"Sons usually look like their mothers."
Ding Qiunan reached out and gently touched the child's little face; it was tender and smooth.
"It seems like my brother and I both look like you."
"Luckily you don't look like your dad, otherwise you'd be so embarrassed you wouldn't even be able to find a place to hide."
"I think Dad is pretty handsome."
“That’s now. Your dad really does look more and more charismatic. When we first met him, he wasn’t like this at all. He was just ordinary. But his eyes were particularly bright, as if he could see right through people.”
"Mom, what made you fall for Dad back then?"
“I was attracted by your father’s extensive knowledge, humorous conversation, and kind nature.”
Li Wenhui noticed that every time she talked about her father with her mother, her eyes would light up and the corners of her mouth would turn up slightly.
"Mom, before you came here for further studies, didn't anyone introduce you to anyone?"
"Yes, of course I am. I just didn't like anyone. I was actually a little afraid of getting married back then."
"Huh? Why?"
"Afraid of being beaten."
The four concise words silenced Wenhui.
Let alone that era, even now, isn't this kind of situation common? Even if she hasn't seen it, she's heard about it quite often.
"Back then, there was one family in our courtyard that was particularly bad. We could hear the sounds of beatings and scolding almost every day. As for other families, it was normal for them to come every few days. Sometimes, they would even throw bowls at people's faces just because they didn't like the food."
My maternal grandfather was actually the best to my maternal grandmother in the family. Although they would occasionally bicker, they never actually hit each other. But because I saw so many things in the yard, and because of what my classmates and friends told me, I was a little scared at the time.
Besides, back then, the people I was introduced to were mostly from factories. Those guys were always filthy, and they wouldn't even bother to groom themselves before going on a blind date. I was fed up with just looking at them, so how could I possibly be interested in dating them?
"So later it benefited my dad," Li Wenhui said with a laugh, covering her mouth.
“I beat you to it and got your father first,” Ding Qiunan said, making a grasping motion with her hand.
“When I first met your dad, he was recommended to the hospital by your master, so his education wasn’t taken into account. His salary was only about forty yuan. Nobody in the hospital knew that he was a college graduate. The Western medicine doctors and nurses in the hospital were all intellectuals and seemed to look down on traditional Chinese medicine doctors.”
Your grandparents died young, and there was no one in the family to help him. That's probably why there were so few people trying to introduce him to potential partners back then.
Who would have thought that after we established our relationship, your father's academic qualifications were first recorded in his file, which increased his salary. Then, he passed the review at the end of the year and received another salary increase. The following year, he joined the organization and the department's review committee. Later, he was directly admitted to the health care group.
This series of actions made those people in the hospital extremely regretful.
"Mom, you're a lucky charm for your husband!"
"Right? Hehe, actually I think so too."
Looking at her slightly smug mother, Li Wenhui almost burst out laughing. Perhaps it was because her mother married her father and was always very well protected by him that she was able to retain this girlish innocence.
Otherwise, they would have been overwhelmed by life long ago, and wouldn't have had the mind to think about anything else.
"Hey Mom, the little rascal has opened his eyes."
"Yes, I see. Oh my, my dear grandson is awake. Grandma, let's see if he peed."
Li Wenhui sat to the side watching her mother skillfully pick up the baby, first touching the diaper, then taking one from a stack of diapers at the bedside and changing it.
Listening to her mother's mutterings and looking at her mother's youthful face, which was almost identical to her own, she felt a strong sense of incongruity.
How did she become a grandmother?
Seeing that the baby in her arms was a little restless and her little face was twitching, clearly about to cry, Ding Qiunan quickly said to her daughter, "Huihui, go and call Yueyue in, the baby is a little hungry."
"Okay, Mom."
These past two days, after taking the lactation-inducing medicine that Wenxuan prescribed for her, the baby no longer needs any additional formula.
Seeing the baby continue to sleep after eating, she carefully put the child on the bed.
"Qiu Nan's mom, my stinky baby just sleeps all day and it's not fun at all. When will he play with me?"
"What are you thinking? The child is so young and you want him to play? His job right now is to eat and sleep. He needs to sleep at least twenty hours a day."
"I think our dogs will be running around everywhere in just a few days."
...
The three people in the room besides her were speechless. Comparing their own child to a dog was truly outrageous.
Ding Qiunan poked her forehead with her finger in annoyance: "It's bad luck for this brat to have such an unreliable mother like you. Was the child born just for you to play with?"
"What else?"
Seeing Wang Yueyue's matter-of-fact attitude, the three of them couldn't help but roll their eyes.
"Alright, enough of this nonsense. While the baby's just fallen asleep, Wenxuan, go wash your wife's hair and give her a bath. Remember to keep the water temperature right. We're going back to the back now, I'll come back later."
"Mom, you don't need to come over tonight. Get some rest. We can take good care of you."
"Yes, Qiu Nan, you should rest well. Xuan and I are fine."
"It's fine if I don't come. You two really should take care of the child yourselves. But, Wang Yueyue, don't you dare cause any trouble."
"Don't worry, I was just joking."
"Hmph~ I'm most worried about you. Let's go, Huihui, let's go back to the back and let them do what they want."
When Ding Qiunan returned to the main house, Li Chu was in the study, holding the book that Master Cao had given him, and studying it carefully by comparing several pieces of porcelain.
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"You're back."
"Well, I won't go over tonight. Wenxuan said to let the two of them try taking care of them themselves."
"Okay, so are you going to work tomorrow?"
Are you going or not?
"It doesn't matter whether I go or not, since those two kids have been taking the same classes lately anyway."
"Then I'll ask for a few more days off. I don't have anything to do during this time."
"Okay, I'll go to the hospital tomorrow. That foreigner needs to come over tomorrow to change his prescription."
"Then you continue, I'm going to take a shower first."
After she left, Li Chu lowered his head and began to read the book seriously again.
Through this period of study, he discovered that some of the porcelain pieces he initially identified as belonging to the Qing Dynasty (Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong periods) were actually imitations made during the Republic of China era.
This piqued his interest greatly, and from initially being indifferent, he gradually became engrossed in it.
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