiao Mei's hand and cried inconsolably, with the glue in his cheeks still bulging:
"Sister Xiaomei, Shang Zhen actually went there to protect us from drinking. She told us that she was afraid we would be fooled. I really didn't believe her at first, ahem..."
Jelly spat out all the glue in her mouth, and she started coughing.
"Drink some water and speak slowly." Ye Xiaomei had a bad feeling.
When Jelly was drooling with tears, she said with red eyes:
"Shang Zhen was summoned to the police station for questioning this morning. We left together, but Shang Zhen was taken away by a black car. They also hit her with a stick until she fainted before taking her away.
Your husband is capable, and you can go in and out of the Tang family’s house, so you must have someone who can save her. Sister Zhen is very good to us and treats us as her own sisters, otherwise she wouldn’t have gone to pull us back even though she knew there would be problems at Feiyang Nightclub.
Please ask your sister Xiao Mei, she is trying so hard to stop us from drinking because she is afraid that we will be cheated... You must have a way."
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