Chapter 465 High Demand
After confirming it was a son, Huo Chunyan was much happier.
She had always wanted a son, and according to the doctor, she is now pregnant with twins.
When she got back, she happily said, "I'm carrying two sons."
"Great news, I have a son."
Sun Baojun quickly covered her mouth: "Keep your voice down. What if your daughter hears you like this? She'll think you're sexist."
Huo Chunyan said unhappily, "What do you mean by favoring sons over daughters? I'm not like that at all. I love both my son and daughter. It's just that I had a daughter and now I want to have a son."
Sun Baojun quickly coaxed, "Okay, okay, I know."
Huo Chunyan became even more unhappy: "You're just giving me the runaround; you don't like me anymore."
Sun Baojun said, "I like you the most."
Shen Zhixia: "..."
These two are really being incredibly mushy. Shen Zhixia glanced at them, then smiled and left.
Shen Zhixia and Huo Chenzhou both went to the place where Huo Chunyan gave birth.
This time they went to the best hospital and booked the best doctor in advance, so Huo Chunyan's childbirth was much simpler, and she gave birth without much effort.
Because my first delivery was a C-section, I had to have another C-section this time.
Sun Baojun was quite worried. He stood outside the door, praying with his hands clasped together. But the next second, the door was pushed open, and the doctor said the baby had been born.
Two children.
One weighs a little over three pounds and eight ounces, and the other weighs four pounds.
The babies weren't very big, but the two children certainly suffered a lot while they were inside Huo Chunyan's womb.
Shen Zhixia quickly hugged one of them and said with a smile, "I'll give them a bath."
She's experienced now and can wash both babies very clean.
Huo Chunyan asked, "Did you find the Taoist priest I asked you to find?"
Sun Baojun nodded and said, "We've found him. We can invite him over anytime now."
Huo Chunyan gave him a pleased look: "You did a good job this time."
"Of course I have to pay more attention to the children's affairs."
Shen Zhixia asked curiously, "What are you talking about?"
Huo Chunyan said, "It's about having a Taoist priest do some divination for the children and then give them a name. This Taoist priest is very famous in the area."
Shen Zhixia nodded and understood: "Naming is very important, it should be done carefully."
A name is a person's public image. People will call a person by their name every day. If the name is not good, then the person's luck will also be bad.
This isn't superstition; there's a reason behind it.
Shen Zhixia stroked the child in her arms and then said, "Then let's call them Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang for now."
These two children are not so easy to tell apart, because they look exactly alike, and they will probably look the same when they grow up.
These are identical twins, unlike Shen Zhixia's, who is a fraternal twin.
She looked for a long time and finally noticed a difference: "Xiao Shuang has a mole between her eyebrows, while Da Shuang doesn't. We can use this to distinguish them from now on."
Sun Baojun said, "Really? Then let's call them that for now."
He recounted an incident: "When naming a child, you should choose something humble and unassuming. My neighbor had a son named Tian (天, meaning Heaven), but he kept getting sick, and once he almost died. In desperation, she consulted a Taoist priest. The priest said that Tian was too big for her son to bear, so he changed his name. After that, her son stopped getting sick."
"Don't you think this is pretty unbelievable?"
Shen Zhixia didn't find it too mysterious; she could understand it.
Sun Baojun looked at the two children with affection and said, "All I hope for now is that they can grow up safely and peacefully."
Shen Zhixia smiled. The two babies were soft and cuddly. After the caregiver fed them, they fell asleep, just like two little beans.
Huo Chunyan hasn't started producing milk yet, so both children are drinking formula.
During this time, Huo Chunyan was in postpartum confinement and had hired someone to take care of her, but Shen Zhixia still went over.
As soon as she arrived, Huo Chenzhou and his two children followed, making Huo Chunyan's house very lively, like celebrating the New Year every day.
Shen Zhixia said angrily, "What are you all doing here? Chunyan needs quiet time to rest. You're all making too much noise. Go away, go away."
