"What flower?" Shen Yizi suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.

"Baby." Gu Xueting's eyes were smiling, and his voice was so sweet.

Shen Yizhi felt weak all over when he looked at her, and spat at him lightly, "Don't call me that!"

It was embarrassing enough that he called her Zhizhi before, but now he actually called her Baobao? How embarrassing it would be if Ningning and the others heard it!

Gu Xueting raised his eyebrows slightly, "I mean, this is the seed of the baby flower. But if you like me to call you baby, I——"

Shen Yizhi quickly covered his mouth.

It was embarrassing enough to know that she had misunderstood, but he still teased her on purpose, how abominable! Gu Xueting laughed out loud at her shy and annoyed expression, and the hot air from his mouth splashed on her palm, making her feel itchy.

She quickly took her hand away.

Gu Xueting didn't let her go, hugged her and called her in her ear: "Baby, baby, baby——"

"Gu Xueting!" Shen Yizi was really angry and embarrassed.

"Okay, no more screaming." Gu Xueting decided to stop while he was ahead. If he really annoyed his baby, it would be bad.

But Shen Yizi was still very angry. He kicked him, crawled to the side and stayed away from him.

Gu Xueting rolled over, hugged her like a naughty boy, buried his head in her belly, and rubbed her softly, "Zhizhi, I was wrong, don't be angry with me, okay?"

He grabbed her hand and hit himself in the face.

Shen Yizi couldn't bear to hit him. Before he was even hit, he shrank back in pain. "Be serious and tell me what's going on with this baby flower."

She thought this magical setting only existed in novels, but she didn't expect to encounter it in reality. How could she not be curious? "In...some places, some couples who are unable to conceive will spend a high price to buy a baby flower seed, water it with love and starlight, and after a period of time, the seed will sprout, bloom and bear fruit. The fruit is about the size of a basketball. When it is fully mature, the fruit will split open, and inside is a successfully conceived baby."

Gu Xueting lay on Shen Yizi's legs and explained slowly.

There is such an operation? In this world of spiritual revival, there are really all kinds of things.

When Shen Yizhi looked at the seed in his hand again, his mentality had completely changed.

"Zhizhi, do you want to give it a try?" Gu Xueting said coaxingly, "Let's personally breed a baby that belongs to both of us."

The proposal sounds tempting.

It’s just…she’s still a baby herself, so she doesn’t want to raise a child right now.

Gu Xueting was at a loss whether to laugh or cry when he learned of her idea. "Okay, then wait until you want it."

The next day, Shen Yizhi took Ningning and Lin Nan back to the orphanage, unloaded a lot of things from the car, and distributed them to the children one by one.

Now the orphanage is completely different from what it was a few months ago. All the buildings have been renovated, and several houses look beautiful and well-maintained. The accommodation and living conditions of the children have also been greatly improved.

Everyone looked a little whiter and fatter, with more smiles on their faces and their eyes bright as if there was light in them.

The yard has been planted with lawns and many fruit trees, and children can play games on the lawn without worrying about falling.

The fruit trees were all adopted by the children, with name tags hung on them. Each child got one to see who took care of the tree best.

Shen Yizhi found it interesting and offered a reward, "Whoever has the most and best fruit from the tree in the end, I will fulfill his or her wish, okay?"

The children surrounded her and cheered.

Dean Lin's mother was watching from the side, with a smile on her face that never faded.

We had dumplings for lunch and everyone participated in making them, creating a joyful atmosphere.

Mother Lin cooked a bowl of noodles for Shen Yizhi, with a poached egg in it, to celebrate her birthday.

Shen Yizhi picked up a piece of noodles with chopsticks and put it into her mouth. In her memory, her mother would also cook a bowl of noodles for her on her birthday, but that was a long time ago.

She hasn't had it for more than ten years.

As soon as she tasted it, her eyes became wet.

She hurriedly used the action of eating noodles to force back the tears in her eyes.

In the end, she finished the whole bowl of noodles and even drank up the soup.

She ate a lot of dumplings that the children gave her. Although she felt a little full, she was very happy.

After eating dumplings, the younger children were taken by the older children to take a nap.

"Sister Zhizhi, you won't sneak away while we're sleeping, will you?" Eight-year-old Lin Jiajia looked up and asked her. She had a pale face and a thin body. She was the only child who couldn't grow up well no matter how much she was nursed. She looked like a five or six-year-old at the age of eight.

It is probably a disease brought from the womb.

Lin Jiajia was abandoned at the door of an orphanage. She was only a few months old at the time, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and had no identification. The director decided to give the child her last name.

That’s how most of the children in the orphanage got the surname Lin.

"Jia" means newly born reed. Reed is a tenacious plant that often grows in large patches along the riverside and has strong vitality. So the director's mother gave her this name, hoping that she can thrive like the reed.

However, this was just a beautiful wish. The child was always weak and sick, suffering from major and minor illnesses all year round. Even in this hot summer, her hands were still cold.

Shen Yizhi patted her head, quietly stuffed a candy into her hand, and winked at her: "Don't worry, I won't sneak away."

Lin Jiajia returned to the dormitory, lay on the bed, pulled the quilt over her head, and saw in her hand a chocolate with a liqueur filling wrapped in exquisite candy paper - her favorite candy, and she immediately grinned.

But the next moment, the familiar and frightening cold breath filled her up and enveloped her. She immediately closed her eyes and remained motionless.

"Who gave you the candy?" The cold voice sounded in her ears.

Lin Jiajia didn't say anything. She held the candy in her palm, clenched her fists and placed them on her chest, with her eyes closed, as if she had fallen asleep.

"Let me guess. It's your favorite sister Zhizhi, right? Obviously, I'm the one who has always been with Xiao Jiajia, so why is she your favorite person? Tell me, should I let her disappear from this world completely?"

Lin Jiajia opened her eyes instantly; they were dark, clear and cold, completely different from the pure innocence she displayed in front of others.

"Don't touch her." Her lips opened and closed silently.

"Why should I listen to you? Huh?"

Under the grape vine trellis in the yard, Shen Yizhi and Mother Lin were sitting on a stone bench, while Ningning was swinging on a swing not far away, giggling.