His voice was so loud that it could be heard even in the corridor outside, which attracted a bunch of nurses who craned their necks to look at him through the doorway.
"They're triplets! This is the first time I've ever seen triplets!"
"And all three babies are so cute, fair-skinned and clean, unlike some babies who are born with wrinkled skin and look like little monkeys."
"What a blessing! To have three babies at once."
Su Xu listened, a smug smile playing on his lips. Didn't he know who gave birth to them? His wife was so capable; how could their child be any worse than someone else's?
Seeing Su Xu secretly raising his eyebrows smugly, Liu Nian rolled her eyes helplessly, thinking, "What a child."
Liu Hua was frantically trying to soothe the children, while Da Bao and Er Bao whimpered with tears in their eyes, as if they were protesting against the unfair treatment they were receiving.
Why can the little sister be held by Daddy, but the two brothers have to lie quietly in bed by themselves? And they even have to endure threats from their nasty dad? Waaah…
"What can you possibly understand?" Liu Hua tapped Da Bao's little nose. "You're the eldest brother, so set a good example. Stop crying."
Da Bao and Er Bao are practically identical to Su Xu, which makes Su Xu even more disgusted with them. He'd rather they were like Niannian! Why do they have to be like him? He's not cute at all.
Zhang Suzhen walked in carrying a thermos and said, "I just found out you can't eat yet, so I specially went home to make chicken soup for you. Sigh, don't waste it."
Once she saw that Liu Nian was out of the delivery room and everything was alright, she rushed home and cooked a whole old hen over the fire. It wasn't until she got to the hospital and asked the doctor that she learned that because Liu Nian had a cesarean section, she had to wait until she passed gas before she could drink anything thin.
"Then, let's give it to Mom and Su Xu first." Zhang Suzhen handed the thermos to Liu Hua.
"Thank you, sister-in-law," Liu Nian said with a smile.
"Don't mention it," Zhang Suzhen said, feigning anger. "We don't talk about this between us."
She had just finished speaking when she saw Liu Dafa and Liu Qiang walk in, each carrying a large peach tree branch.
No, Liu Qiang was holding another one in his hand, making a total of three.
It's the dead of winter now, and the peach tree branch is bare, but it looks really good—
"You cut down the tree?" Liu Nian asked in surprise.
Liu Dafa nodded and said, "Yeah, more or less."
"You don't know, this is a custom. When a child is born, we find a peach wood branch to shelter him from the wind and rain and ward off evil spirits! When he grows up, he will be immune to all evil!" Liu Dafa said, placing the peach wood branch on the headboard of the children's bed.
"Dad said that since peach wood branches are so useful, the bigger the better." Liu Qiang carried one and dragged the other, finally bringing the peach wood branches back to the hospital.
"Isn't this way too big?" Liu Nian stared in shock at the tree branches that occupied half of the ward, speechless.
Liu Dafa bent over to look at the child, his eyes bulging from laughing so hard he could barely open them, just grinning like an idiot.
“You have no idea how many places Dad and I have traveled to.” Liu Qiang patted his leg and said, “Dad thinks the peach tree in front of the widow’s house is bad luck, afraid that Sanbao will grow up to be a widow. There’s one in front of Wang Mazi’s house at the village entrance, but he’s afraid that the child will grow up with pockmarks on his face…”
"Anyway, this peach tree depends on whose door it is. We don't want one from a family with bad reputations. We also don't want one from a family with few descendants. In the end, this peach tree was cut down from the door of the county magistrate's house."
Liu Nian was shocked again, "Didn't the county head say anything?"
Liu Qiang shook his head. "When the county magistrate heard that it was for you, he personally cut down three large stalks."
No sooner had he finished speaking than the county magistrate's voice rang out from the doorway of the ward.
"Congratulations! Congratulations!" The county magistrate and Zhang Lan walked in carrying fruit.
Zhang Lan placed the fruit on the table and said with a smile, "I heard as soon as I entered the obstetrics and gynecology department that someone had given birth to triplets! I never expected it to be you."
Congratulations!
Another voice of congratulations came from the doorway; the visitors were Wu Qianli and Chief Wu.
Everyone at the hospital was astonished. Just who was this Liu Nian? How could so many important figures have come to visit him?
Su Xu's expression suddenly turned cold, and he looked at the newcomer with great impatience.
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