Chapter 371 A Different Kind of Child
Jiang Zhizhi was very vigilant. It was already 10 p.m., and she was at the hospital entrance. Instead of standing under the streetlights, she chose to stand in the shade of a tree, blending into the night. If you didn't look closely, you wouldn't be able to see her standing there.
Without much thought, she pushed her bicycle and walked towards the man wearing a baseball cap.
Before she had even crossed the street, the woman in the baseball cap turned around and dashed away.
Jiang Zhizhi didn't chase after them, but stood there for a while before riding her bike home.
Jiang Zhizhi got off work early the next day. She was thinking about going home to be with her child, so she didn't go to the library. When she came out of the hospital, the sun was still high in the sky.
The streets were bustling with pedestrians, mostly walking, with very few cycling.
As Jiang Zhizhi walked out of the hospital gate, she first glanced at the spot where the person in the baseball cap had stood last night. There was someone standing there now, but it was an elderly man who was looking in the direction of the hospital, as if he was waiting for someone.
Even when Jiang Zhizhi pushed the cart over, the old man didn't pay any attention and kept staring at the hospital gate.
Jiang Zhizhi paused beside the old man, then casually turned her head to look at the hospital entrance. After glancing at it a few times, she slowly left.
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I got off work early today, and the two children were still playing in the yard. Besides Shang Shiying, He Jianian's wife, Zhuang Qin, was also there.
The two of them each held one of the two and played with it, while Fang Hua and Zhou Chengyu sat to the side knitting sweaters.
The two children were the most excited when they saw Jiang Zhizhi enter the hospital. Shangshang started calling out "Mom, Mom!" while Xiao Zhou could only clap his hands anxiously and shout "Ah ah!"
Zhuang Qin smiled and said, "Look how excited they are to see their mother come back."
Jiang Zhizhi greeted them with a smile, then reassured the two children, "Babies, wait a moment, Mommy has washed her hands and changed her clothes before coming over to hug you."
Hearing her voice, the two children laughed even harder, their little bodies almost jumping up and down.
Jiang Zhizhi quickly washed her hands, changed her clothes, and sat down, bringing the two children over so one could sit on each leg.
The two little ones kicked their legs happily, their tiny hands gripping Jiang Zhizhi's shirt, their little bodies burrowing into her arms, giggling as they did so.
Zhuang Qin laughed from the side: "Kids are just so attached to their mothers. They forget everyone else when they see their mothers."
Shang Shiying smiled and patted Shang Shang's little hand, saying to Jiang Zhizhi, "How come Shang Shang is so brave? She was playing on the ground today and caught a toad again."
Jiang Zhizhi was surprised: "You caught another one?"
Fang Hua was also helpless: "I don't know what's going on, there are toads in the yard."
Zhuang Qin was simply surprised: "Shang Shang, that little girl, is really brave. She even dared to catch snakes before, and it's all over our yard now. But we don't have any of those in our yard; I've searched carefully."
Shang Shiying was also puzzled: "I didn't find any in my house either. I even checked the yard every morning. And I haven't heard anyone in the compound say they've seen a snake."
Zhuang Qin laughed: "What does this mean? It means that our Shang Shang is not an ordinary girl. She might have some kind of special ability."
Shang Shiying agreed: "Yes, Shang Shang isn't afraid of these things. She can become a zoologist or a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in the future. Doesn't traditional Chinese medicine also deal with these things?"
Fang Hua didn't believe it: "Look at how you're talking about her as a goddess. She's just an ordinary little girl, a bit bolder. A baby this big is at the age where she should be bold."
Zhuang Qin disagreed: "If we're talking about being brave, I think Xiao Zhou is brave too, and he's quite nimble. Why didn't he go and grab him?"
Fang Hua laughed: "He didn't catch it, but he imitated a toad hopping around. You see, when Shang Shang caught it, he was clapping and laughing on the side."
Zhuang Qin remained confident that she was right: "Just you wait, your two children will be extraordinary people in the future."
Fang Hua quickly interrupted, "No, no, we're just ordinary kids, we grew up in an ordinary way."
Shang Shiying seemed to understand and nodded in agreement: "Yes, he's just an ordinary kid, only a bit bolder."
Jiang Zhizhi didn't quite understand and looked blankly at Zhou Chengyu and Fang Hua.
Before, Fang Hua would be overjoyed whenever someone praised her two children for being smart, so why is she so humble now?
Zhou Chengyu leaned close to Jiang Zhizhi and whispered, "Your mother recently heard a saying that children who are too smart are easily taken away by God. So now she doesn't allow anyone to say this, and she doesn't allow anyone to praise the child."
Jiang Zhizhi nodded to indicate that she understood, and when she turned around, Zhuang Qin and the others had already started talking about other things.
Zhuang Qin and Chen Limin had a decent relationship, and Zhuang Qin knew a lot about the Song family: "When Song Man was pregnant, Chen Limin wanted to go and take care of her during her postpartum period, but Song Man refused."
Shang Shiying twitched the corner of her mouth: "It's normal to be rejected. With her temper, if she goes to take care of Song Man during her postpartum period, Song Man won't be able to have a proper postpartum recovery. Besides, Song Man's mother-in-law is here too."
Zhuang Qin shook his head: "What's the use of being here? I heard from Chen Limin that the man doesn't even look at Song Man. His family is just an ordinary family, but they don't care about Song Man at all."
“I think they probably thought it was quite something that their son married a woman from a prestigious family. But after attending the wedding and realizing that the family's relationship wasn't good, they naturally weren't as kind to Song Man anymore.”
"Well, whether a girl can live well in her husband's family depends on her own family. If Lao Song and Chen Limin had respected Song Man more, things wouldn't be like this."
Then he turned to Shang Shiying and said, "You know, it's a good thing you didn't become in-laws with her family."
Shang Shiying looked at Zhuang Qin with some horror: "How did you know about this?"
Zhuang Qin asked in surprise, "Everyone knows, almost everyone in the compound knows. Everyone knows that your Si Min took a knife for Song Man at the gate."
Shang Shiying frowned: "I thought I had forgotten everything, but I didn't expect you to still remember everything."
Zhuang Qin laughed: "It's a good thing it didn't work out. We've all been talking about it behind his back. If Si Min and Song Man had really gotten together, it would have really ruined Si Min's career. I heard from my husband that Si Min is really amazing now. He's a scientist. If he can become an academician in the future, that would be incredible."
Shang Shiying smiled modestly: "He's still young and not qualified yet. He needs to be trained."
Zhuang Qin waved his hand: "Si Min is already amazing enough. She'll be back after this project is finished, right?"
Shang Shiying was also unsure: "It would be good if they could come back."
After praising Li Simin, Zhuang Qin then praised Li Yuanchao and Shang Xingzhou: "Your second son and your nephew are quite remarkable. I heard from Lao He that these two kids are famously powerful in the Northwest."
Shang Shiying was skeptical: "You're kidding me. These two are notorious troublemakers. The other day, Old Li called and said that they went to feed the pigs again."
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Shang Xingzhou, who was feeding pigs in the far northwest, sneezed twice, rubbed his nose, and muttered, "Who's cursing me?"
Just as I was about to pour the pig feed with the ladle, the emergency horn sounded.
Shang Xingzhou ignored his pigs, threw down the pig feed bucket, and ran towards the training ground...
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