Chapter 83 Chapter 83 Her grandfather, Master Lin, passed away...
Today's lunch was, as usual, light on oil and salt: a yam and mushroom chicken soup, a stir-fried wild amaranth, and a stewed lamb. Even for the two of us, it was quite filling.
Lan Jie'er had just finished her meal and was lying in Su Guanzhang's arms, holding her father's left thumb tightly and staring at the two of them curiously.
When she saw the two people picking up food, she would turn her little head and look at the food on the bamboo table, her eyes obviously attracted by the lush and juicy wild amaranth.
"You can't eat yet." Su Guanzhang wiped her saliva with a bib.
Xuan Jinyu was drinking soup. Upon hearing this, she turned her head to look at her daughter and was amused by her. "What a greedy little cat." She scratched Lan Jie'er's little nose.
Mother smiled at herself!
Sister Lan, who had been quiet just now, suddenly became excited, muttering "Ahhhh" in her mouth, and fluttered in Su Guanzhang's arms, wanting to go to her mother's arms, but she was restrained by her father and could not move.
She frowned, looked up at her father, and suddenly raised her hand and patted his face.
Su Guanzhang: “…”
It didn't hurt. But what happened to his daughter? She was only two months old, how could she have learned such a trick? Who taught her?
Xuan Jinyu stopped drinking the soup, leaned on Su Guanzhang's shoulder with a smile, and grabbed Lan Jie'er's little hand that was about to slap her father's face.
"It's incredible that she has such a bad temper at such a young age." She pinched Sister Lan's little hand.
Sister Lan screamed "Ahhh" at Xuan Jinyu, her little hands stopped moving, and her little feet started kicking again, kicking Su Guanzhang several times.
Xuan Jinyu found it amusing, yet also distressing. She pinned her hands and feet together, preventing her from moving. "Good girl, be good. Let Daddy and Mommy finish their meal before we play with you."
Her voice was very gentle, and Su Guanzhang's gaze stayed on her bright eyes as soft as water, and his eyes deepened a little.
However, some thoughts seemed so inappropriate, so he quickly turned his gaze away and touched Sister Lan's head.
Xuan Jinyu was unaware of anything. She just smiled as she watched Lan Jie'er calm down again and giggled at her.
The couple resumed their meal.
However, I don’t know if the previous playfulness affected Xuan Jinyu. As she was eating the light meal, she suddenly missed the roast chicken she had eaten the night before she gave birth.
"The taste is too bland." She took a bite of the chicken, feeling a bit disgusted, but still swallowed it.
She ate bland meals with little oil and salt every day, and she couldn't stand it if it weren't for the fresh fruits to moisten the taste.
I didn't expect that feeding the child myself and not even being able to enjoy my meals would be so difficult.
"How about I go find a ewe and feed my daughter goat's milk so you don't have to feed her?" Su Guanzhang suggested, looking a little distressed.
Xuan Jinyu looked at his daughter in his arms, who was smiling at him with her big eyes, and shook her head hurriedly, "Let me feed her!"
She was reluctant to let her daughter drink goat's milk, as she could clearly feed her daughter herself.
"Jinyu, you are also very important, even if you have a daughter." Su Guanzhang looked at her and said seriously.
Both she and her daughter are important, but if they have to be compared, she should be ranked ahead of her daughter.
He couldn't bear to see her suffer, even if it was for the sake of their daughter.
Xuan Jinyu's face flushed when he looked at her. She quickly turned around and, in an attempt to hide her mistake, picked up a piece of wild amaranth with chopsticks and stuffed it into her mouth.
"There's not much I can do for Sister Lan, so I'll continue feeding her!" she whispered, not daring to look him in the eye.
Su Guanzhang shook his head, "Jinyu, that's not how it's calculated."
He put down his chopsticks and hugged Lan Jie'er, who was struggling again. His expression was very serious. "You carried this child for more than nine months and went through many hardships to give birth to him. You can leave the rest to me."
"Ahhh~" Sister Lan was suppressed by her father and cried out in dissatisfaction. Her voice was very babyish and she was as spoiled as her mother.
Su Guanzhang smiled and touched her little face.
"Jinyu, in my heart, even my daughter is not as important as you." He covered Lan Jie'er's ears and said softly.
It was rare for him to say such touching love words. Xuan Jinyu was originally quite touched, but she couldn't help laughing because of his action.
She raised her eyebrows maliciously, intending to tease him, "Then why did you cover Sister Lan's ears? Were you afraid she wouldn't hear?"
She reached up and pulled his hands apart, "Come on, tell me again in front of Sister Lan."
Sister Lan was able to understand her own name, and she stopped shaking her hands and kicking her feet when she heard it. She looked at Xuan Jinyu, and then followed her gaze to look at Su Guanzhang.
Seeing that her father didn't move, she suddenly screamed "Ah" at him fiercely, raised her little hand and dropped it, slapping his leg hard.
It seemed that she was deeply resentful of her father's suppression and her inability to express herself happily.
Su Guanzhang's eyelashes trembled, and he took a deep breath at his daughter's unexpected action.
The force was too strong.
Su Guanzhang didn't witness Xuan Jinyu's heroic feat that day, overpowering dozens of strong men and lifting a huge rock with both hands to throw it aside. But after his daughter's palm strike just now, he thought he had a rough idea of what kind of astonishing strength that was.
If he had not practiced martial arts for many years, had amazing internal strength, and had thick skin and flesh, this blow from her would have either crippled him or broken his bones.
