Surgery only requires physical intervention, but this train-driving exercise also requires verbal communication, including making "dududu" sounds that match the rhythm requested by the two little ones.
Too fast a beep is no good, too slow a beep is no good, not loud enough a beep is no good, and not beeping properly is no good either!
Qiao Xinruo: "..."
Help!
This isn't driving a train, it's driving her.
"Xiao Yuan, An An, how about we play a different game?" Qiao Xinru suggested, looking at the toys all over the floor, intending to choose an easy one, but she really couldn't decide.
“Alright, then let Auntie choose,” Lu Siyuan said.
"Choose one." Lu Si'an generously laid out all the toys and introduced each one to her aunt, explaining how to play with it.
Qiao Xinruo: "..."
"How about this, Auntie will take you out to play. There are other children in the yard, you can play together," Qiao Xinruo said.
When a bunch of kids play together, she'll finally have some "free time"?
What a brilliant idea!
"OK!"
Upon hearing that they could play in the yard, the two little ones immediately became excited, and Lu Si'an immediately hugged Milk.
"Auntie, can you bring some milk too?" Lu Si'an said.
Children love milk, so everyone can touch the milk together.
"sure!"
Qiao Hanxue stayed home to rest. When it was time to eat, he still had to prepare meals for the four of them. Qiao Xinruo told her father and then took the two children and the cat to the yard.
Sure enough, there were quite a few military wives sitting in the pavilion, and a group of children were gathered together, playing something, but it looked quite lively.
"Go ahead." Qiao Xinruo let go, allowing the brother and sister to join the children.
"Tiger!"
"Lingling!"
The two children immediately ran off to play with their best friend, bringing along some milk.
"Lingling, look, I brought the milk out again. Do you still want to pet it?" Lu Si'an generously shared the kitten with her friend.
"Wow, Milk is so cute!" Lingling said, carefully placing her hand on Milk's back. "Wow, it's so soft! Milk is such a good boy!"
“Yes, Milk is very well-behaved!” Lu Si’an nodded, telling Lingling about all sorts of funny things Milk does.
Seeing that the two little ones quickly integrated with their friends, Qiao Xinruo also went over to sit down with the military wives and chatted with them, while occasionally glancing at the children to make sure that Xiaoyuan and An'an were alright.
"Yueya, you're off today? Take Xiaoyuan and An'an out to play!" The military wife greeted Su Yueya.
Qiao Xinruo: "..."
“I am not Crescent Moon, I am Qiao Xinruo,” she said.
There's nothing we can do; the two sisters share the same face. And today she was dressed rather casually, so she didn't look much different from Su Yueya usually. Plus, she didn't have a particularly good personal relationship with these military wives, so it's normal that they didn't recognize her.
"Oh, it's Xinruo! I'm so sorry, you look so much like Yueya. I didn't mean to mistake you for someone else, please don't mind!" the other person said.
Mistaking someone for someone else is indeed quite embarrassing.
After all, Su Yueya was already married, but Qiao Xinruo was an unmarried young woman, and the other party was worried that Qiao Xinruo would feel uncomfortable.
“That’s right, Xinruo, you two sisters are exactly alike. We really can’t tell you apart,” another military wife chimed in.
“It’s okay, I don’t mind. My sister and I are twins, so it’s common for us to be mistaken for each other,” Qiao Xinruo said.
She is indeed rather aloof and doesn't usually chat with people much, appearing like an iceberg. But now that she's brought her child out to play and is taking the initiative to sit with the military wives, her aloofness has completely changed.
They're all women, and they live in the same compound. If they're willing, they can still have a good chat.
"Besides, sometimes when my sister and I look in the mirror together, we can't even tell who's who," Qiao Xinruo joked.
"Really? I knew it looked just like it!"
The military wives also knew some things about Qiao Xinruo and knew that she had a reserved personality. At first, they were worried that Qiao Xinruo was not as easy to get along with as Su Yueya and that there would be awkward silences.
When we actually started chatting, we found that we were all just people with two eyes and one mouth, so we were no different and could still chat together.
Everyone is different; each person has a unique personality.
But what truly determines whether two people can be together is their character. As long as a person's character is good, sitting down and having a chat is not difficult.
“It’s really not easy for Yueya to raise two children on her own and work in the medical department. Luckily, you have a lot of family members who can help each other out!” said one of the military wives.
Qiao Xinruo nodded, thinking to herself that if she didn't know about Lu Zhengjun's situation, she would also have advised her sister to find someone else.
After all, given Su Yueya's circumstances, getting a second marriage wouldn't be difficult for her.
“We’re all family. Besides, Xiaoyuan and An’an are such well-behaved children, I was willing to take care of them too.” As she spoke, Qiao Xinruo looked at the two little ones who were playing with other children and saw that they were having a lot of fun.
Milk is like a "toy" and is very popular with children. Everyone is eager to touch it.
As they were chatting, a military wife covered her mouth and coughed.
"Sister-in-law Huan, why are you coughing again? We've been sitting here for a while today, and I've heard you cough so many times. Are you sick?"
The woman, referred to as Sister-in-law Huan, coughed for quite a while before stopping.
"It doesn't seem like I'm sick, but I've been coughing a lot these past few days. My throat feels really itchy, but nothing comes out when I cough, and I don't have any other symptoms," Sister Huan explained.
"Is it just a dry cough?" Qiao Xinruo suddenly asked.
Everyone immediately looked at her, and then they remembered that Qiao Xinruo and Su Yueya were both doctors in the medical department. Moreover, Qiao Xinruo had been known as a genius girl since childhood, and all the military wives who had lived in this compound for a long time had heard of her.
“Yes, it’s just a dry cough,” Sister Huan quickly replied.
"Are there any other symptoms? Do you have any other underlying medical conditions?" Qiao Xinruo asked again.
"No, no, I'm perfectly healthy. I rarely even catch a cold or fever."
Have you eaten anything stimulating lately? Like something particularly spicy or strongly flavored?
"Nothing..." Sister Huan shook her head.
"That's probably just seasonal dry and itchy throat, nothing serious, don't worry. You can go to the pharmacy and buy some monk fruit to make monk fruit tea," Qiao Xinru suggested.
"I understand, I'll go buy it this afternoon and try it!" Sister Huan said gratefully.
"By the way, Xinruo, if your throat is sore, I've heard that you can drink honeysuckle tea or malva nut tea, but this is the first time I've heard of monk fruit!" a sister-in-law said.
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