Chapter 149
Bi Chunliu was troubled by the two children's insistence on being called Nian Nian and Sui Sui and refusing her real name. If she had known earlier, she would have asked the family to call them by their real names more often, or use them as warnings when they were naughty, so that they would have had time to get used to each other. Now she was really at a loss.
In the evening, Nian Nian and Sui Sui were doing somersaults on the bed with laughter. Xing Fei watched from the side and applauded and cheered for them. Bi Chunliu sighed in his heart.
Neither of you knows how much effort your mother put into your names!
Han Zhong named his two granddaughters Shuyan and Shuyu. Bi Chunliu was shocked. She didn't want the children named Shuyan to complain when they had to write their own names, wondering why they had such a difficult name while their younger sister had so few strokes!
Finally, Bi Chunliu looked through the dictionary for two or three days and selected some words with good meanings that were also in Wubi before he finished.
Bi Chunliu glanced at Xing Fei, who was playing with the children, and a thought was brewing in her mind. The four sisters didn't have nicknames, but Xing Fei and Xiaomei did. If the two children weren't used to it, don't blame me for betraying them.
Bi Chunliu went to get a towel and wiped the sweat off the two children's heads. After playing all night, the bath they took wasted. He patted the two children's butts and said, "Okay, lie down and go to sleep quickly. You still have to play with your little brother Maomao tomorrow."
Nian Nian and Sui Sui didn't insist on playing anymore, and just lay down obediently, "Mom, tell me a story~"
Bi Chunliu covered their bellies with towel blankets, and she and Xing Fei slowly coaxed one child to sleep. Then, they told the two children a simplified version of Journey to the West. "The four of us, the master and his disciples, continued on our journey. One day, we suddenly heard a child crying in the forest ahead..."
Within five minutes, both children fell asleep. Bi Chunliu was envious of their speed!
Xing Fei looked at his two daughters happily and whispered, "They are both three years old now. Shouldn't we make the bed for the west room? That way they can get used to sleeping on their own."
"Okay, let's make two single beds and put them together until they grow up. They can be separated when they don't want to sleep together in the future. Do you want to find someone or should I find Master Wang?" Bi Chunliu fanned herself with a palm-leaf fan. It wasn't even June yet in the lunar calendar, so why was it so stuffy? It looked like it might rain tomorrow.
Xing Fei took the palm-leaf fan and said, "I'll go find Master Wang. Aren't you taking them to the Yuhong class tomorrow?"
Bi Chunliu nodded and said, "I've already told Xiaojun that she has told the teacher of the Yuhong class that she would bring the child over to see them."
Bi Chunliu felt comfortable with someone fanning him, so he adjusted his sleeping position to be comfortable and soon fell asleep.
The next day, after breakfast, Bi Chunliu took Nian Nian and Sui Sui to meet Wang Xiaojun's house.
Wang Xiaojun was just calling his son to change clothes when he saw Bi Chunliu coming with the child. He quickly said, "Maomao, look! Sisters Nian Nian and Sui Sui are here. They're wearing nice clothes. You need to change too. Come out quickly!"
"No way, you lied to me!!" Maomao hid under the table and refused to come out.
Niannian let go of her mother's hand, squatted down and called him, "Maomao, Auntie Xiaojun didn't lie to you, change your clothes quickly, we are leaving."
"Sister Nian Nian?! Are you really here?" Maomao poked his head out from under the table and was caught by Wang Xiaojun. He quickly stripped off the dirty clothes on his body, wiped his body with a towel in the basin next to him, spanked his butt twice, and then changed him into the clothes he had prepared in advance, all in one go.
Bi Chunliu: ...Amazing!!
Maomao, who had just been spanked twice, didn't feel anything at all. He walked beside the Nian Nian sisters and said happily, "Sister, my mom said she will take us to the Yuhong class to play on the slide and swings. I will push the swings for you two then!"
Bi Chunliu turned her head. Every time she saw Maomao, she felt that this child was really tough. "Maomao dared to make such a fuss. Is Dai Yan not at home?"
Wang Xiaojun waved his hand. "My father-in-law told me last night that he should go home today. He had breakfast and left." As he spoke, Wang Xiaojun packed up and said, "Let's go."
The Yuhong class they were going to today was the one run by the municipal government that Wang Xiaojun had mentioned to Bi Chunliu before. It was not far from their home, and more importantly, there were not many children in it, so the teacher could take care of them all.
Today was Sunday, and several children hadn't come to school, leaving only seven or eight in Yuhong's class. Bi Chunliu watched from outside and didn't force Nian Nian and Sui Sui to join in. She simply played with them for a while, then accompanied them back to the classroom to listen to the teacher's lesson.
Although they were not familiar with the other children and did not know the teacher, they were accompanied by their older sisters and younger brother Maomao, and their mother was still outside. The three children were not afraid and even actively participated in the singing activities when the teacher was teaching them.
Even when Bi Chunliu was outside, she could clearly hear Nian Nian's loud singing voice among the baby voices.
The husband of a teacher in the Yuhong class had a good relationship with Dai Yan. He accompanied Bi Chunliu and Wang Xiaojun outside to talk and praised them, saying, "The little girl sings well. Maybe she can join the art troupe in the future."
Bi Chunliu smiled upon hearing this and praised back, "That girl who was just talking to those two sisters was your daughter, right? She's beautiful and outgoing, like a little leader. She's definitely going to be something big in the future!"
"Hahaha... He's not as good as you say. This kid is just not shy and dares to talk to anyone." Dou Ping heard Bi Chunliu praising her own child and said happily, "The teacher still has to sing for a while. Why don't the three of us go sit in the office for a while?"