"What's wrong?" Seeing his reaction, Xuan Jinyu was a little nervous.
This man had been bitten by me and bled before, but he didn't even frown. Now his reaction is quite big.
She guessed wildly, "But Sister Lan's hand touched a place it shouldn't have touched?" she asked in a low voice, her pretty face already flushed.
Although she shouldn't think this way, his reaction was really similar to... well, it was very similar to his reaction when she was furious and deliberately stepped on him but accidentally stepped on him there.
Su Guanzhang took another deep breath, shocked by her bold guess.
"No," he said quickly, afraid that she would say something shocking again, "I won't let that happen."
That’s good!
Xuan Jinyu also breathed a sigh of relief.
Wuuuu, Sister Lan, it’s mother’s fault. She shouldn’t have wronged you!
Such speculation... She was too embarrassed to apologize to her daughter.
However, after this misunderstanding, the blush on Xuan Jinyu's face had dissipated, and she stared at him suspiciously, "What happened?"
The intense pain, like the shattering of bones, slowly dissipated. Su Guanzhang held Lan Jie'er's small hand and shook it at her, "Have you forgotten that your daughter inherited your divine power?"
"I haven't forgotten," Xuan Jinyu also reached out to let Lan Jie'er grab her hand, feeling her strength, "but hasn't she shown her specialness in many days?"
Last time they forgot about Bai Hun, and that night when the three of them were having fun together, Su Guanzhang said that Sister Lan had shown her magical powers again.
But it has been nearly half a month since that day.
"When Sister Lan's divine power appeared, it was quite different from mine." Xuan Jinyu said, feeling quite distressed.
In just a short while, her strength returned to that of an ordinary baby, as if the heavy blow Su Guanzhang had just suffered had never occurred.
If Xuan Jinyu had not seen with her own eyes the man's face turn pale with pain and knew his character very well, she would have suspected that he was teasing her or lying to her.
"It's okay. Sister Lan is still young. We can just observe her slowly." Su Guanzhang said.
The main reason was that Sister Lan wasn't even a hundred days old yet, and couldn't speak. She could only hum, cry, or laugh to express her needs. It was impossible for them to hold her little hand twelve hours a day to feel the changes in her strength, so how could it be so easy to summarize the pattern?
"I'll feed it."
After finishing the meal and rinsing her mouth, Xuan Jinyu took Lan Jie's handbag, looked into Su Guanzhang's eyes, and spoke very seriously.
This was not only to inform Su Guanzhang of her final decision, but also a response to his love words just now.
He could even accompany her to eat some tasteless meals, so how could she be so stubborn and not eat? Besides, raising a child, at this stage, there is no happier thing than feeding her personally.
Sister Lan is a child with the blood of both of them combined!
Su Guanzhang nodded, "Okay."
"I'd better find a ewe tomorrow." He held the mother and daughter in his arms. "We'll raise them in the bamboo forest. When we walk over there every day to help ourselves, we can show Sister Lan something new."
He lowered his head to glance at his daughter who was burying her little face in her mother's arms, looking a little sleepy. His heart softened and his voice became softer. "It's just for emergencies," he said.
He spoke vaguely, but Xuan Jinyu understood it immediately and her cheeks turned red.
But in the end, he didn't say anything negative.
Su Guanzhang is right, we need to prepare a ewe.
It’s not that she doesn’t need to feed Lan Jie’er herself, but Lan Jie’er eats too much and drains her every time.
She hasn't tried the milk-inducing soup yet, but she's afraid she might have to drink it in the future. However, no one can guarantee that drinking it will satisfy her daughter's growing appetite.
Lan Jie'er is only two months old, and her appetite will continue to increase. She is still far from the age to eat complementary food, so it is indeed good to have more ewes.
When the sleeping Lan Jie'er was put back into the small bamboo bed, Bai Hu, who had been out having fun, came in with a cold look on his face.
It flapped its wings, and the cool breeze swept over Xuan Jinyu and Su Guanzhang's heads and faces.
The two of them were not as sensitive as Sister Lan and did not sneeze.
But Su Guanzhang still stood in front of Xuan Jinyu and grabbed its wings that were about to flap again. "Okay, we noticed you," he said.
The white falcon is covered in snow-like coldness, so don’t let Jinyu catch a cold.
Ever since that day when the two of them were attracted by Sister Lan and played kissing games with her for half a minute, while ignoring the white falcon, every time it came back, it would attract their attention like this.
It is really laughable and makes people sigh that it is really spiritual.
but……
Su Guanzhang finally understood why Sister Lan patted his face with her little hands just now. "Sister Lan learned it from you." He felt helpless.
Xuan Jinyu remembered the scene where her daughter slapped her father in the face just now. She rested her head on his back and laughed so hard that her body was shaking.
The white falcon's wings stopped moving, and its claws extended from its belly, revealing a wooden envelope sealed with the seal of the Xuan family's patriarch.
It was a letter from Xuan Zhao in Beijing.
More than half a month later, Bai Falcon came again to deliver a letter on behalf of someone outside the mountain, but the news he brought was a piece of news that Xuan Jinyu could not bear.
Her maternal grandfather, Master Lin, passed away.
Lin Qingwan wrote in the letter that her grandfather caught a cold during an autumn windy day and had a lingering cold. He finally recovered and was able to get up; but he didn't expect a heavy snowstorm to hit in early November and the old man passed away.
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