“Da Nian, this is your father, Jiang Mingjing, your mother Hai Lanjuan’s husband.” Li Xiaoxiao quickly grabbed Lu Chen’s hand and explained.
Jiang Mingjing seemed slightly uneasy.
Lu Chen looked up, unsure of how to begin.
Chu Wanfang sat down next to Shen Qiaoyue and noticed that the atmosphere had suddenly quieted down.
"Why don't we check on the baby first? Yao Yao, go and hold the baby with Auntie," Chu Wanfang said, defusing the awkward situation.
Jiang Mingjing realized what was happening, looked at Shen Qiaoyue, and smiled, saying, "Qiaoyue, thank you for risking your life to give birth to two children for Lu Chen. You've worked so hard."
Before responding, Shen Qiaoyue glanced at Lu Chen and saw that he had not made a statement.
"It's not hard work. This is my child too. It's all worth it." Looking at so many important people, Shen Qiaoyue also began to feel nervous.
Lu Chen walked to Shen Qiaoyue's side and comforted her.
With him standing next to Lu Chen, Shen Qiaoyue was less afraid.
Seeing this, Bai Tanqing and Political Commissar Liao Heshan exchanged a glance and said, "Well, you can have a chat, then we'll be leaving. We'll come back to visit the baby when he/she is a month old."
"Alright, thank you for your trouble. Brother Bai, go ahead and get busy." Shen Yuanyi quickly greeted them, saw the military region leaders to the door, and only returned to the ward after watching them leave.
This is supposed to be a scene of reunion, but it's turned into such an awkward situation.
Shen Yuanyi quickly tried to find a topic to talk about and said to Li Xiaoxiao, "Xiaoxiao, this is Qiaoyue, Lu Chen's wife, my sister-in-law's youngest daughter, and my little niece."
Li Xiaoxiao walked up to Shen Qiaoyue and happily took her hand.
"Child, you've worked so hard!" Li Xiaoxiao looked at Shen Qiaoyue, feeling an inexplicable sense of warmth.
Shen Qiaoyue shook her head.
"Xiaoyue, this is your aunt, your uncle's wife," Shen Yuanyi quickly explained to Shen Qiaoyue.
"We went back to Beijing to get married before coming back." Shen Yuanyi had agreed with Li Xiaoxiao that they would register their marriage once everything was settled.
"Hello, Auntie," Shen Qiaoyue greeted Li Xiaoxiao politely.
Hearing the respect that Shen Yuanyi's family showed her, Li Xiaoxiao, who had finally managed to stop crying, was moved to tears again.
"Ah!" This "Auntie" was an acknowledgment of her.
Shen Qiaoyue is still Lu Chen's wife, and also the wife of his godson.
"What a coincidence!" Li Xiaoxiao exclaimed, her eyes red from crying.
“That’s right, it’s fate. We’re still family.” Shen Yuanyi put his hand on Li Xiaoxiao’s shoulder and recalled the events of that year. “Back then, our two families said that if the children we had were a boy and a girl, we would arrange a marriage between them so they could stay together when they grew up. If we had two sons, the brothers would still be family.”
Looking at Shen Qiaoyue and Lu Chen, Shen Yuanyi said to Jiang Mingjing, "Although I don't have a biological son, Lu Chen married my niece, so we are still family."
"Knock knock!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Mingjing smiled with pursed lips.
At that moment, Xu Qianli knocked on the door.
"Come in," Shen Yuanyi said.
Xu Qianli was busy with work in the army when he heard that the old man had returned.
"Grandpa's back. I heard you came back to see Qiaoyue, so I came to see you." As soon as Xu Qianli entered, he saw Jiang Mingjing. "Commander Jiang, you're here too?" He immediately saluted the two of them.
"You brat, you're never serious!" Shen Yuanyi pointed at Xu Qianli and said helplessly.
Xu Qianli spoke to Shen Yuanyi as if they were father and son, so he spoke quite casually.
"Xiaoxiao, this is Xu Qianli, whom I told you about." Shen Yuanyi introduced him to Li Xiaoxiao again.
Xu Qianli stared at Li Xiaoxiao with a puzzled look.
Shen Yuanyi was truly shocked that he spoke to a woman so gently.
“Brother Xu, this is my aunt, my second uncle’s wife!” Shen Qiaoyue also wanted to see Xu Qianli’s reaction.
"Oh~ the old man has finally blossomed!" Xu Qianli looked at Li Xiaoxiao in surprise and teased Shen Yuanyi.
Li Xiaoxiao looked at Xu Qianli.
On the way here, Shen Yuanyi explained that more than ten years ago, he took in a child on the street named Xu Qianli. Xu Qianli was a very outgoing child who had grown up in the army.
Looking at Xu Qianli, if he didn't speak, he would still look very refined and scholarly.
Before his parents passed away, Xu Qianli was literate from a young age.
Later, in the army, whenever I had free time in the evenings, I would often read and learn to read.
Xu Qianli and Li Xiaoxiao looked at each other, and for a moment he couldn't utter a sound either.
Xu Qianli never called Shen Yuanyi "father".
The sudden request to call Li Xiaoxiao "Mom" was something Xu Qianli truly couldn't bring himself to say.
"Well... how about I have Xinlan come and visit you? I can't change my address right now." Xu Qianli knew how to defuse the awkwardness with this explanation.
He scratched his head, grinned sheepishly, and walked out of the house.
Shen Yuanyi quickly explained to Li Xiaoxiao, "Xu Qianli is just like that, he never calls me father."
Li Xiaoxiao's disappointed expression eased considerably.
“Auntie, Brother Xu speaks rather casually. He always talks to Second Uncle like that. He calls Second Uncle ‘Grandpa’ in private.” Shen Qiaoyue also began to explain on behalf of Second Uncle.
Li Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "It's okay, I'm not sad. It's normal to not be able to accept it for a while."
No sooner had she finished speaking than Jiang Jinyao and Chu Wanfang came in carrying the child.
"The baby's here!" Chu Wanfang coaxed the child, speaking very softly.
"Let me give you a hug?" Shen Yuanyi was the first to excitedly step forward and give her a hug.
Li Xiaoxiao also wanted to see the child.
Jiang Jinyao carried her daughter to her second uncle.
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