Seeing that the two sisters had adapted well, Bi Chunliu exchanged a glance with Wang Xiaojun and followed Dou Ping to the office.
After spending the morning in the Yuhong class, Wang Xiaojun took Maomao to their grandparents' house, while Bi Chunliu took the two sisters home. Niannian and Suisui skipped along the way, each chatting with their mother about what they had done and asking if she could hear them singing.
Bi Chunliu nodded. "Mom heard it. You two sang really well! Teacher Dou, who was talking to Mom, even praised you."
"Hehe~ Mom, from now on my sister and I will call each other Nian Nian and Sui Sui at home, and Xing Shuyu and Xing Shuhe in the Yuhong class. Is that okay?" Nian Nian said suddenly.
Bi Chunliu: ? Any unexpected gains?
"Of course you can. Why do you want to call your own name again?"
Sui Sui: "Dou Lingyu said she also has two names. When she is at home, her parents call her Xinxin. They only call her Dou Lingyu when she is in the Yuhong class or when her mother is angry." Sui Sui even learned the angry look that Dou Lingyu performed for her.
Nian Nian also said, "Brother Maomao also said that Aunt Xiaojun only called him Dai Hongyu when she was angry and wanted to beat him."
Bi Chunliu: “…” So it’s because you don’t call your own family enough, right?
"Who is Dou Lingyu you are talking about? Is she the child of Teacher Dou who brought you into the class? This is the first time Mom has met someone with the last name Dou."
Sui Sui nodded her little head, "Yes, Dou Lingyu said that Teacher Dou is her mother. Dou Lingyu said that everyone in her hometown village has the surname Dou, including her grandfather, uncles, aunts, father, mother, grandparents, uncles, and aunts."
"I see. By the way, what do you two want to eat for lunch? Let's take a nap after dinner and then go to the slum to find Sister Liuliu and Brother Xiaofu in the afternoon, okay?"
"good!"
Waking up from her afternoon nap, Bi Chunliu returned to the compound with her two children and a can of food. Xue Zhengchu's parents had recently come to visit, and the last time she went back, they had planted vegetables in front of her house. If they hadn't been unable to open the door, they would have planted vegetables inside the house, too. So she had to go back every now and then.
"Hello, Grandma Liu. Is Brother Xiaofu here?" Niannian walked in front holding her sister's hand, knocked on the Liu family's door and asked.
Aunt Liu wiped the tears from her eyes and replied, "Yes, Niannian and Suisui are here? Is your mother here?"
Bi Chunliu: "Here I come!"
Liu Hu had already come out of the house. Bi Chunliu handed the can to him and said, "Xiaofu, take your sisters to Liuliu's house to share the food. I will talk to your grandma at your house."
"Okay! Sister, let's go!" Liu Hu happily walked away holding the can.
As soon as Bi Chunliu entered the house, he noticed Aunt Liu's red eyes. Liu He had signed up for the army some time ago and set off a few days ago.
"Aunt Liu, our equipment is completely different now than it was before! And I heard from Xing Fei that Zhuzi has been to the place he went to before, and it was quite safe back then. You've been so sad all the time, and the child must be upset too, right?"
Aunt Liu held Bi Chunliu's hand and patted it. "I know everything you're talking about. I just feel sorry for this child. You talk about him, but he insisted on joining the army without saying a word! Alas, I should be fine after a while, but I just haven't come to terms with it yet."
Bi Chunliu pursed her lips and changed the subject, "Aunt Liu, why don't you prepare something for Zhuzi? They exercise a lot, and they're both grown men. You and Sister Xiaoyue can make him some convenient food and send it over, like fried noodles or something. You can eat it dry or drink it with water, at least it'll fill your stomach. If anyone has enough meat tickets, why not make him some dried meat? I remember someone in our alley said he made good dried meat?"
Aunt Liu perked up. Chun Liu was right. It was pointless to let her overthink things. She really needed to prepare more food. The children had to eat in the army cafeteria, and it was obvious that the food wouldn't be tasty. "I remember, I remember. It was Aunt Li from the third courtyard who said that. I'll go find her and learn from her tomorrow!"
"Okay, you learn first, and I'll come to you when I'm free!"
With other thoughts in mind, Aunt Liu also cheered up and started to talk to Bi Chunliu about other things. "By the way, Chunliu, did you know that Chen Dali is going to be a father too?"
"Yeah?!"
The last time Bi Chunliu met Chen Dali was at the factory, when he went to the cafeteria to eat with his coworkers. Just by watching him from afar, Bi Chunliu noticed that Chen Dali was living a different life. How could he be described? He was like a "human being"! Although the words were not pleasant to hear, that was the real meaning.
Chen Dali was now dressed neatly, looked much neater, and seemed to have gained a lot of strength. He and Jiang Mingming had been living a low-key life for the past two years. Jiang Mingming wasn't particularly outstanding in the compound, but he was very capable. He would go to the mountains to look for things in spring, summer, and autumn. Aunt Liu and the others said that Jiang Mingming was not idle in the winter either, busy at home planting vegetables and other things.
Aunt Liu nodded. "He clearly went to the hospital for a checkup yesterday afternoon. Last night, Chen Dali came home from get off work and was so happy he grinned at everyone he saw. His first question this morning was, 'How did you know I was going to be a father?'"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
“Wow…”
A child's cry was heard. Bi Chunliu thought it was Nian Nian and ran out quickly. Who is this? Why did they make the child cry?!
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