Chapter 229 Educating Your Baby
Sure enough, when they saw that Shen Zhixia didn't comfort them, they stopped crying.
Shen Zhixia was very satisfied and told them to go to sleep quickly and not to disturb her anymore. So the two babies opened their eyes wide, stopped crying and fussing, and fell asleep.
When she told this story, she was trying to tell Huo's mother that the two babies were very clever and that she shouldn't always let them have their way. But when Huo's mother heard this, she stroked the two babies' heads and said softly, "They are still babies. You are too cruel to them."
Shen Zhixia: "?"
Why couldn't she understand what Huo's mother was saying?
She's heartless? What about the baby who's been tossing and turning all night?
Huo's mother is too lenient with the baby.
That's true.
That day, Shen Zhixia went to work. The food factory where she worked made canned goods. Her job was very simple: packing canned goods every day. She was just an ordinary worker, and she was quite good at it. Moreover, the job was not tiring for her.
Gradually, she felt her life getting back on track.
She has a family, children, and a job, and her relationships with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law are very harmonious.
This is the life she longs for.
However, her working hours are still very long. Sometimes she doesn't even have time to come back at noon and can only come back in the evening. She usually just goes to see her child briefly and then goes to sleep.
Anyway, Huo's mother took good care of the children, so sometimes she didn't even have to look after them.
Then one day, she suddenly noticed that her two babies seemed to have... gained weight.
She is really fat.
She even has a double chin.
Shen Zhixia poked their faces and knocked a piece off each of them.
The two babies thought Shen Zhixia was playing with them, so they burst into laughter.
well……
The two babies are changing every day; they're both chubby little ones now. On the other hand, Shen Zhixia, who has been working all the time, has lost a lot of weight, so she's finding it very difficult to hold them.
During lunch, Mrs. Huo didn't eat herself, but instead fed the two babies. She fed them a small bowl of porridge, and then a bowl of steamed eggs. If she was too slow, the two babies would urge her to hurry up.
Mother Huo immediately beamed and said, "Alright, my two little darlings are coming right away."
I'm speechless.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
Shen Zhixia finally understood why they were so fat. How could they not be fat when they ate so much? She suddenly remembered the chickens and ducks in Huo's mother's yard and the pigs in the pigsty, which all seemed to be very fat.
"Mom, you should feed them a little less. Aren't they eating too much?"
Before Shen Zhixia could finish speaking, Da Bao reached out and started banging on the bowl, indicating that she wasn't full yet, and Xiao Bao joined in with "ah ah" sounds.
Mrs. Huo chuckled and said, "They're not fat now, they're just chubby babies. Such chubby babies are so cute. Besides, they're growing and need plenty of nutrition. When they grow up, they'll naturally slim down and become very thin."
"Is that so?" Shen Zhixia asked.
Huo Chenzhou shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. It was his first time being a father, so he didn't know much. However, he didn't think the two children were fat, and he could still pick them up with one hand.
Huo's mother pointed at Huo Chenzhou and said, "Of course it's true. Huo Chenzhou was much fatter than them when he was a child. Even when he was ten years old, he was still the fattest boy in the village. His nickname was Little Fatty."
Huo Chenzhou: "?"
Shen Zhixia: "Little Fatty?"
Huo Chenzhou blushed, but his skin was too dark, so you couldn't tell what he was thinking just by looking at his face.
Huo's mother was completely unaware of Huo Chenzhou's strange behavior. She said with great interest, "Let me tell you, Chenzhou used to be a big fat man. He ate a lot. When he was a teenager, he could eat five bowls of rice in one meal. After he grew up, he started to lose weight, and all the fat on his body turned into muscle."
Shen Zhixia: "Little Fatty, hahaha."
She still couldn't believe that Huo Chenzhou was actually fat. You know, although Huo Chenzhou isn't exactly thin now, he does have abs.
I never expected that it was something I learned through practice later.
Huo Chenzhou looked somewhat embarrassed: "Mom, please stop talking."
Why does Mrs. Huo tell everyone everything? It's really speechless.
"We're all family, what's there to be afraid of?" Mrs. Huo said dismissively.
People were very thin back then, so Huo Chenzhou was actually proud of the fact that he was chubby when he was a child, because chubby people were more likely to survive. In those days, many children died young, and Huo Chenzhou was always healthy, which is why he joined the army. For Huo's mother, this was a source of great pride.
Anyway, the matter of the child being overweight was just left in the past.
However, there was one thing that Shen Zhixia couldn't just let go of.
That day, while Huo's mother was cooking, she went to the bedside, where the two babies were fast asleep.
Last night, she heard Huo's mother soothing the two babies for half the night.
Oh……
Let her correct the two babies' bad habits.
A wicked smile appeared on Shen Zhixia's face. She nudged the two babies, but they didn't budge. So she used a little more force, and this time the babies woke up. Their eyes were watery, and they were clearly unaware of what had happened, completely bewildered.
Seeing Shen Zhixia made them feel safe, so they tried to go back to sleep. But as soon as they closed their eyes, Shen Zhixia woke them up.
After this happened several times, the two babies realized that Shen Zhixia was not letting them sleep.
They pouted, looking aggrieved, and were about to burst into tears.
Shen Zhixia said, "If you cry, there won't be any food later."
The two babies stared wide-eyed.
Shen Zhixia laughed: "Oh, so you can understand me. That's great. Now listen carefully, you're not allowed to cry. If you cry, I won't give you any food for two days."
“Your grandma won’t give you any to eat either.”
The two babies' faces were scrunched up; they looked so wronged, but their eyes were filled with tears that just wouldn't fall.
Shen Zhixia took out a toy tiger from behind her back. It was a cloth toy that Huo's mother had sewn for the two babies. It was completely handmade. If this were in later generations, it would be very valuable, since there are fewer and fewer people who know how to do handicrafts nowadays.
Anyway, Shen Zhixia really liked it, and when Huo's mother found out, she wanted to make one for Shen Zhixia as well.
At this moment, Shen Zhixia said, "Come on, you two little rascals, play with Mommy."
The two babies didn't want to play; they wanted to sleep. But Shen Zhixia wouldn't let them sleep. They were keeping her up at night, so she would keep them up during the day. She didn't believe that after exhausting themselves during the day, they would be able to sleep at night.
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