Da Bao said earnestly, "Mom is here too."
Shen Zhixia smiled: "I'm here to take care of the children."
Da Bao said, "I'm here to take care of Da Shuang too."
Xiao Bao said, "Then I'll take care of Xiao Shuang."
Shen Zhixia was speechless: "How old are you? You all need to be taken care of, and you're taking care of children?"
Da Bao had his own reasons: "Mom, what you said is wrong. Size needs to be compared. Compared to you, I am naturally the smaller one and need to be taken care of. But compared to Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang, I am the bigger one and I can take care of them."
She didn't know where she got this twisted logic from, but Xiao Bao looked at her with adoration, as if it were true.
Huo Chunyan was quite happy; she loved the lively atmosphere. She even said, "Sister-in-law, why don't we all live together in the future? Let's build a three-story house, with the older brothers living on the top floor, you and the children on the second floor, and us and the children on the bottom floor."
She loves this kind of big family, where everyone lives together harmoniously—how wonderful that would be!
Da Bao and Xiao Bao were delighted to hear this: "Okay, we'll live together."
They really love the babies. The two babies are awake now, so they went to see them.
Shen Zhixia said, "Once you grow up, you'll want to live on your own and won't want to live with us."
She also enjoys lively atmospheres, but still feels it's better to live separately. In the future, when her children grow up and get married, she hopes they will move out instead of living with them.
After all, they would be old by then, and young people certainly wouldn't want to live with the elderly.
No matter how good the relationship is, conflicts will arise if they spend a lot of time together, and Shen Zhixia doesn't want them to have too many conflicts.
Da Bao said, "No way, I want to live with Mom forever."
Shen Zhixia said, "You won't think like that when you grow up. Nowadays, young people like to live alone. They think that's true freedom."
Da Bao thought for a moment and said, "Then I am a new kind of young person. I am different from them. I am a young person who likes to live with my mother."
Shen Zhixia looked at her soft, chubby daughter, pinched her cheek, and then went to check on the two younger children.
Huo Chunyan's two children... are not easy to take care of; they seem to have come for revenge.
These are two high-needs babies.
They need constant attention, and they will burst into tears if anything goes wrong. If it weren't for the caregivers and the help from Shen Zhixia and Huo's mother, Huo Chunyan would definitely have collapsed.
Taking care of children is always a very tiring and mentally taxing job.
That day, Da Shuang started crying again. He cried so loudly that you could see his throat at a glance. Xiao Shuang heard him and started crying too.
Shen Zhixia immediately tried to hug and comfort them, but the caregiver stopped her.
"Ignore them at this time, just pretend you didn't see them."
Shen Zhixia was taken aback: "Why?"
The children are crying; wouldn't it be cruel to ignore them?
The caregiver said, "If we pick them up now, they will develop the idea that someone will pick them up and comfort them whenever they cry, which will make them even harder to take care of in the future. So we have to leave them alone."
Huo Chunyan was already used to it and didn't care at all; these two kids were just too much trouble.
She appeared calm, but in reality, she was at her wit's end.
After a while, seeing that no one was paying attention to them, the two children's crying grew weaker and weaker.
Only then did the caregiver try to comfort them.
Shen Zhixia: "..."
Giving birth is not easy, raising children is even more difficult.
When Huo's mother came to see the children, she couldn't help but say, "These two children are just like Chen Zhou; they've been difficult to raise since they were little."
Shen Zhixia was taken aback: "Is he difficult to manage?"
She thought Huo Chenzhou was a rough man and should be easy to take care of.
Mrs. Huo nodded: "He's such a fussy person. From the moment he was born, he would cry whenever he was upset about anything. I didn't understand these things back then, so whenever he cried, I would try to comfort him, and as a result, he cried more and more often."
She sighed, "Back then, I didn't know any of this. If I had known, I shouldn't have interfered. I should have let him cry on his own. He would have stopped after a while."
"mom!"
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