At night, before Han Chen and Xuemei go to bed, they usually play with the two sisters on the bed for a while. Xuemei will talk to the two sisters, play small games with them, or Han Chen will take a textbook and read to the two sisters in Mandarin. When the two sisters are about to fall asleep, Xuemei will sit on the bed, leaning against the headboard, lying with a little ball in each of her arms, drinking breast milk.
That night, Han Chen had been reading for half an hour, and the two sisters were still staring at him in their cribs with their round eyes, very alert and not at all sleepy. Xuemei handed Han Chen a glass of water and said, "Han Chen, stop reading for now. It's almost nine o'clock, and I need to feed them and put them to sleep!"
Han Chen put down his textbook, took the water, drank half of the water in the enamel cup in one gulp, and then carried the remaining baby in the crib to Xuemei's arms.
Then, Xuemei began to feed the two sisters, but the two sisters refused to drink the milk. Each of them used her little hands to protect her own granary, and then they started talking. Han Chen and Xuemei coaxed the two sisters several times, but the two sisters refused to drink the milk. They just wanted to play and talk.
Han Chen and Xuemei decided to each take care of one, with Xuemei feeding the other first. Unexpectedly, as soon as Han Chen picked up Lele, before he even reached the door, An'an and Lele burst into tears. They didn't even cry, they just howled at the top of their lungs. It was as if Han Chen was some old witch trying to separate the two sisters. No matter how Han Chen and Xuemei tried to soothe them, they couldn't stop. They even called in the rest of the family.
Finally, Han Chen and Xuemei, fearing the sisters' voices would be damaged, played with them for another half hour before feeding them and coaxing them to sleep. But unexpectedly, the next evening, around 8 p.m., when Xuemei fed and coaxed the sisters to sleep, the sisters would cry at the top of their lungs whenever they wanted to play, refusing to drink milk.
Han Chen could see that the two sisters were doing it on purpose. Once, when the two sisters were pretending to cry, Han Chen thought that the villagers would be resting tomorrow anyway, so Han Chen directly carried the two sisters to Liu's father and mother's room. Then Han Chen went back to the room and filled a bottle of malted milk for each of the two sisters and went back to his room. Before going back to the room, Han Chen looked at the two sisters who were playing and laughing with their grandparents, and decided to make them remember tonight.
After returning to their room, he told Xuemei about his plan. Han Chen said the two little ones would definitely come looking for them later, so he had to make them cry for real. Would they dare to fake cry for fun again at night? It was always all talk and no action. Xuemei was deeply skeptical of Han Chen's plan, thinking the two sisters probably didn't understand his intentions at the moment.
Sure enough, just as Han Chen expected, in the middle of the night, Father and Mother Liu came over each holding a pitiful little baby with tears on her face. Han Chen felt very distressed when he saw the expressions of the two sisters, but he still kept a stern face and did not hold the two little babies who reached out to him for a hug. He asked Father and Mother Liu to act according to the plan and let the two sisters remember it. He just took the two bottles of milk from Father Liu's hand, made two bottles of malted milk, and asked Father and Mother Liu to take the two sisters back to the house.
The two sisters cried even louder when they saw their father didn't hug them and their mother didn't notice. Han Chen closed the door, went back to the bed, hugged Xuemei and said, "Oh, seeing An'an and Lele crying, it really hurts me!"
"I don't think your method will work. If the two sisters continue crying, I'll have to go to my parents' room and bring them back! Don't hurt your throat from crying." Xuemei twisted Han Chen's arm unhappily and said.
That night, Han Chen and Xuemei were worried about their children and did not sleep well. After the two sisters An An and Le Le followed Liu's father and mother back to their room in the middle of the night, they only cried for a few minutes and then stopped crying.
The next morning, Han Chen and Xuemei got up and went to Liu's father and mother to carry the two sisters back to the house. After waking up, the two sisters pout, droopy eyes, and stretched out their hands to look at Xuemei, looking so pitiful that Xuemei felt distressed at the sight. Han Chen was glared at by Xuemei many times because of this.
However, after that night, the two sisters didn't pretend to cry, scream, or throw tantrums before bed. They drank milk and went to bed on time. However, the two sisters might have held a grudge because Han Chen went out that night and didn't bring them back to the room. It took two days for the two sisters to pay attention to Han Chen and let him hold them. Han Chen felt wronged and acted like a spoiled child to Xuemei every night, complaining about the two children's grudge. Han Chen also took this opportunity to get a lot of benefits from Xuemei.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, as in previous years, they went to the old house for lunch, and Feng Ru and her mother and son also went.
Xinyan and Mingzheng returned yesterday afternoon. Their son, Liu Kaiqing, was born in early March. His nickname is Mumu, and he's nearly a month and a half younger than An'an. Xinyan was born in the county hospital. Wang Shuihua went to live with Mingzheng in the county when Xinyan was a little over eight months old, but Xinyan returned home to stay after her birth because there was more food in the village.
After Xinyan celebrated Mumu's full moon in the village, she returned to the county town with her child to work, and Wang Shuihua went with her to help. However, Mingzheng and Xinyan's monthly payment to Wang Shuihua went from five yuan to ten yuan. Juhua had been working in the village since graduating from junior high school last year, and Mingzheng had been trying to find her a temporary job in the county town, but couldn't find one.
Everyone went to the old house in the morning. When he was free, Han Chen liked to take the two sisters An'an and Lele out to play. A few nights ago before going to bed, Lele called out "Dad" first, then Lele also called out, and then the two sisters competed to call "Dad".
Han Chen was so happy at that time. The two sisters' faces were covered with saliva from his kisses. As a result, Han Chen was in a good mood these days. He told everyone he met that his two daughters could call him dad. How could Han Chen miss this good opportunity to show off today?
Xuemei wasn't jealous at all about the first of the two children being named Han Chen. She wouldn't care about it! Really, alas... Xuemei just felt a little uncomfortable. These two little guys, she fed them milk every day, and they didn't even know to call them "Mom"!
Han Chen was so proud on the way to the old house, showing off to everyone he met. An'an and Lele sisters were good-looking and looked fair and tender. Starting this month, his family often made lean meat porridge for the two sisters. The two sisters gained a lot of weight, with milk fat on their faces and swim rings on their arms and thighs. They could be said to look like the lucky dolls in everyone's mind.
Everyone in the village liked to tease the two sisters. Of course, there were also some people in the village who favored boys over girls and made sarcastic remarks, thinking that Han Chen and Xuemei were two fools for raising two daughters so well and yet one of them was not their biological daughter. However, when Liu's mother heard about it, she scolded them in person. Even if they had any opinions in their hearts, they did not dare to say them in front of the Liu family.
After arriving at the old house, Liu's mother and Liu Xiu took the food and vegetables they brought from their home to help in the kitchen. Xuemei asked Han Chen to put the two sisters An'an and Lele on the bamboo bed in the yard. Mumu and Kaikai were playing on the bamboo bed. Nannan had learned to walk now, and she liked to walk by herself, so Mingwen was helping her walk around in the yard.
Xuemei, Xinyan and Liu Xiu sat on the side of the bamboo bed without a fence, chatting and watching the child. Not long after, He Wanting came out of the kitchen and sat over.
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